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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, Today's Tuesday eleven. Do you stay eleven?
Speaker 1: We have a lot to discuss today, but before we
Speaker 1: get into it, how are you guys doing better than yesterday? Great?
Speaker 1: How are we doing? Guys? How are we doing? Guys?
Speaker 1: You're ready to go? Okay? Great? All right, Corel Dave Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm awesome. So we have a lot to discuss, but
Speaker 1: before we get into it, I wanted to touch on
Speaker 1: a few things that um happened last night. Jason Witten
Speaker 1: had his debut as a Monday night football analyst. He did,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to see what you guys. First impression
Speaker 1: of this was, um, I didn't know he was out there.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, like he he hardly ever talks. This
Speaker 1: is me Like, I didn't realize this was such a
Speaker 1: big deal for Booger McFarland like this, he was his show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody told him to shut the front door. Ever, I
Speaker 1: thought he was really good. Though. I didn't mind that
Speaker 1: he kept talking. That's fine, I guess. I just the
Speaker 1: whole point was, I was literally listening to Jason gonna
Speaker 1: talk because it's just it seemed as though they were
Speaker 1: kind of creating his moments for him talking. He just
Speaker 1: didn't say anything, so I don't know. It was, yeah,
Speaker 1: were you expecting more? Though? Yeah, this was like this
Speaker 1: huge deal that Jason Witten is now, you know, jumping
Speaker 1: into the booth for Monday night football. And then he
Speaker 1: looked like the third guy, you know, like he looked
Speaker 1: he didn't hardly ever talk. I thought. I thought McFarland
Speaker 1: talked the whole time. It felt like Jason was the
Speaker 1: sideline guy exactly. Booger McFarlane was the color analyst. I think,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for Jason, Booger McFarland's got a lot more experience
Speaker 1: doing this than he does, and it showed last night,
Speaker 1: which you'll get better. I'm sure. I didn't think he
Speaker 1: was bad. He did not seem comfortable to me, and
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, like just I mean, I'm not best
Speaker 1: friends with Jason Witten by any stretch, but knowing what
Speaker 1: I know about him, I think that's going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge for him to adapt to what he needs
Speaker 1: to be like to be good at that. I think
Speaker 1: he'll get there. I think it's it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: it's with anything, you go from one career to another one,
Speaker 1: and he's going to have to adapt to the idea
Speaker 1: that he's got to have something to say about everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't think that, And he might already and
Speaker 1: he just doesn't know how to, Like he's not used
Speaker 1: to that. He's used to maybe as a player, being
Speaker 1: a little more reserved, but he's got to learn that
Speaker 1: every time there's an opportunity, you gotta jumping half something there.
Speaker 1: I think it was in the first half yesterday, like
Speaker 1: he said something and like it was so heavy in
Speaker 1: football lingo that it didn't even make sense unless you
Speaker 1: really follow football. When Joe Tessitur was like, expound on
Speaker 1: that if you and like he it almost seemed like
Speaker 1: he was like, what do you mean, expound on that?
Speaker 1: Like that's it's football, said it, like, well, you gotta
Speaker 1: do a little bit more for your average Joe sitting
Speaker 1: at home, which the audience. Somebody told me a long
Speaker 1: time ago that when you're doing that, you have to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to say the same thing fourteen
Speaker 1: different ways, because if you keep saying it over and
Speaker 1: over like, it'll be repetitive and it won't be good.
Speaker 1: And there was a moment where in the first half
Speaker 1: where he talked about a play. I remember the receivers
Speaker 1: running down the field, and he said the same thing
Speaker 1: three times, and that's kind of his way of describing
Speaker 1: the play. And I just remember thinking that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to get better at that. But I
Speaker 1: thought it was just kind of all accorded the way
Speaker 1: that that booger McFarland was talking too much. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe they just should need to put the three of them.
Speaker 1: Then then it's just fair games. I think that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to view booger McFarland as a third member of
Speaker 1: the booth. He's just doing in the booth. That's like
Speaker 1: their new wrinkle is like, well, he's gonna have this
Speaker 1: thing move. Yeah, he follows the line of scrimmage. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's sitting above the line of scrimmage wherever it is,
Speaker 1: seeing how he's kind of shaken them. He's on the
Speaker 1: camera card basically is where he is, and he's just honestly,
Speaker 1: that's a great view. I mean, yeah, you get a
Speaker 1: better view there probably than they get upstairs. I am.
Speaker 1: I am encouraged by the first. I mean, yeah, Jason's
Speaker 1: gonna he's got some work to do, and I mean
Speaker 1: they all do. But I like the vantage point that
Speaker 1: Booger's got and he offered some insight. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think of the halftime what it
Speaker 1: was they did, like the music with video Tory Kelly
Speaker 1: Kelly and which I love both the ar Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I love boys men, I love Tory Kelly.
Speaker 1: It was just awkward the way they did it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know entertainment is in their name, but like ESPN
Speaker 1: always tries to do stuff like that, they're trying to
Speaker 1: trick it up a little bit. I didn't stop. I
Speaker 1: remember this was years ago, but like they bait, Like
Speaker 1: when TRL on MTV was at its height, they tried
Speaker 1: to like they were like, We're gonna have live performances
Speaker 1: on Sports Center and it's like, no, stop, I want that.
Speaker 1: I'll go to MTV or wherever that is. Just do it.
