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Speaker 1: It is Monday, November ninth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number sixty one. Welcome, Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We are alive in the SWBC More studios
Speaker 1: at the Star got Nick David Amber and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys lost yesterday. It was a competitive game,
Speaker 1: but it lost. Nonetheless, Cowboys lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: twenty were nineteen. And as we typically do on Monday's
Speaker 1: following a game, we're gonna start with some storylines, some
Speaker 1: big picture storylines that you take from the game. It
Speaker 1: seems a bit repetitive because there have been so many losses,
Speaker 1: but maybe you guys have something different that you take
Speaker 1: out of this game than you've taken out of others. NICKO,
Speaker 1: let's start with you. Oh well, I mean, no one
Speaker 1: likes to talk about moral victories or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was that's where we are. You know,
Speaker 1: when you when you bring a guy in for that's
Speaker 1: never played in the NFL, I mean, never started a
Speaker 1: game before and he goes and plays like that. I
Speaker 1: thought that the team, you know, rallied around him. I
Speaker 1: thought the energy from the stadium was good. I mean
Speaker 1: both you know, the fans from both sides there. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good atmosphere. The Cowboys played their
Speaker 1: best game on defense, but ultimately they're just not good enough.
Speaker 1: Their offense wasn't good enough to get over the hump
Speaker 1: and score when they need to. Field goals don't win.
Speaker 1: Field goals don't be undefeated teams, and they didn't amber. Well,
Speaker 1: I know it was a loss, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: a weird feeling because in a way, I feel like
Speaker 1: they won and it brought back some little hope and
Speaker 1: the talks of like, okay, well maybe and just maybe
Speaker 1: this team can actually start turning things around, because I
Speaker 1: think this is the first time that we actually see
Speaker 1: all three faces be able to find some success in
Speaker 1: the game. So it was a good thing. It brings
Speaker 1: back all the time. Okay, well, maybe they can get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and maybe they can beat the teams
Speaker 1: down the line, because the rest of the schedule are
Speaker 1: gonna be teams that aren't necessarily as competitive as the
Speaker 1: Steelers are currently. So it's it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what the second half of the season brings. Dave,
Speaker 1: you said that, Amber who said that. Nobody else said that,
Speaker 1: Nobody forced you to say it. You're popping back on
Speaker 1: the bandwagon of your own free will you see? They
Speaker 1: always do that to me. I'm just pointing that out.
Speaker 1: Expect me to say that, right, that was not supposed
Speaker 1: to be something. Yeah, seriously and seriously exactly. Um, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I guess my takeaway is I feel very right and
Speaker 1: very wrong all at the same time, because a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, I remember being like, you know, the
Speaker 1: NFL seasons have these ebbs and flows, like no, only
Speaker 1: only two teams have gone undefeated in the regular season ever,
Speaker 1: and there's no NFL team that just gets blown out
Speaker 1: every week, week after week, like not even the O
Speaker 1: eight Lions got blown out every single week. So you
Speaker 1: knew the Cowboys were going to turn it around at
Speaker 1: some point and at least play competitive football, but I
Speaker 1: sure as hell didn't expect it to be against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: of all of all the teams, you know, the last
Speaker 1: undefeated team left in the league. Maybe not the best
Speaker 1: team in the league, but certainly a very good team.
Speaker 1: And to see them display that type of competence, particularly
Speaker 1: on defense, it was it was impressive. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it means, you know, I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, but if they play that way the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, they're definitely gonna win a few
Speaker 1: more games. Yeah. That's the interesting thing is when you
Speaker 1: looked at the matchups, and I was having this conversation
Speaker 1: with my wife before I was leaving to go to
Speaker 1: the game yesterday, and I was like, you know, me,
Speaker 1: I try to be optimistic in just in life in general.
Speaker 1: So when I'm watching teams like that i'm rooting for,
Speaker 1: I typically am more optimistic than the average person. But
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't find a scenario but which
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can win this game. What they do the worst,
Speaker 1: which in my opinion, is the offensive line, is actually
Speaker 1: what matches up to the Steelers greatest strength, which is
Speaker 1: their defensive line and their ability to get after the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and so I just couldn't see a scenario where they
Speaker 1: could make it work. But they found ways yesterday to
Speaker 1: make things work and keep themselves in the game and
Speaker 1: keep fighting. And we saw a lot of things from
Speaker 1: the team yesterday, including the offensive line play, including the
Speaker 1: defense where they haven't been great all season, including the
Speaker 1: quarterback play. Well, they haven't been great, and yesterday they
Speaker 1: were able to get some things that they hadn't gotten
Speaker 1: and were able to put it together in a way
Speaker 1: that I kind of agree with Amber that you know,
Speaker 1: you feel to day almost like it's a win, even
Speaker 1: though they end up on the losing endevid just because
Speaker 1: they played so much better than you have thought they
Speaker 1: would played. But let's jump into some of the moments
Speaker 1: that mattered. We're gonna go around everybody give me a
Speaker 1: moment that mattered from yesterday's game, and but let's start
Speaker 1: with you. I can't give you a specific moment, but
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna choose just the penalties in general, because
Speaker 1: three of them that were very costly for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we're gonna get into the We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about them more down the line, but you talk
Speaker 1: about the one where the field goal. They missed the
Speaker 1: field goal and then they get a call a penalty
Speaker 1: call for I think it was a false start I think,
Speaker 1: and then it gets called back, they try the field
Speaker 1: goal again, they score. Then the two penalties on Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: which very questionable and debatable, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it ended up call same points on the board.
