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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, November third, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: Season seventeen, episode number fifty three. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. Running a little bit behind the day,
Speaker 1: Coach McCarthy ran a little late, so we're gonna have
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks on here in just a second to start
Speaker 1: talking Cowboys versus Denver. But before we do that, real
Speaker 1: quick day one to hit up a one topic that
Speaker 1: he did talk about, Tyren Smith. It sounds like he's
Speaker 1: not going to practice. What are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's probably not gonna play. Mike said
Speaker 1: he was kind of pressed on it, and he said
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be hard pressed to play this week. For
Speaker 1: a head coach to say that on a Wednesday's kind
Speaker 1: of indicative, So bone spurs. I'm interested to see where
Speaker 1: this goes because a lot of times guys have minor
Speaker 1: procedures to clear those things out of there, Which I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not a season ender, but that's something that few weeks, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's something I'm not saying that's happening, but I'm
Speaker 1: just curious. Maybe this can get better with rests. But
Speaker 1: we're hearing that, But what exactly is that? Like, I
Speaker 1: know it has to do with a lot of pain
Speaker 1: and all that, but what exactly you You just you
Speaker 1: always have a knack for asking me something that I
Speaker 1: don't have the answer to, isn't it I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just like a it didn't it Like a little splinter
Speaker 1: of bone that kind of comes off and just sort
Speaker 1: of nags at you. Shoot, I don't know, man, that's
Speaker 1: what That's what I think. But I'm I'm I mean,
Speaker 1: that's when you hear the worst spur. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what you think bony projections that develop along the edges
Speaker 1: of your bones. I just I actually have one here,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what's started. It's a growth of
Speaker 1: your bone that like pokes at your body. Basically, if
Speaker 1: you're a doctor. I mean, obviously they would know more,
Speaker 1: not necessarily one of those things that you just shit
Speaker 1: something up your veins, like I means, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's not that stuff, that's something else your arms, just
Speaker 1: to kind of give you that extra I mean, you
Speaker 1: take pain killer to probably lessen the impact of it.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's not a it's not something that
Speaker 1: probably heals, you know, like it's not a strain. You
Speaker 1: got to go in and get it out at some point.
Speaker 1: But it's up to Tyre and how long and how
Speaker 1: well he can play with it, which he is a
Speaker 1: tough m effort, so maybe he can go all season.
Speaker 1: We'll have to see. Doesn't sound like he's gonna play
Speaker 1: Sunday and Mike. Mike does not want to elaborate on
Speaker 1: who might play left tackle, which I respect, I love.
Speaker 1: I love his transparency about being a football coach, like
Speaker 1: he's gonna lie to you, but he's sort of he
Speaker 1: he's up front about it. He's like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about that. I know you're gonna ask about
Speaker 1: it again this week, but this is the answer. We
Speaker 1: know we have a lot of options at left tackle.
Speaker 1: Will explore them, and we don't want the Broncos to
Speaker 1: know about it. I'm like, Okay, for some reason, that
Speaker 1: just sits a lot better with me than somebody just
Speaker 1: sort of dancing around and acting like I'm stupid. You know,
Speaker 1: like if you line to me and tell me you're
Speaker 1: not lying to me, Yeah, just lie, just lie to
Speaker 1: me and tell me you don't want to tell me.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, that makes sense instead of trying
Speaker 1: to play games. So we'll see. I think all their
Speaker 1: options are on the table, but I'll be I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if Tyren plays Nick. How much of a
Speaker 1: problem you think this is that if Tyron doesn't play, um,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a big problem. But I
Speaker 1: mean you got Lyle too, I mean he I mean
Speaker 1: Lyle will probably play left tackle, I would imagine, and
Speaker 1: so you got Terrence Steele and Lyle Collins. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a problem because Tyron is as huge, you know,
Speaker 1: a great left tackle. But I mean you've got as
Speaker 1: good a backup options as you could have at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the interesting things I noticed yesterday. And you
Speaker 1: can say what you want about PFF. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of us are kind of like Minx sometimes it
Speaker 1: seems right, sometimes it doesn't. But the one thing you
Speaker 1: can say is that at least it's consistent because they're
Speaker 1: grading everybody the same way, right And I saw a
Speaker 1: graphic yesterday said that two of the Cowboys players are
Speaker 1: in the top three of all NFL players this season
Speaker 1: in PF grades, that being Zach Martin and Tyron Smith.
