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Speaker 1: Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December tenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number ninety three. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the
Speaker 1: start and to day, we get to talk about the
Speaker 1: thrilling Cowboys victory over the Philadelphia Eagles twenty nine twenty
Speaker 1: three in overtime, a game that, as Dave told us
Speaker 1: last week, puts the Cowboys right in position to be
Speaker 1: what ninety eight percent to make the playoffs. Combined with
Speaker 1: a Redskins loss yesterday, it's like ninety ninety nine. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it looks like they're gonna win the division after starting
Speaker 1: these season three and five, to now be at eight
Speaker 1: and five. You said, well, it's December tenth. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: lost to the Titans on November the fifth, which means
Speaker 1: we did a show on November the sixth, so thirty four,
Speaker 1: thirty five days ago, and I'm sure at that point
Speaker 1: Ambrose like they're dead in the way. Oh, we definitely
Speaker 1: didn't say that. It was just Amber like obviously got
Speaker 1: the Bryce. I knew it all on. I knew that
Speaker 1: this the optimist on this show. Of course, I knew
Speaker 1: the single most amazing turnaround in team history would happen. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's what Garrett does. What he finds a way to
Speaker 1: turn it around. Yet you right there where he needs
Speaker 1: to be. Garrett had never had never been in the
Speaker 1: position he was in back then, and he definitely never
Speaker 1: done what he's doing right now. No, Yeah, absolutely different story.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the result itself of getting you right
Speaker 1: to the playoffs every other year, man, every even year. Nick,
Speaker 1: tell me, give me a big picture coming out of
Speaker 1: yesterday's game. There was so much that happened in a
Speaker 1: game like that, a lot of shifts. Cot was at
Speaker 1: so many opportunities, they were dominant defense. What was your
Speaker 1: big picture thing that you left that game with, Dak.
Speaker 1: You know, typically I get an opportunity to write a column,
Speaker 1: and that's that's all that I kept thinking of, was
Speaker 1: just Dak Prescott and the fact that he was playing poorly.
Speaker 1: I mean that this team had a chance to kind
Speaker 1: of put the Eagles away. They were out playing them,
Speaker 1: They're moving the ball, but they just weren't getting it done.
Speaker 1: He was missing some throats. He kind of got the
Speaker 1: Eagles back in the game. And but I kind of said,
Speaker 1: and I even said that to you, that you know,
Speaker 1: this is just Dak to go down the field and
Speaker 1: drive him to win the game. I didn't think he
Speaker 1: was going to do it three times. I didn't think
Speaker 1: he had to do it three times. But as Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett said, I think Garrett lost character a little bit
Speaker 1: in the press conference and said that guy we got
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, he's a tough son of a bitch, And
Speaker 1: that's not typically what Garrett would do in a press conference.
Speaker 1: There's the only way to say it. And that's that's
Speaker 1: my thought. He's not Troy when he's not Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: He's Dak. It's what you got and it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Sometimes what's your I mean, it's just again, it's it's
Speaker 1: just amazing to see what this team has been capable
Speaker 1: of in the past five weeks since the changes that
Speaker 1: they made in the old line. Amari Cooper, all that
Speaker 1: combined yesterday, I mean we were talking Year and I
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know what, maybe they don't
Speaker 1: get this way. You know, you start getting nervous and
Speaker 1: it's like, crap, maybe this is kind of it. But no,
Speaker 1: they figure out to make it happen. And wow, Amary Cooper,
Speaker 1: I'm just amazed by the things that he can do
Speaker 1: and how well he's playing along with Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: how that has completely changed the offense and how they're
Speaker 1: able to move Now. One of the things is the
Speaker 1: red zone. I'm still pretty upset at that. We will
Speaker 1: get but we'll get to it. But just overall, Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper combined with Dak, combined with Seek and Dave, you
Speaker 1: started the show shaking your head. No, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was because you're just in disbelief at where
Speaker 1: we are and still hell yeah, I mean disbelief. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah. No. My main takeaway is all the fun
Speaker 1: things we can do with have yourself a Marie little
Speaker 1: Christmas like that's coming out now. That's my main takeaway.
Speaker 1: That's all I care about. No, I'm kidding, um uh,
Speaker 1: that game just encapsulates, uh, the absurdity and the greatness
Speaker 1: of football. Really, it's like, I mean, it was, it
Speaker 1: was an awful game. Like, let's call it what it was.
Speaker 1: It was crap for three quarters, okay, yeah, hell yeah
Speaker 1: six six nothing lead, Like you're zipping up and down
Speaker 1: the field, you're not scoring points. Dak, Dak was awful.
Speaker 1: Dak was playing the worst game of his life up
Speaker 1: until the fourth quarter. Really, um, the you know, it
Speaker 1: was ugly, Like literally, I was thinking about all the
Speaker 1: people who aren't NFC East fans who were had to
Speaker 1: be subjected to America's Game of the week and and
Speaker 1: it turned into must see, riveting, amazing, tell I mean,
Speaker 1: I think everybody. And that was the anticipation of all
Speaker 1: of that is that you knew at some point this
Speaker 1: thing was going to exploit. But that's that's what makes
Speaker 1: it so great, is like football really is the ultimate
Speaker 1: team game. Like it really is like you know, a
Speaker 1: switch flips and all of a sudden, Dak is nails
Speaker 1: and Amari Cooper looks like he's worth three first round picks.
Speaker 1: And then quietly, the defense does not look like the
Speaker 1: unit that carried them to this point. You know, they
Speaker 1: I mean, the Eagles were moving the ball at will
Speaker 1: on them by the end of the game. And you know,
Speaker 1: as they carried the slack in the first three quarters,
Speaker 1: Dak picks up the slack for them the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. It just, uh, just absolutely crazy and fantastic.
Speaker 1: And I agree with Nick like it's uh, there's so
Speaker 1: much about Dak Prescott that you can't quantify on a
Speaker 1: stat sheet. And I think you saw that, Yes, you
Speaker 1: gave the ball three times, gave it to the Eagles
Speaker 1: three times, and still able to make a comeback. It
Speaker 1: was going to be the worst game of his career
Speaker 1: until the fourth quarter. Like, there's just no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: That's we taught you know the twenty nine twenty three,
Speaker 1: Which that's another thing that it's eerie how similar that
Speaker 1: game was to the twenty sixteen one. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about it on Twitter NonStop. But we criticized Dak for
Speaker 1: playing poorly in that game, and he only turned it
Speaker 1: over once. He turned over three times yesterday, almost four
Speaker 1: would have been a fourth. You're absolutely right, And for
Speaker 1: him to pull that thing out of the fire and
Speaker 1: for his teammates to have the confidence that he would
Speaker 1: like I don't know. I you know, there's like an
Speaker 1: argument about whether clutch is a real thing in sports,
Speaker 1: kind of like momentum, Like I don't have a definitive
Speaker 1: answer to that, but Dak has it, and that's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's been a component of his story since he got here,
Speaker 1: but he just kind of emphasized that last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at his numbers yesterday. He was forty two
Speaker 1: to fifty four, seventy eight percent completion percentage, four and
Speaker 1: fifty five yards, three touchdowns, two interception, one hundred and
Speaker 1: four point nine passer rating. But the most remarkable part
Speaker 1: of that, and this was floating around the internet last
Speaker 1: night I'm sorry at Twitter last night, was if you
Speaker 1: look at just what he did in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and overtime, that's where the remarkable nature of his play
Speaker 1: yesterday came. It was seventeen of twenty, eighty five percent
Speaker 1: completion rate, two hundred and forty three yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interceptions, one hundred and fifty six point one quarterback rating.
Speaker 1: That's in the fourth quarter and in overtime, the time
Speaker 1: of the game when you really need your quarterback to
Speaker 1: do big things, and he showed up in a huge way.
