1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, October twenty fourth, twenty seventeen, 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: Season thirteen, episode number sixty. Welcome to another edition of 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: the Star. It's a big picture Tuesday. We're gonna talk 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: about the NFC East. We're gonna talk about the NFC. 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: I got a lot of questions for these guys about 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: what's happening right now in the NFC and how the 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: Cowboys fit into this picture because there's a lot of 15 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams that are kind of lurking 16 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: around and not really other than one team, not really 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: a team that's kind of separate, rating themselves from the pack. 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: So we'll talk about the Philadelphia Eagles. They are that 19 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: one team that seems to be separating themselves a little bit, 20 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: not statistically, not as far as a record is concerned 21 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: but definitely looking the part. So we'll talk about that 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: and and get some opinions from you guys. What was 23 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: ours everybody doing this morning? We're doing great. Everybody in 24 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: the group is doing great. Good. You're speaking for everybody's yes. No, yes, Dave, 25 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: are you doing good? I'm okay. You know. It's funny. 26 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: I think one day I want as we start the show, 27 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: I want the camera to isolate on David as I'm talking, 28 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: because he's always giving like these really weird facial looks, 29 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: like he'll start, Yeah, He'll start like with that little 30 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: sly grin, and then he'll kind of look like, what 31 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: are you talking about? And then he'll kind of go 32 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: into another yeah, like that little where he blows a 33 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: little bit of air into his cheeks, and Yeah, he 34 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: does all these different facials, and I don't know what 35 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: he's thinking. I wish I could know what he was thinking. 36 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: Most of the time. It's got nothing to do with 37 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: anything you're saying. You were just so far over in 38 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: left field. How many people do you think like I 39 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: feel like the vast majority of people that listen or 40 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: watch mainly listen like I do think that many people 41 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: even know. Some do. Some you'll be surprised. No, No, 42 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: I know some people do. But I think the vast 43 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: majority of our listeners just do audience. They do so 44 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: they do. You know, the ridiculous faces I make over 45 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: the course of the show don't really matter, Although that 46 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: would give them a reason to want to tune in 47 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: and actually watch or not. I don't know how many 48 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: people want to see that, but sorry, like would be 49 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: a good comedy. I'm a day dreamer. That's pretty much. 50 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: That's good to know, because at least now I know 51 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: that it's not sometimes though, some like I did do 52 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: it just now because you were like, well, the Eagles 53 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: aren't really distancing themselves with their record, and I'm like, what, 54 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: They're six and one. They're one game ahead of a 55 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: couple of other teams in the NFC. I mean, it's 56 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: not like they're they've blown the doors off in the 57 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: ahead of everybody else. I mean, they're one game ahead 58 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: of the Vikings. They have the best record in football. Yes, 59 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 1: that's great. One game ahead of the Vikings. So it's okay. 60 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: They're not so far in front where they can't be caught, 61 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: depending by who. By talking about the Cowboys. Well, let's 62 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: talk about that telling them twice, right, and they can 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: handle them if they really want to, they handle their business, 64 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: they can catch them. I agree with that to a point, 65 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: but you know, it's start just to play Devil's advocate. Like, 66 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys beat Philly twice, but it kind 67 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: of like the Giants. If the Cowboys beat the Philly 68 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: twice but don't handle their business against everybody else, it 69 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: doesn't matter when you're when you're talking about a team 70 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: that's winning, you know, six games in a row or no, 71 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: five games in a row. Whatever it is. So anyway, 72 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 1: but let's let's talk about Philadelphi because last night we 73 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: saw him play against the Redskins. They win that game, 74 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: and to me, it was this is what what I 75 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: was talking about last week, and I was talking about 76 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: this team, like just offensively and defensively, they looked apart. 77 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: I mean, they are explosive offensively. That quarterback come on 78 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: some of those plays he made where he got out 79 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: of trouble and then threw the ball downfield. I mean 80 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: it's just you see his strength, his ability to throw 81 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: the ball kind of out of whim. He just seems 82 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: like he just flicks it and it goes down the 83 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: field twenty thirty yards. That team looks pretty scary. And 84 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: then you look at the defense affront, and you look 85 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: at that those guys affront that can cause so much havoc. 86 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: It looks like a really formidable team. Yep, they do 87 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: look good. Uh, Carson Wentz, I thought, you know, everyone 88 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: everyone knows how tall he is and how big he is, 89 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: but I don't think even coming out of college people 90 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: thought he was going to be as mobiles as he 91 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: has been. And that touchdown he threw where I don't 92 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,559 Speaker 1: even know if he had any feet on the ground 93 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: when he when he lofted it up there, I thought 94 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,119 Speaker 1: that was talking about the one to Clement, Yeah, where 95 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: you know, he just kind of jumped and got hit 96 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: and threw a perfect pass and they got a great catch. 97 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: And you know, his his receivers are helping him out 98 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, he had a guy that 99 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: was going to be a first round bust and now 100 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: he's actually playing like a first rounder. So he's got 101 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: he's got guys helping him and and the defense is 102 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,799 Speaker 1: helping him. And then he's he's really good. He's he's 103 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: he's a much better athlete than I think people thought. 104 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: I agree with that. As your opinion changed after last 105 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: night on what you thought of Philly or Washington Amber, No, 106 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: they've been pretty good. I mean Philly, they've I've expected 107 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: them to be relatively good. Now the Redskins, I didn't 108 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: really expect them to be three and three right now. 109 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: I thought that would be winning a little bit more. 110 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: For the most part, I definitely did not expect the 111 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: Cowboys to be tied with them right now with three 112 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: and three, So that's definitely going to be an interesting 113 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: match to go up against them. And now we'll really see, 114 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: or we'll be able to really see where the Cowboys 115 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: are really standing in if they indeed improve in all 116 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: those areas that we saw improvement in the game, sorry, 117 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: in the game against the forty nine ers. So did 118 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: your opinions changed last night? Well, I thought that they 119 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: handled a division opponent fairly. Well, I mean so that 120 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: that's always an impressive win because you know you're expecting 121 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: that game to be close, and it was. That was 122 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: the second time they played him, too. Yeah, they're done 123 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: with those teams are done for the season. Yeah, which 124 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: seems weird to me, but I'll say I'll say this 125 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: though I don't know if this is kind of get 126 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: us in a different direction, but this game coming up 127 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: for the Cowboys is the biggest game of the year 128 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,679 Speaker 1: in my opinion. This is the game. I know it's Tuesday, 129 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: but this is the biggest game for them. It really is. 130 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: I think this is the swing game. This will tell 131 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: you where you're gonna go. You're sitting right there in 132 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: the intersection. Are you're gonna go straight? You're gonna go right? 133 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Because this is the game 134 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: because you got Kansas City in Atlanta coming up. If 135 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: you think you're gonna win both those games, we haven't 136 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: seen that kind of consistency. So you got to win 137 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: this game. If to get to four and three, even 138 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: if you split and get to five and four, that's good. 139 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: And I know, I mean that's that's not great, but 140 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: it's it's the best you can kind of hope for. 141 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: I think. So you've got to beat the Redskins, and 142 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: I know there's no must wins this early in the year. 143 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: This is to me as close as it gets to that. 144 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: I don't I don't disagree with that. Just when you 145 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, yeah, and you know what, I'm sorry, 146 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: I'll let you finish that, but I don't think it's 147 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: that much out of the way of what we were 148 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: talking about. Because of what Philadelphia is doing and because 149 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: they're kind of up there, you've got to you've got 150 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: to establish second place and you gotta, you know, you 151 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: gotta stay with them the best you can and beating 152 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: the Redskins and getting a division record and all that 153 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's why this is me. This is 154 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: such a huge win and a huge game for them. 155 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: And the other part to that is now you're starting 156 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: to think if if Philly keeps winning and they maintain 157 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: this lead, and all you do is, let's say, even 158 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: just split with Philly and they maintain that lead, now 159 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: you're looking at wildcards. So those games become even more important. 