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

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Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. I am here

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Speaker 1: with Nick and Dave. Who are you gonna give us

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Speaker 1: a little report on these injured guys? Who was a

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Speaker 1: practice today and who wasn't um. The main guys have

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Speaker 1: been out of practice and one of the biggest returns

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Speaker 1: would be Connor Williams, who has been spotted out there

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Speaker 1: doing some things after a nice scope last week. Thoughts

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Speaker 1: on this, That's pretty impressive, legitimately shocking. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: not expecting to see that. But he's out there running

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Speaker 1: went the first team. It's been eight days since he

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Speaker 1: had surgery on his knee. So was he doing like

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Speaker 1: rotating with Xavier or just talk over and as we

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Speaker 1: always say, I mean we saw fifteen minutes. They don't

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Speaker 1: we're out there. It's mostly position drills and you know,

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Speaker 1: to look like when they actually go through their game

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Speaker 1: plan for today. But he's I mean he had a

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Speaker 1: scope on his knee eight days ago. That's great. I

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Speaker 1: mean even Michael Gallup needed like three weeks. I think

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Speaker 1: Gallup missed two games. You know, Gallup obviously is running

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Speaker 1: entire game. You can't really have a big bulky knee

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Speaker 1: brace there. You could do that probably with Connor Williams

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Speaker 1: they believe that he is. The Cowboys believe that Connor

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. What you see from last game

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Speaker 1: they didn't run it well, but they also made sure

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Speaker 1: So when that happens, you have to throw for four

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Speaker 1: have to be the NFC Offensive Player of the Week

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Speaker 1: That are like the Lyle Collins of the world, and

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Zach Martins and Tyren Smiths and all that.

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Speaker 1: at all for Thursday. That sounds good. I get your logic.

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Speaker 1: Good point though, point though, still remains that how does

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna argue semantics with you, like, you're not

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Speaker 1: it's irrelevant. If you can play, he'll play that. I agree.

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Speaker 1: Or if they play this week, then you're saying they

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Speaker 1: the Bears game, right, Yeah, So it's one to one.

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Speaker 1: Either you want to play this week, you want to

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Speaker 1: I feel good. And Derek's like, explain to me, they're

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Speaker 1: splits over the last month and damn it. Okay, this

427
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Speaker 1: is a very horizontal team. In my opinion, they don't

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Speaker 1: like that. For my money, they lack like real downfield threats.

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Speaker 1: A b was there at the beginning, he's gone. Josh

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Speaker 1: Gordon was there for a while, he's gone. Julian Edelman

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Speaker 1: can go downfield, but he's he's a slot guy. He

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Speaker 1: plays at all three levels, but you don't think of

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Speaker 1: him as a vertical threat. Philip Door said, has speed,

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Speaker 1: but there hasn't been a ton of consistency there. I

435
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Speaker 1: looked this up. His longest game of the year's fifty eight.

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Speaker 1: He did that in week one. There's not a huge

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Speaker 1: element of downfield ability. They got Mohammed Sanu in a

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Speaker 1: trade right around the deadline. He hasn't done a lot

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Speaker 1: yet he has in his career. And then nikis the

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Speaker 1: chains kind of got too right. Yeah, I mean he's

441
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Speaker 1: got speed again. I mean he did wonders with Julio,

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Speaker 1: but obviously Julio is a big part of that equation.

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Speaker 1: Nikkil Harry's coming back off ir He's a big bodied,

444
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Speaker 1: more of a possession guy. Sixty three, two thirty, like

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Speaker 1: a big bodied Guy'd be interesting to see what he does.

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Speaker 1: He caught three balls for eighteen last week against the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: so kind of getting his feet wet. When I say

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Speaker 1: they're horizontal, I mean you see a lot of screens

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Speaker 1: from the receivers and the running backs to offset the

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Speaker 1: fact that they don't have that stuff Like James White

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Speaker 1: is probably their most reliable weapon right now. I crunch

452
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Speaker 1: the numbers on this running backs have caught eighty five

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Speaker 1: balls so far this year. White is caught catching sixty

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Speaker 1: percent of those. He's got fifty catches already this year.

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Speaker 1: That's the funny thing is like, and I wrote this

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Speaker 1: down too, So they're in eleven perconnel fifty four percent

457
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Speaker 1: of the time and then they thirty percent of the time.