Speaker 1: The Steelers end up scoring a touchdown and then end
Speaker 1: up scoring a field goals. So I think just penalties
Speaker 1: in general in general were very costly for the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the interesting part about that, and then you mentioned the
Speaker 1: two Jalen penalties. Regardless of what you think about it,
Speaker 1: I'm actually interesting to hear what you guys have to
Speaker 1: think about those. They still end up being penalties that
Speaker 1: you would expect that, you know, a veteran like him,
Speaker 1: at least on one of them doesn't make that costly mistake,
Speaker 1: and on both instances it cost the Cowboys plenty. Nick,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you on that. Did you think that
Speaker 1: they were penalties and what were just your thoughts on
Speaker 1: those those major penalties that came from Jalen. I don't
Speaker 1: think the one with Claypool was a penalty. I think
Speaker 1: it was an NBA flop. Honestly, I think he flopped,
Speaker 1: and if he did that, that's a veteran move by
Speaker 1: a rookie like that. But you can't go around and
Speaker 1: be like this beast and flex and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff and then get pushed to the ground like that.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think he I think he
Speaker 1: got he felt contact and he kind of went down
Speaker 1: or your trip or whatever. I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: that was a good call. But you can't hit quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the face and that was an accident. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: They don't care about about that. Layton Vanderresh was an accident,
Speaker 1: he said after the game. The guy was up around
Speaker 1: his neck and if anybody's gonna get a guy's hand
Speaker 1: off his neck, it's gonna be Layton Vanderresh. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna have anybody on around his neck area who was
Speaker 1: trying to get his hand off. And when he did,
Speaker 1: he moved and he hit him in the face. So
Speaker 1: bad luck for Jalen and Layton on that. But I
Speaker 1: don't I didn't agree with that call, which was the
Speaker 1: biggest play in the game. I think because if you
Speaker 1: know that that Alton Smith penalty, I mean fumble, they're
Speaker 1: gonna get another field goal. They're gonna be up seven.
Speaker 1: This time it was eight forty six and the fourth
Speaker 1: left in the fourth first and ten at the fifth
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh forty seven. And on that play is when
Speaker 1: Crawford shows up, makes a great play, gets the ball out,
Speaker 1: forces the fumble, all of the Smith recovers it, and
Speaker 1: he gets it to the Pitsburg twenty one. You're right
Speaker 1: at the worst case scenario, you're assuming they get a
Speaker 1: field goal. Best case scenario, maybe they get a touchdown
Speaker 1: that late in the game. That was a huge play
Speaker 1: in a huge moment for this team. Dave, what do
Speaker 1: you think of the two penalties? Well, I'll talk about
Speaker 1: him briefly, but that I think that hides over the
Speaker 1: bigger point. But I mean, okay, the Claypool penalty was
Speaker 1: bs and especially on a game, on a game swinging play,
Speaker 1: you know where Pittsburgh scores on that drive. Obviously you
Speaker 1: like Dallas's odds to get some type of points. If
Speaker 1: that play stands, that's just really bad luck. The roughing
Speaker 1: the passer was a penalty, like, there's no way, it's
Speaker 1: it's not fair the game is slanted toward quarterbacks, but
Speaker 1: welcome to the NFL. Honestly, you talk about Claypool flopping that,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great job of salesmanship by
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger because if he just takes that hit and
Speaker 1: stays up, there's probably no flag because that you know,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton and Dak never get those calls because they're big,
Speaker 1: strong guys and when you hit them, you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like they're vulnerable. And big big Ben his
Speaker 1: name is Big Ben. He's a gigantic guy. Like if
Speaker 1: he just takes that hit and stand and stays standing,
Speaker 1: they probably don't flow to throw the flag. And I
Speaker 1: don't know for sure, but it looked like he kind
Speaker 1: of let himself go down to emphasize that he got hit.
Speaker 1: That's what it looked like to me. If you go
Speaker 1: back and watch the replay, like he's looking for the
Speaker 1: ref as soon as he hits the ground. So I
Speaker 1: just think that's a great job of veteran gamesmanship by
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger. It's unfortunate for Jalen, but it's absolutely a penalty.
Speaker 1: But the point I was gonna make is, you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, everybody we do this all the time. We're like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to complain about the penalties, Like we
Speaker 1: gotta control, we can control. But here's all the thing
Speaker 1: I hate about the penalties. Like if you want to
Speaker 1: talk about if you want to talk about the game
Speaker 1: changing moment that was completely within the Cowboys control. It's
Speaker 1: opted to kick that field goal to go up ten
Speaker 1: at the end of the third quarter. And you know
Speaker 1: that that was the moment of the game because we
Speaker 1: in the press box sat there and had a ten
Speaker 1: minute debate about it, like we were all. Derek leaned
Speaker 1: over and he's like, all right, Dave, what do you
Speaker 1: do here? Rob, Like, what's what's your strategy here? And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't hate the call. You know, you
Speaker 1: got a fourth string quarterback, You got a chance to
Speaker 1: take a two possession lead toward the tail end of
Speaker 1: the game. But you can certainly second guess it and say,
Speaker 1: if you go forward and pick it up, you can
Speaker 1: probably take two more minutes off the clock. Even if
Speaker 1: you're forced to settle for another field goal. That's two
Speaker 1: or three minutes that Roethlisberger has less to work with.
Speaker 1: You know, they zipped right down the field after that
Speaker 1: field goal and tied it up like two minutes later. So, um,
Speaker 1: if you're talking about things that were in the Cowboys
Speaker 1: control that swung that game, that's That's what I go
Speaker 1: back to is if you're going for broke trying to win,
Speaker 1: maybe you should have gone for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: The biggest penalty of the game. I mean, yeah, Jay
Speaker 1: those Jayleen penalties were big, but I mean you can't
Speaker 1: overlook how big the Terrence Steel penalty was before the half,
Speaker 1: because you know, the Cowboys were aggressive. They said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go out and we're gonna make something happen here.
Speaker 1: Right before halftime thirteen six, they're up Dalton Shultz twenty
Speaker 1: yard catch over the middle. I mean, they're gonna probably
Speaker 1: go get a field goal to go up ten instead.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought that was that was really you know,
Speaker 1: borderlines that to call that on Terrence Steele for being
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage like that, whatever, But I
Speaker 1: mean that the next play then you know, CD gets
Speaker 1: the fumbles and then they it's a six point swing
Speaker 1: right there and they lose by five. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, of course, the game could be
Speaker 1: played differently, but I thought the Terrence Steele not lining
Speaker 1: up penalty. That was pretty big. Yeah, it's interesting because
Speaker 1: I actually had that when it happened, I highlighted it
Speaker 1: as a moment that mattered, and then the next play
Speaker 1: just basically took all the air right out of that.
