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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys Let's go. Are

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Speaker 1: you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so

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Speaker 1: much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar

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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, January sixth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, Season seventeen, episode number ninety two. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break live in s WBC

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Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios at the Star. We are getting you ready

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Speaker 1: for Cowboys versus Eagles that happened Saturday night. We will

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Speaker 1: be joined in the second segment by Bucky Brooks of

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Speaker 1: NFL Network to talk a little bit about that game

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Speaker 1: and the matchup specifically between the Philadelphia defense and the

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Speaker 1: Dallas offense. Before we get to that, though, we do

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Speaker 1: have some things you got to talk about. Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: finished his press conference a few moments ago, um he

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Speaker 1: did announce that there were two more additions to the

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Speaker 1: the COVID protocol list. Who's been added and what are

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Speaker 1: we looking at here? Anthony Brown has been added and

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Speaker 1: that's the one that's really uh. I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: that Tyron Smith is also on the list, but I

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Speaker 1: mean Tyren Smith was on a different list, like you

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Speaker 1: ain't playing list, So I mean that one doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 1: We gotta go. People say, oh, we don't even need

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Speaker 1: Anthony Brown at Anthony Brown haters, but they're there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Oh they're definitely there. They don't need him for Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Yeah they don't. They don't need him for Saturday. Well,

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Speaker 1: you need a team to play football, yeah, they God,

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Speaker 1: if it was something you said, everyone else they got guys,

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Speaker 1: it'll be okay. I actually like the idea of being

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Speaker 1: able to see Kelvin Joseph play a little more. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in a game that there's relatively little consequence. I'd love

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Speaker 1: just to see him get some more snaps and see

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Speaker 1: what he can do. I don't want to make light

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Speaker 1: of a global pandemic that has ruined our lives for

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Speaker 1: but like, don't be over dramatic. Her day, but that's

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Speaker 1: not over dramatic. Has ruined our lives. It's ruined a

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Speaker 1: lot of people's lives. This thing sucks. Yes, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not dramatic at all. This thing, it has changed

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Speaker 1: our lives, no doubt, has changed our lives. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about forever, but definitely for nowass the point being,

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Speaker 1: um understanding the severity of this whole thing and not

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Speaker 1: trying to make light of any But I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: keep talking through this nonsense, understanding that you shouldn't make

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Speaker 1: light of it. Like this is working out in the

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Speaker 1: cowboys favor in my opinion, I don't. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: Michael Parsons to play in this game, and I don't

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Speaker 1: want them to be sick. That's my point. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith, rest that ankle, buddy, Hope get get better

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Speaker 1: for next week. Anthony Brown not the same caliber player

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Speaker 1: I don't need to see play in this game. You

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Speaker 1: I'll say, I don't want these guys to be sick,

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And there's gonna be more. I mean

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Speaker 1: McCarthy made it. I mean he just said there's other

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Speaker 1: So they're not on the list yet. But that was interesting.

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Speaker 1: But you know, this is a way to kind of

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Speaker 1: Like I thought we're talking about Michael Parson. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: and so when you go man the man against teams

424
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Speaker 1: during the town team, you haven't tend the people suffocate them,

425
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:08,959
Speaker 1: and that's what the headers are being able to do.

426
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Speaker 1: But you I'm gonna pole vault this game and maybe

427
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Speaker 1: even hit the playoffs as well. I'm going to next year.

428
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Speaker 1: I can Terrence Steel is going to start at left tackle,

429
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Speaker 1: probably for Tyron Smith. Do you think Terren Steele is

430
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Speaker 1: a full time starter for the Cowboys next year? Not

431
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Speaker 1: at left apple? I mean, I think you can get

432
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Speaker 1: bogged with him, but I think it's best. The thing

433
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Speaker 1: you know, Timer Smiths only be that you need INVESTI

434
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Speaker 1: top pick in the left apple position. You need a

435
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Speaker 1: blue chair player. I think Terry Smith is good. He's

436
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,200
Speaker 1: gonna follow stealing. You're not a starter because when you

437
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: get down to it, you got a forty million dollars quarterback.