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Speaker 1: They're running a two back set. So you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: they got White and Michelle on the field. They got

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Speaker 1: Burkhead and White. They got Burkhead and Michelle. They can

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Speaker 1: do all this different stuff with all these running back

462
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Speaker 1: but they seem a lot more predictable than that because

463
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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle has one hundred and fifty carries on the year,

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Speaker 1: the next best guy has forty, and then James White

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Speaker 1: has forty eight of their eighty five catches, the next

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Speaker 1: best guy has like eighteen. Like Michelle is there running back,

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Speaker 1: and then they have a committee of pass catchers. And

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Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised that like it wasn't more

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Speaker 1: evenly split, you know, like like when Michelle's on the field,

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Speaker 1: they're probably gonna I mean, if he's gonna get the ball,

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Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be on a run and the other

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Speaker 1: guy's catch. White is super dangerous. You remember him from

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. He's got the longest gain of the

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Speaker 1: season for them. Let's talk about Tom Brady. He looks

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Speaker 1: not like the goat and for a variety of reasons.

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Speaker 1: My main thing, if you've watched the Cowboys play Eli

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Speaker 1: Manning in the downturn of his career, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what it reminds me of. Like he's a super he's

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Speaker 1: he makes he's smarter than Eli Marry, Like he makes

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Speaker 1: better decisions. He can still get the ball out, he

481
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Speaker 1: still has really good accuracy. But my main point is,

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Speaker 1: like if you pressure him, he kind of falls apart.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I think, I hate to use the

484
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Speaker 1: word a fraid for a pro football player, but like

485
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Speaker 1: he doesn't want to take contact, and so like the

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Speaker 1: minute there's pressure, he's looking for a way to get

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Speaker 1: rid of it or or get down and get out

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Speaker 1: of the way. That's that's kind of been them and

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Speaker 1: him his whole career. It has gets him the problems

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Speaker 1: you haven't been able to always get to. You're right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, and like you can go back

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Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven and like that's how the

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Speaker 1: Giants beat him. I get that, but like it looks

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Speaker 1: even more obvious because I think and he's never been mobile,

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Speaker 1: but at forty two, like there's just not a lot

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Speaker 1: he can do with a twenty five year old defender

497
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Speaker 1: putting pressure on him. So are they putting him in

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Speaker 1: situations where he's making bad decisions because of that? Or

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Speaker 1: is it just the thing getting a lot? No, Well,

500
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Speaker 1: he's taken sixteen sacks, which isn't a ton. But that's

501
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, is like he's got so many incompletions.

502
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Speaker 1: He threw fourteen first half incompletions against the Eagles the

503
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Speaker 1: other night, and that's just because like if it's not

504
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: there immediately and he's worried about something bad happening, he's

505
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: just throwing it at somebody's feet or throwing it out about.

506
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they have any real playmakers. They don't

507
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Speaker 1: on this team, and Keelman is, but I'm just saying

508
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Speaker 1: he's not a guy that's just gonna, you know, throw

509
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Speaker 1: it fifty yards down the field, go up and make

510
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Speaker 1: a play like Galladay did against them. Are you saying

511
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Speaker 1: there's nobody that really scares opposing defenses that you have

512
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Speaker 1: to have added. That's why you say they're not very vertical.

513
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: I mean that's not something that offsets a huge blitz.

514
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Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys would be crazy not to get

515
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Speaker 1: after him. And just you know, I'm anxious to see

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Speaker 1: what they do with Edelman. You know, they have a

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Speaker 1: they have a cornerback right now that nobody's really trying

518
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Speaker 1: to touch at all. And maybe it's going to be

519
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Speaker 1: a situation where Bryan Jones needs to be with Edelman

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you think that will happen? Though, Well, yeah,

521
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Speaker 1: have they done that before. I put him in the

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Speaker 1: slot a lot, Like when when you face the team

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Speaker 1: with their best guy as the slot guy, follow him

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Speaker 1: into the slot A lot? I don't. I mean, here's

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Speaker 1: a guy that played safety, right, I mean he should

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Speaker 1: be able to sort of do it. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: he's great at slot Barmon Jones. I'm just saying that

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Speaker 1: though I really want to. I want to see. I

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Speaker 1: know where you're gonna have one time one Jordan Lewis

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Speaker 1: one and not so much because I think like maybe

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Speaker 1: Edelman will win some He Edelman will definitely win something.