Speaker 1: And no short I mean, no, no lack of giving
Speaker 1: credit here to Amari Cooper because a lot of what
Speaker 1: happened for him was because of Amari Cooper making great
Speaker 1: plays with the ball once he had in his hands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's something to be said for that. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously a couple of that is just Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper being a freak. But the throws still had to
Speaker 1: be there, the drives still had to be engineered, and
Speaker 1: what that's another you know, I'm just reciting things off
Speaker 1: of Twitter right now, but it's crappy defense right there
Speaker 1: by forty one, I don't even know he wasn't even
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the guy again. Their secondaries really
Speaker 1: beat up, and it was kind of shocking to me
Speaker 1: that in that situation where Amari Cooper is out there,
Speaker 1: it's in the crunch time of the game, that they
Speaker 1: would get this guy lined up, that the Eagles would
Speaker 1: call a defense where he's in man coverage on the
Speaker 1: outside without safety help. That was pretty That was just,
Speaker 1: pretty much, in my opinion, a bad defensive call by
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and the Cowboys made him pay. Stat guy
Speaker 1: I love to follow on Twitter by the name of
Speaker 1: Scott Kadzmar. He's a Pro Football Writers Association member and
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders writer. Dak is thirteen and nine in game
Speaker 1: winning drive opportunities since coming into the league. He's got
Speaker 1: an eighty three point one quarterback rating in those situations,
Speaker 1: which is the highest in the NFL since two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. Impressive, dude. I mean he's nails and that
Speaker 1: it's fascinating because you can go back and forth all day,
Speaker 1: like he was really bad leading up to that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: He has his flaws. He's not all that accurate compared
Speaker 1: to other NFL quarter backs. He's left plenty of throws
Speaker 1: out there, including yesterday he missed Michael Gallup again on
Speaker 1: what could have been a huge play. When the game's
Speaker 1: on the line, the dude delivers, and maybe even more
Speaker 1: importantly than that, like everybody in this organization trusts that
Speaker 1: he will too. Like he's like I said, he's got
Speaker 1: that it factor. There's no denying it. You wrote an
Speaker 1: article last night, as you mentioned about him. Are you
Speaker 1: at all concerned though I know you talked about this
Speaker 1: is what Dak isn't, but are you at all concerned
Speaker 1: about what you saw in the first three quarters? As
Speaker 1: you move forward knowing that you know, yeah, he might
Speaker 1: get it together, but if you're playing a better team,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have a chance to get it together
Speaker 1: to be able to win a game like without at
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to be concerned. I mean, if
Speaker 1: the Saints would have kind of figured things out like
Speaker 1: the Eagles did on that defense, they probably would have
Speaker 1: won the game. Because Dak never really did figure it
Speaker 1: out in that game. So you know, every game is
Speaker 1: a little bit different. You're gonna lose like that, and
Speaker 1: I even wrote that you're gonna lose with him playing
Speaker 1: that way, and and you have to kind of take
Speaker 1: that chance. But like Dave said, when he gets to
Speaker 1: that point in the game, the defense allows him to
Speaker 1: be that kind of quarterback right now. The defense will
Speaker 1: help him. But yeah, I mean the fans that are
Speaker 1: upset with him and they think he has bad throws
Speaker 1: and all that, and he misses some open guys. He does.
Speaker 1: He's not a accurate quarterback all the time, but he's
Speaker 1: got those those measurables that you just can't quantify sometimes
Speaker 1: and he knows how to get it done. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that helps him as well is when you
Speaker 1: look at him, Mark Cooper. I think the best part
Speaker 1: of his game. Oh, I shouldn't say the best part.
Speaker 1: One of the great things about his game is his
Speaker 1: ability to move the chains. He look at yesterday or
Speaker 1: four times on third down they went to him, three
Speaker 1: or those four got converted. He is a chain moving
Speaker 1: wide receiver and I'm sorry, no, I'm sorry no. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's a real value not only for him,
Speaker 1: but it also helps Dak Prescott when you have a
Speaker 1: receiver who has such precise routes and gives you a
Speaker 1: great opportunity on third down to get an open receiver
Speaker 1: that he can get the ball in his hands. And
Speaker 1: by the way, there's time he'll turn that short route
Speaker 1: that wrote this is just the first down that's touchdown.
Speaker 1: That gives you the complete wide receiver. And that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing from him. That's what I was about to say.
Speaker 1: When you look at them, I think he's got four
Speaker 1: big plays here for touchdowns the last a couple of games.
Speaker 1: Three games he had obviously the seventy five and the
Speaker 1: ninety and then the forty yard and then this one
Speaker 1: was what was that one was the only one where
Speaker 1: he kind of just ran by deep. The other three
Speaker 1: are like short to to you know, mid range, and
Speaker 1: then he does rest. I mean it was kind of
Speaker 1: a deep throw. The seventy five was deep, but then
Speaker 1: he did the other half himself, because you can't understate that.
Speaker 1: With how bad this team is in the red zone too.
Speaker 1: He scored out four of his six touchdowns from outside
Speaker 1: the red zone. I think your tweet was really important
Speaker 1: that you said in the middle of the game. Now,
Speaker 1: they did get good play from the tight end, but
Speaker 1: when they get down in that red zone, I think
Speaker 1: that's what they're missing. Get in the red zone way behind.
Speaker 1: They're missing a tight end that is capable of to say,
Speaker 1: all right, if you want to play this way, this
Speaker 1: tight end will block and we'll move it. Or you
Speaker 1: want to play it this way, this tight end will
Speaker 1: get The Cowboys don't have that. I wasn't impressed last
Speaker 1: night though. He targeted a tight end eleven times, and
Speaker 1: out of the eleven times, everybody caught the ball. Blake
Speaker 1: jarwin Rico was backwards, but that's okay, Hey he's still yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still caught it. It was one player. Everybody. Everybody
Speaker 1: was eleven eleven. Yeah, Jar was seven h seven for
Speaker 1: fifty six yards. Shelves was three or three for thirty
Speaker 1: seven and then Rico was one of one for ned
Speaker 1: was by far their best game. He caught it. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: And I mean I thought Jarwin made one of the
Speaker 1: underrated players of the whole night with you know, the
Speaker 1: spinning adjustment to the ball that Dack threw behind him.
Speaker 1: U was, that's another pass by Dakwards Like it's easy
Speaker 1: and you threw it too hard kind him. But he
Speaker 1: still made. He made. He was bad until the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: There's no way. I mean, the Jarwin ball um, the
Speaker 1: set the pick to Gallop, the pick that he threw
Speaker 1: that set up the Eagles touchdown was just this. You
Speaker 1: can't miss like that Carolina, This is Carolina. You know
Speaker 1: he was playing poorly, but but the difference is is
Speaker 1: you know, Carolina had scored just enough that you know
Speaker 1: he couldn't bring him back in time. But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: playing that way is gonna get you beat. But you
Speaker 1: know one thing I will say on those when you're
Speaker 1: getting those goal to go type situations. Yesterday was a
Speaker 1: good example of it. When the Cowboys were first and
Speaker 1: goal at the five, they did exactly that Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: did exactly what Lenahan says that they're seeing, which is
Speaker 1: they put eight men in the box and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: spread them out. They had three wide, they still put
Speaker 1: eight men in the box, and they manned up on
Speaker 1: all three of those guys. And when you see that,
Speaker 1: the natural inclination is basically this team is daring you
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. And I'm starting to get to
Speaker 1: a point where I'm like, Okay, I get it. So
Speaker 1: if you want to say that we just it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense to run in that situation, He's probably right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. So here's the thing. You got
Speaker 1: one or two options. If you can figure out how
Speaker 1: to run against an eight man box, or you better
Speaker 1: be better passing the ball. And if you got man
Speaker 1: coverage on all three of those guys on the outside
Speaker 1: and you can't managed to get touchdowns at a better
Speaker 1: percentage in there doing right now, that's the problem. You
Speaker 1: need to figure out how to pass better in those situations.
Speaker 1: I tell you, did you see the Bears last night
Speaker 1: when they get down in there. Do you see that
Speaker 1: package where they had four defensive players on the field
Speaker 1: and then they threw it to alignment. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been saying it all year. You need to get some
Speaker 1: beef in there. You need to get an Antoine Woods
Speaker 1: or maybe a Fleming or a Connor Williams or whatever.
Speaker 1: You need to get bigger guys. Ola Walli's not that
Speaker 1: type of fullback. They need that kind of stuff. If
Speaker 1: you want to go eight man, we'll take our guys.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't work with your tight ends because your
Speaker 1: tight ends are light and ass they're not big. They're
Speaker 1: not big tight ends. They don't push people off the ball.
