WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Chief Concern? 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.800 The following here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:16.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Guys, are you ready 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.400 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.720 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.920 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:35.199 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:42.080 Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, November twenty second, twenty twenty one, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.320 season seventeen, episode number sixty six. Welcome to the latest 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.440 edition Over the Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage studios 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.519 at the Star. I got Dave here in studio with me, 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.120 got Amber here in studio with me. Nick enjoyed Kansas 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.040 City so much that he decided to stay and so 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.080 he's joining us remotely, and we're gonna let you know 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.920 what we thought about that game yesterday. Cowboys lose nineteen 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.920 to nine to the Kansas City Chiefs. Uh, they're they're 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.800 third loss of the season, and we're gonna break it 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.520 down for you guys. Um, how's abou doing today? All right? Derek? 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.160 Is that is that what we'll get depinding one day? 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.039 Because it wasn't that hard on you? What are we 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.560 doing I'm in my cone of shame, Derek. That's how 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.600 I'm doing. I'm sad man because you picked the wrong way, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.400 or just because you just know it's it's about so 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.640 much more than that. It's what is it about? Dave? 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.480 I believed, I believed, and I was wrong, and I'm 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:40.800 I'm sad. So I'm and I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed because 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.559 we just we talked about so much stuff last week 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.920 that feels really stupid in retrospect, and I'm just trying 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.960 to collect my feelings. Nick, I see you over there smirking. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.720 What are you sporking about the fact that Dave is 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:58.720 well feeling like this in a hoodie now? It's just 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.240 like I can't understand. And how is what's Dave's voice doing? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.680 Is he like really like like shamed here? Ashamed of 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.720 the game. We've got my tail between my legs and 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.040 talk like this for the rest of the show. Don't 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.920 do that. Leave. I'm just I'm staying in Kansas City 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.000 until I get a good game. I thought we get 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.639 a good game. We didn't, So I'm just gonna stay 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.919 until until we get one. So you're just gonna cover 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.239 this next game from Kansas City. I'll Thanksgiving Day. That 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.000 sounds like a winner. No, he's trying to say, Arkansas 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.120 basketball is gonna play a good game tonight and then 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:34.760 he can go home. Hopefully. Let's see maybe, maybe we'll see. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.800 All right, let's let's jump into this thing. Man, there's 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.919 so many different things. And I saw you this morning 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.000 walk in and we both just shook our heads like 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.360 this was this was not great. Um. Here's the interesting 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.600 thing though, And I heard this, this quote from Mike 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.760 McCarthy following the game, and the first thing I thought 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.079 about is, Okay, we started having this conversation last week. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:55.919 I want to know what you guys think. Here was 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.080 this quote. He says, we don't feel any less about 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.560 ourselves as a football team team by any means. We 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.120 were defeated, but we don't look at our team any 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.920 differently than the way we walked in here tonight. You 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.320 guys see it the same way or do you see 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.880 this team differently? You go right ahead, Amber, let me 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.520 let me hear what you have to say. I haven't 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:22.520 seen you so far today. Well, like you said, we 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.960 talked about it last week. You were talking about measuring 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.560 stick and what this team this game could do for 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.400 the Cowboys and judging. And you know, initially I was like, Okay, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.560 depending how they play this game, I'll have an opinion 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.160 regardless of whether they lose or not. You know, even 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.560 if they lost a game, I would be like, Okay, well, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.280 they only got to fix this or that, maybe red 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.119 zone and get better there, and that's it. Maybe the tug. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.200 No I walked out of that game, or I was 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.560 on my couch. I got up my couch thinking like, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.760 are you freaking kidding me? Okay, no, I am not. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.760 I'm never gonna say a bad word, but are you 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.960 freaking kidding me? I am tired of excuses. And I've 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.880 been pretty pretty good this season, you know, because they've 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.480 been playing well and everything. But once again we faced 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.600 an opponent that is an opponent that has been in 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.719 a championship, Tampa Bay. They were very very close, lost 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.400 that game, played very well. But then you go up 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.120 against a team like Kansas City and then they play 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.320 that way regardless of what your defense was doing. Like 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.960 when have you seen the defense Cowboys defense playing that 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.520 way against a team like Kansas City. So the fact 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.880 that that was the end result, and I'm tired and 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.040 I get it. They didn't have Tyren Smith, lost City 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.839 Lamb in the middle of the game, they didn't have 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.720 Americ Hooper. I get it, But at what point are 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:57.480 you done with excuses? What you know? You know you've 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.960 done excuses which no one back to what you led 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.480 with the McCarthy quote, and that stood out to me too. Yeah, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.320 I would be alarmed if he said anything else, because 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.720 