438
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Speaker 1: You want to make sure you have sufficient protection and

439
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 1: elite level of protection. The Cowboys offensive line is not

440
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Speaker 1: what it once was, and they need to address them

441
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Speaker 1: to make sure that they have the best offensive line.

442
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Speaker 1: Because all the money is taught up in the defense.

443
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Speaker 1: In the offense, you want to make sure that the

444
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Speaker 1: offense is always superior and the way that you that

445
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: is investing apps a lot. So yeah, I think they

446
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: need an upgrade. Charance to Bucky. Can you make an

447
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 1: argument for me? I guess just with everything we've seen

448
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Speaker 1: from the Cowboys offense since the bye week, over the

449
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 1: last eight weeks whatever it is, nine weeks, what do

450
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: you what what what is to be gained from this performance? Like,

451
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Speaker 1: let's even say they go to Philly and play a

452
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Speaker 1: fantastic game. I mean, I guess I'm asking you if

453
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Speaker 1: you believe in the concept of week to week momentum, Like,

454
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Speaker 1: does putting a good effort on tape in Philly really

455
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Speaker 1: matter toward how you play in the playoffs? Yeah? I

456
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think you can flip the switch.

457
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Speaker 1: I think how you play it's part of habit for me.

458
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Speaker 1: So you want to create championship habits. And so if

459
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Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys, you want to play well goin to

460
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Speaker 1: the postseason because they kind of give you an opportunity

461
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Speaker 1: to play well the next week. I don't believe you

462
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Speaker 1: can say, all right, you guys, we're going to playoff.

463
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Speaker 1: Let's turn around, let's focus more, Let's make sure we

464
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Speaker 1: play more attention to detail. It doesn't work like that.

465
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Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys have to be careful because

466
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Speaker 1: even as I heard you guys talk about, oh just

467
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, these things don't matter, like I Philly can't

468
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: beat them this and that you have to be careful

469
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Speaker 1: about the outside noise because the perception is that the

470
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Speaker 1: Cowboys are a super Bowl team, and they may be,

471
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Speaker 1: but they got to play the right way. And if

472
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Speaker 1: you started getting into a head where you're not playing

473
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Speaker 1: the right way the week after week after week, they'll

474
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Speaker 1: never realized their goals and being a super Bowl champion.

475
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Speaker 1: So they need to get back on track this week.

476
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Speaker 1: And they need to play better in the playoffs because

477
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Speaker 1: the game changes once you get into the postseason. Bucky,

478
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play the blaming game or anything

479
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 1: like that, but as far as like struggles on offense,

480
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Speaker 1: I mean, would you put it more towards player execution

481
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: or kind of what Kellen Moore has been doing these

482
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Speaker 1: past few weeks all of the above. I'm not in

483
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Speaker 1: love with the play calling all the time. I feel

484
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Speaker 1: like sometimes Kellen Moore gets too cute. Sometimes your team

485
00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: is better than the other team. You just need to

486
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Speaker 1: get the ball to the playmas and less they make plays,

487
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Speaker 1: you don't have to do all the hanty designs and

488
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 1: reverses in those things. But I don't think the players

489
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: are played great. I think we saw a little bit

490
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Speaker 1: of an effort when Dad got back on track against

491
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: Washington football team and that stuff, but inconsistent. And so

492
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Speaker 1: I just think they need to tighten up on all

493
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Speaker 1: the details because when you get into the postseason, the

494
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: game is faster, and the consequences of dires, like the

495
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: mistakes that you make in the postseason, like can end

496
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Speaker 1: your season, and so you just want to be on it.

