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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a Break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, September twenty first, twenty twenty, Season sixteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number twenty seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We're live in this WBC Mortgage Studios at the start

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Speaker 1: at Dave and Amber joining us from their homes, and

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Speaker 1: we got about forty five minutes to break down what

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Speaker 1: we saw yesterday. That was That was one of those

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Speaker 1: games that I love being a part of because it's

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Speaker 1: all over the place. There's so many emotions that you

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Speaker 1: feel as the game's going on. There's so many moments

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Speaker 1: that you think, oh, this is going one way and

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Speaker 1: then it flips. And then the great part about it

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Speaker 1: is at the end of the day, the team that

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Speaker 1: there's really nothing I have to complain about in that game.

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna break down everything. There was so much

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Speaker 1: to break down that game. Cowboys win forty to thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: It was actually a historic game. Wait wait, did you

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Speaker 1: say there's really nothing you have to complain about in

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Speaker 1: that game? Yes, but at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I mean they won. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: they won. So yeah, there were gonna be some complaints

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Speaker 1: I have and Amber, you know, because during the game

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Speaker 1: I was losing my mind at certain parts. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: It kind of changes everything. But it was a historic

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Speaker 1: day for the Cowboys. Here's it's interesting thing. I saw

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Speaker 1: ESPN Stats put this out last night. Entering Week two

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Speaker 1: of the NFL season, teams that were teams were four

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty to nothing when they scored thirty nine

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Speaker 1: points and had zero turnovers since nineteen thirty three, Like,

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Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, there's never been a

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Speaker 1: team that scored thirty nine points, didn't have a turnover

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Speaker 1: and ended up losing the game. And yesterday the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: showed the Falcons how to get to that one that

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Speaker 1: So let's go around the table. I want everybody to

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Speaker 1: tell me what do you think is the biggest story

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Speaker 1: coming out of this game. We're gonna start first with you, Amber.

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest story currently, I would say, is

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Speaker 1: decisions at the right time. Nick, I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: he did and and you know, I've been wanted to

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Speaker 1: kind of question him being a clutch player, and he's

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Speaker 1: still got more of that to do, because you know,

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Speaker 1: he this was one game, but he's you know, he's

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Speaker 1: The last couple of years, he hasn't been and the

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Speaker 1: team hasn't been as clutch, but they were on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And it starts with him he's a linebacker that plays quarterback.

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Speaker 1: When you show his stat line, he was thirty four

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Speaker 1: Had a phenomenal day statistically, Dave, what's the storyline of

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Speaker 1: They flip the script against every odd, imaginable yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was at the center of it all. And

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Speaker 1: he's one of the most confident guys I've ever been around,

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Speaker 1: My other big impression is, like, listen, a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: But like, that's why you're a football fan, Like that's

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Speaker 1: because that was incredible. Yeah, it's interesting day because you

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Speaker 1: If the Cowboys had played that game in a national

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Speaker 1: we get to the moments that matter. I do want

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Speaker 1: to stick with that topic of Dak Prescott. Nick, you

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Speaker 1: I think of all the players on the Cowboys team.

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Speaker 1: Dak's big plays. It was four freaking minutes long. It

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Speaker 1: from there on out, honestly, what did he do wrong?

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Speaker 1: If I had to guess, as indicated by that seventy

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Speaker 1: the argument of whether how great Dak is and the

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones dropping that pass like that, Like, how shocked

428
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Speaker 1: are you guys that the Cowboys were able to hold

429
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: Julio Jones to only two catches. You only had four targets,

430
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: but two catches for twenty four yards? Do you think

431
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 1: that was more function of the defense, which we're gonna

432
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 1: talk about the defense a little bit later. But do

433
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 1: you think that was more of the defense or do

434
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 1: you think Julio just had a rough day, Dave. Wasn't

435
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,400
Speaker 1: he dealing with an injury he was? Yeah. I will

436
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 1: say this though, the whole thing a little bit. Yeah,

437
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,359
Speaker 1: But I will say this, I have watched I have

438
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,439
Speaker 1: watched Julio Jones play a lot of football because he's

439
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 1: only been on my fantasy team a lot of years.

