WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Final Predictions 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:34.319 To write a battle right, to write the battle right, 0:00:37.080 --> 0:01:29.360 to write a battle ship, to write, I write, I 0:01:31.920 --> 0:02:21.400 write the bat Ship. The following is a production of 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.320 Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.960 Are you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.440 for a break? Absolutely ready for a break? Yeah, and 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.680 so much for that. It's time for the Break On 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:51.440 Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.200 and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys, welcome to 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.520 another episode of The Break. We're gonna are off this 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.160 show talking just a little bit about the Eagles since 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.800 we talked about it yesterday. They end up winning thirty 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.360 four twenty seven at Green Bay. What do you guys 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.280 think of that game? I really thought I was going 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.200 to be right for a minute there, but I wasn't. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.760 Packers lost. But I'm pulling it. Make you right now? 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:28.440 We were right? We were right? Well, I feel I 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.520 feel right too. Like I said, even if the Eagles 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.880 were to lose that game, they're gonna get it together. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.160 And they certainly looked like they kind of found their 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.480 stride a little bit last night. Yeah, you know, as 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.280 the game was going on and I actually put this 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.960 on Twitter. But I've thought that this game against the 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.960 Saints has gotten even bigger because I really feel like 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.640 this is the biggest challenge that they've got here in 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.320 the next few weeks, because I know they have Aaron Rodgers, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.960 but the Packers don't scare It shouldn't scare anyone really 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.200 with what they were throwing out there, especially what happened 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:05.960 at the end of the game. So I just thought 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.880 that the Saints game got even bigger in my mind 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.600 because I looked at the Eagles and the Packers and said, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.400 the Cowboys should be able to beat both of these 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.240 teams because they are better than both those teams. Doesn't 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.560 mean they'll it'll happen, but they should. I mean, I 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.840 saw you say that last night, and I didn't want 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.400 to get into a Twitter back and forth, especially since 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.560 we're on a show together. But I don't necessarily buy that. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.600 I mean, I am curious Davante Adams hurt his toe. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.680 Maybe he won't be able to go against the Cowboys 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.640 next week, but that's big if that happens. It's the NFL. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.560 It's a great quarterback who's got a history of beating 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.080 the Cowboys. Like I like that's it's and it's fun, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.040 you know, it's fun to be on Twitter and talking 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.480 to people about games as they're happening. But everybody last 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.880 night was like, well, the Cowboys are just gonna be 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.760 able to do whatever they want against both of these teams, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.640 and like, that's not how the NFL works. You spend 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.040 a week game planning for your opponent. You figure out 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.960 what they don't do well, and it's not as easy 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.520 is saying, no, Zeke's gonna run for five. Don't always 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.200 win games just because you're the very better. True, No, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.760 I know that, But I do think that Aaron and 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.440 Aaron Rodgers will give the Packers a chance to win 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.320 any game, especially against the Cowboys. But when you don't 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.000 run the football and you don't stop the run, those 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.120 are the two you know, line one and then line 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.119 two in football, and they can't do either one right now. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.960 So that's why I think the Cowboys should be able 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.360 to win that game. Not looking ahead, just saying that 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.120 this looks like the biggest challenge still with the Saints, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.440 and I think that they are the better team than 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.960 the Packers and probably the Eagles. I will say, because 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.320 you know I'm I'm very aware of this. Like people 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.599 think I'm a downer, I think the Cowboys are better 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.919 than all of the teams on the schedule until the 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.320 bye week right now, in turn, like who's available, what 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.240 they're playing like, it looks like they're not better than 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.360 the buye No, I just mean, well, you're not looking 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.720 that far. That's as far as I'm willing to look 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.680 at a little break they when you start getting to 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.240 that point in the season, that when you start getting tougher. Yeah, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.400 I mean, you know we can afford to look ahead. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.720 We're not the team you got. This is gonna be 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.600 a tough game against the Saints, but it's winnable. Tough 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.200 game against the Packers, but it's winnable. You should beat 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.720 the Jets. They look like garbage, and I don't think 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.239 Darnold will be back. And then you got the Eagles, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:19.640 and you never know what's going to happen in every 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.600 division game. But I like their odds in all of 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.440 those games. I'm not saying they're gonna win them all, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.880 but I like their chances of winning all of those games. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.240 All Right, Well, let's try to figure out who they 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:36.120 might not have available for this Sunday. Bring focus back 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.560 in Zack Martin. We talked about him yesterday. It turns 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.719 out that he did not practice. He didn't practice yesterday. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.680 He's back today. He's back today. Every Jones says they 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.400 think he's gonna play. He even said it, Jerry said it. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.000 Jones probably will say it. This is a classic case 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.840 of we only get to see fifteen minutes because you know, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.280 I said, well, it's weird. He practice Wednesday and didn't 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.000 practice Thursday. He left practice Wednesday. He didn't finish it 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.360 because his back was bothering him, so they gave him 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.200 the day off. He's back today. And again we've said 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.520 it fifteen times like he's going to be managing this 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.760 probably all season. But he's an all Pro. He's a 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.760 super tough dude. Uh, they'll get him right by hooker 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.200 by crook, but he'll he'll be out there. Don't bring 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:26.200 it hooker there. Oh come on, it's an expression or 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:37.000 stop stop Cooper was Cooper's out there Okay, he's fine, 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.080 can handle the game. And and Xavier Woods is out 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.920 there too, which again three straight days of practice. I 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.800 think he's gonna play, which is a testament to him, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.240 like you know he hurt his ankle two weeks in 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.440 less than two weeks ago. I'll start Brandon Knight. So well, 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.680 that's the obvious, the obvious three or Michael Gallup, Tyron 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.160 Crawford and Antoine Woods. They haven't practiced, they're not going 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.800 to play, forget about it. Brandon Knight, I think is 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.880 another good guess. Adam Redmond is another good guess. Is 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.600 he if Zach Martin is kind of being depth a 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.480 little bit. You have Joe Looney and Xavier Sue of Philo. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:19.240 I mean you have yeah, agreed, agreed, So five Donovan Wilson. Okay, Well, 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.200 so I think Luke Gifford probably yeah, yeah, You're not 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.240 going to throw him into a game when you know 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.200 three days after he comes back. I talked to him 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.280 yesterday and he said his whole family was coming in 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.560 to watch the Packer gam and he's hoping that it's 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.320 his debut. He does not think he'll play this way. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.760 I don't think he will either. Um and then okay, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.520 so then you've got three. I think you have three options. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:45.800 Donovan Wilson, Cavon Frasier, Cedric Wilson. Um Cavan was limited yesterday. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.880 His Achilles is bothering him. Jason Garrett said, they're keeping 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.920 an eye on it, but he was out there today 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.079 and he was in the gunner spot on the punt team, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.680 which like, yeah, a guy with a bad achilles maybe 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.800 you wouldn't have him at gunner. So I think he'll 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.040 be up. Yeah, and with Tavan coming back, Tavon Austin 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.240 coming back, but he's still not your outside receiver like 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.920 you want. So if something were to happen to it, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.800 let's say Devin Smith. Yeah, I mean you have Cobb 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.679 or Tavon or Cedric wils I think Wilson's probably a 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.480 better option. And he was also feeling punts during special 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.679 teams today, which Donovan Donovan, I just if I had 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.920 to guess, I think maybe he's a healthy scratch yep, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.079 um that's seven. Yeah, that's easy. That would be my guess. 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.160 I think that this was a pretty good week to 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.120 figure that one out. It helps when you have three 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.240 or four injured guys, and yeah, like injuries aren't good, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.840 but in terms of figuring out the inactives, they help. Yeah. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.320 All right, Well, um, I don't even know when we 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.040 should take a break. We're not right now. I'll go 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.880 ahead and start asking you guys some questions. I like 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.440 taking this moment to getting to questions from the fans. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.440 Give them the chance. You pay more attention to the 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:59.599 fans than Derek does. I try to, um you know that. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.400 I I see some people asking about Tristan Hill and 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.120 what's going to happen there with the d line and 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.280 how confident you guys feel with based on what we 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:16.320 saw last game against the Dolphin. I think that. I 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.839 think with Stephen Jones that said it, you know, he 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.640 just got his feet wet, and that's probably a good 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:20.880 way to say it to mean he did. He got 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.560 out there. He made a couple of nice plays, but 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.880 not great plays. You know, wasn't the best competition, didn't 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.719 do a whole lot in the second half, but I mean, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.480 just just got out there, just learning how this thing works. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.440 He hasn't been spectacular in training camp or anything like that. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.720 He hasn't done any wild moments. So he just gotta 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.960 keep getting better. And I mean, I think it's a 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.440 good opportunity for him right now with Antoine Woods banged up, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.360 because as soon as Woods comes back, I think he's 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.880 inactive again. So with his second game and then Robert 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.480 Quinn's second game playing. Are you expecting some kind of 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:01.640 improvement there in the d line and pressuring more the quarterback. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.640 I think this is a big opportunity, not this isn't 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.000 Triston Hill specific, but I think it's a big opportunity 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.360 for the for the defensive tackles because I think I 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.800 think the Saints whole defense offensive line is good. But 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.520 if I was going to attack them, I would want 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.320 to attack him right up the middle because I think 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.280 Eric McCoy's a really good player. They drafted him high, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.640 but he's a rookie and playing, you know, four games 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.120 into his season. And then you got Larry Warford, who 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.200 he's been good at times. But I mean, if I 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.640 had to pick a weak link on the Saints offensive line, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.800 it would probably be him. So you know, you think 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.520 MALIEK Collins, Tristan Hill, Christian Covington, if you can get 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.280 something going there. I liked the idea of pushing the 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.520 pocket back on Teddy Bridgewater brought us thinks the Cowboys 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.800 are gonna blitz a lot to affect him, which that 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.640 would be intriguing. Again, maybe you know, you talk about 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.760 Jalen Smith rushing more. Maybe he can do that up 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.439 the middle. But the scary part about that to me 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.719 is when you blitz and you think that that um 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.000 I want to say some roles when you say that, Um, 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:05.640 come yeah, Camara, just read the Kara. I know, like 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.120 my instinct is to say Kamara, but that's not right. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.040 It's Kamara. And as soon as you blitz and you 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.800 think he's in there to protect, and all of a sudden, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.000 they dump it over everyone's head and now he's got space. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.640 His his thirty two yard touchdown on the screen, which 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.280 I think there was like less than a minute in 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.160 the first half, and the Saints were on like the 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.480 thirty two and Seattle brought like a cover zero blitz 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.760 and Kamara scored on the scround. I was like, what 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.040 are you doing? Like, you will probably be able to 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.040 hold them to a field goal if you just play 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.960 something a little more vanilla, like why are you gonna 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.720 sell out like that? Um? So yeah, yeah, maybe be 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.160 careful with that because if you send your linebackers and 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.880 Kamara gets his hands on the ball, you might be 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.120 I agree, but just think Camaro Camaro, Hey, yeah, makes 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:57.640 it easy right into the show. Thanks all right, well side, Huh, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.960 you're done with what working? I thought you were eating 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.360 a cupcake? Qu I did you know people keep complaining 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.719 about the shows being forty five minutes? I see them 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.160 on Twitter just complaining about it, and you're over here 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.640 asking about cupcakes. Keep them on track. Let's get back 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:21.600 in time. Oh are you coming in on me? Aside 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:26.800 from the hostile environment that we talked about the hostile 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:31.480 environment of the studio in the Superdome? Aside from that? Wait, 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.640 did you on that? Have you guys seen that article 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.520 that I just saw it this morning? There was an 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.800 article saying that from some ticket data that's been around 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.680 that they've been able to evaluate, they suspect that it 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.920 will be a fifty percent fifty percent Cowboys to Saints fans. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.559 I did in the state did said that out? I'm 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.560 not sure. I didn't read the whole article, but I 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.760 saw that. I saw that article. I haven't had a 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.480 chance to read it. There will be Cowboys fans there. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.680 If there are Cowboys fans everywhere, but fifty there's no 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.480 way it's not a snowballs channel. And how do you 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.080 even calculate that? Well, I would assume so many people 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.280 in Texas spot tickets. Guess what if they're Saints fans 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.400 all over Texas. Get it, I get it. I'm just 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.839 saying it was interesting to me. I don't know the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.040 solidity of the article, but it did. It did raise 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.320 my interest. And also, because you guys do this almost 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.080 every week, don't come up to me two hours before 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.840 kickoff or an hour before kickoff and go look, look, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.120 because Cowboy fans will show up early. We know, we 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.440 know the visiting team always shows up early, and it 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.640 looks like they're making some noise there. And then by 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.280 the Rams game, we really thought it was gonna be 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.240 fifty fifty in the visional round, and it was kickoff, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.800 it was like, oh my god. And then by the time, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.200 I mean, it was probably more of a seventy thirty 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.640 Cowboys fans. If you're a Cowboys fans, whose legit that was? 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.840 Still that's always like that. Washington fans hate their team. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.640 And there's also a lot of Cowboys fans out there. Yeah, no, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.960 for sure, but Cowboys fans that go on the road usually, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.360 I mean, I know there's people that go to a 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.280 lot of Row games, but typically it's like it's your 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.400 one chance a year or maybe in your life to 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.800 see the Cowboys, You're going to go early. You want 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.080 to see your favorite players warming your jersey. Yep, Saints 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.280 fans are going to hang out in the concourses and 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.000 drink until they absolutely have to be outside or no, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.760 that's what I tell you. They're gonna be. You know, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.000 the plazas and the square and the streets, and there's 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.040 no open container laws in New Orleans, so you can 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.320 drink wherever the hell you want to. 