Speaker 1: They're two and three, and so this could be even
Speaker 1: though you got some options of guys you can throw
Speaker 1: in there. I think one of the reasons why this
Speaker 1: team has been so good offensively, particularly their ability to
Speaker 1: kind of morph run when they need to and also
Speaker 1: passionately they need to, is because those two guys have
Speaker 1: played at such a high level. And I don't know
Speaker 1: that Lyle is going to come back and immediately at
Speaker 1: a different position play at that level. So that could
Speaker 1: be something interesting, something to keep an eye on. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't get or not having Tyrn Smith. But to
Speaker 1: Nick's point, they're as well equipped to handle it as
Speaker 1: they maybe they ever have been. Just between I mean
Speaker 1: Tie and Seck, he's played a lot of football Le Collins.
Speaker 1: That speaks for itself, and I doubt they would move Steele,
Speaker 1: but he's played well. If they want to do that,
Speaker 1: they have that too. So that's three above average options,
Speaker 1: whereas most years it's been an iffy option at best.
Speaker 1: Ye all right, here's good. He's like every time he
Speaker 1: gets like even a tiny little procedure, he comes back
Speaker 1: he's like, whoa, this is. This is the best I've
Speaker 1: ever felt like. I'm feeling good and then something else.
Speaker 1: That's what sucks, man, is it's not it's it's been
Speaker 1: the neck and the stingers that have really been his
Speaker 1: downfall most of this time, and that hasn't been an issue,
Speaker 1: but now he's got an ankle problem. It's just I mean,
Speaker 1: it sucks. But this is yeared six where you can't
Speaker 1: rely on him to play a full season. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. In fact, does the matter is he's
Speaker 1: still so good when he's out there. Sure you go
Speaker 1: into there. You should go into every season saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we might lose him for three, four or five games
Speaker 1: this year, and it's still worth it because he's still
Speaker 1: playing such a high level. I ran into somebody at
Speaker 1: the airport on my way home from Minneapolis, and this
Speaker 1: which great conversation. Awesome talking to you. If you happen
Speaker 1: to be listening, but he was like, we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta get we gotta move on from tiring, like this
Speaker 1: is too much. And I was like, I disagree completely,
Speaker 1: Like if he's if he can give you double digit
Speaker 1: games at the cost, because he's such a bargain because
Speaker 1: he signed that deal so long ago, find a swing
Speaker 1: tackle and make it work. Like, as long as he's
Speaker 1: playing like this, if I can get him out there
Speaker 1: for more than half the season, it's worth it to me.
Speaker 1: And the key is, you gotta have a good swing tackle.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like it looks like right now then
Speaker 1: maybe they do. Maybe they do have a spoptions. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out right now how it looks over on
Speaker 1: that left side. All right, here's what we need to do.
Speaker 1: We need to go ahead and jump into our conversation
Speaker 1: with Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. Bucky is on the line.
Speaker 1: We're talking Denver offense versus Cowboys defense, and Bucky, where
Speaker 1: I want to start today is with the fact that
Speaker 1: this is a very nondescript offense. There aren't a lot
Speaker 1: of aims and people that you just necessarily know, I
Speaker 1: think nationally. So let's start with you just kind of
Speaker 1: giving a general overview of who or what is the
Speaker 1: greatest asset of this Denver offense. Oh no, he's pulling
Speaker 1: the Dave. He's pulling the Dave on Monday. All right.
Speaker 1: Tell you well, we'll let that, we'll let get worked out.
Speaker 1: And what we'll do, we'll take a quick break ahead,
Speaker 1: get the break in. We'll come back Hopefu'll have Bucky
Speaker 1: on and we'll start talking a little Cowboys versus Broncos.
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Speaker 1: It is a second segment The Break Life from s
Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're still working on
Speaker 1: some technical issues with Bucky Brooks. Hopefully we'll get him
Speaker 1: on here in a second. If we can't, we'll get
Speaker 1: him on tomorrow. We'll talk both offense and defense. But
Speaker 1: I did have some other topics I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you guys about Michael Parsons's named NFC Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Week. And an interesting thing that that was
Speaker 1: noted yesterday was the fact no, actually, I should take
Speaker 1: this back, this was noted actually in the pregame by
Speaker 1: Christy Scales in a report. She was doing from the
Speaker 1: sideline at the games, but jay Ron Curse actually at
Speaker 1: the green dot on Sunday's game in Sunday's game versus Minnesota.
