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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, October sixteenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number sixty six. Welcome to another edition of The Break
Speaker 1: Whilife Nest WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. And I
Speaker 1: just realized, I gay, that's completely wrong date. It is
Speaker 1: actually Thursday, October seventeen, and we're I wouldn't have noticed.
Speaker 1: Thank god you did not mess up the episode. But
Speaker 1: here's the problem with that is there people that start
Speaker 1: listening to shows and they're like, I can't was this
Speaker 1: today or was it yesterday? And so they'll listen to
Speaker 1: it and and if they hear Wednesday, you're like, well that
Speaker 1: I just heard when they say wednesday. So you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta get it right. You gotta get it right.
Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, we got a lot to get into today.
Speaker 1: Nick has some some players. He wrote an article and
Speaker 1: actually really interesting article about five players that he thinks
Speaker 1: should be playing more, and we're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 1: Nick's gonna dive in for us. I'm gonna started. I
Speaker 1: need to start bringing in my own little nuggets because
Speaker 1: Dave does his report. You started bringing your little thing
Speaker 1: about the other team and top stories. I'm gonna you
Speaker 1: used to see no, but you just like don't like
Speaker 1: you never tell me. I gotta see a note today.
Speaker 1: I gotta see a no no no no, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: a g I will bring some nuggets. Love it, I
Speaker 1: love it all right, we're gonna get into that. It
Speaker 1: will be and then Dave's also going to give us
Speaker 1: his his breakdown in the Philadelphia defense. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that in the second of third segment as well. We
Speaker 1: gotta start there with injuries. Catch us up on this
Speaker 1: litany of injuries the Cowboys have. Is anybody back practicing
Speaker 1: at this point? Ah? Yeah. It was encouraging, Okay, well
Speaker 1: to a point. Well, okay, the two guys and I
Speaker 1: think this is a package deal. I really do. Tyrant
Speaker 1: Smith Lyle Collins both doing a little bit of individual work.
Speaker 1: Garrett made it sound like they weren't going to do
Speaker 1: a lot. He said, the guys that get out there
Speaker 1: will mix in maybe into individuals, So that's probably the
Speaker 1: extent of it. But on Thursday, that looked like with
Speaker 1: those two guys doing stuff that looked like they are
Speaker 1: trying to play. That's I mean, that's what you don't
Speaker 1: come back on Thursday after minutes in two weeks and
Speaker 1: not expecting to play with a bye week sitting behind you,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to play. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: can or will. Of course they're trying to, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta I don't not so much Tyrant. I think
Speaker 1: Tyrant's got a good chance to play Lyle. It's the
Speaker 1: same injury that Captain Antoine woods out for three weeks.
Speaker 1: I know he's tough as they come, but I need
Speaker 1: to see more before I'm well. We thought, I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyron was Yah could have absolutely late last weekend, but
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. So it's a really good sign those two.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're getting into it on a Thursday
Speaker 1: with another day to go, it's a really good sign.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to pencil them into the lineup, but
Speaker 1: it's a good sign. But the reason why I said
Speaker 1: to a point is because Zack Martin and Joe Looney
Speaker 1: sat out in practice today. So you get two back
Speaker 1: and lose two new Ones's face. Travis Frederick is back
Speaker 1: to it was a personal issue, not injury related. I'll
Speaker 1: take that. So you had Tyron Lyle and Travis all
Speaker 1: out there, but Zach sat down. Uh, you know, probably
Speaker 1: a maintenance day for his back, if I had to guess.
Speaker 1: But they you know, you just can't. You can't completely win.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb and a Marie Cooper were both absent. Byron
Speaker 1: and Anthony Brown are both absent. I think that's it.
Speaker 1: It's it's not great if you're going to get some
Speaker 1: guys back and it happens to be the two tackles.
Speaker 1: I think you feel pretty decent about that. You would
Speaker 1: like to have your receiver. In my opinion, I think
Speaker 1: you'd like to have Amari Cooper back game if they
Speaker 1: probably as much as any of those other positions. If
Speaker 1: they can get the two tackles back or even just tying,
Speaker 1: it would do wonders for my confidence that they can
Speaker 1: win this game. Yeah, yea, So it's Thursday. We'll see
Speaker 1: Friday will be important. Maybe they can do more well
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a lot more about this. No, just
Speaker 1: you know, they I mean, they look like freaking warriors
Speaker 1: out there, like, you know, we get to watch fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: And so we come in and Tyring and Lyle are
Speaker 1: working with Britt Brown, the rehab director with the big
Speaker 1: Resistance chords, and Tyrant's ankle is about three times you know,
Speaker 1: he's got so much tape on it, and he's got
Speaker 1: his big knee brace on his elbow and Lyle's got
Speaker 1: a gigantic knee brace on his knee, and they just,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just kind of like, well, let's let's
Speaker 1: do this. Like they look like they're fighting through it.
Speaker 1: For sure, they need a buy a week they do,
Speaker 1: they do well, and everybody does. They're gonna get one
Speaker 1: next week. But the fact is they got to get
Speaker 1: to a game that's very, very important. Maybe it's important
Speaker 1: based on where they are in the season, maybe as
Speaker 1: important as any game so far this year based on
Speaker 1: the current situation. So we'll get back into that a
Speaker 1: little bit later because we're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia defense. But right now, Nick, I'd like you to
Speaker 1: break down for us your your article on the five
Speaker 1: players that you think need to be playing more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my dad actually sent me a text message watches
Speaker 1: the show and on the site and says, good job
Speaker 1: of writing it that way and not saying these these
Speaker 1: five players suck and need to be benched. But although
Speaker 1: that's what we're about to provide here in this conversation,
Speaker 1: you know, really it comes down to, here's my five guys.
