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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar
Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hey, guys, welcome back to another
Speaker 1: episode of The Break. I remember Garcia joined by Nickiman,
Speaker 1: David Hellman, Uh, Derek Eagleton. He might join us later,
Speaker 1: we'll see. He's on standby right now. But a lot
Speaker 1: of news coming out. You don't want to do a
Speaker 1: number today, Nick, you want to, you want to know
Speaker 1: the number. But Derek Randon Knight, forget the number. We
Speaker 1: have breaking news. Uh. Coach Mike McCarthy, just guess Enter,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I means he tested positive,
Speaker 1: but he's The point is he's entered COVID protocol right now,
Speaker 1: and that just came out a few minutes ago that
Speaker 1: he will not be available for the game. Apparently that's
Speaker 1: not exactly what they said. What they said was he
Speaker 1: won't be on the sidelines for Thursday's game in the
Speaker 1: he will not be on the side of the Thursday game,
Speaker 1: will be involved, but we don't know what we're gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna FaceTime him on the windows surface and have
Speaker 1: him on the gatorade jug And he seems like somebody
Speaker 1: that would want to do that. I mean most coaches
Speaker 1: probably would, maybe not Don but but most coaches would
Speaker 1: would do that. I mean, I mean, you're completely not
Speaker 1: allowed in the stadium or you have a suite now
Speaker 1: to yourself. I don't know if we were playing this
Speaker 1: at at and T, maybe, but I don't think so
Speaker 1: at the Superdome. But man, what a okay, what a morning.
Speaker 1: So McCarthy is in COVID protocol. Uh. That brings the
Speaker 1: total up to like eight when you consider all, you know,
Speaker 1: basically the entire strength and conditioning staff Harold Nash, Kendall Smith,
Speaker 1: Cedric Smith. Um, then you have offensive line coach Joe Philbin,
Speaker 1: assistant line coach Jeff Blasco and then offensive line the
Speaker 1: assistant another assistant coach, Scott Tolson. Yes, and sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: just making sure we're more news break that type of
Speaker 1: morning at the Star. Yeah for sure. And then um yeah,
Speaker 1: and then and then we got to mention Terrence Steele,
Speaker 1: which we'll get into it later on, but let's start
Speaker 1: off with the coaching staff and what that looks like
Speaker 1: as of right now for what he could mean for
Speaker 1: this Thursday game. Well, it's just like it's the start
Speaker 1: that that's That's the thing that that's kind of scary
Speaker 1: is that if you go back and look at some
Speaker 1: of the the history of how things typically go with
Speaker 1: close context, it's not always right away. It's the after
Speaker 1: the first couple of days, third day, and then sometimes
Speaker 1: the fourth day is when that stuff kind of pops,
Speaker 1: which is sort of what's happening here. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be hard to prepare for this team
Speaker 1: to practice, to do whatever, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you could be two or three days into it and
Speaker 1: we could have more tests like this. There's going to
Speaker 1: be some breath holding going on around here for the
Speaker 1: next forty eight hours probably and in New York as well,
Speaker 1: I mean with the league and all, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a like, wait, we don't play the Giant. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I mean, you know, and that's what
Speaker 1: I what I wonder is is how I don't know
Speaker 1: what the what the number has to be for them
Speaker 1: to consider making a change here. But but like we've
Speaker 1: seen teams that are really really hamstrung and then they
Speaker 1: still play the game. So I think it would have
Speaker 1: to be a two team thing unless unless the cowdre
Speaker 1: trying to talk about this to the show, and Day
Speaker 1: was trying to you were mentioning how you remember that
Speaker 1: the NFL saying, which is very straight on, like not
Speaker 1: moving or canceling it. You know, I apologize for not
Speaker 1: having my ducks in a row. This kind of fell
Speaker 1: on us twenty minutes before we came on. But the
Speaker 1: way that I understand that, the way the league has changed,
Speaker 1: like that, that's not happening this year, Nick, They're not.
Speaker 1: The league made it pretty clear they're not moving a
Speaker 1: game unless it's like an act of God that does it. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't think they would. And
Speaker 1: what I remember from the summer, I need to go
Speaker 1: back and check. I'm sorry, Maybe maybe it's different if
Speaker 1: it's unvaccinated status, but like what I remember hearing is
Speaker 1: that if it gets to a point where you can't
Speaker 1: play the game, it's just a forfeit on your part
Speaker 1: and and um, and they don't care. Like it could
Speaker 1: be both teams and they're still like, we don't care.
Speaker 1: So like I'm under the impression that this is happening
Speaker 1: Thursday no matter what, or a game won't be played,
Speaker 1: but like we're not doing the whole Move it to Tuesday,
Speaker 1: move it to Wednesday, whatever thing year. Do you think
Speaker 1: you could be like a strength coach? Me? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Could I walk around and like
Speaker 1: clap my hands and lead guys through warm ups? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do I know anything about the techniques required to lift
Speaker 1: in the NFL? No? That and that's the that's the
Speaker 1: problem here. And it makes sense. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: how it happens. People that work together, sit together, they
Speaker 1: eat together, they coach together. So that's why it's that's
Speaker 1: three strength coaches and two offensive linemen. And you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the way it works, you know.
Speaker 1: So that that that'll I just hope that that it
Speaker 1: doesn't continue to spread like that, which it very well
Speaker 1: could though if it's if it's got to the head coach,
Speaker 1: head coach is probably interviewed or meets with a lot
Speaker 1: of people. The irony like we were. We were just
Speaker 1: talking recently about like, even if you're vaccinated, the precautions
Speaker 1: that a lot of these guys take, like you make
Speaker 1: the people in your inner circle get tested on a
Speaker 1: regular basis. You're probably keeping a close eye on where
Speaker 1: you go and what you do. But that's the nature
Speaker 1: of this thing. Man. The vaccine helps, but it's it's
Speaker 1: not a cure all, despite what people say, and people
Speaker 1: want to get mad about it. It's never it's never
Speaker 1: been built that way. So this stuff had, this stuff
Speaker 1: has potential to happen. It's just what timing. And of
Speaker 1: course it's got to be the Cowboys well. And I
Speaker 1: think we have to point out too that like obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are listening, this matters because
Speaker 1: of how it affects the game against the Saints. We
Speaker 1: get that, but also, you know, more than anything, I mean,
Speaker 1: the most important thing is just the health of these
Speaker 1: guys ends as I've been told, right now, and things
Speaker 1: could change. I think everyone seems to be doing well.
Speaker 1: There are some of those eight are just completely symptom free,
Speaker 1: which is frustrating in its own right too, just to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated, symptom free and still held out but I
Speaker 1: don't know that about all eight. If you know, there
Speaker 1: are some couple offensive line coaches that weren't on the
Speaker 1: virtual call yesterday. I thought that was a kind of odd. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not on the call. It was virtual. Hopefully those guys
Speaker 1: are okay. But but that you know that, let's make
Speaker 1: sure and stress that that's important. That that's the number
Speaker 1: one thing here. But and it is. It's interesting too
Speaker 1: because players obviously have the choice, but any coach in
Speaker 1: the NFL has to be vaccinated, right, that was mandated.