497
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Speaker 1: And so I think it's just really important that everyone

498
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 1: understands the urgency that's needed to play at a higher level,

499
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Speaker 1: and you've got to be on the details. And it's

500
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Speaker 1: more important now than ever to be on it, because look, man,

501
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,879
Speaker 1: the margins the area so slim between the teams that

502
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: move on and the teams they're gone. So there's kind

503
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Speaker 1: of this narrative that's popped up here in the last

504
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Speaker 1: couple of days about Dak and his ability to read

505
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: coverage and disguises and teams disguising things and all that stuff.

506
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Speaker 1: How much do you put into that, Do you think

507
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Speaker 1: Dak is having problems with being able to handle pre

508
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 1: snap versus post snap reads or do you think this

509
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: is just a big conversation about something that really isn't happening.

510
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: So I think it's a big conversation about something that's

511
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Speaker 1: really not happening. I think all quarterbacks get food from time,

512
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: food from time to time. I don't think it's an

513
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: issue with Dak. Ruscott can't read coverage, he can't decipher

514
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Speaker 1: what's going on. Look, he's played too good for so

515
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: long to be fooled by some of the things consistently

516
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: to have a major liability when it comes to being

517
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: able to diagnose what teams are doing to them. That's

518
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: not the fact they're not executed. They hadn't been on

519
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: the same page for a long time because it was

520
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: him and those guys Gallup, CD and Cooper hadn't played

521
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: together for the chemistry was off. Then you finally get

522
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Speaker 1: them together, they start playing better than Gallup goes out

523
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Speaker 1: and so you bring it in new pieces. He'll get

524
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Speaker 1: back on track. He's still playing at a level. When

525
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Speaker 1: you look at the numbers, Completion presented the best of

526
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Speaker 1: his career. More touchdowns in the ever zone in his career.

527
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Speaker 1: He is playing well, but Dak is a polar rising

528
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Speaker 1: figure for whatever reason, and so people like the poke

529
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Speaker 1: holes in his game that he's playing well. He's not

530
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Speaker 1: playing well. I think that reason is that he's the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, that's always been

532
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,479
Speaker 1: the reason. Um, I gotta ask, Bucky, do they have

533
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Speaker 1: a problem with kicker in your mind? Yeah? Yeah, Okay, okay, okay, well,

534
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Speaker 1: you know, hold on, hold on because my you know,

535
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Speaker 1: my knee might hurt in the morning. It doesn't mean

536
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have surgery. Do they need a Do they

537
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Speaker 1: need to make a change at kicker? I mean, I

538
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: think it's too late in the game to make a change.

539
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,959
Speaker 1: It into the polar season, but yeah, it's a problem.

540
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: I am not whenever I see run out, I don't

541
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Speaker 1: get up and walk away from the TV and go

542
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: get a smack like I did with Justin Tucker and

543
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: Justin Tuckers runs up to the field for the Raven.

544
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Speaker 1: I know it's money, Duran. I'm like, I don't know,

545
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: and no one wants to feel okay, but no one

546
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Speaker 1: wants to fill Okay, hold on the hold on because

547
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: a lot of times we say this coach isn't like

548
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: Belichick would have done this, or Aaron Rodgers would have

549
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Speaker 1: done this, and Justin Tucker would have done this. Okay,

550
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: those are those are the goats? Like is there another

551
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: Justin Tuckers? I mean, like who who else in the

552
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: league is like that? Like I feel like he's the best?

553
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: And then who else? Like I mean, like I think

554
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: everybody had some some some struggles. You're asking me in

555
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: a perfect world, because I'm looking at it like if

556
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Speaker 1: you ask me as the general manager for the Cowboys. Yeah,

557
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: I feel about it. Okay, yea, he hasn't been He

558
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: hasn't been automatic, and I wanted to be automatic. When

559
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: we run onto the field with the PA and the

560
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: field goal team, boom, that's my night points on the board.