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Speaker 1: He's a great player, but like the yapping and the

533
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Speaker 1: extracurricular just sounds way too entertaining not to and I

534
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Speaker 1: want to just see for myself. I want to see

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Speaker 1: how good Jordan situation where he's about to have to

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Speaker 1: play a good part in the game, and can he

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Speaker 1: take that step, because that's gonna tell I think it's

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Speaker 1: it should tell you a lot about what the Cowboys

539
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 1: should be thinking about it about him going forward. And

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Speaker 1: this guy, you said you didn't think the corner would

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Speaker 1: play the burden John Trey Burton, I don't think so. No,

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Speaker 1: who else would be a corner though, I think your

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Speaker 1: fourth corner would be CJ. Goodwin, which I mean it's

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Speaker 1: not exciting, but well, they've been keeping them all active.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Brown was active. So I think when they

546
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Speaker 1: sign a guy, I think they sign them for a

547
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Speaker 1: guy that's the most ready. I didn't finish that point.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what the determining factor is. Who can

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Speaker 1: play right now? Who can play today? And so I

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Speaker 1: would imagine he is going to play just because they've

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Speaker 1: been they've been keeping all five corners active. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: well let's talk I want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about that, but let's take a final break, we

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Speaker 1: come back. Yeah, we we'll finish up this Patriots offense already. Okay? Yes,

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Speaker 1: Hey this weekend, Cowboys have a watch party. I know

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Speaker 1: com for more details. All right, Well, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: go back and talk about Jordan Lewis a little more.

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Speaker 1: I know, when I was watching the Patriots playing, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the things that I saw Tom Brady doing

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Speaker 1: was what do you call those passes where you kind

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Speaker 1: of toss it, you know, you're not really throwing it,

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of like a level password. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I noticed him doing that a lot. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that could be a perfect opportunity for the Cowboys to

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Speaker 1: create some takeaways. And who better than Jordan Lewis, who

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Speaker 1: has been seen getting his hands around the ball pretty often.

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Speaker 1: So when you mentioned that about, well, you did kind

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Speaker 1: of putting Jordan Lewis there. I love that whole idea

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Speaker 1: of possibly utilizing him that way and starting to see

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00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: the Cowboys create some more turnovers this way. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's remarkable. Their running backs are the way that

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Speaker 1: they try to move the ball more than anything. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, I mean it's really Michelle doing the

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Speaker 1: majority of the work actually running it. But Burkehead, Bolden,

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Speaker 1: James White, they can all line up. I mean they

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00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: flex them out, they motion them back, lots of screens,

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Speaker 1: Brady loves I mean, Brady throws like three swing passes

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Speaker 1: to James White per game. And we know the Cowboys

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00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: aren't good at that. I would assume that's that's going

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Speaker 1: to be a big point of emphasis. And yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, misdirection kind of trickling, the running back back

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Speaker 1: over behind the line and giving him room to run.

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Speaker 1: They do that all the time. I don't mean to

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Speaker 1: discount the things Edelman in even Philip Dorset can do

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Speaker 1: down the field. I think Edelman is a lot like

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Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, Like he's got that reputation of being the

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Speaker 1: shifty in you know, fifteen yards and shorter guy, but

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00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: like he can go downfield and hurt you there too,

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Speaker 1: Like he's dangerous at all three levels. But I really

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Speaker 1: there's not a guy and this is always famous last words,

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Speaker 1: but there's not a guy where I'm just like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do with him. Like

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Speaker 1: they have the personnel to defend these guys if they

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Speaker 1: play well and That's the thing that gives you pause

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Speaker 1: is they haven't. And with a guy like Belichick and

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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniel's drawing it up, you would think they can. Probably,

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to try to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: how aggressive the Cowboys are. But that's the thing I

636
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: wonder about. The Ravens blitzed the hell out of Brady

637
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: and it worked. Earl Thomas sacked him linebacker sacks and

638
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: I actually kind of like what I just joked about

639
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: with Byron Jones, like do you really think he'll travel?

