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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, November one, two Thy twenty one, season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number fifty one. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage studios. At
Speaker 1: the start, got Nick Eatman here with me, and Amber
Speaker 1: Garcia is here with me. Dave Hellman is not quite
Speaker 1: back yet, man, he's still stuck in Minnesota waiting for
Speaker 1: a flight, hopefully getting back later tonight. But Dave, thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us from your hotel room. I assume
Speaker 1: that is. And uh let's talk a little Cowboys football.
Speaker 1: Cowboys take their record to UH six and one after
Speaker 1: defeating the Minnesota Vikings twenty to sixteen on Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: It was a really, really um telling game. I think
Speaker 1: there were a lot of things you can take from
Speaker 1: that game. So let's start first, what what do we
Speaker 1: have to do. Do I give you just a number
Speaker 1: or you give me a piece of like rubber band
Speaker 1: to measure my finger right here? Like, how does that work?
Speaker 1: Are we talking about? We're talking about rings? Is that
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. I'm just saying they faced the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have face. You already got a nice ring. So
Speaker 1: many challenges, Well I want a different kind of ring. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is they faced so many challenges and this was
Speaker 1: just another one that they come out with a win. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. All right, Well, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Here's gonna do. We're gonna go around the table, and
Speaker 1: I want everybody to tell me what their big picture story.
Speaker 1: There's hers of this game. Right, we've already gotten yours.
Speaker 1: We know, super Bowl Bus. That's what Amber's story of
Speaker 1: the game is. Uh, Nick, what yours? That this is
Speaker 1: a complete football team. I mean, this is not a
Speaker 1: great This isn't just a great offensive team. They are
Speaker 1: they do have a great offense, especially when they got Dak,
Speaker 1: But this is a great team that can play all
Speaker 1: kinds of ways. They win with defense. They won they
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers with defense. They've won this game last
Speaker 1: night with defense. Um, I think. I think they're just
Speaker 1: a complete team now, and they're gonna have some better
Speaker 1: teams that they're gonna face. But that was just another
Speaker 1: example they can win in a bunch of different ways. Dave,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Dave hears us. But Dave, if you
Speaker 1: hear us guessing, he doesn't. All right, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on. Let's keep talking. Let's get into some of
Speaker 1: the some of the points of the game, some of
Speaker 1: the finer points of the game. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about Cooper rush. Um Cooper rush in this game
Speaker 1: was twenty four or forty. He had sixty percent completion rate,
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. Um.
Speaker 1: They they also had it. He also had a game
Speaker 1: winning drive where he was six of nine for seventy
Speaker 1: five yards five yard touchdown passed Tilmari Cooper to cap
Speaker 1: that play, I mean to cap that drive to ultimately
Speaker 1: put the Mississipi in position to win that game. How
Speaker 1: do you guys assess Cooper Russians play yesterday? Well, I
Speaker 1: thought he played. You know who we got, Dave. We
Speaker 1: hear him breathing, but can't. I thought maybe Dave was
Speaker 1: gonna jump in. Sorry. Yeah, Um, I thought he played.
Speaker 1: He played well. I mean when nobody thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna win the game, and nobody thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: go out there and do that in play and enough
Speaker 1: to win, and he did, and um, you know, he
Speaker 1: got better and better as the game went on, and
Speaker 1: you know, I just thought it was it was one
Speaker 1: of those games where you know, he just I mean,
Speaker 1: it reminded me, honestly in a weird way. It reminded
Speaker 1: me of the Jason Garrett game way back then, when
Speaker 1: when he just came off the bench and just said,
Speaker 1: all right, second half, we're going to just be a
Speaker 1: different team, different quarterback. He really did a great job.
Speaker 1: You know, I've had my doubts, of course. I started
Speaker 1: off with Cooper Rush when he first got here, being
Speaker 1: on the band whileing, oh let's go Cooper Rush, but
Speaker 1: then fell off and we talked about it last week
Speaker 1: on Friday, how we felt on this situation. But with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, you know, one of the things that I
Speaker 1: really really liked is the fact that despite the mistakes
Speaker 1: that he was making, he kept going and he didn't
Speaker 1: like start how do you say that startle him or
Speaker 1: like threw him up to startle him or threw him
Speaker 1: off or anything. He was focused, just kept competing, went
Speaker 1: out there and kept the poise that you looked for
Speaker 1: in a quarterback, especially a backup quarterback. So that was
Speaker 1: very impressive to me. Just hide the mistakes. How much
Speaker 1: did that match up with what you expected to see?
Speaker 1: Because I do think sometimes in the course of watching
Speaker 1: the game, we get we get an impression from what
Speaker 1: we're watching, and I think it is influenced by the outcome.
Speaker 1: If they would have lost this game, there were plenty
Speaker 1: of moments in that game where we would have looked
Speaker 1: back and say, man, Cooper didn't do this right, He
Speaker 1: didn't do this right, he missed this year he should
Speaker 1: had it or maybe did have an interception here, Like, well,
Speaker 1: how did this match up with what you expected from
Speaker 1: him going into this game? Well, I mean I also
Speaker 1: expected him to have his left tackle, you know, and
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith didn't play and then that changed a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, the pressure there on that side of the field,
Speaker 1: it was starting to to the pocket was collapsing a
Speaker 1: lot more when that happened. So, um, you know, but
Speaker 1: I think he played better than I thought he would
Speaker 1: play because they're six and one man and he he
Speaker 1: had some mistakes, but he also made some great throw
Speaker 1: I mean he throw to Cedric Wilson for a touchdown
Speaker 1: was perfect throw. Yeah, um, second best throw of the
Speaker 1: game outside throw the CD on the run. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he I thought he he really did a great job
Speaker 1: there of just putting him in position, and two minutes
Speaker 1: to go, they get the ball down and they go
Speaker 1: right down the field and score. Yeah. Well, to your point,
Speaker 1: if we look at it the other way, I'm a
Speaker 1: pretty drastic person when it comes to football, So I
Speaker 1: would have been in here and being like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? What are we what are they doing? They
Speaker 1: knew something could happen with Dak coming off an injury
Speaker 1: from last year, so they decided to really just go
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush as the backup. So I'm very like
Speaker 1: an extreme extremist. How do you say extreme extremist, extreme mix? Yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. Weird yea. When it comes to football, football, football,
Speaker 1: I'm just Sings is the biggest extreme. Oh he's all
Speaker 1: over all of all time. I call him that. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that's a real word, but it's
Speaker 1: a word. It's just not using football gross is the
Speaker 1: most He's the biggest extremist ever. Everything he does extreme beard, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he do anything, work out, party, it's not gonna work out.