561
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Speaker 1: So I'm a little worried about it, more so for

562
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: the opposed to kild. So my follow up question of that, Bucky,

563
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Speaker 1: you're a former personnel guy in the NFL, How does

564
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Speaker 1: that conversation go when you have a kicker that's running

565
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: out every game and you don't know what he's gonna

566
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Speaker 1: do one game to the next or one kick to

567
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Speaker 1: the next but you also know that whatever's out on

568
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: the street may not be you might be getting the

569
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Speaker 1: same thing. How does that conversation go? Do you get

570
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Speaker 1: to point where you have to start talking about contingencies

571
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: and how much are you willing to accept maybe what's

572
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: on the street just for the sake of doing something different.

573
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Speaker 1: I mean, you have to get that the conversation. I

574
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: think former Cowboys coach Jimmy Jeffinson, when they start missing

575
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: go ahead and cut because it's harder than to turn

576
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: it around. Now I'm at the end that you cult greatly,

577
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Speaker 1: but this was part of a two year problem where

578
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: we see some inconsistencies in its play and so socialty

579
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: and coaches don't like to change it. But at some point, man,

580
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: the production has to be there. He has been good

581
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Speaker 1: at times from long distancing those things. The PAT thing

582
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: is the thing that concerns me because we need spat.

583
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Speaker 1: It changes the way that you have to conduct and

584
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Speaker 1: manage the game, and so it should be able to

585
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Speaker 1: knock those down like there's no exclusions from missing PAT

586
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: like those other kids I can live with. So the

587
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: pot needs to be money all the time. Hey, real quick,

588
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Speaker 1: before we let you go and before we get to

589
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Speaker 1: your prediction for the game. I did have a defensive

590
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Speaker 1: question I wanted to ask you about, how do you

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Speaker 1: assess Kean O'Neil's play this year. It seems like he's

592
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Speaker 1: gonna probably be playing quite a bit this week without

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Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. How do you assess what he's done as

594
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Speaker 1: a Cowboys? Sure, I mean, I think he's been telled,

595
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: he has been asked to do a lot. But I

596
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Speaker 1: think he's in cella in the role that they put

597
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: him there. Anytime the other guy who's making a transition

598
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: from safety to the linebacker, you're gonna have some bumps

599
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Speaker 1: in the role. But I think the packaging, the way

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Speaker 1: that dan Quinn had packaged him and tried to use

601
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Speaker 1: him parlier of the season played to his strength now

602
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Speaker 1: with Michael's Parsons being out, and maybe a good thing

603
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Speaker 1: because now dan Quinn gets an opportunity to dig in

604
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Speaker 1: his bag a little bit and kind of see what

605
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Speaker 1: he could come up with and what could help them

606
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Speaker 1: down the road versus maybe so Rams versus Camp or

607
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Speaker 1: versus somebody else who was really prolific in terms of

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Speaker 1: pulling the ball all over the yard. So I think

609
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Speaker 1: he's been good enough, and I think he'll do a

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Speaker 1: good job for them. He's not Parson, but he's good enough.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get your prediction. What do you think's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen Saturday night. I mean, it's so up in

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Speaker 1: the air because I don't know how the Cowboys are

614
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Speaker 1: going treated. Yeah, I would expect that Cowboys, you win,

615
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Speaker 1: did a better team. They've only divisioned, that work has

616
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Speaker 1: only division whenever he so, So I would expect them

617
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Speaker 1: to win. The one thing that they just got to

618
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Speaker 1: come with the right mind frame, the right mentality to

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Speaker 1: take care of business and to put themselves in the

620
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Speaker 1: best position when it comes to seating if they play

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Speaker 1: the Cardins or whoever. You just want to feel good

622
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Speaker 1: going in for the next week, even though the records

623
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Speaker 1: we said you start all over. You want to do that.

