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Speaker 1: It is a Terrific Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys presented

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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentleman. How are we doing today? Fantas

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Speaker 1: terrific terrific Thursday? Yeah, it is. It's hard to make.

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Speaker 1: I try and do like an alliteration before every show.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should just do like a like a touchdown Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Why don't just just keep it simple, terrific Thursday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: over again. That was one of your favorite tiger milk.

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Speaker 1: Tiger milk Thursdays. Yeah, Tiger milk Thursday. Maybe that's what

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Speaker 1: I'll have updated standings and everything for for everybody tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: so that way we can head into the final weekend

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Speaker 1: Speaking of uh, one of the final times we're doing something.

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Speaker 1: half left of that of the season. That is correct.

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Speaker 1: That's why we're focusing on the teams like the Bills

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Speaker 1: in the Chiefs wink wink, hint hint. News and Notes

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Speaker 1: for Week eighteen against the Washington Commander is what would

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Speaker 1: news and notes. Everyone continuing to keep Damar Hamling in

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Speaker 1: their prayers. There has been progress made, but he is

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Speaker 1: Keep that up from the Cowboys front, we spoke on

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Speaker 1: it yesterday. Has been confirmed. It was confirmed shortly after

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Speaker 1: the show wrapped on yesterday. James Washington was in fact waived.

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Speaker 1: He is, as every veteran is after the trade deadline,

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Speaker 1: subject to waivers. If he does clear waivers, it's my

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Speaker 1: I was at three pm today, that's three pm today,

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Speaker 1: wondering who might claim Washington playoff wise and not my bulls.

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Speaker 1: I landed on the New York Giants, and not as

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Speaker 1: we've said yesterday, I hope it works out well for him.

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Speaker 1: Matt Farniyak, his twenty one day window was activated on yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He was back at practice for the Cowboys. Keep in

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Speaker 1: mind for those that may not know, twenty one days

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Speaker 1: from the Cowboys legends front. We have three Cowboys legends

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Speaker 1: their PTO days before this season is over. They literally

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Speaker 1: this Tiger Milk Thursday. Very nice, very nice. Patrick, Let's

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Speaker 1: go into I'm gonna go into Hall of Fame talk

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Speaker 1: But you can't help but love d Were. I mean,

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Speaker 1: should not be your point of concern. It needs to

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Speaker 1: be on the turnovers. We cannot We've talked about the

427
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Speaker 1: yesterday way. You can't keep turning the ball over. You

428
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Speaker 1: just can't do it, especially going to the playoffs. The

429
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Speaker 1: teams that you're gonna be playing are just happened to

430
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Speaker 1: be the best teams in the league. Right You're playing

431
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Speaker 1: professional athletes who are the best in the world. You're

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Speaker 1: playing really really good teams collectively, and now you're gonna

433
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Speaker 1: be playing the best teams in the league. Right, So

434
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 1: you can't give teams more opportunities. We talked about that

435
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: as well, so that has to be sure. I'm not concerned.

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00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 1: I am concerning about the offensive line in regards to

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00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: the running game against this particular defensive front, because this

438
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Speaker 1: defensive front is complete dogs and they dominated against us

439
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: last time. We played them, and they dominate pretty much

440
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Speaker 1: most of the teams that they play because they have Alan,

441
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: they have dog on, sweat pain pain. Oh and by

442
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: the way, they got that other cat back now who

443
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: just having to be our first chase young. So they

444
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 1: have their whole ensemble, their whole Avenger squad is right

445
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,479
Speaker 1: there sitting there waiting for you. So this is not

446
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 1: the week that you want to be shuffling things around,

447
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: but you are capable of handling it. It's just gonna

448
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how well they play together, because

449
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: we know that the officer line works in continuity, right

450
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: like you have to be hip to hip, you gotta

451
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 1: be engaged, be on the same page, work together. And

452
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: these guys that are gonna be playing together, particularly this week,

453
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Speaker 1: have not done so. And that's that's my main thing.