440
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 1: Even when he's hurt, that what we saw yesterday is

441
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,400
Speaker 1: not typical Julio Jones. He still makes plays even when

442
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: he's hurt. The guy's a machine, so right that he

443
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 1: should have caught that one, right, I mean, didn't he

444
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,120
Speaker 1: just maybe Trayvon wasn't ready. Yeah. I really like him though,

445
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: Trayvon Dix, if he can just actually catch the ball,

446
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna be he's gonna drop. No, no, no, no.

447
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: I didn't say it was a drop. What I said

448
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 1: was he makes some extraordinary plays, like him getting in

449
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: position to even be able to knock that ball down.

450
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: That takes extraordinary talent, outing his ability. If he can

451
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 1: catch it, now he turns into that next level player

452
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: that they've been looking for. The cornerback position for a while, right,

453
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: I bet you. I bet if it was the other

454
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: way around, they might have called interference on it. If

455
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: it was the defensive guy, you know, if he because

456
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: he can't close someone's hands like that, can't you get

457
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. On offense, it doesn't work. Hey, the

458
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys got another break. They got an offensive pass interference

459
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: that they didn't call this week. Did you see that?

460
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,880
Speaker 1: I mean it was yeah, it was Tiki ta yah. Yeah.

461
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: But the guy also flopped too, and you're like, I'm sorry,

462
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: you're not Jalen Ramsey. I mean, Jaylen can flop and

463
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: he gets it. You can't flop, you'd get up? Who

464
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: are you? He just lost the game because he was

465
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: trying to you know, get him, get him charge. Sorry,

466
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 1: all right, We're would have to go back, and I'd

467
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: have to. I'd have to. I'd have to watch the

468
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: tape for sure to see what the Dallas defense did

469
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Speaker 1: to Julio. It's fair to say he struggled because he

470
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Speaker 1: dropped a touchdown pass. But that's what I always say,

471
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: is like, I mean Ridley and Ridley gauge and Hurst

472
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 1: ate him alive. So you know, I think the Cowboys

473
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Speaker 1: probably focused on Julio, but it's it's not like they

474
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Speaker 1: shut down the passing attack, and they did score thirty

475
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Speaker 1: nine points, so something worked for them. Yeah, let's move

476
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: on to the next moment that mattered. This is fourth

477
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: quarter to twelve, fifty three left in the fourth quarter,

478
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 1: Atlanta's up thirty six twenty four, and it's fourth and

479
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: five at the Dallas forty. Dallas runs another fake punt.

480
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: This time it is a direct snap to Darry and Thompson.

481
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Speaker 1: Do you like this decision to go for it on

482
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Speaker 1: fourth down? Let's start first with you, Nick. No. I

483
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: didn't like that one because again, you've got Pollard in there,

484
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: and like, it's like, let your running backs run the ball,

485
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 1: not your safety. And if fourth and five, if the

486
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 1: Cowboys lined up on offense, would they run Zeke up

487
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,239
Speaker 1: the middle on fourth and five? I doubt it. I

488
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 1: mean they might, but it's like, if you're gonna just

489
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: do that, then why don't you let the guy that's

490
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: already got three hundred and seventy five yards passing? Whyn't

491
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: you just let them try to get five yards? If

492
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: you really want to go for it, don't give it

493
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: to Darry and Thompson to run the ball up the

494
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: middle with those blockers that that's not Connor Williams up there,

495
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 1: that's like Joe Thomas and the Schultz blocking and left.

496
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: So I didn't didn't like that call. Yamber absolutely agree.