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Speaker 1: And pole point, you guys are talking about not being

625
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Speaker 1: worried about the guys being out and about I will

626
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Speaker 1: say this, Championship teams begin to make some changes to

627
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Speaker 1: their behaviors to ensure that everyone is available, and so

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Speaker 1: it takes sacrifice in something. Sometimes it's like not going out,

629
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's not drinking whatever, But you want to put

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Speaker 1: your team in the best position to win it. And

631
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Speaker 1: what you don't want to do is have a COVID

632
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Speaker 1: situation prevent you from having your stars available in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: So you may just want to have that conversation with

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Speaker 1: the team, like, hey, guys, let's just dollar back a

635
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Speaker 1: little bit, make sure we can get everybody to the part.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for that book. Yes, good stuff. We'll

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Nicholas, welcome back. We're in the

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Speaker 1: second five second of the break life in this WBC

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Speaker 1: kind of had in conversations. Did you have some of

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Speaker 1: you were trying to say they're in the break? You know,

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Speaker 1: um about the Kicker situation about I will say this

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Speaker 1: I actually went and did the math, which is not

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Speaker 1: a strength of mine, but it is. I'm okay, simple math.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty pretty okay. And in this case, so zirline

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Speaker 1: missed the field goal and they lost by three. If

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Speaker 1: he makes the field goal and then everything kind of

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Speaker 1: plays the way it played, they lose twenty six to

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Speaker 1: twenty four. They don't lose twenty five twenty two. They

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Speaker 1: lose twenty six to twenty four. If he would have

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Speaker 1: made the field goal, they still lose by two based

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Speaker 1: off of everything that would have happened. That's why it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's tricky to just say that, and especially in

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Speaker 1: the first half because Arizona scored to make it nineteen

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Speaker 1: to seven or whatever. But if the score was nineteen

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Speaker 1: to ten, they kick it, they probably make it twenty

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Speaker 1: to ten, and then the Cowboys don't go for two

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Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff, and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: they lose by two. It's one of my least favorite

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Speaker 1: things in football is you miss a field goal on

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Speaker 1: like the first or second possession of the game. He

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Speaker 1: lose by three, and yeah, like the kicker should make

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Speaker 1: the kick that I'm not, but that's not you didn't

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Speaker 1: lose because of that. You lost because you punted three

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Speaker 1: straight times between the second and third quarter. Like there's

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Speaker 1: always a million reasons why you lose. It was a

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Speaker 1: part of the reason why I lost it. You can't

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Speaker 1: just retroactively add three to the score, Like that's not

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Speaker 1: how it works. You know, they miss He missed the

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Speaker 1: field goal early in the game, and and it was like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, he sucked and they lost by two. He

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Speaker 1: lead that could have been the game winning field goal.

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Speaker 1: You know, but but they got bradied. But um, I

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Speaker 1: like using that as a verb good job, I mean

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Speaker 1: Rogers and doesn't sound as good rogered Roger twelve? They

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Speaker 1: got twelve for both Actually yeah, oh you remember where

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Speaker 1: were we in? What press box were we in where

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Speaker 1: the NFL came out and said here, here's the greatest

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Speaker 1: quarterback number of all time. And they're like they gave

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Speaker 1: like ten number twelves And we were like, seriously, like

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Speaker 1: rob oh that wasn't was that was that? It was

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Speaker 1: on their social channel they did ye and Roger was not.

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Speaker 1: They were like dubious lists, Hello, like what did we

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Speaker 1: end up doing? We did something and didn't, didn't they

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Speaker 1: corect Yeah, I think we put something out of those

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Speaker 1: kind of snarky but yeah, it was. It was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean I mean the original, I mean the original ying.

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Speaker 1: I don't know any twelves before him, I'm guessing, but

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Speaker 1: I mean when you when you started though, I'm like

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Speaker 1: when they threw Andrew Luck out there. Okay, this over Roger,

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Speaker 1: all right, we made a mistake here, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think somebody didn't realize what that. That was my

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Speaker 1: point through just about the math. All right, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about Blake Jarwin Dave, you asked a question too, and

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Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about about Blake and what

742
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Speaker 1: he could be coming back. But you asked Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: the question, and I thought he had an interesting response.