they I mean, they went up to Arrowhead. They looked 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.080 like crap offensively, but the defense maybe played its best 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.520 game of the year all things considered, like they considering 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.680 the opponent, in the environment and what they got from 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.640 definitely the best half if you look at the second 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.360 half for sure. I mean, yeah, to hold them to 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.440 three points after what it looked like the Chiefs we're 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.320 gonna have a track meet in the first quarter, and 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.680 so they play that well, you know Randy's coming to 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.400 Marcus Lawrence is coming. You didn't have Tyrn and a 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.840 Marie Cooper and so even though you look bad, you 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.800 lose by ten to a super Bowl team in their house, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.880 Like if you were if you were just like, oh, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.159 we're frauds, we're scared, We're alarmed, Like that would alarm me, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.200 but to go along with what AG said, Like, even 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.240 with all that stuff in the back of my mind, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.440 all I've been thinking about all day today is okay, cool, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.239 you didn't have Tyron Smith, he didn't have a Mariy Cooper, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:05.400 you lost CD Lamb. That helps explain this, But they 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.880 did such a bad job of controlling what you can control. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.680 Like what is not having Tyrn or Amari you have 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.320 to do with Dak airmailing Michael Gallop on the first 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.160 play the game? What does it have to do with 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.480 four combined drops from the backup receivers who had been 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.280 having a great season. Cedric Wilson sparked them in Minnesota 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.240 with a catch over the middle. Just doesn't show up yesterday. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.239 Dak again, terrible ball to CD in the end zone 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.400 for the interception when you have a chance to kind 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:39.360 of flip the script right before halftime. I'm probably blanking 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.280 on some other things, but like the guys who were available, 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.960 maybe you don't win if they play better, but you'd 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.840 put a better showing out than that. Like maybe you 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.000 lose that game nineteen to seventeen, and we're feeling like 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.880 we did after the Bucks game, where you're like that's football. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.080 It's tough to win an arrowhead it's the Chiefs. But 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.479 instead you're just like nobody showed up and it starts, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.880 I mean it starts with Dak for me, and nobody 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.880 showed up and shoot the offensive line when Zack Martin's 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.440 getting bullied by Chris Jones, I don't know what you're 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.960 supposed to do. Hey, Nick, you see this team differently 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:18.080 today than you did on set Sunday before the game? Yes, yeah, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.960 I do. I see it differently just because until they 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.280 show us that they can be an elite team. But 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.760 they they had a chance. We talked about this as 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.600 a showdown game, and they didn't do it. You know, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.800 they didn't show up. They didn't show up for this game. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.560 And I think Dave's right. We talked about it with Dak. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.080 I mean we talked last week. Should he be an 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.560 MVP candidate and all that, And I hope that that's 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.120 put to bed at least for a while because because 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.400 he needs help, and there's nothing wrong with that. He 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.800 is a great quarterback. I'm glad he's the quarterback of 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.440 the Cowboys. But he needs help. He needs his left tackle, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.120 he needs his receivers, He needs a healthy running back. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.640 They all do, and so he was. He couldn't just 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.080 take Noah Brown and said, your Wilson in that line, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.800 and Tony Pollard couldn't take him to the finish line. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.760 That's okay, He'll have more help than this. But yeah, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.440 I don't think this was a game that the Cowboys 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.080 said we're ready to take that step. It was there 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.760 in front of them and they didn't take it. Yeah, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.280 I agree with you, guys, because I think the thing 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.480 about it is I don't think less of them today. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.040 There was just an opportunity for me to think more 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.840 of them. And what I mean by that is we 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.240 really hadn't seen them yet. We hadn't seen them yet 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.880 in opportunities other than the first week to play a 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.200 team that was in the upper echelon of teams in 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.240 the NFL. Last night was our Yesterday was an opportunity 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.400 for them to maybe get a win against one of 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.360 those teams, and they didn't. And so what we know 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.480 is what we still knew before the game, which is 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.160 they can beat the middle of the road teams most 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.720 of them. They can beat the bad teams some of them. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.120 They can route. What we don't know about the team 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.240 is whether they compete yet against those upper echelon teams, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.120 and so far, the record says they can't. The record 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.640 says that in both those opportunities they lost. This goes 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.600 back to what I was saying last week, and that's 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.200 why I was kind of doing that bit about feeling 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:06.520 ashamed and embarrassed. Is like I just I thought one 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.960 thing that we knew about this team is that they 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.720 weren't gonna blink, you know. And again, like they played 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.559 so well in Tampa, you know, like adversity. They're trailing 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.800 for most of the first half. They got some defensive 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.240 lapses that put them in the hole, and they just 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.880 keep coming back and coming back, and the game's never 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.600 over and Dak takes him down. You lose Tom Brady 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.520 at the gun. What are you gonna do? You know? 