Speaker 1: Just do sports. It doesn't You don't have to cover
Speaker 1: every Touchdow. You could have given me five minutes of
Speaker 1: analysis on the game and I would have been just
Speaker 1: as happy. Right, Well, let's hope that Jason Waitin thus
Speaker 1: get better as time goes on, as well as well
Speaker 1: we hope with this twenty eighteen Cowboys version. So before
Speaker 1: we move on into that, Jerry talked on the fan
Speaker 1: this morning and touched on a few things. I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention Xavier Woods. He's supposed to be getting closer
Speaker 1: to plane, although his pride to maybe get a little
Speaker 1: limited this week. Randy Gregory seems like he is good
Speaker 1: to go. As far as health concerns and as far
Speaker 1: as the whole suspension thing or drug thing, I think
Speaker 1: that's still in the air. I think you got it flopped,
Speaker 1: which I thought he was good injury wise, and we'll
Speaker 1: see as alway, especially when you're talking about a concussion,
Speaker 1: we'll see that. Jason Garrett said he's feeling better, but
Speaker 1: I guess I gathered that from that and then seeing
Speaker 1: Randy tweet about it saying he was good. But then
Speaker 1: I guess you can't hold waste. Well, the way that
Speaker 1: goes now. Back in the day, if the player felt
Speaker 1: great and he saw that you had two fingers in
Speaker 1: front of him, and then it was like all right, yeah, good.
Speaker 1: But now there's a whole protocol they have to go
Speaker 1: through and and in a lot of instances, the doctor
Speaker 1: is going to be the final person to make that determination,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the player is I guess saying now,
Speaker 1: they could probably say they're feeling off fine and give
Speaker 1: them a great report, but yeah, I would assume the
Speaker 1: test that the doctors do will give him a little
Speaker 1: bit more indication and they'll have to pass that protocol
Speaker 1: in order to get back on the field. But I
Speaker 1: do like what you said there with up in the
Speaker 1: air with the with the league talk, because Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: did go on the radio today and say, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, everything's good, we're all in
Speaker 1: the clear. And that's that's noteworthy. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: if Jerry Jones is going to have a better idea
Speaker 1: than we do about what's going on with that, at
Speaker 1: the same time, I'm always I'm taking that with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt basically until the end of time, Like
Speaker 1: that's just the story with Randy Gregory is that I
Speaker 1: don't know that it's I mean, you're never You're never
Speaker 1: just gonna feel great about that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Although I do think it's not worthy that Jerry said,
Speaker 1: as from a league standpoint, he expects him to be
Speaker 1: available Sunday, which is that's news. So but you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry's been saying since training camp that and I think
Speaker 1: people kind of just kind of took it as a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. But he said, Hey, when you're talking
Speaker 1: about these kind of situations where guys, guys are coming
Speaker 1: back from you know, drug rehabilitation, it is a process
Speaker 1: that is not a okay, you're you're now go. It's
Speaker 1: not like a broken bone, like There's gonna be times
Speaker 1: when there may be hiccups, and so as long as
Speaker 1: you know you have the right people around them and
Speaker 1: you're giving them the right support and they're able to
Speaker 1: work through whatever hiccups may happen, I think that ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think if the league is being smart, they will
Speaker 1: factor that in. And that's why they should have medical
Speaker 1: people involved in this so that they can help when
Speaker 1: there is a hiccup, get them immediate help and get
Speaker 1: them back on the right track, because don't I think
Speaker 1: it's foolish to assume that a person that's been addicted
Speaker 1: to any kind of substance is just going to at
Speaker 1: some point be whole. Right, It just doesn't happen like that.
Speaker 1: You hear anybody that's been addicted alcohol, drugs, whatever, they'll
Speaker 1: tell you like, this is a this is a lifelong thing.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta deal with this for the rest of
Speaker 1: my life because it's now part of my life, right
Speaker 1: which as a member of the media, this whole thing
Speaker 1: with Randy makes me feel a lot of different types
Speaker 1: of ways because I understand the value of reporting, and
Speaker 1: if something's going on that ain't right, like that's the
Speaker 1: media's job, whether it's sports or politics, whatever, there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. At the same time, this Randy thing
Speaker 1: is really sketchy because basically, anybody in Randy's situation is
Speaker 1: gonna be having There's gonna be a million things going
Speaker 1: on with him, probably for the rest of his career.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna be you're gonna be getting tested
Speaker 1: maybe randomly, You're gonna be having dialogues, You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be going to meetings with the league, like he
Speaker 1: did a couple weeks ago. That's probably got accountability people
Speaker 1: you're dealing with. As yet, there's just gonna be stuff
Speaker 1: swirling with him, like that's just that's just part of
Speaker 1: his life basically, and it sucks for him. And it
Speaker 1: seems really unfair that, you know, whether it's leaks or
Speaker 1: whether it's reporters not being completely responsible, not pointing fingers
Speaker 1: anybody specifically, but just the basic idea of who he
Speaker 1: is and who he plays for. There's people trying to
Speaker 1: pry into that. And I think about it from a
Speaker 1: fans of mindset is like you want it to be
Speaker 1: black or white, like is he good to go and
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about this or is he suspended?