Speaker 1: For those that don't know what that means, basically just
Speaker 1: denotes who the person is it has the that can
Speaker 1: hear from the sideline, that gets the play call and
Speaker 1: then communicates that to the team that's on the field.
Speaker 1: My question for you guys is how much do you
Speaker 1: think that affected Michael Parsons and how great a game
Speaker 1: he had. He usually would be the guy doing that,
Speaker 1: take that responsibility from him. Do you think that that
Speaker 1: actually was a was a part of the reason why
Speaker 1: he had such a remarkable game. I think it's a
Speaker 1: small sample size. I'm not ready. I don't want to
Speaker 1: just jump completely off the deep end, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that plays a factor. I think I mean, what
Speaker 1: did Mica say the day he got here when he
Speaker 1: got drafted Sea ball? Get ball, Like you're just reacting
Speaker 1: to what's happening and using your national athleticism, And I said,
Speaker 1: national natural athleticism to go get the ball. If you're
Speaker 1: calling the defense and trying to make sure everybody's where
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. I gotta believe that at least
Speaker 1: slows you down a tick for us as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I love that they trusted him enough to give him
Speaker 1: the mic, but I did I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of weird that they're asking a guy who's never been
Speaker 1: in the NFL before to call their defense. And it's
Speaker 1: not a knock on Mica, but that's a lot of
Speaker 1: responsibility and requires a lot of knowledge of the game.
Speaker 1: So I remember a training camp being like this is
Speaker 1: really cool. But I think it's interesting if they want
Speaker 1: a rookie to do all of this on top of
Speaker 1: all all of the position switching and everything that they're asking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think it makes a lot of sense. And
Speaker 1: in my head, yes, it totally tracks that you can
Speaker 1: just play faster and think less if you're not responsible
Speaker 1: for ten other people. I mean, that makes sense when
Speaker 1: you put it that way, because initially, when you ask
Speaker 1: the question, I'm thinking, well, how hard can that really be?
Speaker 1: Because all you're really doing is relaying the message. You're
Speaker 1: not teaching these guys anything. You're they're all pro players,
Speaker 1: you know, You're just kind of telling them where to
Speaker 1: be and that's it. So but then the way that
Speaker 1: they've just explained, and I mean, I would imagine that
Speaker 1: it does take away some extra not worry, but you
Speaker 1: have to think more and be like, okay, you do this,
Speaker 1: rather than just thinking on yourself. And that's it. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I just don't see it at
Speaker 1: the same time as something huge. So I would like
Speaker 1: to just give him credit just for it being week whatever,
Speaker 1: what week eate was it or seven? Still it was eight,
Speaker 1: it was eight week eight, and him just play more.
Speaker 1: And the fact that the way that he played the
Speaker 1: previous game, and he said it after the game, he
Speaker 1: was talking and he said how he just felt like
Speaker 1: he didn't do enough, you know, he wanted to contribute
Speaker 1: more on the defense. And I think that it was
Speaker 1: just maybe his change of mentality. He's focused during the
Speaker 1: week and wanting to go out there and just give
Speaker 1: more and contribute more in the defense. All right, let's
Speaker 1: we got Bucky Brooks on the line. Bucky, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's start first. I think you can hear us now,
Speaker 1: can hear us? Awesome? Let's let's start first with the
Speaker 1: fact that this is a very nondescript offense. Uh, in Denver.
Speaker 1: Tell me what do you think is the greatest u
Speaker 1: It can be a player or a just a thing
Speaker 1: that they do. What's the greatest asset that this Denver
Speaker 1: offense has. I think they're very balanced and how do
Speaker 1: you want to play the game? Pat Shermer does a
Speaker 1: really good job of calling plays to put the ball
Speaker 1: in the hands of their playmakers, and when they have
Speaker 1: their their compliment or their full lineup, they can give
Speaker 1: you problems. Cortland Sound and Jerry Judi or guys on
Speaker 1: the outside that can make things happen. In the backfield,
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon can give you problems. And
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick is kind of like the X factor that
Speaker 1: kind of pops up and makes plays from time to time.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing has been there's been a disjointed approach
Speaker 1: where the first three games of the year it looked good.
