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Speaker 6: It is Tuesday, January second, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number ninety nine. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 6: The Break. Were Love from SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 6: we get to recap a win. Cowboys win. They beat
Speaker 6: the Detroit Lions at home twenty to nineteen. Last What
Speaker 6: was that now? Was that on Sunday, Sunday, Saturday, Saturday.
Speaker 4: I'm so off at this point.
Speaker 6: That was on Saturday the thirtieth, and it did set
Speaker 6: up some very interesting things, not only the Cowboys getting
Speaker 6: to win, but also other things that happened throughout the
Speaker 6: league that created some interesting scenarios for this coming game.
Speaker 6: But we'll get into all that stuff tomorrow. For today,
Speaker 6: we will recap the Cowboys victory twenty to nineteen. Let's
Speaker 6: start where we start typically following the game. Let's go
Speaker 6: around the table. Give me your storyline of this game
Speaker 6: coming out of the big win.
Speaker 4: Let's start first with you, Brian.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what super impressed the way that the
Speaker 2: Cowboys played run defense in this game. That could have
Speaker 2: been one of those times where you look at the
Speaker 2: offensive line how they were configured there with the Lions,
Speaker 2: it's one of the better groups in the league. I
Speaker 2: think one of the top five for sure. When you
Speaker 2: watch their past block, their run blocks outstanding in the
Speaker 2: way that they play. Dallas did a great job of
Speaker 2: handling that. I was super impressed with the way that
Speaker 2: they were able to control the line of scrimmage at times. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they popped couple of runs on you, but if you
Speaker 2: look overall though, of all the runs they had, the
Speaker 2: negative plays that were created in the running game, especially
Speaker 2: on short yarded situations, was super impressive. We talk about
Speaker 2: Tank and the way that he's able to kind of man.
Speaker 2: I think he got a little lucky on a playdown
Speaker 2: on the goal line there where he guessed right. But
Speaker 2: that's the greatness of Tank Lawrence right there. He kind
Speaker 2: of sees that maybe the lineman's tipping a little bit,
Speaker 2: and he's like, well, I'm supposed to go over here.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to go over here and go around
Speaker 2: him and then make a play a negative play. So
Speaker 2: really nice job. If you follow metrics and stuff, they'll
Speaker 2: tell you that of thirty one runs, nine of them
Speaker 2: were what they call stuffed runs, no yards or negative plays.
Speaker 2: Right there. I don't think you could have played a
Speaker 2: better game when it came to defending the run against
Speaker 2: two quality backs. So tip the cap to the front
Speaker 2: seven the way they played. The way the safety's kind
Speaker 2: of helped in the game as well, but that could
Speaker 2: have got out of hand and it didn't so good
Speaker 2: for the Cowboys in that run defense.
Speaker 3: AG.
Speaker 7: Well, don't get me wrong. I am happy, Okay.
Speaker 8: I'm saying this. This is a disclaimer.
Speaker 7: I am happy. I'm very happy that they've won. You know,
Speaker 7: you got to celebrate. And at this point, now you're
Speaker 7: all in. There's no they're picking the other team or
Speaker 7: thinking anything like you're all in and this is it.
Speaker 8: And I'm very glad they won.
Speaker 7: But there are a lot of things that still concern me,
Speaker 7: and and you gotta think that. Okay, now you might
Speaker 7: be playing one or two games at home. Luckily, somehow
Speaker 7: the Eagles lose.
Speaker 8: Against the Cardinals, but they're broken now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, But the point is, regardless of everything starting
Speaker 7: to fall into place for the Cowboys, which is great
Speaker 7: and you're excited to see that, there's still a lot
Speaker 7: of concerning points and areas for this team. We talk
Speaker 7: a lot about home games and how well they play
Speaker 7: at home, which is proven to be true. But even
Speaker 7: this game against the Detroit Lions, which they're a very
Speaker 7: very talented team, we know that, but a lot of
Speaker 7: the times the score didn't reflect how the game felt.
Speaker 7: You saw the Cowboys moving along pretty well and taking
Speaker 7: care of business, but then all of a sudden, once
Speaker 7: again they keep getting in their own way and making
Speaker 7: mistakes that don't help them. It hurts them, and then
Speaker 7: you're like, okay, makes you wonder again. I'm like, dang, if, okay,
Speaker 7: if this is at home, what happens when you're on
Speaker 7: the road again against the team like this?
Speaker 8: You don't win that game.
Speaker 7: So it's just one of those scenarios where, yes, it
Speaker 7: was great, you saw certain areas that were great for
Speaker 7: the team. I thought the defense did a very very
Speaker 7: very nice job despite of the running game and everything
Speaker 7: happening there with the talent that they do have, but
Speaker 7: it's just like, man, it cannot be that close. Games
Speaker 7: cannot be that close, especially when you you see things working,
Speaker 7: but then you're the ones stepping on your own foot
Speaker 7: and making those mistakes that luckily this led you to win.
Speaker 7: But you almost lost that game for sure, And I'm
Speaker 7: sure we'll get into what happened in the last few
Speaker 7: seconds of that game. But it's still great, very happy.
Speaker 7: But man, don't get too comfortable. Buckle up, because there's
Speaker 7: still a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 9: More MVP caliber play from Dak Prescott as far as
Speaker 9: showing resilience and being able to kind of battle through
Speaker 9: the kind of the ebbs and flows of the game. Offensively,
Speaker 9: they had some struggles offensively. We'll talk about the run game,
Speaker 9: I'm sure here shortly, but I'm going to keep it
Speaker 9: to the defense. Run defense, Like Brian said, it definitely
Speaker 9: stepped up. It was kind of weird at times because
Speaker 9: they made so many positive, big plays as far as
Speaker 9: run stuffs are concerned, and then a couple of plays
Speaker 9: later they let a big run happen. So it's kind
Speaker 9: of up and down. But Cowboys have more positives than
Speaker 9: negatives in that regard. And then that kind of takes
Speaker 9: me to a guy that we talked about, Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 9: We talked about his reps, his snaps getting turned up
Speaker 9: last week or the week prior going into this game.