Speaker 1: So you need big, fat guys that can push people
Speaker 1: off the ball. And they figured out in the rest
Speaker 1: of the part of field when they spread it out.
Speaker 1: Now teams are basically backing off. You're not seeing that
Speaker 1: safety down in the box nearly as much when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys spread it out when they're in you know, twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty. But when they get down the red zone,
Speaker 1: they figure out that's the way to do it. So
Speaker 1: maybe going wide at that point is not the best thing,
Speaker 1: like you said, maybe it is scrunching in there. Get
Speaker 1: your best, your biggest guys on the field, and then
Speaker 1: you got all these different areas where you feel like
Speaker 1: you can find your running back and find a hole
Speaker 1: and be able to maybe Tavon can help her if
Speaker 1: he comes. That's a really good point. It helps a lot.
Speaker 1: It's hindsight's twenty twenty. It's it's always going to be.
Speaker 1: It will be the age old debate, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, we'll say, why aren't you running the ball?
Speaker 1: And they'll say the look is terrible for running the ball.
Speaker 1: And at this point, we've seen him try to outsmart
Speaker 1: everybody weekend and week out and it hasn't ever worked.
Speaker 1: It's at no point this season hasn't really worked on it.
Speaker 1: How many times have they scored the up until this
Speaker 1: point of the season when they're in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Do you know I wish you wouldn't put me on
Speaker 1: the spot like this was on a Monday morning. Their
Speaker 1: last the red zone, their best touchdown percentage, Yeah, in
Speaker 1: gold to ghost situations or in red zone, yeah, it
Speaker 1: would have to be red zone. Yeah. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that gold to ghost situation. But that's where that's why
Speaker 1: they really struggles. Say anything. To finish off my point,
Speaker 1: it's just like just try, Why not just try? Man?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know your offensive line is hurt. It's
Speaker 1: not the offensive line you thought you'd have at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. They're still pretty good from what
Speaker 1: I hear every single week. The runner matters, and so
Speaker 1: give him a chance because it can't be any worse
Speaker 1: than not connecting on any of these passes. So I
Speaker 1: would at least try it. I feel like if they
Speaker 1: tried it more on first down. You know, we said
Speaker 1: it in one of the plays. On first down, they
Speaker 1: threw it to Beasley, which he's never going to be
Speaker 1: opened on that one. He's not going to go up
Speaker 1: and get it, So I don't I didn't like that
Speaker 1: call at all. And then on second down they got
Speaker 1: two yards and then third down the hand. But on
Speaker 1: first down, if you can get one to two yards
Speaker 1: and then you're just kind of slowly inching it to
Speaker 1: the point where you might be a four down territory
Speaker 1: if you can get down inside that one on fourth
Speaker 1: down if not scoring before that. So I just feel
Speaker 1: like they need to do a much better job. And
Speaker 1: I agree with Dave. You know, let zee he's the
Speaker 1: guy that got you down there for the most part.
Speaker 1: Let's let's figure it out. Let's see if they can
Speaker 1: stop him. Play was that where I can't remember where
Speaker 1: Zeke ran in and he had like six guys on
Speaker 1: him and he's still got like three yards. You'll remember
Speaker 1: it was one specific player last night, yes, yes, well yeah,
Speaker 1: My point is, yeah, he can push. He can push.
Speaker 1: He can get one at least one, but even three
Speaker 1: yards even if he has like five guys on top
Speaker 1: of him he has. It's crazy the strength he can
Speaker 1: push it in and move the chains up and get
Speaker 1: you a touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, the Cowboys just gonna have to figure
Speaker 1: out something, whatever it is. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I don't care whether they run the ball or pass
Speaker 1: the ball. Whatever they're gonna do, they better be getting
Speaker 1: better at it because right now they can't sustain getting
Speaker 1: in the red zone with the regularity that they are
Speaker 1: because they're maintaining the ball at forty five minutes of
Speaker 1: time of possession yesterday. That's amazing plays right stuff, and
Speaker 1: not have the points to show for it. They can't
Speaker 1: sustain that when they're playing up against good teams, especially
Speaker 1: when they get into the playoffs. And so I really
Speaker 1: I love everything they did yesterday. I love the game plan.
Speaker 1: They just got to figure out the red zone. If
Speaker 1: they figure that out. They are gonna be extremely deadly
Speaker 1: when it comes time to play in the playoffs. All
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: showed up again yesterday, played a monstrous game. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: second of the break line from the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: studios at the Star talking to Cowboys win over Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles twenty nine, twenty three in overtime. They did not choke.
Speaker 1: They managed to get the win there and it was
Speaker 1: a sweet win for not true, huh, not true? I
Speaker 1: think I think they did. And that's exactly what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys did. Nope, Nope they did. Nope. When nope, joke
Speaker 1: means you lose. You can't choke and win. That choke
Speaker 1: means you lose. It's sure, go ahead, okay. That choke
Speaker 1: means you lose, right well, choke means you lose. The
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence said, he gets overtime, you get the ball.
Speaker 1: He choked their ass out, and you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: give them a chance to do anything. So the Eagles
Speaker 1: were down, they got the ball, they choked out the game.
Speaker 1: Oh you're trying to fly, see what you I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they did. He said, the guy what's his name,
Speaker 1: what's his name? Commu Gruiser here. I heard it for
Speaker 1: fourteen different ways yesterday, So I'm a little confused. That
Speaker 1: guy played his ass off. Though he gave him credit
Speaker 1: for that. He did come out firing better. But he said,
Speaker 1: we know the Cowboys, they'll choke. And you know, there
Speaker 1: was a point in the game wherever they was like
Speaker 1: they gonna check this game. But oh, you know when
Speaker 1: they scored there before overtime to go to overtime, you
Speaker 1: know they were saying, see, we got him, We got
Speaker 1: him right where we wanted. Cowboy, I mean, unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna talk a little bit about that drive,
Speaker 1: but I don't know really who that guy on the
Speaker 1: sideline was with the headset and the red hair, I
Speaker 1: don't really know who he was. Yesterday was a different guy,
Speaker 1: and press press conference was different. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: There was an aggressive side of Garrett that were not
Speaker 1: used to sing, liked it, and they're on the fourth
Speaker 1: down in overtime when he decides we're gonna go for it.
Speaker 1: They were fourth and one. They were at the Philadelphia nineteen,
Speaker 1: mind you, on third and one, they tried to run
Speaker 1: it and got nothing. So for him to go right
Speaker 1: back at it and say we're going again, We're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball and again, not try to trick it up. No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna go right back. We're gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball, we're gonna get this first down, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep this drive moving, we're gonna go for the win.
Speaker 1: Right And to me, that was that was not what
Speaker 1: we typically ascribe to Jason Garrett. If anything, he plays
Speaker 1: the percentages, and the percentage is say, in that situation,
Speaker 1: kick your field goal, let your good defense, you're really
Speaker 1: good defense, make a stop and win the ball game.
Speaker 1: We have best think kudos to Jason Garrett for understanding,
Speaker 1: you know, the ebbs and flows of a game, which
Speaker 1: is something that he talked about in the press conferences.
Speaker 1: Defense has been outstanding all season long. They're a big
Speaker 1: part of the reason why the team's eight and five.
Speaker 1: They were not outstanding down the home stretch of that game.
Speaker 1: They let the Eagles do whatever they wanted the last
Speaker 1: two or three possessions they're I mean, who the hell knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you make a play, but it doesn't didn't
Speaker 1: seem smart to try to kick a field goal and
Speaker 1: put them back out there and give a quarterback who
Speaker 1: who could have won NFL MVP last year a chance
Speaker 1: to walk off and beat you on your home field.