Speaker 1: And its not gonna be that way. And I just think,
Speaker 1: to quote Jerry, you gotta have some tolerance for ambiguity
Speaker 1: with that, and it just sucks you in tolerance for ambiguity,
Speaker 1: you have to have a tolerance for ambiguity that this
Speaker 1: You're probably always gonna have to have some level of
Speaker 1: concern about Randy Gregory. But it sucks for him that
Speaker 1: his dirty laundry, so to speak, is being leaked out
Speaker 1: into the media. In one form or fashion, and it's
Speaker 1: just unfortunate. But you know, for the time being, sounds
Speaker 1: like he is okay. Yeah, right, so every week is
Speaker 1: gonna be kind of a pending status for him. But
Speaker 1: from what I'm gathering as of right now, it seems
Speaker 1: that it's nothing major and it should be okay. Now,
Speaker 1: there was a comment that I thought was really interesting
Speaker 1: from part of Jerry Jones and yesterday we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about Dak Prescott and yes, and this morning he
Speaker 1: made a comment that he saw in Dak a mixture
Speaker 1: of Jared Goff and Canton. So I wanted to see
Speaker 1: what y'all's opinion was on that. Yeah, I know, I
Speaker 1: got a lot to say, just I don't know where
Speaker 1: to start so much to say, uh you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can hear the smart Alec comments about you know,
Speaker 1: Dak's Dak's not accurate, Jeric Goff. Last night, he didn't
Speaker 1: have a great night throwing the ball by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. I think he was about fifty percent
Speaker 1: so and look, I've seen the tape. I know Dak
Speaker 1: missed a lot of throws. I'm not giving him a
Speaker 1: pass for that, um, But so yeah, I agree it
Speaker 1: would agree. We know Dak can complete and acceptable percentage
Speaker 1: of passes he and he did on Sunday, although not
Speaker 1: the ones that mattered. The thing for me what jumps
Speaker 1: out to me with that is if Dak has even
Speaker 1: augh iota of the mobility and running ability as Cam
Speaker 1: Newton does, where was it? Well? My question would also be,
Speaker 1: if he does have some of that, then why the
Speaker 1: heck isn't this offensive staff figuring out a way to
Speaker 1: have more calls mind for him to run the ball.
Speaker 1: It's painfully obvious that Cam's ability to run was a
Speaker 1: big part of Carolina's game plan, and they knew that
Speaker 1: they were going to lean on him to do that
Speaker 1: to get past the Stallas defense. Happened with Dak And
Speaker 1: if they know that, and I would hope that they do,
Speaker 1: then that's borderline inexcusable for me that they didn't try
Speaker 1: to implement that a little bit more. I don't really
Speaker 1: see any kind of cross comparisons between the two. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think Goff's a different type of player.
Speaker 1: I think Cam is a different type of player. And
Speaker 1: what Jerry wants Dad to be riding between both of them,
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't see either of that. What Cam
Speaker 1: does best Dad didn't show, as Dave just said, and
Speaker 1: what Goff does best, Dad didn't show and really doesn't
Speaker 1: show that hardly at all. So I think that's the
Speaker 1: ideal to be that type that would be your prototype quarterback,
Speaker 1: if you could be a combination with two guys. Don't
Speaker 1: know what that was. But but can't you Okay, everybody, okay, um,
Speaker 1: but no, I just think overall, I mean, that's the goal,
Speaker 1: and I think he was really far from it. But
Speaker 1: you know, this is the biggest issue this team has,
Speaker 1: I think right now, it's just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: is their quarterback good enough to win games? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: will say this, and Dave you kind of alluded to it.
Speaker 1: We went back yesterday and I know I went and
Speaker 1: sat down with Brian to watch a little bit of
Speaker 1: what Dak did in this game, and Nicky came over
Speaker 1: saw some of it as well. There was some significant
Speaker 1: missus in that game. There were some opportunities and you
Speaker 1: want to talk about these wide receivers. Let's not talk
Speaker 1: about the wide receivers right now. And the reason why
Speaker 1: I say that is because there were plenty of opportunities
Speaker 1: in that game. Tight ends included where they had opened
Speaker 1: They had open guys downfield opportunities in one instance with
Speaker 1: Jeff Swain where it was clearly a touchdown and Dak
Speaker 1: for whatever reason wasn't able to get them the ball,
Speaker 1: whether he didn't see it, whether he just didn't pull
Speaker 1: the trigger, whatever the case might have been. But they
Speaker 1: had some opportunities that were left on the table yesterday
Speaker 1: because of Dak's inability to get the ball to them.
Speaker 1: And so I don't want to talk about receivers and
Speaker 1: wide receiver and tight ends for the until we see
Speaker 1: Dak improved there. Then I don't think it's fair to
Speaker 1: criticize this receiving group as we have in the past.
Speaker 1: There were more than enough open men. The Jeff swam
Speaker 1: very obvious touchdown comes to mind. How about and hey,
Speaker 1: if you even if you're gonna say, all right, Dak's
Speaker 1: not a great downfield thrower, don't put that on him. Okay,
Speaker 1: how about the Michael Gallup crossing route seven yards past
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, where he had guys down field,
Speaker 1: he had green grass in front of him. It's probably
Speaker 1: at least a twenty five yard if not more game.
Speaker 1: If he just at full speed. It just put it
Speaker 1: where it needs to be instead of two yards behind him.
Speaker 1: Just not a great day at all. The play that
Speaker 1: we're referring to with the Jeff swam he actually pulled
Speaker 1: the ball downs third and nine and it was he
Speaker 1: had to have the play and he ended up rushing
Speaker 1: for ten or a great and did a nice job.
Speaker 1: But I think what needs to be addressed there in
Speaker 1: the film room or whatever is did you see him
Speaker 1: and it looks like he is seeing him? Because what
Speaker 1: is he looking at? It looks like he's seeing him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he thinks he can make the
Speaker 1: throw because we see it from up Todd like there
Speaker 1: he is make the throw, but there's a certain type
Speaker 1: of velocity you've got to put on that ball to
Speaker 1: get it there. Yeah, he could, He could get the
Speaker 1: ball to Swain, But is every safety in the league
Speaker 1: gonna run over there and get it by that? Does
Speaker 1: that worry you if he can't make that yet, If
Speaker 1: he can't make the throw, he doesn't need to be
Speaker 1: in the position. And I'm being honest, like that throw
Speaker 1: out there, if it comes down to he really doesn't
Speaker 1: trust himself. That's the job of you're not only all
Speaker 1: you do. I mean, your job is not only to
Speaker 1: hand off the ball to a runner. Your job as
Speaker 1: a quarterback is to throw the ball right. But I'm
Speaker 1: talking about making all of the throws. And yes, if
Speaker 1: nobody's around, everybody can make that throw. It might hit
Speaker 1: a cloud, but you're gonna get it there. He's got
Speaker 1: to get it there on a dime and split a safety.