Speaker 1: I'll just list them all, and but only one of
Speaker 1: them is a straight like, you need to replace another guy,
Speaker 1: and that would be Xavisuphilo, who I believe should be
Speaker 1: playing over Connor Williams. I've said that one hundred times.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that now. Other four guys, I
Speaker 1: think you can find ways to put them in the
Speaker 1: game more, Joe Thomas, Jordan Lewis, Tony Poller, and I've
Speaker 1: blanked on the other guy. But Darion Thompson. There you go,
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson, which would probably be require replacing. That feels
Speaker 1: more like a benching. Yeah, and that's fine too, because
Speaker 1: Davier Woods, um, I can't remember I can't remember a
Speaker 1: play that he's made this yet, so you would bench
Speaker 1: twenty five and not thirty eight. I don't care one
Speaker 1: of the two I mean probably. I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are and well, you know what, a
Speaker 1: lot of people would say, you know what, put donovand
Speaker 1: Wilson in there too? Do you want to replace both?
Speaker 1: That's fine, that's fine. But I think there's a way
Speaker 1: to put Tony Pollard in there more. I think you
Speaker 1: can get Joe Thomas in there more. And Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: probably will be playing anyways because of the injury situation.
Speaker 1: I actually asked Jason Garrett about Pollard today, and you
Speaker 1: always you want to try to phrase it delicately, and
Speaker 1: so I'm saying, I'm like, you know, what is it?
Speaker 1: What are you looking for when you look for an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get Tony Pollard involved? Like it do you?
Speaker 1: Is it that you don't trust him to do different
Speaker 1: things because he's a rookie? Is it the situations like
Speaker 1: you don't want to lean on him while you're trailing
Speaker 1: by three your you know, two or three possessions instead
Speaker 1: of just being like why don't you play Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: which you know, Jason Garrett doesn't typically play ball with
Speaker 1: that because he's like, well he's you know, first of all,
Speaker 1: we got Zeke and he's a black player. We like
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard a lot. He can do this, this, and this.
Speaker 1: We like to use him as a running back. We
Speaker 1: like to use him as a receiver. And that's when
Speaker 1: I say, Jason to quote to quote, my dad shouts out,
Speaker 1: Dick Hellman, Hi, Dad, don't pee on my head and
Speaker 1: tell me it's raining. Don't do that, because it's not true.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard has four catches this year, and three of
Speaker 1: them came against Miami in the later stages of a blowout.
Speaker 1: You don't use him as a receiver. You've actually you've
Speaker 1: used him on eighteen percent of offensive snaps this year.
Speaker 1: If you take away garbage time in three lopsided wins,
Speaker 1: it's six percent. He's gotten less than ten snaps in
Speaker 1: these three losses each. I think he played five against
Speaker 1: Green Bay, two against New Orleans. You're not using him.
Speaker 1: He's very versatile. Have no idea how versatile. Because they
Speaker 1: don't use him. They use him to spell zeke, which
Speaker 1: is so incredibly boring. I wrote, I actually wrote about
Speaker 1: that for my column, not to steal your thunder naer,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so that strikes a chord with me because
Speaker 1: I would like to see what all he can do,
Speaker 1: and it's disingenuous for them to say that they're using
Speaker 1: him because it's not. Well, maybe this weekend, for sure,
Speaker 1: with the problems that you're having a wide receiver right now,
Speaker 1: maybe they try to incorporate him. Right, you had problems
Speaker 1: against the Jets though, I mean, yeah. The difference though
Speaker 1: is you didn't go into that game thing. You were
Speaker 1: going to lose Cooper early in the game, so they
Speaker 1: may have not gone to that game thing and they
Speaker 1: needed Yeah, but right now you're thinking you're gonna have
Speaker 1: arguably your top two wide receivers out of the game.
Speaker 1: You better find some other targets to be able to
Speaker 1: put out there to give you something in your passing game. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would, you would think, I mean, but still five
Speaker 1: weeks in, I would think you've got some plays and wrinkles,
Speaker 1: something you can do with just to get him involved.
Speaker 1: You have not seen him do anything other than run
Speaker 1: Zeke's plays while Zeke is out. That's all he's There's
Speaker 1: not a polar package. It doesn't seem like now, so
Speaker 1: I think they need to do that. They need to
Speaker 1: try to work on that and get him involved. If
Speaker 1: he's a gadget player, I mean, three and three seems
Speaker 1: like a good time to put some pull some gadgets.
Speaker 1: They kept saying they had all these wrinkles and all
Speaker 1: these things that they didn't need to use during those
Speaker 1: first games and had it in the back of their pockets.
Speaker 1: Where where are they put it on the table? Still waiting?
Speaker 1: Of those five guys Xavier Sulphilo, Thomas Lewis, Pollard Thompson,
Speaker 1: which of them do you think provides the greatest impact
Speaker 1: based upon maybe what they provide versus the guy that
Speaker 1: would not be on the field when they were on
Speaker 1: the field. I mean, for me, it would be the
Speaker 1: guy that's going to be starting would be would be starting,
Speaker 1: and that would be Suepilo, because I think he's better
Speaker 1: than Connor and I think that what they're missing right
Speaker 1: now some some short yarded situations down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I think that he could help with that. So I would,
Speaker 1: you know, I through politics to the side on worried
Speaker 1: about any of that other stuff. I'd play the best guys,
Speaker 1: and I would think the head coach in the situation
Speaker 1: he's in would probably want to do that too. Maybe
Speaker 1: they don't think that way, but hurting anyone's feelings in
Speaker 1: the draft room about well, we drafted him in the
Speaker 1: second round. Who cares Texans drafts to a feeling higher
Speaker 1: than that? And they cut him and they shouldn't have probably,
Speaker 1: So that's not to say he's going to turn out
Speaker 1: into a great player or anything like that, you know,
Speaker 1: so feeling right now has more strength than Connor Williams
Speaker 1: and more experience, and having him out there, given the
Speaker 1: fact of the other guys that are struggling in the
Speaker 1: old line due to injuries, I mean, that would help.