160 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: The game against Atlanta becomes extremely important. The game against 161 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: Seattle becomes extremely important. These teams, Yeah, well, you already 162 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: lost a game, and so you start then you start 163 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: rooting for the ram to keep winning because you want 164 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: them to just go and win that division so they're 165 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: not in that wildcard hunt. But that's the point, like, 166 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: now you have to really look at all those wildcard teams, 167 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: and really those games become way more important in Washington's 168 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: right there, and that mix with those wildcard teams, you 169 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: can't really afford to lose any NFC games going down here. 170 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: But well, I was gonna say I agree in the 171 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: sense that, you know, I said last week that they're 172 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: not gonna make the playoffs if they lose the forty 173 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: nine ers. So all right, you handle You handled the 174 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: forty nine ers, that's good. This isn't gonna be like 175 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: a you know, ten eleven win season if you can't win, 176 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: like if they can't win this game against the Redskins, 177 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: then it just furthers that idea that this is, you know, 178 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: eight and eight type of trading wins and losses. You're 179 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: never really digging out of that five hundred sub five 180 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: hundred hole. Because yeah, I agree with that. I think 181 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,719 Speaker 1: the best realistic expectation is a split with Atlanta in 182 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: Kansas City. So you need this to kind of not 183 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: lose too much ground in that department. So you know, 184 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: if you're trying to get to nine wins are better. 185 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: This is the type of game you need to win. 186 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: The one thing that looks really good for the Cowboys 187 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: right now is when you start thinking about the injury situation. 188 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: I went last night and I looked at each team's 189 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: injured reserve. Sorry, what were you buy saying screw the 190 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: injured reserve? Those teams got beat up last night. No 191 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: they did, and we'll get to that part too, but 192 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: I wanted just starting with the injured reserve part of this. Like, 193 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: right now, the Cowboys have five guys on injured reserve, 194 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: and the guys like guys like Rico and Stephen Paia 195 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: and Charles Tapper and Duke Thomas and Zack Desert, like 196 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: these are guys that weren't even your front line guys. 197 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: But check this out. Philly has seven guys on IR. 198 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: They've got Darnce Rolls, who was a their lead running back. 199 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: They've got Caleb Sturgis, who is their kicker, which Cowboys 200 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: are dealing with a kicker situation, but he's not on 201 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: injured reserve. And then last night they lose Jason Peters, 202 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: who is their Pro Bowl left tackle. They don't know 203 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: how long yet. There are some conflicting reports this morning 204 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: as to whether it's a torn a sayl or not. 205 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 1: Either way, he's gonna miss some hime and that's significant 206 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: time for he left tackle. Judging by the way he 207 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,839 Speaker 1: was carted off, it was almost like you would assume, yeah, 208 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: goodbye forever. Right, So that's that's the Eagles. Then Washington 209 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: lost the first round pick Jonathan Allen to injured reserve. 210 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 1: Their kicker Dustin Hopkins is also an injured reserve. Last night, 211 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: their Pro Bowl guard Brandon Sherriff goes down with an injury. 212 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: Don't know the extent of that when just yet they 213 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: lost another one of their tackles late in the game. 214 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: Williams didn't finish the game. So three of their top 215 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: offensive lineman got hurt in the game last night, including 216 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: some of the guys they already have on a high 217 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: are What about a Norman. Norman's out right now, But 218 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,439 Speaker 1: I heard last night they said there's a possibility he 219 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: can play this week. Yeah, you don't have I wasn't 220 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: believing he was going to miss a game. You don't 221 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: have a commercial with another guy on another team, back 222 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: and forth, and then he has a commercial and then 223 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: you missed the game. Yeah, I think he's gonna probably play, 224 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: but we'll see how they know something else about you know, 225 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: these guys staying I think they said on Monday Night 226 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: Football last night that like Jay Gruden was just like 227 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: Trent Williams probably isn't going to practice again this year. Yeah, 228 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: you know, he's just gonna be a game time type 229 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: of deal assumed, like the left tackle here, assuming he 230 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: didn't get hurt too badly at the tail end, right, 231 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: I mean they lost and yeah, I don't know the significance, 232 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: but they lost for offensive linemen of significant of significance 233 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: over the course of that game last night. And so 234 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking at, and that on a short week, 235 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: that'll be interesting to see how that plays out. And 236 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,119 Speaker 1: then obviously the Giants, we've already seen them get platooned. 237 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry ahead use that word again. We already seen him. 238 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: We've already seen them get damaged by the fact that 239 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: they lost their best player, Odell Beckham Junior, and then 240 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: lost Brandon Marshland, then lost d Wayne Harris. These are 241 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: all that basically, that's their wide receiver. That's three other 242 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: top four wide receivers or the return guy. Our time's coming. No, 243 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is right now as it sits, and 244 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: we know this about the foot the NFL injuries are 245 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: part of the game. Right now, as it sits, the 246 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: Cowboys sit in a very good position because they haven't 247 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: had those kinds of big injuries two key players that 248 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: have kept them out for the rest of the season. 249 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: Now they've had some injuries they've had to deal with, 250 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: but it's been two, three, four games. It has not 251 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: been eight games. It has not been ir So I 252 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: think for right now, you probably are going to experience 253 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 1: some injuries at some point, But for right now, Cowboys 254 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: are sitting in a pretty good position. Yeah. I don't 255 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: know as a hell of a spend job right there, 256 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: like my washing machine? How's that a spin job? It's 257 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 1: fact like like Bay, I don't know like that. By 258 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: the time you is, it's all factual. You're right. But 259 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: by the time you were done talking, I would have 260 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: thought the Cowboys are in first in the division right now. 261 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: Oh all it says is right now in the as 262 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: far as injuries are concerned, they're in a good position. 263 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: And that's a good thing for the Cowboys. It doesn't 264 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: mean they're gonna win games. Because I saw a Green 265 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: Bay team what was that? And it was the year 266 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: they went to the Super Bowl, had like seventeen guys 267 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: on IR. So it doesn't mean because you have a 268 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: lot of guys on I R, you can't go. But 269 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: it also depends on those guys that are Who are 270 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: the guys that are that are on IR? Who are 271 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: the guys that you're missing? Like Green Bay? I don't 272 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: factor green Bay anymore because I just don't think they 273 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: can do it without that Quarterback's a heck of a 274 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: philosophical question. Would you rather be six and one and 275 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: coping with some serious injuries or three and three healthy 276 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: with the potential to kind of I mean, but yeah, 277 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: you have all the guys you need to do that. 278 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: You know. Another factor of this is this, We're gonna 279 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: start to see some of these games change a little 280 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: bit with the weather and get colder. And this is 281 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: the team. The Cowboys are a team that's built for 282 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: that obviously, the way they run the ball and the 283 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: way their offensive line is and the way Dak's playing 284 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: and he's not really a big down the field throw 285 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: er time, So you know, that says you got to 286 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: stay in position because you're gonna get to a point 287 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: in the season where you can you know, I think 288 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: a lot of injuries is I just cold weather it's 289 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: just the injuries and stuff. You want to be able 290 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: to grind games out, and so they do have the 291 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: personnel to play that way, that physical style that I 292 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: think they could maybe you know, win some games down 293 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: the stretch that maybe you maybe they wouldn't think that 294 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: they would. There's nobody on the schedule that you say 295 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: they can't beat them, not not the Cowboys. Yeah, so 296 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: that's it. But there's nobody on the schedule that you're like, 297 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: they won't lose to them. That team was just gone. 298 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 1: I wrote that on my column last week, like they 299 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: just played the last game that you're like, you know, 300 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: really really confident. Chargers are one of the hottest teams. 