WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Down the Line 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.040 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:15.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.200 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.320 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.200 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:32.520 Cowboys dot Com. Were with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:42.480 and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It's Friday, December second, 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.680 twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number eighty two. Welcome 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.360 to the latest edition of The Break. We are alive 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.640 from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star War 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.440 presenter by Miller like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.920 Today we get you guys ready for Cowboys Versus Cults 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.400 happens on Sunday night football. Cowboys all right now. Favored 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.039 by ten and a half points, I think by everybody's accountants, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.319 this is a game the Cowboys should win. Maybe that 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.160 makes you feel comfortable, Maybe it doesn't. We'll talk about 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:11.880 all that throughout the course of the show today. Let's 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.680 start first with Mike McCarthy's press conference that you were 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.200 just able to hear here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.520 He did say. One thing I thought was interesting about 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.000 Tyron Smith saying that they're hopeful that Tyrone will be 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.840 able to start his twenty one day window next week. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.759 From what you guys are hearing and everything you've surmised, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.440 when should fans expect maybe to see him back on 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.600 the field. I think that's probably the bigger question for them. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.720 I think it's just going to come down to, first 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.720 of all, what did they want to do with him 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.920 as far as do they want to just throw him 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.160 out there and say you're back play left tackle, or 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.160 do they want to give him a little bit of work. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:50.200 I think these couple of games he's got some opportunities against, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.600 like next week against Houston, maybe he can get some 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.720 work there. Jacksonville, who knows, maybe you can play some 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.840 against Houston. Start against Jacksonville, get ready for the next game. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.320 And if it sounds like, you know, you're kind of 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.760 gearing up to the games that really matter, you have 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.320 to you know, that's how you have to play. It 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.959 was final three of the ones that matter the most, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.280 you would think, well, yeah, I mean, like you should 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.000 be able to win against Houston without Tyron Smith. You're 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.800 eight and three without him. You should be able to 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.840 beat Jacksonville without him. I mean, he's only gonna make 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.520 you a better so you can kind of ease him 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.280 back in, and you should be able to beat Philly 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.040 without him, but be nice to have him. I think 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.640 it's a really exciting time of the year because for 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.440 many reasons. For Christmas number one, yes, no, but the 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.680 position that the cows are currently at, like they're in 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.760 a really really good position, and usually you tend to 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.360 you know, loose players or players I really banged up 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.040 during this time of the year. But in this instance, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.639 when you talk about Tyron Smith return, we're still talking 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.720 about Odell. He's gonna be on Monday with the team 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.480 and there's a lot of high hopes and a lot 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.040 of extation that they're going to be able to work 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.920 out a deal. So having those two major pieces, thinking 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.000 if it goes that way to be added to the 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.160 Cowboys roster towards the end of the year, you heading 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:19.360 into the playoffs, that's it's just it's not something I've 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.480 seen it happened. I haven't been here when at that 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.880 point of the year or the season, you get some 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.440 key pieces like that that can take you to another level. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.960 So it's very exciting and the Cowboys are just in 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.040 a really, really good position right now. Yeah, the thing 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.640 with we were kind of all along getting the idea 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.400 that when you go back, and I'm sorry, I was 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.520 texting a lot of things. There seems to be someone 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:46.160 that's ill in Steele's family and stuff. That's what they're 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.640 dealing with right now, and they're right now they don't 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.240 know if he's going to be available to play, So 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.600 we'll see how that all plays out over the weekend. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.320 But the thing about with Tyrn Smith, all indications, like 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.400 we've talked about, I think we've been very consistent on 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.040 the show ton of talking about a potential timetable and 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.040 things like that to him coming back. You know it 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.400 was going to be they were going to try and 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.960 get him ready to start to work for or ramp 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.080 up during the Colts week, and then after the Colts 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.440 week then you were going to start that that practice time. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.279 I think we've talked about that a couple of different 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.640 times here, and then you know you have Jerry even saying, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.920 you know, you know, hey, Tyren Smith's back left tackle. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.760 You know, Guard, We've had some discussions here as well 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.880 about you know, I think it was Nick was talking 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.640 about when do you play You go ahead and play 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.080 Peters a little bit at left tackle to maybe get 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.039 Tyler Smith a little bit more work at guard. But yeah, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.640 these games, you know, you never know in the in 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.800 the NFL, I've liked my line has always been the 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.360 NFL as a strange lady. You just never know how 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.200 things are going to play out here, and you hope 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.920 that you can go in this game and find a 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.440 way to beat the Colts, beat the Texans, you know, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.240 beat the beat the Jaguars, and then get everything, all 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.080 the pieces back, whether that's a wide receiver, whether that's 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.159 a tackle, whether that's moving a tackle to guard, you know, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.600 and make a run at this thing. Um, you know 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.680 how you need to make him. Yeah, let me ask 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.200 you guys this question. And this this is a little 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.960 bit of a bigger picture question, but I think it's 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.040 worth discussing. Um, there was a time in this franchise, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.200 not that long ago, when you lose Tyron Smith and 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.359 everything fell apart. He was your best player for a 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.279 long time. And then came Zack Martin. You lose your quarterback. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.360 Things fell apart. Yeah, it was all and Sean Lee 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.599 was in that category too. You lose Sean Lee. Things 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.600 fell apart. How much credit do you guys give Mike 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.479 McCarthy for the fact that they're eight and three this year. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.400 They have missed Tyron Smith all season, They missed Dak 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.200 for a good part of the season. Things didn't fall apart. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.640 Not only did not fall apart, they're actually in contention 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.360 as one of the best teams in the NFC. Yeah, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.040 go ahead, And he gets a lot of credit. I mean, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.400 and he gets the credit for building the team him. Uh, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.360 you know, Jerry, Will McClay, you know, Stephen, all of them. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.440 I mean, they get credit for building a team that 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.240 can compete and get getting the guys ready, um and 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.440 training camp. Look at what has happened at training camp. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.719 We can say why does this guy playing or this 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.039 guy not getting enough snaps or reps, or why are 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.279 they doing it like this, Oh he's playing left guard, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.359 And everybody says, we're doing it differently because we're getting 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.720 the team ready to go. And it's because when that happens, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.599 when things like that happen, these guys are ready to play. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.480 I say it all the time. You've heard me say 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.080 it for twenty years. You've heard me say, built this team. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.520 Built a team from one to fifty three, not your 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.279 ten best players, one to fifty three. That's what the 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.520 Patriots did so well because when guys got hurt, other 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.479 guys would step up. And that's what they've done. They've 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.480 got a football team. It's not even fifty three, it's 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.200 more like sixty five to seventy. But guys that come 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.320 in and it's trusting the system. It's why you don't 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.479 fire a coach every time they lose a game or 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.120 not have a great season. You have to build consistency 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.479 with a coaching staff, a scouting department, everybody together to 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.960 know what type of player we want, especially at the 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.320 back end. You mentioned Will McClay, and he's a guy 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.039 he has been here for a really long time and 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.200 he's had a lot of his staff being here, so 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.440 he's been here. He brings in talent and that that 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.080 hasn't changed. But you look at the difference between what 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.039 was happening when Jason Garrett was here versus what now 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.280 is happening with Mike McCarthy, and it's night and day 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.280 like your team would just crumble and go down. Like 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.680 you said that, I mean It's not something I thought about, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.720 but yes, Sean Lee, all those players you listed, absolutely true, 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.200 you wouldn't know what to do or how to replace. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.640 And we've seen this happened, not just in key positions, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.480 but just since the moment McCarthy got here. Even last year, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.680 a player went down and they knew how to just 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.560 kind of plug someone else and figure things out and 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.480 just keep going. So it's something that me, in my 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.120 time being here, I have never had the chance to 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.320 kind of witness that or experience that. So it's it's 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.800 great to see that kind of change in McCarthy. I 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.720 give him all the all the credit in the world. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.120 There are some things that he's been doing here that 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.000 has been really, really amazing, and some people want to 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:02.520 criticize him, but I think right now he deserves a 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:07.440 lot of praise for everything he's been able to handle. No. Absolutely, yeah, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.120 there's there's been plenty of times I know myself have 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:14.120 talked about him. It's you saw Mike McCarthy what he's 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.680 capable of doing, or what he can do when they lose, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.840 when they lose their quarterback in week one, and they 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.440 lose their starting safety in week one for multiple games 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.440 and it was going to take somebody to kind of 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.080 rally the troops and get everybody on the same page 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.600 and kind of say, listen, we're down right now, guys, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.640 but you know we can do this. We can rally, 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.240 we can do I give Mike McCarthy a ton of credit, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.040 and like I say, I admit I've been very critical 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.040 of him at times. I think Mike McCarthy, as we 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.880 look towards even twenty twenty three, I think that he 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.959 will be your coach to the Dallas Cowboys. I don't 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.080 think there'll be anything. You know, we could talk about 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.839 falling apart and all that, but no, I mean he 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.920 has earned the right to come back and be your 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.840 coach because we've had this discussion yesterday one oh five three. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.680 When it pertains to DAK and when you talk about 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.840 contract extensions and things like that, one of the things 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.920 that we said was, Okay, you're evaluating the coaching staff 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.920 this year, then in twenty twenty three you really have 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.240 to evaluate DAK, maybe with the potentially a new offensive 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.480 coordinator and a new head coach, and then you get 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.320 into that. I think Mike McCarthy has secured his job 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.000 right now. When you start to talk about Sirianni and 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.280 all these the guy down McDaniel down there in Miami. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.679 This guy has I don't think there's been anybody in 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.600 the league that's done his job better than this guy. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.880 Because if you look at all the things that they've 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.880 gone through, losing their tackle, their quarterbacks say I mentioned it, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.080 all the changes that they had to make in order 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.920 just to get to this point in the season, and 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.319 people talk about them as a possible Super Bowl favorite 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.560 coming out of the NFC. I mean, you know, week one, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.800 you would have never had any of these conversations. And 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.000 I think a lot of it has to do with 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.680 Mike McCarthy, what he's been able to do with Dan quinn, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.840 whatever he's been able to do with Kellen Moore, and 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.800 how he works with Will Clay. Yeah, and to jump 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.160 on that, like she said, Will mcclay's obviously been here, Stephen, Jerry, 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.280 they've been here. You know what's been different? What does 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.360 McCarthy do differently than what we've seen. Go back and 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.640 look since the start of training camp. You know, what 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.840 do you what do you call an impact player? I 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.120 would say a former first round pick or a pro bowler, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.840 or in some cases both. If they signed Odell Beckham, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.440 that will be the fourth player in that category they've 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.400 brought to this football team since training camp. They brought 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.640 in an Anthony Barr who's both. They brought in um 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.880 Jason Peters who's All Pro, maybe a Hall of Famer. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.520 They've brought in Tack McKinley, a former first round pick. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.640 Odell Beckham could be a former first round pick and 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.560 Pro bowler if he comes in. They're bringing in high 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.160 profile guys. They they're they're they're taking a chance. This 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.080 guy won the MVP of the USFL. Try let's bring him. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.440 Let's see what happens. And he's a difference maker too, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.480 So they they bring a more high profile guy. They're 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.199 not afraid to say, Oh, I've played against Anthony bar 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.400 for eight years. I'm tired blocking against them. Let's bring 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.120 them on. Kind of feel like two, you have coaches 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.640 that are better evaluators, maybe some from the previous regimes, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.480 maybe not as much at certain positions that you might 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.040 have needed. I think that's dan Quinn has got his 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.800 stamp on a lot of these defensive players. But then 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.559 you look at you know what they were able to do. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.400 You know that will is in a unique situation because 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.240 of having to deal with coaches who have a lot 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.080 of opinion. Here the front office with Jerry and Steven 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.400 have their opinions, and then he also has to deal 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.760 with the scouts. It's a very very difficult thing to 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.400 have to navigate, but he's brought them all together in 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.520 order to build. Like Nick was talking about a one 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.360 to fifty three Nick, I'm sorry, Brian actually brought up 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.400 an interesting point. I'd love to get y'all's thoughts on it. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.960 You threw out that term coach of the Year and 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.920 I hadn't really. I mean, you think about all the 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.680 names that are being thrown around as potential candidates. I 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.920 haven't heard anybody really talk about Bike McCarthy, but I 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.600 think he would have my vote. I think you make 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.720 a valid point because what he's done has been different 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.600 than those other guys from the standpoint that he didn't 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.160 have key pieces of his team. Not only did he 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.920 not fall apart, he thrived in that. What do you 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.200 guys think do you think he should be in the consideration? 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:09.679 Do you think maybe he is the coach of the 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.120 Year in the NFL in the consideration? Yes, Unfortunately, I 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.880 don't believe that that the voters vote that way. Just 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.080 like for comeback Player of the Year, they don't vote 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.160 for the guy that was in like drug rehab or 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.240 whatever and comes back and play in It fixes like 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:28.480 it's it's the whoever, it's the broken leg, quarterback whatever. Yeah, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.959 and it's same with the coach. It's it's the But 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.480 because because what it is, because you gotta remember who's voting. Media, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.480 Are they arrogant, Yes, they don't ever say that they 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.280 were wrong. Yeah, this regular media. I'm arrogant too. But 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.120 how many times do you see it if you rank 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.480 somebody number one in the in the nation and then 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.680 they finished six and six and barely make a ball. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.880 They underachieved. It wasn't that you don't know how to evaluate. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.240 It happens all the time. So no one's gonna look 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.720 at the Cowboys and go, wow, great job, Mike McCarthy, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.840 this is we thought. Where it happens in the playoff, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.680 they're gonna look at the Jets, who they thought sucked, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.079 and they're gonna like that coach just turned them around. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.280 Or there's got to be another example of Seahawks a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.640 great example. Yeah, I mean yeah, they were they were 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.640 selling at their quarter. Yeah, they were selling everything, and 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.840 they got better. Yeah. So it's it's all about their 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.560 expectations that they don't look at it like maybe we 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.480 were wrong here. It's like, wow, good job Robert sala 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.679 or or um what's his name, McDaniel, No, McDaniel, but 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.439 I'm thinking of the USC just couldn't remember. I mean, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.560 but on that she's gone. That's all I know. But 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.120 on that point, like I thought, it's the same thing 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.280 for the It's the same thing for the Cowboys coach though, too. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.160 He he they got rid of parts that everybody said 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.200 would kill this team. True, like they were like, you 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.400 cannot be better. I heard so many times last year 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.280 people saying, there's no way anybody can convince me that 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.679 this team is better by losing Amari Cooper and Lyle 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.960 Collins and Randy Gregory. And guess what, this team is better. Yeah, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.440 And and so it may go to your point about 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.120 the their rogance of the media, but the fact of 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.319 the matter is, for every argument you can make about 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.480 any coach in the league and what they've done this year, 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.160 you could probably say the exact same thing about Mike McCarthy. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.200 What he's accomplished. The Eagles coach. I mean, you gotta 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.360 give him credit too. I mean they've they've done a 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.800 great job as well, and they're developing a quarterback that 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.280 not everyone thought was a real quarterback, you know, in 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.000 that offense and now well so, I mean the people 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.320 that drafted him maybe you know they draft the second round, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.640 you know, I mean the Cowboys were thinking draft drafting 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.680 him in the second round as well. I mean, not 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.720 to replace Dak to do some kind of hyper thing, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.640 but if if people thought he could play like this, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.240 he would have been drafted a lot higher. And you know, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.520 he's a winner, and they've done a great job. I mean, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.160 you gotta give you gotta give them credit. I think 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.360 they keep winning. Their coach will be thrown in there too. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.160 I think he should absolutely be consider I don't know 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.440 if he would win, but for sure to be in 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.960 that category. And in conversation, you look at the type 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.920 of offseason he had, the amount of criticism he was 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.640 receiving in front of his boss, Jerry Jones, asking questions 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.840 like that that training training camp, that's stuff. The fact 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.280 that he was used as a joke at the NFL 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.920 Honors Awards, by the comedian. What was key? I always 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.920 forget him, But anyways, was it funny, Yes, it was funny, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.680 but it was embarrassed. It is embarrassing for you to 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.760 bring light to something like that in front of all 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.600 your peers and people that you work with, and then 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.400 you ask your quarterback. I forgot what the question was, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.080 but he asked some question, you know, I don't remember. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.200 But the point is when you're putting that so much 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.560 light about how bad and like how much you should 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.880 be fired, and the fact that he's handled this season 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.760 so well, and I think he's done such a great job. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.280 If anything, I like him even better in the way 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.200 he speaks to the media and everything. He hasn't lost 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.920 his composure, He's kept it going, He's kept his focus. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.520 He knew going into the season he was in a very, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.000 very hot seat. He knew there were two passible candidates 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.920 ready to sign some papers and become the head coach 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.280 and take his job. So all in all, he's kept 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.640 his school and he's done such a great job with 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.480 the team so far, with the coaching staff, making the 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.520 changes that need to happen, and just not crumble under 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.479 all this type of pressure. Yeah, I challenge Nick Siriani 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.480 to win five game four or five games with Gardner 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.720 Minshew at quarterback. Okay, book, I Book, you know, if 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.800 you look, tell me any team that's right now is 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.120 fighting to be in the tournament, and I'm gonna take 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.920 your starting quarterback away for five games. I challenge you 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.520 to win four of those five games. You know, and 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.160 you could talk about it's the defense, dan Quinn. Yeah, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.560 I mean you could talk about, you know, maybe some 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.880 of the schedule and how they're playing. Fine, it's hard 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.760 to win in the NFL. Well, two of the hard 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.360 division games. One was a team that's gotten hot now 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.200 in Cincinnati, Like there were some good wins in that, 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.040 no question, Yeah, absolutely, no question. And see that's that's 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.320 the thing about it is. I challenged Nick Siriani to 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.720 go and win four five games with Gardner Minshew at quarterback. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.000 We'll see how good your fifty three is playing without 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.560 with that guy him Ian Book, I don't care who 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.800 you put in there a quarterback, go win four your 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.000 next five games. That's why the Jets might their coach 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.199 might slide in here because he's winning with with Mike White, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.919 and he benched this quarterback and we'll see, I mean, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.359 we'll see what happens. But that seems like a pretty 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.040 favorable pick there from New York Media. From from you know, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.840 just the Jets. I mean, you talk about a laughing stock. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.560 I mean, the punch line all the time, Mike White. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.880 Let's let's be honest here too. And I'm a guy 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.520 at in the Draft show that absolutely loved Mike White. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.640 Love to pick Mike White. He was my guy. I mean, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.520 and I realized this about Mike White. He wins one 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.959 game a year when you ask him. He's playing this 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.600 week at They're playing Minnesota at Minnesota, and then they 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.680 go to Buffalo. Let's says, Bill would say, let's knock 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.359 it out. The anointing oil yet the horn. I'm just 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.720 telling you, I was telling you right now, is he's 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.119 good for one game a year and then everybody falls 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.280 in love with him and he breaks your heart. That's 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.640 what That's how he is. So yeah, the Jets, the Giants, 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.240 those teams that they are, they surprising everybody. Sure, were 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.560 you surprised how bad the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been? Yeah? 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.480 You surprise how bad the Packers have been? Yeah? You know, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.959 there's things that happen, and in this league, you surprise 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.679 how bad the Rams are. Yeah, you know, there's a 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.600 lot of things in this league right now that you 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.639 know that are that are kind of out of whack, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:34.040 you know, but you're You're a team here that survived 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.159 the issues. You survived your quarterback being down for five 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.600 games and won four of those. Not many teams can 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.400 do that in this league, not with the rosters they 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.439 currently have. Real quick, before we go to break, I 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.359 did need to get a quick update on this. You 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.639 mentioned Terrence Steele if and this might not even be 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.040 about this weekend, but it made me think about this. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.320 If the Cowboys have to play without Terrence Steel, what 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.800 do they do with tackle? That's a good question, great question. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.919 Everybody's a left side player. Yeah, no, I don't know 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.600 what happens. I mean really, I mean, Jason Peters hasn't 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.840 really played a lot on the right side. Neither has 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.080 Tyler Smith. Yea, neither has Tyrant has his rookie year, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:15.240 which was like sixty three years ago. I don't know, 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.480 I don't I don't know. I think maybe it's just 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.320 gonna sound kind of crazy. But we talked about this. 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.639 If even after week one when Terrence Steele wasn't really 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:27.680 good in Week one, and and here I am throwing 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.720 the dirt on him and saying, hey, that's a liability 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.080 over there. He's played so much better. His running game 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.159 stuff has been really good. He's getting better as a 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.440 pass protector. He's a guy. If you if you want 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.600 to say, what's the most important free agent guy you 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.760 might want to sign? Might be might be a right tackle. Honestly, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.320 I think he might be the best offensive line you 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.120 got it. But we talked about could you if Tyrand 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.800 Smith were to play, could you put you know, could 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.560 you put Tyler Smith at right tackle and then go 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.960 that route? You know? I I don't know. I mean 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:00.720 where where we are in the the in the in 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.920 the scheme of and I hate to say this, where 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.200 are we with Ball? And well, let's go and all 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.280 those guys, I mean, Ball's active every game. Well let's go. 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.399 I guess is still on own I R So I 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.600 mean that that's probably that's probably what they would do. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.560 They would probably start ball at at at right tackle, 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.679 is what they would probably do. It Just even though well, 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.280 let's go played the last game in the preseason and 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.879 you're like, oh, damn why was he hurt? You know 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.000 that kind of remember Ball played eight stains Minnesota when 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.679 remember when they started pulling people. Yeah, it just seems 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.960 weird if you're playing a big game here late in 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:37.439 the season and your backups would be Connor McGovern and 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.679 Jason Peters, but Ball's playing, you know, like that just 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.919 seems kind of or or say McGovern isn't a backup 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.320 and it's Tyler Smith and Jason Peters. Football, somebody learned 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.080 right tackle, Like yeah, Like, well see that, you would think, 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.240 how difficult is that transition? Because if you're a pro 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:59.200 and again I've never obviously played football, but going through 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.200 it in my mind and if okay, you can get 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.000 used to one side, but it seems like you could 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.400 eas not easily, but you can definitely make that trans 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.240 As Tarred Steel how it was to play left tackle, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.960 he was like, I make this pretty plain for all 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.359 of us to kind of think about. If you're right handed, 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.000 try going through a full day doing everything with your 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.439 left hand. Yeah, and how different is that? It's it's different, 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.000 but I can handle it. Yeah, but professionally at the 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.720 speed that that that it's going, can you handle it? Like? 