Speaker 1: And also, where's the issue with Travis Frederick right now?
Speaker 1: If you had to say, what is he not, you know,
Speaker 1: the same as he was two years ago? I would
Speaker 1: I would say strength. Seems like he's not as strong,
Speaker 1: and that's natural when you're going through the injury and
Speaker 1: the illness that he had, So getting as much strength
Speaker 1: as you can somewhere, you know, it would be important
Speaker 1: and that's why I would do it. Throw my hat
Speaker 1: in the ring for Jordan Lewis, which is fun because
Speaker 1: circumstances are probably going to necessitate that he play. Like
Speaker 1: we can lobby for Sua Philo or Tony Pollard and
Speaker 1: they don't have to listen to us, But I don't
Speaker 1: think Anthony Brown and Byron Jones are both going to
Speaker 1: play in this game. You might get one, I doubt
Speaker 1: you'll get both. So Jordan Lewis is going to have
Speaker 1: to play, and that's exciting for me because he flashes
Speaker 1: stuff when he gets out there. You know, he picked
Speaker 1: off Breeze last season. He's got one of their two
Speaker 1: interceptions through six weeks, which that terrible stings to even
Speaker 1: say out loud. Two picks in six weeks, So he's
Speaker 1: got ball skills like that was part of his scouting
Speaker 1: report coming out. Hopefully, you know, if he gets this opportunity,
Speaker 1: which he should, hopefully it translates. Yeah, people were saying
Speaker 1: that even before the interception. People, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you even said it, like, you know, he needs to
Speaker 1: play more. Wasn't just that he got an interception. He all,
Speaker 1: he has impressed every time he's really gotten a chance to.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, did you have one, which one do
Speaker 1: you think has the biggest will have the biggest impact
Speaker 1: if it were to happen, Well, honestly, I've would have
Speaker 1: gone with Jordan. He's a guy that had an amazing
Speaker 1: training camp. We talked about him so much, and it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate when you see a guy do really, really good
Speaker 1: and then it kind of disappears for various reasons. Some
Speaker 1: of the guys we've talked about that how successful training camp,
Speaker 1: it hasn't necessarily translated into the season. But this is
Speaker 1: a guy that hasn't really had the chance to show
Speaker 1: us he did everything he could during that time, and
Speaker 1: now I think with giving him the ability to go
Speaker 1: out there, he's a guy that can really, I believe,
Speaker 1: really produce and impact the defense. Nick, nothing against your list,
Speaker 1: but Dave and Amber, is there anybody that you think
Speaker 1: should be on this list that's not on this list?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not bad to me because I even
Speaker 1: asked him else in the locker room and he came
Speaker 1: up with like four other guys. Yeah, I mean you're
Speaker 1: out the player or no, it was yeah, okay, that's
Speaker 1: a big difference. They throw out I mean players like him, him, him,
Speaker 1: throw out either of the duo of Sean Lee and
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas and we I mean we spent a segment
Speaker 1: on that earlier in the week. Is you know, there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with mixing those guys in more especially you know,
Speaker 1: to Nick's point. You don't have to outright bench Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith or Layton vander ash You can just rotate a
Speaker 1: little bit more than you do, which they already do
Speaker 1: with their lineman anyway. So and I qualified in the
Speaker 1: in the article before they even got to any of
Speaker 1: the names. I said, I understand that Blake Jarwin is
Speaker 1: is a you know player. A lot of people were
Speaker 1: thinking about here he is playing in the two tight
Speaker 1: end sets. Maybe he could he could get a little
Speaker 1: bit more passes his way. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: he should just be playing more because I don't not
Speaker 1: convinced he is just you know, head and shoulder is
Speaker 1: a better blocker than Witt, and I don't think he
Speaker 1: is a better blocker right now. So but he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out there and maybe he can get
Speaker 1: a little bit more vertical. It's like, regardless, neither of them,
Speaker 1: including Jason, are really doing much on thee now. They're
Speaker 1: they're they're struggling there. I mean, I don't know about struggling,
Speaker 1: but it's it's not why you would want it. If
Speaker 1: you're thinking about it in like baseball terms, like wins
Speaker 1: above replacement, you're just sort of like breaking even Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if they're sitting with, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen, twentieth pick in the draft, whatever it's going
Speaker 1: to be, if there's a tight end that's like pretty good,
Speaker 1: I mean that this could be the year that they say,
Speaker 1: all right, first round tight end. I could see that,
Speaker 1: and I would say this, like even even if, even
Speaker 1: if you don't think you're getting everything out of that
Speaker 1: position that you want. And this is stealing a kind
Speaker 1: of a line from Dave way down my priority list,
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking at so many other things that are
Speaker 1: problems for this team right now, particularly the offensive line
Speaker 1: and particularly the defense. And I'll single out the linebackers,
Speaker 1: I'll single out the safeties, I'll single out the pass rush.