Speaker 1: Some would say they were playing cupcakes or it worked
Speaker 1: for them. The last handful of games it hasn't been
Speaker 1: as consistent. But I mean, any given Sunday, they certainly
Speaker 1: can make plays, and so it's one that you have
Speaker 1: to be careful of as they're tight end gonna play
Speaker 1: this week I know he's maybe in the COVID protocol.
Speaker 1: If that changes, what is he one of their best
Speaker 1: factors on offense? I mean, look Teddy Bridge, what his
Speaker 1: best race is that he's a distributor. He'll pass to
Speaker 1: the open guy, He'll get it to anybody if no
Speaker 1: fan is available. Certainly he becomes a guy that can't
Speaker 1: hurt you. But I would say that no, offense hasn't
Speaker 1: been what we thought when he entered the league. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been necessarily the dominant player that we can see.
Speaker 1: But they have a lot of weapons on the outside,
Speaker 1: So I don't think this is one where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can come in and kind of sleepwalk on their personnel
Speaker 1: and think Denis to gimme. They're gonna have to line
Speaker 1: up and play because they're good enough to put points
Speaker 1: on the board if they put it all together. They
Speaker 1: just haven't put it together consistently to this point. I
Speaker 1: noticed I forgot about this because it was so long ago.
Speaker 1: But Jerry Judy got hurt in the season opener. He
Speaker 1: just came back, and I know, I mean it's a
Speaker 1: small sample size for that as well, but how much
Speaker 1: different or explosive do you think this offense can be
Speaker 1: with him back in the lineup as opposed to what
Speaker 1: they've been in the last six or seven weeks. Well,
Speaker 1: now it puts people back in their normal pecking order, right.
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick is a solid player, but he's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a number two wide receiver. Now he goes back to
Speaker 1: being a number three. You have Jerry Judy and Courtland Sudden,
Speaker 1: who's your starters on the outside and now probably has
Speaker 1: a little better flow in rhythm to it. Jerry Judy,
Speaker 1: when healthy, is an outstanding route run of someone who
Speaker 1: can tie you up in knots and do some fantastic
Speaker 1: stuff on the perimeter. His rookie season, he has some
Speaker 1: issues with the drops, but make no mistake about it,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who understands how to get open
Speaker 1: and he can work to get open. And also the
Speaker 1: natural intel and knowledge that he has having worked against
Speaker 1: Diggs day after day after day, certainly could make it
Speaker 1: a situation where he could have an advantage based upon
Speaker 1: what he knows about Digs and what gave Digs problems
Speaker 1: back when they were collegians. Bucky, Mine is a more
Speaker 1: general question, and I don't want to start getting kakey,
Speaker 1: but I do think that the Cowboys are pretty badasses
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm getting to the point where I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily care all that much who the opponent is,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, okay, what the Cowboys cannot go
Speaker 1: out there with everything that we've seen, especially last week
Speaker 1: and the quarterback being out and Cooper Rush stepping in,
Speaker 1: but with all the challenges that they faced, I feel like,
Speaker 1: right now, how can a team beat us? How Like,
Speaker 1: why can they do that we haven't seen for them
Speaker 1: to be able to beat a team like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: right now? Well, I mean the Cowboys has been really,
Speaker 1: really solid. I mean they were solid last week playing
Speaker 1: with the backup quarterback and Cooper Rush. I would say
Speaker 1: that the issues still will remain the same in terms
Speaker 1: of how you beat the Cowboys. One can you run
Speaker 1: at them? Are the Cowboys good enough to stop the
Speaker 1: run consistently? We saw it last week, But can we
Speaker 1: see it week after week after week consistently that they
Speaker 1: stop the run too? When it comes to the way
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys play offense, what happens if they're able
Speaker 1: to stop the run and they're able to generate pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback whoever that is Dak Frescott Cooper Rush. Now,
Speaker 1: if Cooper Rush has to play again, the thing will
Speaker 1: be which Cooper Rush is going to show up like
Speaker 1: he's great, that he played outstanding against the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: But is that really who Cooper Rush is? The difference
Speaker 1: between good and great in this league is being able
Speaker 1: to do it week after week after week. If he
Speaker 1: does get to start, can he played at the same
Speaker 1: level that he played at against the Minnesota Vikings. That
Speaker 1: would be the challenge. Let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Trey Von Diggs. Last week was the first game this
Speaker 1: season that he hasn't had an interception. My question for
Speaker 1: you is, as you assess his play, do you think
Speaker 1: he played pretty similar how he played the other week,
Speaker 1: just didn't get an interception, or do you think there
Speaker 1: was a bit of a drop off this last week? No,
Speaker 1: I mean I think, look, the interceptions kind of come
Speaker 1: in buckets, right, You get a handful of him, then
Speaker 1: it disappears and it comes back. He is a really
Speaker 1: good player. He's played really well. I would say the
Speaker 1: challenges last week was he was dealing with two really
Speaker 1: really good route runners and Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeling,
Speaker 1: and I think they can make it tough for anybody.