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Speaker 1: It's this continuity. But the good news is is that

455
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do expect Tyler Beads to be back on

456
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Speaker 1: the field at the start of the playoffs. And you know,

457
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Speaker 1: I know everyone's saying with high ankle spraining, high kles praying,

458
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 1: I get it, but not all high ankle sprains are

459
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: the same, similar in severity, and to the Cowboys point,

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Speaker 1: it's not the first one that he suffered, so that does,

461
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: in fact make it a little bit easier to know

462
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: how to come back from it, played through it sooner.

463
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Speaker 1: So I would say I have a concern about the

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Speaker 1: offensive line from a continuity standpoint for Week eighteen only

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Speaker 1: as long as Tyler Biadis is back in the mix

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Speaker 1: for Super Wild Car weekend, assuming the Cowboys don't get

467
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Speaker 1: a buy because they still have a shot at it,

468
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: but because I think they're offensive line that they've mostly

469
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: played with for twenty twenty two, save to Ron Smith

470
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: coming back later in the season and going to right

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Speaker 1: tackle after the loss of Terran Steel, for the most part,

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Speaker 1: they'll be fine there, more than fine there for the

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Speaker 1: playoffs Week eighteen, though you're going against a stable of horses.

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Speaker 1: You've shifted guys over to the right. Conor mcgoverned. You

475
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Speaker 1: know he's taken some reps at center, but last season

476
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Speaker 1: he took some reps at center, and there were a

477
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Speaker 1: couple of arrant snaps and a couple issues there. And

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Speaker 1: you're gonna try to work Farniyak in if Farniyak is

479
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Speaker 1: able to be at debated and put into this game.

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Speaker 1: So you got some question marks there as far as

481
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Speaker 1: who's going to play where and continuity was and this

482
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Speaker 1: isn't the defensive line that you want to have to

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Speaker 1: do that against. But if you're asking me, am I

484
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Speaker 1: worried about it for the playoffs? No, I'm not worried

485
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Speaker 1: about it for the playoffs. And this is the first

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Speaker 1: time that Dak has seen this Washington front this year.

487
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Speaker 1: Of course, Cooper Rush played against them the first time around.

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Speaker 1: In the games that Dak has played this season, there

489
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: have only been two out of the eleven where he

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Speaker 1: has not thrown an interception, two out of the eleven

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Speaker 1: that he has not done that with And you really

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Speaker 1: look at the last when it's a six games two

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Speaker 1: one two, two one two. Those are the last six games,

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Speaker 1: two interceptions, one interceptions two again and then two one

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00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: two again. Those are the last six. So this is

496
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Speaker 1: the question everybody's got to answer because it's the biggest

497
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: problem on that offense, even with an offensive line that's

498
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: playing musical chairs in front of you. How do you

499
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Speaker 1: fix it? Where do you go? Where do you start?

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Speaker 1: You talked about decision making on Tuesday. Where do you

501
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: roll from there? Is it just decision making? Yours? Or

502
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: more to it, a lot of his decision making. Some

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Speaker 1: of it is yeah, decision making an execution. I honestly,

504
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Speaker 1: and obviously you know, I watch a good amount of film.

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Speaker 1: I think that a large part of Dack's issues with

506
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Speaker 1: the turnovers in terms of the interceptions this year are

507
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: in part to lack of identification, either either the lack

508
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: of identification of coverage or the disregard of the coverage

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Speaker 1: and continue to try to force the ball where it

510
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,959
Speaker 1: shouldn't go. It's one of those two. We've seen tip balls,

511
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Speaker 1: we've seen drop balls, We've seen some of those things

512
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Speaker 1: that happen with every quarterback. Kay, those you don't hold

513
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Speaker 1: against him, But some of these other ones. When I

514
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: watched the film, I'm like, either he didn't acknowledge, he

515
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: didn't identify and acknowledge what that defense was doing, or

516
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: he just said, I understand what they're doing, and I

517
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: have so much finance and my abilities and so much

518
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: confident in my guy's abilities that they're gonna make the

519
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: play anyway. Either way, it turns out bad, so he's

520
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: gonna have to go back and make some adjustments. Otherwise

521
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna continue to see these these issues compound, and

522
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: if those issues compound in the playoffs, we're gonna be

523
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: sitting here next year wrapping it up. So we'll go

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00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: back to one one show a week. My thought is this,

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Speaker 1: and we we touched on it yesterday. Um, what percentage

