WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Blitzing Brady? 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.200 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:18.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.119 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.439 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:31.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:39.560 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.239 welcome to another episode of The Break. I am here 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.120 with Nick and Dave. Who are you gonna give us 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.080 a little report on these injured guys? Who was a 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:56.080 practice today and who wasn't um. The main guys have 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.040 been out of practice and one of the biggest returns 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.160 would be Connor Williams, who has been spotted out there 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.160 doing some things after a nice scope last week. Thoughts 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:13.520 on this, That's pretty impressive, legitimately shocking. Yeah, I was 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.039 not expecting to see that. But he's out there running 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.720 went the first team. It's been eight days since he 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.200 had surgery on his knee. So was he doing like 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.760 rotating with Xavier or just talk over and as we 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.039 always say, I mean we saw fifteen minutes. They don't 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.880 really get into the nitty gritty of playing football. While 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.880 we're out there. It's mostly position drills and you know, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.440 warm up reps. So I don't know what it's going 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.480 to look like when they actually go through their game 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.480 plan for today. But he's I mean he had a 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.760 scope on his knee eight days ago. That's great. I 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.560 mean even Michael Gallup needed like three weeks. I think 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.920 Gallup missed two games. You know, Gallup obviously is running 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.880 routes and true, you know, that's what you do the 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.920 entire game. You can't really have a big bulky knee 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.640 brace there. You could do that probably with Connor Williams 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.920 if you wanted to. That is also assuming he's head 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.839 and shoulders above the guy behind him. But I think 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.800 they believe that he is. The Cowboys believe that Connor 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:17.839 Williams is definitely a better player than Zabor Supilo. So yeah, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.240 I think you're right. What you see from last game 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.200 when they were playing against the Lions. Do you notice 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.520 where you I know I heard you say you were 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.280 going to watch that position. Did you notice a significant there. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.160 I didn't notice any big problems with him on the 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.120 passing game. I thought he did actually a good job there. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.000 They didn't run the ball well and so it wasn't 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.880 just on him, but he didn't provide as much of 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.919 that strength and push as you would have wanted. Collectively, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.880 they didn't run it well, but they also made sure 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.640 that the Cowboys weren't going to run on them. That 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.040 was something that the Lions did. So I'm not sure 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.920 if if you know, Nate Newton and Larry Allen, Larry 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.560 probably would have pushed people around. But yeah, you know, 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.040 I'm just not sure if anybody was going to be 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.680 able to run the ball the way the Lions were playing. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.040 So when that happens, you have to throw for four 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.560 forty four. That's what you have to do, and you 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.400 have to be the NFC Offensive Player of the Week 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.160 if you're the quarterback and you're not going to take 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.040 away your running game like that. I'm curious, Like we 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.600 just said what this means. I mean, Connor's out there. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.280 That doesn't mean that he's going to play against the Patriots. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.040 We'll see. Um, it's a good sign. Another guy though 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.280 that is important for the line and wasn't out there today. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.519 Le Collins, he's dealing with you know, he got h 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.680 I mean, yeah, that's that's the thing is like Lyle 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.000 told me after the game, He's like, yeah, my back 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:37.760 flared up. It's you know, it's the thing I was 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.640 dealing with leading into the game. But then they're saying 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.840 it's his knee, and that was something that was already 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.480 aggravating him too. Like these guys are just beat to hell. Man. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.840 We were told on the plane that he had reaggravated 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.400 the mcl sprain. They're gonna watch it this week, but 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.880 you just got the sense from the trainers and from 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.480 Jason Garrett that it was a positive thing. It's going 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.720 to be okay, just just from a sense of he'll 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.880 probably be able to play. I think that they think 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.320 he can play now, but I also think he probably 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.080 won't show up on the field until Friday. Here's what's 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.720 not good is that you're facing the best defense, the 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.960 best team in the league, the best team over the 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.520 last twenty years, and they are a very physical team, 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.720 and so they're gonna do everything they can to play 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.039 this game. And I'm not trying to look ahead of 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.800 the best team of all time. But you got a 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.839 game in four days after that, Yep, you know it's 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.400 it's you might take everything you have to get through 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.920 this game, and even that might not be enough for win. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.440 And think I've turnedund to play a really physical Buffalo 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.960 team in four days. It's a really good point. It's 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.960 a tough stretch right there. From we've seen that. I mean, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.320 I think they've had good luck on Thanksgiving the last 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:55.760 few years, but I remember in fourteen who they yeah, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.640 and they they sold out to win the game before 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.880 Philly and the Eagles came in on Thanksgiving him beat 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.240 beat him up because they were Yeah, it was I mean, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.680 it was a short week, and that was the year 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.159 Romo was balanced. I'm sorry, it's actually it's kind of yeah, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.080 he was managing his back, but it's it's a little 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.240 bit comparable because they went up to New York. That 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.960 was the Odell game, the Dez game at Ride and High. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.440 You get this impressive win against the Giants, and then 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.960 they just they were hurt and flat and and got 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:23.600 beat pretty bad by the Eagles in that game. So 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.400 that is, of course, you're not going to look past 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.479 playing the New England Patriots in Gillette Stadium. But it's 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.720 gonna be tough to turn around and play a good 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.360 Bills team, right It's gonna be tough for those guys. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.760 That are like the Lyle Collins of the world, and 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.680 maybe maybe that's not what they do. You know, maybe 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.680 they look at it and say, we're not doing that. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.600 We're gonna, We're gonna. Actually, if they're not one hundred 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.480 percent healthy, let's see if they can get healthy for 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.400 next Thursday. You'd hate to say that when you're playing 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.960 the Patriots, but surely the smart thing to do that 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.880 then this. I mean, I'm so to finish off the 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.760 injury stuff. Amari Cooper, Tank, Lawrence, Jeff Heath, they were 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.760 all out there. That's great Amari. Actually this is the 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.880 first time he's practiced on a Wednesday in a few weeks, 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.680 so that's positive. But again, how's he going to feel 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.560 on Monday morning? And you don't have the benefit of 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.240 having seven days to get ready. You gotta get ready 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.600 in three. So that'll be a challenge for everybody. And 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.160 I mean, sit these guys somebody else and let him 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:22.720 play against the Bills. No, you can't, which I typically like. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.320 I like that line of thinking typically, and like you know, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.640 load management has taken over the NBA, and we talked 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.040 about let's think about this. I was about to say, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.080 you can't do that in this situation against the team 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.160 that's good. Sorry, if you feel that you're gonna lose, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.120 I mean that's not the mentality basically. But it's like 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.000 against the Beaches when you're like, Okay, you can't concede, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.280 and if you sit guys, I mean, guys will know. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.640 Guys will know. If you're starting to sit guys that 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:56.800 are kind of injured but they could play, they're gonna know. Basically, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.880 you're conceding this game. You can't do that. I just 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.520 don't think you can do it. Not saying you're conceding 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.680 this game, but but let's let's all strategiz. But but 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.480 let's think about like this. Okay, tomorrow you go to 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.120 these guys that have been battling with things all year. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.840 I'm talking about Zach Martins and Tyren Smiths and all that. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.040 Can you play? I'm talking about on Thursday you say, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.800 can you play? No, not today, but I'll be all 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.600 right by Sunday. That's what you're dealing with next week. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.000 So all I'm saying is for a guy like that, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.720 and particularly Lyle Collins who was dealing with something last week, 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.080 it may not be in the best interest to do 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.960 that because he played this game, he may not be 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.520 one hundred percent and then you're not gonna get him 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.120 at all for Thursday. That sounds good. I get your logic. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.240 Good point though, point though, still remains that how does 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:43.800 that play in the locker room. I think in the 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.440 locker room, it'll feel like, well, he could play, Like 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.960 we know he could play. They're saving him for next week? 