497
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: I think that if that was their decision going in,

498
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: that should have Just like you, they always say you

499
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: want your best guys on the field. So if you're

500
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: going with that mentality that you're just gonna go try

501
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: to get those five yards, then keep your best guys

502
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: on the field and make it happen. So I completely

503
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: agree with everything that Nick said. I don't think that

504
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: was the right call for me, Dave. It has it

505
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: has been a law. I can't remember hating a call

506
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: more than I've hated that, Like anything Jason Garrett ever did,

507
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: I can't remember a time where I hated something more

508
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: than I hated that. Because what's what is the benefit

509
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Speaker 1: of a fake? It's that the defense doesn't see it

510
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: coming right, Who in their right mind would be surprised

511
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 1: by a fake? When you're down by twelve and the

512
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, you know you need to generate offense. You

513
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,360
Speaker 1: know you need to stay on the field. You've already

514
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: faked it. Your special team scored Nator has a reputation

515
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: for faking it. Put your offense on the field and

516
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 1: just go for it. Nobody is surprised by that. I

517
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: hated it so much, and I mean Amber and Nick

518
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: already covered it. But yeah, I thought it was awful. Yeah,

519
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm glad. Glad. Now I'm glad we all agree because

520
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: that's exactly the way I looked at it. I didn't

521
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: have a problem with them going for it on fourth down.

522
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: It was all about the fact that there was no

523
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: surprise in doing a fake punt at that point. So

524
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: put your offense, which, by the way, your offense was clicking.

525
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: That was a part of the game where they were

526
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: actually moving the ball pretty well. Take a shot, go

527
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down. Put your guys out there,

528
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: let them actually make a play and see if you

529
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: can get a first down and keep the change moving.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to the final memorable moment that I

531
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Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. This one happened in the fourth quarter,

532
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: about four fifty seven left in the game. Dallas is

533
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Speaker 1: down thirty nine to thirty. At this point, Dallas scores

534
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Speaker 1: a TD on a pass from Dalk from Dak to

535
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Speaker 1: Schultz by the way, really really I thought, really really

536
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: great route. And we'll talk about Schultz a little later

537
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: in the show as well, but I thought it was

538
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: a really great route. Though it was really great passed,

539
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: they convert, they get the touchdown, Mike McCarthy opts to

540
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: attempt a two point conversion rather than take the point

541
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Speaker 1: after touchdown. After the game, Mike McCarthy was asked about it,

542
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: and he says that he would prefer to know earlier

543
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: than later whether he would need to score twice, which

544
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: is an interesting take that I'd never really heard a

545
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: coach put out there before. My question for you guys

546
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: is do you agree with the strategy? Let's start first

547
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: with you Amber. No, not at all. I kept going

548
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: back and forth, and I wish I had I wish

549
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: I wrote it on a piece of paper because I

550
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: had it on my phone on my note and I

551
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: kept writing every single scenario. I'm like, let me try

552
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: to make sense of this reasoning as to why you

553
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: would try to go for a two point conversion in

554
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: this specific play at this time of the game. And honestly,

555
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: it came down to me not being able to make

556
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: much sense of it. I would have rather getting to

557
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: a point where I can tide the game rather than

558
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: risk it on that last play of the game where

559
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're gonna talk about it in death here

560
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: with the kick. But that's that's that's how improbable. I

561
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: think that they got lucky in that play and they

562
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: won the game because the Falcons didn't do what they

563
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: were supposed to do. And I know that there was

564
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: some confusion there as to Okay, at what point should

565
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: you grab the ball, at what point do you go

566
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: for it or what? But they just got really, really

567
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: fortunate and it ended up working in their favor this time.

568
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: But just going back of it, I just cannot make

569
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: much sense of that call, Dave. Let's let's lay let's

570
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: lay this out and give it some context, because it's

571
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a you could you could write

572
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: a thesis about this if you wanted to. Like, this

573
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: wasn't a willy nilly decision on Mike McCarthy's part. There's

574
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: been a ton of study done about this. The numbers

575
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 1: show that it is actually a sensible thing to do.

576
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: We've seen coaches like Doug Peterson do this before. If

577
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: you think back to the Eagles Packers game last year.

578
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: I believe the Eagles scored to take a seven point

579
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: lead and Doug Peterson went for two and he didn't

580
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: get it. But again, the numbers bear that out, like

581
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: you can look at the charts and say, this is

582
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: what the numbers people say you're supposed to do. So

583
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: it's not like Mike McCarthy pulled this out of thin air.