Speaker 1: You get the fumble, and it's like, okay, well that
Speaker 1: it really didn't matter as much because the next play
Speaker 1: you fumble, and you thought I think we all thought
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. I thought that maybe they were
Speaker 1: getting to a point where ball security was going to
Speaker 1: be something that we could see a lot less of it.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have seen less of it. But
Speaker 1: it just came in just the most inopportune time. Not
Speaker 1: that there's a great time ever to lose the ball,
Speaker 1: but it's just those kind of moments just tend to
Speaker 1: happen to this team. They keep putting themselves in bad positions.
Speaker 1: They can't get the good things to happen without eventually
Speaker 1: giving away a bad thing. I did want to mention too, though, Dave,
Speaker 1: you were talking about that decision to go for it.
Speaker 1: It was two seventeen left and third, it was fourth
Speaker 1: and one of the Pittsburgh twenty two McCarthy makes the
Speaker 1: decision to try the attempt at field goal, they get
Speaker 1: the field goal, And to be honest with you, as
Speaker 1: we were talking about in the press box, I was actually,
Speaker 1: you know, I was more on the side of McCarthy
Speaker 1: of saying, Okay, you take your points here, because I
Speaker 1: think to that point your team has played above their heads.
Speaker 1: You're looking at how they're playing against the team I
Speaker 1: thought offensively and defensively, they were playing above their heads.
Speaker 1: You take the points where you can get the points,
Speaker 1: and you keep fighting, as opposed to let's say, you
Speaker 1: you go for it, you don't get it, and then
Speaker 1: momentum just completely shifts, and at that point a team
Speaker 1: that may have felt like they were kind of in
Speaker 1: this game starts to feel like they're a little less
Speaker 1: in the game. But all that being said, I think
Speaker 1: this is one of those rare instances in football where
Speaker 1: actually both decisions can be right. I'm interested to hear
Speaker 1: what you think and what Amber thinks on this, Nick,
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about I just gut feeling there.
Speaker 1: I didn't hate it, honestly, maybe kind of what you
Speaker 1: were saying going up ten at that point in the game,
Speaker 1: I mean, not that you felt like that was gonna
Speaker 1: be enough. But just I mean at that point that
Speaker 1: they don't. You don't allow nine points to the Steelers.
Speaker 1: So the defense was playing well, and it just comes
Speaker 1: down to can you get the yard? I mean, can
Speaker 1: you get it? They've been running well at that drive
Speaker 1: so and I think Gilbert probably could have got it.
Speaker 1: But I just the confidence of can they get the
Speaker 1: yard versus the confidence that zirline is gonna make this
Speaker 1: kick and what a ten point lead might have done.
Speaker 1: I just I didn't hate it. I wouldn't have hated
Speaker 1: either way, that kind of like you said, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have hated that call. I my gut was saying kick
Speaker 1: it there though, but I don't remember how long was it?
Speaker 1: A full yard? Half yard? Was to me? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't fall Jason Garrett to say it was a long one.
Speaker 1: It was a long one, you know. And I and
Speaker 1: I missed the press box banter there, So, uh um,
Speaker 1: what was the what was being said there? Well? Amber,
Speaker 1: what what was your thought before you get to let's
Speaker 1: get what Amber had to say? What do you think
Speaker 1: of the of the of the call? Well, William, you
Speaker 1: were going around the room asking I told you, I'm
Speaker 1: like they should go for it. And my reasoning to
Speaker 1: that was because I know the Cowboys were ahead and
Speaker 1: things were going unusually well for the Cowboys at that point.
Speaker 1: But at the same time I've been feeling these past
Speaker 1: few weeks it's like, what do you have to lose? Yes,
Speaker 1: you you need to get the points where you can
Speaker 1: get them. But at the same time, I'm like, just
Speaker 1: do it, just try it. And it's one of those
Speaker 1: scenarios where you're never gonna please everyone because on one hand, Stay,
Speaker 1: you went for it, didn't convert, and then we weren't
Speaker 1: be having this conversation. We would be saying the opposite man,
Speaker 1: they should have what was he thinking? They should have
Speaker 1: kicked and got in three points. So it's one of
Speaker 1: the others like you don't It's never like a win
Speaker 1: win situation and you just have to hope for the best.
Speaker 1: And I guess in that scenario they decided to go
Speaker 1: the more conservative way, maybe because they really felt like
Speaker 1: they had a chance to win that game. But had
Speaker 1: it been me, I would have gone for it. Two things.
Speaker 1: A note about that drive on that drive and Dave,
Speaker 1: I'll get you just second. Two things. A note about
Speaker 1: that drive on that drive, there were two no gains rushing,
Speaker 1: two rushes that were no gain, both by Zeke, and
Speaker 1: there was one rush for a negative two by Pollock.
Speaker 1: So in that drive alone, there had been three instances
Speaker 1: where they tried to run the ball and they either
Speaker 1: got nothing or they got negative yard. That could have
Speaker 1: also played into Now they had some decent runs in
Speaker 1: that drive too, but that could have also played into
Speaker 1: the coach's mind, like we've had some some things not
Speaker 1: go well in this drive alone. I'm not certain I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get this date. What we're gonna mention.
Speaker 1: I just I just want to be clear. This is
Speaker 1: not a situation where I'm like Mike McCarthy's an idiot
Speaker 1: and they bungled this terribly. I agree with everything y'all said.
Speaker 1: I think you can justify it pretty well either way.
Speaker 1: And at the time I was even like, yeah, with
Speaker 1: the way the defense has been playing, you probably just
Speaker 1: take your points. But in hindsight, you know, playing a
Speaker 1: quarterback like Roethlisberger's like playing Lebron you know, like if
Speaker 1: you could be up by eighteen at the end of
Speaker 1: the third quarter and you shouldn't feel safe, like the
Speaker 1: run is gonna come and so you know, you look
Speaker 1: back on the game after it happened and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a terrible decision. But if you're really going
Speaker 1: for broke trying to beat a better team, maybe that's
Speaker 1: a scenario where you just put your chips on the table.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing that I will say about this
Speaker 1: is that so so they get it, Let's say they
Speaker 1: do go for it and they get it, when are
Speaker 1: you going to kick the field goal? I mean later
Speaker 1: in that I mean three more minutes, it maybe goes
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter, they're gonna kick a field goal.