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:28.800 Can you do it at that level. It's it's not 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.720 the same as just kind of I'm gonna pick up 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.160 this glass with my left hand versus right. Like you're 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.720 now having to do all of this against maybe a 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:37.880 pro bowler on the opposite side that's coming at you 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.639 in a way that's now. But we are talking about 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.040 holding holding a pencil or doing surgery. If I got 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.119 to slap with my left hand, if I got to 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:46.760 slap you, I can slap to you just as good. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.200 Just I don't know, because because think about at the footwork, 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.560 because what happens is when you're when you're playing left tackle, 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.480 it's left it's right foot up, left foot back, and 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.040 then you flip it the other way. And then also 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.280 well tackles will tell you this. They play with they 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.239 play with really with half their eye. They play like 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.119 with their eyes, but they use like to watch. You 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.679 have to keep eye on ball and then see the 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.760 guy coming and then so it's the adjustment of how 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.840 you see and then where you put your hands. So 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.200 if you're a if you're a punch, punch and then 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.040 you know it's opposite the other way, so you have 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.520 to use your hands the opposite way. But the footwork 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.120 is the biggest problem. And they also tell you how 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:35.119 they see the rusher coming at them is another issue 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.119 that they do because your right eye left eye. But 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:39.320 they have swing tackles all the time. You know, people 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.520 are like, it's a swing tack because swing tackles not 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:45.160 very good. It's like, but that's a swing tackle. Yeah, 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.199 exactly why you got switch hitters. There are people that 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.800 learn how to do it right. The point is that 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:51.480 doesn't mean they're always hearst of all, it doesn't mean 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.240 they're great at it. And and sometimes being able to 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:56.119 do that means I have to work at it to 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:58.879 get somewhat proficient on the side I'm not accustomed to. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:00.520 I'm not gonna be great at it, but I can 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.600 get That was kind of my question. It's I could 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:07.520 it be at least enough to keep you going? Obviously, 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.399 and maybe it can. That's just about time. The question 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:12.080 is have they had enough time to do that? And 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:13.520 I don't know if you can get that in a week, 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:15.800 I don't know. I mean, playing the NFL is hard. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:17.840 It's hard when you're I always on the right side, 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:19.840 if you've always been on lest side, trying to move 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:21.640 over this it's probably not an odd thing to do. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.480 I'd put Tyler Smith over there. If Steel can't play, 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:26.880 I'd put Tyler Smith over there, putting McGovern at left 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.560 guard and and put Peters at left tackle. You know what, 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.359 I'm just I'm hopeful. I think what happened to Tyler 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.560 Smith last weekend was three games in twelve days, and 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:39.440 he and he needs now. 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Okay, 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:26.600 I'll ask this question. You ever done the bounce house 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:29.160 thing and like held your breath the whole three hours 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:32.240 that it was in your backyard like the kids? No, 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:34.320 I haven't done that. You've never done the bounce house thing. No, 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:37.320 I'm always worry you're talking about kids bouncing around. It's 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:40.520 like midair collisions, is what it is. I've never I 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:44.520 mean it's like every oh, okay, you know, you're always 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:48.040 like you're just kind of a bouncing lawsuit. Yeah, exactly, 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:50.840 Like kids bounce out of the arena into the into 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:53.800 the grass and you're like going, oh, you're okay, You're okay. 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:56.159 Maybe you need some juice box over here, come on, 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:58.840 let's go here. You know that. To me, the bounce 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:02.080 house is a terrified thing almost as much as slipping slide. 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:04.080 You ever done that thing? Yeah, that's a that's a 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:07.399 that's a compound fracture of an ankle. Yeah, slide always 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.280 looked cool in the commercial. Yeah, and the commercial with 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:12.320 this until you were on the grass and you were 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:17.840 rolling like it was never, It was never as simply 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:20.200 and easily as it does on the commercial that Yeah, 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.000 they make it look really Yeah. Then you get off 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:23.480 the edge of it and you're on the grass and 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:26.040 you look like Evil Knievel hitting the payment at Caesar's 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:28.439 Palace when he's trying to jump over the fountain, you know, 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:32.760 just bouncing around, you know, like just awful. Anyway, I'm sorry, 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:37.000 go ahead, question Yet it is there are toys. There 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:40.480 are toys in the seventies. There are toys in the 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:43.680 seventies that are outlawed darts. You ever see that thing, 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:45.919 a huge spear on your throw in the air and 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:48.919 it's like, okay, Eric comes and this read that was 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:53.480 similar to a war in peace. I had things like 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:59.119 helicopter rides, yeah, DeMarcus where tours of the stadium. But no, 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.440 it was the inflators that got that got it that look. Yeah, 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:04.800 you ever, I'm just telling you, hey, I'm sure, I'm 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:07.120 sure we're gonna be fine with our inflatable. We're gonna 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.040 be fine. We're gonna be fine. But you know, in 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:11.320 your backyard, it's one of the most terrifying things you 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:13.320 could ever deal with. When when we were growing up, 0:28:13.320 --> 0:28:15.800 it was just the trampoline and there was no sides 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:17.879 to you. We got my kids got sized. So if 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:20.080 they kind of get off the trampoline, they're gonna bounce 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:22.000 right back in. But you didn't, you didn't have it. 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:24.199 You're gonna hit the ground. Yeah, you're gonna separate, and 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.040 you're like, oh it hurt a little bit. You're gonna 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:28.879 keep going. Yeah, and you're and you're playing dodgeball on it. 