Speaker 1: But the guy was played really well, good pass defense,
Speaker 1: didn't know the ball flower, the head kept everything in front.
Speaker 1: I think he just has to make sure that he
Speaker 1: doesn't fall asleep at the wheel. Sometimes when you're a
Speaker 1: guy who's got your hand on a ton of balls
Speaker 1: early in the year, you begin to take these gambles
Speaker 1: and guesses that sometimes can compromise yourself an integrity of
Speaker 1: the defense. He just has to stay patient and make
Speaker 1: the plays that he's expected to make and those other
Speaker 1: plays that come along. But right now he's playing like
Speaker 1: the best corner in football, and so all the accolades
Speaker 1: that have gone his way deserve to go his way
Speaker 1: because he's been fantastic. You think Randy Gregory will be
Speaker 1: the best pass rusher like even in the next three
Speaker 1: or four weeks when d Law comes back. I mean,
Speaker 1: is he playing at a level that we haven't really
Speaker 1: seen here since Dware. I mean, he's playing at an
Speaker 1: outstanding level. I think the thing that makes Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: a fantastic players he takes athleticism and skills and combine
Speaker 1: it with a NonStop motor. Is one thing to be
Speaker 1: very talented and skilled and artistic. When it comes to
Speaker 1: your hand movement in your rush moves, it's another thing
Speaker 1: to be an all day sucker. He is a guy
Speaker 1: that plays hard from snapped to whistle. And what happens
Speaker 1: is I've talked about it. The energizers him, Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: and Treyvon Diggs. When they bring the effort and energy
Speaker 1: to the field, everyone has to bring it because when
Speaker 1: your best players play the hardest, there's no excuse for
Speaker 1: the guys who aren't necessarily the best players to play hard.
Speaker 1: And what you're seeing with Randy Gregory is he's a
Speaker 1: tempo setter, and then that makes a competitive guy like
Speaker 1: Marco Parsons wants to raise his game and then Digs
Speaker 1: and those guys look around and say, I want to
Speaker 1: get in on the party. And so as long as
Speaker 1: Gregory brings the energy like he's brought, the defense will
Speaker 1: play at a high level because they feed off of
Speaker 1: one another. And that is what we're seeing from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense, a very competitive, high energy, NonStop, relentless defense
Speaker 1: that is beginning to play at the level that we anticipated.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is just an anecdotal observation on
Speaker 1: my part from watching Teddy Bridgewater play over the years.
Speaker 1: But tell me if I'm right or wrong. Like, I
Speaker 1: just feel like Teddy Bridgewater is not a quarterback that
Speaker 1: can consistently beat you down the field for big plays,
Speaker 1: like whether that's not playing well against pressure or not
Speaker 1: being able to extend plays. That's just that's just kind
Speaker 1: of my read. Do you think that's correct? And is
Speaker 1: that something that I should see on Sunday? It just
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it happens for him very often. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a product of his environment.
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater is a bit of a chameleon, meaning the
Speaker 1: better players that you put around him, the better he plays.
Speaker 1: If you put him with a level of sub he's
Speaker 1: gonna play at a subpar level. He doesn't necessarily change
Speaker 1: the way the team plays. He's gonna play up to
Speaker 1: the players that are around him. That's it. He's a
Speaker 1: winning quarterback and when he's played on teams that's had
Speaker 1: playoff caliber talent, he has won at a high level.
Speaker 1: He is the same guy that with New Orleans came
Speaker 1: in and won a bunch of games. And so with
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy coming back, Courtland Sudden coming back, his running
Speaker 1: backs in place. I just think everyone needs to be
Speaker 1: careful not to just sleep on the Denver Broncos and
Speaker 1: chalk this up as an easy win. They're good enough
Speaker 1: to win games, and they're good enough to be there.