640
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: But Stephen Jones went on the radio yesterday and he

641
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: said they were talking about, you know, how can the

642
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: defense play better? This is buried in a wall of

643
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: tex But he said, as we move forward, we may

644
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: do a little more here and there in terms of

645
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: getting some pressure and making plays on the ball. Do

646
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: a little bit more, like do a little bit more

647
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: than which I'm like, I mean, that's what that's my

648
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: immediate thought to. You have to get after him, and

649
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: you have to hope the linebackers, you know, because because

650
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: the one thing that you do when the team is

651
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: blitzing you is you get ready for the screen. It's

652
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: the linebackers have got to be able to make those plays.

653
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: And while they didn't do a good job on Dalvin Cook,

654
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: there's not that type of back out there. It's look

655
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: at the backs that have kind of hurt him here lately,

656
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: Scarborough a little bit, Dalvin Cook. It's the big strong backs.

657
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: So you know, not to say miss tackles, Yeah, a

658
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: lot of miss tackles. Not to say that those shifty

659
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: I mean they're good for a reason. I mean Burkehead

660
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: and um like almost said Dion Lewis, but James White,

661
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: I mean they just kind of rotate them in and

662
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: shift either Sonny Michelle. But I think those guys have

663
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: to go and get them on the ground because I

664
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: do believe they're going to be sending a lot of

665
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: people at Brady. But I think we have seen with

666
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: these linebackers though, is they do sometimes over run over.

667
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: So that's where you're worried about the shifty guy being

668
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 1: able to get them. But you're right, they've they've been there,

669
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: they just haven't made the tackles. If they can wrap up,

670
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: I think they can manage this. They just they gotta

671
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: make tackles. Sonny Michelle is a little more powerful than

672
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people want to give him

673
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: credit for it, like he's not dainty. Yeah, but I

674
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: agree with you. I agree with you in theory, and

675
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: that's I don't know, out Blitz. I'm trying to get

676
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: and get at Brady because, like I mean, if he

677
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: even like senses the plays going south, he's gonna get

678
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: rid of it. And he's smart enough that, like he

679
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: can throw it away from the pocket and make it

680
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: look like an incompletion. He does that all the time,

681
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,479
Speaker 1: Like he'll just chuck it at a guy's feet, knowing

682
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: full well that it's not going to be a completion.

683
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 1: Whether that's Jeff Heath, whether I mean I would assume

684
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith's going to be part of it again, Jordan Lewis,

685
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: he's shown an ability to do that. I'm trying to

686
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: bring pressure on Tom Brady, and I don't know if

687
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: I want to sit back and count on just the

688
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: down linemen to do it, because they've had games where

689
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: they've been able to but they've I mean, and Jeff

690
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: Driscoll obviously is so much more athletic than Tom Brady,

691
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: but but they still they didn't get at him as

692
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: much as I think we thought they would, and so

693
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying my best to make him uncomfortable because

694
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: I think their offense really struggles when he is. That

695
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: was gonna be my next question, just kind of looking

696
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: at how the Cowboys defensive line played last week against

697
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: the Lions, and you know, we did expect them to

698
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: be able to pressure Driscle a lot more. And now

699
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,439
Speaker 1: when you mentioned about the Patriots offensive line then being

700
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: banged up, and do you I mean, are you guys

701
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: really expecting the Cowboys to kind of come back to

702
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: that fiery defensive line that we keep hoping to see

703
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: from last year and even instances this year. I do.

704
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win this game, and I think

705
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: the defense is gonna I think they're gonna get out.

706
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: Are you still picking them to work? Oh yeah, I'm

707
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: probably double digit win. I'm not joking. I think they're

708
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: gonna win by maybe eleven points, like twenty eight seventeen

709
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, I do. I'm listening to know.

710
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: It's not proper to drink on the job, right, I know.

711
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: I know. The funny thing is like having so much

712
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: to hang out with them now A right, Sorry, that's funny.

713
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: It's really funny. I haven't watched their defense yet. I mean,

714
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: I know they're putting up historic numbers, but like, just

715
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: having watched their offense, I'm like, if the Cowboys can

716
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: score twenty points, they I think they've got a good

717
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: chance to win this game. Just I mean, I can't

718
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: see I can't see the Patriots just absolutely lighting them

719
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: up unless the defense is just forcing, you know. I mean,

720
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 1: if Dak throws three picks against these guys, then a

721
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: lot and they maybe won. But if they don't turn

722
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: the ball over a lot, I think the Cowboys will win.