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:31.159 You're like you're bouncing and you're and you're trying to 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:33.800 avoid the ball, but then you end up in the springs. 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:36.960 You know, your face and smashed. The backyard is so small. 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:38.800 If they if they had we had that and they 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.880 fell out, it would be next door to the basketball court. 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.600 Next door's still go right over the fence. The good 0:28:44.600 --> 0:28:46.760 thing about it is like back we were kids, Like 0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:48.600 you're actually trying to push your friend off. Yeah, it 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:51.720 was just part of it. Like there were sis in 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:55.000 the seventies eighties, there were some dangerous damn games. I'm 0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:57.720 so okay. Then we were fine with it. Made stuff. 0:28:57.840 --> 0:28:59.920 Mom and Dad reped front smoking a cigarette. You didn't 0:28:59.920 --> 0:29:01.560 have a seat belt on, and that's kind of what 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:05.800 you did, all right, that's so funny. All right, let's 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:09.440 jump into this Indianapolis versus Dallas matchup. Start first telling 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:12.000 me I'm gonna around the table. Biggest concern you have 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.440 for the Cowboys offensively? And I know it's gonna be 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:18.880 ill playing right here we go. I don't know it's 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:21.280 the biggest concern. That would be a concern throwing the 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:23.760 ball over the middle right before halftime, like to CD 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:26.840 and Dak. Just that that play right there, the turnovers, 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:29.040 you're not going to take that out. I take that 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:32.080 play out. And Brian said it yesterday about the Giants game. 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:34.800 Don't give them anything like, don't don't And that's the 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.360 way my approach is, don't don't give the Colts any life. 0:29:37.520 --> 0:29:39.640 Just play your game. They play your game. You'll win 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:42.959 by three touchdowns probably maybe maybe seventeen points. But just 0:29:43.000 --> 0:29:45.320 play your game. If you give them, you get greedy 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:47.160 and you get turnovers, and you go for it on 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:48.719 fourth down because you think you can get it at 0:29:48.720 --> 0:29:50.960 your own thirty seven and they don't, then they score 0:29:51.040 --> 0:29:53.520 and all that. Just play your game and you will, 0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:55.440 you will wipe the floor with him. But but don't 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:57.680 give them anything cheap. Yeah, the thing I would worry 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:00.320 about is four man rush not a much a lot 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.800 of blitz pressure and stuff like that. Now, did did 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:04.960 the Colts watch the Giants play and say, wow, we 0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:08.080 got they got some guys home on some blitz pressure stuff. 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:09.760 You know, maybe that was because of the short week. 0:30:10.320 --> 0:30:12.680 I just hope that the four man rush and a 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:14.720 bunch of movement in the front, the twist front and 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:17.560 especially if you're compromised at right tackle right now and 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:20.560 now you haven't Zach Martin hasn't worked with and this, 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:23.160 that and the other, and now you're having some indecisions. 0:30:23.160 --> 0:30:26.360 Oh Peters is over here. Wait McGovern's back in. Okay, 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:29.200 there's there seems like a lot of moving parts. What's 0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:31.400 going on at right tackle? And the one thing I 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:34.080 think with the Colts they don't blitz, but they twist 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:36.840 fronts and overload sides and stuff that that would be 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:39.520 worrisome to me if they have to get if they're 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:41.920 going to get pressure on Dallas, those are the you know, 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:44.000 you've got to be prepared for that kind of attack. 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:47.760 To me, I think it would be something like starting 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:53.160 the game a little too comfortable with your team. How 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:55.920 about starting slow? You always talk about that that's a 0:30:55.960 --> 0:30:59.440 problem for sure, But uh, just in general, I think 0:31:00.240 --> 0:31:03.320 that this is a team, this is a game that 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:05.840 to me personally, I just see it as an automatic win. 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:09.280 They can definitely beat them. They got all the they 0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:12.680 every reason to beat this team. They got it, you know. Um, 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:18.800 but that's when something happens. Those teams like those are 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:20.920 the ones that just kind of surprise you and all 0:31:20.920 --> 0:31:24.600 of a sudden, the Cowboys, and not because the opposing 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:28.160 team necessarily beat them, but because the Cowboys just beat 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:32.600 themselves and started making mistakes. So penalties things like that, 0:31:32.680 --> 0:31:35.280 starting the game slow, penalties, yeah, and just kind of 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:38.800 not you know, just stepping on their own feet. And 0:31:38.880 --> 0:31:41.800 that's my biggest concern when it comes to offense for 0:31:41.880 --> 0:31:45.320 this game, just cowboys not being able to take care 0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:47.640 of their own business and just getting too much in 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:49.360 the I was leaving, I thought you were gonna go 0:31:49.400 --> 0:31:51.800 with starting slow, because to me, that's how you're gonna 0:31:51.800 --> 0:31:54.600 win this game. You're going to offensively, You're going to 0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:57.480 put more pressure on them than they can than they 0:31:57.480 --> 0:32:00.680 can take offensively trying to keep up with you. Their 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:02.480 their game. Their game is to try and run the 0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:04.320 ball and throw the ball underneath ten yards and let 0:32:04.320 --> 0:32:06.360 people run and do all that and then hope for 0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:09.040 the best. So I was leaving that for you. She 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:12.200 always has a great idea. Don't start slow. Put pressure 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:14.600 on the Colts from the jump. Make it like we 0:32:14.600 --> 0:32:17.200 were talking about a seven to three game, a fourteen 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:19.440 to six game, a twenty one to six game, a 0:32:19.520 --> 0:32:22.320 twenty eight to you know, nine game. Make it that 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:25.240 type of game where the Colts have to keep up 0:32:25.280 --> 0:32:27.320 with you, and it makes them very very one dimensional. 0:32:27.440 --> 0:32:33.640 Biggest concern defensively, I guess just you know, Jonathan Taylor 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:35.560 are just getting getting hot and running the ball and 0:32:35.600 --> 0:32:38.480 finding finding a rhythm there, and they have a guard 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:41.880 that's really good, you know, and Nelson, I mean, you know, 0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:44.760 just just him getting hot and break because he can 0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:46.760 break off the long runs too. That's one thing that 0:32:46.760 --> 0:32:49.719 we've seen from him. So you know, it would have 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:52.560 to be all those things that is not starting out 0:32:53.720 --> 0:32:55.880 as hot as you want to. The Colts that think 0:32:55.920 --> 0:32:58.560 they're still in this game, that the score is close, 0:32:58.600 --> 0:33:01.800 they're still running it, they still have success, and I 0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:05.080 think just a growing confidence in the running game from 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:07.640 the Coals. I think, yeah, I worry about that. You 0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:11.120 have an officially called Carl Scheffer's this weekend, and he 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:14.640 is one of the most penalizing. He loves home teams. 0:33:14.640 --> 0:33:17.440 Home teams. Home teams win a lot of his games 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.120 since twenty sixteen. Home teams. That's the one thing you 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:22.360 got going for you. The thing that I worry about. 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:26.720 They're very high, and they're very high and unnecessary roughness penalties. 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:29.720 They're very high in defensive holding, They're very high in 0:33:29.800 --> 0:33:33.360 defensive pass interference. My biggest fear is, all of a sudden, 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:35.320 you get pressure, you get off the field, and then 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:39.480 there's that backside defensive holding penalty, or there's that there's 0:33:39.520 --> 0:33:43.600 that Donovan Wilson taking a run at Taylor as he's 0:33:43.600 --> 0:33:46.040 going off the sideline, he's running to the sidelines, he's 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:50.320 two steps off and then Wilson just blasts Taylor and 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:52.600 then it's a penalty and it's fifteen yards going the 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:55.280 other way. Don't do anything we talk about that. My 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:58.680 biggest fears those defensive penalties. You know, it's the ones, 0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:03.480 the hands to the face, the defensive holding, the unnecessary roughness. 