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Speaker 1: of Dak's interceptions are accountable to Dak and what percentage

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Speaker 1: of the interceptions are accountable to the receivers the targets,

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Speaker 1: And just going off of memory, I figured it was

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Speaker 1: around forty percent. We confirmed it was around thirty five

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Speaker 1: thirty five. There's five of the fourteen and I went

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Speaker 1: back and charted it, and there was one that's kind

532
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Speaker 1: of a gray area, but I think it was a

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Speaker 1: bad read back. Fair enough, let's say we delete those

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Speaker 1: five as far as accountable to Dack. That leaves him

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Speaker 1: with nine nine picks. That's still still an issue. That's

536
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: still an issue, and it needs to be cleaned up.

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Speaker 1: But it does put it in perspective to say, if

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Speaker 1: you take away five of those interceptions, now look at

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Speaker 1: it from the context of each one of those interceptions

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00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: and what it did momentum wise at the particular part

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Speaker 1: of that respective game. Were the Cowboys in a position

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Speaker 1: to put that particular team away. But then the ball

543
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: goes off of Hendershot's hands, or the ball goes off

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00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: of Noah Brown's hands on a you know, overtime drive,

545
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: and you're moving against their defense, and it ends the

546
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: game right then and there. So all interceptions aren't equal.

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Speaker 1: And I say that to say, of those five interceptions,

548
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: several of them helped either dictate the game or keep

549
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: the game way closer than the needs of So delete

550
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: those and the Cowboys have the number one seed. And

551
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Speaker 1: even if they have the number one seed at this

552
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: moment as we're talking about it, let's say that still

553
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: leaves Dak with nine interceptions that are one hundred percent

554
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: accountable to him, we would still be sitting here saying

555
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: you should clean that up. So I agree with that

556
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: you should still clean that up. But I think it's

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00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: it's a perspective thing. You can't continue to give the

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00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: ball away regardless of who is accountable for. It doesn't

559
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: matter if if Ceede Lamb didn't carry, didn't go across

560
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: the face of the safety because you trusted him to

561
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: do so he didn't do. So that's a miscommunication between

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00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: QB and wide receiver one. Okay, right, but it can't

563
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: happen in the playoffs, is what we're saying. So keep perspective,

564
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Speaker 1: keep the context. Five of the fourteen belonged to his targets,

565
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: but that still leaves nine belonging to Dak. So his

566
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: targets need to be more focused and keyed in and

567
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Speaker 1: making sure that you get the ball in your hands.

568
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: And of course you're you're planning to catch the ball.

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00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: That's always the plan. But if for whatever reason, that

570
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: goes awry in the millisecond that it hits you, don't

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Speaker 1: tip it up, tip drills, turning the interceptions like get

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Speaker 1: get the ball to the ground right, better yet better still,

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Speaker 1: get it in your hands, get it, yeah, get it

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Speaker 1: to the receiver and then hands. But I think I

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Speaker 1: love I love what Ceedee Lamb said in this regard

576
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. He said, obviously, plan number

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Speaker 1: one is to get the ball in your hands, to

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Speaker 1: grab the ball, to catch the ball. That's why he's

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball to you in the first place, in

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Speaker 1: the instant. In the instance that it doesn't happen or

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00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: it comes off of your hands or bobbles or whatever

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00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: and you just can't reel it in, don't juggle it

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Speaker 1: and keep it in the air, because that's what defensive

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Speaker 1: backs are thirsty four. So that's all I'm saying. Job

585
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: number one is to catch the ball. But if whatever

586
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: reason that goes awry, don't put the church some money

587
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: in the air. And going going back to to Dak

588
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: though here is but nine are still accountable to day.

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Speaker 1: Nine are accountable to Dak. And honestly, if it were

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Speaker 1: nine interceptions, you would be you would be okay through

591
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: an eighteen game season, right, feel good? That's where I

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00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: was going. Yeah, this is through eleven games that we're

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Speaker 1: talking about this level of interceptions there. I mean, this is,

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Speaker 1: for instance, set through seventeen games. Last year, the interception

595
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Speaker 1: leaders were Trevor Lawrence and Matthew Stafford with seventeen through

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Speaker 1: seventeen games, so that's one per game. Dak is throwing

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Speaker 1: fourteen and eleven games accountable to him through eleven games,

598
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: so nearly one per game. I'm a big believer in

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Speaker 1: the touchdown to interception ratio because it shows you what

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Speaker 1: you're able to do. Last year, Dak was off the

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00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: charts thirty seven and ten. Are you kidding me? That's outstanding?