Speaker 1: Like this goes way down the list for me. If
Speaker 1: you want to start talking about tight ends on this team,
Speaker 1: not for me, because I don't think it's that far
Speaker 1: down the list. Because when you think about mismatches, when
Speaker 1: you have a tight end that can create a mismatch,
Speaker 1: and like Witten used to be able to do, I mean,
Speaker 1: wouldn't if they tried to put a safety on them,
Speaker 1: that only helped out the other receivers and running backs
Speaker 1: if they put a linebacker on them, obviously it helps
Speaker 1: your running game. So I don't know if the tight
Speaker 1: ends give you a mismatch now. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: that when you think about the offense, though, I think
Speaker 1: this offense has evidenced by the number of yards are
Speaker 1: putting up and even some in a lot of cases,
Speaker 1: a number of points that they've put up. I don't
Speaker 1: think that that the offense as a whole has played
Speaker 1: as poorly as a defense. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the offense is problems if they shore it up
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. You know again that third and one,
Speaker 1: if your offensive lineman can just get a block and
Speaker 1: not let a guy split, you know, split too offensive
Speaker 1: lineman sneak your quarterbacks. Yeah, I mean there by my
Speaker 1: point is there right now. I think there are ways
Speaker 1: to fix the offense have nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: tight end. I think that the offensive line is we're
Speaker 1: most that originals, and I think the defense has way
Speaker 1: more problems right now than anything you can put. Not
Speaker 1: to derail the conversation, like real quick though, just skip ahead,
Speaker 1: like what what are you trying to draft in the
Speaker 1: first round for this team? No? Are you gonna kill
Speaker 1: this segment next week always, Oh you want to save
Speaker 1: that for the bye week? Okay, Yeah, that's got That's
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to talk to my friends. Man. I
Speaker 1: don't think about it in terms of no, and actually
Speaker 1: that's not a bad that's not a bad question. And
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to hear what you guys have actually about.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a draft show next week to show
Speaker 1: next week. I mean, tight end is high on the list.
Speaker 1: Safety too, probably, cornerback, depending on a few variables. Cornerback
Speaker 1: probably because you have to because you just don't know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with these contracts coming up. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: either way, though, I could see it's about time to
Speaker 1: get a corner. If I was going to spend a
Speaker 1: first round pick on an offensive player in next year's draft,
Speaker 1: would probably be tight end, though, I can and I
Speaker 1: know I can hear people saying the old line, but
Speaker 1: don't forget about Connor McGovern like you've got stuff you
Speaker 1: can do, got other options, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: still I mean, I think you look at the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I wonder now if they regret
Speaker 1: not making the decision to go with safety there with
Speaker 1: their first flash year in the second round. Well, I
Speaker 1: do want to have a dialogue. I think there's some
Speaker 1: conversations taking a pass rusher. You've got you drafted Taco
Speaker 1: and he's gone. That didn't work. You drafted Um. I
Speaker 1: mean you've got DeMarcus Lawrence will either way, you need
Speaker 1: another guy. Robert quinn is you know, he's recording enough
Speaker 1: stats that he's gonna get paid somewhere. Maybe it's here,
Speaker 1: But I mean he's on a one year deal. So
Speaker 1: I mean pass rusher I could leave. He's on his
Speaker 1: last year and tackle too. I mean there's a lot
Speaker 1: which a lot we worry about that later. Tune into
Speaker 1: the Draft show next. You'll get into next Wednesday. Next. Right,
Speaker 1: it looks like our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Dave's gonna talk to us about this Philadelphia defense, what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will be facing us. Know what players other
Speaker 1: than Fletchercocks could cause problems. We'll do that when we
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Speaker 1: At the start, we're gonna turn it over to David
Speaker 1: Hellman and he's gonna walk us through this Philadelphia defense. Dave,
Speaker 1: what did you find? Um? We're gonna learn. We're gonna
Speaker 1: learn just how stubborn the Dallas Cowboys are in this game.
Speaker 1: I think Okay, because everything about the Eagles suggests that
Speaker 1: you should try to beat them by throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: and we know they don't like to do that, I
Speaker 1: mean not as much as they like to run it
Speaker 1: at least, So that's that's the main thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is a team that's kind of reeling
Speaker 1: in the back seven. I think you know that's that's
Speaker 1: one oh one if you're just sort of following the NFL. Uh,
Speaker 1: they've got injuries, uh throughout throughout their secondary. Avante Maddox
Speaker 1: has been dealing with an injury. Jalen Mills has been
Speaker 1: on pup. Not that he's awesome anyway, but he's been
Speaker 1: one of their starting corners. They haven't had him. He
Speaker 1: might be back for this game, but they've been trying
Speaker 1: to cobble this thing together with while dealing with all
Speaker 1: this stuff. You know, they signed Orlando Scandrick. We've mentioned that.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got they have Sidney Jones, and it's
Speaker 1: just been it's been pretty brutal. They're twenty ninth in
Speaker 1: the league against the pass so and that's so with
Speaker 1: a run defense that's second in the league, allowing seventy
Speaker 1: three yards per game. Big part that's probably because opponents
Speaker 1: want to pass against them. They're still middle of the
Speaker 1: pack because they're so bad against the pass, and really
Speaker 1: they're they're back seven in general. I actually I really
Speaker 1: loved the signing of Zach Brown because I think he's
Speaker 1: been an underrated player, but he clearly wasn't getting the
Speaker 1: job done. He got toasted by the Vikings and eventually cut.
Speaker 1: So Nigel Bradham's a good player, but like, you don't
Speaker 1: see a ton of playmaking talent in their linebacker corps
Speaker 1: and then the secondary. Even with Malcolm Jenkins Rodney McLeod
Speaker 1: at safety, it hasn't been um amazing three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty three yards and four touchdowns to Kirk Cousins um
Speaker 1: and it it offsets like, what's a pretty good front obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, you you know Fletcher Cox, everybody knows about him.