Speaker 1: I thought it was great. Uh, you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about it. He talked about it too. Somebody in the
Speaker 1: press conference brought up the Houston game and how that factored,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he made the very what do
Speaker 1: you say, it was a little he was a little testy,
Speaker 1: he was he was a different He was a different
Speaker 1: guy last night. I don't have the quote in front
Speaker 1: of me, but it was basically, you know, you know
Speaker 1: those analytics guys who make every decision in a vacuum,
Speaker 1: you know, they have to understand the flow and feel
Speaker 1: of a game, and you know, we we forced Houston
Speaker 1: to punt seven times in the second half of that game.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to trust the guys that are actually
Speaker 1: there and have actually played the game. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he said, you know, the coaches who are part of
Speaker 1: the game make the decisions, and the men on the
Speaker 1: field execute the plays or something kind of not so
Speaker 1: subtly in innuating like you math nerds can go back
Speaker 1: to your classroom, which, for the record, I don't agree
Speaker 1: with him. Analytics are very important in my opinion, but
Speaker 1: it so maybe he's not saying they're not important, but
Speaker 1: he's saying that they're not everything. They're not. That's the
Speaker 1: point that everything and they are important in the course
Speaker 1: of a game. And he even said, he goes, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to compare games, but I believe we stopped
Speaker 1: the Texans nine times in a row and we weren't
Speaker 1: blocking him very well that day, and we just had
Speaker 1: gotten stopped and it just was different. It felt like
Speaker 1: we needed to punt the ball and put it on
Speaker 1: our defense. In this game, he said, we had the
Speaker 1: ball for forty five minutes, we were driving on him,
Speaker 1: we were wearing him down, and we felt like we
Speaker 1: had a better chance to get it. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you do look at analytic especially in the
Speaker 1: middle of a game, you know, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to have the stats in front of you just kind
Speaker 1: of can watch the game and go, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: you know, do we have a play that that can
Speaker 1: work to get it and in both cases, you know,
Speaker 1: it was fourth and two. Really, in the Houston game,
Speaker 1: this wasn't this was a long one. This wasn't inches.
Speaker 1: This was fourth and a little bit more than one.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Zeke got it at first. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think the blocking gave it to him. I
Speaker 1: think he was kind of hit and he had to
Speaker 1: make a move. It would put the ball out, very
Speaker 1: reminiscent of a similar situation against the Packers last year.
Speaker 1: He didn't, he did not have it, and he stuck
Speaker 1: his hand over and got the line of game. Great
Speaker 1: play by him. The runner does matter, clearly, that's the
Speaker 1: type of play that we're talking about, though, that type
Speaker 1: of play of like down at the goal line, give
Speaker 1: him a shot, Yeah, I take my show. Yes, if
Speaker 1: you want to go back to that, Yes, Like he
Speaker 1: you drafted him fourth overall, have faith that even when
Speaker 1: the defense is gearing up to stop him, he can
Speaker 1: still get it done. Like it's troubling that they have
Speaker 1: no faith in him to do that in the red zone. Regardless,
Speaker 1: it was in my opinion, the only decision and therefore
Speaker 1: the right decision, and it obviously worked. I wouldn't I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have killed him if it hadn't worked, because I
Speaker 1: think you gotta get You know, you ran ninety eight plays,
Speaker 1: your offense had played well between the twenties. You don't
Speaker 1: want to put that on your defense. With the way
Speaker 1: Carson went was kind of grooving at the end of
Speaker 1: that game, I thought it was great. You know, if
Speaker 1: they have been done doing that this whole time, giving
Speaker 1: it to seek, then you can trick the defenses even
Speaker 1: more into whenever you decide to throw a pass, and
Speaker 1: maybe you become more successful at actually getting someone the ball.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I keep thinking about freaking red zone.
Speaker 1: I'm just upset. I was so upset. I was so
Speaker 1: upset last night and I started game well no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no no. During during the game, after the game,
Speaker 1: I was just shaking. I was feeling sick for real,
Speaker 1: Like that game made me feel some type of way
Speaker 1: and it was not good. But at the end, yes,
Speaker 1: it was good. My point is, and I'm seeing questions
Speaker 1: here on Twitter, people asking about the kicker. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna get into that there, yes, uh,
Speaker 1: well okay, I'll let you get there then go ahead.
Speaker 1: Actually right, no, starting to talk about concerns about the kicker,
Speaker 1: are you still concerned? And me personally, and I take
Speaker 1: this topic very serious because I'm a kicker person, and
Speaker 1: what is a kicker person? Never mind, I'm pro kicker.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like blaming the kicker when you
Speaker 1: have bigger concerns. You got it, that being said, going
Speaker 1: back to the red zones and actually scoring six points
Speaker 1: and all that. But after you see brand Mohurt miss
Speaker 1: a field goal? Why from what yard? Was a forty seven?
Speaker 1: And then he makes a sixty two yarder? Does this
Speaker 1: still give you concerns or are you still okay with
Speaker 1: just keep moving with him? Both? I mean both, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm okay going with him, and I'm still have concerns.
Speaker 1: I mean the sixty two yards there's only a very
Speaker 1: small percentage of times where that's even an acceptable kick
Speaker 1: to even attempt. It has to be at the end
Speaker 1: of the half or a game like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: forty seven yards, I mean you look at the kick.
Speaker 1: I mean, was you know I put that play? I
Speaker 1: put that on Tyrand Smith. I thought Tyrmand Smith actually
Speaker 1: cost him three points. I haven't said that very often
Speaker 1: in his career. But it already did there. He had
Speaker 1: a couple of bad penalties and blocks, and that's the
Speaker 1: difference in that kick, I think. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: missed it by a little bit. If you look around
Speaker 1: the league, look at the Eagles guy, it happens. There's
Speaker 1: just not many steadies this point, you're not really considering
Speaker 1: changing the kicker. At the risk of sounding like Mickey
Speaker 1: who who's unemployer? Who's unemployed? That's a definitive upgrade. That's
Speaker 1: the hard part at that, Like, if you're making that change,
Speaker 1: then it's just knee jerk. I'm mad because I want
Speaker 1: to be mad, bs like, and that's I think. Brett
Speaker 1: Maher is like the perfect encapsulate. He's the perfect kicker
Speaker 1: for this team, honestly because he can be maddeningly inconsistent
Speaker 1: and then he can do something absolutely nuts and wonderful
Speaker 1: like hit a sixty two yard kick. He's both. This
Speaker 1: team is both. They're capable of being three and five,
Speaker 1: they're capable of being on the cusp of winning the
Speaker 1: division at eight and five. Like, it's it's just I
Speaker 1: think perfect kicker. For a very wacky season, Bailey had
Speaker 1: seven or eight game winning field goals. In his career
Speaker 1: seven and you know, seven plus years. It sounds about right.
Speaker 1: MAHA's got two. I mean it's got two this year.
Speaker 1: He's made the two opportunities that he's had and and
Speaker 1: of course he's you know, he set the record obviously
Speaker 1: for that's the ninth longest field goal, you know, in
Speaker 1: the history of the league. So that and that gives
Speaker 1: you something that other guys don't have. You don't there's
Speaker 1: some kickers that you don't have the ability to even
Speaker 1: do that. I absolutely do not have the peace of
Speaker 1: mind like peak Dan Bailey, like the peak of his career,
Speaker 1: if it was inside fifty five, I had this inner
Speaker 1: piece where I was like, this is going through I have.
Speaker 1: I do not have that when Maher lines up for anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm comfortable with it. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: what's better and he's played well enough that it's fine,
Speaker 1: Like it's it is what it is. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know that you're going to get better. And when they
Speaker 1: you look, certainly you look at Dan Bailey, who you
Speaker 1: had on your team, he ain't being He's not better
Speaker 1: right right now. So you did with the best you
Speaker 1: could with what you had, and you kind of keep
Speaker 1: rolling with it. And the thing I do like about
Speaker 1: him is he will allow you to make up for
Speaker 1: that forty seven yard miss with a sixty two yard
Speaker 1: make So if you can do that too, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: he could do that for me, then I feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about where I am. I don't feel great, as
Speaker 1: Dave was saying, like if if you're in a game,
Speaker 1: there used to be a time with Bailey Bailey after
Speaker 1: the touchdown if I had to go to resta room,
Speaker 1: I had to go get some water, I'd run right
Speaker 1: after that, like you know you were going to get
Speaker 1: the extra point. I don't anymore. I don't feel comfortable
Speaker 1: about anything. But once again, he gives you something as
Speaker 1: far as the range that he has, he gives you
Speaker 1: something that maybe you didn't have. And Bailey is not
Speaker 1: doing well at all in Minnesota, and that's, you know, important,
Speaker 1: because I guarantee if somebody was out there better, Zimmer
Speaker 1: would go get him, because I mean he's talked about
Speaker 1: it on the air. He doesn't trust this kicker right now.