Speaker 9: We talked about what that probably meant for him and
Speaker 9: what the Cowboys needed from Donovan Wilson. He showed up
Speaker 9: big in the run game, and he showed up big
Speaker 9: in coverage as well with the interception. So if you're
Speaker 9: going to get prime Donovan Wilson back in conjunction with
Speaker 9: maybe prime Jordan Lewis, who's been playing some outstanding football
Speaker 9: the past few weeks, he gets that interception on that
Speaker 9: RB screen, which is Cowboys first takeaway. They didn't They
Speaker 9: weren't able to get any points off of that. However,
Speaker 9: it shows that Jordan Lewis is coming back to top form,
Speaker 9: Donovan Wilson's coming back to top form. Stefan Gilmore is
Speaker 9: playing great in coverage. D ron Bland gave up the
Speaker 9: big play, but he also had no safety help over
Speaker 9: the top. I call that just good play called execution
Speaker 9: by the Lions. Give them roses for that, but I
Speaker 9: think the Cowboys defense. You know, they were able to
Speaker 9: for another week because they had good run defense against
Speaker 9: the Dolphins as well. So for another week without Hankins
Speaker 9: on the field, you defended the run exceptionally well all
Speaker 9: things considered, and now you're likely about get Hankins back,
Speaker 9: that objectively should make you that much better. So I
Speaker 9: have a lot of confidence now when this run defense
Speaker 9: going forward, secondary safety unit, they're starting to take steps forward.
Speaker 9: Nickel corner as far as Jordan, He's back to top form.
Speaker 9: So love what I'm saying from the defense. Cowboys offense
Speaker 9: still needs to kind of get some consistency over the
Speaker 9: course of a four quarter game.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 6: We will dive deeper into a lot of those topics
Speaker 6: as we go throughout the show. But I got to
Speaker 6: go to this because this is the storyline in my
Speaker 6: opinion of this game.
Speaker 3: It is what.
Speaker 6: Everybody is talking about coming out of this game. I
Speaker 6: want to get everyone's opinions on that. Well, let's not
Speaker 6: talk about what but they should be talking about. Let's
Speaker 6: about what people are talking about. The two point conversion
Speaker 6: and the illegal touching call. What were your thoughts on
Speaker 6: that specific moment, that specific play and how it all
Speaker 6: transpired and what it meant to the overall game and
Speaker 6: the outcome.
Speaker 2: I knew they were throwing the ball to an eligible
Speaker 2: tackle once that skipper came on the field, I said
Speaker 2: immediately to myself. We were getting ready for the postgame show,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, Okay, the report and eligible here, and
Speaker 2: you've got to be ready for that. Anything to do
Speaker 2: Dan Skippers six ' ten. You know him throwing at
Speaker 2: catching a two yard pass is going to be a probability.
Speaker 2: You have to be able to where they aligned him
Speaker 2: was was surprising to me. They try to use deception.
Speaker 2: The whole idea of the reporting rule is to not
Speaker 2: allow deception, right, that is the spirit of the rule.
Speaker 2: Competition Committee. Stephen Jones one of the chair members of
Speaker 2: the Competition Committee, they're very clear about the rule. By
Speaker 2: the way, like to circle back with Steven Jones, he
Speaker 2: didn't want to change the rule about the ball fumbling
Speaker 2: out of the end zone. He's like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to change.
Speaker 4: That rule, which I'm good with too.
Speaker 2: By the way, we'll talk about but we got to
Speaker 2: fumble out of the end zone, so we might want
Speaker 2: to revisit that. But the spirit of the rule is
Speaker 2: to report is to not to deceive. Now, running plays
Speaker 2: is deception, but when it comes to jersey numbers that
Speaker 2: are not traditional receiver numbers, there's a rule for that,
Speaker 2: you know. And if you're trying to move the eligible
Speaker 2: receiver around in the line, if you're reporting him as
Speaker 2: eligible but playing him as a tackle, that is deception.
Speaker 2: So in the spirit of the rule, did maybe did
Speaker 2: Brad Allen and the crew maybe get it wrong? I
Speaker 2: don't think so, and I'll tell you why, because the
Speaker 2: entire game, when number seventy has come on the field,
Speaker 2: Dan Skipper has been the eligible receiver. He's reported as eligible,
Speaker 2: you know. So to me, you could talk about, you know,
Speaker 2: where they put him. But the whole intent of the
Speaker 2: rule is to alert the defense of possible eligible people,
Speaker 2: not to formation it in a way that somebody else
Speaker 2: is eligible and that that that's the NFL is very
Speaker 2: clear on that rule itself. So did the Cowboys catch
Speaker 2: a break? Yeah, absolutely, But in the spirit of the rule,
Speaker 2: and the lines even admitted this that they the deception
Speaker 2: was part of of you know, and if you and
Speaker 2: if you know, in that situation, I think that maybe
Speaker 2: Brad Allen and his crew should have stepped back and said, Okay,
Speaker 2: why are all you trying to report? What's you know?
Speaker 2: Take take time and okay, are you telling me you're eligible?
Speaker 2: Are you telling me you're eligible? Who? Who is? Who
Speaker 2: is the eligible player here? You know? Is it you
Speaker 2: Taylor Decker? Is it you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Skipper? If it's not, let's get this situated and then
Speaker 2: but take a little time. That's a key point in
Speaker 2: the game right there. It's a huge moment in the
Speaker 2: game because really, to be honest with you, the second
Speaker 2: seed of the NFL playoffs now it turns out is
Speaker 2: on the line in that particular in that particular instance.
Speaker 2: So I think that, uh you know, and that to me,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, unfortunately for the lines, but you should know
Speaker 2: the rule better for what you're trying to do.
Speaker 9: And and for me, it's like I said this morning,
Speaker 9: a one oh five three the fan, the lines got
Speaker 9: cute and trying to outsmart the Cays. But like Brian
Speaker 9: is saying, it boggles my mind that you would think
Speaker 9: you'd be able to deceive when the eligible receiver is
Speaker 9: going to be announced over the loud speaker as it was.
Speaker 9: So the defense, the Cowboys defense were they were going
Speaker 9: to hear that eligible receiver anyway, So who were you
Speaker 9: deceiving except potentially the official who at that point in
Speaker 9: the game.