301 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: You're not confident about the time? No, not a division way, no, 302 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: not all no way, not a division game on the 303 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: road in December against the team that has had success 304 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: against them and has shown nothing as recently last week 305 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: they beat Denver. No. No, And yeah, that game seems 306 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: you really feel right, I mean, no, char Chargers aren't 307 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: in the same boat. Like there have you seen Melvin 308 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: Ingram and Joey Bosa. This is starting to play now. 309 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: Those guys, I know they're fifteen, they're pretty good but 310 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: there is not a game. Crazy part is they're probably 311 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: gonna be the last team in their division. Oh yeah, 312 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: but it's a pretty good division. There's not an easy out. 313 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: There's not a game left on this schedule that I'm 314 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: just like that should be a win. There isn't one. 315 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: I looked, Yeah, you were searching. Yeah, I'm not saying. 316 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: I'm obviously like they're gonna win games, obviously like they're 317 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: not gonna finish three in thirteen. And there are no 318 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: guarantees none, although last week Red Skin, I don't think. 319 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: I don't think they were guarantees last week. Last week 320 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: when we were talking about that team, we were even saying, 321 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: like this team hasn't lost by a lot. Did the Redskin, 322 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: like off the top of the red Skins play on Thanksgiving? 323 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: I doubt it. I don't think so. I mean, I 324 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: don't know if they've played Detroit, and I don't know 325 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: if they played that night game. Yeah, I don't because 326 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: all I'm saying is is then that means that they 327 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: would have to go back on a short week, Yes, 328 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: when the Cowboys play Thursday night, and then if twice 329 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: they have to go on a short on a short 330 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: week against the Cowboys, I think so, and let against 331 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: the Giants is that they do play Thanksgiving, Okay, okay, 332 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: So I was just thinking that then that they had 333 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: to have a short week to come and play that 334 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: Thursday game, then that would be a game I think 335 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you know, you would think should be able 336 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: to win. But you know, division games are all up 337 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: in the air anyways, I'll rephrase, Yeah, San Francisco was 338 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: a should win. Got it there. There aren't any more 339 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: should wins. There's like can wins now, you know. But 340 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: it's a slight difference. I think usually those ends up 341 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: in five hundred seasons. I'm just saying, they got their 342 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: work cut out for him. Man, there's no way around that. 343 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: So do you do you think though, if if, if 344 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: they play to the point where let's assume for a 345 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: second that what we saw at the end of the 346 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: Green Bay game and what we saw last week suggests 347 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: that they are starting to figure this thing out from 348 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: the standpoint of they're running game. If they're off, that 349 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: change your opinion about whether there are games that are 350 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: left on the schedule that they should win playing that 351 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: style of football. If they're playing at their best, does 352 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: that change your opinion about games that they should win 353 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: down the stretch. Yes, yeah, I think so. But and 354 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give them that benefit of doubt. They 355 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: got to show me more than a game and a quarter. 356 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: A game and a quarter a game against the O 357 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: and seven team, right, and a quarter in a game 358 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: that they lost, Right, I need a little more than that. 359 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: I'm with you. But if they do get it rolling 360 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: like that, then sure, because as we saw him roll 361 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: them off last year, like, if you're playing that style 362 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: of football, they can win some games. They can stack 363 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 1: some games together, you know, a lot of games. But 364 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: they have some issues right now though. I mean this 365 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: is these games are gonna be close. There's gonna be 366 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: some games down to the wire, and their security blanket 367 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: that they've had for the last three or four years 368 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: is not with them this week, and who knows after that. 369 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: And I don't know when we want to talk about 370 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: the kicking situation and all that, But I mean that 371 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: these games will come down to the wire, and the 372 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: Cowboys to me have the best, if not you know, 373 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: definitely one of the best kickers in the league. And 374 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: so something's gonna have to give here in the next 375 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: few weeks. Yeah, they have gotten very comfortable because they've 376 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: had now for a lot of years, they've had a 377 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: good kicker that you know, you get within a fifty 378 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: yard field goal and you're like, let's do it, Like 379 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: you don't even worry about it as a fan, as 380 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: somebody watching and observing games, I don't even think to 381 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: about him like I was gonna make it. I'm surprised 382 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: if he doesn't make it. And I remember a time 383 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: that was in case, Like, there have been years, a 384 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: lot of years here where you didn't have that kind 385 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: of kicker in It looks like what you're gonna have 386 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: to deal with now for at least a week, and 387 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: who knows how long after that, I would guess several. Yeah, 388 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: so it's it's not gonna be right. It's in close 389 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: games or you're playing really good teams. That kind of 390 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: stuff matters. Before we go to break. I let's just 391 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: say they've got workouts today, They've got Um, I'm bringing 392 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: in Jason Myers, Mike Nugent. I don't think that they 393 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: wound up getting that young Hookho guy. They didn't. I 394 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: don't think so. Um and Sam Arowin Hill, who was 395 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: here in training camp and they're bringing which I think 396 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: this is Yeah, I was wrong. I'm sorry. I still 397 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: maintain why, Like, what do you stand to lose by 398 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: bringing him in and taking a look at him like 399 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: there's no talent with it? You're right, m You're both right. 400 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 1: It's a move the Cowboys would do. It's a it's 401 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: a Jerry Jones type of move. But what you say, 402 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: we don't need you to get it right here, we 403 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: want it need to be right when you walk into 404 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: do as right as you can be, Like I think 405 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: hell of a hell of a vote of not a 406 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: vote of confidence. It's just funny to me that, you know, 407 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: long snapper is such a it's the most overlooked job 408 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: in the NFL. They're bringing in a guy they're signed, 409 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: like they're bringing in a guy to do this workout, 410 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: a long snapper to help with the workout. Because like 411 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: LP's you're like, nah, you don't hold on, hold on. 412 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,479 Speaker 1: I have to say this too. Do you know who 413 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: after Heath? You know who the kicker is? LP? Lattice 414 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: Er you met? Just the visual of that makes me laugh, 415 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: Like as big as he is, as tall as he is, 416 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: him back there like kicking field that's gonna look weird. 417 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: I was telling some people. I was like, so you 418 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: mean to tell me those bad chicken strips that I 419 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: had at halftime of the forty nine game cost me 420 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: a chance to watch him kick do some kicks at halftime. Yeah, 421 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: and I missed that, um something else. So so shuffling 422 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: around everything you know to get Jeff Swain would be 423 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: your backup snapper to Chris Jones to LP. Which also, 424 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: what did we learn Chris Jones is your fourth kicker 425 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: on the team at least I don't even know, maybe 426 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: someone behind Heath and LP. We learned that I was right, 427 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: didn't we that? Yeah? Well, according to Brian, which if 428 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: you want to believe Brian, you know, it makes sense 429 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: that you don't want to mess with the guy's mechanics. 430 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: That was Bryan said that. Literally, it is a situation 431 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: where like coaches are afraid of messing with because it 432 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: is very different mechanics. You're afraid of messing with the 433 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: mechanics of a punter having him also kick. And so 434 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: that's why is not your backup kicker. You also don't 435 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: have a holder if Chris Jones is the kicker. I mean, 436 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: you got to find a new guy. I'm sure. I'm sure. 437 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: Well they're gonna have to find a new guy to 438 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: snap if they have to get to that point. So 439 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: what Jason's thought is the snap is the most important thing. 440 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: You don't get that, then nothing, right. Yeah, so get 441 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: the guy that's been consistent for thirteen years, like he's 442 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: doing that. He's he's good there, Which goes back to 443 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: my point that I like, he's so revered in this 444 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: organization that they're like, Noah, like, bring a guy in 445 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: to do this work out you you don't need to 446 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: worry about the rest. Yeah, well, you have this offensive line, 447 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: and you have Zeke, and you have a mobile quarterback. 