Speaker 1: So again that just tells you the unpredictable nature of
Speaker 1: this thing, I guess. But yeah, I mean I that
Speaker 1: is that's important to keep in mind that hopefully all
Speaker 1: these guys are feeling okay well between today and Thursday,
Speaker 1: or let's say Wednesday, which is when the team would
Speaker 1: be traveling, things can still change and other guys could
Speaker 1: pop up, like Nick was mentioned. But as of right now,
Speaker 1: who do you think would be best to assume the
Speaker 1: head coaching duties, if you know, with McCarthy being out
Speaker 1: for the game. So that's where I feel kind of guilty.
Speaker 1: We're doing this podcast because this is when it's scheduled
Speaker 1: and we want to give people up to date information,
Speaker 1: but like, this is a developing thing. You know, you
Speaker 1: could name an an interim head coach and then he
Speaker 1: tests sponsitive tomorrow. You know, yeah, I will. So there's
Speaker 1: there's two guys on the staff that have been an
Speaker 1: NFL head coach before, or well, well three, but Philbin's
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol. But Dan Quinn and John Fossil have
Speaker 1: both done it recently obviously, and Dan actually had COVID
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, So you would think
Speaker 1: that decreases his likelihood of catching it this go around. Again,
Speaker 1: wild speculation on my part, but that's just kind of
Speaker 1: what they tell you about antibodies and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: So I mean, all things being equal, if he's available,
Speaker 1: I would lean toward dan Quinn. Probably I would too.
Speaker 1: I would, yeah, because you know, and I understand he
Speaker 1: calls the plays as well. I don't know why, maybe
Speaker 1: I just maybe I'm wrong with this. I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's harder to call an offensive play than a
Speaker 1: defensive play. Maybe that's not the case. Colin plays is
Speaker 1: probably Colin plays, but but I would just think, yeah,
Speaker 1: Wilin Moore to call the offensive plays and not have
Speaker 1: to run the game. He's never done it before. I
Speaker 1: would just I'm sure he can because I mean, he
Speaker 1: hasn't wanted us to say that because he's probably going
Speaker 1: to interview for jobs and all that. This might be
Speaker 1: a good test for him to do that. But um,
Speaker 1: I would lean towards Dan Quinn. And not only that,
Speaker 1: but but also you know, he's played games in the
Speaker 1: you know, the Superdome before, he's coached there, he's coached
Speaker 1: against the Saints. Probably would just be as comfortable as anybody.
Speaker 1: I thought there was five guys that had been a
Speaker 1: head coach before, didn't we lose a couple of them though,
Speaker 1: like tom Sewela is not here anymore. I thought we
Speaker 1: added one though I don't remember and can't keep it
Speaker 1: all straight. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It come down to
Speaker 1: it come down to quit. I mean, okay, technically there's
Speaker 1: there's a Yeah, there's an assistant, and there's an assistant
Speaker 1: head coach Rob Davis. Um I would like to think
Speaker 1: that's a title only I don't think you'd be coaching
Speaker 1: the game. But um I saw a report like the
Speaker 1: vice president where you know, something happened he slides in.
Speaker 1: I don't think It's like that Tom Pellaceero had a
Speaker 1: report that he'll have a larger role, and Tom you
Speaker 1: should you should trust Tom he will, No, you should
Speaker 1: trust Tom Pellicero's in. When it comes to Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: You can connect the dots on that if you go
Speaker 1: back and take a look. He will have a larger role.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he's going to be the acting
Speaker 1: head coach. I mean, that's a hell of a jump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a right. I don't even like.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the world of Kellen Moore, but
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a spot to put a guy
Speaker 1: in like three days. Notice, hey, you're in charge of
Speaker 1: all of this, you've never done it before. That's I
Speaker 1: leaned toward Quinn as well, because he's done all that. Like,
Speaker 1: the biggest question for dan Quinn is probably like, well,
Speaker 1: you got to come down out of the box, even
Speaker 1: though you probably wouldn't. You don't want to, but you
Speaker 1: need to for this game, whereas Kellen Moore like, But
Speaker 1: but dan Quinn's done all of those other duties and
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good point. He's done it in the
Speaker 1: Superdome a lot. I mean, he was the head coach
Speaker 1: of the Falcons for what five years, which means I
Speaker 1: mean he's played played in this environment a lot. Shouldn't
Speaker 1: be anything new for him. It just it just makes
Speaker 1: the most sense to me. That's why I would do
Speaker 1: Let's do it well, let's try to make sense of
Speaker 1: something else, which is the Cowboys offensive line we got. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: now we can get to the part where one of
Speaker 1: their starters actually is out with COVID as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele, he came out with He's in the protocol
Speaker 1: as well. And I mean we saw last game how
Speaker 1: they were playing Musical Chair and it wasn't a good
Speaker 1: game for the old line and the Cowboys. So what
Speaker 1: do you I mean, you got to you got guys,
Speaker 1: But is it gonna work? How do you guys feel
Speaker 1: right now with this news and him not being available
Speaker 1: for this game? I think if you're gonna have one
Speaker 1: guy that that would be in the protocol U a
Speaker 1: starter in the protocol, it would be the starter that
Speaker 1: you're scratching your head of why he's the starter? You know,
Speaker 1: it's not like he I mean, there's it's still it's
Speaker 1: still weird to me that Terrence Steele is starting over
Speaker 1: Lyo Collins at right tackle. U. I understood the left
Speaker 1: side man because that's not something he hadn't done in forever,
Speaker 1: But to start over him at right tackle, that just
Speaker 1: seems weird to me. Is he that much better? I
Speaker 1: don't see him being that much better. I think at
Speaker 1: this point now we're not talking anymore about expectations of
Speaker 1: drafted and whatever. No, it's just about who's the better player,
Speaker 1: and I think I still think Lyle would be so.
Speaker 1: But I think you could argue that they've been worse
Speaker 1: once Lyle came back into the line. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're wrong to say you can argue that Lyle hasn't
Speaker 1: been amazing since he came back from his suspension. He
Speaker 1: also hasn't really had a chance to get into a
Speaker 1: rhythm either. I mean, yeah, he wasn't playing tackle, then
Speaker 1: he was playing tackle, then he lost, then you know,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele took his job back. It's just I mean,
Speaker 1: this whole thing's been in flux for the better part
Speaker 1: of a month. And sorry, no, and now you got
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, the assistant oh line coach or tied
Speaker 1: end coach, London Wells is going to slide over and
Speaker 1: help with that. You know, this is this is a
Speaker 1: game where you need your guy. You need Zack Martin,
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith, Lyle Collins. You need your veteran guys to
Speaker 1: be out there because this is going to be allowed environment.