Speaker 1: That might be but I guess, but I guess that's
Speaker 1: part of the game. I'm just saying, this is what
Speaker 1: we're finding out. Maybe he it's those type of throws
Speaker 1: that you determine you really can't do this job. But
Speaker 1: that's why I think, personally, I think that's not the
Speaker 1: issue because I tend to believe he can make that throw.
Speaker 1: I tend to believe that it was more of a
Speaker 1: situation where he didn't recognize it as it was or
Speaker 1: he felt something was he was he skittish about the pressure?
Speaker 1: Was it? I mean, there was nobody really on him
Speaker 1: at that point, But was he skittish about the pressure
Speaker 1: to where he was like, I'm gonna have to really
Speaker 1: step into this throw. I don't think I can have
Speaker 1: enough time to do that. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of ends up taking off running. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it was. I don't Maybe I'm just giving
Speaker 1: him the benefit of doubt that he can make that throw,
Speaker 1: because that's that's a that's not a tough throw where
Speaker 1: you got a tight end basically around the hash marks
Speaker 1: about twenty five thirty yards downfield. This was after he
Speaker 1: shorted the throw to Jarwin, right yet, So man, Well,
Speaker 1: but I just I will say this, and Brian point
Speaker 1: pointed this out on this situation with Jarwin Byron. I mean,
Speaker 1: Brian thinks that what happened there was Dak was expecting
Speaker 1: him to stop, and he kind of kept floating. And
Speaker 1: if you notice, as he was running, he stopped running
Speaker 1: full speed. Jarwin did and he was kind of just
Speaker 1: jogging a little bit and then kind of went a
Speaker 1: little bit too far. So he thinks there was kind
Speaker 1: of a miscommunication there on what Dak was saying. Not
Speaker 1: that Dak couldn't get it to him, but Dak thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna stop, and he actually just kept floating backwards. Um,
Speaker 1: and that's what made the ball short. That's fine, it
Speaker 1: didn't I mean, it wasn't complete, that's all. I know,
Speaker 1: but and that's what y'all have been talking about, is
Speaker 1: why I said what I says, like, Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: trust yourself to make that throw, which an NFL quarterback
Speaker 1: should be able to make. But let's just even let's
Speaker 1: even just allow acknowledge that, Okay, you can't make that throw,
Speaker 1: make five or six pretty easy ones and the game
Speaker 1: is still probably different. Then there were quite a few.
Speaker 1: I know there are five or six. There were about
Speaker 1: five or six plays at me and Brian walked through.
Speaker 1: He had another one. He had an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: the ball to a guy and he just he missed
Speaker 1: it for whatever reason. I just wonder if he's seeing ghosts.
Speaker 1: Do you think last year from we got six six
Speaker 1: acts this game from from last year from this year
Speaker 1: from you know, does he trust Joe Luni and Conn Williams.
Speaker 1: Does he trust Lyle Collins? Does he trust is he
Speaker 1: to pick up his blitz? I don't know. But again,
Speaker 1: I know every game we play, we get further away
Speaker 1: from twenty sixteen. I understand that, but we still to
Speaker 1: quote Jerry again like we've seen him do these things,
Speaker 1: like he's made those types of throws in the past.
Speaker 1: He has and that's what makes it even harder for
Speaker 1: me to understand like where it went. And to me,
Speaker 1: that comes back to that says confidence to me, or
Speaker 1: confidence that he can make the throw, or confidence that
Speaker 1: he's you know, is he worried about if he throws picks?
Speaker 1: You know? Maybe is the contract in his head is
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Me and Nick were
Speaker 1: talking about that the game Sunday on another subject, but
Speaker 1: it was the whole idea of when you're when you're
Speaker 1: young and you you don't have much, then you're willing
Speaker 1: to go all out because you don't really you're not
Speaker 1: worried about losing anything, right, because you don't have anything
Speaker 1: to lose. That could be a rookie player, right. But
Speaker 1: then you get a few years in and now you've
Speaker 1: got elect you got something built, you got a little
Speaker 1: something built, and now you're trying to hold on. And
Speaker 1: when you're trying to hold on, you get a lot
Speaker 1: more conservative. And we all do it in our everyday lives.
Speaker 1: Think about how carefree you were when you were in
Speaker 1: your early twenties relative to how you may be when
Speaker 1: you're in your forties and you've got a wife and kids,
Speaker 1: you gotta support, like your chance, your ability, or your
Speaker 1: ability to take chances, or your your willingness to take
Speaker 1: chances decreases quite a bit. And so it could be
Speaker 1: the same thing with a player like Dak where the
Speaker 1: most after you got that success of twenty sixteen, now
Speaker 1: he may not be maybe a little bit more tentative
Speaker 1: because he's like, I gotta make sure I make the
Speaker 1: right decision because I've got something I'm building here and
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose what I have. You know,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, let's take our first break and when
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Speaker 1: One of our biggest topic every single show since we
Speaker 1: got started this season, since training camp has been the
Speaker 1: safety position. We've talked about it every single show. Now
Speaker 1: to our surprise, I would say that was one of
Speaker 1: the least things you noticed on a negative side watching
Speaker 1: this last game, this first game of the Cowboys, So
Speaker 1: I could say it's one of the positives. Yeah, exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: But when gave you say it was one of the
Speaker 1: positives with an asterisk that they got beat well, given
Speaker 1: the fact that you expected, okay, you have these expectations
Speaker 1: for the offense and stuff like that, and then it
Speaker 1: turns out that right, it was very similar to practice
Speaker 1: with the fact that and I even said this several times,
Speaker 1: like this offense isn't going to be testing these safeties
Speaker 1: up and down the field to be like, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: great job. And I don't think Carolina tested the same
Speaker 1: tis vertically down the field where I mean, were these
Speaker 1: guys could have a chance to make make a lot
Speaker 1: of plays good or bad. So it'll get tougher for
Speaker 1: Heath and Frasier than this game. But it certainly was
Speaker 1: a good start, and Frasier did a nice job of
Speaker 1: when he was around the ball, he did a nice job.