602
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: One of the best in the league. The league leaders

603
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Speaker 1: in touchdowns, Let's say Matthew staffordtique still through seventeen interceptions,

604
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: so one per game. Justin Herbert he threw thirty eight touchdowns,

605
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: fifteen interceptions, thirty six for Josh Allen touchdowns fifteen interceptions.

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Speaker 1: Some of the guys that are comparatable though to what

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00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: Dak is doing this year, Taylor Heineke twenty interceptions, I mean,

608
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: twenty touchdowns, fifteen interceptions. Derek Carr twenty three touchdowns, fourteen

609
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: interceptions through seventeen games. Again, these are full game, full seasons,

610
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: and Dak has played in eleven games. Ryan Tannehill twenty

611
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: one touchdowns, fourteen interceptions, which is almost exactly the touchdown

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Speaker 1: the interception ratio that Dak has right now. Mac jonesy

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, thirteen interceptions. Those are four guys that I

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00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: just name that are either in a quarterback competition or

615
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: will not be quarterable, or are not quarterbacking at all

616
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: in their respective team. And I'm not saying bench Dak Prescott,

617
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Speaker 1: that is not what I'm saying you're speaking. I'm saying

618
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: that statistically lines up with what has been happening there.

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Speaker 1: Their teams aren't as good as what Dak is working

620
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: with right now, Dak is still able to win despite

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00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: some of these turnovers in the regular season that will

622
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: not continue into the playoffs. I agree. And the good

623
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: news is he can correct all this. Yeah, he absolutely can.

624
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Speaker 1: He's good enough to correct. It's the most easily fixable item. Yeah,

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00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: it are the interceptions between the receivers in the in

626
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: the quarterback, it's the most easily corrected. Receivers catch the

627
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: ball when it's thrown to you, Dak, make sure you're

628
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: making better decisions in tight windows and things like that.

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Speaker 1: It's the most easily correctable. And in fantastic stat with

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Speaker 1: the with his numbers last year, and that kind of

631
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: prompted me to kind of glance and see what's this

632
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: touchdown percentage? And for those that don't know, and this

633
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: is via Pro Football Reference, the touchdown percentage is percentage

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00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: of touchdowns throwing when attempting to pass with a minimum

635
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Speaker 1: of fourteen attempts. Dak Prescott's stellar season last year thirty

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Speaker 1: seven touchdowns to only ten interceptions. Yes, he has twenty

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns to fourteen interceptions in his eleven games played,

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Speaker 1: but he's matching his touchdown percentage career high from last

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Speaker 1: year at six point two. It's literally the same. So

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Speaker 1: what's the interception, Well, the interception percentages, it's a lot higher.

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Speaker 1: I'm not no, I'm not saying that to discount what

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Speaker 1: you're saying. Sure, I'm saying that to say it's it's

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Speaker 1: to show you just how much more interesting this conversation is,

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Speaker 1: because it's not a different Dak Prescott. No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's just the luck. It's just not it balls not

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Speaker 1: bouncing his favor like we disagree, and seeking the fumbles,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's all luck. Though there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of interceptions he's given away, and to say

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Speaker 1: nine and to counter in eleven games, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: through ten all of last year. But even even on

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Speaker 1: the five that we're trying to say that are disregarded

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Speaker 1: because the receiver vers bobbled it or didn't care. Just

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Speaker 1: saying what I'm saying, like, there's elements of those that

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Speaker 1: he has to take responsibility of as well as a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You can take Dak out the picture. Even when the

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00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: ball hits the receiver's hands, it doesn't mean that your

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00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: job was done right just simply because you got it. There,

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00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: there's velocity, there's location, there's there's scenarios, whether you know

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Speaker 1: whether or not somebody was on them or whether or

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Speaker 1: not there there's there's a defender coming at them. Like,

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Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of different other elements that the

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Speaker 1: quarterback has to take a responsibility for it that we

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Speaker 1: would have to go back and analyze. Let's take let's

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Speaker 1: take the Peyton Hinder shot one for example. That was

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Speaker 1: right in his chest. How's that on? However, that's not

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Speaker 1: that's it was see, but that was it was on,

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Speaker 1: it was on his back shoulder. It wasn't a perfect throw. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it was definitely not a perfect throw. We do we

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Speaker 1: need to quote Michael. I don't even what did Michael say.