Speaker 1: You know, you think the Saints give a crap about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys issues right now. I mean they're trying to
Speaker 1: sneak back into the playoff races. It's a huge game
Speaker 1: for them. So if you've o line coaches are down
Speaker 1: to tied ends coach all day, you got to lean
Speaker 1: on your veterans here more than anything. So I think
Speaker 1: it's not great that that happened to Terence Steele because
Speaker 1: he's a swing tackle. I mean he'd be or he
Speaker 1: he's the starter. You know, he would be at the starter.
Speaker 1: But whatever the situation is, you don't want anyone to
Speaker 1: be down. But I think it's it's if you have
Speaker 1: to lose somebody, it's not a I mean, it might
Speaker 1: even be a step up. Honestly, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say anything glib about COVID like we I hope Terrence
Speaker 1: is feeling fine. That's I would never wish that on
Speaker 1: a person. But if anything, it's in a way It's
Speaker 1: almost feels like a relief to have some clarity about
Speaker 1: who's gonna play. And that's this is what happens when
Speaker 1: the game's on Thursday. We don't do a show Friday
Speaker 1: because of the holiday weekend. It feels like the Raiders
Speaker 1: game was a lifetime ago. But that was so weird.
Speaker 1: I've have you ever seen like beyond like varsity high
Speaker 1: school football. Have you ever seen them just rotate the
Speaker 1: line like that when everybody's health. That was the That
Speaker 1: was the second most weirdest thing that that didn't sound right,
Speaker 1: But second most, that's the second weirdest thing about that.
Speaker 1: The first was the was the explanation, which which is
Speaker 1: no offense. Mike McCarthy crap to me, stop it, yeah, stop,
Speaker 1: and that's stop. I have true you're not trying to
Speaker 1: give guys rest because for the first eight weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, all you did was talk about how huge
Speaker 1: continuity on the line went like it he said it
Speaker 1: every and and then we and then we take that
Speaker 1: info to the air and we're like, this is what's
Speaker 1: important to Mike McCarthy, this is why this and then
Speaker 1: and then you just fall back on it, and I
Speaker 1: have no choice but to conclude like they're playing politics,
Speaker 1: like they've got seven guys that are good enough to start,
Speaker 1: and they're afraid of hurting people's feelings, which I get.
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins is a fifty million dollars a year player
Speaker 1: who found found his way to the bench. Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: is a guy that you hand picked and believed in
Speaker 1: and and and you've you've talked him up and he's
Speaker 1: played well. I'm not trying to say that he hasn't.
Speaker 1: He's played really well, but so you've got him him
Speaker 1: and he plays five or six games, however many it was,
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, how am I going to lose
Speaker 1: my job for no reason? How am I going to
Speaker 1: lose my job for playing well? And it's like, guess
Speaker 1: what this is why you're paid a lot of money
Speaker 1: to coach in the NFL, Like you're not supposed to
Speaker 1: care about people's feelings. You're supposed to make the best
Speaker 1: decision for the team and not come up with weird
Speaker 1: platoon systems on the offensive line, which nobody everyone who's
Speaker 1: ever watched football agrees that that doesn't happen, right, And
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are just like, yeah, we we just wanted
Speaker 1: to give him a series to see what it looked like.
Speaker 1: What stop not resting anyone because they only did it
Speaker 1: for one series. You didn't do it for Tyrant Smith,
Speaker 1: who's been beat to hell with injuries and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You didn't do it for Zach Martin, thankfully. It's just
Speaker 1: these It just comes across as the epitome rush didn't
Speaker 1: come in and you didn't get a few snap not
Speaker 1: being able to make a decision right and so and so,
Speaker 1: Like I said, like, I'm certainly not happy that Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele has COVID. I hope he's feeling better. I hope
Speaker 1: he feels great. But at least now you got some clarity.
Speaker 1: You're just like, oy, hey, Lyle Collins needs to start
Speaker 1: it right tackle on Thursday night. Yeah, just so you're listening,
Speaker 1: you listen, people listen to our show at all hours
Speaker 1: of the night. We appreciate that. That's that's how we
Speaker 1: get a big following, is because we know people are
Speaker 1: listening at all times. But just remember this show is
Speaker 1: where at our time Central, it's like almost eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: So you might be listening and they've already announced to
Speaker 1: their head coach is gonna be uh, they they've already
Speaker 1: announced what this oh or if anyone else knocking, would
Speaker 1: you know, might get into the Copproe I said, I
Speaker 1: feel bad doing this show right now because this it's
Speaker 1: probably not gonna age great shout out to talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: our poor colleagues. All this news about McCarthy came down
Speaker 1: forty five seconds after they got off the air. So
Speaker 1: that's like a whole show that's basically obsolete. It's about
Speaker 1: ten minutes. But you know, but but you know, they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't. They're not like us. They don't look at
Speaker 1: their phones as much as we because if it would
Speaker 1: happened in ten minutes, like we're gonna we're gonna say
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Yeah, no, I mean we're gonna
Speaker 1: see whatever happens in the NFL while we're on here
Speaker 1: because I can't put my phone down before we go
Speaker 1: to break though. We're talking old line. Do you want
Speaker 1: to just try and we'll just try to go left
Speaker 1: the right here. I mean we think Tyrann McGovern be honest,
Speaker 1: Zach Lyle, I mean like, yeah, that's that's why they
Speaker 1: could they could go back to Connor Williams, but could
Speaker 1: don't you don't. You hate that you have to specify
Speaker 1: when you say Connor. Yeah, I hate that, But you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think I would go back to Connor Williams because
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a big difference between MC government's fine
Speaker 1: and they don't run the goal line package with Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: They don't do it. They did it once. He still
Speaker 1: hasn't blocked anyone doing it, So I think if it's
Speaker 1: that close, I think I'd go back to Connor Williams
Speaker 1: at left guard and go with the McGovern package. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot happening there and I think he's kind
Speaker 1: of almost mastered it a little bit, so I would.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much we've talked about this.
Speaker 1: I hope they do it. I've been He's too he's
Speaker 1: too good of a teammate. He's too much of a
Speaker 1: diplomat to answer this publicly. But just ask Tyrone and
Speaker 1: ask Dak, Yeah, who who do you want at left guard?
Speaker 1: Who do you want playing there? And whatever they say,
Speaker 1: that's fine with me. Dak did somebody with somebody asked
Speaker 1: him that before the Chiefs game, I think, and he
Speaker 1: was just like all those guys are competitors. They're my brothers.