Speaker 1: And Teddy Bridgewater can make enough plays to hurt the
Speaker 1: Cowboys if they're not playing their best. Based on his
Speaker 1: success this past game, and we talked earlier about Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you expecting them to utilize him the
Speaker 1: same way that they did this past weekend, or maybe
Speaker 1: with dis opponent they pin him down in a specific spot.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the great thing about Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: he can do whatever you want him to do. Is
Speaker 1: a fantastic athlete and an even better player. And by
Speaker 1: alleviating some of the responsibilities on him by not letting
Speaker 1: him be the play caller, you're now allowing him to
Speaker 1: be fast and free. I think what Dan Quinn does
Speaker 1: is make week by week adjustments to how they want
Speaker 1: to play Michael Parsons. I think this is a week
Speaker 1: where you could see him do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: Rush the passer, playoff the ball, make plays against the run.
Speaker 1: I think he's a Swiss Army Knights on the front
Speaker 1: seven that they'll utilize to create chaos and have it.
Speaker 1: And so I'll anticipate him seeing him move around a
Speaker 1: bunch so he can have some opportunities to go get
Speaker 1: the ball to make some plays. All right, Bucky, thanks
Speaker 1: for the time today. We'll have you back tomorrow. Talk
Speaker 1: a little bit of Denver defense versus Cowboys offense. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break, comeback. I got a couple
Speaker 1: questions here before we finished the show. We're right back.
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Speaker 1: like it's it's all one like Christmas. Thanksgiving kind of
Speaker 1: goes together as you sit over there in your bright,
Speaker 1: rid Christmas sweater, like this is not a Chris is
Speaker 1: just rays you're already ready for Christmas. Yeah, he's got
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Speaker 1: all right, real quick, Nick, And we don't have much
Speaker 1: sign me in this final segment. I mean, it's pretty
Speaker 1: much already done. But let's I do think I want
Speaker 1: to go back to it too. We were talking about
Speaker 1: the whole thing with Curse and Michael Parsons and who
Speaker 1: has the green dot and why, and you made an
Speaker 1: interesting point in the in the break, I just saying,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us to do with Curse too,
Speaker 1: more than just Micah, because Curse is a guy that's
Speaker 1: been playing in just about every snap with Micah. Now
Speaker 1: he did play a lot. I guess you said ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the snap, so that was pretty much the
Speaker 1: whole game. But I mean, he was in the range
Speaker 1: of sixty, you know, And so I think with with Curse,
Speaker 1: he's on, he's out there one hundred percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot of continuity and where
Speaker 1: where he is. Um with Michael, he's going to be
Speaker 1: all over the place. So I just think it's probably
Speaker 1: more about Curse out there than Micah. How surprised are
Speaker 1: you that Javon did jay Ron Curse is out there
Speaker 1: one of the time. No, I'm saying yeah, But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, if you look at the depth chart at safety,
Speaker 1: Donald Wilson is back, he's playing, but but you know,
Speaker 1: and obviously they'll run some package, will have three safeties
Speaker 1: on the on the field. But how surprising is that
Speaker 1: that this guy is a guy that is now so
Speaker 1: entrenched in your defense that he does not come off
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, I mean the surprise factor, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're done with that. You know, it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: all right, were I didn't think he was gonna be
Speaker 1: on the team at all, even in training camp. I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about him until you saw him and
Speaker 1: you're like, who's this basketball player? And then then he's
Speaker 1: out there and he's like and so now he's Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still surprised. Everything he does is just seeing is
Speaker 1: just surprising. Um. And he's mean, he's just having a
Speaker 1: heck of a season. None, he's he's the best safety
Speaker 1: I think that they have because none of the other
Speaker 1: guys are. None other guys have a good dot, which
Speaker 1: I mean, well, the funny thing for all the and
Speaker 1: credit to him for all the for all the praise
Speaker 1: we give Mica for wearing a bunch of hats, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even think of Curse as a safety at
Speaker 1: this point, to be honest with you, he's not. And
Speaker 1: that's it's unusual for a quote unquote safety to be
Speaker 1: wearing a dot. You don't see that often. But that's
Speaker 1: not really what Curse does. And I got the snaps
Speaker 1: pulled up here. Donovan Wilson played almost half the snaps
Speaker 1: in that game, and I mean Demonte Casey's role was
Speaker 1: part of that as well. But like Curse lives in
Speaker 1: the box. He plays big nickel, he plays big dime.