Speaker 1: He's about to eat like everything. Ye have a good right,
Speaker 1: He's like I'm gonna go people, or I'm gonna run
Speaker 1: sixteen miles. All right, So how much did this performance
Speaker 1: change your level of confidence in him? Because I think
Speaker 1: last week, as we talked about it, we all thought, man,
Speaker 1: I just don't know, cowboys maybe should have done a
Speaker 1: little more in the off season to prepare for this
Speaker 1: and shouldn't have put themselves in this situation. Do you
Speaker 1: feel differently about that today? Um? Yeah, yeah. And also
Speaker 1: the nature of the league too. What happened yesterday around
Speaker 1: the league. You know, a lot of teams did that,
Speaker 1: and guys that couldn't beat out Cooper Rush three years ago,
Speaker 1: we're winning games with you know yesterday. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's incredible. But yeah, I mean I have a different
Speaker 1: opinion about it. I mean I thought I thought going
Speaker 1: into last week last night like all right, um, Dak
Speaker 1: doesn't play this game, probably play next week. And now
Speaker 1: it's like we'll save that time. Well, we'll save that
Speaker 1: topic because I do and I'm just doing has changed
Speaker 1: my opinion because of that, because of what I saw
Speaker 1: going in to beat Minnesota like that, I do think
Speaker 1: they can beat Denver and Atlanta. They can also lose
Speaker 1: to them, but I do think they can beat them well,
Speaker 1: and not just what Cooper rush. Hey, can y'all hear
Speaker 1: me now? Yeah? Yeah, coming in hot, just get in there.
Speaker 1: Oh hey guy, Yeah, sorry, I was trying to wait
Speaker 1: for a pause in the conversation. Hi, hey man. You
Speaker 1: know it was funny because we went to you earlier
Speaker 1: and you just kind of sat there and looked at
Speaker 1: the screen with that kind of weird look on your
Speaker 1: face and just kind of gave a big side like
Speaker 1: I wish we'd get the show started at some point.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to you and tell us, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's your big picture come take away from this game? Man? Well,
Speaker 1: my big picture is, you guys know me pretty well,
Speaker 1: the fact that I sat here for five minutes and
Speaker 1: didn't say a curse word on a live mike, because
Speaker 1: it's incredible. I'm gonna pat myself on the back for that.
Speaker 1: Um wow, man, I don't. I mean, my big picture
Speaker 1: is that this is just one of the more impressive,
Speaker 1: certainly one of the more impressive wins of Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: short tenure here. Um, there were a couple of moments
Speaker 1: like this last year, but you kind of felt like
Speaker 1: the season was already lost with not knowing that Dak
Speaker 1: wasn't coming back. That's the difference, right is you just
Speaker 1: got to hold the line for a little while, as
Speaker 1: opposed to knowing he's not coming back. And to come
Speaker 1: up here in place such a complete and complimentary football
Speaker 1: game and not even like not even the cleanest game,
Speaker 1: like they were minus two and turnover differential and still
Speaker 1: found a way to get it done against a not
Speaker 1: a great team but certainly not a terrible teams. It's
Speaker 1: pretty mind blowing, honestly, Yeah, it was. It was funny.
Speaker 1: I was as I was toward the end of the
Speaker 1: game and this was the last Cowboys possession and then
Speaker 1: obviously the last Minnesota possession. It was funny because I
Speaker 1: was sitting there, Nick, you've already left the press box
Speaker 1: heading down to the field. I kept can go over
Speaker 1: at Dave and Rob and they both had these looks
Speaker 1: on their face like wow, Wow, they did that, Okay,
Speaker 1: and then next player do something, Wow, Wow, they did that,
Speaker 1: and I think we were all kind of thinking the
Speaker 1: same thing, which was, man, this team is different. Like
Speaker 1: this team, they're gonna find a way to win this game,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna find a way to stop them
Speaker 1: to win the game. And that's what that's to me,
Speaker 1: what I've really seen from this team. That's the big
Speaker 1: picture I take away from this game. We got to
Speaker 1: see the offense in the situation where they needed to
Speaker 1: score to win, they got it. Defense, you need to
Speaker 1: stop to win, they got it. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that that's about championship football. That's how you win
Speaker 1: championships in this league. Yeah, because fifty one seconds to go,
Speaker 1: you know, most people would probably want to just want
Speaker 1: to see a run there, cut some time off. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought they might do that on first and Golf
Speaker 1: in the five, but you know now they decided to
Speaker 1: throw it, and you know that's the first thing is
Speaker 1: all right, is there any flags? That's what I looked
Speaker 1: at the way, Okay, touchdown Cooper's there any flags though?
Speaker 1: And then now that's a lot of time. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of time. They don't have any timeouts. But they
Speaker 1: stopped him. You know, fifty one seconds is a lot
Speaker 1: of time, but they couldn't even get past the midfield.
Speaker 1: I don't believe. No, I don't think so. If it was,
Speaker 1: it was right there, But I mean in the confidence
Speaker 1: that that Rush showed in Cooper to throw the ball
Speaker 1: to him, like in that kind of situation. He was like,
Speaker 1: he saw he was manned up out there. He's like,
Speaker 1: of course I'm throwing it up. I'm giving him a shot.
Speaker 1: And that's what Almar talked about after the game. He's like,
Speaker 1: that's what we love about Cooper Rush is he's gonna
Speaker 1: take that shot. He's gonna give you a chance to
Speaker 1: make that kind of play. And he sure did, and
Speaker 1: it worked out for him, got him to touchdown, and
Speaker 1: then the defense held for those that final minute of
Speaker 1: the game. All Right, we're gonna take our first break
Speaker 1: when we come back. I need to talk about Kella Moore.