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Speaker 1: What did he say? Quote his days from Troy in

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Speaker 1: playing with Troy Aikman. He said, it's not Troy's job

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Speaker 1: to throw me open. His Troy's job to get the

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Speaker 1: ball in a catchable radius, and it's my job to

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Speaker 1: catch the ball. Absolutely. I don't disagree with that, but

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Speaker 1: the reality is, Okay, ask it's the NFL. You throw

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Speaker 1: people open. It's a saying and it's cliche for a reason.

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Speaker 1: Brett farve. You to throw the ball and get the

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Speaker 1: ball to people, right, But he's a break fingers too,

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Speaker 1: So at a certain point you have to be you

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Speaker 1: have to throw a catchable ball, right. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, there's a lot of So that's

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Speaker 1: why I don't just look at stats, right, they don't

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Speaker 1: tell the whole picture. But at the same time, Dak

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Speaker 1: is not making the same decisions he was making last year.

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Speaker 1: And I think that he showed a kink in his

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Speaker 1: armor because now teams are starting to really disguise their coverages.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why he threw an interception last week

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Speaker 1: one of the two interceptions second because they did an

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Speaker 1: invert cover two. He didn't either again, he either didn't

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Speaker 1: recognize what it was or he just had that much

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Speaker 1: faith in Dalton show us that he was going to

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Speaker 1: get open one or the two. Either way, it's resulting

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Speaker 1: in bad things for the Cowboys. Has to get there.

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Speaker 1: There are interceptions in that tally of nine that we're

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Speaker 1: talking about nine and eleven games that are just inexcusable.

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Speaker 1: Josh Swift pick six, yeah bad. A lot of them

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Speaker 1: that were that were in crucial points in the game.

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Speaker 1: Like you talked about earlier. Not all interceptions are weighed

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Speaker 1: the same, but I would say I would do that

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Speaker 1: seven of the nine that have been thrown by Dak

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Speaker 1: that have been on him have been in really tough situations, right,

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Speaker 1: really tough situation and you have to you have to

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger at times. And this is why I

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Speaker 1: don't have a I have a problem with like the

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Speaker 1: Josh Sweat interception, and I have a problem with Dak's

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Speaker 1: second interception against the Titans and not necessarily seeing the

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Speaker 1: coverage there. But there are also times where he'll throw

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Speaker 1: the interception and you look at he read the coverage

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Speaker 1: and he was really trying to frozen rope that thing

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Speaker 1: in there, and you're just like, okay, well, you can't

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Speaker 1: have it both ways. Because when Cooper Rush was quarterbacking, right,

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Speaker 1: there were times where I wanted Cooper Rush to pull

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Speaker 1: that trigger, like I see it, that small window it

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Speaker 1: was there. You should have pulled it, but you didn't

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Speaker 1: because you're the backup quarterback and you don't want to

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Speaker 1: be that guy, right, right. So, but when you have

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Speaker 1: QB one in there, you're paying him to be able

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Speaker 1: to take those risks and you trust that the reward

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Speaker 1: will be much more bountiful over the course of a

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Speaker 1: season than the risk and the penalties will be. And

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Speaker 1: that continues to be the case for Dak Prescott. But

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Speaker 1: that's not that doesn't make the second part of this

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Speaker 1: argument untrue, which is the level of play in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs is much higher, the margin of error is much smaller.

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Speaker 1: You can't turn the ball over the Josh Swint interception

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Speaker 1: that could lose you a game in the playoffs, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: But we I don't want to, for lack of a

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Speaker 1: better way to put it, I don't want to neuter

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Speaker 1: Dak when it comes to run the office. There are

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Speaker 1: certain things you need to be river boat on when

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Speaker 1: you see it. If you feel it's there and it's

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Speaker 1: the right receiver, and it's the right receiver, and it's

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Speaker 1: the right receiver, hint, you fire that thing in there.