Speaker 1: I mean, the way Pittsburgh was playing on defense, it was,
Speaker 1: you know, it was just so tough for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to get They had to get a matchup on t J.
Speaker 1: Watt against Ceedee Lamb and recognize it to get the touchdown.
Speaker 1: They finally got a touchdown there. I mean, we're not
Speaker 1: really talking about it much, but they had two great
Speaker 1: kick return and a punt return, and those two game
Speaker 1: changing field flipping plays netted three points combined. That was huge.
Speaker 1: Rico Daddle, I mean, Jim Nance doesn't even know who
Speaker 1: Rico Daddle is. You could just hear the scrambling of like,
Speaker 1: who's this guy? You know, as he's trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out, nobody knows who he is except for us,
Speaker 1: I mean because we went to camp. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he he makes a great play and they
Speaker 1: get down there, they're on the seven yard line and
Speaker 1: they don't get anything out of that. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was huge. That interception was huge. Yep, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our first break. When we come back. I
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about some performance reviews.
Speaker 1: There were some players that had some really good days.
Speaker 1: There were some units that had some really good days. Nick,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned special teams. I think we gotta talk
Speaker 1: about special teams to do that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios. Thanks Dave at the Star. Sorry, I was
Speaker 1: doing something that's delayed reaction, but a good, good reaction.
Speaker 1: It was. It was fifty fifty maybe sixty forty. What
Speaker 1: do you thing? Oh, yesterday it was. I thought it
Speaker 1: was seventy third. I think you were right. Your prediction
Speaker 1: was right. It was seventy third. I actually I had
Speaker 1: a little bit of free time before before the game.
Speaker 1: I was kind of standing out there. You wouldn't count it.
Speaker 1: I did three times. I counted two one hundred. I
Speaker 1: counted one hundred fans coming in the stadium three times.
Speaker 1: Now that's just the three hundred. You got too much
Speaker 1: time when I was waiting around the game, start right,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and I counted three times and I got
Speaker 1: it was like a sixty forty Dallas one time, was
Speaker 1: like a fifty eight forty two Pittsburgh and then fifty
Speaker 1: fifty on the diet at one time. That's just three
Speaker 1: hundred out of thirty thousand fans. But it was what point.
Speaker 1: It was about forty five minutes before kickoff. I will
Speaker 1: say this, I think that it came that at that
Speaker 1: point there were more people coming in. But probably an hour,
Speaker 1: hour and fifteen minutes before you saw like there were
Speaker 1: a lot of fans, a lot of Pittsburgh fans were
Speaker 1: already in the state. That's always exactly, but I mean
Speaker 1: a little different when you're in this kind of situation,
Speaker 1: I think. But anyway, it just there were a ton
Speaker 1: of them, and even there once the game started, I
Speaker 1: looked out there. It just to me it looked like
Speaker 1: and it wasn't because you're seeing yellow, because you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes piercing colors makes it look like it's more. But
Speaker 1: they seem like they clearly had an interview yvantage that
Speaker 1: they did. Well. You know, if you're black and gold,
Speaker 1: that's Pittsburgh. If you're you know, cowboys, and if you're
Speaker 1: wearing red, that's probably cowboys. If you're wearing green, I mean,
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna go into a game for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: you're gonna wear your lady on bell jersey or whatever
Speaker 1: you got. Franko Harris or whatever. Franko Harris, I mean
Speaker 1: Joe Green. Who's that I'm kidding, O kidding, I mean
Speaker 1: Joe Green. Okay, I'm kidding. I'm kidding it, all right,
Speaker 1: my boy. Heck ma Harris. I loved an interview with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's his uncle. It was a great, great interview. It
Speaker 1: was a good interview. All right, here's here's what to do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some different players and some different units.
Speaker 1: We call this segment performance reviews. We first have to
Speaker 1: talk about Garrett Gilbert. He was twenty one to thirty eight,
Speaker 1: fifty five percent completion rate, two hundred and forty three
Speaker 1: yards passing, one touchdown, one interception, and then he had
Speaker 1: three rushes for twenty yards, which I thought were really
Speaker 1: nice because they were in situations where he needed to
Speaker 1: run the ball and he made most of it. That
Speaker 1: being said, should he be the starter after the buy
Speaker 1: or did they go back to Andy Dalton. We're just
Speaker 1: going in there. Yeah, we're going right in. We're going
Speaker 1: on this Amber. What do you think not assessing the game?
Speaker 1: We're going right to the Okay, and feel free to
Speaker 1: throw in whatever you got to talk about in the game.
Speaker 1: But that's what I want to talk about. Let's go Amber, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll play your game, you know what, Yes, yes, I'll
Speaker 1: make him the starter. And his performance looked so much
Speaker 1: better because mainly, I think because of what we've seen
Speaker 1: since Dak has been out, so the way that the
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks had performed so far has nothing. It hasn't
Speaker 1: been impressive, and there there's been a lack of unity,
Speaker 1: a lack of of just connection between him and the receiver.
Speaker 1: So the fact that we were finally able to see
Speaker 1: something good from Garrett Gilbert, which he wasn't perfect or anything,
Speaker 1: but still he had moments where you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, he can do that. Okay. So it's just
Speaker 1: in the combination of him being able to utilize his
Speaker 1: legs and get out of the pocket and run a
Speaker 1: little bit. I thought it was motivating, and again I
Speaker 1: said it earlier, it brought back some hope that maybe
Speaker 1: this offense is able to start turning things around a
Speaker 1: little bit since Dak's departure and injury. So yes, I
Speaker 1: would just make him the starter. Dave, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be I mean, this is the classic debate between team
Speaker 1: tank and team win games like that. That's where we are,
Speaker 1: and I think you're well not burying the lead. But
Speaker 1: it is a worthwhile thing to point out that a
Speaker 1: lot of people listening to this show, a lot of
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans are sitting around saying, man, that was perfect.