Speaker 1: He called what I thought was another really, really great game.
Speaker 1: It's very clear what their their game plan was coming
Speaker 1: in and showed us some wrinkles that we hadn't seen before.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: of the Break Life. In the s WBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star, we're talking about the Cowboys big win.
Speaker 1: They win twenty sixteen over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football. We talked about Cooper Rush. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore. It was, in my opinion, very clear that
Speaker 1: their game plan going into the game was they were
Speaker 1: going to try to run the ball. They were gonna
Speaker 1: try to play bullyball. Basically, they showed us the whole package,
Speaker 1: which was brand new for us. Wishbone like I hadn't
Speaker 1: seen Cowboys and a Wishbone maybe ever in the time
Speaker 1: I've been covering the team. My question for you guys is,
Speaker 1: what's wrong all you did? Johnny Wishbone? Sorry, Surprised that
Speaker 1: they couldn't get more from the run game even when
Speaker 1: they were in some of those bigger packages, or do
Speaker 1: you think it was just one of those things where
Speaker 1: in Minnesota said we're gonna sell out and we're gonna
Speaker 1: stop the run. They did, They did sell out and
Speaker 1: stop the run and I was waiting for you Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That's finally changed that. But but they never did that.
Speaker 1: They were not going to let that happen. And you know,
Speaker 1: with when you have Dak it's different. But with Cooper Russ,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what you have to do. You
Speaker 1: have to say, this guy's gonna have to be this.
Speaker 1: And in the first half he had three points and
Speaker 1: they said, all right, you know, and I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why they were so conservative there
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, and the fans
Speaker 1: were booing all that. They probably were like, we're not
Speaker 1: taking any chances here, we don't really need to. But
Speaker 1: just a minute into it, when Cedric Wilson went over
Speaker 1: the top of him, that changed everything. Really. That showed, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy can hurt you if you if you, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna play that kind of defense, I think that's
Speaker 1: some of us. Yeah, I mean, I absolutely go ahead, Dave.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, ag go ahead, Oh you go ahead. You're
Speaker 1: on you're actually on a microphone. Okay, damn it, I
Speaker 1: didn't miss this. I didn't miss this. Yeah. Um no,
Speaker 1: I mean in the NFL, if if the opponent is
Speaker 1: not afraid of your quarterback, it's hard to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I fully expected that to happen. Minnesota's got talent on
Speaker 1: that defense, if anything, and Nick Nick nailed it. Because
Speaker 1: I was sitting there in the first half, I was
Speaker 1: tweeting about this. It was terrifying. Every time Cooper threw
Speaker 1: over the middle, he was thrown behind guys he got
Speaker 1: he nearly got picked off the second time. He did
Speaker 1: get picked off. The first time, it was like they
Speaker 1: don't respect him to do anything other than maybe curls
Speaker 1: and the occasional deep shot outside the numbers. But you
Speaker 1: make your money over the middle of the field. And
Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't look like Cooper rush was up
Speaker 1: to it. And then on the first possession of the
Speaker 1: second half, I think he flipped everything on its head
Speaker 1: because not only do you hit the big play for
Speaker 1: the touchdown, but now the Vikings have to keep that
Speaker 1: in the back of their mind, like, Okay, we were
Speaker 1: going to get hurt if we were playing the way
Speaker 1: that we keep playing as aggressively downhill. And I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a coincidence that the passing game kind of
Speaker 1: opened up a lot after that play happened. One thing
Speaker 1: that I wanted to add to the whole conversation is
Speaker 1: when talking about Kellen Moore and how he impressive the
Speaker 1: work that he's doing has been. It's like in the
Speaker 1: past we've seen occasions where a player goes out on
Speaker 1: offense and then all of a sudden, the whole thing
Speaker 1: just kind of falls apart and you cannot make it work.
Speaker 1: You cannot move the chains and keep going and make
Speaker 1: it happen. But yet you have so many missing pieces.
Speaker 1: Then you get your quarterback unable to play, and then
Speaker 1: you plug in Cooper Rush, and the way that Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore was able to adjust and cater certain place to
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, to me is absolutely impressive. It's also impressive
Speaker 1: the fact that you hear a lot of those players
Speaker 1: the way they speak about Cooper Rush a backup quarterback
Speaker 1: and just having their full on support and being confident
Speaker 1: in him obviously helps with the whole energy and being
Speaker 1: on the field, in the chemistry and everything. But just
Speaker 1: everything that Kellen Moore has done so far, I am
Speaker 1: to be fair like I've never really knew he had
Speaker 1: that much in him, and I'm absolutely excited and looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing more, hopefully beyond this year. You know,
Speaker 1: as you were just talking, I just thought to myself,
Speaker 1: they actually last night were exactly where they loved were
Speaker 1: last year. They didn't have either one of their tackles
Speaker 1: and didn't have their quarterback. And I thought last year,
Speaker 1: I was like, you take those three guys out of
Speaker 1: this team, and there's no way they're going to be
Speaker 1: able to win because the offense is what they do best,
Speaker 1: and without those three players, there's no way your offense
Speaker 1: can really function. You won't be able to run the ball,
Speaker 1: you won't have time to be able to throw the ball,
Speaker 1: you don't have a trigger man a quarterback that can
Speaker 1: actually get it out quickly. So there's no way to
Speaker 1: win last night. The fact that they were able to
Speaker 1: get this to work, I think speaks a ton about
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore and what he was able to do and
Speaker 1: how he called this game. I think it speaks just
Speaker 1: as much about the defense, because that's really the big
Speaker 1: difference is that this defense came to play last night
Speaker 1: and they played in a way that we haven't really
Speaker 1: seen defense in Dallas play in quite something now. Their
Speaker 1: backs were against the wall several times there, they came back,
Speaker 1: they led, they held them to field goals. I mean,
Speaker 1: just if you I would have loved if somebody would
Speaker 1: have come by after that first drive where it was
Speaker 1: just boom boom, boom boom boom, touchdown, fireworks, horn, cannons,
Speaker 1: all that, right, and then you're just like, man, that's
Speaker 1: a snow snow inside the stadium. Yeah, and then and
Speaker 1: then it's a touchdown. And then you look around everybody
Speaker 1: and be like that, that's a good touchdown. Too bad
Speaker 1: they won't score another one again. The rest of the game.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, because justin Jefferson's running down the sideline
Speaker 1: on the next drive that easily could have been a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But the fact that they buckled in like that, I'll
Speaker 1: say this, I don't think Randy Gregory, I don't think
Speaker 1: de Marcus Lawrence has ever played in a stretch like this,
Speaker 1: Like Randy is playing nothing knock against DeMarcus. He's been great,
Speaker 1: He's been a pro bowler. I think this is the
Speaker 1: best five games of a defensive end that we've seen
Speaker 1: since de Marcus where was here? That's I mean, And
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for Tank to come back. And
Speaker 1: you and I talked about this last night during the game.