Speaker 1: They drafted Derek Barnett Brandon Graham for my money, like
Speaker 1: such an unlike him, such an underrated player. It honestly,
Speaker 1: it kind of reminds me of what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys because they drafted Barnett top fifteen. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to you know, he's he's the all time leading sat
Speaker 1: guy at the University of Tennessee. He's got two sacks
Speaker 1: and everybody wants to know what's wrong with him. Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham's over on the left side. He's got four sacks.
Speaker 1: He's just kind of doing his thing. So he's a
Speaker 1: good player. He is um. The front's good. Jernigan's still there.
Speaker 1: He has he has been dealing with an injury, and
Speaker 1: but the guy that's replaced him, Hassan Ridgeway has been
Speaker 1: playing Texas, isn't he. I saw the Yeah, yeah. We
Speaker 1: have guys that just pop up places like I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he was still playing football. Hassan Ridgeway
Speaker 1: played a really good game against Minnesota. He was he
Speaker 1: was giving their guards fits. He split a couple of
Speaker 1: double teams. He had a couple of tackles for loss.
Speaker 1: So my point is they're pretty strong, like up the
Speaker 1: mid like all the way through. Like the defensive tackles
Speaker 1: are good. Nigel Bradham's a good player. The safeties have
Speaker 1: been good. It's everywhere out on the edge that makes
Speaker 1: you wonder because even even in the running game, you
Speaker 1: watch him play like you can get gains on these
Speaker 1: guys out to the edge, like Dalvin Cook is running
Speaker 1: stretch plays around and left and right tackle getting over there,
Speaker 1: and the linebackers don't have the speed to get out there,
Speaker 1: at least they haven't looked like it. So yeah, like
Speaker 1: it's almost like, you know, you stand a better chance
Speaker 1: of winning against these guys, like with finesse for lack
Speaker 1: of a better word, it's like the speed game down
Speaker 1: the field and to the edges. Which does that sound
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys to you? Well? Or did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: just want to plod over you? No, it sounds like
Speaker 1: and when they have when they have their guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we saw it last year, Mark
Speaker 1: Cooper going deep, and I mean it was just like
Speaker 1: that back and forth game. It was like, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw it deep and he's gonna win. So all
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty good if if you had healthy receivers,
Speaker 1: But the fact that Gallup and Devin Smith and Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson might have to play a lot and you're like,
Speaker 1: not only that, but reconcile it for me of for
Speaker 1: every extra pass that means I'm exposing my tackles. If
Speaker 1: I don't have my two starters out there, I might
Speaker 1: end up getting my quarterback hurt because right now, Da
Speaker 1: was like a beating last week. I know some of
Speaker 1: it was when he's outside the pocket, but he got
Speaker 1: hit a lot. The more quarterback gets hit, the more
Speaker 1: chances there are for him to get hurt. And I'm
Speaker 1: a big believer that if Dat gets hurt, dang, you're
Speaker 1: definitely scree everything's done, like we are. We definitely start
Speaker 1: up the draft show and we're doing it every week,
Speaker 1: two times a week. It just I'm just saying, you
Speaker 1: can you can't function. Cooper rush, Sir Cooper rush. But
Speaker 1: like I said, unless unless your defense is going to
Speaker 1: make a monumental jump to playing some outstanding defense like
Speaker 1: what's happening in New Orleans, it's hard for any team
Speaker 1: to sustain losing their starting quarterback. Our defense just isn't
Speaker 1: playing that way right now. It doesn't work this way.
Speaker 1: But like if I could, if I could sacrifice Tyrn
Speaker 1: for another week and have Amari Cooper ready to roll
Speaker 1: for this game, I would take it. I really would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just plays to be made against these guys. And
Speaker 1: like I said, Jale Mills might be back, big deal.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'll take it. I just Stefan Diggs killed
Speaker 1: these guys and they even still you know, the running
Speaker 1: game doesn't even have to be there for play action
Speaker 1: to work. The Vikings average three point five yards per carry. Um,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook's backup had a better day than he did.
Speaker 1: I Cook has been killing it this year, he has,
Speaker 1: but his like he was averaging like three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: But they still used play action to draw on that.
Speaker 1: But they respect their run game, right did they would
Speaker 1: respect the Cowboys? Diggs and Theland were three yards behind
Speaker 1: the coverage so many times in that game. Dig hit
Speaker 1: them for fifty two and sixty one on back to
Speaker 1: back possessions, touchdowns both of them. Um, it should just
Speaker 1: be there for you. And I think you know, Devin
Speaker 1: Smith and Michael Gallup might still have some success, but man,
Speaker 1: it would be nice to have a Marii Cooper. Um,
Speaker 1: and I see Tavon going, you know, side to side.
Speaker 1: This is this is like the game against the Rams
Speaker 1: when the Rams did that to the Cowboys in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: where it seemed like every other play was a guy
Speaker 1: going in motion, faking it whatever. They need to do
Speaker 1: some of that and get give them the ball, but
Speaker 1: but have it because if those stretch plays are working
Speaker 1: like that, then they need to kind of widen this
Speaker 1: thing out. And that's where Devin Smith and may I
Speaker 1: mean Devin Smith, Tavan and maybe Pollard helping out with
Speaker 1: some of that. I mean stretch plays, fake reverses. I yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't this, you don't expect it to happen. Well,
Speaker 1: it terrifies me to think of them trying to win
Speaker 1: this game doing what they do. You know what they've
Speaker 1: been doing these last few games. I've just saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the classic, do what we do, and like here
Speaker 1: comes Zeke and and you know, we're gonna run the
Speaker 1: stretch to the outside, and we're gonna run the dive
Speaker 1: through the A gap and maybe we'll mix in some
Speaker 1: play action, but maybe we won't. And you know, Gallop's
Speaker 1: gonna run a lot of like ten and ends, and
Speaker 1: you know, I just well, I mean there's room here
Speaker 1: for improvisation. And I think they're back seven. And they're
Speaker 1: back seven is susceptible to that. Well, good feeling here,
Speaker 1: just on not the game, but like the season. If
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win this game, do you think that they
Speaker 1: have a good chance to win the division? Ya? Just
Speaker 1: killing on? No, no, no, no, no, it's about this show.