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Speaker 1: What was his response on on Blake and what he

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Speaker 1: can bring to the offense? I just I thought it

746
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Speaker 1: was funny because and rightfully so. But like the first

747
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748
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I want to talk about the

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Speaker 1: backup tight end if you don't mind me. He was like,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the backup Mike, uh No, I did

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Speaker 1: think and actually somebody else said this too, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's the type of inside football stuff that I love

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Speaker 1: that you don't necessarily think about. But a big part

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Speaker 1: of his answer was just the way that it opens

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Speaker 1: up more lanes in the running game because you have

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Speaker 1: an extra tight end a guy who can block. And

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Speaker 1: he was talking about that. You're saying, oh, that's what

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Speaker 1: You're right, that's what it was, and Mike said the

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Speaker 1: exact same thing. It gives you like a wider varray

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Speaker 1: of options in the running game. Um. He kind of

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Speaker 1: made it sound like Blake has a chance to play

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I don't know why my voice doesn't either,

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Speaker 1: but interesting, that is it. I would know both are

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Speaker 1: doing that today. These are good, mind, These are good mins.

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Speaker 1: Like when you whisper this doesn't really matter, like it

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Speaker 1: still picks up. You know you can convey it with

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00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: my tone of voice. You did it earlier. You said

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Speaker 1: something like this game doesn't really matter or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but um no, I would. I would love

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Speaker 1: it if Blake could get out there and get some run.

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Speaker 1: And like that's a situation where you should play like

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Speaker 1: you've been off for two months. If you're of course,

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Speaker 1: always only if you're healthy enough to do it, but

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Speaker 1: you kind of knock some rust off get ready. I just,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I don't think it's like this magic

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Speaker 1: potion that's just going to fix the offense. But I

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Speaker 1: think in the running game, and again what I said

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Speaker 1: yesterday about giving you a diversity of options in the

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Speaker 1: passing game while not giving up ground in the running game,

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Speaker 1: I just I think it could be very useful. All

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Speaker 1: there was another question I wanted to get to before

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Speaker 1: we end the show. I kind of asked Bucky about

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Speaker 1: it as well, and it's it's become the narrative that

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Speaker 1: somehow Dak is having this issue. I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: you guys's opinion. Do you think this is much to

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Speaker 1: do about nothing? Because I personally think like I kind

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Speaker 1: of agree with Bucky. The production this year says that

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Speaker 1: I don't think this looks like a quarterback that can't recoveragees.

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Speaker 1: But obviously the offense hasn't been working the way that

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Speaker 1: we were accustomed to seeing it earlier in the season.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I put that all on deck,

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Speaker 1: where do you guys fall with this? I thought Dak

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Speaker 1: had and it wasn't like this groundbreaking answer. It was

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Speaker 1: very straightforward. But he said something yesterday along the lines of, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, I don't care what

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Speaker 1: your level of expertise is, like if and like if

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Speaker 1: if fifty percent of your offense isn't working, well, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna make life hard on you. And then he was

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Speaker 1: talking about the running game. I mean, and there are

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Speaker 1: some that can do it better than others, Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: being like the peak example of just a guy who

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Speaker 1: can make it work. But most quarterbacks struggle when they

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Speaker 1: don't have that balance. And as we know, balance isn't

804
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Speaker 1: twenty five carries to twenty five attempts. It's can you

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Speaker 1: efficiently gain yards both ways? And the Cowboys can't right now,

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Speaker 1: not on a regular basis. And I really dek reads

807
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Speaker 1: coverage with the best of them, Like don't I don't

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Speaker 1: want to hear that crap. I like he's fantastic, his

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Speaker 1: accuracy has been a little lacking in the second half

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Speaker 1: of the season. I'm comfortable even if he doesn't want to.