Speaker 1: Fact that like, this is the beautiful thing about Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory is he doesn't just get you sacks. He gets
Speaker 1: you pressure in sacks in moments when you need it most,
Speaker 1: in parts of games where you absolutely gotta make stop.
Speaker 1: He's that guy that's creating disruption. He's that guy that's
Speaker 1: making plays Like that's the part that's what you really
Speaker 1: need from a due because we've all seen defensive ends
Speaker 1: who can get that random sack in a game in
Speaker 1: the first quarter on second down that leads to, you know,
Speaker 1: a punt, But in the game when it's crunch time
Speaker 1: you absolutely need it, they're nowhere to be found. That's
Speaker 1: the beauty of what Randy Gregory gives this team. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought up the twenty yard I'm glad I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought up the first possession, Nick, because I
Speaker 1: was looking at it right before I hopped on. They
Speaker 1: had two plays of twenty plus on the opening possession
Speaker 1: on top of a defensive pass interference that probably would
Speaker 1: have gone that long as well, and they had one more.
Speaker 1: They had one more of the rest of the way. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's incredible. We talk about explosives and
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys have struggled with them, and they you know,
Speaker 1: Jefferson had an eighteen yard gain and Feeland had a
Speaker 1: nineteen yard game. But when you talk about like truly
Speaker 1: explosive plays, I think the only other time they crossed
Speaker 1: the twenty yard threshold the rest of the night was
Speaker 1: the fourth and one bootleg to Feeling from Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: So to buckle down that way with how much they've
Speaker 1: struggled with it this season, I mean, the Vikings basically
Speaker 1: didn't do anything after that first possession, not anything worth
Speaker 1: getting excited about, clearly, And that's that's incredible to me
Speaker 1: because it's been a consistent problem for this defense all year.
Speaker 1: What has been, in my opinion, or what was in
Speaker 1: my opinion the best performance by defensive player last night
Speaker 1: was Michael Parsons. He had ten tackles, four tackles for
Speaker 1: a loss one quarterback hit. First rookie with ten tackles
Speaker 1: and four tackles for a loss in a single game.
Speaker 1: My question, you got ever, in history of the National
Speaker 1: Football League, that is the first time a rookie has
Speaker 1: ever done that. I can't believe that, But I mean,
Speaker 1: because that's those numbers aren't like astronomical. Well, four tackles
Speaker 1: for a loss is a big number like that usually
Speaker 1: doesn't happen in a game. That's a lot, I know,
Speaker 1: but for that's a that's insane. It is. And not
Speaker 1: just and if you said not not just rookies, maybe
Speaker 1: you probably got some more guys in there. But for
Speaker 1: a rookie, first of all, for rookie to be playing
Speaker 1: that much, well, be given that many opportunities. That's where
Speaker 1: he comes and he's think about what a tackle for
Speaker 1: loss really means, Well, like, what what it's the number
Speaker 1: one thing you've got to do for a tackle for loss.
Speaker 1: You've got to have awareness, you've got to be able
Speaker 1: to sniff it out and go find the play. And
Speaker 1: to be a rookie and do that and do a
Speaker 1: four four time in one game, all right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, not just that, but also look at
Speaker 1: all the places he was playing at, Like the fact
Speaker 1: it's not just his focus on one spot and that's it.
Speaker 1: He's being moved around, and the fact that he's being uh,
Speaker 1: he's been able to contribute in all of those different places.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have that that takes skill. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's extremely impressive. The fact is they're not lying. That's
Speaker 1: what we're say. So that's what we're talking about when
Speaker 1: we say I prefer him for to be versatile, Like
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch him rush the pats or but
Speaker 1: he has so many ways to impact the game back there.
Speaker 1: I mean, if that ball, I don't remember if it
Speaker 1: was the second or third quarter, but like he had
Speaker 1: a shot at an interception when a pass goot batted
Speaker 1: in the air, So I mean, you come a few
Speaker 1: inches away from that, you're around the ball, you're able
Speaker 1: to do that. I would like to see I think
Speaker 1: he played sixty three snaps last night, or maybe the
Speaker 1: sixty four he played sixty four. I'd like to see
Speaker 1: a couple of blitzes and maybe a few more pressures.
Speaker 1: But I yeah, I absolutely love the variety of stuff
Speaker 1: that he's doing. And you can just see the impact
Speaker 1: that he has when you're around the football. That's going
Speaker 1: to turn into even bigger plays the more often you're
Speaker 1: able to do it. Yeah, you know, and Dave, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I necessarily want to see him
Speaker 1: doing that more. I love just the mix right now
Speaker 1: because what he's doing, they're basically just using him as
Speaker 1: a player that's sniffing out wherever the ball's going and
Speaker 1: go get to it. And that's what I love about.
Speaker 1: There are plays when he rushed last night. There plays
Speaker 1: he rushed up the middle of that final play of
Speaker 1: the game. He was come up the middle. He was
Speaker 1: the one that forced to play the ball to have
Speaker 1: to come out quick, which basically killed the play in
Speaker 1: their ability to try to get the ball down field.