Speaker 1: This is about this this show. Do you think that
Speaker 1: they can win the division? As I sit today, I
Speaker 1: still think they can win the division if they win
Speaker 1: this game. I certainly think if they lose this game.
Speaker 1: Do you think their chance to win the division are good?
Speaker 1: Do you want to hear a spicy take? Not really? No,
Speaker 1: I don't either, Yeah, well no, no, no, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: like I I don't completely believe this game just swings
Speaker 1: the season that much. I really don't. Oh, they lost
Speaker 1: four in a row. At that point, you sh the Eagles.
Speaker 1: You got to go up and play them again. You
Speaker 1: got them, you know. I'm just saying that hard to
Speaker 1: come back. This is the game of the year. So
Speaker 1: if you're sitting, if you're sitting on a play or
Speaker 1: sitting on something, this is it. This is the game.
Speaker 1: But there was This was also a team that was
Speaker 1: three and five last year, and they went on a
Speaker 1: really great run in the second half of the year,
Speaker 1: and so I wouldn't put it, guys, I kind of
Speaker 1: agree with But I get all that, I get all that.
Speaker 1: I'm not I am not in any way saying that
Speaker 1: I get all that. The point though, still remains that
Speaker 1: right now. In this losing streak, especially that game last week,
Speaker 1: A lot of that had to do with the fact
Speaker 1: that they didn't have the guys that they needed to
Speaker 1: have in order to be successful. We get count of
Speaker 1: those guys coming back because you know how it goes
Speaker 1: around this team when it comes to injuries. If they're
Speaker 1: hurt right now, there's a good chance they might be
Speaker 1: hurt later. Right. So so I don't think you can
Speaker 1: count on. All I'm saying is I don't think it
Speaker 1: is a lost cause. If they lose, I think it
Speaker 1: becomes infinitely more difficult. I don't think it's impossible for
Speaker 1: them to get back. Now. It's like last year, you
Speaker 1: know the that and Maury Cooper came in at the
Speaker 1: time that he did. He magically opened up the offense
Speaker 1: and made it work. Right now, you've had Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: a banged up one, but you've had him, and you've
Speaker 1: seen them losing games with Amari being on the field,
Speaker 1: with Michael Gallant being out there as well, and all
Speaker 1: these guys that. Yeah, but again, the like the I
Speaker 1: encourage anybody who I don't think it's that similar because
Speaker 1: go back and watch those first six games last year,
Speaker 1: and the offense looked like high school stuff. Like, the
Speaker 1: offense is not bad. They they've been at defense, They've
Speaker 1: been missed, they've missed some opportunities, they've had some sloppy play.
Speaker 1: They've obviously started slow, but they're top five in the league,
Speaker 1: which was not the case when they traded for Cooper.
Speaker 1: I guess my point I wrote about this in my
Speaker 1: column today too, is if they lose this game, as
Speaker 1: miserable as it'll be, and it will be oh, no doubt,
Speaker 1: and there'll be you know, some a lot of speculation,
Speaker 1: there'll be a game out of first with a week
Speaker 1: to get all of their injured guys healthy, and it
Speaker 1: just I don't think it's that drastic. And yes, the
Speaker 1: schedule looks brutal and it will be difficult, but I
Speaker 1: don't think it'll be as bad as it feels, which sounds.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's bad right now, but there's a lot more.
Speaker 1: There's not as much shame in losing to the Eagles
Speaker 1: as there it's and losing to the Jets. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: if it gets down ind of the season, and they
Speaker 1: are and we've seen this many times, you get down
Speaker 1: in the season and you're one game out or you're
Speaker 1: having to play that last week, knowing that that will
Speaker 1: be the game, no doubt about it. I don't care
Speaker 1: what happens the rest of the season. The Jets game
Speaker 1: will be the game that everybody points back to and said,
Speaker 1: you lost whatever you lost because of that week. But
Speaker 1: I won't think you should have won the game and
Speaker 1: you did. Having just agree, having just sort of disagreed
Speaker 1: with Nick, I will agree in the sense that, like,
Speaker 1: this is not the week to do what you do
Speaker 1: because you don't have your guys. Yeah, you don't. You
Speaker 1: can only do what you do when you're clearly better
Speaker 1: across the board, and you won't be even if you
Speaker 1: get some of these guys back, you won't be. You
Speaker 1: got to choke this thing up, trick it up, bring
Speaker 1: back to the play action. Give me some like can
Speaker 1: I get Tavon on like a deep crosser. Can I
Speaker 1: get Tony Pollard on a fly sweep? Can I do
Speaker 1: something different that's gonna throw the defense off and give
Speaker 1: me a chance for explosive plays? See? I agree that
Speaker 1: the Jets game will be one that you point to,
Speaker 1: But I think if it gets down to the end
Speaker 1: of the playoffs and all that stuff. I would say
Speaker 1: the Saints. I think you had a better chance of
Speaker 1: winning the Saints game. The Saints are a much better team,
Speaker 1: and it was tougher to win on the road there,
Speaker 1: but they had so many more chances that they let
Speaker 1: that thing. I mean, they were never getting their ass
Speaker 1: kicked by the Saints. They were by the Jets, and
Speaker 1: they came back at the last minute. But Dad also
Speaker 1: tells you, in my opinion, it tells you, It tells
Speaker 1: me they are better team than the Jets. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just I think you can make that argument, but the
Speaker 1: records say that they're not. The records say that they
Speaker 1: are clearly not as in the same league with the Saints.