Speaker 3: As Brian points.
Speaker 9: Out, Skipper had reported eligible on more than one occasion
Speaker 9: up to that point. So when he sees Dan Skipper
Speaker 9: running up and there's the subterfuge, he's like, okay, well,
Speaker 9: you're muscle memory, you're the guy.
Speaker 2: You're the eligible guy, and then he announces it.
Speaker 9: So then for those that are saying, oh, well he
Speaker 9: announced that it's a loud stadium, maybe the Lions didn't
Speaker 9: hear when the Cowboys heard it. That's why they didn't
Speaker 9: cover sixty eight in the first place. So if the
Speaker 9: Cowboys hear that it, well, if he reports it at
Speaker 9: sixty eight, then the Cowboys cover that the play doesn't happen.
Speaker 9: Then you could rewind back and say, okay, well, if
Speaker 9: that tripping penalty is called correctly against Ayton Hutchinson and
Speaker 9: not pay Hendershot, then none of this happens in the
Speaker 9: first place. Butterfly fact, I say all of that to
Speaker 9: say the Lions choke. They made it this decision to
Speaker 9: try to win the game. That's totally fine. It didn't
Speaker 9: work in their favor because they got cute. And after
Speaker 9: they got cute, they had another opportunity. Jared Goff throws
Speaker 9: an interception to Marquise Bell, Lions get bailed out by
Speaker 9: the off sides to Michael Parsons. And now you have
Speaker 9: a third opportunity to change your mind and say this
Speaker 9: is just not going how we should have idea. It's
Speaker 9: a bad idea. Let's just kick the ball and he
Speaker 9: tries for it again and it doesn't work. I have
Speaker 9: no sympathy in that situation. The Lions got cute. Finally,
Speaker 9: the Cowboys got a break in their favor because so
Speaker 9: often this season and these close games, talk about Philadelphia,
Speaker 9: talk about Miami. You just didn't get these breaks. It
Speaker 9: broke in the cowboys favor. No apologies should be given
Speaker 9: out for a win. Lions got cute, and it costume
Speaker 9: of the game and probably the number two seeds.
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing about too. The Cowboys lost the
Speaker 2: game because of an eligible receiver themselves, right with a
Speaker 2: Doka exact Philadelia. So you know that's that that in
Speaker 2: itself right there is you know there are clear rules
Speaker 2: about eligible receivers. The NFL makes that very very very clear.
Speaker 2: They they they make it a point to announce to
Speaker 2: the crowd and and you know to the crowd and
Speaker 2: to the teams that seventy is eligible. Seventy is an
Speaker 2: eligible player. And you know you can if you want to,
Speaker 2: if you want to put him somewhere else and use
Speaker 2: in man on the line of scrimmage and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I thought it. I thought Taylor Decker was covered by
Speaker 2: I thought he was covered by the wide receiver. But
Speaker 2: looking back on film, he wasn't. I thought. Initially, I'm like,
Speaker 2: well he's covered anyway, that's an illegal formation, you know.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I I I again, I don't have any
Speaker 2: any sympathy for the Lions. You're you're absolutely right. They
Speaker 2: had they had he should have kicked the extra point
Speaker 2: to begin with. After watching his offense just go down
Speaker 2: the field in that final drive and I win the toss.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the exact same thing again. You know. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe Dallas plays you differently because they they they were
Speaker 2: in some they did some crazy things, in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Get to that. Yeah, we'll get to that. We'll get
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, no, I.
Speaker 8: Was the only thing I was gonna say.
Speaker 7: I I filled this same exact way Zero's sympathy.
Speaker 8: It is what it is. You know, more often than not,
Speaker 8: that's something that would.
Speaker 7: Happen to the Cowboys, like that happens to us all
Speaker 7: the time. And people want to come and get on
Speaker 7: on social media and start saying, oh, y'all paid the
Speaker 7: reps and the refs are on your side and all that.
Speaker 7: I'm like, say, whatever you want, that's not the case. Finally, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: but either aither way it worked on the cowboys favor.
Speaker 7: But again, it never should have gone to that point.
Speaker 7: It never should have gone to that point. The Cowboys
Speaker 7: had so many opportunities where they could have been taken
Speaker 7: the lead and never got into even possible even the
Speaker 7: possibility of going over time.
Speaker 8: But anyway it happened. We're here, they won, and it
Speaker 8: is that.
Speaker 6: One other thing I think that hasn't been mentioned a
Speaker 6: lot in the conversation around this is after the game,
Speaker 6: Jordan Lewis was talking to the media and he made
Speaker 6: it clear that actually in the week previous to the
Speaker 6: game they worked on this quite a bit, on eligible
Speaker 6: players players reporting.
Speaker 4: How do you adjust to that?
Speaker 6: So my contention has always been, if the rules set
Speaker 6: up so that you can't deceive and you have to
Speaker 6: make it clear who is this eligible player. Then Dallas
Speaker 6: was playing based on that, and if you see a
Speaker 6: guy lined up at tackle and he's not declared as eligible,
Speaker 6: you don't cover him, you don't worry about him as
Speaker 6: a potential receiving threat. Now, if they would have said
Speaker 6: sixty eight is eligible the eligible guy, then I think
Speaker 6: at that point I think the Cowboys would have adjusted
Speaker 6: because again, they practiced it all week and the likelihood
Speaker 6: that Jay run Curse gets beat by a tackle in
Speaker 6: coverage it's not very high. So my point is, like,
Speaker 6: whatever you want to say about the ref messing it
Speaker 6: up or not, at the end of the day, that
Speaker 6: wasn't the Cowboys' fault. They did it based upon whatever
Speaker 6: they were told. The stadium was told seventy is.
Speaker 4: The eligible player.
Speaker 6: At that point, that's what you have to work with,
Speaker 6: and based on that, I don't think it would have
Speaker 6: been converted. Even if they would have gotten the number right.
Speaker 6: The point is they got cute. They were trying to
Speaker 6: be deceptive, and I like the way you put it, Brian.
Speaker 6: The rule is put there so that there is no deception.