Speaker 1: So he had some opportunities last night, and I just
Speaker 1: love like, let him just go find out where you
Speaker 1: want to line him up and say, go find the
Speaker 1: ball and get to it. And he's so instinctive, as
Speaker 1: you said, Nick, he'll find the ball even behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and make those plays that make a
Speaker 1: difference that put him in second and twelve or third
Speaker 1: and twelve and lead to to punch in a lot
Speaker 1: of instances. Let me also throw out one thing about stats,
Speaker 1: because Parsons has great stats. He was all over the place,
Speaker 1: eleven tackles, like you said, for for loss. Here's another
Speaker 1: guy one tackle. One quarterback hit bottom of the defensive chart,
Speaker 1: and I thought he bawled out Terrell bash him. He
Speaker 1: was amazing. I don't know what the stats would lie
Speaker 1: because if you watch the game and saw Bash, him
Speaker 1: was everywhere. I thought, I thought he, I mean, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins knows exactly what ninety three was doing in that game.
Speaker 1: Him and Gregory were meeting at the quarterback, especially on
Speaker 1: that final drive. Yep, the speaking of Gregory two and
Speaker 1: that was that's a great thing to point out. But
Speaker 1: speaking of Gregory, he had also just one tackle, but
Speaker 1: he also had a sack. He also had three quarterback hits.
Speaker 1: He had a forced fumble. He was again another player
Speaker 1: that was just everywhere. Two penalties he also and that's
Speaker 1: where I was going. He had the two penalties and
Speaker 1: they were in a part of the game where, man
Speaker 1: it could have really hurt them. And I was interested
Speaker 1: after the game when he was talking about it, and
Speaker 1: he was talking about, you know, I played better when
Speaker 1: I'm when I'm upset, but I gotta be better at
Speaker 1: kind of managing that. My question for you guys is,
Speaker 1: if you look at this defense, they are definitely a
Speaker 1: defensive attitude like they I've heard it said so many
Speaker 1: times by offensive players and by some other defensive players.
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of dogs on that side of
Speaker 1: the of the ball. Do you are you okay with
Speaker 1: some of the penalties that they get because they are
Speaker 1: so aggressive, because last night that drive almost melted down
Speaker 1: on them because they were a little overly aggressive. But
Speaker 1: they also still held to a field goal. And I
Speaker 1: kind of like the aggression that they have. What do
Speaker 1: you guys think about that? How you manage that between
Speaker 1: being aggressive and then sometimes stepping over that line because
Speaker 1: you're playing so close to that line. As far as
Speaker 1: how aggressive you are, Dave, I think how we're back
Speaker 1: to calling names, Yeah, that's probably for the best. No,
Speaker 1: I think those are two different things. Like I want
Speaker 1: you to be aggressive, I don't want you to lose that,
Speaker 1: Like the flag on Terrell Basham is and I hate why,
Speaker 1: you know, I hate whining about flags, but that was
Speaker 1: such bs like that. I mean, when people talk about
Speaker 1: the cissification of the sport, that's what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy had committed to trying to get
Speaker 1: to cousins before the ball was thrown, and you're flagging
Speaker 1: him for making a football play after the fact. That's
Speaker 1: just crap. So do that every time, Terrell basham And,
Speaker 1: I'll never get mad at you for getting flagged. The
Speaker 1: flag on Randy was way more avoidable. Which one you
Speaker 1: can't don't. You gotta be able. The one at the
Speaker 1: side line down in the red zone where he just
Speaker 1: blasted that guy. That is a frustration flag. That is
Speaker 1: a I'm pissed off, and I just I want to
Speaker 1: hit something more so than you know, playing through the
Speaker 1: whistle in my opinion, and I know it's a really
Speaker 1: fast game, but I think pro football players can draw
Speaker 1: that line, so I view it a little. I view
Speaker 1: those as separate things, like, yes, be aggressive, don't change
Speaker 1: what you do in some instances, but some of those
Speaker 1: you just gotta be a little more disciplined. You know,
Speaker 1: it's on that play, I agree it was a frustration play.
Speaker 1: You could tell. It's a second one in about two minutes,
Speaker 1: so it's first and goal after that penalty, it's first
Speaker 1: and goal at the four yard line. He lines up
Speaker 1: at the tackle position. You know he's fuming. He just
Speaker 1: darts through the line. He doesn't hit another play where
Speaker 1: he's not on the statuet. He goes in there and
Speaker 1: totally changes the whole run. Delvin Cook has to spin
Speaker 1: and Donovan Wilson and Justin Hamilton come and clean it up.
Speaker 1: But Randy blew it up and even said and then
Speaker 1: inter he said, I've played better when I'm pissed off,
Speaker 1: and he was pissed off. And so then the next
Speaker 1: play was another three yard loss, and Lvee almost got
Speaker 1: a penalty for hitting a guy out of bounds. And
Speaker 1: so but that right there, they kind of they just
Speaker 1: buckled down, you know, And a lot of it was
Speaker 1: Gregory just getting mad. But I mean, if he's gonna
Speaker 1: play that way, kind of a psycho rusher off the edge,
Speaker 1: I can't I just can't wait to see what happens
Speaker 1: when de Law comes back, those two together and then
Speaker 1: Parsons playing linebacker. Yeah. But but but go back to
Speaker 1: the penalties. I mean, if I can offer, oh yeah, good, Sorry,
Speaker 1: no go ahead, Nick, I'm done. I don't remember I
Speaker 1: was going no, Dave, go ahead. Sorry man. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm really excited to see these guys.
Speaker 1: But I just I wanted to offer an anecdote because
Speaker 1: we talk about this all the time with um, you know,
Speaker 1: the endless storylines that you never know about going into
Speaker 1: a game, and like you never fully know what's going
Speaker 1: on with anyone football player. So I went down to
Speaker 1: the hotel fitness center yesterday morning just to like get
Speaker 1: on the elliptical do something for a half hour. And
Speaker 1: Randy and Basham were in my elevator and Randy's basically
Speaker 1: just like asleep, standing up, like he's like leaning against
Speaker 1: the wall, just like tired. And we were kind of chatting.