Speaker 1: But in that game, right then and there, right there,
Speaker 1: in that game, I think it looked like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were a better team, but they just at waiting and waiting. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to an NFC opponent, I
Speaker 1: think that will be the one that because if you're
Speaker 1: gonna lose, lose to AFC team, you can, but when
Speaker 1: you just talk about your win loss record, that'll be
Speaker 1: to me. I'll look at this season and say, that's
Speaker 1: one game that the Cowboys gave away they conson. Hopefully
Speaker 1: they will. They'll be a bad they'll how about really
Speaker 1: good win. I'm hoping this is the adversity season the
Speaker 1: Jets this year. Honestly, as far as like had the
Speaker 1: game won. But I already said it yesterday. They're gonna
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots. You can mark it down. I'll put
Speaker 1: a w on there right now. They're gonna beat the Patriots.
Speaker 1: All right, we're jumping ahead here. They will beat Why
Speaker 1: don't we win the game because I just feel like
Speaker 1: I got a good chance to get something off. You're
Speaker 1: here because something they don't. Let's do that in the break.
Speaker 1: The Pats don't lose in that building. So let's go
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Speaker 1: real quick off the topic. Next week are we doing
Speaker 1: costumes on the show for Halloween or the week after?
Speaker 1: Isn't the week after? It's the week after Halloween? Nobody's Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody to hop out and try to scare the Big Jesus.
Speaker 1: Saturday so great. That was so awesome. It was so awesome.
Speaker 1: The best was Amber. Yeah, it was Dave. Dave was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, almost spilled your coffee and she
Speaker 1: was like, what is that? Okay? God, suprise. She didn't
Speaker 1: just start hitting the person like you know, we gotta yeah,
Speaker 1: how many we needed? Good? Just something like the worst.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not it's fun. It's like kids, go
Speaker 1: get your candy. That's awesome, good for you. But like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I'm just over it. I know,
Speaker 1: like typical rain cloud Dave, but like sorry, I just
Speaker 1: don't really like Halloween. Be like day. Yeah, don't be
Speaker 1: like this day. Be like the other day. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's get some calls. You guys can
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Speaker 1: at Derek Eagleton. Let's start first with a call from
Speaker 1: John and Maryland. John, what up? Good afternoon everyone, Thank
Speaker 1: you for taking my call. Hey there he seems like
Speaker 1: I've been following this show all along, and all four
Speaker 1: of you got us all pumped up. How deep this
Speaker 1: team was? All of a sudden, we lose two tackles.
Speaker 1: We can't get our own way. No adjustments are made
Speaker 1: um in reference to the scheme or the game plan.
Speaker 1: If read Belichick, Peterson or Peyton were coaching this team,
Speaker 1: would we'd be at three and three at this point.
Speaker 1: If so, then it's not Garrett's fault. If not, then
Speaker 1: it is Garrett's fault. Why hasn't the management made a
Speaker 1: coaching decision regarding this matter. I can see Nick smiling already,
Speaker 1: and he's probably making fun of me now because thank you.
Speaker 1: For a second, I thought this was Miles Austin that
Speaker 1: was calling. It sounded just like Miles Austin to me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was not about years, No, it was
Speaker 1: about But I will say this, I don't know who
Speaker 1: you're four guys again, but Peyton belt check who read
Speaker 1: I missed the fourth one? Okay, they're all better coaches
Speaker 1: than ye better, there's no doubt. Give me the bottom four,
Speaker 1: the bottom four coaches in the league. There's some that
Speaker 1: don't even have wins yet. You know, would they would
Speaker 1: they be at three and three? Like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, this reminds me of the Romo debate back
Speaker 1: when it's like Romo is not as good as Breeze, Rogers,
Speaker 1: Manning and you know whoever else was at the time,
Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, he's not, but he's in Romo.
Speaker 1: He's like seventh, he's like nine. I don't know where
Speaker 1: Garrett ranks, but I mean he's not those four, but
Speaker 1: he's better than that. I mean, he's better than the
Speaker 1: bottom four, which I'm not saying is good enough. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying you can't just throw out the best four
Speaker 1: guys and go Would they have him here? Probably not.
Speaker 1: They probably would be better, They're better coach, unless, of course, unless,
Speaker 1: of course, you know something that we don't know. From
Speaker 1: the standpoint, you think Garrett can get one of those four. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're saying you're gonna trade him out for one
Speaker 1: of those four, absolutely, Like I think everybody's on board
Speaker 1: with that, You're not gonna get one of those four.
Speaker 1: So even dream is probably dead. You know. That's the
Speaker 1: part where the comparison kind of falls a little bit flat.
Speaker 1: But I get his point, Like, here's the deal. I
Speaker 1: get the point. You get to these points in a
Speaker 1: season where a team is underperforming relative to expectations, then
Speaker 1: of course everybody wants to look for what all is
Speaker 1: going wrong. And the first place you go, and rightfully
Speaker 1: so is the head coach, because he has to be
Speaker 1: accountable for whatever's happening with his football team. So this
Speaker 1: is all fair. I will tell you this. If the
Speaker 1: Wills are going to have to completely fall off this
Speaker 1: thing for them to make a change in season. So
Speaker 1: if you're waiting for that, like we witnessed it with
Speaker 1: with with Wade Phillips, they were one in seven and
Speaker 1: they were just getting it handed to him back to
Speaker 1: back games. The Wills are not falling off like that.