Speaker 1: I feel good no matter who's up there. It's like,
Speaker 1: that's not what I asked you. I asked you who
Speaker 1: you want to be prying there? Right? So that's what
Speaker 1: and that's what needs to happen. And I think you know,
Speaker 1: nobody can tell you better than those two. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tyrn's played with Connor Williams for three years.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's a comfort and I get he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the same pool, but i'd ask the center too,
Speaker 1: because I want him to be as comfortable as he
Speaker 1: could possibly be out there. If you don't want to
Speaker 1: do it in front of the team, that's fine, pull
Speaker 1: him aside, Maybe do it on zoom given the circumstances,
Speaker 1: Just Dak, what do you think? Who do you think
Speaker 1: should be playing left guard? All right, well, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break when we come back,
Speaker 1: let's try to figure out how to improve the offense overall.
Speaker 1: They did turn up their game towards the second half
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the break. Although the loss against the
Speaker 1: Raiders feels like ages ago, crazy, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: game a little bit. Let's talk about what happened on
Speaker 1: offense and since it is a very very short week
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys playing this Thursday, another game over there
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, let's talk about the things that need
Speaker 1: to happen for this game and how do we condense
Speaker 1: everything into a little segment here. Well, that's just I'm
Speaker 1: this is probably the third time I've said it, but
Speaker 1: like I'm just sitting here, like, well, can I wait
Speaker 1: and see who all's even going to be available for
Speaker 1: this game before I worry about what they need to
Speaker 1: do or what's going to happen. I mean yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: I mean, like again, like we just kind of talked
Speaker 1: about it, Like you get the Terrence Steel News on
Speaker 1: Sunday morning and you're lying, okay, Like as far as
Speaker 1: losing a guy to COVID goes, that's pretty manageable and Ceedee.
Speaker 1: Lamb is supposed to be back this week. Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: is supposed to be back in the building today, So
Speaker 1: that's huge. And you would imagine Amari just coming off
Speaker 1: the COVID list. He's probably not going to catch it
Speaker 1: during this current outbreak. But but we we have no
Speaker 1: clue and we'll probably, like I said, we'll probably be
Speaker 1: kind of holding our breath and waiting for updates through
Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon, if I had to guess. So that just
Speaker 1: makes it kind of difficult for me. But on paper,
Speaker 1: from a roster standpoint, they look like they're in a
Speaker 1: decent spot to kind of have some guys back. I
Speaker 1: already mentioned Lamb and Amar DeMarcus Lawrence has at least
Speaker 1: a chance to play in this game. We'll have to
Speaker 1: wait and see on that. But the roster is social
Speaker 1: media alive. Yeah no, he's tweeting little gifts about being
Speaker 1: back like he was like soon, so like, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's this is what we've We're finally getting to the
Speaker 1: point we've been talking about for a month of like okay,
Speaker 1: they're they're starting to get some of these important players back,
Speaker 1: and of course they're dealing with one of the larger
Speaker 1: COVID outbreaks in the league this year. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just always got to be something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I guarantee there's a lot of fans out there
Speaker 1: that are like, so, who cares a coach? I mean,
Speaker 1: the players play coaches. Coach. That's that's true to you know, obviously.
Speaker 1: But but if you're not prepared in this league, you
Speaker 1: get your ass kicked. I mean, that's just that's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. If you don't prepare, especially against
Speaker 1: I mean, the Saints from a talent standpoint, do not
Speaker 1: have the same players that the Cowboys do. What they have, though,
Speaker 1: is an outstanding football coach in my opinion, and a
Speaker 1: system that continues to work. And it's on Peyton. We
Speaker 1: talked about the Saints fans, not Karen John. Payton really
Speaker 1: doesn't care either. He wants to bring it in every game.
Speaker 1: He loves playing against the Cowboys. He does a good
Speaker 1: job obviously against them, and so if the Cowboys aren't
Speaker 1: prepared this week, it's you know, getting d lawback, getting
Speaker 1: the receivers back. All that sounds great, but it'll be tough.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a very big challenge. Well,
Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you with what you
Speaker 1: just mentioned, and I know that they have said that
Speaker 1: they're going to be holding virtual meetings and they're still
Speaker 1: going to go through practice, but us speaking of preparation, like,
Speaker 1: how does that look for you right now? Like how
Speaker 1: do you think or expect that to affect the Cowboys
Speaker 1: for this week's preparation. I would like to think that
Speaker 1: it will feel familiar to them because this is the
Speaker 1: type of stuff they had to do all through last season.
Speaker 1: And you brought up the Ravens game last year that
Speaker 1: got moved around eighteen times. I mean, they shouldn't be
Speaker 1: strangers to this stuff. I mean, I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of new faces on this team, but most of
Speaker 1: them were playing in the league last year when this
Speaker 1: was common stuff, when you were doing everything virtually um,
Speaker 1: when you kind of had to work with that tolerance
Speaker 1: of ambiguity about what was going to happen the next day.
Speaker 1: So they got their ass kicked a lot. They they
Speaker 1: know they were. They thank you, Nick, just saying that's
Speaker 1: not that's not a good thing, where you're like, well,
Speaker 1: they did it. Last year, you know, I mean, like
Speaker 1: I'm at least they have familiarity doing it. I guess
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. I know, this whole thing is
Speaker 1: weird because all these receivers that are coming back, it's
Speaker 1: not like they practiced a lot last week. So a
Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, you just have a carryover
Speaker 1: for what you did last week. But last week the
Speaker 1: two receivers weren't even in and they barely practiced much then,
Speaker 1: you know, coming off of this, so you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: the league, okay, well, it's just you know, this is
Speaker 1: what they want, all right. They want these games. They
Speaker 1: want to play football when there's nothing else on. They
Speaker 1: play the Thursday games and all this stuff. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it is it is a challenge. You can say it
Speaker 1: all you want to that this isn't a short week
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Yes it is. It is a short
Speaker 1: week because last week was was very short. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're playing you're playing two games in ten eleven days,
Speaker 1: and so are the Saints, and I get it, and
Speaker 1: and but this is for when this kind of stuff
Speaker 1: happens COVID and even there's gonna be guys that don't
Speaker 1: have symptoms that are vaccinated, that might miss the game
Speaker 1: because they just don't have the time. If I was
Speaker 1: made commissioner for a day, I would abolish Thursday football
Speaker 1: other than maybe the season opener and Thanksgiving would be
Speaker 1: like one of the first three things I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I it is or or you're coming off
Speaker 1: a bye. Okay, that's I still figure that out. Coming
Speaker 1: off a bye, you can play Thursday or whatever. I
Speaker 1: just don't. I just don't think they should that every
Speaker 1: team should have to do it, and like it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like we just we have a three day week this week.