723
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: I do. I think they're I think they're a better team.

724
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: I think they're coach, I think I'm sorry, you know,

725
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: but what you know about this coach, though you have

726
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: to do this, what you know about complying stuff? And

727
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: right it's like bullets flying around him right now. What

728
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: you know about this coach is he has a way

729
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: of masking his deficiencies and exploiting yours. Right, and so

730
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: if he knows about if we know what, you kill him.

731
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: If he knows well, first of all, we're talking about

732
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: the fact that this quarterback is not like he's just

733
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: he's not getting the protection he needs. He's not being

734
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: able to really be able to throw it like that,

735
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: then he's going to do something to help. And so

736
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: I don't think going back to that original question of

737
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: do you think the front can can get pressure without blitzing,

738
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think this week they're gonna

739
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: go into this game saying, Okay, let's max protect a

740
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: little bit. Let's scheme open a guy if we max protect.

741
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: And this is a team that loves to do those

742
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: little you know, they call him rubs, but we know

743
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: their picks, right. They do it all the time. That's

744
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: a part of their offense. They're gonna say, let's max protect,

745
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: let's put two guys out there, we're gonna run a

746
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: little they'll run a route combination that gets one of

747
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: them free. And here we're often running. That's the kind

748
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: of stuff you gotta worry about because this coach, again,

749
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: he looks at ways to mask his deficiencies and take

750
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: advantage of yours, and he changes the game plan every

751
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: single week, really, every single possession. To be able to

752
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: adapt to what you're doing. This is not going to

753
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: be as simple as just hey, cowboys can put their

754
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: front four out there and they're ferocious enough, and they're

755
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: better enough. They may be they're that much better to

756
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be able to take advantage of it.

757
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: I don't think that will be the case. The other thing, too,

758
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: is and Isaiah wins only played like two games in

759
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: his NFL career, so I hesitate to you know, I

760
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: don't know if he's like all world, but he was

761
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: good enough to be a first round pick. We were

762
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: dying for the Cowboys to draft him to be the

763
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: left guard the year they drafted Connor. He went way

764
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: too high. But he's a really good player and the

765
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: Cowboys have gotten so many lucky breaks. Well he's back,

766
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: like that's an unlucky break, which is he Tyrn Smith?

767
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: Probably not, but having your starting left tackle in there,

768
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: you'd think will help matters with the pressure. And yeah,

769
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: I mean I would blitz Brady because I don't I

770
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: don't trust the front four to get home consistently enough

771
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: on their own. But yeah, I mean they definitely they've

772
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: been they've been pretty met. I think we watched the

773
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: Eagles game on the flight home from Detroit seventeen ten,

774
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: like all you need is a good enough drive to

775
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: get down and get a field goal and you can

776
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,479
Speaker 1: put it away. I think they punted on their last

777
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: eight possessions of the game. That's I mean. Brady was

778
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: furious after the game because he played like crap. Yeah,

779
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: so it is possible to make them look very pedestrian.

780
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: And that's the defense the cup we put thirty seven

781
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: points on, you know, the Eagles, the Eagles defense. I'm

782
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: sure that the Eagles played way better in that game

783
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: that everybody plays seemingly plays better at home. But I'm

784
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,720
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, that's a that was a defense

785
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys were able to kind of move the

786
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: ball on. So it'll be interesting to see. I just

787
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 1: the more I'm listening to this, I see I vision.

788
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: I can envision the Cowboys win in this game. I

789
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: really do. I think that they're I think we're gonna

790
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: look up in the third quarter and it's going to

791
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: be like ten to three Dallas or you know. I

792
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: think the defense canna play really well in this game,

793
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: really well. I just think they're playing complimentary, complimentary football.

794
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: And so Brady even said a few weeks ago, he said,

795
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: you know, hey, what I have to realize is right now,

796
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: the strength of the team is on defensive special teams.