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:06.560 You know, this guy has proven he will call those penalties. 0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:09.760 Don't be that team this week and give the Colts 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:12.799 life after you've got him off the field. They have 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:15.919 got to change that rule in the Competition committee where 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:17.600 we saw it, I think in the Packer game with 0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:20.479 Rogers rolled away from the field, roll to his left, 0:34:20.560 --> 0:34:22.520 he was running for his life. He threw a quick pass, 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:24.920 it was incomplete, and they call it I think Diggs 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:28.839 way down here on a holding that you know, what 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:31.840 I don't understand is that if he would have thrown 0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:34.920 the ball forty yards in the stands, they call that 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:37.600 uncatchable as an uncatchable pass or doesn't matter if you 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:40.239 were roughing him up over down the field, it was uncatchable. Well, 0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:42.600 this was pretty uncotchable too on this side, like the 0:34:42.640 --> 0:34:45.959 plays that don't matter, there's no way that they should 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:47.440 be calling that. And that's one thing. If he's going 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:49.600 through five reads and he's looking at everybody and then 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:51.560 he throws it and this one was holding, I get it. 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:54.279 But if you never even look that way, there's no 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:56.960 reason to call that. You got it to the opposite 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:58.960 of your really your point though, you had an interception 0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:02.279 taken back off the charts because Diggs held a guy. Yeah, 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:04.440 I mean, and you're like, you know, you tackle guys 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.440 until your point. Though. Every time, every time, when I'm 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:09.759 sitting this in the press box and I'm watching them 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:12.759 get off the field on third down, I immediately scan 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:15.759 the field because I'm thinking, okay, back judge is thrown 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:18.440 a defensive holding. They grabbed the tight end here. Oh no, 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:21.080 by the way, on the other side, Anthony Brown got 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:22.959 all out of whack and he just pulled the guy 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:25.560 down because he thought he was going to get run by. 0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:28.400 You know, Dallas has got to They are a penalized 0:35:28.400 --> 0:35:30.520 team and I and I believe this. I don't think 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:33.719 penalties changed. We can talk about it. Mike McCarthy can 0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:36.640 continue to talk about it. The presnap penalties and stuff 0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:39.520 are bad, but they get the worst penalties at the 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:42.080 worst time. And this is an official that will call 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.120 penalties at the worst time. And that's what worries me 0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:48.240 about this, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Kelvin, 0:35:48.320 --> 0:35:56.040 Joseph Plane, we gotta worry about that, um. But on defense, 0:35:56.120 --> 0:35:59.120 I don't have a lot of concern. Just run defense, 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:03.440 don't don't somebody well there and we know the quarterback 0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:06.239 he doesn't move a whole lot. But I think that's 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:08.279 one area I mean we've talked about it that they'll 0:36:08.320 --> 0:36:12.160 benefit a whole lot there. But if the running back 0:36:12.400 --> 0:36:15.560 gets lose and gets going, I think that's one area 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:18.640 that it can definitely. Yeah, this is one of those 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:21.160 games too. You know, the ball is completely going underneath 0:36:21.160 --> 0:36:23.480 every play. It's just you know, and to me, it's 0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:26.319 put digs on Pittman and put ten in the box 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:28.440 and see if they can run the ball. I'm not 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:30.200 gonna let you run the ball in this game. I 0:36:30.200 --> 0:36:31.839 am not. And if you want to throw the ball 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:34.040 short all day, I'll play press coverage and make you 0:36:34.080 --> 0:36:37.240 fight the jam all day long. You know that's they're 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:41.040 tall receivers. You know they're capable of making plays, contested plays. 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:44.160 But Matt Ryan is also like he is going to 0:36:44.200 --> 0:36:46.000 get the ball out quick. He is not going to 0:36:46.120 --> 0:36:48.080 hold the ball. If he holds the ball, it's a sack. 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:50.319 They've proven that. I think they've given up forty three 0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:52.520 of them this year. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:54.960 our final break. Will come back and we'll get some predictions. 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:57.239 We've got a few fan questions too. They will come back. 0:36:57.280 --> 0:37:01.799 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio season is finally here. 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Jelanie Woods is an interesting character for the Colts. 0:39:36.080 --> 0:39:38.880 He had not been very much a part of their offense, 0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:41.759 and then this last game he just explodes. I think 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:44.560 he had like nine targets or nine catches something like that, 0:39:45.040 --> 0:39:48.239 and then he's missed all practice this week. If he 0:39:48.320 --> 0:39:51.239 misses the game, my thought is like they really other 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:54.880 than Pittman, they don't really have receiving threats that you 0:39:54.960 --> 0:39:58.200 have to worry Pierce. Pierce is, Yeah, pierces think about 0:39:58.280 --> 0:40:04.600 Christian Watson just saying Pierce is a guy that's capable 0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:07.759 from Cincinnati. He was you know, when you watch him 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:11.400 play coming out of college, he made so many big 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:14.800 catches and you watch him in these games. He is 0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:18.400 a he's a running traffic guy. He takes big shots. 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:21.880 Like you know, sometimes Ryan is good with the balls, 0:40:21.880 --> 0:40:25.000 sometimes he's not. And there's a big hit. Their their 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.880 receivers do have toughness. They're they're really both are tall. 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.120 That's the thing that you know you have to deal 0:40:31.160 --> 0:40:34.120 with is you know that length in the reach, especially 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:36.000 the stuff that goes up in the air or the 0:40:36.000 --> 0:40:39.799 stuff that goes across the middle. So I'm not trying 0:40:39.800 --> 0:40:42.200 to say, well, no, no, they you know, they they 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:45.279 have guys that are capable. They don't have that over 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:48.480 the top guy. They really really don't. And what's interesting 0:40:48.520 --> 0:40:52.200 about when you say about Woods, he came out of 0:40:52.239 --> 0:40:56.960 a draft last year that was just a ton of 0:40:57.680 --> 0:41:00.160 tight ends. I mean that my tight end board or 0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:04.160 probably was the deepest when you talk from one to seven. 0:41:04.760 --> 0:41:07.160 And you know, this guy's like six seven, he's two 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:10.080 hundred and fifty three pounds. And the Cowboys have done 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:14.560 a lot of good work against against tight ends this year. 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.759 They really haven't allowed them to kill. But this guy, 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:19.759 when you look at Woods at Virginia and he was 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:22.000 going back and looking at my notes. You know a 0:41:22.080 --> 0:41:23.719 guy that they play him and we call three by 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:27.120 one the trips formation stuff, they flex him out. He's 0:41:27.200 --> 0:41:29.760 up the field. You know, he's one of those guys 0:41:29.800 --> 0:41:33.040 that he catch the ball in traffic at Virginia. He 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:34.840 had a feel for how to find space some of 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:36.520 the things that we saw on the Monday night game. 0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:38.600 You know, I mean, it's it's it's it's really kind 0:41:38.640 --> 0:41:42.160 of strange to see him not be used the way 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:45.280 he was at Virginia. But you know, maybe they found 0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:47.080 something with him. And I think you just have to 0:41:47.120 --> 0:41:49.640 be worried about a guy that's six seven, two fifty 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:52.279 three running down the middle of the field. Questions becomes easy, 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:54.120 gonna be able to play because he hasn't practiced all 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.839 week and uh and obviously if he doesn't play that 0:41:56.840 --> 0:41:59.359 that's one more thing that helps the gallup, absolutely one 0:41:59.440 --> 0:42:01.640 less got away worry about. All Right, let's get to uh, 0:42:02.320 --> 0:42:04.239 actually it's forty two, so let's go ahead and get 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:06.600 our predictions. It's just getting close to the end here. 0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:09.520 Let's let's start with you, Nick, which way do you 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:12.040 go on this? I think that the Cowboys are just 0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:15.520 gonna be too too good for them, And I think 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:17.120 that the Cults will be a game for a while. 