Speaker 1: That's just what it is. It's like, No, it's the
Speaker 1: peak of hypocrisy to say you care about player safety
Speaker 1: and make every team in the league do that. I
Speaker 1: think it's awful. And I I mean, I'm part of
Speaker 1: the problem because I'm gonna watch it if it's on ye.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just I hate it. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it does. It's a it doesn't make a lot of sense,
Speaker 1: you know, with the word s now. If you spell
Speaker 1: it with the sea, then yeah, it makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. And that's what we care about. But um
Speaker 1: dollars and sense I got don't know. It was good,
Speaker 1: I was, I got it. Yeah, But anyway, U to
Speaker 1: my favorite, my my favorite quote in recent years coming,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Yeah, as Mike Tomlin famously said last year,
Speaker 1: we do not care. Nobody cares and it's fun. I
Speaker 1: I got I got some really fun perspective on this
Speaker 1: game this week because my family was in town, diehard
Speaker 1: Saints fans. Everybody thinks I'm a sleeper Saints fan. I
Speaker 1: don't have time. I don't know anything about that team
Speaker 1: other than like when the game week rolls around and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, let me see what the Saints are doing.
Speaker 1: So all weekend, my family we're sitting here talking about
Speaker 1: like Amari's coming back, Lamb's coming back, this is DeMarcus
Speaker 1: is practicing over in Saints world. My parents and my
Speaker 1: brother are like, well, yeah, Kamara should be back, Ryan
Speaker 1: Ramschick and Toronto Armstead should be healthy for the first
Speaker 1: time in a month. Taysom Hill might play for the
Speaker 1: first time in a month. I'm like, oh, so they
Speaker 1: sound like they might be ready for a challenge, just
Speaker 1: in time for the Cowboys. Like just like clockwork, that's
Speaker 1: how it happens that the Saints team that got its
Speaker 1: ass kicked by Buffalo and Philly was decimated just like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been. And then that's everybody in the
Speaker 1: league is dealing with it at this time of year.
Speaker 1: Every team in the league is like, if we just
Speaker 1: had so and so, if we could just do this,
Speaker 1: and you know what, nobody cares. You gotta find a
Speaker 1: way anyway. It sucks because speaking of short weeks, with
Speaker 1: this Thursday, and I'll just realize, I'm like, okay, travel
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We wouldn't have a show on Wednesday. So
Speaker 1: we gotta discuss the Saints offense, defense, how that game's
Speaker 1: gonna look like against the was We haven't even talked
Speaker 1: about really what happened with the Raiders, And you know
Speaker 1: the main thing. I came out officials too, and oh
Speaker 1: woe of the people when you get mad, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the flags flag football. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: Sean Hokule again. I just I just don't want to
Speaker 1: have to look at his face again. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I said this morn on the radio, Like how
Speaker 1: many times and I don't know how many times Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott got got shown by CBS or how many times
Speaker 1: McCarthy so CBS. I don't know how many times they
Speaker 1: show him in the middle of a game, but it's
Speaker 1: probably thirty twenty five. There it means the quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how many times did they show hockey Lee? I
Speaker 1: mean thirty three times? Thirty three times? Even even to
Speaker 1: say the penalty on seventy two whatever declined or whatever
Speaker 1: it was, still they still threw the flag thirty something time.
Speaker 1: That's I'm I don't even like, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: it was even unfairly officiated toward the Cowboys, you know,
Speaker 1: like that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, keep your
Speaker 1: flags in your pockets, you nerds, Like let the professional
Speaker 1: football teams play football. Every single time, it felt like
Speaker 1: the game was establishing that rhythm that kind of makes
Speaker 1: it fun. Here comes there the ref crew to get
Speaker 1: in the way. Okay, I mean the Raiders caught fourteen flags. Now,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got most of the egregious ones, but like
Speaker 1: they just they just wanted to be part of the narrative.
Speaker 1: And I got real sick of it by half. So
Speaker 1: we were sitting pretty close to each other, and at
Speaker 1: one point Derek wasn't even sitting in between, so it
Speaker 1: was just you and me, and we I mean, we
Speaker 1: definitely want to see the Cowboys win. I do, at
Speaker 1: least I want to see them win. I go go
Speaker 1: down there. It's easier, way more fun. It's more fun.
Speaker 1: It's odd easier. We want to see that. And there
Speaker 1: was a point in the game where the Cowboys needed
Speaker 1: a few breaks. The Raiders started getting a lot of
Speaker 1: holding calls that were helping the Cowboys, like this would
Speaker 1: help them here. If they score touchdown, the games over.
Speaker 1: If they get a field goal, then there's a chance.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened, and they called holding twice in
Speaker 1: a row, and David I looked at each other and
Speaker 1: like it was getting annoying, like are you serious, even
Speaker 1: though the crowd cheered and it was like yes, move
Speaker 1: them back and finally we get a call blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But we were like, I'm tired of seeing this. Even
Speaker 1: the last play, the kick off, yeah, he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna block this damn kick. I don't care if
Speaker 1: I'm two yards in the backfield. Yeah he turned it
Speaker 1: into an extra point. But I mean, okay, Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: like like here, here's here's my thing about Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: If you're going to say that, Anthony, you know, like
Speaker 1: I've I've heard it. I've seen it in the same tweet,
Speaker 1: like the officials ruined the game. They killed us. They
Speaker 1: they they don't love the Cowboys. They did this and that. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, cut Anthony Brown, so one or the other,
Speaker 1: like like blame Anthony Brown or the officials or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't think all four of those penalties probably should
Speaker 1: have been called. I think two of them were good
Speaker 1: and two of them were bad. Right, Anthony Brown has
Speaker 1: had a good season. Um, he's had a much better
Speaker 1: season than we thought, like expectation wise, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: done way better than that before this game. But he's
Speaker 1: but he's been a good corner. Not just about expectation,
Speaker 1: he's been a good, solid player. Um, hasn't had a
Speaker 1: lot of issues. So, you know, I just think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody, somebody tweeted me and that goes. If
Speaker 1: they don't cut Anthony Brown, I'm gonna be a Ravens vandomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's what I got. And I was like, well, lamar
Speaker 1: is fun. I mean enjoy that, I mean cool, because
Speaker 1: he's not getting cut. I thought jay Ron Curse had
Speaker 1: a great quote about AB. Somebody asked him after the game, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you say to Anthony Brown after
Speaker 1: a game like that? And like he looked legitimately confused.
Speaker 1: He's like, what am I supposed to say to him?
Speaker 1: Like he's been awesome for us this year? And you
Speaker 1: have bad games, you're dB, You're gonna get beat. I
Speaker 1: have all the faith in the world with him. He
Speaker 1: said something else about like, you know, if you do
Speaker 1: nine good things for a person and one bad thing,
Speaker 1: they're gonna remember the one bad over the nine good.
Speaker 1: It's definitely true with cornerbacks. I mean, yeah, whatever, we
Speaker 1: defend AB on this show. I don't care if it
Speaker 1: makes you mad. Like he's been he had a rough
Speaker 1: night in Tampa, and he had a rough night on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Other than that, he's been pretty damn good this year.
Speaker 1: And this is how it's mostly gonna be. Anyways. We
Speaker 1: see it happening when they're bashing on a guy, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's fair because they're not perfect. But then that
Speaker 1: guy gets cut or leaves through free agency or whatever.