448 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that a two point conversion isn't a 449 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: better option than a backup kicker kicking at thirty four 450 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: year you'll get You only want to get fifty percent 451 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: of them in order to get the same points, right, 452 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: So that's true, And fifty percent is the It's about 453 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: forty eight percent is the conversion rate, right, So probably 454 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: you're probably better off. The only thing I think would 455 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: be kind of challenging is that now you're eating into 456 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: those plays. I would assume that you would use usually 457 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: in short yardist goal line situations because now you have 458 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: to use them for extra points, and so now you're 459 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: showing that maybe a little earlier in games and maybe 460 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: you want to run a quarterback draw with a pass option. 461 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: I don't care how many times you run, keep running. 462 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: It's unstoppable if you do it right. How many like, 463 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,479 Speaker 1: how many times have they done that? And how many 464 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: times is Dak not when when they point When they 465 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: put on the first touchdown of the game, I had 466 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: the binoculars on there, and they spread three receivers out 467 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: and then one to the left, and I was just 468 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: looking at it like this is a touchdown, Like there's 469 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: no way that whoever is over the right guard, there's 470 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: no way that they're gonna stop them. And it was 471 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: pretty easy. So that's what I think you gotta do. 472 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: Spread them out and then let Dak just figure it 473 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: out that that I mean that was a touchdown or 474 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: the two point conversion against the Packers in the playoffs. 475 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: They did it against the Rams. Still they had that 476 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: penalty on Travis Frederick, but I still think that that's 477 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: almost unstoppable. They picked up a third down in San 478 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: Francisco doing it. It's yeah, yeah, all right, looks like 479 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: our first break. When we come back, I want to 480 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: ask these guys a question about about the rest of 481 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: the NFC and who scares you. We're gonna talk a 482 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,959 Speaker 1: little bit about the rest of the chairs that are 483 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: in the mix and h and how much the Cowboys 484 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: should be worried about particular teams and also look at 485 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: the quarterbacks from those teams. What quarterbacks are still left 486 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: in this thing that could pose big problems because of 487 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: their ability to score. We'll do that when we come 488 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. We 489 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: the entertainment loving people want a small our phone built 490 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: for us. 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Back to the brink, 532 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's the second segment of the break Life 533 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: in SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking NFC 534 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: East and the NFC Cowboys an interesting position. They're at 535 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: three and three right now, and there are right now 536 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 1: there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven teams 537 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: that have a better record than they do in the NFC, 538 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: and then there are two other teams that have the 539 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: exact same record that they do. There's a total of 540 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: ten teams that are at five hundred or above Cowboys 541 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,959 Speaker 1: at the bottom of that list. So here's what you got. 542 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: You got Seattle at four and two, you got New 543 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: Orleans at four and two, you got Minnesota at five 544 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: and two, you got the Rams at five and two, 545 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 1: you got the Eagles at six and one, you got 546 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: Caroline at four and three, Green Bay at four and three. 547 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: Those all the teams that are above the Cowboys, and 548 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: then tied with the Cowboys, you have Detroit at three 549 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,120 Speaker 1: and three, and you have Washington at three and three. 550 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: Looking at all those teams, which of those teams do 551 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 1: you think is the biggest has the biggest And we've 552 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: already talked about the Eagle, So let's leave the Eagles 553 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: out for a second. Look. Yeah, just the NFC picture 554 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: without the Eagles involved, assuming that they let's assume that 555 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: they're going to just kind of be up there. Who 556 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: are the other teams here that you think are legitimate 557 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 1: threats to win and represent the NFC in Super Bowl? 558 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: What did you say Carolina's record is Carolina is four 559 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: and three. They lost two in a row. Yeah, I 560 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: actually just got in an argument about this because and 561 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: Minnesota is leading the NFC North. They have a nasty defense, 562 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: their their running game has been solid, which is impressive 563 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: since Dalvin Cook went down with a torn acl Now 564 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 1: Switheltavius Murray and Jerick McKinnon, I just don't. I don't 565 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: take them as seriously as maybe I should, because Sam 566 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: Bradford's been out all for most of the year. Case 567 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: Kams played well, but you know, and then Teddy Teddy 568 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: Bridgewater's supposedly back, but it's way too early for me 569 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: to assume that he's going to be what he was. Um, 570 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: So I'm interested because you know, I just again I 571 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: always maybe I give too much respect to the quarterbacks 572 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: because I don't care what else was wrong with Green Bay. 573 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: I'm I was, I'm rolling with them if Aaron Rodgers 574 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: is in the game and in a similar vein, I 575 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: look at Detroit as a team to watch in that 576 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: division just because they have Matt Stafford and he's typically 577 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: capable of putting his team on his back that way. 578 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: M Philly, I you know, I think I had a 579 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: pretty good idea what they were heading into that game, 580 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: but they just re emphasized that. Honestly, their defense I 581 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: think is the best part about them. But when Carson 582 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 1: Wentz plays like that, they certainly look like the best 583 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: team in the conference right now. I think the team 584 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,719 Speaker 1: that's looking pretty good is the Saints. They and they 585 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,239 Speaker 1: have obviously have a quarterback that Phil can go out 586 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: and score points, outscore anybody. They seem kind of balanced 587 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: with some good running attack and their defense. I don't know, 588 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: it just seems like they're being you know, opportunistic and 589 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: making some play. So they to me though that I 590 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: don't mean another Cowboys don't face them, but they seem 591 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: like somebody is going to get in the mix here. 592 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and well, actually they are in the mills. 593 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: We've got we've got good morning football on the TVs 594 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: and here Peter Schreeger said like last week that they're 595 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: set up to go on a run, mainly because they're 596 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: playing well, but also their schedule, like they got the 597 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: Packers the week after Aaron Rodgers got hurt. I think 598 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: they have the Bears this week, which I know they 599 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: just beat the Panthers, but you would think that they 600 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: can get to win there they've got a chance to 601 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: put it together to the point where they're like seven 602 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: and two if they play well. Having said that, I 603 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: don't trust that defense. Like they have Cameron Jordan and 604 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: they got a couple other guys, but like that's that's 605 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: not a defense that strikes fear in your heart, especially 606 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: like the way Philly does. I mean, Fletcher Cox, h 607 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: Timmy Joern again, those corner you know, Ronald Darby, Jalen 608 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: Mills are playing well. Malcolm Jenkins is one of the 609 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: better safeties in the league. That Philly's defense, I think 610 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: is what makes them so formidable, whereas Saints. I think 611 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 1: if the Cowboys were to play the Saints, I mean, 612 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: you're probably talking about like a thirty five thirty one 613 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: type of game. I just you know. That's the interesting 614 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: thing about this is when you look at all of 615 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: the teams that are left in the NFC that are 616 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: in that five hundred or above category, in my opinion, 617 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: there are only two teams that you think are balancing. 618 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: When I say balanced, I mean balance not only from 619 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: a standpoint of being able to run or pass, but 620 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: also has plays good defense. I think it's the Rams 621 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: and I think it's the Eagles. Those are really the 622 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: only two teams that you look at across the board 623 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: and you say, man, they got good pieces everywhere. They 624 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: can do a lot of those things really well. At 625 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: least in what they've shown so far this season. I 626 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: don't think you can find another one that has like 627 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: enough like in all three of those different categories, does 628 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: them equally well. I was about to say, you know, Okay, 629 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: so the Rams beat the Cowboys to improve to three 630 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: and one, and the talking point was, all right, they 631 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: look really good, but they started three and one last 632 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: year and finished four and twelve. They followed that went 633 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: up by losing in a defensive game to the Seahawks. 