WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Defensive Advantages? 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.400 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:15.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.600 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.720 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.600 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.960 Cowboys dot Com Wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:39.800 and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday January nineteenth, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.320 twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one ten. Welcome 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.880 to the latest edition of The Break. We are alive 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.440 from the s WBC Morgan Studios at the Star, presented 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.600 by Milla Like the Only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.599 Got Brian and ever with us. Nick will not be 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.560 in today, but three of us will hold it down 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.560 and our jobs today is to get you guys ready 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.920 for San Francisco defense versus Cowboy his offense. We'll talk 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.200 about all the matchups that matter. Brian actually has some information. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.600 He's been doing a little reconnaissance on the forty nine. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.360 Is talking to some people around the league, some contacts, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.280 and he'll give us a little bit of what they 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.760 said about how you prepare for the San Francisco defense. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.440 We'll also get some questions for you guys. You can 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.040 hit me up on Twitter at Derek Eagleton to send 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.760 your questions and we will try to answer as mean 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.640 as we can in that third segment of the show. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.720 Let's start first with a little bit of news. Yesterday, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:38.959 Cowboys signed a kicker to their practice squad, Justin Visciano Ryan. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.399 What do we know about him? I visited with a 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.680 team that had him, and it was funny. He's kicked, 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.360 he hasn't missed. I think he was five for five 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.440 when you're talking about field goals and extra points. This 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:59.520 team told me it's extremely strong, leg very professional in 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.240 his approach. And but this one team was telling me 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.520 that he could be a little erratic. Now, the numbers 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.600 don't tell you that he's erratic, meaning what exactly, meaning 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.880 that when you're erratic, you're kind of all over the place, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.760 good or bad, And but the numbers say that that 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.760 he was good and so but this team that had him, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.440 you know, they moved on from him, and so, uh, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.200 that's you know, that's what they were just kind of 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.480 talking about. But to me, this is one of those 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.240 things I don't know if if this is a practice 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:36.000 squad elevation that you know when you're forty eight. Uh, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.480 you know, do you do you get in that situation? 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.320 I Uh, it's so funny. I talked to John Gruden 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.560 about this yesterday, about having a situation and you know, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.400 I'll read to you what John told me. You know, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.840 because I asked, you know, John and I whether you 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.160 hate John or not, John and I go way, way, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.520 way way back, and so you know, I just from 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.960 a head coaches experience, I just wanted to kind of know, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.760 how do you handle this? You know, how do you 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.520 handle something? And John told me this, I'll read John 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.040 doesn't mind, he says, not many options at this point 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.320 of the season. Normally you would cut a guy from 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.560 missing five straight extra points, he says, But make sure that, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.840 he says, I would make sure that people leave him alone. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.280 Probably bring in his personal guru or the guy that 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.520 helped him along the way. He's a very talented kicker. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.400 Now he just has a chance to prove it. And 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.359 this is he's you know, he's talking about Mahr. He says, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.600 keep encouraging him. But obviously, you know, have a few 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.120 contingencies of two point thoughts ready and also be ready 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.400 in four down territory. I never liked feeling like you're 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.480 going to go for two or go for fourth down, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.480 but you should always have that in mind. So you know, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.600 that's that's a former NFL head coach right there talking about, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.640 you know, how you would maybe handle a situation. I 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.120 kind of feel like that. You know, if you feel 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.280 that strongly that there could be an issue, then you 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.080 need to make Tristan one of your forty eight. And 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.120 if you have a miss of field gold or an 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.600 extra point, then you make that adjustment as the case. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:20.039 Let me ask you guys this I started hearing yesterday. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.480 Someone was just kind of telling me something that Christie 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:28.799 Scales wrote in regards to the balls and some issues 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.760 that they have balls the balls, Yeah, yes, they were 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.960 losing them. Yeah. So I'm just I haven't dug much 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.680 into that because I was like later in the day 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.839 that I heard about it yesterday and I'm meant to 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.080 look it up to see exactly what the whole deal 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.440 and how much that attributed to some of the misses 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.000 that I don't think it did contribute. I think the 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.880 point she was making was they were getting to a 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.200 point where it could have been an issue so essentially caballs, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.239 they are kicking balls. They are balls that each team 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.839 brings to the game prepared for their kicker to be 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.120 able to use, because they didn't. The way they all 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.200 started was back in the day, kickers would kind of 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.160 doctor the balls a little bit to kind of make 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.760 it better for them to kick the different The problem 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.040 was what's good for one kicker might not be good 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.320 for the others, and so you had these balls they're 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.279 playing with throughout the game that have now been doctored 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.560 by one kicker or the other, and it created this 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.479 unfair advantage. So they basically said, okay, teams, each of 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.360 you bring your own kicking balls. That's what you'll used 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.080 to kick field goals whatever. Right, The issue became that 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.880 as he was kicking these that they were going so 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.480 far wide that they weren't being they didn't hit the net. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:39.720 And as you know, when we go down on the field, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.600 it's a big net there that keeps the balls from 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.200 going into the stands. Well, these were so wide they 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.720 were going into the stands, and nobody retrieved him from 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.240 the stands. And so at some point they got to 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.040 a point where I think she said, I think her 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.360 report was that they were down to one kicking ball. Yeah, 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.559 and so it could have become a problem at that point, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.840 but it wasn't. It wasn't a problem to that point, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.839 Like they still had kicking balls, they were just down 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.320 to maybe just want it. They might have had a 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.520 bum the Buccaneers kicking balls because they weren't using theirs right, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.840 which again might be a problem because it might be 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.360 a situation where the way they make their balls work 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.200 best for their kicker might not work best for him. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:14.839 So it might have made it worse at that point 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.719 because he didn't have balls that he was I think 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.320 I think something that was really said that was interesting 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.159 yesterday and it actually came from Mickey, and and I'm 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.720 not acting surprised. I just you know, Mickey came up 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.800 with it and he was he observed maher on the 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:35.080 field pre game, and that he was going to all 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.279 the various spots on the field and like pushing down 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.160 with his cleats, and maybe that there was some kind 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.360 of issue because they they had satted the middle between 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.240 the hashes, So where are the ball being placed? Are 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:55.279 you in a situation where the resorted on half and 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.160 then now you put the ball on a bad area 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.040 and half of a bad air and half of a 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.920 good area. So do you have an elevation maybe, or 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.599 you have something. But Mickey was made a point that 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.200 he was observing Maha and Mickey I used to stand 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:09.800 on the field with Mickey for the game. So he's 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.840 down there watching. But Brett Maher maybe went down there 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.120 and maybe in his head, I mean, we're again, we're 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.200 all just throwing ideas out there. But maybe as he's 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.320 trying to pat down surfaces and stuff like that, that 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.840 that man, I don't know about this. Yeah, I don't 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.680 know about kicking here and and so you know, that's 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:28.920 that's why in the pre game I always ask Christie 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.880 Scales about that because I know CHRISTI is going to 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.760 walk the field. I know She's going to find the 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.200 bad spots. She's gonna tell me which way the winds blow, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.920 and she's gonna tell me, you know, so and so 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.240 missed him going this way. I mean, there was some 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.720 there were some people in pregame. I know Todd Archer 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:48.000 was charting the kicks before pregame and there was some 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.000 inconsistencies there. Nick mentioned that as well, and Nick did 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.679 too exactly, so you know, There's a lot of things 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.080 going into this, um into this, but the fact that 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.600 they brought a kicker, and it goes back to the 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.080 point that Anbar has made many a time on the show, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.160 is that you know, they're more willing now to do things. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.320 They're not just going to let something just go on 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:10.800 and on. You know, they're not going to let the 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.800 Chad's green things happen where they just oh, it'll be fine, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.920 let's just keep going, let's keep you know, they they 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.520 least are building in now plans that if something doesn't work, 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.120 be ready to replace. And you know, like I said this, 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.920 you know the kicker here. You know it's got a 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.600 small history. You've been with a lot of teams, but 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.880 that might be your answer to move on in a 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.080 divisional round game if he has to get in there. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.840 So now the decision has been made. Obviously they have 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.120 a guy on their practice squad, they have another kicker. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.160 There are two decisions I think that have to be 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:43.920 made at this point. I want to hear your opinions 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.800 on what you think should happen. One should he be active. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.079 So now you're going to take an active roster spot 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.960 and use it on a second kicker right there? Or 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.319 two and two. I'm sorry and I want you guys 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.920 to answer both of these two. How long is your 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.920 leash if if you get one miss? Are you at 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.840 that point like, hey, we're gonna just go with the 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.120 other guy, or do you say, hey, I'm gonna ride 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.040 with maher through this game and this guy is more 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.480 of just my insurance. If we have another bad game 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.679 and we still win, then I will continue using what 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.800 do you think happen? Do we secretly have a Jeff 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:22.600 Heath on the team? I don't know afore yeah, like 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.000 and because that's the with as many as the like 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.400 injuries that have happened, having an extra guy that's a 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.840 huge thing, especially at that position for the kicker. It's 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.960 just a tough one. And I don't know who you 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.120 would take out. I know you can't elevate two guys 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.800 from the practice squad game day, but who are you 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.360 sitting out? Like not even white guy? But what position 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.080 are you taking away from in case of an injury? 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.840 Now I'm looking at the old line issues with guys. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.360 Obviously they made it through Jason Peters came out and 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.959 they did that. But now are you bringing up somebody 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.480 else an extra guy or on the old line. Are 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.720 you bringing somebody else for the secondary with Darren Curse, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.640 who's supposed to be one hundred percent ready, But things 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.280 like that that you need to account for. I don't 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.920 know who. I don't know. It's it's really really tough 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.600 because you do have those injuries. Yeah, you know you 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.120 do have the injuries. I mean with Curse. Curse will 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.720 tell you he's one hundred percent. Curse is not one 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.920 hundred percent, but you know what, he'll play like he's 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.360 one hundred percent. And so now do you worry about 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.760 can you afford to you know, you mentioned the offensive line, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.000 you know you mentioned you know they're gonna be They're 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.840 gonna they're gonna be short this week because Jason Peters. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.439 They brought Collins up last week. Collins, Yeah, that's one 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.959 where you might look at it and you might say, hey, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.320 we already had him active last week, so maybe you 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.600 sit Peters and that becomes a spot that you could use. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.640 I don't know. It's it's one of those things where 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.320 I think the only player on the forty eight that 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:56.079 doesn't play is Cooper Rush. Everybody else plays, so everybody 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.880 else has a role in the game. So here you 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.079 are in a playoff game and use forty seven to 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.560 or forty eight players in the game. So now who 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.240 you take in? Who the forty seven? Who are you 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.959 going to take away? You know, who do you determine 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.720 is going to be that guy? And there's really not 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.560 any place that you can really really go light you know, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.320 I just don't feel like it with some of the 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.680 injuries that you're dealing with. Uh, you know that that's 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.280 that's the man. It would be tough to sit there 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.640 and say, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna play with forty 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.840 seven guys. We're really forty six guys. If the kicker 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.080 and Cooper Rush both don't play well, now you're going 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:36.040 into a divisional playoff game one player short. Yeah, you know, 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.199 and that's that's that's a problem. I know this. Obviously, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.280 I don't have a great answer for you. By the way, 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.200 you don't have you don't have to hear not the coach, right, 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.439 we talk about the field and the win and just 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.560 the environment overall. How he changes from you having what 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.320 you're usually accustomed to here in your own practice field, 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:04.360 but does what you watch him do throughout this week 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.760 at practice changes at all. Like let's say he's perfect 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.319 and he makes everything or whatever. That wouldn't change your mind. Honestly, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.160 that doesn't change anything for me, because the way I 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.280 look at it is you can simulate as much as 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.560 you want. Now let me let me put it in context. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.440 If let's say, for example, last week, he had a 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.240 great week of practice and then obviously at the game 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.480 what happened happened, then this week doesn't matter to me. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.400 Now it can go bad, Like if he has a 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.559 week of practice where he's missing everything, then I start 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.440 really wondering, like does he have it mentally to be 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.480 able to do this and turn this around. But if 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.720 he's been having good practices these last several weeks and 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.840 he still had the performance like he did, then no 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.960 matter what he does in practice this week, I would 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.880 personally be a little worried about what I'm going to 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.520 see once game day gets here. And that's the reason 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.200 why I think I'm looking for a way. I don't 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:58.920 know what it is, but I'm looking for a way 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.439 to have this second kicker available. Now, if I get 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.400 into a situation where I look at it and and I'm like, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.880 I don't think I can then I'm spending in an 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.800 nordant amount of time this week on what am I 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.640 doing on fourth down? What kind of plays do I 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.480 love that I can run on fourth down? And quite frankly, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.160 I actually think my herd to work his way out 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.640 of this. It may not beat through kicking extra points. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.920 It maybe give him a fifty yarder. Is what we 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.760 know about this guy is once he gets out in 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.600 those that deep territory, oh he's money. And so I'm 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.880 almost like, let him work out of it with longer 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.480 kicks than shorter kicks, because right now the shorter kicks 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.400 are the ones that are in his head. Yeah me personally, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.160 I know, I said, I don't have an answer, but 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.280 I'll try here. I think I carry the extra kicker. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.600 I just can't take a chance in the game. I can't. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.439 I'm not gonna lose a game because you missed the 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.559 thirty eight yard field goal. I mean that if you 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.960 get out there and it's a field goal, maybe not 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.640 even an extra point, but it's a field it's the 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.320 first field goal of the game. You drive, you get stalled, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.160 it's a forty yard field gold and he misses. Now 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.640 I've now I know where I am, I'm gonna use 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.720 the other kicker, and here we go. And if that 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:12.280 guy misses two, then now we got planned planned C, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.000 which is go forward on fourth down, go for two 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.720 point plays, and hope that you know the hope you 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.280 can hang in there long enough that the game doesn't 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.760 get away from me because you're giving away points. Yeah, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.760 it's gonna be amber. No, I was. I was looking 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.400 back kind of the history of his career for this guy, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.640 how do you say his last name? I think it's Viscano, Viscano, Yes, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:40.400 tristan um, Tristan, let's call him rist Uh. I mean 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:44.200 he's kind of switch around, jumped around the league for 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.520 a little bit. But looking at just his overall UH career, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:55.120 he's made eleven out of twelve field goals, but then 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.440 on extra point fifteen of twenty and That's where I'm like, Okay, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.560 that doesn't make me feel that much better. And he 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:08.120 has he even been in an environment that it's playoffs environment, 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.720 which kind of you know how the nerves go up 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.200 there and then how everything switches. So what I'm trying 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.680 to say is this guy is what he's coming in 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.440 experience wise, doesn't make me feel that much greater. You 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.560 would hate that your season would come down to a 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:29.560 miskick being that being how Brett maher has been great 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.000 all year, you know, until this last game, he's been great, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.520 and that if you if if going into the Tampa game, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.600 we would have said the number one concerned I have 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.520 of the Cowboys is a kicking game. Everybody looked at 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.840 each other, like, what you know, I you know, maybe 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.160 you bring it up after what happened in the Commander's game. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.160 He misses an extra point, was the only extra point. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.200 Now what if they score a bunch of points against 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:58.479 the Commanders and he's missing them, Then now you're going, oh, okay, 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.520 all right, so maybe we do have an issue here 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.760 at kicker. But the fact that it was one miss 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.960 extra point and that's all Dallas did for scoring, you know, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.200 he never kicked the field goal or anything like that. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.040 I mean, his miss is on extra points. There were 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.120 three of them before this game. One miss two blocks. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.000 Wasn't like he was, you know, wasn't like it was him, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.920 it was you know, one of them was. But other 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.960 than that, man, it's this is tough. This is really 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.320 really tough because you need all your players and you 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.960 really want to give him the benefit of doubt. I mean, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.640 he has made a ton of big kicks for this 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.480 team this year, and I personally thought he was having 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.680 a Pro Bowl type season. Now you look around the league, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.200 and his percentages as good as he did, there were 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.280 still lots of kickers out there that had that were 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.320 ranked higher than him when you just look at the 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.040 statistics of it. But just looking at when this team 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.280 needed him to make kicks, and even some of those 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.640 kicks being extremely long like that that goes back to 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.400 back to back fifty six yard kicks like that, to 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.720 me was impressive, extremely impressive. And so I look at 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.520 this and I'm like, I want to give him the 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.560 benefit of the doubt. And that's what the one reason 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.400 why I don't pull the trigger. I mean, I don't 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.400 pull the trigger on moving on from him. I look 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.320 at that and say, everybody on this team has had 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.920 at least one week this season where they were just off. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.600 I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that this 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.600 was the week when he was just off. That doesn't 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.560 mean that I don't want an insurance policy that this 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.240 is more than just an off week, because at this 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.639 point of season, you can't afford that, especially at the 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.320 position kicker. And that's why I loved what CD said. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.800 And if you guys haven't seen sounds of the sidelines, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.280 Alex killed it again. Yes, as always make sure to 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.000 check it out on Dallas Holways dot com and on 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.119 social media. But CD just coming to the bench and 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.920 just letting him know, like, hey, you're good, like, don't 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.960 worry about him. You've I don't remember the exact word 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.920 many times, which is one hundred percent, So just kind 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.320 of seeing that support that you know, okay, a guy 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.760 like like that, you need that, you need that after 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.280 you have such a day, such a bad day. But 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.600 it's true, Bred Maher has bailed them out so many 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.360 times this year, so many times that the offense wouldn't 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.240 be able to get to the end zone and score 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.800 a touchdown. And now you got him kicking and even 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:21.199 those fifty yarders making those so me personally, I'm a diver, like, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.680 let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Now. When 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.200 you said, how long is that leash? If it happens 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:31.720 and they do have the other kicker, Tristan Active, I 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.879 would say too, I wouldn't just set him out after 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.600 the first miss if he misses the second one, then 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.560 I'm like, Okay, that's that's it. My leash would be too, missus. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.800 How about you? That sounds about right, And it also 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.240 to me, it depends on what stage how the game's 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.480 playing out. If it's a really really close game and 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.480 you have an opportunity to be able to either you're 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.840 behind and this is an opportunity to catch up, or 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.000 you're in the lead by very narrow margin and this 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.320 was your opportunity to kind of give yourself a little 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.360 bit of a cushion. If it's that kind of game, 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.280 close game, then maybe after one miss, if it's the 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.440 first kick of the game, then I'm may be willing 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.239 to say, hey, let me do something a little different here, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.120 let me change this up a little bit. Maybe let 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.240 me go for go for it on a fourth down, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.000 or maybe, you know whatever. I would be thinking of 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.960 other options after a first miss. If it's the first 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.359 kick of the game. Now let's say he gets the 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.639 first kick and then he misses a second. Now I 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.280 might be a little bit more like, Okay, let me 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.119 see if I want to hold. But if he misses 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:34.919 that first one, I'm really thinking about it. In a 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.680 close game, because as we know, it's a good team, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.560 and we're gonna talk about here in this segment, it's 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:40.919 a really good team. You're not gonna have a lot 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.920 of opportunities at the end zone. You wouldn't think, so 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.480 every point is going to matter for this team. And 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.400 that's where I'm a little bit, you know, I just 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.720 was looking at his numbers and I was trying to 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.320 whether there was a game where he made a bunch 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.679 of fifty yard field goals in the game. It was like, incredible, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.920 he had like four or fifty yard field goals. I 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:00.560 think it was we made the Command game because I 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.719 was looking. He was four for four in that game. Uh, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.959 you know, earlier in the year, he was four for 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.760 four and field goals against Minnesota, which was a big win. 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.520 He was four for four and a huge win against Philadelphia. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.640 You know. I mean, there's just so many things to say, 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:20.360 you know, positive and confident about this player and for him, 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.720 and maybe it was just one bad day. Maybe you 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.320 just but with kickers, you don't know, because that's the 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.320 one position that's so hard to evaluate, I mean, other 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.760