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Speaker 1: I bet you his calf injury has something to do

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Speaker 1: with that. Just reworking his mechanics. I think it's as

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Speaker 1: simple as saying they just don't have a way to

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Speaker 1: shake defenses out of those looks, where again like find

815
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Speaker 1: the windows versus eight guys as opposed to versus five.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do the math yourself. Obviously that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit simplistic, but I think that's the main problem more

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Speaker 1: than anything. Yeah, I think I think he's right about that,

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Speaker 1: of us. We talked about any offensive players that have

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Speaker 1: exceeded expectations, and really, I think Amber said Terrence, Steele

824
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Speaker 1: and Schultz would be in there. But when you go

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Speaker 1: back and look, this offensive line isn't as good as

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Speaker 1: we thought they would be. And I think that took

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Speaker 1: defenses time to realize they're not overpowered anyone. The receivers,

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Speaker 1: as good as they are at times, we have not

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Speaker 1: seen training camp CD this year. We've seen some good CD,

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Speaker 1: but we haven't seen training camp CD, which is ironic

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Speaker 1: good corners. And he was he was awesome, They're not

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Speaker 1: winning as much as that we thought. Dak isn't throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball accuracy as well as we've seen him in

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Speaker 1: the past, and Zeke's not running it as well. This

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Speaker 1: offense is they can have all the numbers they want,

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Speaker 1: but the offense isn't dominating to the point where we

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Speaker 1: thought they would. And it all just kind of it's

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Speaker 1: connected to me. I don't think it's and that he's

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Speaker 1: not able to read coverages. I think it's still more

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Speaker 1: of a mental thing that he's dealing with as far

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Speaker 1: as confidence, something that happened to him mentally whenever he

844
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Speaker 1: got back from that injury. That has just kind of

845
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: lingered through this point of the season. And I get it,

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Speaker 1: like you do need a good balance in a running game.

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Speaker 1: But going back to the beginning of the season, I mean,

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Speaker 1: back then, they weren't really needing them to run the

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Speaker 1: ball or anything. They were having a pretty good game,

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Speaker 1: but you weren't relying on the running game. So when

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Speaker 1: you talk about it being perfectly balanced, that wasn't a thing.

852
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Speaker 1: And of course, letting the opposing team know that you

853
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Speaker 1: can't run the ball, it's gonna affect in how they

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Speaker 1: play you as well. But I just I think it's

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Speaker 1: just a combination of everything that they talked about. You

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Speaker 1: got the running game, then you got the old line struggling,

857
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Speaker 1: you got Dak struggling with his own things. Then you

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Speaker 1: got maybe the plays being called that maybe he isn't

859
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: necessarily the best play for the moment. And then you

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Speaker 1: also got receivers dropping the ball at times that they

861
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be dropping it. So it is a culmination of

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Speaker 1: everything that is just not clicking how it needs to be.

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Speaker 1: But I do think that Dak is very much capable

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Speaker 1: of reading things. He's just struggling with something mental in

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Speaker 1: my opinion from what I see from the outside, He's

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Speaker 1: had too many fantastic games with gaudy passing numbers against

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Speaker 1: too many like maybe not great teams, but good NFL teams.

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Speaker 1: For like, No, that's a bogus storyline. I just think

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Speaker 1: they don't have a CounterPunch right now. And I was

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Speaker 1: when she was talking. I was thinking, I don't remember

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Speaker 1: how they ran the ball against Atlanta. It probably wasn't great.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta and Tampa are the only good games they've played

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Speaker 1: this year that I can think of where they really

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00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: weren't able to get a run game going, like I

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Speaker 1: just think, and I'm not Dak's not a bus driver.

876
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: He's a better quarterback than that. He's shown it consistently

877
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Speaker 1: throughout the last three years. But there just aren't that

878
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: many guys who are good enough to still be that

879
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: productive with no semblance of balance, and they haven't had that.

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Speaker 1: I'll challenge everybody listening if you have an opportunity, to

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00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: go and look at any of the game pass on

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com. I went back today and I just

883
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: spent time watching the last two games, and I specifically

884
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: was watching a lot of running plays to see what

885
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: I thought the issue was. And I think the big

886
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: issue and I think I agree with you Dave that

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00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: I think the passing game problems are a reflection of

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00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: what they can't do in the running game. But the

889
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: running game all is about the offensive line, and particularly

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Speaker 1: in the middle. And now I'm not talking about Connor Williams.