Speaker 1: I don't think they can find a better or should he.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan's having a horrible year by his standards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, and that happens. I mean, viny Arry
Speaker 1: is just a different guy because the best of all
Speaker 1: time they fall down. I mean they vander Jack. We've
Speaker 1: seen it here in Dallas. I mean he was the
Speaker 1: best at one point. He just and that. Yes, I agree,
Speaker 1: completely agree, But I can we just talk about how
Speaker 1: insane just overall, Like I'm just thinking about it, like
Speaker 1: as one of the longest kicks in NFL histories, like
Speaker 1: a footnote in that stupid game. Yeah, I mean, he
Speaker 1: couldn't even make our top ten. We're gonna roll out
Speaker 1: later today, ten best players on the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think setting Cowboy record with the two yard or
Speaker 1: Cowboys ran ninety three total plays. They almost hit the
Speaker 1: six hundred yard mark. They had one hundred yards and penalties.
Speaker 1: They turned the ball over three times. There were four turnovers. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's what I want to One guy is doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this this guy, Yeah, he just doesn't. I
Speaker 1: just don't think he understands. I will say this though,
Speaker 1: one of those players that one of those plays, Stan
Speaker 1: the sack. I am a little bit torn on that
Speaker 1: one just because, um, from what from the way I heard,
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the game and they had
Speaker 1: the former ref talking about the player Pereira, and he
Speaker 1: mentioned he was like, well, the intent of the call
Speaker 1: is really that you don't want guys having momentum type hits.
Speaker 1: You don't want guys taking shots at guy's legs. What
Speaker 1: you are trying to encourage is wrapping up and tackling,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what he did. So even though he
Speaker 1: went at the leg, he actually grabbed the leg. He
Speaker 1: didn't hit the leg. He grabbed the leg and twisted
Speaker 1: to bring him down, which is what they're encouraging players
Speaker 1: to do. So Pereira's like, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would have called that. I think this is exactly what
Speaker 1: you're encouraging them to do. I know the letter of
Speaker 1: the law here says that you don't want them hitting low.
Speaker 1: But he didn't really hit him low. So that's why
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would call, so I would
Speaker 1: give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.
Speaker 1: The other come on, man, come on, you just gotta know.
Speaker 1: And Sday's NFL. You gotta know if the balls out,
Speaker 1: it doesn't do you any good to hit this hit
Speaker 1: a quarterback. It just doesn't Nothing good is gonna come
Speaker 1: out of it. And you know, he did get a
Speaker 1: sack earlier in the game, but you know, and and
Speaker 1: he provided some good pressure, so I mean it's good
Speaker 1: having him out there. Um, but hard. That is hard though,
Speaker 1: when he comes to hitting the quarterback and you're playing
Speaker 1: that position. I mean, that's why you're aiming to do.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, when you're just having all
Speaker 1: that rush in you and just in momentum, it's hard
Speaker 1: to manage where you're hitting them how hard when I
Speaker 1: mean it's tough, it is the job, but it's just
Speaker 1: it's a lot harder than it looks, no doubt, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all you. And they're moving too and as soon
Speaker 1: if he ducks down when you're trying to hit him
Speaker 1: mirror and your helmetship, then they don't care. To me,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing you got baseball, when you got
Speaker 1: a ball this big that's being thrown at almost one
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, that's in a particular zone, and
Speaker 1: you gotta try to hit it like it's hard. That's
Speaker 1: why it's hard to be a professional. But that's the job.
Speaker 1: That's the way it's been described to them, that's the
Speaker 1: way they've been coached at this point. So that's what
Speaker 1: they gotta do. They gotta do that or they're gonna
Speaker 1: risk getting their team appenalty that could cost him a game. Ye,
Speaker 1: Jake Elliott his twenty six yard field goal with twelve
Speaker 1: to play in the fourth to make it nine to nine.
Speaker 1: So the first forty eight minutes of this game produced
Speaker 1: eighteen points and the last twenty minutes of it produced
Speaker 1: thirty four. Right, that's amazing. I said this last night too.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, I always think I've seen the
Speaker 1: craziest game and I'm always wrong. But you know, the
Speaker 1: funny thing is, Dave, you mentioned at the beginning that
Speaker 1: this was the worst game to watch. I actually love
Speaker 1: these kind of games just because I keep anticipating what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, especially when they're good teams. I feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: something's going to happen here at some point, And certainly
Speaker 1: most of the time, it feels like there comes a
Speaker 1: point when it opens up and then it starts rolling,
Speaker 1: and then when it starts going, both team to start going.
Speaker 1: You know, you've seen this so many times in the NFL.
Speaker 1: A couple thoughts first, like the four of us and
Speaker 1: probably anybody that's listening to this different breed, like we're
Speaker 1: a different level of football fan than the average. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's just sorry, it's snabi, but it's true. And then also,
Speaker 1: you know, we cover this team, Our livelihoods are connected
Speaker 1: to this team, and if you're listening you care intimately
Speaker 1: about the team. It makes it more entertaining if you
Speaker 1: are Joe Schmo from Baltimore and the Ravens just got
Speaker 1: done losing in the Chiefs and this is the only
Speaker 1: game on that was a miserable and then you wake
Speaker 1: up like, oh wow, the game really got good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it got good and you're right, And I
Speaker 1: mean that's the way the NFL's designed. Most of these
Speaker 1: games get good at some point. Yeah. But the first
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of this game sucked. It just did.
Speaker 1: But I think the last twenty five percent more than
Speaker 1: made up for me up for it, because this became
Speaker 1: a very very good game. Let's tuck a little bit
Speaker 1: real quickly about this offensive line though. UM. Last night,
Speaker 1: although the Cowboys get to win, Zack Martin goes down. UM,
Speaker 1: And ironically, I don't know if it was the best
Speaker 1: game for Zach That sack fumble was given up by
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, which again is not something you used to
Speaker 1: seeing him him do well. Michael Bennett got around him
Speaker 1: um and then ends up with the with the sack fumble.
Speaker 1: But but what have you guys heard? I guess at
Speaker 1: this point regarding Zack's injury and the prognosis could be
Speaker 1: the line is that they don't think he has done
Speaker 1: any further structural damage to his knee. He's been dealing
Speaker 1: with an MCL sprain. I wonder about that because if
Speaker 1: you go all the way back to August, he hyper
Speaker 1: extended his knee and that loss to the Bengal or
Speaker 1: the law I don't even remember who won preseason game
Speaker 1: hyper extended it. I don't know if that is related
Speaker 1: at all to this, but he had that and that
Speaker 1: was when it first happened. Well that's I honestly, I
Speaker 1: can't say for sure that they're connected. But my point
Speaker 1: is that he has been dealing with a knee injury
Speaker 1: of some sort since August, sprained his MCL and the
Speaker 1: loss to Washington at Washington, and has had some type
Speaker 1: of aggravation to the problem pretty much every week since.
Speaker 1: But so the fact if there's no further structural damage
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're running evaluations on that, and Garrett
Speaker 1: will have some type of update today. But it's just basically,
Speaker 1: he aggravated it and it's going to keep bothering him.
Speaker 1: Probably when he was after it in twenty fourteen, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I don't know this, but he had an aunt
Speaker 1: or a cousin that said, oh, when are you gonna
Speaker 1: when he canna come play in Indianapolis. He's like, God,
Speaker 1: we won't be there until twenty eighteen. Yeah, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens then if I'm still playing or whatever twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and that's it. And here we are, twenty eighteen. This
Speaker 1: is the chance he's gonna come back to play his
Speaker 1: hometown and he's and he's banged up. He may not play,
Speaker 1: and he's they won't play in Indianapolis again for eight years,
Speaker 1: so this could be the only time that he plays there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the I mean that won't matter
Speaker 1: to Jimmuer, Britt Brown and those guys. That won't matter
Speaker 1: to that because that they got to make sure he's healthy.