Speaker 1: They played well and they still lost. They didn't mess
Speaker 1: up this draft pick. This is great, and that's that's
Speaker 1: how a lot of people feel. So I completely understand
Speaker 1: the desire to see more of Garrett Gilbert, because you know,
Speaker 1: you find out what you have in him. And also
Speaker 1: people are awared, like he gives you the better chance
Speaker 1: to lose more games. I think that's what a lot
Speaker 1: of people think. Me personally, I don't. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: just not ready to stress about that stuff. In mid November.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of football left to be played. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to lose more games, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: win a few. And I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton on his own is the difference between
Speaker 1: them magically running to the playoffs and finishing three and thirteen,
Speaker 1: you know, I and for that matter, people people probably
Speaker 1: don't want to hear this, but like I just that
Speaker 1: would suck for Andy if if he doesn't get a chance,
Speaker 1: because I mean, he's signed here in part to have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to audition for the rest of his career.
Speaker 1: And I know the Cowboys have their own priorities that
Speaker 1: they need to get figured out, but you'd like to
Speaker 1: think he could at least have a chance to put
Speaker 1: a handful of games on paper or on tape where
Speaker 1: he doesn't get concussed. So no, I mean, if the
Speaker 1: season goes the way people think it's gonna go and
Speaker 1: there can into contention for a top ten pick. Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert or Cooper Rush will have more chances to start later.
Speaker 1: But I would put Andy back in the lineup when
Speaker 1: he's ready for the time being. Probably i'd go with
Speaker 1: a better quarterback, and I just don't see how it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be Andy. I would go with the better guy here,
Speaker 1: and again we'd go round and round on this. I
Speaker 1: don't brave on the curve when it comes to this,
Speaker 1: you know, and eighty two is better than a seventy
Speaker 1: five on a test, regardless of what your expectations are
Speaker 1: of the person. And so if Garrett Gilbert comes from
Speaker 1: the Orlando Apollos and he goes it's against the Seilers
Speaker 1: and does that, that's great. But is his expectations you know,
Speaker 1: was it more of an expectations things which I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't expect him to do anything. If
Speaker 1: he's better than Andy Dalton, then yeah, I would play him.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's going to be. And I
Speaker 1: still think that you can go and like Dave said,
Speaker 1: you know, you'd be competitive here or give Andy a shot.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done anything wrong, you know, he I mean
Speaker 1: both protocols that he's in. I mean, that's just that's
Speaker 1: what happened. But I think he should go out and
Speaker 1: he should play. And if Garrett Gilbert's going to be
Speaker 1: a backup here for maybe next year, he just showed
Speaker 1: that he can get here in three weeks and play
Speaker 1: against the Steelers and do that, he'll be finding an
Speaker 1: offseason you don't have to see him that much more.
Speaker 1: I mean, he'll he'll get out there, He'll play with
Speaker 1: this offensive line. They're all gonna play well. I will
Speaker 1: say this. I think that one thing I think I
Speaker 1: noticed yesterday, which I don't know that there are I
Speaker 1: don't know that there are a lot of u and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of empirical proof I can give for it,
Speaker 1: but I think I saw it is that it seems
Speaker 1: like he got rid of the ball. He was more
Speaker 1: decisive and got rid of the ball quicker than we'd
Speaker 1: seen from any of the guys that have come in
Speaker 1: since dec And I think when you're playing with this
Speaker 1: kind of offensive line that is that's porous and can
Speaker 1: certainly lead to pressure coming from a lot of different
Speaker 1: points and a lot of different times in games, and
Speaker 1: ability to be able to quickly diagnose where you need
Speaker 1: to get the ball and get it out quickly. I
Speaker 1: think is very very important. I'll take you back to
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. It was about seven fifty six
Speaker 1: left in the second quarter. Cowboys was second and seven,
Speaker 1: and this was to play just before the touchdown. He
Speaker 1: had pressure coming, he was able to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball, and he got rid of the ball quick
Speaker 1: and it was he basically threw it into the ground.
Speaker 1: He knew he wasn't going to complete the pass. But
Speaker 1: what I liked about it was he got rid of
Speaker 1: the ball. He got rid of it in a place
Speaker 1: that it wasn't going to be intercepted. And at the
Speaker 1: same time, he didn't take the sack, which would have
Speaker 1: been a much different third down at that point when
Speaker 1: they would have gone for the when they were shooting
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. If you're at you know, third and twelve,
Speaker 1: third and fourteen, that's a much different way that the
Speaker 1: defense plays you then if you're a third and seven
Speaker 1: and again. That to me, I was that was the
Speaker 1: first moment in the game when I said, Okay, Scott's
Speaker 1: got a little something. He has a feel for what's
Speaker 1: going on around him, and he saw the pressure coming,
Speaker 1: he saw that that pocket collapsing, he got rid of
Speaker 1: the ball. That's the part that makes me think that
Speaker 1: maybe he might be a better fit for what's going
Speaker 1: on in this offense right now than what Andy is.
Speaker 1: But I mean, again, this is one of those decisions
Speaker 1: where either way, I don't think either one of them
Speaker 1: is going to make a huge difference in the fortunes
Speaker 1: of this team, win or lost. I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just a matter of which
Speaker 1: one do you want to really get time to see,
Speaker 1: And I think that'll be a decision that the coaches
Speaker 1: will have to make. We're gonna another thing, another thing,
Speaker 1: Oh oh sorry, I was just gonna add that. Another
Speaker 1: thing to take into account is what are you gonna
Speaker 1: do with the whole quarterback position in the future with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and all that, Because again I'm starting to
Speaker 1: see a lot of conversations on Twitter just after seeing
Speaker 1: one game from Gilbert It's like, Okay, well, why do
Speaker 1: you decide here? It's just it depends the way I
Speaker 1: see it. It's like, what are you really trying to
Speaker 1: obtain in the future? Are you wanting to see more
Speaker 1: from a younger guy? I know he's being in the
Speaker 1: league since what twenty fourteen, I think, so he's not
Speaker 1: super young, but still young enough in the league. So
Speaker 1: it's like, what are you looking at the back cup position?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do in the draft? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do with Dak Prescott and all that? So
Speaker 1: it's one of those things I would rather just keep
Speaker 1: seeing Gilbert and see what he has. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break. Comeback. We're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little more about the running backs. They did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job yesterday. I want to talk about Polar in
Speaker 1: his day versus Zeke and his day. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the offensive line, We'll get into the defense, We'll get
Speaker 1: into the special teams to all that. When we come back.