634 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: And then I think they've won two games since they 635 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: beat Jacksonville whatever, and they beat the crap out of 636 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: Arizona in London. They're five and two. They certainly look 637 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: like basically I'm wondering, is it time to take them 638 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: seriously as a I mean, obviously they're going to be 639 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: in the playoff hunt regardless, but I mean, is this 640 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: a team that could win the West and be a 641 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: you know, a top two seed in the NFC, Because 642 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: it kind of looks that way right now. You would 643 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: think if Carson wentz it was drafted second overall, that 644 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: whoever was taken first, that they would look at and 645 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: go man could have had him. But Golf is playing 646 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: well enough where I'm sure they don't really think that. 647 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: I mean some in the organization probably do. But you know, 648 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: they both are two of the best young quarterbacks in 649 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: the league. So it's Dax and Dax in there too. 650 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: I mean, well, yeah, that's the interesting thing. You look 651 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: at the quarterbacks that are in this mix. There's a 652 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: bunch of young talent in this in these teams as 653 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: far as the quarterback position is concerned. I don't know 654 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: if I've seen this much, this many young quarterbacks performing well, 655 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: because when you think about it, you've got Golf, You've 656 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: got Prescott, you've got Wentz, Um these are all relatively 657 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: really young guys. You've got Wilson, who's not an old guy, 658 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: like he's kind of right there at that point in 659 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: his career when he should be getting to kind of 660 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: the peak of his career, at least getting to the 661 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: point where he's hitting his stride in that peak. Right um. 662 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: Drew Brees is really the only established, long term veteran 663 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: quarterback that's in these ten teams, you got Rogers already 664 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: out in which you assume it's going to be for 665 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: the year. But forget I mean I get there five hundred, 666 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: but I mean Matt Ryan's still hanging around. Yeah right, 667 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Matt Ryan. You're right, Matt Ryan and Matt 668 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: Ryan and staff of Stafford. I don't know, Like right now, 669 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's having some struggles, like their offense is not 670 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: playing great team um, and so I guess from the 671 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: standpoint of just how you look at the quarterbacks that 672 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: are left. You usually look at the quarterbacks and say, 673 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: give me the best quarterback, especially when you get to 674 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: the playoffs and I'm gonna ride. I think that guy's 675 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: probably gonna take his team as far as it can go. 676 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: But I think in this case, I don't know that 677 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: the quarterback. I mean, these quarterbacks are really unproven, so 678 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: you really don't know. Other than Breeze, you really don't 679 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: know what you're getting. Even for the guys that have 680 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: had some success like Ryan and Newton, you still don't 681 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: know because they're playing so inconsistent this year. Yeah, it's fun. 682 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: I mean you think back to five or six years ago, 683 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: I guess twenty twelve was when Russell Wilson came onto 684 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: the scene, and like you could kind of see that 685 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: the Seahawks had the makings of this team that was 686 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: going to be formidable for the foreseeable future. Well you're 687 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: kind of seeing that, you know, shift in the power 688 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: dynamic in the NFC, because you know, the Cowboys have 689 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: a new quarterback. They I mean, they're completely remade from 690 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: what they were even five years ago. The Eagles look 691 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: like they've got it figured out for the next little bit. 692 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: The Rams, which Rams haven't been a team that anybody 693 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: was worried about in fifteen years. And then even you know, 694 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: I like I just said, I'm not impressed by their 695 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: quarterbacks right now, but I think you probably throw the 696 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: Vikings in there too. You know what they've managed to 697 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: build with their defense, So I know, you know, Drew 698 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: Brees and some of those guys are still kicking around, 699 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: but like there's a new there's a new bunch of 700 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: these teams with these young players that are kind of 701 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: on the come up right, and most of them start 702 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: with the quarterback position. It always does most of them stays. 703 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: I mean, the Seahawks had that defense for a couple 704 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: of years before Russell Wilson showed up. You need the 705 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: quarterback before you become a contender. Where would you put 706 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: Prescott right now in that list of quarterbacks. I'm gonna 707 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: run him down for you. A get You've got Breeze, 708 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:42,719 Speaker 1: You've got Russell Wilson, cam Newton, Wentz, Prescott, Stafford, Goff, Bradford. 709 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw Hunley in there, although he's a 710 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: starting quarterback in one on one of those teams. And 711 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: then you got Ryan, where would you put him? Kind 712 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: of in MBIX, that's tough man probably you know, somewhere 713 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: in the middle. The thing about about Dak that that's 714 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: kind of tough to evaluate, and it's a good thing 715 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: for the for the Cowboys is that they don't have 716 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: to lean on him as much as some of these 717 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: other quarterbacks do. And that's why you know his stats, 718 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,839 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if it's still up there. 719 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: I mean, we're looking at some of the TVs that 720 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: have his stats right next to Carson Wentz. He doesn't 721 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: have the passion that's touchdowns interception. Well, he's got six 722 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: hundred more passing yards Wins does. Because he doesn't have 723 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: he didn't have the leading rusher in the league, um 724 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: that he was playing with. But Dak's got eleven more touchdowns, 725 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 1: you know, in in passing and of course and running, 726 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 1: so um, it is hard to evaluate that. I think. 727 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: I think he's he's right in in the middle of 728 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: the pack. Um, they haven't. He hasn't had to go 729 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,879 Speaker 1: win games all the time, but he did a couple 730 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 1: times last year where he needed to go down and 731 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: win and drive and he and he was able to 732 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 1: do that. So I don't know if this is a 733 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: cop out or a hot take. I can't tell which 734 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: is weird. But of that list, there's like you can't 735 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: definitively say Dak is better than a lot of those guys. 736 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: But I think only like two of those guys are 737 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: definitively better than him, Right, That's why I was going 738 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: to go with the questions like who's better. Drew Brees 739 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,879 Speaker 1: is a Hall of Famer and he's in that rare 740 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,439 Speaker 1: category where you're just like, all right, he's on my team, 741 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: we got a good chance to win. He's I mean, 742 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: he's in the Aaron Rodgers category. Who else? Ryan? I mean, 743 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: he won he won NFL MVP, like he's a he's 744 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: really good. I mean Cam has won NFL the MVP, right, Yeah, 745 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: but Cam has like just this horrifying body of roller 746 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,240 Speaker 1: coaster rides. Yeah, where Matt Ryan has, Matt Ryan doesn't. 747 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,479 Speaker 1: He's been Matt had a great year last year. He's 748 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: had a great during his career. He's been up and down. 749 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 1: I think not on the level of am not where 750 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: he's turning the ball, is a better quarterback than Matt Ryan. No, 751 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not nicely making that claim, but 752 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 1: I think that if you're gonna say that that Cam 753 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: Newton is a rollercoaster type quarterback, I think you have 754 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: to say a similar things. I don't have I don't 755 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 1: have the stats on last year. Matt Ryan had a 756 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,720 Speaker 1: great year. There have been a lot of years before 757 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: that where Matt Ryan was kind of up and down. 758 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: We'll go tally it up and find like the number 759 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 1: of games over their careers where they've both had like 760 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: two or more turnovers, and I bet you it'll be 761 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 1: vastly more. Well, if we're just talking about turnofs, we're 762 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: gonna isolate the stat of talking like maybe so like 763 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,239 Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is either pretty good or great like he like, 764 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: he's not usually awful like Cam Newton can be great, 765 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: but he can also be like so bad, like unbelievably bad. 766 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is never unbelievably I think it's a hard 767 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: compared at Ryan doesn't lose to a Bears team that 768 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 1: completes four passes like that would not happen. That's not gonna. 769 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: It's historic. That's okay, that's history. I think I think 770 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 1: you and I know Nick won't like this, but I 771 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: think you probably throw Stafford in there too. No, Stafford 772 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: is better than Matt, I mean better than Stafford is 773 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,799 Speaker 1: definitively a better quarterback than Dak right now in terms 774 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: of what he can do that like he you know, 775 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: like I said, Matt or Matt Stafford can put his 776 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: team on his back and get a win. Um you 777 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 1: agree with that, Yeah, I do. And I'm not that 778 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: like sour on Matt Matt Stafford. I mean, he he 779 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,960 Speaker 1: does throw the ball a lot. He has a lot 780 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 1: of stats. I think sometimes those stats are a little 781 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 1: bit misleading. They're a very one dimensional team, and that's 782 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: not his fault. I mean they needed to and they 783 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: tried to get some running back help in there, but Um, 784 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,840 Speaker 1: they don't scare you as much because of that. And 785 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,840 Speaker 1: you know, he lost a potential Hall of Fame player 786 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: just who decided not to play anymore. I mean, that's 787 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,280 Speaker 1: their team. Thought he'd fall off after that. I actually, 788 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: that's when I got a lot of respect for Matt 789 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 1: what he did that you after Megatron left. I got 790 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him. I forgot one to actually, 791 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:53,359 Speaker 1: which Um, Russell Wilson's career path gives me so much 792 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,120 Speaker 1: optimism and confidence for Dad, because I think it's really similar. 