Speaker 6: You want to make sure everybody's aware who the eligible
Speaker 6: players are, and that's how you have to adapt to
Speaker 6: it all. We're going to take our first break. We'll
Speaker 6: come back. We'll dive a little deeper into some of
Speaker 6: the things. I want to talk about that final drive,
Speaker 6: not only from the standpoint of the Cowboys and what
Speaker 6: they did on their offensive possession when they went down
Speaker 6: and actually got the score, but also the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 6: What were they doing in that particular possession that allowed
Speaker 6: Detroit just drive right down the field in a short
Speaker 6: period of time and get to a point where they
Speaker 6: were they were in position to tie it up. We'll
Speaker 6: talk about that when we come back. This is Dallas
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Speaker 6: talk about that last drive that the Cowboys were on.
Speaker 4: Their defense was on the field.
Speaker 6: They've got the lead, and really all they need to
Speaker 6: do at this point is just keep Detroit from scoring
Speaker 6: a touchdown, not a field goal, a touchdown.
Speaker 4: What happened was just the opposite.
Speaker 6: They allow a nine place, seventy five yard drive in
Speaker 6: a minute in eighteen seconds that gets the Lions into
Speaker 6: position where they are at twenty to nineteen to go
Speaker 6: for two, but could have clearly tied up the game
Speaker 6: and forced likely I'm not going to say definitely, but
Speaker 6: likely forced in overtime. Dallas would have had some seconds
Speaker 6: still left on the clock. That all being said, Laporta,
Speaker 6: who I thought they'd done a pretty good job on
Speaker 6: most of the game. Was really the guy that killed
Speaker 6: them on that final drive. Three catches for fifty yards
Speaker 6: on that drive alone. Talk to me about what was happening, Brian.
Speaker 6: You alluded to them what was happening with the Cowboys
Speaker 6: defense and how they were trying to defend the lives
Speaker 6: on that last drive.
Speaker 2: Well, you didn'tet any pass rush to start with, which
Speaker 2: really hurt. You know, the Lions did a really good
Speaker 2: job of holding up there. You initially started the drive
Speaker 2: playing to defend the sidelines. And we've seen this training
Speaker 2: camp when we've gone and watched practices and stuff, and
Speaker 2: they work on those final two minute drills when the
Speaker 2: other opponent doesn't have any timeouts, and so what you
Speaker 2: do is you defend the sidelines, so you try and
Speaker 2: funnel everything back to the middle and then make a tackle.
Speaker 2: And then it just was a lot of time left
Speaker 2: to be playing that kind of a front and that
Speaker 2: kind of a defensive package in my opinions, because once
Speaker 2: the ball went to the middle, fine, you rally, you tackle,
Speaker 2: but it's a huge chunk play right there, and so
Speaker 2: now you've got all your defenders wide you have to rally,
Speaker 2: So okay, they get out of that the second time around.
Speaker 2: Then okay, the second play is they get into a
Speaker 2: situation where they play two deep safeties, but they played
Speaker 2: the safeties so wide. Both safeties ended up on the
Speaker 2: hashbod excise me on the numbers. So now you got them,
Speaker 2: You've got the defense really stretched again. Attack in the
Speaker 2: middle of the field, and now now you've given up
Speaker 2: another big chunk play. So you're in a situation where
Speaker 2: now Dan's thinking about He's thinking about, well, I've got
Speaker 2: to do something different here, So he tries to place
Speaker 2: some man coverage on it and he matches up Curse
Speaker 2: on Laporta, and Laportera runs like a pivot and you know,
Speaker 2: up the field and back inside and Curse overplays. Now
Speaker 2: it's another big play right there. Now you're on the doorstep,
Speaker 2: you know. And they got caught in a situation too
Speaker 2: between more in the safety when the ball went when
Speaker 2: Saint Brown went to the outside, they got caught in
Speaker 2: really how they were aligned and how they were going
Speaker 2: to play the zone down there. Saint Brown catches the
Speaker 2: ball and goes in. So he tried three different things
Speaker 2: in order to stop them from scoring. Three different types
Speaker 2: of looks and all two of them were bad in
Speaker 2: the way, actually three of them were bad in the
Speaker 2: way that the middle of your field was really exposed.
Speaker 2: And so that's where the Lion's clear attack. But the
Speaker 2: lack of pass rush killed you in that particular moment
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it really boiled down to their inability
Speaker 9: to stop Laporta on that particular drive. You know, you
Speaker 9: had a ten yard drive and you had the twenty
Speaker 9: five ish play. I'm sorry, then the twenty five yard
Speaker 9: is played right after on the first one. If you
Speaker 9: go back and look at it, the Porter starts on
Speaker 9: the left side. He kind of gets the free release
Speaker 9: for the most part, he goes and he sits down middle,
Speaker 9: and there you go ten yard gain. I think in
Speaker 9: that aspect than dan Quinn, Jeron curs in the safeties.
Speaker 9: They start saying, okay, well, let's try to keep at
Speaker 9: least one guy keeping an eye on the middle, because
Speaker 9: on that twenty five yard drive, Laporter starts on the
Speaker 9: right side jay Ron, he's eyeing Laporter. So you have
Speaker 9: the two safeties, but they are they're two, they're stretched wide,
Speaker 9: they are at the numbers, and now you have jay
Speaker 9: Ron and you have Marquise. So when they when the
Speaker 9: play happens, j N kind of glances at Laporter, but
Speaker 9: then guess what your running back is coming out of
Speaker 9: the backfield, and then he sits right where Laporter sat.
Speaker 9: So jay Ron gets that second thought, he says, okay,
Speaker 9: I'm going to play for Okay. Well, by then Laporter
Speaker 9: is already behind him.
Speaker 3: But now the.
Speaker 9: Safeties who are supposed to help, they're too wide, so
Speaker 9: Golf just drops it in play design good So good
Speaker 9: play design versus a not great you know, defensive design,
Speaker 9: especially because you didn't get pressure in the front four.