584
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: There's a ton of stuff out on the Internet that

585
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: you can read about why it makes sense me personally,

586
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: and I will acknowledge I'm terrible at math. That's why

587
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: I became a writer, is I don't understand stuff like that,

588
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: but at the same time I can't fully wrap my

589
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: head around it. The idea is that, and Mike McCarthy

590
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: said it, you want to know as quickly as possible

591
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: what you need or what you don't need. So it's

592
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: almost like it's almost like Pavlov's or not Pavlov's dog,

593
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: Schrodinger's cat is like the two point conversion is just

594
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out there in the ether, and the

595
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: sooner you figure out whether you have it or not,

596
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: the better off you all. And it worked in the

597
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: cowboys favor. They caught every break. It imaginable, and they

598
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: made it work. But in my mind, I think you

599
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: have a better chance of kicking the extra point there,

600
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,959
Speaker 1: and then it is an eight point game and you

601
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: take it down to the end and you either get

602
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: the extra point or you don't. But at least you

603
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: don't have to get two more possessions. You only need one.

604
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: And I can hear the analytics people right now. The

605
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys tried that against the Jets last year and they

606
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: lost on the two point conversion. So it's not guaranteed

607
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: to work. But the thought that you're going to get

608
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: the ball two more times in less than five minutes

609
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: is crazy to me. And what's even crazier is that

610
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: it actually worked out. Like you're talking about a point

611
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: zero one probability, and the Cowboys got it yesterday and

612
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Nice

613
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: shout out there on Shrodden, just cat, and I love

614
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: that that reference. All right, go ahead, Nick, which I'll

615
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: just say all that stuff said. I still don't like it.

616
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: I still don't like it, but there's way smarter people

617
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: who say it's the right thing to do. So all right, Nick,

618
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: they can sit right here and I'll argue with them

619
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: all day. I don't care. I've said it one hundred times,

620
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: Butcarthur can sit right here with the Super Bowl ring

621
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: in my face and I'll argue with him. A terrible call,

622
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: terrible decision. You don't do that at all, And I agree.

623
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what they just said you. You need

624
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: to know what you need to do, like he wants

625
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: to find out what he wants. Hey, the Falcons have

626
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: scored thirty nine points on your ass the whole game.

627
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: You need to stop him. That's what you need to do.

628
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: And you need to stop him once, not twice. So like,

629
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what else, what else. Analytics sound great,

630
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: but the game is telling you what's happening. The game

631
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: is telling you. And what I hate about it is

632
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: is that if you get the when you get the

633
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: ball back and you're down by nine, you got to

634
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: score twice your offensive. I mean, your best player is

635
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: Zeke and he can't really be a factor because you

636
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: now have to score twice. You have to run down.

637
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: It worked out for them, that's great, but to me

638
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: that I think, I think it was a terrible decision

639
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: to do that, and I see it happen all the

640
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: time now I see coaches do it, and I definitely

641
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: don't understand it. But yeah, it worked. It didn't work

642
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: because of that. It just worked out. It didn't work

643
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, they went for two. It worked,

644
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: they got lucky, they went they You can't tell me

645
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: you're using analytics if you're going to rely on an

646
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: onsite kick, which is what is the percentage of that

647
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: nine percent? Eight percent? So I don't know six six percent.

648
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it worked out for them, But man,

649
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: I thought that was a terrible move. Yeah. It's the

650
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: interesting part here to me is I kind of see this.

651
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I see the point on both sides. I was, by

652
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: the way, I was losing my mind when he did it,

653
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: thinking what was that? That is a horrible Nick I

654
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: texted you. I was like, I'm starting to worry a

655
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Speaker 1: little bit about the coach's ability to make the right

656
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: call because I don't know if that's a good call

657
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: like that just and I'm combining with it with other

658
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: calls that I've seen over the last two weeks that

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00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's another text that I sent to you.

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00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, Nick did say in the first quarter.