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:19.000 It'd be similar to the Giants, even though I don't 0:42:19.000 --> 0:42:20.640 think the Giants will I mean, I don't think the 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:22.359 Cults will score like the Giants did late. I think 0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:24.520 it'll be a little bit more one sided. I'm gonna 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:30.960 say thirty four sixteen four sixteen, all right, Amber Cowboys. 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:37.520 UM I would say this is a game where I 0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:39.840 wonder if we're gonna even get to see like Cooper 0:42:39.920 --> 0:42:42.440 Rush go in and just you know, kill some time 0:42:42.880 --> 0:42:45.200 at the end of the game. UM, I would say 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:53.600 probably thirty eight twenty or something like that. Cowboys. I 0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:55.839 think this The only thing, like I said, the only 0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:58.319 thing that concerns me is that this becomes one of 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:01.359 those games that we all all think the Cowboys should 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:04.000 definitely win, and then they come out of Green Bay, 0:43:05.560 --> 0:43:08.719 but well that was different, and even then, because yes, 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:11.120 green Bay was that way, but you knew it was 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:13.120 still Aaron Rodgers. You don't know what he does to 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.000 the Cowboys. This is a game that I don't think 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:18.760 there's anything that really makes you be fully concerned about 0:43:18.920 --> 0:43:23.680 or scared or worried. So it's just an automatic win 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:26.040 in my head. But then those are the ones that 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:29.040 kind of they surprise you and then somehow they find 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:31.840 a way to lose. But I think that hopefully it 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:34.319 doesn't go that way and they still win another game 0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:37.160 at home and just kind of keep the street going. 0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.440 I'd like to believe that the Dallas Cowboys could score 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:43.200 on this defense and just put so much pressure on him. 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:44.880 I don't know if the number is going to be 0:43:44.960 --> 0:43:47.040 real high though. I don't know if the Colts are 0:43:47.040 --> 0:43:49.640 going to allow you a lot of extra possessions, you know, 0:43:49.680 --> 0:43:51.560 and if you turn over the ball, that's kind of 0:43:51.600 --> 0:43:54.399 a problem there. I've got the Cowboys winning this one. 0:43:54.600 --> 0:43:57.279 Twenty seven to sixteen. I think that it. You know, 0:43:57.320 --> 0:44:00.640 it's sixteen points for the Colts is a lot, you know, 0:44:00.760 --> 0:44:03.279 but I just do worry about them running the ball, 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:05.799 maybe busting a run, then they kick a field goal, 0:44:05.960 --> 0:44:07.840 you know that kind of thing. They don't score a 0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:10.080 whole hell of a lot of points. But I just 0:44:10.120 --> 0:44:13.600 wonder about if their game plan is that Jeff Saturday, 0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:16.279 the old offensive line coach, is like, listen, the best 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:17.920 chance we have to win this game, it's just running 0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:19.719 the football. Let's just load up and see if they 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:21.759 can stop the run. And you know, maybe you lose 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:24.120 some possessions there. Maybe they try the game plan that 0:44:24.200 --> 0:44:27.160 the Vikings didn't try. You know, that might be a 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:30.600 twenty eight to sixteen Dallas I'll tell you this, this team, 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:33.399 this Cults team, I think they're better than people give 0:44:33.440 --> 0:44:35.799 them credit. I think this defense is actually not a 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:38.120 bad defense. I think the struggles on the offensive side 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:40.560 of the ball, and they've beat some good teams this year. 0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:43.120 They beat the Kansas City Chiefs, who I think is 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:45.560 the best team in the NFL. So this is not 0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:48.239 a team that we should be taking as lightly as 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:50.759 we are. I do think the Cowboys win this game, 0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:52.839 and I do think the Cowboys should win this game. 0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:54.640 I think they have more talent. I think they are 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:57.439 a better team, clearly, but this is one of those 0:44:57.440 --> 0:44:59.799 games that I don't think and really, to be quite 0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:02.719 with you, this week, next week and the week after that, 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:06.040 each of those teams have some some things about them, 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:09.439 particularly their offensive run game. Right that we're gonna find 0:45:09.440 --> 0:45:12.440 out if Dallas has fixed their run defense, because all 0:45:12.480 --> 0:45:15.640 three of those teams have running backs and running games 0:45:15.680 --> 0:45:17.759 that if you're not paying attention to them, and if 0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:19.799 you're not doing what you're supposed to do, they can 0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:21.960 bust some some long runs on you. So I do 0:45:22.040 --> 0:45:24.279 think the Cowboys win. I was right along with you, Bryan. 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:25.879 I don't think it'll be as high school. I don't 0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:27.319 think the Cowboys get into the thirties. I think the 0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:30.719 final score twenty seven ten. But I do think this 0:45:30.800 --> 0:45:32.520 is a game where I'm a little bit more concerned 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:34.799 than than other people. There's there's what if you go 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:37.160 back and do really further study on this team. On 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:40.720 the Colts, They've only had a lead in the second 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:44.839 half for fifty snaps and all their games, and people go, well, 0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:47.399 you know, why is their pass defense so good? Well, 0:45:47.440 --> 0:45:50.040 they're never ahead. They don't ever get to you know, 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:52.680 I mean, people just run the ball. Nobody throws the 0:45:52.719 --> 0:45:54.520 ball on them. You know, they get to be lead 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:56.640 and they're like trying to kill the game. You know, 0:45:56.680 --> 0:45:59.560 their run defense is capable, but if you look at 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:02.440 the number snaps that they face when teams throwing the 0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:05.080 ball on them, it's not as much as you know, 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:07.080 they're like, man, they're really good on a pass defense. 0:46:07.440 --> 0:46:09.239 It's a lot of it has to do that. Teams 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:12.080 just get leads, and the Colts can't. They never have 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:14.880 a lead in the second half. That's a huge problem 0:46:14.880 --> 0:46:17.280 for them. Yeah, I saw an interesting stat earlier this week. 0:46:17.640 --> 0:46:20.000 They are they're ranked pretty high in yards that they're 0:46:20.000 --> 0:46:22.360 giving up in passing, but when you look at their 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:24.720 yards after catch, they're down at the bottom of the league. 0:46:24.760 --> 0:46:26.520 I want to say, in the bottom five or so 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:29.759 of the league in yards after catch, because it's a 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:32.440 situation where they're just it seems like teams are being 0:46:32.480 --> 0:46:35.680 able to complete passes and then from near like they 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.080 are getting a lot of extra yards after they complete 0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:40.200 those passes. But we'll see it all plays out. It'll 0:46:40.200 --> 0:46:42.239 be an interesting game, I think, but I do think 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:44.399 Cowboys end up winning. We'll be back on Monday. We'll 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:45.799 let you know what went right and wrong for the 0:46:45.800 --> 0:46:48.520 Cowboys untill theyn for Nick even Brian brought us Amber Garcia. 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:50.440 I'm Derek Eilton. This has been The Break live on 0:46:50.600 --> 0:46:54.640 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production 0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:58.479 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.