891
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: I said, I'm talking about Beddest Like there's so many

892
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: he plays running plays where his guy gets him and

893
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: then sheds him and now he's right there meeting the

894
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: runner and it happens consistently enough to where that can

895
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: definitely cost problem, and there are other guys on the

896
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: offensive line that miss blocks here and there as well,

897
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Speaker 1: But I think overall, as a unit, I just don't

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Speaker 1: think they're playing well when it comes in the running game.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest problem you're seeing right

900
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: now with this offense, is because you really don't have

901
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: a threat in the running game, a consistent threat in

902
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: the running game. I think teams are just saying, hey,

903
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: we'll play coverage against you, and we're just gonna make

904
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: it really tough when your quarterbacks and your receivers to

905
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: find open spots and be able to get the ball

906
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: there in a quick amount of time without Dak feeling

907
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: the pressure because again the offensive line is struggling to

908
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: block form. It does make me wonder and part of

909
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: that is, I mean, Dak burned a lot of people

910
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: in the early going in the season, and so they've

911
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 1: probably course corrected with that. But like they were able

912
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: to get it going in the first six weeks, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe that gives you optimism that they

914
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: can do it again, or maybe the fact that it's

915
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: been so long since they were able to really get

916
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: it cranked. I don't know, but I if I could

917
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: wish for anything heading into the playoffs, it's that they

918
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: rediscover how to be more efficient in the run game.

919
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Speaker 1: But now that you mentioned that, it makes me think

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Speaker 1: I do recall many many plays where and maybe I

921
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: don't have the right terms for it, but basically, when

922
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Speaker 1: they are trying to run the ball, they're so tight,

923
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: like there's no space, Like why can't you just spread

924
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: it out a little? Like every play? And that's why

925
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: you Zeke or Pauler sometimes are just running into a

926
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: wall where there's literally no gap being created in between.

927
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Speaker 1: A lot of that is the push. They're not getting

928
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Speaker 1: any push. Like you you watch this offensive line look

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Speaker 1: down the middle, like when they have that camera angle,

930
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: well you see the offensive defensive line, look and see

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Speaker 1: which way it goes. Like a lot of times watching

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Speaker 1: football games, you can tell how good teams are doing

933
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: by seeing which side is kind of winning that battle

934
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Speaker 1: up front when the ball is snap, which way is

935
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: everybody going? Is everybody pushing forward? Everybody pushing backwards? And

936
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: it's very often that Cowboys offensive line just doesn't get

937
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: you put. They just don't get any pushed and so

938
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't create any holes because the defenders are basically

939
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: being able to get in whatever gaps they want to

940
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: get in and not being pushed out of the way.

941
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Speaker 1: This is the perennial debate, and I would always, I'd

942
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: always rather have a good team to follow and cover

943
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: than a good draft pick. Like I'm not saying I

944
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: wish the Cowboys season was ending on Saturday. But if

945
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: I could pick one draft prospect to put on this

946
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: team right now, I always got a center who is

947
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: a stud, and I just think they're probably too good

948
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Speaker 1: to hope for that, right. Great thing about centers, they

949
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: will drop in the draft, true, really good ones. True, Nick, Nick,

950
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Speaker 1: I think you mentioned that the other day. You get

951
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: a guard or center, that's a good chance you might

952
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: get the best one in the draft at the end

953
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Speaker 1: of the first round. I mean, Travis was pick thirty one. Yeah,

954
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: it's possible, but I just and yeah, it's January, but

955
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: that would surprise me. But it would be a very

956
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: nice surprise, because that's something I do think they need

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Speaker 1: to address. All Right, we appreciate you guys, Joan us.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna talk a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: Get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Eagles. That happened

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