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I'm marry 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.479 and it was like hit him like before they even like, 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.040 how do you say he's a hit him? Tackle him? Yeah, 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.439 punch him. That sounds like I mean just you know, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.439 but I will say this and you I think it 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.280 was you Day that mentioned this from the game that 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.800 they played last week. If they would actually, if the 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.800 Seattle Seahawks would have tackled him on first contact, you 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.600 would have had a very normal would have been a 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.920 very normal day. And it does make me wonder if 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.000 you want to talk about what the Cowboys can do 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.720 to limit him, tackle him, if you can get him 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.359 down when you first contact him, I think you make 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.960 a big Now that's easier said than done. He would 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.840 have been very good if started him. He was really 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.160 elusive and he's got some power. But they have done 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.320 it right. They were so and it wasn't just the 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.040 Saints game like last year. They were so good at 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.960 like you know, let Leyton vander Esh makes first contact 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.000 and before he can even regain his footing, there's like 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.280 four guys on top of him like they were gang 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.200 tackling machines last year, hitting him in the head. Well, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.600 I mean yeah, the fact, I mean I would look 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.560 back that that didn't get flagged. The jail and hit 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.080 on him is still kind of amazing to me. But 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.159 I would look at that. I would just look at that, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.919 as you know, I would dedicate as many resources as 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.280 I needed to to stop Kamara, even if that meant 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.359 Michael Thomas goes off a little bit, because Michael Thomas, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.120 the kind of receiver is he's not gonna be one 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.920 that's going fifty yards for touchdowns. If he has ten 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.200 catches and all those catches are average of seven eight 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.199 yards per catch, I think I'm still okay with that 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.000 if Camara doesn't get off right, So that's really that 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.719 would be my focus as if I were coordinating the defense, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.440 I'm gonna stop Camara first and foremost, and I'm gonna 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.520 make Bridgewater beat me. And even if he uses Michael Thomas, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.239 I still think that's not gonna be enough to keep 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.840 up with the points I'll produce. If Michael Thomas has 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:06.280 like ninety yards are less, and and then I think 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.800 that's a good thing. Like I'm well, obviously, but yeah, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.720 like if you can hold them to even like a 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.320 one hundred yard day but Kamara doesn't do his thing, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.280 I think that's fine. You win that game. Probably probably 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.920 as long as offense plays like it's been playing. Actually, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.520 that one's gonna be really tough to do. What would 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.399 be the next one that I would say? Winning the 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.679 coin toss will will be important? It really will be. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.320 I'm not joking because I think the first quarter is important. 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.960 Always take that very serious. Well, I think in this 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:34.960 case winning the I think you gotta get off to 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.120 a good start. I think if they can get play 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.760 defense first, that will help um anything that that will 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.960 get the Saints crowd going, ask them buying fifty fifty. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.840 I mean, I think it even if it is never mind, 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.320 I think I think it's a tough place to play, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.000 and I think that the Cowboys need to get out early. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.720 That's just the only recipe I've ever seen for them 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.920 going into the Superdome and winning was bunch them in 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:01.480 the mouth, and that's what they did. And I think 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.720 that they need to do that early. So survide the 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.639 first quarter. Make Bridgewater be a real quarterback and have 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.159 to go and sling it around. I really didn't mean 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.000 that in a bad way. I just mean for him 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.720 to have to go and throw the ball and not 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.120 play as easy as a game as he was able 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.960 to play last week. I worry about not playing this 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.040 game cleanly, partially because of the atmosphere. Part I mean 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.120 you're on the road, partially because it's a good team. 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.320 But like we've you kind of seen it in spurts 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.080 through the first three weeks and they've been able to 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.159 overcome it because there's so much better. But you know, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.520 a Connor Williams holding flag calls back a seventy yard touchdown. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.440 Zach Martin has been flagged for holding twice. I think 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.320 it was both in the Giants game, but twice this year. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.760 Connor Williams gets bullied by durn Payne and Dak throws 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.920 an interception in the first quarter on the road. Then 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.680 that kind of stuff can kill you, especially I mean 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.760 against a better team too. And we haven't seen a 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.040 time it hasn't happened a ton, but it's never good 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:01.000 when you're behind the chains and holding penal, these false starts, 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:02.760 all that type of stuff will do that to you. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.080 I worry about that, especially, you know in the first half, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.480 when the crowd is that its peak of emotion and 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.320 all that stuff. Um, I'll be interested to see how 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.040 plainly they can play that. I have forgote all right, 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:18.239 I wasn't thinking about penalties and stuff, but they've been 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:22.800 getting somebody. I think it kind of makes you forget 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.520 about it because they've been winning games the way that 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:27.640 they have. I mean, when you look at games they 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.840 do make they get the cob touchdown called back and 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.119 they go downfield in three plays and score anyway, and 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.920 you're like, oh yeah, cool. Like, but in a normal 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.120 game against a really good team, you punt that series 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:42.960 and it winds up in Nick's you know, five plays 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:44.960 to remember where you're like, this is where the game swung, 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:48.760 this is where it all went wrong. So they can 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:50.760 afford to make those kind of mistakes. And I don't 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.400 mean to. Obviously the Saints have great players, Like there's 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.160 other stuff they're gonna be challenged by. I think Lyle 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:00.600