Speaker 1: Then you got the next guy, and then that next
Speaker 1: guy is the one getting attacked. So it's it's never
Speaker 1: gonna end. There's always gonna be that guy that people
Speaker 1: don't like, and it's just how it is. It's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and it's he's just gonna be solid. Cut him. Decent
Speaker 1: players sometimes and bats sometimes cut him for who I mean,
Speaker 1: for Kelvin Joseph who got kicked out of the game,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I don't think he should have been
Speaker 1: kicked out of the game, but I thought that was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But like, he's not ready to play funny to just
Speaker 1: pick this one point, people say, well, oh, that they
Speaker 1: were picking on Anthony Brown. They're going to continue to
Speaker 1: pick on him. They've been picking on Anthony Brown for
Speaker 1: three years. They've done it all this year when dis
Speaker 1: was doing all his things, they were kept throwing at
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and it wasn't really working. So I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's been the guy. He's been the waal though
Speaker 1: that Bucky always talks about for a while, and it
Speaker 1: hasn't always worked out for the opposing team. So keep
Speaker 1: doing it, keep trying it. I don't think that the officials,
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll call it that way. Every time. I
Speaker 1: think he's he's he's still at this point he's still
Speaker 1: had a good year. It's so, I mean, it's good on,
Speaker 1: good on Derek Carr for recognizing the way the refs
Speaker 1: were calling the game. But like the one that decided
Speaker 1: the game's just so weak to me, Like by I
Speaker 1: keep saying this, like by the strict letter of the law,
Speaker 1: you can throw a flag on it and you're not wrong.
Speaker 1: But like he didn't touch the guy, the guy slowed
Speaker 1: down his route. Derek Carr, he's a very good quarterback.
Speaker 1: He likely underthrew it on purpose to create contact because
Speaker 1: he knew he'd get a flag. Like he's good enough
Speaker 1: to purposefully do that, And it's just it's just lame,
Speaker 1: Like he didn't look back for the ball, but face
Speaker 1: guarding's not a penalty. Like he did not aggressively make contact.
Speaker 1: He'd pat his hands out as if to signify, like
Speaker 1: I'm not touching this dude. He's just backing into me.
Speaker 1: Because the ball was underthrown and the refs just wanted
Speaker 1: to make it a not fun game. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: had already established I thought. See. The thing that bothered
Speaker 1: me about it is that they they felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: you could say, well, don't make that call at that
Speaker 1: point in the game, which a lot of people would
Speaker 1: rather than not do. But they'd already kind of played
Speaker 1: those rules in the previous drive when the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: driving Dalton Schultz got got interfered with over the middle two.
Speaker 1: That ball could have been on the ten yard line
Speaker 1: with about what twenty seconds to go, had chance to
Speaker 1: maybe just win the game right there. It felt like
Speaker 1: they didn't make that call because you're not going to
Speaker 1: get that here are twenty seconds to go. That being said,
Speaker 1: you hope that they continue that, and they didn't. Some
Speaker 1: smart people brought up to me Hockeyle's crew did the
Speaker 1: opener in Tampa and they threw that flag on Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis that kind of decided that game as well. So
Speaker 1: they just didn't know they didn't didn't they didn't throw
Speaker 1: for OPI I'm sorry they didn't make that call. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me throw this out there too about dan Quinn
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of people were were upset
Speaker 1: with the way that the coverage was in the game,
Speaker 1: and you and I talked about this too. I think
Speaker 1: I think we did. It needs to be mentioned. It's
Speaker 1: not third and eighteen. I mean, yes, that's what the
Speaker 1: stick said. But twelve yards beats you. This isn't like
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, third and eighteen, get off the field.
Speaker 1: This is you're protecting for a fuel goal and all
Speaker 1: the Raiders get ten yards, They've already kicked a fifty
Speaker 1: seven yard or here and they're going to kick another one.
Speaker 1: So you they're trying to get in field goal, right,
Speaker 1: So the coverage isn't necessarily make sure they don't get
Speaker 1: eighteen yards and we can get off the field. No,
Speaker 1: the coverage is, don't let them get six or seven
Speaker 1: yards here because they're gonna beat us with a field goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit different than a normal third
Speaker 1: and eighteen. That's what Dan said on Friday. And I
Speaker 1: just like Kellen Moore, like it's easy to hate a
Speaker 1: play call when it doesn't work. But what Mica got.
Speaker 1: Micah got to car for the first time on the
Speaker 1: on that overtime possession. That was the that was the
Speaker 1: first time they sacked him, right, Yeah, I just I
Speaker 1: have no problem imagining like they drop in zone. Cars
Speaker 1: got four seconds in the pocket, then he breaks contain,
Speaker 1: steps up and hits a guy for sixteen yards. Like
Speaker 1: the way that the defense pressured him aka they didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't. It's very easy for me to imagine him
Speaker 1: doing that. And then I everybody's like, oh, you play
Speaker 1: soft zone on third and eight? Are you kidding me again?
Speaker 1: Quinn like, so, yeah, they called man a man coverage.
Speaker 1: They didn't work out. I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it at all. I
Speaker 1: kudos to Michael Parsons for getting a sack there and
Speaker 1: over time because he was dog tired and because he
Speaker 1: didn't really rotate that much. He played a lot of
Speaker 1: the game and most all of it I think a
Speaker 1: defensive end. I don't think he really rotated that much.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that many plays where he was not
Speaker 1: on the field, which is not normal for a pass rusher.
Speaker 1: So that's been the knock on putting him at pass rushers,
Speaker 1: like he has to come off the field. So they didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't take him up the field. He was really tired.
Speaker 1: I think the case keeps going back and forth. Oh
Speaker 1: is he an end? Is he a linebacker? I think
Speaker 1: with these guys starting to come back and what we
Speaker 1: saw from that game, I still think he's a linebacker.
Speaker 1: But he's got a rush to the passer when it's
Speaker 1: time to rush the passer. And all I want in
Speaker 1: life is to have Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence back
Speaker 1: rushing as traditional ends, with Micah either hanging over the
Speaker 1: strong side of the formation as an extra rusher or
Speaker 1: blitzen up the a gap while they're doing it because
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Speaker 1: don't want or anything. You just want that. Okay, If
Speaker 1: raises on the table, we can talk, but otherwise I'll
Speaker 1: just take that. Well, let's go ahead and take our
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Speaker 1: Back to the break, Okay, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: So we talked about the refs, and we talked about
Speaker 1: certain things, but I want to try to forget about
Speaker 1: all those calls. Put in that aside whatever you can pick,
Speaker 1: which was very very very hard, and Dave you mentioned
Speaker 1: and it ruins the flow. Ezekiel Elliott mentioned it after
Speaker 1: the game. He's like, you can never get in a
Speaker 1: rhythm when you keep getting soopped every time. So looking
Speaker 1: at the game, at the plays that we were able
Speaker 1: to see, what do you walk away with after that game,
Speaker 1: whether that's on offense or defense, just in general, what
Speaker 1: the cot was we're able to do or not do well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'll start with a quarterback. He
Speaker 1: needs to play better. I mean he does as I
Speaker 1: just notice he's one of the Players of the Week
Speaker 1: nominees for the quarterbacks. But I still feel like he
Speaker 1: there were throws out there that he didn't make and
Speaker 1: he got into a rhythm and every time Derek and
Speaker 1: I talked about it, then he would make a play
Speaker 1: and he would get Speaking of Derek, you'd make a play.