Speaker 1: But were they not tested a few times from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of the running game with McCaffrey getting loose and
Speaker 1: they had to get him, like none of those turned
Speaker 1: into touchdowns, those those plays where Cam got loose, plays
Speaker 1: where McCaffrey got loose, I think from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: just how they played overall, yeah, like yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: they didn't get tested back downfield and patting the passing
Speaker 1: game because that's not the offense of the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: But they certainly got tested in the running game, I thought, right,
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying the running game and the short
Speaker 1: passing game with McCaffrey, you'll be tested even more if
Speaker 1: you're having to play you know, way back like in
Speaker 1: Rowan Oak. You know, when you're trying to play you know,
Speaker 1: when they get to Arlington. Seriously, Carolina, you've be way
Speaker 1: back there. I don't know Winston Salem. I didn't have
Speaker 1: a good one for way back in Charlotte. I thought
Speaker 1: Roan was good. Yeah, you're way got the picture, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, anybody's running. But you will
Speaker 1: play Washington and have you know Thompson that the guy,
Speaker 1: yea Chris Thomps, Thompson, I mean somebody like that. So
Speaker 1: when they and they do have some some little bit
Speaker 1: more vertical passing game, But overall, I thought they played well.
Speaker 1: My point though, I'm not one hundred percent sure Woods
Speaker 1: comes back. I mean I don't think Woods start Woods
Speaker 1: was a given starter when we got into the season. Sorry,
Speaker 1: before getting into the season, now, being watching the way
Speaker 1: that Cavon played this in this game, are you guys
Speaker 1: voting for him just to automatically just keep an in there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be really aggravated if Xavier Woods isn't the
Speaker 1: starter when he comes back, because if Cavon freight and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, he's really more of a box safety,
Speaker 1: but he played well so he can do the job. Well,
Speaker 1: then how come Tyron Matthew's not here or any of
Speaker 1: these other guys. If it's as interchangeable as it's as
Speaker 1: that suggests, then why didn't you do anything before? So
Speaker 1: because the excuse we always are was that's not our
Speaker 1: kind of safety that I hope if it's a column
Speaker 1: if Xavier Woods, if he comes back and they go
Speaker 1: with that guy, that's ridiculous. So you're challenging guys. It's
Speaker 1: against Cavon at all. I mea culpa, Cavon, I assume
Speaker 1: you don't listen to the show, but maybe he does.
Speaker 1: I doubt it. I've been talking. I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: We haven't been talking bad, but we've been doubting you
Speaker 1: for months. And I thought he played great. I really
Speaker 1: did for a guy making you know, uh, for a
Speaker 1: guy making his first start. I thought he was really good.
Speaker 1: But Xavier Woods is the free safety with the skill
Speaker 1: set that nobody else has. And so if you just
Speaker 1: automatically pull the plug on that because he missed a
Speaker 1: game or two, that tells me that that was a
Speaker 1: crock of crap. So yeah, I hope these other all
Speaker 1: these other safeties that weren't scheme fits and all that stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: let me change this up a little bit. Let's say
Speaker 1: I think that our perspective change because there were so
Speaker 1: much negative things coming from the office. Now, had the
Speaker 1: offense played well enough and the offense was moving, now
Speaker 1: you start pinpointing things that stand out more the way
Speaker 1: that he played, would it be good enough to where
Speaker 1: you would have still being like, okay, Kevin's good there,
Speaker 1: I think. So I didn't see I didn't see plays
Speaker 1: where Cavon missed his assignment. I didn't see plays where
Speaker 1: Cavon miss tackles. I didn't see plays where Cavon had
Speaker 1: a bad angle, Like I didn't see that. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was there and I missed it. I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: So I think he played well. I thought overall the
Speaker 1: safeties played pretty well. Heath had a chance to get
Speaker 1: an interception, it would have been a great play, but
Speaker 1: he had a chance saved a touchdown. Um you don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's always around the ball, but you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta come up with that play. He
Speaker 1: I thought he played pretty well other than that, but um,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, the safety were good. They'll be
Speaker 1: tested more than they'll be tested this week. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: more than that time. Oh yeah, because they have a
Speaker 1: runner that you can catch the ball out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: and they've got receiving threats that can go down the field,
Speaker 1: and their runner is going to get to the safety
Speaker 1: a few times. Yeah, he'll get there. I got a
Speaker 1: feeling he's going to get to the safety a few times.
Speaker 1: And he's big. Yeah, he's a big dude and he
Speaker 1: can run. Yeah. So tomorrow we'll we'll get it deep
Speaker 1: into the Giants Tomorrow. I want Dave to tell me
Speaker 1: whether he thinks after he reviews this team. I want
Speaker 1: him to tell me if he thinks that the runner
Speaker 1: in New York is better than the runner in Dallas.