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Speaker 1: of the break. We got a distractable player over there,
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman. We're gonna jump back in. We gotta finish
Speaker 1: up this. Uh. These performance reviews we talked about Garrett
Speaker 1: gil Gilbert. Let's move to the running backs. Tony Pollitt
Speaker 1: yesterday had nine rushes fifty seven yards, leads the team
Speaker 1: in yardage on the grounds. Zeke has eighteen carries for
Speaker 1: fifty one yards. The total for the team was one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four yards. Rushing, which is a really
Speaker 1: really good day based on kind of what we've seen
Speaker 1: from them recently. But that all being said, is Pollitt
Speaker 1: running better than Zeke at this point in the season,
Speaker 1: and does he deserve more opportunities? Nick, let's start with you.
Speaker 1: He is Scott, He's got more juice, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. He's definitely running the ball. Well. I just
Speaker 1: think this is you know, this goes back to years.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves the backup court of running back more than
Speaker 1: the starter. They always have. I mean, people loved Hambrig
Speaker 1: more than they loved him at Smith at one point.
Speaker 1: That just happens, um. But there's a reason why they
Speaker 1: come in and run the ball better because they they
Speaker 1: got some you know, they're they're they're fresh. Um. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be an either or I mean,
Speaker 1: put them both in there. I mean, but use it
Speaker 1: like that. I thought it was a good compliment because
Speaker 1: I don't think Polar can keep doing what Zeke does,
Speaker 1: and you know, Zeke right now is not showing he
Speaker 1: can do what Pollard does, So I like, I like
Speaker 1: what it is. Dave, Yeah, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: there's there's more to this story. Then Zeke is bad
Speaker 1: and Tony is good. Like if I'm gonna guess, when
Speaker 1: I go and turn on the tape, you can see
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh keying on Zeke's snaps in a way that they
Speaker 1: probably don't for Tony. Whether that's because Tony's more versatile
Speaker 1: as a receiver, they have to account for that, maybe
Speaker 1: they're just not as worried about it. I understand all
Speaker 1: of that, Like I don't. I don't just think Zeke
Speaker 1: is bad. I think what the Steelers were doing probably
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with that. At the same time, yeah,
Speaker 1: like there's no better way to say it than like,
Speaker 1: there's the juice, Like Tony Pollard has juice and Zeke
Speaker 1: doesn't right now, whether because of what defenses are doing
Speaker 1: or maybe it's his hamstring. But I saw a staff
Speaker 1: this morning. Tony Pollard has his mini twenty plus yard
Speaker 1: carries on like one hundred attempts, as Zeke does on
Speaker 1: his last four hundred, and at some point that stops
Speaker 1: being about what defenses are doing. I'm sorry, but it does. So. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm not trying to put Zeke on
Speaker 1: the bench, but that definitely, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: you want to call it a committee. But Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: needs snaps, he needs carries. I think he had nine yesterday.
Speaker 1: He should be hovering around He should probably be hovering
Speaker 1: around ten to twelve for the foreseeable future, maybe more
Speaker 1: depending on the game plan. But yeah, I mean, so
Speaker 1: you have to really good running backs. You'd like to
Speaker 1: be getting more from one of them, but just use
Speaker 1: both of them in the meantime while you figure that out. Camber, No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with everything they said. And the great thing
Speaker 1: is that you don't have to necessarily choose between one
Speaker 1: or the other. It's not like you're gonna only have
Speaker 1: one active during the game. You have both of them
Speaker 1: in they're ready to go in and just keep adjusting
Speaker 1: based on their performance. If you see Tony Poller being
Speaker 1: more successful in that day in that game, allow him
Speaker 1: to be more on the field, and just keep adjusting
Speaker 1: based on what you are seeing during the game. And
Speaker 1: I know that's easier said than done, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to predict who's gonna be able to keep making the
Speaker 1: better place. But at the same time, is you have
Speaker 1: the ability to choose between these two guys very easily
Speaker 1: and just interchange between the two very easily. So I
Speaker 1: just think create a good balance and allow one to
Speaker 1: be more the field depending on who's performing better that day.
Speaker 1: You know, there's people that love to look at what
Speaker 1: Zeke does and what he does not doing and put
Speaker 1: his contract up there and all this stuff, and I'm
Speaker 1: probably going to be the last to ever go there
Speaker 1: to really criticize him. I respect what he does. I
Speaker 1: respect the role that he plays. He plays the leader
Speaker 1: role and whether or not he is a great leader,
Speaker 1: who knows, but he plays that role. He knows that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got to be the one that talks
Speaker 1: to the media. He knows he's got to play in
Speaker 1: that game. I mean, that was a game time decision.
Speaker 1: I was told, don't know, if he's playing, he's gonna
Speaker 1: go down there with Britt Brown and on the courts
Speaker 1: and we're gonna see how it goes. There will be
Speaker 1: people that would say, in this situation, I'm out. You know,
Speaker 1: there's people on this team that aren't playing right now,
Speaker 1: and maybe they should. Maybe they shouldn't, you know that
Speaker 1: they're not healthy or not. Who knows he played. He
Speaker 1: could have easily backed out that game. Limited all week
Speaker 1: playing the Steelers back quarterback, the fourth stream quarterback. He played,
Speaker 1: So I'm giving him credit for how he played. I mean,
Speaker 1: he didn't play it is great, but you know he
Speaker 1: was in there. He was in there in front of
Speaker 1: that was tough sledding for all those running backs, and
Speaker 1: I just I think he deserves a little bit more
Speaker 1: credit for going out there and playing. There's not everybody's
Speaker 1: doing that now. I actually agree with that. And the
Speaker 1: one thing I will say, though, is I do think,
Speaker 1: going back to what Amber said, I actually think that
Speaker 1: Yestersday's game, I think there was a point when it
Speaker 1: seemed to me, at least, there was a clear difference
Speaker 1: between the juice of Pollard and the juice of Zeke,
Speaker 1: and I think in that instance I would have opted
Speaker 1: to give Pollard a few more carries. That's my whole
Speaker 1: point is that I'm not thinking necessarily for the season.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, you know, bench Zeke all that stuff
Speaker 1: like that's that's it. That's silly. The point is if
Speaker 1: you're in a game and you notice one of them
Speaker 1: seems to have a little bit more which yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I attribute that more to Zeke's hamstring, and I give
Speaker 1: him all the credit in the world for getting out
Speaker 1: there and playing through it. But if you start to
Speaker 1: notice that one guy has a little more juice the other,
Speaker 1: I think he's stick with the hot hand, And I
Speaker 1: would have given Paula a few more opportunities in that instance, sure,
Speaker 1: because I do think yesterday he had a little more juice.