Speaker 1: That's important. There's no and I remember, you know, he
Speaker 1: was the top he was a top twenty pick. He
Speaker 1: did not go to the green room. He was at
Speaker 1: his family's house in Indianapolis. That's where he decided to
Speaker 1: spend the first night of the draft, so clearly that's
Speaker 1: important to him. Also, you got a chance to clench
Speaker 1: the division and make the playoffs in your hometown for
Speaker 1: you know, it's a pretty special opportunity. Yeah, Zach again,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see what happens. Obviously, player's health is
Speaker 1: more important than anything, but he is definitely in that
Speaker 1: category of guy, much like Tyron Smith, where I will
Speaker 1: believe he's not going to play when the inactives come
Speaker 1: out and he's on the list because he's a tough mofo.
Speaker 1: How to Connor Williams performed though in his absence, I
Speaker 1: didn't see any issues really. They started scoring, so once
Speaker 1: they got Zack out of there and Connor started opening
Speaker 1: it up, I didn't see any really issues with him.
Speaker 1: I mean I honestly and not to sound as an excuse,
Speaker 1: but we saw fifteen to sixteen minutes of football and
Speaker 1: from the field at the end zone, so we didn't
Speaker 1: expect to see that much football down there. Some some
Speaker 1: key plays sack fumble there. I don't really know who
Speaker 1: was at fault there. Somebody asked me that who gave
Speaker 1: up the sack there at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: I was like everybody, I thought it sound like it
Speaker 1: was a party of that effort. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone played great. I mean, I thought Looney
Speaker 1: probably played one of his worst games. Tyren certainly had
Speaker 1: some some miscues. As far as penalty. We're concerned that
Speaker 1: you're not used to seeing him get to a filo
Speaker 1: held up. Okay, I mean I think I don't know
Speaker 1: it's I mean, yeah, I haven't watched it back. I
Speaker 1: haven't read brought us his thing. But line man Connor
Speaker 1: what I mean, Zach got hurt with a decent amount
Speaker 1: of time to play, and at the very least because
Speaker 1: we were still in the press box when app right
Speaker 1: right after the Zeke penalty when Zeke lowered his head.
Speaker 1: So Connor was in there for probably four possessions, if
Speaker 1: I had to guess, and then I think they scored
Speaker 1: on three of them. So I guard controversy gotten on here.
Speaker 1: Ehiball tests says he probably played pretty well. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break, come back, get some
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Speaker 1: need Tommy John. He's not gonna Why would they need it,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have a drop rady. Why would they
Speaker 1: need Tommy John because he's gotten as Amber? Amber got it.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I like it. All right, we're gonna jump
Speaker 1: right back in. Let's start, let's finish up this conversation
Speaker 1: on the game. On the Dallas defense, once again, a
Speaker 1: stellar performance for them. Their fourth quarter a little bit shaky,
Speaker 1: but all things considered, they play a phenomenal game. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, I do think they're in the fourth quarter particular,
Speaker 1: and later part of the fourth quarter where they gave
Speaker 1: up the two touchdowns. I think some of that was
Speaker 1: probably because they were playing a little looser, probably trying
Speaker 1: not to give up the big play, although they did
Speaker 1: end up giving up one that got called back. Horrible call,
Speaker 1: by the way, But all that be considered, what do
Speaker 1: you guys think from the standpoint of how the defense
Speaker 1: played yesterday's horrible call, the goddard play. I didn't even
Speaker 1: that was another one that happens down there. I didn't
Speaker 1: scored anyway, Yeah they did. I'm just saying, but it
Speaker 1: was a horrible call and I wonder how it would
Speaker 1: have affected the game because now instead of them having
Speaker 1: to get several more plays in order to get to
Speaker 1: the end zone, that was a quick strike. Do the
Speaker 1: Cowboys go down and score? Do they score quickly and
Speaker 1: forced give the eagle sign to come back and score? Like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that could have changed that game if
Speaker 1: that play would have held. Yeah, and this would have
Speaker 1: been in one of the five plays if they hadn't
Speaker 1: scored to play before that deep ball to Jeffrey laid
Speaker 1: out there, he pushed off on Cheeto to get the separation.
Speaker 1: Cheeto got up and was telling the ref was pushed
Speaker 1: off one of the safeties, Xavier Woods. I think the
Speaker 1: very next play was that touchdown, and so that the
Speaker 1: refs were looking, it wasn't the same reffa. It was
Speaker 1: the ref that was downfield that made the call. Yes.
Speaker 1: So sometimes when you complain for the those calls, it's
Speaker 1: not about getting that one changed, it's the next one,
Speaker 1: because they ain't gonna change it, never gonna change the call,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be looking at it. And they looked
Speaker 1: at it there. So it's you know, I always I
Speaker 1: great on a curve and it's It's funny how you know,
Speaker 1: the season can kind of change your perception because like
Speaker 1: in a vacuum, twenty three points two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two passing yards, two point four yards per carry, Like,
Speaker 1: they played great, they played a really nice game, but
Speaker 1: those you know, crunch time is what weighs in your mind,
Speaker 1: and you're like, that's probably the biggest game Buyron gave
Speaker 1: up all year on the one to Jeffrey right there
Speaker 1: at the pylon, right in front of us. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, like when when the chips were down,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had basically no problem at all. So I'm
Speaker 1: kind of weighing like, well, objectively, they played a pretty
Speaker 1: good game, but it also they did not play up
Speaker 1: to the standard that they have spoil. No and no,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right to think To think that I would
Speaker 1: be nitpicking about a defensive performance by the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: is insane because you know, you think about the game
Speaker 1: zach Ertz had last time Byron Jones helped the limit
Speaker 1: him to five catches for thirty eight yards. He was
Speaker 1: a non factor. Um, so they clearly played pretty well,
Speaker 1: but the standard has been set so high that now
Speaker 1: you're finding things to nitpick. My main impression is that
Speaker 1: I'm pissed because if they'd scored one fewer, if if
Speaker 1: they had held him to sixteen, they'd be the number
Speaker 1: one scoring defense in football right now. Because the Ravens
Speaker 1: gave up an uncharacteristically high number yesterday, and they're just
Speaker 1: they're right behind them because they gave up twenty three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, but Ambert, I think you hit the nail
Speaker 1: on here. You say it, we're spoiled, because really, if
Speaker 1: you go back a game before that to the Saints game,
Speaker 1: Remember we're on the sideline and I was talking about
Speaker 1: how you know, an elite defense has to finish, and
Speaker 1: what did they do? They finished that game, and in
Speaker 1: this instance you probably I know, I was expecting, like
Speaker 1: they're gonna do the same thing to them they did
Speaker 1: to the Saints, like they're about to finish this game
Speaker 1: and finish it strong by getting them off the field.
Speaker 1: And then twice they allowed the Eagles to drive down
Speaker 1: and get touchdowns. But in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 1: I think when you're playing division teams, you have to
Speaker 1: sometimes figure out a way to win, and in this instance,
Speaker 1: the offense was gonna have to be the ones to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to win, and that's what they did.
Speaker 1: That's the nature of a good team is everything's not
Speaker 1: going to work out as in the ideal way that
Speaker 1: you would expect it to every week. And that's well,
Speaker 1: that was my That's what I said at the top
Speaker 1: of the show, is like, that's football is so great,
Speaker 1: and I think it was. It was the Washington loss.
Speaker 1: The defense played a pretty damn good game. You know,
Speaker 1: the Redskins scored a defensive touchdown, so they really only
Speaker 1: gave up thirteen points. And Tyrone Crawford was like, well,
Speaker 1: we just we gotta play better. We gotta get more.
Speaker 1: You know, we got If it's going to be one
Speaker 1: of those days where we have to pick up the slack,
Speaker 1: then that's what we gotta do and that's on us.