Speaker 1: I want to know I've already gotten it. Wait, save
Speaker 1: until tomorrow. I've already gotten a john like I'm I
Speaker 1: have started. So I'll let you know teaser times you
Speaker 1: studied him in college soup with the draft shows. I
Speaker 1: just want to I just want to know, like, do
Speaker 1: you think which one you think is? We can get
Speaker 1: into that, but after after having watched the first I've
Speaker 1: watched the first half of the season opener, Giants and
Speaker 1: Jacks way more worried about the guys out wide than
Speaker 1: the guy in the ball really yes, well, yes, his
Speaker 1: big run came later though, right. Yeah, I hope that
Speaker 1: Zeke is is better at running back because if not,
Speaker 1: and if you're just doing that, you know, checks on
Speaker 1: each side offensive line, Cowboys, running back. I hope it's
Speaker 1: Cowboys right now with Zeke at Barkley Ride receiver, it
Speaker 1: is You're not about to win. The next two is
Speaker 1: not tied end and it's not quarterback. I don't care
Speaker 1: what people just kind of face them Ali man, I
Speaker 1: think it's a push at quarterback. I personally think it's
Speaker 1: a push. I don't know how you can say that
Speaker 1: watching how Eli played last season and how he played
Speaker 1: better than one of them is going to go to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I know that. I'm saying, how
Speaker 1: can anyone say Dak is better than Eli? Oh? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm I've just understood you. I thought you were saying
Speaker 1: Dak is better than I think you're both playing. Neither
Speaker 1: one of them is playing. I'm sorry if I said that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that Dak is not. He was two years
Speaker 1: ago rookie year looked like, you know, Arrow was going
Speaker 1: this way, But no, he's he's not. About two years ago,
Speaker 1: he was playing out a pretty high light. Giants should
Speaker 1: be last year. The Cowboys should be more worried about
Speaker 1: what Eli can do than what that can do. Um,
Speaker 1: definitely throwing the ball. Yeah, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: they got to be worried about what those receivers can do,
Speaker 1: and that that's in some respect has to do with
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But I also think he can get the
Speaker 1: ball out quick, and those receivers can turn a little
Speaker 1: bit into a ton, right, So that's the part I'm
Speaker 1: more worried about, is that receiver. Well, you're stealing my thunder,
Speaker 1: so it's fine. Thanks for bringing it up. Well, both
Speaker 1: teams are oh and one right now, and if you
Speaker 1: were talking yesterday about how important these early games can
Speaker 1: matter when he comes down to later in the season.
Speaker 1: Now both teams and the Cowboys playing at home I
Speaker 1: believe they've maybe beat the Giants the last like four times.
Speaker 1: I think they haven't lost them. Well, they lost to
Speaker 1: him at home in twenty sixteen, and they beat him
Speaker 1: last year, and they beat him in fifteen, and they
Speaker 1: beat him in fourteen. But what I'm getting and it's
Speaker 1: like at this point, this whole home field advantage that
Speaker 1: people like to bring up, I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: factor right now with what you have in the NFL
Speaker 1: home field. There's probably two or three stadiums, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: where home field really matters. In my opinion, I think
Speaker 1: by and large in the NFL, it's you get out
Speaker 1: there on the field and it's these teams are very
Speaker 1: adept at being able to be able to operate their
Speaker 1: offense and their defense even when there's noise coming from
Speaker 1: the crowd. You look at some of the upsets this
Speaker 1: last weekend, there was some pretty good home teams that
Speaker 1: got beat So I just I don't believe home fiel
Speaker 1: advantage is it's a huge a deal in this particular sport,
Speaker 1: as it may be another like basketball, I think it's
Speaker 1: a huge deal. I don't think so on football. I'm
Speaker 1: conflicted about that. I think the thing with home field advantages,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're right. I mean the Saints jump
Speaker 1: right out to me, that is a nice home field
Speaker 1: advantage that was good for nothing on Sunday. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's one of the places I would have said and
Speaker 1: the home field advantage actually matter. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of others, But I do think home field advantage is
Speaker 1: in poor but I think it's I think home field
Speaker 1: advantage is what makes things go from bad to worse.
Speaker 1: Like if you're you know, Cowboys, case in point, like
Speaker 1: maybe they play a little bit better at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium. They might not win the game, but it
Speaker 1: might not be that bad. And you know, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are the same way. I think when you get a
Speaker 1: good thing role in that crowd helps, you know, like
Speaker 1: it keeps the other team off their game. And but yeah,
Speaker 1: for the most part, I don't think you're going to
Speaker 1: lose a game because of home field advantage. I think
Speaker 1: you can lose a game worse than you should because
Speaker 1: of home field advantage. So right now, at this point,
Speaker 1: we've gotten a chance to watch every team play and
Speaker 1: get a feel of what it is like at this point,
Speaker 1: and based on the results that we saw this whole weekend,
Speaker 1: a lot of ugly games, a lot of disappointment happening
Speaker 1: around the league. I would say, but at this point,
Speaker 1: where do you think the Cowboys stand versus all the
Speaker 1: other teams in the league power rankings? They would be
Speaker 1: in the low twenty, twenty three, twenty four. I think
Speaker 1: they definitely did not put up the worst game of
Speaker 1: the weekend, right, but they are in the running and
Speaker 1: put it that way. I mean, and nobody should feel
Speaker 1: worse than the Detroit Lions today, in my opinion, given
Speaker 1: up fifty at home to a rookie quarterback. Five picks
Speaker 1: from your franchise guy, who I've been a big defender
Speaker 1: of Nick doesn't like him. Maybe he's right because that
Speaker 1: was terrible. Matthew Stafford, who I'm talking about the Saints
Speaker 1: again to bring them up. I mean, ten point favorites
Speaker 1: have not. Here's the I don't think that the Saints
Speaker 1: can look at that game and be like so worried
Speaker 1: because they did they still did put up forty points
Speaker 1: and so offensively they got to feel like, hey, number one,
Speaker 1: we got to tighten up some stuff defensively, and you know,
Speaker 1: we just got to figure out some things I don't
Speaker 1: think they worry as much as like the Cowboys. You
Speaker 1: look at the Cowboys, and the reason why I said
Speaker 1: they're probably mid to low twenties is because if you
Speaker 1: go back and look at the problems they've had over
Speaker 1: the last span of games, not just one game, but
Speaker 1: span of games, you start to wonder, is this offense
Speaker 1: gonna find his mojo? And if you can't score points.