Speaker 1: What were you saying something, Dave, No, I just I
Speaker 1: really agree with with Nick's point. That's kind of it's
Speaker 1: fair to it's fair, very fair to criticize the play
Speaker 1: of the fifteen million dollars running back. But I just, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not ready to throw dirt on the
Speaker 1: guy's career. I still think he's a hell of a player,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure his hamstring didn't feel good yesterday. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, he's sort of stuck in a
Speaker 1: situation where he's weathering this crappy storm on his own
Speaker 1: because he's I mean, he's the he's the biggest face
Speaker 1: on the offense. He's he's the one of the highest
Speaker 1: paid running backs in the league. He doesn't have his quarterback,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have his own line. So I respect what
Speaker 1: he's going through right now. That's not to make excuses for,
Speaker 1: like I mean, you know, you want better production from
Speaker 1: a guy that you're paying that money to, but I
Speaker 1: respect what he's doing. Let's flip to the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Yesterday, particularly on the rush defense. In
Speaker 1: the rush defense, they helped Pittsburgh forty six yards with
Speaker 1: a long of eight rushing yards on a particular carry.
Speaker 1: They've had now, in my opinion, back to back solid performances.
Speaker 1: If you go back to the Philadelphia game, are you
Speaker 1: so that they may have finally figured this thing out?
Speaker 1: Because I think for so long we've been wondering, like
Speaker 1: between the defensive coordinator and what he's trying to do
Speaker 1: and the players and them trying to figure it all out,
Speaker 1: they didn't seem to have a clue. And now we've
Speaker 1: had two weeks where it looks like maybe things are changing.
Speaker 1: I think they've started to figure it out. Day. We'll
Speaker 1: start with you. Yeah, I mean, I was the guy
Speaker 1: that sat here and basically laughed at you when you
Speaker 1: asked me about the run defense on Friday. Like I predicted,
Speaker 1: I wrote down in my prediction that I thought James
Speaker 1: Connor was gonna go for one thirty. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: might be the most stunning development from this entire game
Speaker 1: is that they were rock solid against the run to
Speaker 1: the point that Pittsburgh gave up on it. Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: even said that after the game, he was like, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: we just realized we were going to have way better
Speaker 1: luck trying to spread them out and throw the ball.
Speaker 1: Which that is what I expected this defense to look like.
Speaker 1: Not not great, susceptible to the passing game because they're
Speaker 1: inexperienced on the back end. You know, they they started
Speaker 1: giving up backbreaking plays at the end because Roethlisberger's a beast,
Speaker 1: but standing in there, man, they were good against the
Speaker 1: run and a great Roethlisberger. Credit boy, he found Stavion
Speaker 1: Smith and goes, oh, who's this. He's not on my
Speaker 1: roths let's go. Let's go. That's a great point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he tested he tested Trevon Diggs in the in
Speaker 1: the early going, and and Diggs was up to and
Speaker 1: so yeah, I think this was this was their best
Speaker 1: performance of the season. Um, I'm way too pessimistic to
Speaker 1: just be like, this is what we're going to see
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, because you know, I think
Speaker 1: there's some degree of circling the wagons. I think there's
Speaker 1: some degree of you know, getting juiced up to play
Speaker 1: the seven and oh, Pittsburgh Steelers, that's a team with
Speaker 1: its target on its back. You know, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you respond playing a crappy Washington team on
Speaker 1: short week's rest in a couple of weeks here. Um,
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not ready to say that they're
Speaker 1: just amazing, but I was very very impressed, particularly, you know,
Speaker 1: not just that they played well, but how they played well.
Speaker 1: I mean to make Pittsburgh quit running the ball. Pretty
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Amber definitely impressed as well, but definitely not
Speaker 1: convinced yet, even though I started talking about, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: they got a shot to the playoffs and all that,
Speaker 1: and let's hold up. At the same time, I need
Speaker 1: to see more because one of the things that this
Speaker 1: UH Cowboys team has lacked is consistency. They haven't been
Speaker 1: able to maintain consistency all throughout the season, weeks by weeks.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things that I great, great
Speaker 1: performance against the Steelers, but at the same time, we
Speaker 1: do to see more, and they need to keep doing
Speaker 1: it again week after week and then maybe me I'll
Speaker 1: start buying into that whole idea that finally the Cowboys
Speaker 1: rush defense has been able to uh turn the page
Speaker 1: and start performing better. Let's put some names on it.
Speaker 1: I mean Neville Gallimore. I mean he he was a
Speaker 1: beast for a while there. I mean he played really
Speaker 1: well and then and even in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: at the very end of the game when they when
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh said we're gonna have to go for it because
Speaker 1: Tomlin did not trust the field goal, he didn't then
Speaker 1: trust that they could block they could block it, you know,
Speaker 1: so great, great job by the special teams for that.
Speaker 1: But but I would say Neville Gallimar in the middle
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods, which you know, Antoine Woods needs a game
Speaker 1: ball for other reasons too, but you know, just just
Speaker 1: doing you know, being a Dallas Cowboy. You know, if
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans really saw what he did, I think that
Speaker 1: was that was amazing. I don't know if we wept well,
Speaker 1: I mean, oh and we saw this right for the show.
Speaker 1: I'm not on TikTok. I don't I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to spell it. I was
Speaker 1: like trans transcribing it last night. But TikTok is where
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods saw Juju Smith whatever his name is, Juju
Speaker 1: he was on the Star before the game on Saturday dancing.