Speaker 1: That's what I think would require for there to be
Speaker 1: a change in seats. And now we get beyond the season,
Speaker 1: cowboys don't meet expectations, We'll see where And here's the
Speaker 1: we said this all through the preseason two is actions
Speaker 1: speak louder than words. And Jason Garrett doesn't have a
Speaker 1: contract right now. Yeah, Jerry Jones isn't stupid. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: really wants to be right about Jason Garrett, Like he
Speaker 1: really wants this to work out, and you know he
Speaker 1: wants He said it in so many words before, like
Speaker 1: he wants Jason Garrett to be his Tom Landry and
Speaker 1: be here for decades and decades and take them to
Speaker 1: playoff appearances. And it's just gonna have to become blind
Speaker 1: ly evident to him that that's not going to happen
Speaker 1: before he does it. And I don't none of us
Speaker 1: really ever go that far out of our way to
Speaker 1: like really carry water for Jason Garrett like he's he's
Speaker 1: better than a lot of people want to give him
Speaker 1: credit for. I don't think he's like in the upper
Speaker 1: echelon of NFL coaches. He's a middle of the road coach,
Speaker 1: and they're middle of the road right now. And just
Speaker 1: because you're pissed off about it doesn't make firing him
Speaker 1: right now smart now. But here's where he's failing. He's
Speaker 1: failing because his football team is not. They come out
Speaker 1: of the gate with the fire and all that stuff
Speaker 1: and the national anthem, they're lined up perfectly and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and then they just take a nap for
Speaker 1: about it al and a half. So fix that. That's
Speaker 1: what the head coach needs to fix. Because we talked
Speaker 1: about it. Is it the offense? Yes? Defense? Yeah? How
Speaker 1: about special teams? Yeah? So that's where it all funnels
Speaker 1: up to the coach. But the one thing that's been
Speaker 1: really consistent is that they haven't played well in the
Speaker 1: first quarter or first half really some of the games
Speaker 1: that they'll they'll get going on, maybe it'll maybe the
Speaker 1: season will be like that. I mean, you know, they're
Speaker 1: just kind of sleepwalking through the first eight games and
Speaker 1: then they'll take off. Yeah. I don't know I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I will say this like you see it every year
Speaker 1: in the end of the ben it might not be
Speaker 1: good enough, you know, it might be too late. That
Speaker 1: That's the thing is like, didn't we know from the beginning,
Speaker 1: Like this is gonna come down to the wire in
Speaker 1: terms of whether Jason Garrett gets another contract, Like it's
Speaker 1: going to depend on if he makes the playoffs and
Speaker 1: they're not eliminated from the playoffs at three and three.
Speaker 1: Well thin I know though, is throughout his tenure here,
Speaker 1: every time the dirt starts coming on top me and Nick,
Speaker 1: he has a way of getting this team turn around.
Speaker 1: I've been calling him Michael Myers for two years. Like
Speaker 1: every he's like, you're standing there, you're like breathing, and
Speaker 1: you're just like he's it's it's over, it's gone. And
Speaker 1: then he sits up and then he's like, here we go.
Speaker 1: I do like Halloween. I love the Halloween movies. Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett's career has been a lot like Michael Myers. U
Speaker 1: It's but three and three. I mean, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, as little as you might think of
Speaker 1: him as a fan or a media member or whatever,
Speaker 1: if they beat the Eagles there in first place in
Speaker 1: the NFC East with a bye week and a chance
Speaker 1: to get healthy. Like, it's just a little too reactionary
Speaker 1: for my taste to think that he needs to be
Speaker 1: fired right now. And you know, I really want to ask,
Speaker 1: and I hate he's left a line. I really want
Speaker 1: to ask fans that have a big problem with him,
Speaker 1: and I know there's a lot of them, and rightfully,
Speaker 1: so what is their problem? Because those that have a
Speaker 1: problem with him because they don't think he's fiery enough,
Speaker 1: or they think of you know, the clap or all that,
Speaker 1: those are the guys. I'm like, Okay, I don't you
Speaker 1: don't really get this whole thing, because I don't think
Speaker 1: that's the key. But I think the key the key
Speaker 1: is when your team is not performing well, even when
Speaker 1: it is because the players just aren't playing well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be looking around and looking for somebody to figure
Speaker 1: out how to get them out of that, right And
Speaker 1: that's what the head coach is supposed to do. And
Speaker 1: in too many of these games it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: they're getting somebody to get them out of that like
Speaker 1: they are. It's way too late into the game before
Speaker 1: they get out of that. And that's where I put
Speaker 1: it accountability on the coach not only that, and I
Speaker 1: think that's fair. But again, you know the stubbornness that
Speaker 1: borders on arrogance, Like if they go into this game
Speaker 1: against arguably well Aaron Donald, but one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive tackles in football and just try to run through
Speaker 1: a brick wall and it looks completely the same. And
Speaker 1: you know, the same guys that aren't that haven't been
Speaker 1: involved still aren't involved in it. Really just you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's that attitude of like, well, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep hammering on this nail until it goes through.
Speaker 1: I think that drives people crazy, and rightfully so in
Speaker 1: my opinion. And if it's especially if it's not working,
Speaker 1: if it was still not going through. You have some seasons,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty sixteen, you just each nails going in
Speaker 1: and it's easy. But when you just keep doing the
Speaker 1: same thing one it's not working, it frustrates people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. We appreciate you guys joining us
Speaker 1: for back tomorrow. We're gonna get you guys a final ready,
Speaker 1: a final ready for this game versus the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Helmet, amber Garcia. I'm
Speaker 1: Derek Eielton. This has been The Break live on Dallas
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