Speaker 9: So that's really those two plays are what kickstarted it because,
Speaker 9: like Brian said, after that big play, bigger play from Laporter,
Speaker 9: now you're on the doorstep, and I'm going to say Brown,
Speaker 9: who had a very solid game against the Cowboys, he
Speaker 9: gets another play and then all of a sudden, now
Speaker 9: it's a touchdown drive and we're into the two point
Speaker 9: conversion controversy. So if they had gotten a handle on
Speaker 9: the Porter on either of those two plays perfectly the
Speaker 9: twenty five yarder, then it's a much different situation. But
Speaker 9: I mean, you also got to give credit to those
Speaker 9: guys on the other side of the ball because la Portas,
Speaker 9: he's been lights out all season. And like you said,
Speaker 9: although the Cowboys for the most part before that drive
Speaker 9: did a good a good job of kind of bottling
Speaker 9: him up, you just had to know at some point
Speaker 9: during that game he was going to get his and
Speaker 9: on that draft he got his.
Speaker 2: Well, he was able to have some success against your
Speaker 2: linebackers or some success, but when they put when they
Speaker 2: put corners on him, he didn't have a catch.
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So, I mean they did that a few times,
Speaker 2: and I think that people are starting to treat Jake
Speaker 2: Ferguson that way too.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna let They're gonna put you know, like
Speaker 2: Brian Branch several times caught Ferguson in this game, and
Speaker 2: you wonder, like, well, what well they playing Ferguson different. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they are. They're treating him like a wide receiver. And
Speaker 2: that's the thing with the porter I think Dan. I
Speaker 2: think that if he had to do it over he
Speaker 2: wouldn't have he wouldn't have left the middle of the
Speaker 2: field open as much as he did because I think
Speaker 2: it was really early, you know, when for example, I
Speaker 2: think we all watched the Philadelphia Arizona game when they
Speaker 2: have no timeouts and twenty something seconds. That's to me
Speaker 2: where you played the sideline prevent defense where you just
Speaker 2: you don't let them get out of bounce. You you
Speaker 2: funnel everything to the middle and then you tackle them.
Speaker 2: Especially needing a needing a touchdown. You know, you just
Speaker 2: rally and then the time. But with a minute forty
Speaker 2: on the clock, that seemed like you're not benefiting. You're
Speaker 2: giving up a big chunk play there and then potentially
Speaker 2: giving another big chunk play by playing your your secondary
Speaker 2: that way. He got out of that pretty quick after
Speaker 2: the first time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting because I think in those kinds of
Speaker 6: situations you got a minute forty left in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, that's turn it.
Speaker 6: Play your regular defense because this is you don't need
Speaker 6: to switch it up. And by the way, the Cowboys
Speaker 6: defensive played well. I had said that this This game,
Speaker 6: in my opinion, came down to the how well the
Speaker 6: Cowboys defense played, because I don't think the defense played
Speaker 6: particularly well. I mean I played okay, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 6: I see he had a career day. Dak had great numbers.
Speaker 6: I think the offense left something some plays on the field.
Speaker 6: I think the defense was really the reason why they
Speaker 6: were in the game and playing it to the point
Speaker 6: that they were playing it. And then that drive happens,
Speaker 6: and you're like, how did this happen?
Speaker 2: The whole situation if you look at the turnovers though,
Speaker 2: the interception on the screen and Patrick mentioned the play,
Speaker 2: lewis perfectly playing the play. I mean, the flow is
Speaker 2: going away and he's reading and he sees the he
Speaker 2: sees the back comeing to his side. He stays. That's
Speaker 2: just perfect recognition. And then what happens is like Osa
Speaker 2: is so fast up the field on the screen because
Speaker 2: they don't block him. Golf just turns and fires it.
Speaker 2: I mean he doesn't even look. He just spins and
Speaker 2: throws and lewis driving on the ball. That's pressure right there.
Speaker 2: They forced They forced Golf into some really uncomfortable situations
Speaker 2: in his head of having to deal with the pressure
Speaker 2: during the game.
Speaker 9: Like you said there, they should have just stuck with
Speaker 9: the defense that was working on for them, the defensive
Speaker 9: set that was working for them, because once you drop
Speaker 9: back and you get soft as far as like coverage,
Speaker 9: you know, spacing quote unquote prevent quasi prevent in that situation,
Speaker 9: there's too much time on the clock. And on the
Speaker 9: previous draft, guess what you got. You got an interception
Speaker 9: from Donovan Wilson and who was the target. It was
Speaker 9: Laporta on that play. So you shouldn't have backed off.
Speaker 9: You should have stayed in their face, stayed in those
Speaker 9: receivers face, stayed in la porter face, Laporter's face, and
Speaker 9: even had a greater chance of that not ending in
Speaker 9: a touchdown.
Speaker 8: Draft well, also after so after the interception, i mean,
Speaker 8: I'm thinking, with two minutes left, I'm thinking that's being
Speaker 8: dumb with me, because that's plenty of time.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I'm thinking, we got this, let me, let me
Speaker 7: start picking up my stuff to head downstairs.
Speaker 8: But even then, like.
Speaker 7: This is one of those suggestions where again you see
Speaker 7: the way that the offense was playing the Cowboy's offense
Speaker 7: in general, but still not cashing in on everything. You
Speaker 7: shouldn't have settled for a field goal. I mean, it
Speaker 7: was great that Aubrey what was it, forty three yard attempt, Yeah,
Speaker 7: and he gets it in. But I'm like, those are
Speaker 7: the situations where you should go and drive down the
Speaker 7: field and score a touchdown, seal the game or quote
Speaker 7: unquote seal the game. But that would have basically garn
Speaker 7: you the win with that much time left. But then
Speaker 7: you settle for a field goal.
Speaker 6: But let me ask you this, because that brings up
Speaker 6: an interesting point because some say, some would say I
Speaker 6: would agree with this that the Cowboys may have been
Speaker 6: a little too aggressive on the drive they were throwing there.
Speaker 2: They allowed forty.
Speaker 6: Seconds to not be taken off the clock because they
Speaker 6: were essentially I mean, it was clear Michaels like, we're
Speaker 6: trying to win this game right here.
Speaker 4: And I like the aggressiveness.
Speaker 6: I like the aggressive mindset, but I think in that situation,
Speaker 6: I think it would have been preferable keep running the ball,
Speaker 6: especially if you get the tripping call, keep running the
Speaker 6: ball at that point and just try to get as
Speaker 6: much time off the clock, take your field goal with
Speaker 6: your money kicker, and then don't give them the time
Speaker 6: to be able to drive down the field and be
Speaker 6: able to make the score.