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Speaker 1: If it's not quote unquote the right receiver. Second guess it,

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Speaker 1: take the first down, or if you if you if

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Speaker 1: the pressure is there, to take the sack, live to

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Speaker 1: fight another day. That's just don't do too much like

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Speaker 1: the interception where he was trying to target shots when

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Speaker 1: he should have probably either just ran for two yards

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Speaker 1: or taken the sack and live to fight another day.

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Speaker 1: Those can't have We were nobody in here is saying

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Speaker 1: We don't. We don't need that happening. I want Dak

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Speaker 1: to have that high risk, high reward mentality. But in

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Speaker 1: the past, his high reward has come with a low risks,

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Speaker 1: and that hasn't happened this year. It's been more even

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what we've seen in the past. That's

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Speaker 1: why he's been one of the best in the league.

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Speaker 1: He's had the stats, he's had the rewards, but he

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Speaker 1: hasn't turned the football over. If you're gonna win in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, you need Dad to be at one hundred

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Speaker 1: based on what you said ahead of the break, which

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Speaker 1: was starting to ramp up when Deck returned or a

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Speaker 1: couple of games after Deck return do you think Deck

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Speaker 1: because the nine interceptions he's accountable for, do you think

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Speaker 1: that's a product of him forcing the ball? Yes, trying

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Speaker 1: to do more than he necessarily has. Yes, yes, Why

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Speaker 1: it's just it's apparent he's forcing the ball out of

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Speaker 1: the fourteen interceptions t row Ball. Yeah, the fourteen interceptions,

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Speaker 1: there's easily at least especially in the first part of

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Speaker 1: the season, when he easily five interceptions that should have

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Speaker 1: taken place easily that were like you could have been

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Speaker 1: more interceptions, could have been a higher Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm talking about like how did he not

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Speaker 1: catch that interceptions? Right? So, yes, he's forcing the ball.

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Speaker 1: He admitted it so people could come at me all

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Speaker 1: they want to. He admitted it. What did he say

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Speaker 1: early on, I'm overly I'm a little I might be

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Speaker 1: overly confident, he said it. I'm not creating this is

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Speaker 1: this Dack's words, all right. So he has to just

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Speaker 1: has to pull back on that. Just stop. It's not

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Speaker 1: necessary for you to win games. I think you're making

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Speaker 1: those throws. That's not necessary for the Dallas Cowboys to

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Speaker 1: win ball game. So if it's not necessary, then don't

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Speaker 1: do it as frequently, because the more frequently you do it,

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Speaker 1: the greater chance of it happening. Is you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's no different than somebody riding a motorcycle.

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Speaker 1: you think laying he was playing hero ball? Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit, And I don't think that's changed,

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Speaker 1: necessarily changed. I think he continues to play hero ball

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Speaker 1: a little bit. He's good enough to do that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he is very good. He is a great quarterback in

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Speaker 1: this league right now. He is one of the top.

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Speaker 1: But when he makes decisions that are putting his team

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Speaker 1: into situations where it's putting your defense against the wall,

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Speaker 1: and you're putting your receivers in a tough situation, and

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Speaker 1: you're trying to overestimate the talent that you have arm

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Speaker 1: wise to fit it into a whole twenty yards down

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Speaker 1: there's multiple guys that you're going to have to weave

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Speaker 1: through to get it there. That's the type of decision

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Speaker 1: making Dak Prescott has not done in the past and

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Speaker 1: he's doing this year. That's where there's a difference because

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Speaker 1: the numbers show it all the way through. The film

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Speaker 1: minutes ago. Or per the physicians caring for Tomorrow. Hamling

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Speaker 1: remarkable improvement over the last twenty four hours. While still

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Speaker 1: neurologically intact. His lungs continue to heal, and he is

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Speaker 1: making steady progress. We are grateful for the love and

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Speaker 1: way Togo Still for tomorrow, Hamlin, continue your prayers and

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Speaker 1: to see that coming from the Buffalo Bills Twitter just

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Speaker 1: here on Talking Cowboys. We'll be back tomorrow with the

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Speaker 1: Say It with Your Chess Friday. We're back on that

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