661
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: First quarter, Nick did say they were going to win

662
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: this game. But that's a typical Nick calling the kickoff

663
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: like that. Nick he does. Don't act like I didn't

664
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Speaker 1: put it on Twitter. You put it out, you did.

665
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: You absolutely do it, You absolutely do. But but it

666
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: was hinted on that that that player like they have

667
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: to stop him here because twenty four nothing. I'm not in,

668
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: but I'm in on twenty nothing, but not twenty four.

669
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: But but I think the interesting thing is what you

670
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: always hear from coaches. What I've always heard from coaches

671
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: over the years I've watched football and played football when

672
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: I was in high school, was you always keep yourself

673
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: in the game as long as you possibly can. And

674
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: that's the purpose of taking the extra point. You take

675
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: the extra point, and you defer the thing of having

676
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: to go for two until later because you just want

677
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: to keep giving your team hope and giving your team

678
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: the opportunity to know that, hey, if we get to touchdown,

679
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: then all we need a two point conversion, rather than

680
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: hey we need a point, we need a touchdown, we

681
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: need an extra point, and then we got to get

682
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 1: the ball back and go down and score again. You know,

683
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: you can make the argument that going for two actually

684
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: lost the game for the Falcons. Because they're up twenty

685
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: six to seven, they decide they just want to go

686
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: up a nice even twenty one points. Why, I mean,

687
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 1: just just keep taking points until you need it, because

688
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: it would it would have changed some things. Now you

689
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: lost by one point, yeah, the game would have been

690
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But I mean, at that point

691
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: in the game, third quarters, just keep taking your points,

692
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: your points. I will say this one one of the

693
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: arguments that I've heard is, hey, you're gonna have to

694
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: get a two point conversion either way. At some point

695
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 1: you had to get a two point conversion here, and

696
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to go for it. So why

697
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: not go ahead and go for it early? And then

698
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: again goes back to what Mike McCarthy said, you at

699
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: least know where you are in the game, rather than

700
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: you miss it with the like in the Jets game,

701
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: you don't get the two point conversion and then everything's done.

702
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: My argument back to that is you're probably still in

703
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: the same boat. You still now have to go and

704
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: get an onside kick, which they were somehow miraculously able

705
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: to convert, and then go down to get a field goal.

706
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: So I don't know that that changes anything. My point

707
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: is that you still put yourself in a situation early

708
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: where you did, to some degree make your team feel

709
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: like there was a larger uphill climb in order to

710
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 1: tie or win that ball game that you put yourself

711
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 1: in by taking that two point try early. I still

712
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: think the right call is to go ahead and take

713
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: your extra point there, Good Dave. I'll steal this line

714
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: from my buddy Cowboys Stats and Graphics, which, like, you

715
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,959
Speaker 1: should follow that account on Twitter. It's it's great, which

716
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 1: he said last night. If you can divorce yourself from

717
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 1: the idea that losing late is better than losing early,

718
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: you can open yourself up to this line of thinking,

719
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: which I appreciate that, Like, he's not wrong, but I

720
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: just can't get all the way there because I think

721
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: purely analytical people like they want football to be baseball

722
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: so badly, and it's it's just not for me, Like

723
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: some of these decisions don't happen in a vacuum. That's

724
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: a great point. If you go for two early and

725
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: don't get it, you run the risk of demoralizing the

726
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: entire team, which maybe that's not you know, maybe that's

727
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: not right. Maybe you should have a more professional mindset,

728
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: but human nature is what it is. There are so

729
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: many ridiculous moving parts that go into every facet of

730
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: a football game that you can't approach it from a

731
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: purely analytical standpoint. In my opinion, love analytics. I think

732
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 1: they're great, but sometimes I do think like gut feeling

733
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: and all that other stupid crap come into play. Now.