Speaker 1: He was like, I feel terrible, dude, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's something I ate or what, but like
Speaker 1: my stomach is absolutely killing me and I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: like in my head, I'm like, that is not what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to hear from the guy who needs to
Speaker 1: slow down Kirk Cousins tonight, Like that's terrifying. So like
Speaker 1: all day I was like, oh, man, like I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope Randy's okay. Like that's not going to be
Speaker 1: good news if he can't go. And of course he
Speaker 1: goes and has this killer game. And that's the beauty
Speaker 1: of a National Football League player, right, they go through
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff and still managed to when game
Speaker 1: time comes. I mean, you think about that. Think about
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, Like he left the game with a hamstring
Speaker 1: injury and he told he told basically what he said,
Speaker 1: he told the trainer was, Yeah, just give me to
Speaker 1: point where I can kind of run a little bit
Speaker 1: and I'll take it from there. And then he goes
Speaker 1: and has this amazing final drive to get them in
Speaker 1: position and then get the wind touchdown. Like these guys
Speaker 1: are amazing freaking superman when it comes to playing through injuries.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take our final break when we
Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna talk a little bit about special teams.
Speaker 1: There were some issues last night and we got to
Speaker 1: talk about a little bit. And then I want to
Speaker 1: get to a point where I want to get you
Speaker 1: guys to give me your game ball. We'll take give
Speaker 1: each each of you guys one pick to give a
Speaker 1: game ball to do that before we end the show.
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Speaker 1: Final segment of the Break Life Nest of UBC Mortgage
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Speaker 1: Zerline has another miss This simmy misses from forty three yards.
Speaker 1: Not a gimme, but a kick you want your kicker
Speaker 1: to be able to make. I went back and looked
Speaker 1: at his season stats. Right now, he is twenty third
Speaker 1: in the league in field goal percentage at seventy eight percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, he also has more attempts than most kickers.
Speaker 1: He's third in the league and attempts with eighteen, so
Speaker 1: that obviously would probably driven drive up the number of
Speaker 1: misses he may have as well. But when you break
Speaker 1: it down, he's nine of ten on thirty to thirty
Speaker 1: nine yard field goals. That's pretty good. He's three or
Speaker 1: four and forty to forty nine and that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's one of three on fifty plus, not a gimme,
Speaker 1: so that's okay. Here's the interesting party's twenty one of
Speaker 1: twenty three on extra points. What is your confidence level
Speaker 1: at this point with Zerline? Do you think they have
Speaker 1: to start changing how they play the game based on
Speaker 1: their confidence in him, or do you still think it's
Speaker 1: just a situation where when you're in field goal range
Speaker 1: you just still kick the ball. You don't think about
Speaker 1: going forward on fourth down unless it's just a situation
Speaker 1: where you would normally go forward on fourth down. I think,
Speaker 1: I think you. I don't if unless his confidence changes,
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't change my confidence in him. Um. And
Speaker 1: I think that he's proven that when he misses Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay game, uh, maybe the Chargers game, um, you know,
Speaker 1: or maybe not that game. But when he misses some kicks, um,
Speaker 1: like he did last time, he still comes back and
Speaker 1: makes them. So you know, as long as they don't
Speaker 1: really like one kick doesn't really affect the other and
Speaker 1: the other, then you could tell kickers having some problems
Speaker 1: like mentally. But if his confidence doesn't really waiver, I
Speaker 1: I stick with it, yam. Yeah, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: tough one because there's so much you can really do
Speaker 1: at this point. It's not like, who are you gonna
Speaker 1: get that's a whole lot better than him, So you
Speaker 1: kind of have to just suck it through the season
Speaker 1: and keep playing him. Um. Just like Nick said, a
Speaker 1: lot about confidence, but also how do you not put
Speaker 1: him in a situation like that? Just to me, the
Speaker 1: other the other thing that you can possibly do is
Speaker 1: trying to score a touch them every time, and then
Speaker 1: we talk about the red zone issues that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are having. So you just got to start figuring out
Speaker 1: the things that you can actually fix rather than thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is an is to fix with Greg, which is
Speaker 1: it's not you can't you know. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm sounding a little bit confusing, But and then at
Speaker 1: the same time, I would start getting really really upset
Speaker 1: once he starts costing the Cowboys more than one game
Speaker 1: and losing games for the Cowboys. So at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm like, not confident, not happy, but it's kind of working.
Speaker 1: We're getting wins and all that, but once the game
Speaker 1: comes down to a loss because of him, then then
Speaker 1: we got a problem. Dave. The thing that makes me
Speaker 1: feel okay about Greg is, like Nick said, he usually
Speaker 1: bounces back. I mean, he redeemed himself and he hit
Speaker 1: the game winner in LA. When he's had missus, he
Speaker 1: usually responds. His miss last night was his first kick
Speaker 1: of the night, and he made two more after that
Speaker 1: and made his extra points as well, So I mean,
Speaker 1: bad hiccup. And yeah, I mean forty three is right
Speaker 1: in the range where you really want your kicker to
Speaker 1: be able to make that, but for him to bounce
Speaker 1: back and hit everything else after that, definitely not like
Speaker 1: a ten out of ten. But I feel confident enough
Speaker 1: that he's just as good or better as whatever's available
Speaker 1: to you, and it just kind of is what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we want to revisit this in the
Speaker 1: off season with trying to upgrade the position, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But I feel good enough about him and I appreciate
Speaker 1: his resiliency that when things do go bad, he bounces back.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I mean, unless you got Justin Tucker,
Speaker 1: then I think everybody's had a kicker who's had at
Speaker 1: least a couple of miscues this season, and so I
Speaker 1: think it's more about how you respond than whether or
Speaker 1: not you mess up. To be clear, I wasn't saying
Speaker 1: that they have recourse as far as getting another kicker.
Speaker 1: My question was if it were you, would it change
Speaker 1: how you're calling the game? Would you be inclined in
Speaker 1: some situations and not trust them as much as they hit?