793 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: I mean, in the first two or so years of 794 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: his career, Russell Wilson was doing the same type of 795 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: stuff and now you see him blossom into this you know, 796 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: three or four hundred yard guy who's dropping dimes and 797 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 1: again can kind of carry his team. He doesn't have 798 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 1: the supporting cast that he did when he was younger, 799 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 1: but he's developed as a pocket passer and a pure 800 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,160 Speaker 1: quarterback to the point where you would put him up there. 801 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: So I probably put him above Dak right now too. 802 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 1: But I mean that's what that's four guys in the NFC, 803 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: and I put I mean Dak, Goff Wentz, who am 804 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: I forget cousins like all, I mean, I think they're 805 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 1: all kind of right there together. I think Dak is 806 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 1: just as good, if not better than any of those guys. Yeah, 807 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: and actually what you said about Russell Wilson is the 808 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,839 Speaker 1: reason why when I look at it, this entire list 809 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 1: in the NFC, I actually think Seattle is still the 810 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 1: team to beat. I think their defense is far and 811 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: away better than any other defense on this list. And 812 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: I think that that, like you said, Russell Wilson, he's 813 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: getting to that point in his career where he doesn't 814 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,839 Speaker 1: really need he can actually carry the offense. They don't 815 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,880 Speaker 1: need a running game to do a whole lot. He 816 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: can carry the offense. He could score points, he could 817 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: put up points in bunches too, and so and he 818 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: has that ability. Runny has ability to throw. It's the 819 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: fascinating thing about the NFL, though, Like Russell Wilson won 820 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: a Super Bowl when you know he was making six 821 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,440 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year and that whole team was 822 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: loaded with talent. And now and Tony Romo probably saw 823 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 1: that and hated it. And now Russell Wilson's getting older 824 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 1: and he's Tony Romo because I mean, they still have 825 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 1: the talent on defense, but like he is a one 826 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,880 Speaker 1: man show on offense. Yeah, I mean, they don't have 827 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,600 Speaker 1: an offensive line. They've got a committee doesn't even do 828 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: justice to their running back situations. It's like a different guy, 829 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 1: everything better. And then I mean, Jimmy Graham's there, but 830 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,320 Speaker 1: and Doug Baldwin's a really good player, but it's not 831 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,360 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not anything worth getting excited about, especially 832 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,040 Speaker 1: if you can't block the other team's defense. Yes, so 833 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,400 Speaker 1: somehow they're they're making that work and they're putting up 834 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: points and put up twenty four against the Giants last week. 835 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 1: And that's a good defense that the Giants have there. 836 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,560 Speaker 1: So I mean I think that I think that they're 837 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: still the team I look at as the team to 838 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: beat me in a seat for right now. We'll see 839 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: how it all plays out down the stretch. Let's get 840 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,759 Speaker 1: some questions, you guys, give us a call. 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Tommy 889 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,800 Speaker 1: John gives you the feeling of freedom where it counts 890 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,000 Speaker 1: over three million pairs sold. We've put in the hustle 891 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,920 Speaker 1: to make sure you're nestled. Shop Exclusive Cowboys Underwear Tommy 892 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,920 Speaker 1: John dot com, Forward Slash Cowboys. Thank you, Nick. Welcome. 893 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,400 Speaker 1: Actually I saw yesterday I think was it you on 894 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,880 Speaker 1: the show? Was that you on the show Dave that 895 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,600 Speaker 1: said you won't How many people have listened to this 896 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: and yeah, somebody tweeted me yesterday like, oh broke down, Yeah, 897 00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,759 Speaker 1: good for you. Yeah I was. I wanted to reply, 898 00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,600 Speaker 1: I'm happy for you and your boys, but I thought 899 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,160 Speaker 1: that might be appropriate. Would you guys say that we 900 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,799 Speaker 1: just kept that Tommy John segment brief. See what you did? Now, 901 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,359 Speaker 1: you know what? I see what you did. I'm trying 902 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:08,880 Speaker 1: to say, I see what she did there. Yeah I 903 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,960 Speaker 1: hate myself too, Yeah I did too. Yeah. All right, um, 904 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,920 Speaker 1: let's get into some questions. We'll take costs to one, four, eight, seven, two, 905 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,240 Speaker 1: twenty one h two. We'll also take questions on Twitter 906 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:22,400 Speaker 1: at Cowboys Break with Box or Briefs. Yeah yeah, I 907 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: love that look him seriously. Got it. Let's take a 908 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,560 Speaker 1: call in Houston, Landing. What do you have? Hey, thanks 909 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 1: for taking my call. First off, um uh, just like 910 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,920 Speaker 1: my second time getting on there. Enjoy our shows and 911 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,120 Speaker 1: like I said, than to take my call. Thank you. 912 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,960 Speaker 1: I have a question, Um, A lot of people were 913 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,440 Speaker 1: seeing at the end of the season that Zeke was 914 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: kind of out of shape and slow and not looking himself, 915 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,719 Speaker 1: which I can see that, But do you think was 916 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,040 Speaker 1: it because he was always shaved coming to the season 917 00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,920 Speaker 1: or do you think it was because he had, you know, 918 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:03,400 Speaker 1: all those things on his mind. The issue was on 919 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 1: his mind because gifts have Cisco. He looked like the 920 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,680 Speaker 1: same zem twenty sixteen. So that was my question. And 921 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,880 Speaker 1: I also got a fun set for you guys. I 922 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,360 Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed, but Brendan car has three picks. 923 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,920 Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my cough all right, thanks for the call. 924 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 1: I did know that because people update me about it 925 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,239 Speaker 1: every time. He's got three picks in seven games. With 926 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 1: the Ravens. He had three picks in his final fifty 927 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,840 Speaker 1: three games with the Cowboys. I believe somebody tweeted me that. 928 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,799 Speaker 1: I'm not shouts out to whoever said that, I'm sorry 929 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,399 Speaker 1: for stealing your fun fact, but yeah, that's true. Well, 930 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:45,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Never mind, Gavin Escobar is 931 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: a Raven now too, so get ready for him to 932 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,719 Speaker 1: just tear the league up. I'm sure based on the 933 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:55,040 Speaker 1: way everybody else is going so excited. I never once 934 00:44:55,239 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 1: thought that Ezekiel Elliott like looked fat or you know, 935 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,680 Speaker 1: I got any different than last year personally. No, I 936 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,120 Speaker 1: do think he looked, if you want to say, slower 937 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,520 Speaker 1: or indecisive, or just not as crisp as he did 938 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,879 Speaker 1: last year. I do also think that's true. Whether it's 939 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,200 Speaker 1: because the legal case is weighing on him, or he's 940 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,800 Speaker 1: stressed out about that, or the offensive line is different 941 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,520 Speaker 1: and it just takes a while for that stuff to 942 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,600 Speaker 1: get going. I think there's probably eighteen things that contributed 943 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,839 Speaker 1: to it, hopefully, And you're right, I mean that, Yeah, 944 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,719 Speaker 1: Sunday was the most he's looked like his rookie self 945 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,719 Speaker 1: so far this year. Maybe a little bit of that's 946 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,160 Speaker 1: got to do with because you're playing one of the 947 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,320 Speaker 1: worst teams in the league. I don't know, or you know, 948 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,960 Speaker 1: maybe the offensive line's clicking. You would like, you know, 949 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,960 Speaker 1: you hope that's the reason why we're going to need 950 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,520 Speaker 1: to see some more, but hopefully it's a trend that continues. 951 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,440 Speaker 1: So do you guys think that maybe because this is 952 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,080 Speaker 1: the second year and he's only been in the league 953 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,759 Speaker 1: two years, but this is the second year. Last year 954 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,680 Speaker 1: is saying a similar thing happened. He didn't start off hot. 955 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,879 Speaker 1: He kind of got going as the season went along, 956 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,200 Speaker 1: but that was that was two weeks. Now, I get 957 00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,120 Speaker 1: I get it. I understand what you're saying. I guess 958 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,400 Speaker 1: my point is, do you think that maybe some of 959 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:11,960 Speaker 1: this and this year, I think there were some other 960 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,320 Speaker 1: factors obviously that weren't there last year that could have 961 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,279 Speaker 1: linked in the amount of time andicul to get going. 