734
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: Of course, the irony is that it worked out for

735
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. It did. I think if you do if

736
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 1: you run that sequence, if you run that sequence ninety

737
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: nine times, I think you lose one hundred. I mean,

738
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, if you run it one hundred times, I

739
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: think you lose ninety nine. But who am I to

740
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: talk too much trash? When they pulled it off, I

741
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: mean they really needed a miraculous moment, which was that,

742
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: I mean that an onside kick. Without that, then we're

743
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: talking today about the fact that you didn't give you

744
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Speaker 1: a chance. I don't think you gave your team the

745
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: best chance to win by keeping them in a situation

746
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: where it could come down to that final two point conversion.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go and take our final break when we

748
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: come back. I do want to talk about a couple

749
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Speaker 1: of players and how they performed yesterday, including Dalton Schultz. Nick,

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Speaker 1: that felt very very weird. Yeah, it where I was sitting,

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Speaker 1: game together. So what happens when it's really cold, like

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Speaker 1: in December, They're gonna keep them keep it open like that.

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Speaker 1: I think they will. Yeah, I think you have to.

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Speaker 1: And they managed to filter stadium during a normal season,

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Speaker 1: So I think, I think you'll be fine. They can

821
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Speaker 1: always have to play in Cincinnati and it's not gonna

822
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Speaker 1: be that bad. It'll be all right. Real quick, I

823
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: did one too before we end the show, talk about

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Speaker 1: a couple of players and their performances yesterday. Dalton Schultz

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00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: comes to mind. He was a guy that we've given like,

826
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about how he's not the answer.

827
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Speaker 1: And I think when Blake, yeah you did you absolutely

828
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: cut him on last Monday, I think it was Blake

829
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: Jarwin goes down and I think all of us agreed

830
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: across the board that the Cowboys needed to do something.

831
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: They need to consider something. I know I was looking for,

832
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: pushing for them to go and look at Delaney Walker.

833
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: But yesterday Dalton Schultz shows up in a big way

834
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Speaker 1: for the team. He does have the fumble early in

835
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 1: the game, but he comes back. He has ten targets.

836
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: He catches nine of those passes for eighty eight yards

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Speaker 1: and a touchdown. My question is, at this point, do

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Speaker 1: you feel like the Cowboys, between Schultz and Bell have

839
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: enough at tight end for you to feel comfortable with

840
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Speaker 1: the tight end position moving forward for the rest of

841
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: the season. Let's start first with you, Nick, because you're

842
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Speaker 1: the one that called this on Friday saying you expected

843
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: Schultz is gonna have a big game, Right, Yeah, I

844
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Speaker 1: expect us that our expectations of him to be a

845
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: little bit better. I don't know if I'm still comfortable

846
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: with that. I mean, I do think his nine catches

847
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: eighty eight yards was a product of the game being

848
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: more wide open stuff like that. I don't think he

849
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: is your prototype tight end to be the blocker and

850
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: catcher and all that stuff. Um, but he did a

851
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: nice job and and he he did catch the ball. Well. Again,

852
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: I don't think in a twenty one to seventeen type

853
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: of game that he's he's the right answer there. But

854
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's got a spot for sure. And

855
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job catching the ball

856
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 1: and all that. Uh, he surpassed my expectations. I thought

857
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: he would be better than than he was last week,

858
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: but not not to this point. But I still think,

859
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: you know, he's not I mean, he's not like the

860
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: guy that's just going to be overpowering at the Lion

861
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Dave Um Well, I mean, I gotta give

862
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: him a shout out first, because yeah, I mean everybody

863
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: everybody killed him last week, at myself included. I'm not

864
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: like trying to not be part of that. Everybody was

865
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: very critical. Even going back, you know, people were saying

866
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,479
Speaker 1: he might not make the team out of training camp.

867
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: There's competition, YadA, YadA. I thought he played great. No

868
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: disrespect to him. Like all I'm doing is I'm putting

869
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: a pin in it, like this is something that I'm

870
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: monitoring week by week. He played great. I don't think

871
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: at Lanta's defense is anything special. I don't think you're

872
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: always going to be in a situation where you're just

873
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: absolutely airing it out all the time like this. Yeah,

874
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Nick Nick is right. The stats kind of

875
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: gets skewed. You're probably asking your tight ends to do

876
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: less in the running game when you're trailing by two

877
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: scores in the second half. So I was really impressed.