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.360 So what does that say about this week? Are they 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.560 conceding that we just can't beat them? I think that 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.800 first of all, if you can play him, say in play, yeah, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.880 but I'm gonna argue semantics with you, like, you're not 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.720 conceding defeat. You're saying we run the risk of like 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.040 not having this guy for a longer stretch of time, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.760 or do we just sit him for one and then 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.080 hopefully that helps him be right for the final five. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.520 That's not that's not deceding defeat. And I'm not saying 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.040 they are conceding defeat. What I'm saying is you have 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.200 to think about the optics and you have to think 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.119 about how that plays in the locker room with fifty 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.560 three men, Like that's a part of this. Don't don't 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.120 act like it's not. It is a part of this, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.240 and if they're looking at it, and the players in 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.960 there for one minute start to think this guy can play, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.680 but they're gonna sit him this week because they figure 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.680 it's we'd better just to have him for next week, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.280 then they certainly start having those conversations. I mean, you 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.280 guys have been around groups. Anytime you have groups of people, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.679 you always have to be concerned about one guy planning 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.079 a seat. All it takes is one guy to think 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.400 that and he said to the guy sitting beside him, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.720 and then all of a sudden it becomes a man, Yeah, 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.880 I think he could play. Why are they not playing 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.840 that they think we can't win this. There's a lot 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.360 of stuff that can happen from that. I just don't 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.840 think it's good for the team dynamic to ever sit 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.959 a guy that that can play. In this culture, like 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.280 in football, it's about if you can play. And we 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.240 say it all the time, how crazy these guys are 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.199 for getting out there with some of the injuries they have. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.520 But if you can play in a football culture and 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.559 you decide not to or the team decides not to 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.920 play you, I think they're always going to be questions. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.760 I hate that we're in the weeds on this right now, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.480 it's irrelevant. If you can play, he'll play that. I agree. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.000 I mean it's all about do you want to got 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.679 to play two games or one? I mean, that's really 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.120 what it comes down to you. Yeah, there's always really 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.839 the one on one to one right because they just 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.600 wouldn't play this week and they play next week, right, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.040 Or if they play this week, then you're saying they 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.439 might be ready for next week, but they're ready for 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.920 the Bears game, right, Yeah, So it's one to one. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:37.480 Either you want to play this week, you want to 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.080 play him next week unless you heard the guy even 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.240 worse and it keeps him out even a longer amount 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.199 of time. So you just never know to every game. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.040 I'm only five five, Like the weeds are so tall 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:53.240 above me. I can't see it. I can't deep in 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.080 the weeds right now? All right, go ahead? All right, Well, 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.280 I thought you were taking over over you got this 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.160 thing all right? Right? Well, I wanted to talk about 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.080 real quick. I don't know if you guys talked about 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.120 the cornerback position, Anthony Brown being out and who's gonna 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.559 kind of take over his role in what's going to happen. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.280 There are there any updates on that. They poached a 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.880 guy by the name of Deonte Burton off the Colts 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.160 practice squad. He's a journeyman, practice squad type of guy. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:20.959 He's been I mean, he's been in the league for 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.679 three years. I think he's been in three games at 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.240 something like like just practice squad kind of guy. I 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.280 think their hope is that he doesn't have to be 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.720 active for this game. It's more of a I mean, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.120 you need the fifth cornerback, you need that guy. But 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.480 you know, it's not like a sign him on Wednesday, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.880 throw him into the game against Tom Brady on Sunday 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.320 type of deal. Hopefully yep. I remember when you sign 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.400 a guy off a practice squad, it'll be here three weeks, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.120 so you have to be here at least for three games, right, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.600 So yeah, I think a lot of times though, when 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.560 they do sign there's a lot of cornerbacks on practice squads, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.880 and the Cowboys have two of them that right there 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.280 is kind of weird to me, Like what does it 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.240 say for the guys that are know your system and 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.199 here that are playing that aren't good enough to be 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.160 called up? Like when when is it ever going to 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.880 be good time for Donovan Lumba. I guess not this week. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.839 Maybe if he could run a little bit faster. But 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.679 then the question is why do you have him here? Like, well, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.480 is he on the practice squad? You need you have 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.000 to be able to get through practice. I get that. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.040 My point is, is it a situation where he's never 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.000 gonna be Yeah, he'll be it here for this year 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.439 and all that because he knows it and that's what 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.920 they're doing and all that. He understands the terminology. But 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.400 there's no sense in probably bringing him back for next 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.959 year for another go round on this unless he's just 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:36.800 kind of banged up or something. But I mean, if 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.560 I were him, I certainly would be like what the hell? 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.240 I'm like, Yeah, i'd be what am I doing here? 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.240 If I'm out here practicing every day and I know 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.959 what I'm doing helping them get through practice. Like the 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.040 cruel reality of the situation is that's the ideas you 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.640 want to develop these guys, but that they're not all 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.920 gonna be good enough to call up to the fifty three. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.640 And that's what this guy that's played three games and 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.880 three years is Like. That's again I'm just saying I 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.560 just think this he if he's better than them, then 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.840 they got to really be questioning, like what that they 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:08.320 don't see value in me? They are the lumba right 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.240 now is like he's scratching his head, like I don't 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.440 know what's going on here. If you're not I mean, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.959 if you're not good enough to be secure, the NFL 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:18.920 is a sucky job. I mean, it just it is 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.959 what it is. Like they could they could cut you 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.920 right now, Like you're you're making good money. I think, um, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.079 somebody wrote a story about this last year, and like 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.679 I'm not trying to make anybody feel terrible for these 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.040 guys that make six figures, but practice squad guys like 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.040 you make like one hundred and twenty thousand dollars before taxes. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.599 You can't really like buy a lease or you know, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.679 lease in apartment or anything because you don't know how. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.480 I mean, they could cut you at a moment's notice, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.040 and then you're stuck with a lease on a place 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.040 you can't pay. There's no residual money that comes after 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.480 that when they cut you and cut you right and 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.079 and they'll bounce you back and forth, so like one 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.360 week you've got active roster money, one week you don't, uh, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.280 and so yeah, like if you're in that situation, it sucks, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.839 and I'm sure it probably sucks for for a lumba. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.880 And who's the other cornerback? I don't I can't even 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.400 think of his name. Oh the guy they got from 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.680 Georgia Teche or DJ read Jay Jones. You're like, well, yeah, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.960 I mean think about that, Like he's throwing out names. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.480 If they liked them enough, they could bring them up 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.320 for this game. And like a fifty three man roster 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.839 game check is like eighty grand, Like you're basically getting 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.320 half of your practice squad paycheck for one week's worth 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.520 the work. And they're like, no, we think this guy 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:26.959 might have more juice. Sorry about it. Maybe us on 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.040 the corner. If you can help us get through practice though, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.920 that would be great. But if you if you suck, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.640 we'll cut you. And then you got to figure it out. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.959 I mean, it's again business. It pays well, but if 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.480 you're not good enough to have a guaranteed spot, it 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.040 can be kind of tough. All right, Well, let's take 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.480 an early break. 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Best network based 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:52.000 on GWS once sqre SIP number twenty nineteen. Back to 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:57.320 the break, Welcome back, Nick, take it away for already 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.400 for months? Seriously, you had a whole break to and 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.720 get Renty here we go? Is this what happens when 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.360 I'm not here? All happens when you are here? There 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.160 are the storylines that the Patriots are kind of going 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.280 through right now. Obviously their offense is not what, you know, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.000 what they're used to seeing here. And Brady was very 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.240 frustrated the other day. It sounded like he was about 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.000 to jump off a cliff. I think he's been calmed 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.280 down and realized they're nine in one. But he's he's 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.440 you know, they hold himself to a higher standard and 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.680 so that the offense is not something that is on 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.760 par right now for what the Patriots are used to. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.960 One of the reasons is their red zone scoring. They've 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.160 only scored a touchdown forty eight percent of the time 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.400 inside the twenty They ranked twenty fifth in the league. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.680 They're hoping that their first round picking to kill Harry 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.160 who's a big bodied guy. He's been on injured reserve 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.680 till last week. He came back made his debut. They 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.720 think he might be an option in there. He's at 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.000 wide receiver. Why didn't they get it back? That's my 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.960 third point. Isaiah Win is coming back off of r 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.160 He's another first round pick from twenty eighteen, hasn't played 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:59.880 a lot. They expect he's going to be active. He 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.640 may just jump right in and play there at left tackle. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.480 They're going to see about that. Another point is that 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.440 their their defense could be we could be talking about 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.119 the two thousand and nineteen Patriots like we say some 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.480 of the other two thousand Ravens maybe the eighty five Bears. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.680 I mean, they've been that good. Their first in total 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.760 yards allowed and points scoring. On that They've got six 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.480 total touchdowns on defense and special teams. They've only given 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:29.239 up nine on offensive. But they there bucks defense from 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.399 the early two thousand that were scoring a ton. They 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.400 were really good, but they were scoring a ton as well. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.440 Last point for them is they've won seventeen straight games 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.359 at home, dating back to October twenty seventeen. Cowboys have 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.919 not won there since eighty seven. Don't play a whole lot, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.919 but they certainly have never won in this stadium, Gilette Stadium. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.880 Not many teams do the It's kind of what's going 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.600 on with the Patriots there, but I need to look 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.560 that up. I'm going through for my column tomorrow. Just 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:01.760 like who has beaten the Pats at Gillette? Lost two 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.000 that year in twenty and seventeen, lost the opener to 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.359 the Chiefs, and then the Panthers came in there and 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.080 beat them. I know they, I mean they do looking 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.560 after them. I know they have, but it's I bet 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.840 it's not a super long list. Um, that's cool. That's 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.320 another thing. Yeah, let's just sit everybody, you know, although 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.639 I will say, I you know, I'm I'm the pessimist. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.960 I get that. I already said I'm gonna pick the Patriots, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.240 but like I dove into the offense and kind of 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.919 to Nick's point, I was like, okay, like you can 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.680 you can beat these guys may the offense. I haven't 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.800 watched the defense yet, and that's kind of the bread 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:41.359 and butter. That's the bread. A good team. Yeah, don't 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.200 don't no, only some Miami crap. No. I always yet 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.720 It's it's tricky because I always try to watch I 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.920 always try to watch the most recent game, but I 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.280 feel like if the most recent game isn't super super 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.360 indicative of who they are, I try to go back. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.600 So yeah, like I'm not gonna watch them play the Dolphins. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.879 It's a way. I think that's a waste of time. Ravens. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.960 I'm gonna watch him play the Ravens to see what 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.200 it looks like when somebody kicks their ass, because nobody 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.280 does that. And I'll probably watch him play the Eagles 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.359 just because that was the most recent opponent anyway, and 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.240 they played him tough. The Eagles played him tough. I 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.320 watched I watched the Eagles game on offense, and then 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.520 I watched the first half of the Ravens game, and 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.160 then I went back and watched some of the stuff 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.320 they did before that. Um, yeah, they're they're they're pretty 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:31.080 mediocre and even bad by their standards. Um, their sixteenth 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.040 in the league until offense. Which so here's the thing, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.680 like we all know they reinvent themselves, YadA, YadA, YadA, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.720 big cliche. They've got nineteen running backs. They've been like 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.080 a sneaky, powerful running team for the last few years. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.119 Like they're not even good at that this year because 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.840