Speaker 1: Got the afternoon paper. Sorry, it's just a broad est jerke,
Speaker 1: so broad est jerk there we have to throw in there. No,
Speaker 1: it's kidding. I know what you've been going through. And
Speaker 1: he would definitely like to have the paper and he'd
Speaker 1: hit me with it if he had it. Um. We
Speaker 1: were talking about dak Um needing to play a little bit,
Speaker 1: talked about refs and we already talked about we did
Speaker 1: the whole thing, man, we did it all. I missed
Speaker 1: all of that. Yeah, favorite penalty over the weekend, Derek,
Speaker 1: what favorite penalty? What was your favorite of all of them?
Speaker 1: Quendi been doing that now? Favorite penalties, just anything you
Speaker 1: want to invent. Let it out before we end the show.
Speaker 1: I was just throwing out, Yeah, it's good. Divert the
Speaker 1: part that I was blaming. I'm not blaming Dak. I
Speaker 1: just think he's got to play better. He yes, he
Speaker 1: didn't have all his weapons. I get it, but there
Speaker 1: are some throws out there that he's not making. And
Speaker 1: it's been the last few games and he hasn't played
Speaker 1: his best football at all. And I would imagine he
Speaker 1: stands up and says that, so this isn't you know,
Speaker 1: that's great? I think I think he's been an outstanding quarterback.
Speaker 1: There's nobody else I'd rather have right now than than
Speaker 1: than Dak. I say that because there's no other options,
Speaker 1: because I mean, you can't know. I'm saying you can't
Speaker 1: go get Aaron Rodgers or Mahomes or the Brady and
Speaker 1: all that. He's the he's the best guy for this
Speaker 1: team right now. But he's got to play better, and
Speaker 1: I bet he'll He'll admit it. This offense needs to
Speaker 1: have some kind of come to Jesus moment. They they've
Speaker 1: lost their way a little bit, and I think it
Speaker 1: stems from for whatever reason, probably a lot of them.
Speaker 1: The offensive line has been in flux. Zeke Elliot's hurt.
Speaker 1: The run game is boo boo. It's not good right now,
Speaker 1: and rather than trying to adapt around it, they seem
Speaker 1: to be opting more for just like stubbornly trying to
Speaker 1: force it, and it hasn't worked. They haven't been able
Speaker 1: to get anything going on the ground, with the exception
Speaker 1: of one trick play to Tony Pollard in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: It's like, and to be, Nick's totally right, Like Da
Speaker 1: Dak has been off for most of the last month.
Speaker 1: He's missed so many uncharacteristic throws, his pocket awareness has
Speaker 1: been off. But at the same time, he was and
Speaker 1: is capable of playing at an MVP level. And it
Speaker 1: didn't really feel like they were comfortable putting the ball
Speaker 1: in his hand until they had to in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: And wouldn't you know, they zip up and down the
Speaker 1: field throughout the fourth quarter. He I don't know off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, but he probably had two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty of his three hundred and seventy whatever
Speaker 1: yards in the fourth quarter, partially his doing though, because
Speaker 1: he wasn't that great in the first three quarters, sure,
Speaker 1: but but I wonder it feels like with the amount
Speaker 1: of guys that they have out, they are their game
Speaker 1: plans reflect like a college game where you know you're
Speaker 1: the less talented team and you're like, how can we
Speaker 1: stay on the field, How can we kind of just
Speaker 1: keep the other guys out of this and just methodically
Speaker 1: move it? And they don't have the pieces to do
Speaker 1: that right now, And who knows, maybe it'll just magically
Speaker 1: go back to being great with Amar and CD back
Speaker 1: in the fold and all that good stuff. But I
Speaker 1: just I don't like the way like they don't have
Speaker 1: an identity right now, and they're it seems like they're
Speaker 1: calling these games as if they don't really trust any
Speaker 1: of their pitches, so to speak. I think that in
Speaker 1: and you guys said it last week, and I was
Speaker 1: a little dubious of it, but Amari Cooper really matters,
Speaker 1: and he matters a ton, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: we saw at least these last two games. I think
Speaker 1: not having him matters probably more than any other guy
Speaker 1: offensively other than the quarterback, because I think when he's out,
Speaker 1: you can see that other guys just don't have that
Speaker 1: ability when you run against a team that can match
Speaker 1: up with you pretty well. They just don't have anybody
Speaker 1: else that's going to get open. I trust Amari to
Speaker 1: get open, even in double coverage. He figures out ways
Speaker 1: to get open and present himself and create an opportunity
Speaker 1: for the quarterback to make a completion. They don't have
Speaker 1: that guy when he's not there other than possibly CD,
Speaker 1: and CD has been out the last game and a half.
Speaker 1: So they just didn't have it this game. And that
Speaker 1: I think, before I give too much to Dak not
Speaker 1: being what I thought he was, I will give him
Speaker 1: the benefit of doubt that he just didn't have guys
Speaker 1: that were able to get open consistently. Because he made
Speaker 1: some throws to gallop in this last game, they were
Speaker 1: pretty good. You just can't do that every play, you know. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. But it's just since Denver
Speaker 1: and they haven't had guys throughout that. You know, they
Speaker 1: didn't have Tyron, they didn't have a Mari. But like
Speaker 1: you just you haven't seen a consistency to generate that,
Speaker 1: and like I said, like it just sort of feels
Speaker 1: like Kellen Moore and I don't know this, I'm just speculating,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't feel it doesn't I just don't feel
Speaker 1: this sense of confidence from their play calls, in the
Speaker 1: way that they call things like it reminds me of
Speaker 1: playing Madden and you like you don't feel confident and
Speaker 1: you just wind up and you're like, all right, I
Speaker 1: can I can hit this five yard out. I know
Speaker 1: I can do that, and I just maybe I can
Speaker 1: just move down the field doing that and eventually it
Speaker 1: bites you. That's just kind of the impression that I
Speaker 1: get from these guys is like, like I said, it's
Speaker 1: like a pitcher who doesn't trust his pitches right now.
Speaker 1: And hopefully getting these guys back will help with that.
Speaker 1: But it hasn't been fun to watch Jazz. You guys
Speaker 1: talk about the offensive line a lot, you missed a lot.