878
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: So I'm not looking I'm not looking for tight ends

879
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: right now, but I'm also not just satisfied. And you know,

880
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: we're all good at the tight end position. But I

881
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: thought he was great, and but you still want to

882
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: cut him, just like Dave said, I'm gonna put a

883
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: pin on that one. I mean, it was great. It

884
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: was forgetting the first part of the game, because everyone

885
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: played bad basically, but forgetting that, I thought it was

886
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: really nice. And credit to him for making the plays

887
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: that he did. It was nice to see him take

888
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: some of what he did during training camp and apply

889
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: it into an actual game. I was one that really

890
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: really doubted him and said I didn't think he would

891
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: be able to carry that from training camp into a game.

892
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: So kudos to him. But at the same time, am

893
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: I fully convinced. Absolutely not. I need to see more.

894
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will won't go out and get

895
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: it tight end. I think that after what they saw there,

896
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: maybe they just kind of stayed put for another week

897
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: and keep going with what they have. But I'll say this,

898
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have a game such a

899
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: game against a better defense. So I think that next

900
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: week it might get ugly a little bit there. But

901
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: great job for him in this game, you know. I

902
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 1: will say this. One thing I think I've learned about

903
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: him is I think what I'm trying to convince myself

904
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: of is that he just is what he is and

905
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be that great all around tight end

906
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: that's a great blocker and a great pass catcher. What

907
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: he is is he's a guy that can catch the

908
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: ball pretty well. He's a guy that can win when

909
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: he is the fifth option on the offense. So basically,

910
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: defenses are gonna say, in most instances, they're gonna say,

911
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: we'll let that guy have one guy like, we're not

912
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: gonna double Dalton Schultz. We got too many other problems

913
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: to deal with, and I think he can win in

914
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: some of those scenarios. So when you look at it

915
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, this type of high powered offense which

916
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: yesterday they get the forty burger. It's something we've thought

917
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: that they could be since they got Ceedee Lamb Right.

918
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: So I think when you look at it from that standpoint,

919
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: and even going to Amber's point, I think even a

920
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: great defense a really good defense. I think when you

921
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: look at how they're gonna play the Cowboys, they're still

922
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 1: gonna be focused on a lot of other guys before

923
00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: they get to Dalton Schultz. And I think Dalton Schultz

924
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy that's going to be

925
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,959
Speaker 1: the benefactor there. He's gonna be the guy that's gonna

926
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: get a lot of opportunities this year. And I think

927
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: in those situations, I think he's shown that he can

928
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: kind of catch the ball and buy a lot. Now,

929
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: I still question sometimes he makes some bonehead decisions. We've

930
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: seen that before when he's gotten on the field. But

931
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: that all being said, yesterday made me a little more

932
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: a little more comfortable in the idea that I think

933
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: he could play this role on this team with these

934
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: weapons pretty well. And it made me feel pretty good

935
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: about what they can do with him and with Blake Bell.

936
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: All Right, here's what I'm gonna do real quick. We're

937
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: gonna end the show, but it's amazing to me that

938
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: we were able to get to an entire show coming

939
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: off a game where both starting offensive tackles did not play,

940
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: and that was not the storyline of the game of

941
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: the show on Monday. I thought you were going to

942
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: refer to the play that everyone's talking about, but we

943
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: did not talk We did not talk about. But that's

944
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: another one that we're gonna get to tomorrow, so it

945
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: makes you tune in tomorrow. We got a lot more

946
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: stuff we got to dissect from this game, and we'll

947
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: do some of that tomorrow. We'll also give you guys

948
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: a bigger picture look at the NFC. So there's a

949
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: lot going on in this division and a lot of

950
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: it is actually helping the Cowboys, I think long term.

951
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about all that tomorrow too. Then for

952
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: Nick Even, Dave Helman, Hellman, Amber Garcia, I am Derek Eielton.

953
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Speaker 1: This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot

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