Speaker 4: How do you suppose that?
Speaker 7: But I think both things can be true, because I
Speaker 7: agree you run the ball to get time off the clock,
Speaker 7: but then you can also keep pushing the play and
Speaker 7: get that doesn't mean you have to absolutely settle for
Speaker 7: just a field goal. I mean, if you set up
Speaker 7: the design and the plays well enough and then adding
Speaker 7: some passes here in between, you get to the end zone.
Speaker 8: So it doesn't have to be just one thing or
Speaker 8: the other.
Speaker 7: I think you can do with well management and in
Speaker 7: a good play design you come up with something that
Speaker 7: contains both a mixture of both kill time off the
Speaker 7: clock while also driving the offense to get closer into
Speaker 7: the end zone.
Speaker 6: Well, the fact of the matter is on that deep pass,
Speaker 6: the pass was kind of there, like they just didn't
Speaker 6: connect on it, like it wasn't They had an opportunity
Speaker 6: on that pass, I think to convert it. My thing
Speaker 6: is the chance of not converting, you know, is what
Speaker 6: you were about the high rate of completion.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. I have a feeling though, if Dak had
Speaker 2: to do it over after he watched the tape.
Speaker 4: He would take it underneath.
Speaker 2: He would hit well, he could throw it. He could
Speaker 2: have thrown it to Ferguson would have kept the clock going,
Speaker 2: or he could have taken a dagger shot at Tolbert.
Speaker 2: And I think Toberbert on the deep, on the deep,
Speaker 2: on the deep, the deep cross he's I mean, I
Speaker 2: think if that's Lamb, I think Dak throws that ball,
Speaker 2: no doubt it's Tobert Man and nothing against Toburt. I
Speaker 2: love you, bro, You're one of.
Speaker 6: The He's the one on the eight and not the
Speaker 6: eight on the eight and was like, whoa hold he
Speaker 6: saw he saw the.
Speaker 2: End cut and it was Toburt and he said, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take my chances with Cooks. And but I think
Speaker 2: if it was eighty eight on that deep end, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think Dak would have ripped it and then Ambar
Speaker 2: would have been packing her bag and like this.
Speaker 3: One's over see.
Speaker 2: I had visions it's so funny when you the tripping happened. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I had visions of us being I had visions of
Speaker 2: us being in Detroit the last time. And remember when
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford that game where Tyroed Smith got a holding
Speaker 2: call and it brought him back and they couldn't kill
Speaker 2: the clock. They get a positive day and they and
Speaker 2: it was it was detroiting what happened. It left Detroit time, yep,
Speaker 2: and Matthew Stafford and Megatron won't bump wop down the field. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it just I had that vision of like oh please,
Speaker 2: don't let this be that game again. But I think
Speaker 2: that to me, that that that I like the aggressiveness.
Speaker 2: But I agree with you, I'm about I don't. After
Speaker 2: the interception, I'm sure the defense is thinking, we don't
Speaker 2: have to go back out right, We're not going off
Speaker 2: this game. We are not going back out there. And
Speaker 2: if we're going back out there, there's going to be
Speaker 2: twenty seconds left. Okay, fine, we'll play with twenty seconds left.
Speaker 2: They weren't thinking once they got that interception that they
Speaker 2: were going to have to defend for a minute forty
Speaker 2: There's no way in hell they thought that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But yeah, to me, it felt rush once the
Speaker 7: offense got in there, it just felt like rush. I'm like,
Speaker 7: this is the time where you just okay, it's you're
Speaker 7: the one taking control of the game at that point,
Speaker 7: and it just felt like all the plays we're kind
Speaker 7: of just all right, like you're playing behind when you're
Speaker 7: the one in the lead and you can take care
Speaker 7: of business.
Speaker 9: So here's here's where I'll play Devil's advocate because I
Speaker 9: completely agree in this in the aspect of the Cowboys
Speaker 9: needed to eat up more time, need to eat it
Speaker 9: more time, don't give them a minute. Forty us just
Speaker 9: don't do it right, especially in a game that's this close,
Speaker 9: and you just figure that maybe Laporte is going to
Speaker 9: get his sooner or later. But I think that would
Speaker 9: have to require two things. Number one, just run the
Speaker 9: clock down closer to zero before you snap the ball,
Speaker 9: even if it's a plass play, so that that has
Speaker 9: to happen, period.
Speaker 3: But you don't have.
Speaker 9: Confidence in your in your run game, in the in
Speaker 9: that in that contest, you just don't Tony Pollard.
Speaker 3: I will say this, for as much as we've we've had.
Speaker 9: Concern so long, for as much as we've had concerns
Speaker 9: about the Cowboys rushing attack, rightfully so, because first it
Speaker 9: was offensive line juggling, and then you know, then it
Speaker 9: was like, okay, well Pollard isn't completely Pollard yet because
Speaker 9: he's coming off the injury. Now you get Tyrone Smith,
Speaker 9: he's back for seven consecutive games, Pollard starts to look
Speaker 9: more prime Pollard.
Speaker 3: It started to make progress, but the.
Speaker 9: Parlor I saw against the Lions was the worst version
Speaker 9: of Pollard that I've seen in a long time.
Speaker 3: His vision was not there at all.
Speaker 9: So this was I charted him even before Tyler Smith
Speaker 9: left the game.
Speaker 3: Pollard was not getting traction.
Speaker 9: He wasn't getting traction right side, left end, right tackle,
Speaker 9: left tack, I mean right guard, left guard. He just
Speaker 9: was not getting traction. He didn't get a positive play.
Speaker 9: Let me pull it this chart here. He didn't get
Speaker 9: his first positive play until the fourth Cowboys offensive drive,
Speaker 9: which was a handoff for game of five before then,
Speaker 9: first drive loss of two yards, second drive handoff right
Speaker 9: loss of three yards, third drive right flat screen loss
Speaker 9: of five yards. The third drive two plays later, third
Speaker 9: and fifteen flipped the Pollard for no gain. And then
Speaker 9: you had a situation on another drive where it wasn't
Speaker 9: the drop in there somewhere This one I'm getting too.