Speaker 1: Coach seems to trust him because we've heard it over
Speaker 1: and over while we were in field goal range, like
Speaker 1: would you be feeling like that or would you be thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: it's for it down. I don't know about my kicking situation,
Speaker 1: so let's go for it on fourth. Does that factor
Speaker 1: in at this point based upon your level of confidence
Speaker 1: with him? Yeah, you know what you once they crossed midfield? Yeah, good,
Speaker 1: want to go for it anyway? So right, you would
Speaker 1: do anything for it when they crossed midfield. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: so no, And it doesn't change the way I do it.
Speaker 1: I like, hopefully you're only kicking when it's a very
Speaker 1: obvious situation. I mean, if it's fourth and three or less,
Speaker 1: this offense should be going for it more often than not. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So no, it doesn't. I don't think it really affects
Speaker 1: my opinion. I think it did affect their opinion, maybe
Speaker 1: just just in that last drive of the game, and
Speaker 1: you think about it. I mean, after they're sitting there
Speaker 1: on you know, a third and an eleven at the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line, you know, so that's that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a thirty seven yard field goal. Do you try to
Speaker 1: get this first down? And they didn't. They didn't really
Speaker 1: try to get the first down. They tried to get
Speaker 1: a little bit more yards underneath to zeke and get
Speaker 1: it pretty close. Now, Zeke, you know, he didn't have
Speaker 1: a great game really, uh stat wise, but he made
Speaker 1: in my opinion, to play the game. And but but
Speaker 1: I think that might have been a result of, hey,
Speaker 1: let's let's not be too aggressive here and make a mistake,
Speaker 1: and let's also give ourselves a better field goal opportunity.
Speaker 1: And it just turned into a touchdown. But that's exact,
Speaker 1: that's the exact thing. Like they were, in my opinion
Speaker 1: in that instance, they were actually playing, yeah, to get
Speaker 1: a field goal, right, they were playing to get a
Speaker 1: field goal, and Zeke just beasted on him and got
Speaker 1: him in a situation where they didn't have to do that.
Speaker 1: But but really they were playing for field goal opinion.
Speaker 1: There The only the tricky part, when you really started
Speaker 1: thinking about it, is how aggressive they play sometimes in
Speaker 1: some of the decision makings that they do, and in
Speaker 1: those calls that sometimes doesn't go their way, and then
Speaker 1: some other times they's like, well, wow, okay, good good call.
Speaker 1: But it's in those instances that I'm like kind of
Speaker 1: hesitant because you really don't know which way it's gonna go.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I rather play aggressive,
Speaker 1: go for it, try it, and right now. It's been
Speaker 1: working for them. That's all I'm gonna say. I'm just
Speaker 1: excited that it's been working for them. One more thing
Speaker 1: about Zerline is that, you know, you gotta remember everything
Speaker 1: that a player does at his position, and obviously the
Speaker 1: biggest one is the is the field goals. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I can promise you not everybody in the league
Speaker 1: is kicking a touchback every single time or just about.
Speaker 1: He leads the league in touchbacks. Yes, do they score
Speaker 1: a lot, yes, but he has also got a lot
Speaker 1: of touchbacks, and that isn't that is important. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be really important in some of these colder games where
Speaker 1: when it's harder to do that, because then that's when
Speaker 1: you can bust a fifty yard return or even worse
Speaker 1: than that. So he provides something that you think, oh, this,
Speaker 1: get this guy off the street, of this guy's better
Speaker 1: or whatever he might kick it off to, you know,
Speaker 1: like a Dan Bailey for instance, somebody like that. Dan
Speaker 1: Bailey had trouble with some of his kickoffs and stuff.
Speaker 1: So you gotta remember everything that a kicker does. Real quick.
Speaker 1: Let's get game balls. Give me a game ball player
Speaker 1: of the game. If you had to pick one person.
Speaker 1: If you were given a game ball, who would it be? Dave?
Speaker 1: Let's start with you. I've been thinking about this a lot,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's a cop out because the quarterback always
Speaker 1: gets the credit, but I just I want to this
Speaker 1: is really cool. In my opinion, Micah Parsons was amazing.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play a lot more football and have a
Speaker 1: lot more game balls. Mark Cooper, you make twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year. You played great, That's what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. Cooper Rush, I don't think it's a stretch.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a stretch to say that his
Speaker 1: life changed last night. You think like he brought it
Speaker 1: up at the postgame podium. He was sitting on his couch.
Speaker 1: Last year, the Giants cut him at the end of
Speaker 1: training camp. Nobody wanted him until Andy Dalton got COVID
Speaker 1: and concussed, and obviously Dak was hurt. The Cowboys needed him.