Speaker 1: And you saw him do that against the Saints and
Speaker 1: then this week they didn't have it at the end,
Speaker 1: but the offense picked them up. And I mean it
Speaker 1: takes both sides over the course of what I guess
Speaker 1: that game was a game was seventy minutes, but I mean,
Speaker 1: and they did so many things throughout the game to
Speaker 1: kind of keep them in there. They're going to keep
Speaker 1: the Eagles down like the defense got them to the
Speaker 1: finish line and the offense pull them over it. And
Speaker 1: I one of the things that concerns me sometimes or
Speaker 1: that I think about. And I know it's part of
Speaker 1: the game, and they get paid a ton of money
Speaker 1: to play it, and they have trainers and professionals. I
Speaker 1: know how to cure them throughout the week and get
Speaker 1: them back to being healthy. But thinking of the way
Speaker 1: that the defense plays and how much energy and effort
Speaker 1: and work they like put out on the field, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: can they keep this going like week to week, Sunday
Speaker 1: to Sunday. I mean, it takes a lot of work
Speaker 1: and effort, and you have to think about that and
Speaker 1: get your offense to help you out because you can't
Speaker 1: always always always rely on your defense. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know the thing about that is their offense is helping
Speaker 1: them out. Think about the number of plays yesterday that
Speaker 1: the offense had where they were on the field, even
Speaker 1: when they ended in just three points or they ended
Speaker 1: in a turnover. You look at a time of possession
Speaker 1: of forty five plus minutes, and that means it only
Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles had what twenty two I want
Speaker 1: to say minutes or so. I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: the time of possession. The defense is getting helped out.
Speaker 1: That's why they can expend as much energy as because
Speaker 1: the amount of time that they're spending on the field
Speaker 1: this season is remarkably skewed toward their offense, and so
Speaker 1: when they come on, they're very well rested, they're refreshed,
Speaker 1: they're ready to go. And because they're playing so well,
Speaker 1: they tend to get a lot of three and ouns.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they had four three and ounces. So when they
Speaker 1: get three and ounces, they go right back to the sideline,
Speaker 1: put the offense back on the field for another four
Speaker 1: or five six minute drive. You are so I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it works right now. It really does. You
Speaker 1: aren't wrong. You're not wrong. But my ever, yes, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying good point. You know what would help them
Speaker 1: a lot more than all of that is points. Great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's nice first half possession, it's punt, field goal, interset
Speaker 1: in the end zone, missed field goal, field goal. So
Speaker 1: and and you're not going to score every time. I
Speaker 1: get that, but it could have been at least thirteen
Speaker 1: to nothing at half, no doubt. A and and hey,
Speaker 1: the other you know, I get. One of the things
Speaker 1: that aggravates me the most is people are like, they
Speaker 1: could have put this team away, they should be up twenty.
Speaker 1: Like it's the NFL. You don't get putting them away.
Speaker 1: You might get to put somebody away, like three times
Speaker 1: per season, there's a lot. They beat the Jags forty
Speaker 1: to seven. That was you, that was your easy win. Like,
Speaker 1: you don't get anymore in the NFL unless you're truly special,
Speaker 1: which this team is not truly special, not the way
Speaker 1: they play. The way they play doesn't lend itself to
Speaker 1: putting teams away. They sparren't that many teams that get
Speaker 1: to do that period the Cans. I mean, the Saints
Speaker 1: had an epic run where they beat like four teams
Speaker 1: in a row fifty to ten. Great, good for them,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen that off. Twenty seven points is
Speaker 1: the difference of in the five wins twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: They're all one possession games. I mean, and I would
Speaker 1: and and all year all the wins are one possession
Speaker 1: games up for Jacksonville. But it's still okay to be
Speaker 1: frustrated that they left at least ten points on the
Speaker 1: field and they've done it, they do it consistently. Why Amber,
Speaker 1: Because they don't do their job the right way in
Speaker 1: the red zone, and it's it's gonna be problematic for
Speaker 1: them in the postseason if they don't figure something out there,
Speaker 1: or if they figure it out, then it gives them
Speaker 1: a really they have a really great shot of doing
Speaker 1: something in the playoffs. That's why whole point, that's why
Speaker 1: this is so beautiful, because I'm like, this is why
Speaker 1: it's terrible, and you're like, but this is why it
Speaker 1: could be good, Like you're the optimist. That's why I
Speaker 1: don't understand though, I mean, we're in week fourteen. You
Speaker 1: would think that would be something that you would have
Speaker 1: figuring out by now. They didn't figure out how to
Speaker 1: win until week nine. So there's but there's two ways
Speaker 1: to look at this too, though. Though your defense is
Speaker 1: playing to the point where you when you get down there,
Speaker 1: you need to get some points. Now that throw, you know,
Speaker 1: he missed it by just a few inches there. When
Speaker 1: you get down inside inside the tent, I think they're
Speaker 1: a little bit more conservative and when they do that,
Speaker 1: I mean they're trying to get the field goal. They
Speaker 1: have a defense that you can lean on this defense
Speaker 1: shut down the Saints, So I mean, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: say it's gonna hurt them in the playoffs. In it might,
Speaker 1: and you gotta get touchdowns, but the defense is good
Speaker 1: enough to kind of lean on right there. So sometimes
Speaker 1: getting a field goal is important. I mean, I thought,
Speaker 1: when they went down there and they got up you know, nine, nothing,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, yeah, you should have. You wanted
Speaker 1: them to score, but being up two scores was important there.
Speaker 1: Ye oh yeah, no, that was I said that on
Speaker 1: Twitter last night. I'm the King of I want to
Speaker 1: go for it all the time. I want to be
Speaker 1: super aggressive, but you gotta take a two possession lead
Speaker 1: when you're presented with an opportunity to do it. Right. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's like a call from John and Maryland. John, what up?
Speaker 1: Good afternoon everyone, Thank you for taking my call. Well
Speaker 1: it's afternoon in Maryland. Anyway, I'm gonna touch up these
Speaker 1: points that I completely agree. Number one, the officiating is horrific,
Speaker 1: not just for the game last night, but throughout the NFL,
Speaker 1: even with the rams or game, even the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Rams um Kansas City a Ravens game. But what is
Speaker 1: going on with aficiating? Number one? Why is it so
Speaker 1: horrific this year? And number two, I know we have
Speaker 1: we have UM there's limits, there's limits on how much
Speaker 1: we can play players. But a guy like Bak Prescott,
Speaker 1: why don't we bring in the best quarterback guru, quarterback
Speaker 1: whisperer so we can help this guy. His fight is immense,
Speaker 1: but his talent, the way he almost blew that game
Speaker 1: last night for us, it kind of takes away from
Speaker 1: all the good things he did. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for taking my call. All right, thanks the call. Nothing
Speaker 1: takes away from the good things he did, because almost
Speaker 1: blowing a game is okay if you didn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I got just the brutal truth of the NFL. It's true, though.
Speaker 1: I get at your point that you're when you live dangerously,
Speaker 1: you know, what's the whole thing? You know, you play
Speaker 1: with fire, You're gonna get burned. And I get it.
Speaker 1: And he's he's that way, you know, And they kind
Speaker 1: of did it in the playoffs and in UM twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: You know, But I think that I don't know about
Speaker 1: the officiating. I think the officiating is what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's bad at times, it's good. It's that's
Speaker 1: I'm bad. I don't even know what what was the
Speaker 1: I'm glad it. I mean it sucked the gods that first,
Speaker 1: that first play of the game. As a back hall,
Speaker 1: we all saw it. That was a bad crap. The
Speaker 1: decision to pull out the you know, I'm the guy
Speaker 1: that sat here and said the running back lowering his
Speaker 1: head rule is going to be irrelevant by the end
Speaker 1: of the preseason, And it was until December when literally
Speaker 1: they were like, let's pull let's dust the cobwebs out
Speaker 1: on that. In the middle though game that's going to
Speaker 1: decide the NFC's That play was the textbook version. I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen that happen all season. I mean it was
Speaker 1: it was basically what they said they were trying to stop,
Speaker 1: which is running back running in the open field. He
Speaker 1: lines up a guy and then lowers his head and
Speaker 1: running batter batters, and like, that's exactly what the rule is.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that the rule was called. Now
Speaker 1: you can argue whether the NFL should have the rule,
Speaker 1: that's a whole different thing. But it was not a
Speaker 1: bad call. I guarantee you. It wasn't the first time
Speaker 1: that's happened this season. In the two hundred and whatever
Speaker 1: games that we've played in the NFL. It was not
Speaker 1: the first time it's happened, but it was the first
Speaker 1: time it's been flagged. I you know, I don't have
Speaker 1: a direct line article, I don't have a direct line
Speaker 1: to Goodell but in the back. But he but he
Speaker 1: lowered his head though. That's I get that. But y'all
Speaker 1: right now are arguing the rule, and that's fine, you
Speaker 1: can argue the rule. I'm going no, But like I said,
Speaker 1: for for us, I think there's forty nine games left
Speaker 1: in the schedule, which means we've played two hundred and ten,
Speaker 1: give or take. And that's the first time they've called
Speaker 1: it horse. Is that the first time called across the league?