Speaker 2: So quarter three guys, helmet almost ripped off of ye drop.
Speaker 9: Quarter three, seventh drive for the Cowboys handoff left end,
Speaker 9: loss of two next play, second and twelveth middle slant dropped.
Speaker 9: That drive ended in a punt. So he got going
Speaker 9: in the fourth drive in the fifth drive. But my
Speaker 9: point being, for the most majority of the game, including
Speaker 9: the drive that preceded the final offensive drive, the Cowboys
Speaker 9: hadn't seen anything from Tony Polter that would then tell
Speaker 9: them we can salt this game away on the ground.
Speaker 9: Because you also didn't see it from duce Vaughan, who
Speaker 9: finished with two rushing yards on the day, but Yap
Speaker 9: sent Rico Daudo as well.
Speaker 4: I understand that.
Speaker 6: My thought would be, you have other ways you can
Speaker 6: utilize the running game.
Speaker 2: Number one, say exactly, the sweep, the jet sweep is,
Speaker 2: the jet sweep is the best four minute run they got,
Speaker 2: You know you do.
Speaker 9: I just feel like after watching McCarthy who and I
Speaker 9: said this on the fan this morning, it felt McCarthy
Speaker 9: and Pollard on Saturday against the Lions felt eerily like
Speaker 9: Gallop and McCarthy in Los Angeles against the Chargers, and
Speaker 9: that this guy is having a really bad day at
Speaker 9: the office, and the play caller is just like, we're
Speaker 9: going to do whatever we can to get you going,
Speaker 9: and at a certain point you just should have and
Speaker 9: figured out another way to get it going on the ground.
Speaker 6: My thought is you could have done boots with Dak,
Speaker 6: You could have run jet sweeps, You could have some
Speaker 6: of those some of those little bubble screens that they
Speaker 6: love to throw the wide receivers. There are other things
Speaker 6: you could have done to keep the clock moving and
Speaker 6: give you some opportunities. And again I'm not saying that
Speaker 6: that I agree with you what you're saying. Holistically and
Speaker 6: in most situations, I'm like, I prefer the more aggressive approach.
Speaker 6: I love that about Dan Campbell, Like he's like, I'm
Speaker 6: going I'm gonna win games.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try to win games.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, I think there's a smarter
Speaker 6: component to it that you have to always think about too,
Speaker 6: and where is your team and what is your team
Speaker 6: going to be as to do you put your team
Speaker 6: in a situation where your defense is played well all day,
Speaker 6: but you give the other team the ball with a
Speaker 6: minute forty You're creating a situation where it's hard for
Speaker 6: them to defend because you know the tendency is to
Speaker 6: be a little more a little less aggressive on defense
Speaker 6: because you're like, don't give up the big play, and
Speaker 6: that allows team to just drive right down the field
Speaker 6: and here you go touchdown.
Speaker 2: The biggest mistake I think did Dan camp was not
Speaker 2: going four and fourth and on the two point play.
Speaker 2: Was going forward on fourth down when it was a
Speaker 2: seventy three game. Yep, take the points. Ye don't don't
Speaker 2: don't just any time you get points if you want to,
Speaker 2: if you want to go forward in the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: and be aggressive that way, go for it when you
Speaker 2: know what the game. But him giving up those points,
Speaker 2: great job by the Cowboys playing defense down there, you know,
Speaker 2: and getting off the field.
Speaker 6: Now, I'm a segments first and goal when they started
Speaker 6: there and they held him four times.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, this was really well, all.
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Speaker 6: Welcome back to is the final segment of The Break,
Speaker 6: live from the WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. We
Speaker 6: got a few more minutes, will get real quickly to
Speaker 6: the to the Dak to Dak Prescott. In this game,
Speaker 6: he was twenty six of thirty eight sixty eight percent completions,
Speaker 6: three hundred and forty five yards, two touchdowns, one interception,
Speaker 6: a one O three point five rating.
Speaker 4: How just says his play overall, I mean.
Speaker 9: It was a step forward over the previous couple weeks,
Speaker 9: but it's still not I mean there are throws he
Speaker 9: wants back and when we see him and like I
Speaker 9: said to start the show, I think it was an
Speaker 9: MVP performance as far as was resilience goes, but I'm
Speaker 9: still looking for four quarters of consistencies.
Speaker 3: You know, something that we.
Speaker 9: Saw in that that sequence of wins that followed the
Speaker 9: loss in Philadelphia midway through the season, where you saw
Speaker 9: Dak Prescott was just absolutely on fire and he was
Speaker 9: he didn't have as many throws per game that you
Speaker 9: felt that he wanted back. Brian brought up a great one.
Speaker 9: I tweeted about it in real time. If he sees Tobert,
Speaker 9: for example, in that play, that's a touchdown that probably
Speaker 9: you know, helps put the game first down right at minimum,
Speaker 9: at minimum because he also had some green in front
Speaker 9: of him as well as for some possible Yak, So
Speaker 9: I think that was it a perfect game for Dak Prescott?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. Was it a bad game?
Speaker 9: Did he do anything to really cost the team that
Speaker 9: the interception? He wants back, and I said that in
Speaker 9: real time as well. You cannot. When he's escaping to
Speaker 9: the right, you don't make that throw, especially with the
Speaker 9: dB sticky to your wide receiver like that, and that's
Speaker 9: why I ended up with the interception. But all things considered,
Speaker 9: he bounced back. He led the offense and the situation
Speaker 9: where your rushing attack was non existent and you needed
Speaker 9: to try to wield the team forward, will the offense forward.
Speaker 3: He did so.
Speaker 9: Not the prettiest outing for Dak Prescott, but when the
Speaker 9: Cowboys needed him most to step up, he and Ceedee
Speaker 9: Lamb and Brandon Cooks they did. And that's what you
Speaker 9: need from your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I felt like, you know, you look at the
Speaker 2: metrics and you watch the game the eye tests that
Speaker 2: you have, and then you study the game on tape.