Speaker 1: He's in the slot, lined up over the tight end.
Speaker 1: It's pretty rare for him to be back where you
Speaker 1: traditionally see a safety, which makes sense why he would
Speaker 1: wear the dot. He's up on the line where he
Speaker 1: can communicate with everybody and move things around if he
Speaker 1: needs to. Um, I mean, we talk about him all
Speaker 1: the time, rightfully, So I think he's one of the
Speaker 1: more impressive elements of this team so far this year,
Speaker 1: and I think it's really cool that they recognize that.
Speaker 1: And that's that was kind of I agree with Nick, like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not ready to just be like, yes, Mica
Speaker 1: will be this much better player because he's not wearing
Speaker 1: the dot. I don't know, it's it's cool and we'll
Speaker 1: see how it works, but I do I think it's
Speaker 1: smart and cool that they are entrusting a veteran player
Speaker 1: who does a little bit of everything to call the defense.
Speaker 1: He seems like a guy that would know what he's
Speaker 1: talking and most most of the guys that are calling
Speaker 1: defense is sort of the middle linebacker or some kind
Speaker 1: of linebacker, and those those guys are probably got the
Speaker 1: most tackles as well, So I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: it really affects them too much in the play, But
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just I'm thinking like so because of that
Speaker 1: and the rules, only one guy on the field, I mean,
Speaker 1: is that something that I guess one of the referees
Speaker 1: has to do every single play just looking for there's
Speaker 1: not more than one. I mean that was I mean
Speaker 1: you would think somebody has a response. I mean I
Speaker 1: can just see there's just like this page of little
Speaker 1: stickers that they got at hobby lobby or whatever, and
Speaker 1: they're like making sure that they put it in there,
Speaker 1: and so like that, now the ref has to then
Speaker 1: what is what is what's the sponsor? Then? Is there
Speaker 1: a sponsor? No? But I get your no, I'll know
Speaker 1: the official hobby store of the Dallas Cowboys. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just you just know that somebody in some equipment
Speaker 1: manager's jobs like, Okay, we need more dots. We needn't
Speaker 1: we needn't Stilling's job shout out Dylan. Yeah. But this
Speaker 1: is also where I kind of think sometimes the NFL
Speaker 1: is just kind of creating stuff for them to do
Speaker 1: that they don't. That doesn't really matter, Like what's the
Speaker 1: big deal if they had every player that could hear
Speaker 1: from the sideline, Like why does that really matter? You
Speaker 1: don't think it would be a big deal if every
Speaker 1: player on the defensive could talk to Quinn. If no,
Speaker 1: if everybody could do it, if both teams could do it,
Speaker 1: it's not a competitive advantage. So why is that such
Speaker 1: a big deal? I just don't think that would be
Speaker 1: such a big deal. For as Nick says, if it
Speaker 1: means right now you got a ref that by the way,
Speaker 1: I want to focus on a lot of things on
Speaker 1: the field, then now you need to find out where
Speaker 1: this freaking dot is. Like, is it really that big
Speaker 1: a deal? I don't know that. I wasn't prepared to
Speaker 1: analyze every respect of that. But I also I also
Speaker 1: don't think it's that hard to like identify the dots
Speaker 1: to look for the lime green dot. Yeah, honestly, might
Speaker 1: gotta find maybe there's two. You're looking forward to make
Speaker 1: sure there's not two. My biggest takeaway from this whole thing,
Speaker 1: if you want me to be honest, is that I'm
Speaker 1: embarrassed and aggravated that I didn't notice during the game
Speaker 1: because we've got so much to look at. But it's right,
Speaker 1: it's right there that you can tell who is leading
Speaker 1: the huddle and kind of leaning in and talking everybody,
Speaker 1: and you kind of take it for granted though, Yea,
Speaker 1: once you know, once you get into the season, once
Speaker 1: you know who's been doing it you kind of don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm over. I'm looking to see, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Tyron's not, Tyron looks hurt, what's going on, what's Dak doing,
Speaker 1: What's what's you know, there's eighteen thousand things and it
Speaker 1: just didn't dawn on me once to look and see
Speaker 1: who was calling the plays. Yeah, yeah, all right, appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys. You want us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: get into a little more talk on the Denver defense
Speaker 1: versus the Dallas offense. To lin for Nick Eatman, Dave
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