Speaker 1: He hung around. Yeah, he won the backup job, but
Speaker 1: what's he ever gonna do anything now? He has this
Speaker 1: moment like you can never take this away from him
Speaker 1: and his family, first of all, but on top of that,
Speaker 1: it gives the Cowboys confidence it's a game full of
Speaker 1: tape for other teams. Like, he's probably going to extend
Speaker 1: his NFL career because of this game. I mean, when
Speaker 1: it comes time for him to sign a new contract,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot more reasons to stay employed than
Speaker 1: he used to and maybe he goes on to play three, four,
Speaker 1: or five or maybe even more years in the NFL
Speaker 1: off the strength of this. I just I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, his NFL career could have come to an
Speaker 1: end last year if not for some unfortunate circumstances, and
Speaker 1: now he has started and won an NFL game. I
Speaker 1: just think it's incredible. Yeah, I think we call it
Speaker 1: just like I can said about Jason Garrett. You know,
Speaker 1: the Jason Garrett game. If if Cooper Rush doesn't play
Speaker 1: a whole lot more, and I don't know if anybody
Speaker 1: really wants him to around here, this s will be
Speaker 1: the Cooper Rush game. And that's that's that's amazing. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean I think that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's good too. But let's pass it
Speaker 1: around a little bit. I mean I thought, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought Amari Cooper was was pretty awesome too. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was just just going through what he was dealing
Speaker 1: with and and then at the end, I mean that
Speaker 1: concentration on that catch in the fourth quarter of the
Speaker 1: ball was bouncing around and tipped drill and he caught it,
Speaker 1: and just that whole drive was really Cooper to Cooper,
Speaker 1: and so I thought that that was amazing, and you know,
Speaker 1: he did it. He's playing through a lot of pain
Speaker 1: and he is playing very well. I'm going through in
Speaker 1: my head with different guys. But it's hard to beg
Speaker 1: because everybody else you kind of could say, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see him doing that. Okay, yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: but then Cooper Rush was the guy that you could
Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna say everybody, but most people could
Speaker 1: not see him doing what he did yesterday and coming
Speaker 1: off with a win like that. So it has to
Speaker 1: be him with all the criticism that he got this
Speaker 1: past week and he's been getting for a while. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's so deserving of this. And I was so happy
Speaker 1: for him and his family just watching his family also
Speaker 1: watching the game and seeing how excited they were. It's
Speaker 1: so heartwarming. Yeah, fix this there, because the defense won
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, And I made I made this point
Speaker 1: to you earlier when we were talking about this, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I know that all they're all the
Speaker 1: feel good stories about all the guys you want to
Speaker 1: point out, but it's it's there's it's a clear answer.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Michael Parsons was the best player on
Speaker 1: the field last night for either team. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think he played a phenomenal game. What he was
Speaker 1: asked to do, he did it very very well. And
Speaker 1: there were so many moments, like just so many moments
Speaker 1: when he made plays that were not average, when he
Speaker 1: made extraordinary plays, and they'll always show up in the
Speaker 1: stat sheet the same way as they do when you're
Speaker 1: getting a sack or when you're getting an interception, because
Speaker 1: tackle for a lass sometimes you have to look up
Speaker 1: and you're like you have to look later and be like, man,
Speaker 1: they had that many tackles for a loss. But those
Speaker 1: things matter. Getting teams all schedule them behind the chains
Speaker 1: like that matters. And he was making all those kind
Speaker 1: of plays last night, So for me, it was him.
Speaker 1: I will also say I get a got to give
Speaker 1: an honorable mention of Cedric Wilson because when you think
Speaker 1: about it, this offense was not moving, They were not
Speaker 1: moving the ball and then all of a sudden, bam,
Speaker 1: seventy three yard touchdown. That was just a beautifully run route,
Speaker 1: beautiful pass. Everything about it was perfect. That's what kind
Speaker 1: of got and not to me, that was the signal
Speaker 1: that this offense made a decision that Kellen Moore made
Speaker 1: the decision, Okay, we're not getting anything done. We're gonna
Speaker 1: to take some shots and really go at them with
Speaker 1: the passing game. We can't just focus on the running
Speaker 1: game because they're gonna do everything they can to stop
Speaker 1: us there. And not only that, but then he comes
Speaker 1: back later and throws a big time pass on the run. Nick,
Speaker 1: you and I were talking about in the press back before,
Speaker 1: were like, we need that kind of thing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Cedric Wills and had a phenomenal game as
Speaker 1: well well. If you ever need another batchup to the
Speaker 1: throw that ball on a damn rope on the run
Speaker 1: like that was. That was a throw. Yeah, he's four
Speaker 1: for four in his career and he's I mean he's
Speaker 1: thrown four passes, I think one touchdown. He's got a
Speaker 1: perfect quarterback rating again for his career. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's out. He's been outstanding. I mean I said this
Speaker 1: this morning and I and this is no disrespect to
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. If this is gonna be your number two receiver,
Speaker 1: Gallup I think is a better option for you. But
Speaker 1: as a number three, I think Cedric Wilson is showing
Speaker 1: he's got more versatility there. And again, come on back, Michael,
Speaker 1: let's make this muddy it up. Let's let's figure it out.
Speaker 1: But because you know, you know you're gonna need it.
Speaker 1: But I think his value as a third guy is
Speaker 1: probably even more than what I think Gallup could give you.
Speaker 1: And something not to miss on that play as well,
Speaker 1: That play was blown up from the beginning when when
Speaker 1: he first got the ball that was a defender in
Speaker 1: his face, he made a move on that fender and
Speaker 1: takes off running the other way and then makes the
Speaker 1: throw on the run. Like everything about that play should
Speaker 1: not have worked. And Cedric Wilson made the play. This
Speaker 1: was not a play that was just there. He made
Speaker 1: the play. Again, he had a really good game last night.
Speaker 1: And and if you look at like other guys we
Speaker 1: put on this list of great guy like we're talking
Speaker 1: about game changing plays that were made on guys we
Speaker 1: didn't even mention like obviously Gregory was playing out of
Speaker 1: his mind. Uh ceedee. Lamb was the one that had
Speaker 1: a lot of these catches. On the other end of
Speaker 1: these catches, Anthony Brown, we didn't get off his his ass.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Anthony Brown has been playing really really well.
Speaker 1: He gives up some plays, he makes some with Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: They kept these guys in bound. Terrell Basham was all
Speaker 1: over the place. Zeke had a play of the game,
Speaker 1: even though his numbers weren't there. I mean should have
Speaker 1: been him, Yeah, I mean Cooper, it should have been
Speaker 1: he was. He mean, that's amiliar a guy that you're
Speaker 1: kind of like, it's not a one percent given that
Speaker 1: he's gonna A guy like him is gonna play the
Speaker 1: way he did. No, and I and I wonder when
Speaker 1: Dawrence came back, which was last game, and when d
Speaker 1: law comes back, what his role is gonna be. You
Speaker 1: keep playing like that. And they got players, they got guys,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's dan Quinn because the Seahawks
Speaker 1: they just put all these guys in there, and the
Speaker 1: Seahawks that that's what they did. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: dan Quinn type of defense. That's just finding getting these
Speaker 1: guys and finding ways to get to the quarterback. All.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go some big picture we look around the NFL,
Speaker 1: look around the NFC, look around the NFC East, see
Speaker 1: what's happening around the division and the conference. We'll do
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. Until then, for Nick Even, Dave helm and
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