962 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,040 Speaker 1: Most importantly, my opinion is the offensive line. But do 963 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,680 Speaker 1: you think that part of this could be the fact 964 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,440 Speaker 1: that you know, it just he doesn't play a lot 965 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,399 Speaker 1: of preseason games, so it's not like he goes into 966 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,719 Speaker 1: the season already conditioned and ready to be able to 967 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 1: get his best production, and maybe if you played him 968 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,800 Speaker 1: a little bit more in the preseason that maybe I 969 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,279 Speaker 1: know you're not a big fan of the preseason, so 970 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,360 Speaker 1: I get that, But do you think that maybe that 971 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,760 Speaker 1: could be part of it? And you're as a coaching staff, 972 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,640 Speaker 1: you're kind of expect you're kind of giving up that 973 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,759 Speaker 1: that time that it'll take him to get going in 974 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,920 Speaker 1: the season because you want to keep him healthy during 975 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,440 Speaker 1: the preseason. Does that make sense? It makes sense, But 976 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: I don't agree with it. Okay, why did you look 977 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,919 Speaker 1: like you just I be cut? First of all? Yeah, 978 00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,400 Speaker 1: because I don't want to lose good play players and 979 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,040 Speaker 1: games that don't matter. I said that a million times. 980 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep saying it, and I'm fully aware that 981 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,080 Speaker 1: maybe you lose some things by not giving those guys 982 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,520 Speaker 1: some reps. But I just don't I don't buy that. 983 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,520 Speaker 1: Zeke got every practice rep. I mean, how many practice 984 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,400 Speaker 1: reps did he get out in Oxnard? Like he was 985 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,600 Speaker 1: there all summer long, getting the vast majority of those carries, 986 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,879 Speaker 1: taking it to the end zone on his last rep 987 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,840 Speaker 1: of practice every freaking day. He's an All Pro player. 988 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,239 Speaker 1: He had one hundred yards in his first game of 989 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,880 Speaker 1: the year. I mean, it's not like it's not like 990 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,960 Speaker 1: he's been off actually been more productive this year at 991 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,399 Speaker 1: the beginning the than last year. Right if if him 992 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,040 Speaker 1: running for one hundred and eleven yards, which I think 993 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,920 Speaker 1: was his tally against the Giants, is the I mean, 994 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,600 Speaker 1: if that's oh no, he didn't play her in the preseason, 995 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,719 Speaker 1: so they only ran for one hundred yards against the jat. No, 996 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,080 Speaker 1: I'm not buying that. I'm sorry, um, and I don't 997 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,640 Speaker 1: buy that that's the reason why it's been a slow 998 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,200 Speaker 1: start either. I think, you know, I think a little 999 00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:57,640 Speaker 1: bit of the off field has to do with it, 1000 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,520 Speaker 1: and just it's you know, how can that not take 1001 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,719 Speaker 1: up some of your brain space and then getting acclimated 1002 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,800 Speaker 1: to aligne that I think we would all agree took 1003 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,680 Speaker 1: has taken longer and has had some more struggles than 1004 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,360 Speaker 1: a lot of people thought. Well, I wouldn't agree with 1005 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:18,400 Speaker 1: the whole off field issue kind of interfering with his performance. 1006 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,920 Speaker 1: I do agree, yes, it matters in the weekly preparation 1007 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,040 Speaker 1: preparing to go against the team, But as far as 1008 00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,200 Speaker 1: speed and what he's doing, you know, if he's slow 1009 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,800 Speaker 1: or whatever, I don't think it plays into that because 1010 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,480 Speaker 1: once you're in a game, that's your main focus. But 1011 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,400 Speaker 1: if you're doing prepare, well, don't you think that carries 1012 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,080 Speaker 1: over to the game. Yeah, but preparing and studying the 1013 00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,839 Speaker 1: opposing team that's completely different to how you're gonna run 1014 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:51,359 Speaker 1: and your speed. I'm not saying like obvious, it's it's 1015 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,320 Speaker 1: not like, it's not like it's forty times going to 1016 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,040 Speaker 1: change because he's distracted by this. But if if he's 1017 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,800 Speaker 1: not preparing the right way, he's not seeing the you know, 1018 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,640 Speaker 1: he doesn't see the cut when he needs to see it, 1019 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,200 Speaker 1: or he's indecisive because he's not sure how that hole's 1020 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,040 Speaker 1: going to open. He's also not able to predict as 1021 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,160 Speaker 1: much because if he if he isn't spending as much time. 1022 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,080 Speaker 1: And I shouldn't say that, I shouldn't say at the time, 1023 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:12,759 Speaker 1: but if he's a little bit distracted, let's say, and 1024 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,399 Speaker 1: his focus during the week is not in the right 1025 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,920 Speaker 1: place all the time, then maybe he doesn't recognize things 1026 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,840 Speaker 1: as quickly. He doesn't recognize a specific formation that the 1027 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,080 Speaker 1: defense gets into that allows him to know, here's where 1028 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,439 Speaker 1: my crease is going to be, And so he's really 1029 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,239 Speaker 1: having to do it on the fly rather than being 1030 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,920 Speaker 1: able to predict it. So that makes him less fast, right, 1031 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,000 Speaker 1: He's not in and out of the hole as quickly 1032 00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,360 Speaker 1: because he doesn't he isn't able to predict what's going 1033 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,960 Speaker 1: to happen as much as he would if he wasn't distracted. 1034 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,040 Speaker 1: And again, these are all these all assumptions that were 1035 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,320 Speaker 1: making because we think that maybe he's or we're pondering 1036 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,640 Speaker 1: whether he is distracted by this. I don't know that 1037 00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,960 Speaker 1: we can say that definitively. I want, I just want 1038 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,960 Speaker 1: to be clear about that, which you can even take 1039 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,839 Speaker 1: if you that's totally fair. You can take the off 1040 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,560 Speaker 1: field stuff out of it and just talk talk about 1041 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,520 Speaker 1: the line. I mean, how much of that Not that 1042 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,840 Speaker 1: I've ever play running back, but I gotta imagine a 1043 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,680 Speaker 1: lot of it is muscle memory, you know, like you 1044 00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,640 Speaker 1: just like, Okay, he sealed that right there. I gotta go. 1045 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,160 Speaker 1: And I you know, I think I think it was 1046 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,839 Speaker 1: the very first play of the game. It was an 1047 00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,480 Speaker 1: inside run. It wasn't there. And I mean he had 1048 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: like he had barely even got the ball in his 1049 00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,040 Speaker 1: hands before he made a cut off tackle and took 1050 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:21,920 Speaker 1: what could have been a one yard game for about 1051 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,640 Speaker 1: the seven and It's that type of stuff where you 1052 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,680 Speaker 1: don't even have time to think about it. It's just 1053 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,840 Speaker 1: gotta just like it's gotta be almost like a muscle reaction, 1054 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,920 Speaker 1: like Okay, that's there, I'm gone. I gotta do that. 1055 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,719 Speaker 1: But that also comes with knowing, right, I trusted this 1056 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,160 Speaker 1: right tackle is gonna block this way in this kind 1057 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,680 Speaker 1: of situation, and so as soon as I get the ball, 1058 00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:41,719 Speaker 1: I know where I'm going, I'm gonna get there quick. 1059 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:43,520 Speaker 1: And that's the part I think that that we're not 1060 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,359 Speaker 1: talking about enough is this is a new offensive line 1061 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,640 Speaker 1: for him, and he's having to adjust to how does 1062 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,960 Speaker 1: this guy block? How quickly does he get from one 1063 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,480 Speaker 1: block to the next. If he's supposed to get off 1064 00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,160 Speaker 1: one guy and get to the second level, how quickly 1065 00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,000 Speaker 1: does he do that? So I know how to time 1066 00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,120 Speaker 1: my run to where I'm right in the right spot 1067 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,080 Speaker 1: so that I take advantage of the block. Right, This 1068 00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,240 Speaker 1: is random, but I just remember in Super Bowl Super 1069 00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,880 Speaker 1: Bowl forty, Willie Parker scored a touchdowns. Will scored a 1070 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,960 Speaker 1: touchdown from like seventy five yards out, Steelers beat the Seahawks, 1071 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:17,320 Speaker 1: and somebody broke down the play. Just to illustrate for 1072 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,520 Speaker 1: you to score from that far away. In the NFL, 1073 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,480 Speaker 1: everything had I mean, everything has to happen right. Your 1074 00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,719 Speaker 1: offensive line has to get the right blocks. You're going 1075 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,920 Speaker 1: to need a block from your receiver down field. The 1076 00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,880 Speaker 1: running back's going to have to make all of his 1077 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,040 Speaker 1: cuts the right way and make every decision perfectly. And 1078 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,640 Speaker 1: I just, you know, I gotta go back and find 1079 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,560 Speaker 1: it because I just think it's a really great illustration 1080 00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,400 Speaker 1: of everything has to click just the right way for 1081 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,280 Speaker 1: you to really have that type of success in running 1082 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,680 Speaker 1: the ball in the NFL. And I think you're seeing that. 1083 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,319 Speaker 1: And like I said, it's it's too early to say 1084 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,440 Speaker 1: that they've got it figured out, but it's it's a 1085 00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,720 Speaker 1: reasonable guess that, you know, six weeks of playing together, 1086 00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,160 Speaker 1: three weeks with Jonathan Cooper, maybe they're starting to get 1087 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,680 Speaker 1: that to where they can all kind of trust each 1088 00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:02,320 Speaker 1: other and flow the way they need to for this 1089 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,440 Speaker 1: to work. And I agree with all that, And I 1090 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,879 Speaker 1: guess my point here is, Yeah, there are certain things 1091 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,680 Speaker 1: that I mean, there's a lot of different factors that 1092 00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,560 Speaker 1: when we're talking about some of these guys we tend 1093 00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,880 Speaker 1: not to consider. But at the same time, there are 1094 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,319 Speaker 1: certain times when you talk about muscle memory and how 1095 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:25,120 Speaker 1: you're you should react after playing how long, however long 1096 00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,120 Speaker 1: you've been playing. I'm not talking about the NFL just 1097 00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,400 Speaker 1: in the NFL, but in his life now. A difference 1098 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,919 Speaker 1: that I didn't notice, for example, in this past game 1099 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,839 Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers is and we were talking 1100 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,960 Speaker 1: about this Nick. Even in the fakes, you could see 1101 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,879 Speaker 1: with how much speed he would just take off, even 1102 00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,520 Speaker 1: with him not even having the ball. He's just faking it. 1103 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,880 Speaker 1: And that was a big difference. You would see that 1104 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,400 Speaker 1: in other games and he wouldn't necessarily react like that, 1105 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 1: he would just kind of take off slow. And I 1106 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,399 Speaker 1: think there has been a big change now, and that's 1107 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:02,399 Speaker 1: why I'm kind of referring to him being the whole 1108 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,680 Speaker 1: off the field issue. I mean, yes, it affects you, 1109 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,640 Speaker 1: but there are certain things that it shouldn't affect you, 1110 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,239 Speaker 1: especially when you're doing I know, for me, when you're 1111 00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,120 Speaker 1: doing something that you're passionate about and being in an 1112 00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,200 Speaker 1: environment that you love. And for me, for example, that 1113 00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,400 Speaker 1: would say painting. When I'm painting, that's my main focus, 1114 00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,120 Speaker 1: I forget about the whole world. I mean, time could 1115 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,640 Speaker 1: be flying by, I forget I'm in my own environment. 