797
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: We just basically don't need to mess it up. And

798
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: I think that's probably why he's like, Okay, I'm just

799
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of ball. If things look like they

800
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: can go south, get rid of the ball. Because my

801
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: defense is good enough. Not only can they stop the

802
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: opposing offense, they might be able to take the ball

803
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: away and they might be able to score. So they're

804
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: just playing complimentary football. I would suspect if their defense

805
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: wasn't this good, you'd probably be see that offense doing

806
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: a lot more things. But right now, they're playing complimentary

807
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: football and their defense is playing that level. The big

808
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: key to this game, in my opinion, is not how

809
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense matches up with the Patriots offense. It

810
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: is more so, can the Cowboys offense continue to be

811
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: a juggernaut that it's been throughout most of the season

812
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: against a really, really, really as you said, possibly great defense.

813
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: That's the challenge. Here are their kicker, that's a really

814
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: good while they had one of the best in the league,

815
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: but Stephen got s I R and then he missed

816
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: last week. Him up today, Oh saw he missed last

817
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: Some reasons for that. Though Nick Folk is five of

818
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: five since he joined the team. But I thought he

819
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: missed last week. Not according to the staff, that's unless

820
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: almost nugent is there too. Are we sure that folkus

821
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: from last week where he missed a kick, but maybe

822
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: I missed it focus I'm walking off the field and

823
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, I'm nick Folk makes missed but

824
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: they have not. Um, folks, long is only thirty nine

825
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: so and that's uh, here's a funny stat. The Patriots

826
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: have not even attempted a kick from fifty plus and

827
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: they've only attempted three from forty to forty nine. Like

828
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: they're doing all of their kicking from the twenty to

829
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: the thirty nine, which stall around the thirty five yard.

830
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: No they stall, which I mean they stall. No, they

831
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: don't even stall in the red zone. They stall in

832
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: pretty normal kicking range. But with Gaskowski out of the lineup,

833
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: they clearly don't trust these guys to be booming big.

834
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: That's I'm not sure. I feel like I'm a bad

835
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: reporter because I focus so much on the offense. That's

836
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: all right, that's all right. Well, the cow was just

837
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: need to kind of clean it up, and it's it's

838
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna be Nick Folk on Sunday Day. That's yeah, and

839
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: he has not missed this, Suson, I must ms. Derek

840
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: tried to throw me under the bus. No, I wasn't

841
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: trying to throw you know, I was kidding, just checking.

842
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: And hopefully the Cowboys um run defense gets some more confidence,

843
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: I should say, because you said them not being so

844
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: good in the red zone, maybe this is a good

845
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: matchup there with the Cowboys run defense, red zone defense

846
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: kind of get him back on track. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Patriots can just line up and run him over

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Speaker 1: the way that like Dalvin Cook did or even you know,

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Speaker 1: Bo Scarborough at times. But I do last words, it

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Speaker 1: always is, it always is. But I mean there. I

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Speaker 1: mean on the season, even with as many bad teams

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Speaker 1: as they play, they're averaging three yards per carry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's the screens and the flare routes and the swing.

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Speaker 1: I'm so tired of seeing James White like, you know,

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Speaker 1: the perfect little wheel, you know, screen not screen wheel

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Speaker 1: up the field, like Brady just puts it right in

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Speaker 1: his bread basket as he's crossing the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: It looks like arena football. He's off to the race

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Speaker 1: and he always gets at least eight, if not like

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Speaker 1: sixteen or more. Yeah, all right, well that is all

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Speaker 1: the time we got for today. I appreciate mix optimism.

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Speaker 1: The defense is going to clean up on their tackles.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna pressure Tom Brady, they're gonna create some turnovers.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna keep them out of the end zone. And

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Speaker 1: they're gonna walk out with the wind this weekend. So

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Speaker 1: that's impressive. If they get the wind, they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: walk out of there. They're gonna all be doing the

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Speaker 1: Dak dance out of Jelette Stadium everybody. They win this game,

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Speaker 1: I'll do that dance on the show with Rob on

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Speaker 1: the field quote and I'll have Rob do it. Let's

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Speaker 1: say Rob's not doing that. They both get to the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. Can they beat them twice? Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: they're like twenty step. I worry that I'm the hover

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Speaker 1: on this particular. You know, like she just took the polls,

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Speaker 1: started running with it, just bull vaulted all across the top.

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Speaker 1: I look at probability, so I'm like, can you beat

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Speaker 1: somebody twice like this? I don't know. I'm not worried

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Speaker 1: about that, right, I know, I thank you worried about

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Speaker 1: all right. I'll say this, if they played the Jets again, though,

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Speaker 1: they would beat them again. There there you go. All right,

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