Speaker 1: He did TikTok video. So Antoine knows him because they
Speaker 1: went to the USC together and he was like, ah,
Speaker 1: he's going to do something. When Juju scored, Antoine saw
Speaker 1: it the whole way. He started running to the Star
Speaker 1: because he knew Juju was gonna run and try to
Speaker 1: do something like t O and he said it's not happening,
Speaker 1: not gonna happen at all. So he goes that zero
Speaker 1: tolerance for that, which, hey, that's great. Do you think
Speaker 1: people really think George Teak was a great player or
Speaker 1: did they? People love what George Teague did the to
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a good player, but that was
Speaker 1: an unbelievable, unforgettable moment. So Antoine Woods was gonna make
Speaker 1: sure that it didn't happen. And I asked her about
Speaker 1: it and he said, no, not gonna happen, And I said, well,
Speaker 1: what would happened if he didn't? He said, I would
Speaker 1: have speared his ass. No. And you can go back
Speaker 1: and watch the video. It's actually you can see hold
Speaker 1: on tongue in cheek. Yeah, he was like, that's my boy.
Speaker 1: Because there they went to Carl together, but he's like, nah,
Speaker 1: he ain't gotta taken care of it. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: You see Juju heading for the end zone. You see
Speaker 1: Randy Gregor reach out and swipe the ball away from him.
Speaker 1: He stops, he picks up the ball, and he keeps
Speaker 1: running towards the Star and then you can kind of
Speaker 1: see his head kind of shift as he's getting near
Speaker 1: the start, and I think he sees Antoine Woods and
Speaker 1: then it's like all right, yeah, let me go my team. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is all good. Yeah, hey we gotta score, you know.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, I think I think mission accomplished by Antoine
Speaker 1: Woods or got about him. I'm glad we brought that
Speaker 1: up because that's like the vibe for this entire game
Speaker 1: with everything the Cowboys have lost. Like, are any fans
Speaker 1: out there like mad that they're losing? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: But it's whether or not it looks like you give
Speaker 1: a damn, like whether or not you're gonna be as
Speaker 1: upset on Monday as they are because you lost the game.
Speaker 1: You can't tell me that they were giving off that
Speaker 1: vibe against Arizona and Washington. They just weren't. So for
Speaker 1: them to scrap the way they did against Pittsburgh, and
Speaker 1: you know, for two guys to be like, you're not
Speaker 1: doing that in our house, like, I think that's I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you prefer to win, but like, if you're doing that,
Speaker 1: at least in a situation like this, I think fans
Speaker 1: can at least get on board with that and that
Speaker 1: it was great to see for that very reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they were really good. The defense was really
Speaker 1: good yesterday. I think that we will find out a
Speaker 1: lot about this Russia defense. They have a bye week,
Speaker 1: but the week after that they'll be playing the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: And if you've been watching Dalvin Cook over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, that's when we're gonna find out about this
Speaker 1: RuSHA defense, because that dude has been on another planet
Speaker 1: these last two weeks, and we will see whether the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense can put a stop to that. All right, So,
Speaker 1: Glad Amber I was gonna ask you, guys, do you
Speaker 1: think that it's bad that they have the bye week
Speaker 1: right now? Us far as like when you see them
Speaker 1: finally performing at a better level than what we've seen
Speaker 1: so far in the season, do you take this bye
Speaker 1: week as like men? I wish they can just keep
Speaker 1: the momentum going or man, they just need the bye week.
Speaker 1: Give me the bye week. This is almost sorry, this
Speaker 1: is a person as you can have the bye week. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's true too. But even even with no preseason,
Speaker 1: with a short training camp like these guys are, obviously
Speaker 1: they're beat to hell. I mean not just the guys
Speaker 1: on IR but everybody. So uh no, that's it. I
Speaker 1: think week to week momentum is real, but these guys
Speaker 1: need a breather. Yeah, that's a good question. But but
Speaker 1: I do think, you know, another week for Zeke's hamstringing,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think, like Dave said, there's there's
Speaker 1: a ton of guys that probably could could do that.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, I think Neville Gallimore and those
Speaker 1: young guys, and and Garrett Gilbert if he if he's
Speaker 1: the guy, you know, I mean, this gives another week
Speaker 1: for you think about it. If Andy Dalton's gonna come back,
Speaker 1: I think it's actually perfect because Andy Dalton was in
Speaker 1: the COVID protocol last week and then he has another
Speaker 1: week and then he should be good to go if
Speaker 1: he's going to be the quarterback, so for the next game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer too, in that theory of you know,
Speaker 1: every team has a moment in their season, no matter
Speaker 1: how bad they are, when they get to a game
Speaker 1: that they look at as this is our super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys had their super Bowl yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I thought they gave everything they possibly had. Don't say that,
Speaker 1: and no, but my point is, I think when you
Speaker 1: go into a game like that, it's the real challenge
Speaker 1: of and you give everything you got. So I think
Speaker 1: the buy actually comes at a good time because it
Speaker 1: lets them refuel a little bit and get some perspective.
Speaker 1: Because I do think that, you know, they went into
Speaker 1: that game they played well above what we all thought
Speaker 1: they could play yesterday. I think sometimes teams have a
Speaker 1: propensity to do that when they're playing a much better opponent.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a good time for them
Speaker 1: to kind of reevaluate, step back for a second, and
Speaker 1: then be ready to go into the next next several
Speaker 1: games to finish out the season. All right, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys joining us. We will be back tomorrow. Actually,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do something a little different tomorrow. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have our shows shake up. I will not be with
Speaker 1: these guys. I will not see them for the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. If you're looking at the screen, you
Speaker 1: can see all the different shows and the lineups. The
Speaker 1: Break will consist of myself, Isaiah Standback, Buried Church, and
Speaker 1: Kurt Daniel. So make sure you check us out tomorrow
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty as we're normally on. We'll have a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to talk about. It will be good
Speaker 1: to hear some perspective from some of those guys, and
Speaker 1: then you can check out these other guys on their
Speaker 1: other shows. They'll be in their different shows. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good name for it. Bye Week Scramble, and they'll
Speaker 1: be on their other shows. Where's that. Amber's gonna be
Speaker 1: on Hanging with the Boys, and Nick's gonna be on
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys, and Dave's gonna be on mix Shots. That
Speaker 1: will be interesting, all right, So we appreciate you on us.
Speaker 1: We'll be back. I'll be back tomorrow. These guys will
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