1116 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,040 Speaker 1: And I feel like when you're really doing what you 1117 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,759 Speaker 1: love and you're in that setting, you forget about everything 1118 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,200 Speaker 1: else and your main focus is what you're doing. Good point, 1119 00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,400 Speaker 1: So the only thing is is that there's a maturity 1120 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:44,719 Speaker 1: difference obviously with Zeke and a lot of people, you know, 1121 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,000 Speaker 1: And and I think that's something that he's just he's 1122 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:48,760 Speaker 1: got to get better. He's got to be more mature 1123 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,040 Speaker 1: on and off the field. And when you're he's getting there. 1124 00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,759 Speaker 1: We hope, We hope though, if this has, if this 1125 00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:57,840 Speaker 1: doesn't humble him, then I don't know what will, but 1126 00:53:57,920 --> 00:53:59,680 Speaker 1: I think it has. Yeah, I think it has too. 1127 00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:03,359 Speaker 1: And and I've gained a little bit more respect for him, 1128 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,439 Speaker 1: not that I didn't have any, but I'm just saying, 1129 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,919 Speaker 1: when all this up, it's really easy to just say 1130 00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:11,840 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit and I'm not gonna talk to 1131 00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,920 Speaker 1: the media or whatever. Now he doesn't love it, but 1132 00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,719 Speaker 1: he stands up there and does it. And that's more 1133 00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,239 Speaker 1: than some of the other guys in this locker room. 1134 00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,560 Speaker 1: Came way more veteran than he is. Yeah, and and 1135 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,959 Speaker 1: and you know, and and I don't have a problem 1136 00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,600 Speaker 1: saying it. I mean, des Bryant. He wants to be 1137 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,520 Speaker 1: like the leader and in a spokesman and all this. 1138 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,000 Speaker 1: He needs to talk. He needs to talk after the 1139 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,439 Speaker 1: good games, after the bad games. He needs to stand 1140 00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,759 Speaker 1: up there, because when you don't do that, you you're 1141 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,800 Speaker 1: forcing your other teammates to have to sit there and 1142 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,520 Speaker 1: answer those questions. And when things are going bad and 1143 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,880 Speaker 1: you have, you have a bad loss against the Giants 1144 00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,279 Speaker 1: and half the team doesn't talk, you're putting all the 1145 00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,000 Speaker 1: onus on the other guys to stand up there. They 1146 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,080 Speaker 1: don't have the answers either. They don't know why they lost. 1147 00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,919 Speaker 1: So I just think that you know, and and Dez, 1148 00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,600 Speaker 1: you know, and we talked about this the other day. 1149 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,840 Speaker 1: Dez set a record or tied a record for Cowboys, 1150 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,359 Speaker 1: you know, touchdowns, and you know he should have stood 1151 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,520 Speaker 1: up there and talked, and for whatever the reason, he didn't. 1152 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,399 Speaker 1: And and so some guys do that, and that's fine. 1153 00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,520 Speaker 1: They don't speak. But I respect Zeke for all the 1154 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,239 Speaker 1: stuff and all the questions he gets. I respect him 1155 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,800 Speaker 1: stand in front of his locker every time and facing 1156 00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,200 Speaker 1: the music. He doesn't And and to be honest with you, 1157 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,719 Speaker 1: there aren't a whole lot of guys on this team, 1158 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,440 Speaker 1: and this has been throughout the years that are like that, 1159 00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,160 Speaker 1: that that really will consistently good or bad, stand up 1160 00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,400 Speaker 1: there every time and take the tough questions. And I 1161 00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,600 Speaker 1: know sometimes fans want to say, well, they don't need 1162 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,520 Speaker 1: to talk to you, guys, but the fact the matter 1163 00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,400 Speaker 1: is this is the business, and the business is this 1164 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,279 Speaker 1: is an entertainment business, and that means that in order 1165 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,439 Speaker 1: to entertain the masses, they want to know the people 1166 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,440 Speaker 1: that pay the dollars. They want to know from the 1167 00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,239 Speaker 1: players what their thoughts were on what just happened, so 1168 00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,080 Speaker 1: they have a responsibility. It's about more than that too, Like, yeah, 1169 00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,120 Speaker 1: it's frustrating for us when players don't want to talk, 1170 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,240 Speaker 1: but it says it's not about the quotes, it's about 1171 00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,200 Speaker 1: what that says about you as a you know, a 1172 00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,080 Speaker 1: member of the locker room and a leader in the 1173 00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:08,239 Speaker 1: team and the organization and accountability, you know, And that's 1174 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,600 Speaker 1: how you earn those stripes is by being willing to 1175 00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,160 Speaker 1: do those types of things that you don't necessarily want 1176 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,600 Speaker 1: to do. And you know, everybody is different and the 1177 00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,520 Speaker 1: situation is different than than when we started when I 1178 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:23,680 Speaker 1: started covering the team, because you know, now like des Briant, 1179 00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,799 Speaker 1: and he's not afraid to do that. Des Bryant can 1180 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,600 Speaker 1: voice his own opinion and he does, and you know 1181 00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:32,080 Speaker 1: he through social media then they can announce his own 1182 00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:36,319 Speaker 1: news and his own thoughts. So you know a lot 1183 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,080 Speaker 1: of times I think players take that out and it 1184 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,480 Speaker 1: was like, I'm not necessarily talking to you guys, but 1185 00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,279 Speaker 1: I'll sit there and I'll say what i want to 1186 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:43,960 Speaker 1: say on my own terms. And that's part of the 1187 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,080 Speaker 1: problem though, is that when you do that, then you 1188 00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 1: don't you're not really being accountable. Ye you're saying what 1189 00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:50,879 Speaker 1: you want to say rather than ask answering the tough 1190 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,040 Speaker 1: question what because you're not gonna get out there just 1191 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,440 Speaker 1: be like, man, y'all suck today, Like you're not going 1192 00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,440 Speaker 1: to do that most of the time, I wouldn't think, 1193 00:56:57,719 --> 00:56:59,920 Speaker 1: And so you know, there's nobody that's holding your account 1194 00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,200 Speaker 1: to what the product was on the field and asking 1195 00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:03,880 Speaker 1: you the questions about the things you don't want to 1196 00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,520 Speaker 1: talk about that you need to be discussed. Right, This 1197 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,360 Speaker 1: wasn't really a bad death, but it was about the 1198 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,759 Speaker 1: fact that the Zeke is showing some maturity in other 1199 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,320 Speaker 1: ways that you know that we haven't really that you 1200 00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,760 Speaker 1: don't always notice. Ye. All right, we appreciate you guys, 1201 00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,120 Speaker 1: join us. We are back tomorrow. Say something real quick. 1202 00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,919 Speaker 1: It's tough topic. I just wanted to mention this real quick. 1203 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,560 Speaker 1: Jalen Smith he posted a picture on his Twitter account 1204 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,520 Speaker 1: he's bidding some of his custom accustom cleats and some 1205 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:34,600 Speaker 1: game worn gloves. All proceeds benefits to of Elshian Army 1206 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,040 Speaker 1: in relief efforts for Pero Rico. Just a reminder that 1207 00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,240 Speaker 1: people out there still don't have drinking water and still struggling, 1208 00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,400 Speaker 1: struggling with having power and energy in the island. So 1209 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,840 Speaker 1: if you're interested in winning some cleats and some game 1210 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:54,480 Speaker 1: worn gloves, go check out Jaylen Smith's Twitter at the 1211 00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,440 Speaker 1: Jalen Smith and there's a link there that you can 1212 00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,600 Speaker 1: check it out. Really really great work by by Jalen 1213 00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:02,360 Speaker 1: and a lot of people who are doing some great 1214 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,320 Speaker 1: work down there. I think I read yesterday it's like 1215 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,480 Speaker 1: just some crazy percentage of people that still don't have power. 1216 00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,919 Speaker 1: And this is weeks after matching for weeks, still don't 1217 00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,760 Speaker 1: have power and still don't have water. Yeah, exactly, and 1218 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,840 Speaker 1: you still don't have water, still don't have power. So 1219 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,160 Speaker 1: it is a it is a dire situation down there. 1220 00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,000 Speaker 1: Do what you can to help out. I think it's 1221 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,120 Speaker 1: a good cause obviously. All right, we'll appreciate you guys 1222 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,440 Speaker 1: join us. We'll be back tomorrow nine thirty regular time. 1223 00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,960 Speaker 1: Till then for Nick Even, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia. I'm 1224 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,600 Speaker 1: Derek Eagles and this has been The Break live on 1225 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,920 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio Water. This has been a 1226 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,600 Speaker 1: production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys 1227 00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:37,360 Speaker 1: Football Club.