Speaker 2: The numbers against man coverage were really really good. The
Speaker 2: numbers against the blitz were really really good. You know,
Speaker 2: the thing that Dak would probably like to have back
Speaker 2: is that they always talk about passes that travel more
Speaker 2: than ten yards in the air, and that's where he
Speaker 2: was five of eleven. He was f one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty four yards, but a lot of that was on
Speaker 2: the on the pass that he had to did they
Speaker 2: scored the ninety two yard pass. But I think that
Speaker 2: everything about the game though, the way he handled the pressure.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he escaped that home on the
Speaker 2: nineteen yard Yeah, it's you know in the Lions, they
Speaker 2: they you know, and I think a lot of it
Speaker 2: has to do with their teams are afraid of hitting
Speaker 2: quarterbacks nowadays. They don't wrap these quarterbacks up like they
Speaker 2: did and dak Is you've got to wrap him up.
Speaker 2: But his ability to escape keep your eyes down the field. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a top shelf and throw. Yeah, absolutely, But
Speaker 2: he handled pressure well, uh yeah, there's some throws he
Speaker 2: always gonna want to have back. And but I do
Speaker 2: wish he would have made that throw to Tolbert right
Speaker 2: there because that would have that would have killed the
Speaker 2: Lions right there. That was a that would have been
Speaker 2: a big, big play.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I agree with everything you both said to me.
Speaker 7: The one thing that did stand out was just him
Speaker 7: handling the pressure and specifically that play where he threw
Speaker 7: it to CD for that first touchdown. He was like
Speaker 7: in a crowd full of guys on him and then
Speaker 7: he just scapes and his ability to maintain his awareness
Speaker 7: of everything, still escape look for CD make that throw.
Speaker 7: Those are things that now he's I feel like mentally,
Speaker 7: like as opposed to Buffalo for example, he wasn't there
Speaker 7: mentally and just kind of now when you see him
Speaker 7: like that, and when you know the struggles that the
Speaker 7: O line is haveing health wise, and well, I'm sure
Speaker 7: we'll talk probably tomorrow about the O line and everything
Speaker 7: that's currently happening there, but yeah, we got some news there.
Speaker 7: But when that happens, you need your quarterback to be
Speaker 7: able to play that way, and it's great to see
Speaker 7: him kind of stay focused and be able to run
Speaker 7: and escape with the ball and still make throws like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think when you think about it, like, I
Speaker 6: know there were some throws he would want back, and
Speaker 6: I know that it wasn't perfect, but the amount of
Speaker 6: pressure that they're putting on Dak Prescott for this team
Speaker 6: to win, you think about it from the standpoint of
Speaker 6: thirty eight times a threw the ball. They only ran
Speaker 6: the ball twenty one times in that game. We are
Speaker 6: back to basically going into games and saying, Dak, here's
Speaker 6: the ball, go win it. And so when you do that, yeah,
Speaker 6: when you do that, it's not going to be Every
Speaker 6: pass play is not going to be perfect. What I
Speaker 6: do believe is Dak Prescott is playing the best football
Speaker 6: of his career because with all that pressure on his shoulders,
Speaker 6: he's still finding a way to get his team wins.
Speaker 6: Now again, you can say what you want about the
Speaker 6: Buffalo game. I think he didn't have a good game there.
Speaker 6: I think the Miami game he didn't play his best football.
Speaker 6: I think yesterday, I mean on Saturday night. I do
Speaker 6: think he played really good relative to what you were
Speaker 6: asking him to do, and it can't ended up being
Speaker 6: a win for you as well. He can't control the
Speaker 6: fact that ced fummels the.
Speaker 2: Ball out of the end zone.
Speaker 6: He can't control he actually can't control the fact that
Speaker 6: the defense on that last drive ends up in a
Speaker 6: situation where they allow them to drive down. What he
Speaker 6: did was he drove his team down to put them
Speaker 6: in position to win, and he got the points that
Speaker 6: they needed to get and so I look at that
Speaker 6: and I think Dak played a really good game, especially
Speaker 6: for what he's being asked to do, and I think
Speaker 6: he's playing some of the best.
Speaker 3: Football of his career MVP caliber.
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Speaker 2: We are back.
Speaker 3: We got one quick headline. Yepes we can report it now,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 9: So, speaking of the offensive line, a little bit of
Speaker 9: a reunion possibly in the works. Cowboys are working out
Speaker 9: today former Cowboys offensive lineman Lywell Collins. He's back in
Speaker 9: the building today and if that physical looks good, then
Speaker 9: we might see a reunion there. And they're also going
Speaker 9: to work out and more reunion Damian Wilson former Cowboys
Speaker 9: linebacker Damian Wilson, who then spent time with the Kansas
Speaker 9: City Chiefs. So depth at linebacker with the decision to
Speaker 9: part ways with Rashaun Evans. So there you go, two
Speaker 9: possible reunions.
Speaker 3: For the Cowboys.
Speaker 9: And then when it comes to Lyell Collins, I know
Speaker 9: Brian and I were talking about it before the show
Speaker 9: went on. It looks like it would be for tackle
Speaker 9: and not guard. So for those that are wondering if
Speaker 9: this is a Tyler Smith indication that it is not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a tackle deal. Yeah all the way.
Speaker 4: How long has Damien Wilson been out of football?
Speaker 12: Is it?
Speaker 4: What do you play last year?
Speaker 2: Man? You're I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I shouldn't have asked the question for Jacksonville last year
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 4: So he did play last year, he just hasn't been
Speaker 4: on a roster this year.
Speaker 3: Correct, Okay, got it.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 9: Jacksonville twenty one Carolina and twenty two five starts for Carolina,
Speaker 9: two sas thirty eight tackles so rotational, but.
Speaker 6: The fact is he's played, so you get him in there.
Speaker 6: It can't be worse than what.
Speaker 8: Hey, beggars, cannot be Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Practice is a salt team cracker for the starving person.
Speaker 2: You practice squad way.
Speaker 4: All right, beg you guys for joys. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Wisdon start getting ready for Cowboys versus Commanders. This will
Speaker 6: be a huge game for the Cowboys. We'll start breaking
Speaker 6: that down tomorrow. Till then for Patrick Walker, Brian brought
Speaker 6: us in Ambergarci. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been the
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