Speaker 1: You said this yesterday, If you can't score points, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna win games. Unless you've got a historically great defense,
Speaker 1: the thing not going to win games. And that's the
Speaker 1: part that probably worries the Cowboys more than any other
Speaker 1: franchise right now. There are probably a few other teams
Speaker 1: that are in that boat, but there are a lot
Speaker 1: of teams to score points. This week that lost. Cowboys
Speaker 1: weren't one of them. They lost and didn't score anything.
Speaker 1: One more. I will eats. I will stop bringing up
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints for the day after I'm done
Speaker 1: with this. But I think it's pertinent because the stat
Speaker 1: that's floating around right there is if you start owing
Speaker 1: to you know what, like eighty ninety percent of teams
Speaker 1: that do that don't make the playoffs. Well the Saints. Well,
Speaker 1: it sounds like I'm defending the Cowboys. The Saints started
Speaker 1: in two last year and made the playoffs. At the
Speaker 1: problem is what the Saints have. They had the offensive
Speaker 1: rookie of the year, their whole I mean, their draft class.
Speaker 1: It rivals the twenty sixteen Cowboys in terms of draft
Speaker 1: class making an impact, and Drew Brees, who was going
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame, played the most efficient season
Speaker 1: of his career. Did you see anything on Sunday that
Speaker 1: gives you confidence that the Cowboys can can engineer a
Speaker 1: turnaround like that? And yeah, I honestly don't know what
Speaker 1: because I can't remember back to what New Orleans, not
Speaker 1: that I even watch those games. What New Orleans did
Speaker 1: in those two losses. How did they perform? Like did
Speaker 1: they look as bad as the Cowboys offensive? I can
Speaker 1: tell you right now that they probably didn't enter the
Speaker 1: season just thinking that Kamara was going to be the
Speaker 1: guy that they have to just lean on or you know,
Speaker 1: profile him that much in the offense. He had done
Speaker 1: some nice things. He has an expanded role. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, he is one of the more dynamic players
Speaker 1: in this league. So then the question becomes were there
Speaker 1: guys yesterday? Did we see things from guys yesterday that
Speaker 1: maybe could give you a reason to believe? I'm sorry, Sunday,
Speaker 1: that maybe gives you a reason to believe. Like, let's say,
Speaker 1: for example, did you see anything from wide receivers and
Speaker 1: tight ends. It makes you say, hey, if this quarterback
Speaker 1: figures out how to get the ball to the right
Speaker 1: place at the right time, you got some some different
Speaker 1: options in the right there. Okay, I like your questions,
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Speaker 1: but before Miles comes back, um, I think that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is a pretty big game though, for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. One of them is you need
Speaker 1: to decide kind of where you're going to go if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, if there is a trade that they still
Speaker 1: want to make, If you're O and two and you
Speaker 1: lost to the Giants, it changes the course of things
Speaker 1: a little bit now out. I mean, because it's like,
Speaker 1: what type of team are you going to have if
Speaker 1: this is a if you're going to bring a player
Speaker 1: in that might help you and kind of get over
Speaker 1: the top and fit, you know, fill a hole, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But if not, then I mean, I don't know when
Speaker 1: your defense can't do all the work. I honestly believe though,
Speaker 1: that that's the kind of decision that I make after
Speaker 1: three or four games. I don't think after two. I
Speaker 1: know what the statistics say, but I'm I still and
Speaker 1: again maybe this is just my own personal optimism. I
Speaker 1: don't believe after two games in a sixteen game season,
Speaker 1: anything is determined. So okay, mister optimistic, Yeah, before we
Speaker 1: went into break, you post the question of did you
Speaker 1: see anything from this team that offensively Yes? Yes, that
Speaker 1: will make you feel better going or moving forward into
Speaker 1: the season. Yes, And my answer your own the way
Speaker 1: I would answer that question is yes, I did not
Speaker 1: expect that the wide receivers and tight ends would be
Speaker 1: open as much as they were until after the game.
Speaker 1: I'm standing there in the locker room, Cole Beasley is
Speaker 1: talking to the media and says, go back and watch
Speaker 1: the film. You will see that wide receivers were open.
Speaker 1: It made my eyebrow go up because I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: did he just say that? And then I went back
Speaker 1: and I talked to Brian first because I didn't have
Speaker 1: a chance to watch watch it before he went on
Speaker 1: the air yesterday, and he was like, he's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1: And then after the show I went back and watched
Speaker 1: it and he was absolutely correct. There were wide receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends open throughout that game. And so that
Speaker 1: gives me, like, personally makes me think, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: not a bigger problem, and it makes me think that
Speaker 1: although I do think I do think offensively they probably
Speaker 1: could have done more to create more diversity in the offense.
Speaker 1: It does make me think that even without that, they
Speaker 1: had opportunities. There were plays where they got guys open,
Speaker 1: they schemed guys open on plays and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: they didn't get the ball. So all I'm saying is
Speaker 1: that does make me feel better. It still means your
Speaker 1: quarterback's gotta be good enough to do it, and we
Speaker 1: have to see if he can do that consistent And
Speaker 1: and this is one of my biggest pet peeves. I
Speaker 1: always hate it when people just they start off blaming
Speaker 1: the quarterback every time when a guy is open every time,
Speaker 1: like it's like, well, day's open. But it's like, why
Speaker 1: didn't you get him the ball? I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: see all the time. You can't see he was running
Speaker 1: for his life. You said, for whatever reason it didn't
Speaker 1: get the ball. The reason was that the line couldn't
Speaker 1: block him at all. Well, but there was I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the case. I don't think you can say
Speaker 1: that every time either, because there were some times when
Speaker 1: he had time, He had plenty of time. There was
Speaker 1: nobody within three yards of him, so time, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got it, missed, he missed Gallup and met Gallup should
Speaker 1: have made the catch. But he missed Gallup. Gallup should
Speaker 1: have made that catch, though he dropped the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's one of the slick conditions. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe not, No, he should have made the catch, but
Speaker 1: the way it was thrown, it wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: the game then it right could have been a big game.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think receivers do, and I think
Speaker 1: selfish receivers do this. I'm not calling him that, but
Speaker 1: selfish receivers sometimes will do a crossing route. They want
Speaker 1: that ball right there, like they're Jerry Rice, so they
Speaker 1: can go fifty yards with it, which it could have
Speaker 1: been a forty fifty yard. That wasn't the case. He
Speaker 1: should have stopped completely make the catch and it might
Speaker 1: have only been ten twelve yards, but still, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to do that. But that was a horrible throw.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is is that he was sacked six times.