Speaker 1: We covered some ground, y'all. Y'all did everything. I will
Speaker 1: say real quick though, I heard you guys talking about
Speaker 1: the coach and who should possibly be the head coach
Speaker 1: this week. I actually think Rob Davis is right answer.
Speaker 1: I know that's kind of crazy, but it allowed to
Speaker 1: talk to well, I didn't talk to anybody. I saw
Speaker 1: it on Twitter. I saw Brian talking about it with
Speaker 1: someone and they threw out Rob Davis and because before that,
Speaker 1: I was worried. I don't want my offensive play caller
Speaker 1: and my defensive play caller to all of a sudden
Speaker 1: not be my play caller and or focused on being
Speaker 1: my play caller. And I don't want Bones being the
Speaker 1: guy that's making the calls on managing the game, because
Speaker 1: I think then you're you're asking, you're asking for some
Speaker 1: stuff that maybe we don't want. Maybe I no, I
Speaker 1: think Bones might be the answer because somebody I need
Speaker 1: somebody to be able to tell him no, Like I
Speaker 1: don't need him to be the guy with his and
Speaker 1: on the pulse, I mean, on the I don't think
Speaker 1: you're crazy. I don't think you're crazy at all, because
Speaker 1: we know what Mike McCarthy thinks of Rob Davis. And
Speaker 1: again we talked about this before you were here, Like
Speaker 1: Tom Palaceero's reporting it, and you should take that as
Speaker 1: damn near gospel. When it comes to matters, he's going
Speaker 1: to have a bigger role. But that's a huge jump,
Speaker 1: Like he's not like he doesn't coach a position, but no,
Speaker 1: but think about it. The head coach on this team
Speaker 1: as it's constructed, his main job is, Yeah, do we
Speaker 1: need a time out right here? Uh do we want
Speaker 1: to challenge this? And by the way, there's somebody in
Speaker 1: his ear that's saying, hey guy, hey, challenge this. So
Speaker 1: I mean, what is he really being asked to do
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be able to do, you know, it
Speaker 1: seems so far out. And by the way, he does
Speaker 1: have those other guys that can those other guys that
Speaker 1: can talk to like Dan can say hey, right here,
Speaker 1: you might want to think about this, Rob, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: just and just read the release that they sent out.
Speaker 1: That's that's why if it is like if if it
Speaker 1: is gonna be Rob Davis, it says this is what
Speaker 1: the release from the team said. Dallas Cowboys head coach
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy has been entered into the NFL's COVID protocol
Speaker 1: calls this morning. Although he will not be on the
Speaker 1: field for the Saints game, McCarthy will continue to direct
Speaker 1: and be involved in all me and game preparations on
Speaker 1: a virtual basis. Now, is that just the preparation or
Speaker 1: because it says he will not be on the field
Speaker 1: for the game, he will continue to direct. So you
Speaker 1: are you saying maybe maybe they put him in a
Speaker 1: suite somewhere isolated by himself and let him get to
Speaker 1: New Orleans. But I think, I mean, but they don't.
Speaker 1: The league rules are telecommunications can't happen on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Can't actually make a phone call or have connection with
Speaker 1: somebody that's not in the coach's booth or on the
Speaker 1: field like anybody else like you or I cannot have access.
Speaker 1: And I threw this out there. We can't put McCarthy
Speaker 1: on zoom on a surface and hit that on the gatorage.
Speaker 1: Although I do think I do think in today's I
Speaker 1: do think in today's COVID world, I do think the
Speaker 1: league should think about that. Like, if you got a
Speaker 1: coach that's out and he's just sitting at home and
Speaker 1: he's got no symptoms and he's watching his team play,
Speaker 1: what's the harm Like, it's not like you're doing something
Speaker 1: that I mean, he would be there anyway, So what's
Speaker 1: the harm in having It's like, got a roster limit
Speaker 1: on coaches NICs we know around here, So I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just why not. I just think in today's well,
Speaker 1: you probably should. I don't know. I just across this league,
Speaker 1: like two thirds of the head coaches in this league
Speaker 1: call plays for some somebody offense or defense. Sean Payton's
Speaker 1: going to be doing it on Thursday night, So Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like that. Why Dan didn't call
Speaker 1: it in Atlanta? Well, I get that, but these are
Speaker 1: extenuating circumstances like this is a it's a weird situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You just gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: I just feel like a head coach, the head coach here,
Speaker 1: he has a very limited scope on what he has
Speaker 1: to manage on game day. I think you could do
Speaker 1: that with somebody else and not disrupt what you're doing
Speaker 1: offensivelian defensively. I mean, I don't think you're crazy. Like
Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot of reasons why you could
Speaker 1: read those tea leaves. No, I don't think you're crazy
Speaker 1: for suggesting it. I don't know that it's the best idea.
Speaker 1: I think we could put Nick down there as the
Speaker 1: head coach for this game and you'd be fine. Like again,
Speaker 1: it's not give me a shot, Jerry, it's now gonna
Speaker 1: go for it on every fourth. You know what would happen?
Speaker 1: Ice crunching your Yeah, coaches are getting pissed at you.
Speaker 1: I think we all know what would happen and flor
Speaker 1: fleeflicker would definitely Did you see that in the Giants game?
Speaker 1: I thought about you and I was looking on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Nobody said anything. I get it. I get every fleeflicker.
Speaker 1: When Holy Cross does it against Dartmouth, I get. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen a fleeflicker screen though. That
Speaker 1: was kind of weird. But I saw the fake flee
Speaker 1: flicker the other day. The guy ran into the line,
Speaker 1: faked it, came back. Man, he went like fourteen yards
Speaker 1: up the middle. I was like, whoa one other thing
Speaker 1: you could do? Awful fleeflicker. A lot of fakes going
Speaker 1: on there, A lot of stuff happened this. Imagine like
Speaker 1: every time the Cowboys get beyond their own thirty five,
Speaker 1: you just go for it. Every time that's four out
Speaker 1: of six on fourth down, Cowboys score thirty eight points.
Speaker 1: Sounds awesome. You're just over there rubbing the eyebrows. Just
Speaker 1: I'm here and I got I got the playheet on
Speaker 1: one hand and rubbing the eyebrow with the other. Would
Speaker 1: you still get on Twitter though, in the middle of
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed, he would try. You'd have a boy'd
Speaker 1: be losing his mind that he wasn't on his phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would at Helman DC just tweets in the second
Speaker 1: quarter like get ready for this guy, suggestions anyone awesome
Speaker 1: sounds fun. Well, unfortunately that is all the time we have.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's so much more to talk about.
Speaker 1: We got another day tomorrow. Yeah, we do have another
Speaker 1: day tomorrow. I just hope, I just hope that this
Speaker 1: is all still relevant in two hours. Honestly, this is
Speaker 1: crazy times, guys, crazy times. Well, do you want to
Speaker 1: do the honors? Sure? We appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll have lots to talk about and
Speaker 1: we'll get you ready for Cowboys versus Saints. Till then
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