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.400 But here and again, like I get it, they don't 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.679 have guys, but like, there were plays to be made 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.160 that would have made you feel better. Dak averaged five 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.400 yards per attempt, they had four drops, the line couldn't 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.439 block anybody. They gave up five sexs, they stopped running. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.959 Well again, what okay, Tyrn Smith not there? What does 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.080 that have to do with Terrence Steele not hearing the 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.800 snap and don't come at me about arrowhead because he 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.040 heard it in US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis where it's 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.320 really really loud too, So they I knew I forgot something. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.440 The boy pop past to Cedric whatever the hell that was, 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.520 the said, I don't think I've ever seen I don't 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.760 think I've ever seen it incompletion on a pass like that. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.839 How does that happen? They just absolutely blinked because they did. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.280 It's not just that they lost to a good team 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.760 on the road. They just didn't even do the basic stuff. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.080 Well nobody at least not on offense. The defense shower 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.240 them with praise. Those guys, I've they left their guts 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.240 out there as far as I'm concerned. But the offense 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.240 just didn't go. They just did not show up to 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.000 Kansas City. I mean, no, I mean, I can keep ranting. No, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.319 that's that's just how I feel. Let's take let's take 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.120 our first break. When we come back from that break, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.559 I want to talk specifically about Dak and specifically about 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.240 the offensive line and the running game. It seemed like 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.120 none of those three things we're working. We'll talk about 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:47.920 those three things when we come back. This is Dallas 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.520 Cowboys dot Com Radio, at AT and T. 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We got a 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.880 short week, so tomorrow we'll be flipping the page real 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.040 quick talking about Cowboys versus Raiders. Raiders on a bit 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.360 of a slide there, so maybe this is as if 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.520 you can call it that a get right game for Dallas. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.320 We'll see how that goes. Maybe the Raiders are saying, yeah, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.960 Dallas lost two of our division rivals in the last 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.079 three weeks right exactly, So we'll see how that all 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.679 plays out this week. I do want to talk to 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.920 typically about this offense stow deck yesterday twenty eight to 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.920 forty three, sixty five percent completion rate, two hundred and 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:10.440 sixteen yards, zero touchdowns, two interceptions, a fifty seven point 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:15.000 nine quarterback reading. Not a great day from mister Prescott. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.080 That all being said, do you think that pressure was 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:23.720 the biggest problem for the Dallas offense yesterday? Not being 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.200 able to handle pressure. I think everything was a problem obvious. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.480 I mean, Chris Jones mauled their offensive line basically all 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.800 by himself. Frank Clark had a hand in it as well. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.920 But I think it's a little bit of everything. And 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.040 just from what I've been able to digest after the game, 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.640 I think Kansas City approached it in a similar fashion 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.360 to what Denver did. I think they probably blitzed a 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.960 little bit more. I think pressure was a problem. I 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.560 think not having guys that can separate downfield was a problem. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.920 And I also think the Chiefs just played a hell 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.080 of a game on defense. Right. It's not always you 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.600 being bad. Sometimes they're just really good. I mean, how 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.760 many plays I can think of at least four where 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.480 whether it was CD, Zeke or somebody else, catch it 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.040 three yards past the sticks and what looks like it 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.640 could be a nine yard game, you're tackled immediately. I 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.960 mean that I felt like that happened half a dozen 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:18.160 times yesterday. So yeah, I mean they were just dominant. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.280 But yeah, to answer you more directly, I mean, I 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.920 don't think Dak played well regardless. I think he missed 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.960 a lot of throws that he should make, but he 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.680 did not have a lot of time either. Nick was 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:33.880 pressure the biggest problem for them, I think, so I 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.560 think it starts there and then it just the snowball effect. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.480 I mean, how do you beat pressure. You beat pressure 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.640 by getting the ball down the field. And and you know, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.840 once CD left the game, they had nobody really that 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.440 the Chiefs were worried about. And you know, Dak wasn't 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.200 hitting them, you know either way. But you know, like 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.400 I said, Cedric Wilson and Noah Brown, you know, those 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.600 guys are good, but they're not special. And I think 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.920 you needed that. So he took advantage of the offensive line, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.440 and then the Cowboys couldn't come come back. That I'll 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.880 never forget. Bill Parcel's telling Romo and those quarterbacks, you 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.720 will want them to blitz, blitz. You want them to 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.280 blitz every time because you can beat them. Well. When 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.080 you can't beat them though blitzing getting a blitz, it's 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.080 not very fun. And it wasn't fun for Dak. Huh. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:25.200 I thought that, yes, that was their biggest problem. And 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.520 we've seen it different times where Dak has to run 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.120 out of the pocket, but he's still precise, He's still 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.720 he can make those throws. And I don't know what 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.560 the heck was going on yesterday that they just could 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.960 not connect. And aside from Cite Lamb, I mean even 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.200 when he was still in the game, they were not 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.360 playing well at all either. So what were they doing 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.240 with the old line? What we knew Tyren Smith wasn't 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.280 gonna play? I wonder at one point did they really 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.480 know that. How close to the game were you guys 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.480 thinking that they actually knew for sure that Tyron Smith 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.480 was not gonna be a guy to play. I don't 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.680 think they made that call until Saturday. I think it 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.560 was really really close. And that's a good point. I'm 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.280 glad you bring up, which I mean, it's an excuse 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.680 and that's what it is. But you lose a Mari 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.480 very unexpectedly, so I do wonder, I mean, your game 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.879 plans in place by Friday afternoon, and I wonder that 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.159 is not a lot of turnaround to sort of just 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.280 change everything up. And then I got the sense in 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.000 the building, Nick, please correct me if you disagree. I 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.080 really I thought that they thought Tyron was gonna play, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.680 and I think, fine if that if it's Steven said 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.720 he was pretty optimistic that he was gonna play earlier 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:42.400 in the week, Nick, I agree. I was really surprised 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.919 when we heard on Sunday morning that he wasn't. And 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.080 I think, going back to what Amber said, we're talking 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.679 about the old offensive line. I don't know if they 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.400 would have made that switch with Connor McGovern if they 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.600 thought that that Terrence still was going to be next 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.400 to him. I think all week they thought that Tyron 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.960 was going to be the guy, and so it changed 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.760 a lot there. I mean, when you think about Amari 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.080 Cooper being out and tired of being out, you would 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.800 ask this Friday morning on the show, we thought both 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.000 of them were playing, So it was that it was 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.879 not only tough to replace them, but replace them in 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.320 a short amount of time. Well, that's that's what I 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.320 don't get though, that point of Okay, how hard is 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.520 it just to go back and be like, okay, we'll 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.640 just keep Connor Williams in there. If that's the guy 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.160 you know, and I'm talking about practiced all week though, right, 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.119 but he's been doing it all seasons. That's what I 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.760 don't get, Like, how hard? How much does that really 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.560 change a game plan when you're playing oh line and 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.959 doing something that you have been doing this season. My 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.399 thing is not necessarily maybe the game plan, but as 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.560 you know, each of these guys, they they study specific 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.560 players that they're going to have to play against when 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.280 they're going to play. And my suspicion is they probably 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.119 felt like, hey, if we've been playing Connor McGovern here 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.840 all week in practice, he's been preparing to play, and 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.199 we've been preparing with him them to play, then I 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.200 think they probably felt like making a change at the 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.919 last minute probably does more to undo that. And Connor 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.040 Williams may not have He may have been preparing to 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.320 do play fullback and do the other things that he 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.520 was going to do in the offense to where do 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.000 we really want a guy who has not been at 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.600 you know, has not been great lately anyway, in Connor Williams, 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.680 to now put him in without the practice all week, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:23.800 now put him in and ask him, ask him to start. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.240 I think they probably if that's the decision that came 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.800 out after they found out when they were expecting try 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.639 to play, I think they stick with whatever they've been 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.840 doing all week. That just adds one more layer of 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.520 just something that they didn't practice right now. When you're 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.520 making football money, I think that's something you can easily 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.280 just go back and do it. That would be nice. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.600 That would be nice. But as we've seen, like just 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.520 because you're making football money doesn't mean you can do 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.879 the job right. The beauty of it, and I use 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.280 the word beauty sarcastically, but like it's not like Connor 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.359 mcconferen sank the offensive line. They were all terrible. They 0:19:55.520 --> 0:20:00.280 all got I mean, every steal had issues. I all 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.959 had what a false start I think that backed him up, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.439 also got beat off the edge and ye, Tyler Biadas 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.320 had to I mean that was seemed like a BS 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.440 call to me. But the false start on beyond he 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.159 had some issues in the run game, and again I 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.160 think it was the fourth quarter, but like when Zach 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.479 Martin's given up sacks to Chris, I'm just like, all right, 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.600 just throw it away, just throw the game away. I 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.480 mean that was Jones. Chris Jones dominated that game. He 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.280 literally went down the line. And I don't remember. It 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.560 was training camp several years ago. There was a defensive 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.560 I want to say it was when DeMarcus was still here, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:31.800 but we had a defensive lineman that went down the 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.320 line and basically every day kind of went through each 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.040 of the different guys and challenged can I read basically 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.200 with Chris Jones, d Can I read you his stat line? 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.360 Because I wrote it out in a story last night 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.320 and I was like, oh my god, like his stat 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.400