Speaker 1: If Dak wasn't as big and strong and agile as
Speaker 1: he is, it could have been ten. It could have
Speaker 1: been more than that, you know. I mean, Eli Manning
Speaker 1: probably would well, he would have get the ball out
Speaker 1: a lot quicker, you know, than that he hadn't taken six, right,
Speaker 1: but he's not taken six. But all I'm saying is
Speaker 1: is that they this offensive line. That's where the issue
Speaker 1: was was was the line. So the receiver's getting open
Speaker 1: is a good positive thing. Can they get it blocked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that the here's the deal. You can
Speaker 1: look at the offensive line. You can say you have
Speaker 1: offensive line has some problems. But I think it was
Speaker 1: you or Dave that was telling me yesterday when you
Speaker 1: go back and look at it, the rookie actually only
Speaker 1: had a few bad plays, right. I know two of
Speaker 1: them turned into sacks, but it was only two or
Speaker 1: three where he really had bad plays. That's what can
Speaker 1: happen with an offensive line. Two plays can turn into
Speaker 1: two sacks, and that means a horrible day when the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is it wasn't as bad as
Speaker 1: it may have may have sounded, or may have even
Speaker 1: looked on the field, especially when you're going up against
Speaker 1: a guy like going short. I'm not worried about any
Speaker 1: of this. Like the receivers were more open than they
Speaker 1: got credit for. Dak had a bad day. I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to just abandon all confidence that I had in Dak.
Speaker 1: Like I think that's gonna be fine. Can and I
Speaker 1: said this yesterday, but like can Ezekiel Elliott just be
Speaker 1: part the part the part of this offense that he
Speaker 1: needs to be. Like, I mean, did I know you
Speaker 1: did we talked about it already Todd Gurley, which honestly,
Speaker 1: like his numbers aren't that much different than what Zeke did.
Speaker 1: Todd got targeted five game, five times in the game
Speaker 1: last night, but it was how he was targeted. You know,
Speaker 1: they were throwing wheel routes to him down field. He
Speaker 1: had he scored a touchdown on a pop pass, which
Speaker 1: is literally like a jet sweep. He goes in motion
Speaker 1: and you just flick him the ball and yeah, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: he only had twenty carries. He I mean, and they
Speaker 1: diced the Rams defense up. I'm you know, that's a
Speaker 1: different story. I don't want to compare defenses because I
Speaker 1: don't know enough about them. Sorry, but that's that is
Speaker 1: what's going to need to happen for the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: to be successful, is for Ezekiel Elliott to be the
Speaker 1: star of the show and in a variety of ways,
Speaker 1: and we didn't see it Sunday. Part of that is
Speaker 1: the defense your plan. Again, it's not time to close
Speaker 1: the book, but it's got to be better. But I
Speaker 1: mean that's also a part of if you got a
Speaker 1: stud player, you got to feed him, and I don't
Speaker 1: feel like they fed him in different ways, like whether
Speaker 1: it's in the passing game like you say yesterday, I'd
Speaker 1: love to see them runs that Texas route more frequently.
Speaker 1: I think that is an indefensible route unless you're gonna
Speaker 1: zone them, unless you're gonna play zone, which then creates
Speaker 1: a lot of other opportunities for you. It is hard
Speaker 1: for for a got to keep up in. What I
Speaker 1: mean by Texas route basically, you flare out and then
Speaker 1: you come back in, you get back into the middle.
Speaker 1: It's almost impossible to cover that man to man for
Speaker 1: most linebackers or most safeties because of the nature of
Speaker 1: the route. And I just think they ought to use
Speaker 1: it more when talking about what they should use a
Speaker 1: little bit more, When did this team just decide that
Speaker 1: they don't need a fullback? I mean, the type of
Speaker 1: offense that they want to run, why not use a fullback?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Ola wallis the smashmouth fullback
Speaker 1: that they're that they've had in the in the path,
Speaker 1: they didn't have it. He's not the same guy as
Speaker 1: Keith Smith. But I'm saying, you know, why does Zeke
Speaker 1: have to do all of the work right there? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a different mindset. You want to spread them out
Speaker 1: a little bit, but they don't. It'd be one thing
Speaker 1: if they just say, we don't want the fullback because
Speaker 1: we want to spread things out. But when Terrence Williams,
Speaker 1: who's got zero pancakes probably in his life. He's a
Speaker 1: good blocker, but not to the point where you should
Speaker 1: be in the line of scrimmage and blocking. I don't
Speaker 1: know why we're not using more of a fullback there. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Zeke is Zeke gives this offense the
Speaker 1: best chance to be very successful, and you got to
Speaker 1: do more with him to make that happen. In my degree,
Speaker 1: I hope they listen to you. They've so see tomorrow
Speaker 1: we will dissect the Giant's offense for real and we'll
Speaker 1: figure out what happens. It's moving on forward for Nick Eedman,
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