Speaker 1: That's what I heard last night. Really, yes, they have
Speaker 1: not been called. I mean it has to happen, so
Speaker 1: they have not been snap got the first thing. Wow, First,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of first step which I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna context. I'm gonna I'm gonna contradict myself now because
Speaker 1: as animated as I just got about that, Like, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't get like who the officiating quote unquote sucks
Speaker 1: every week because it's twenty two gigantic, super freakish men
Speaker 1: trying to kill each other one hundred and fifty times
Speaker 1: a game, Like there's a penalty on every play. No
Speaker 1: ref can be perfect, and you can't robotically call this thing.
Speaker 1: So to sit here and piss and moan about it
Speaker 1: after the fact is I just I don't have the
Speaker 1: energy to get upside about what a clear recovery is
Speaker 1: when a guy comes up with the ball like that.
Speaker 1: But it's not only that, but you saw you saw
Speaker 1: the ball as it came first. I came out and
Speaker 1: it was there was a guy on top of the ball,
Speaker 1: like literally he didn't have it in his clutches, but
Speaker 1: he was on top of the ball. And there was
Speaker 1: another guy from the same team, both Eagles, that was
Speaker 1: under him. And so if that's happening and then they
Speaker 1: come away with the ball the same guy that was
Speaker 1: under him, there is a natural inclination he had the ball.
Speaker 1: You might not see it, but it's there. It exists, right,
Speaker 1: It didn't magically get there. So to me, it's just
Speaker 1: I just think that was a bad call. I agree
Speaker 1: that that's a bad I don't even say it, wouldn't
Speaker 1: say a bad rule. I don't know that I agree
Speaker 1: that that rule really makes as much of a difference
Speaker 1: as it as it should. But the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is he did what they told him not to do.
Speaker 1: You take the penalty, you move on. There were some
Speaker 1: bad calls though in that game that I think could
Speaker 1: have affected the game at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I mean they all do. Yeah, that's sometimes it bites
Speaker 1: you in the ass when they flag LP Lattiser for
Speaker 1: doing the same snap that he's always done. And sometimes
Speaker 1: it benefits you because somebody in New York doesn't know
Speaker 1: what the hell they're looking at on him. Replay like
Speaker 1: something something terrible happens pretty much in every game, and
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, that's just football, like you know, college football.
Speaker 1: It's definitely high school football because they don't even have
Speaker 1: the benefit or replay. So I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: have the energy. You can call holding on every play,
Speaker 1: but one of those tying plays, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I said, he costs from three points whatever, But one
Speaker 1: of those plays, is is it holding or is it
Speaker 1: just kicking the guy's ass? I mean, like like he
Speaker 1: has his hands right here and then he puts them
Speaker 1: down on the ground. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's one thing, if you're holding so he doesn't tackle
Speaker 1: the guy, but if you put a defensive end on
Speaker 1: his ass, like I don't think you're really holding the guy.
Speaker 1: I think you're putting him. I think that's And again
Speaker 1: going back to my point, you're talking about this half
Speaker 1: this stuff happens in a half second, a blink of
Speaker 1: an eye because they're so fast, and the ref saw
Speaker 1: tyr and put his hand on the outside of the
Speaker 1: shoulder pad where the logo is. And they're just trained
Speaker 1: like that. If you see that hand placement, it's flags.
Speaker 1: Even if it's not, they're gonna call it. And that's
Speaker 1: how they're trained, like they're they're told when you get
Speaker 1: your hands outside you can get a holding call. Like
Speaker 1: that's how they trained. And to the other point, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like with three weeks left in the seat,
Speaker 1: like I again, I don't have the energy to debate
Speaker 1: the coaching stuff right now either because like they're not
Speaker 1: they're not gonna come in and fire Kelly Moore today
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna do it next week either. And
Speaker 1: so that's a conversation for January or February and the
Speaker 1: way this offense has played, like the whole scope of it.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of conversation to be had about the future
Speaker 1: direction of the offense going forward, but why, I mean, why,
Speaker 1: why waste your breath on it right now? So in
Speaker 1: the season you keep rolling with whatever you especially when
Speaker 1: you're winning five games exactly, And we just kind of
Speaker 1: reset this. They've got three games to go. They win
Speaker 1: one of the three games, they win the division. If
Speaker 1: if they don't win any of those three, either the
Speaker 1: Eagles or Redskins, who play each other, the winner of
Speaker 1: that has to has to win them all. So nobody
Speaker 1: can slip up on over there, the Eagles or Redskins
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys to lose them all. That's the only
Speaker 1: way that they don't win the division. Very very unlikely,
Speaker 1: It's very it's possible, but it's a slim slim chain.
Speaker 1: This weekend, both of them could lose. I mean that
Speaker 1: you got the Eagles playing the Rams, who are coming
Speaker 1: off a loss, by the way, their second of the season.
Speaker 1: And then you've got the Redskins going to play the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and the way they played against the Giants, they could
Speaker 1: lose all three. Yea, like they are just they are
Speaker 1: not the same team with with Mark Sanchez under Mark
Speaker 1: saying even their defense that was a really good defense,
Speaker 1: I thought through a good part of the season. They've
Speaker 1: just fallen off here in the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and are playing really horrible. And then they find a
Speaker 1: way past the Jags. They got to play a Tennessee
Speaker 1: team that's right in the thick of the AFC playoff race.
Speaker 1: So and then they and the Eagles have to play
Speaker 1: the Texans at home. So I mean, it's not likely
Speaker 1: that they're gonna win. And the Cowboys got they still
Speaker 1: got the easiest schedule of the you know, at the Colts,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be a Tampa at home. Tampa played
Speaker 1: the Saints tough, and then they got the Giants. You
Speaker 1: never know what they're gonna be playing at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. But beating beating the Colts would would
Speaker 1: be the easiest way to just take care of this.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if it's very very slim that this doesn't
Speaker 1: work itself out in favor of the Cowboys, and if
Speaker 1: the Bears would have lost to the Rams, which they
Speaker 1: did not, um, the Cowboys I think would have had
Speaker 1: the lead on them on the third as the third see.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know if that matters. I
Speaker 1: don't see both Dallas and the Bears winning at the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Saints where that three versus four is
Speaker 1: gonna really matter. I'd be surprised if what I do
Speaker 1: love right now. I love that we're getting to see
Speaker 1: this this duality of the NFL. You're getting to see
Speaker 1: these really good offensive teams against these really good defensive teams.
Speaker 1: And so far this year they're two of three, the
Speaker 1: best two defenses have won two of them. And then
Speaker 1: yesterday the Ravens played the Chiefs and they barely lost.
Speaker 1: So I'm loving what I'm seeing right now, and certainly
Speaker 1: for Cowboys fans, you gotta love what you're seeing right now.
Speaker 1: I don't think about it though, in terms of and
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're probably not gonna host an NFC
Speaker 1: title game as even as a three seed, but you're
Speaker 1: right what you're about to say, it'll slot your wildcard game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I do think there's a big difference between the
Speaker 1: first and the second because Seattle looks like they're playing well,
Speaker 1: and then after that it's kind of me it's everyone's game,
Speaker 1: So there's a difference between that, and we will see
Speaker 1: that tonight Monday Night football. You got Seattle in Minnesota
Speaker 1: right now, they are the fifth and six seeds. We'll
Speaker 1: see which one of them can win that game, and
Speaker 1: you'll get to see probably one of those teams, maybe
Speaker 1: the team that Cowboys play there to open the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We'll do it. We'll talk about more of that tomorrow.
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