WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: News Breaks 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.879 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:21.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.720 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.040 ready for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:34.440 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:40.720 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.199 Welcome back, guys to another episode of The Break. We 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.080 are here, Derek, it's not but we got a lot 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.640 of stuff to talk about. How are you guys doing. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.840 Happy belated birthday by the way, thank you. I don't 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.200 like it, but thank you. Well. I hope it was 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.480 good regardless of how you felt. We got it birthday 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.840 week or on here. Yeah, a lot of December babies 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.440 here is coming up. Yeah, Nicky, Nicky brought us still 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.240 his birthday, Still his birthday. He's across town, but still 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.720 his birthday. Have to reach out to him. Yep. And 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.679 then Derek, oh, yeah, he's back for New Years though. Yeah. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.400 All right, Well, we we got some things to talk about. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.920 The first thing is this three kickers, right, three of 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.479 them that are coming back for a tryout. I believe 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:32.160 there's two guys that were here from last week's tryout 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.480 that the guys decided not to sign any of them, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.560 but now brought back two of them plus another guy. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.320 What are we hearing about these three kickers? The big 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.360 one is kai for Bath because he's been around for 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.240 a long time. Um, he's been you know, he's I 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.480 think he's played like eighty games going all the way 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.880 back to two thousan eleven, which was a weird year 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.200 because we had a trading camp. We had five kickers 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.000 on the team in two thousand and eleven. He was 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.800 one of them, was injured. Another one was this rookie 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.200 named Dan Bailey. They ended up going with him. That 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.600 worked out. The four Bath has been around, you know, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.040 and he but his issue was missing extra points. Say 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.400 tell me on the air the stat you told me 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.959 this morning. Twelve missed extra points in his career. He 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.120 played one game this year with the Patriots. They brought 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.560 him in. He made a field goal twenty three yards 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.080 and then missed an extra point. Cut So, you know, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.280 mar is as bad as it's been, he hasn't missed 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.840 extra points. That's where we're at, right, That's where we're at. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.679 The guy that they're trying to sign has missed extra 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.360 points and other guys that brought in Nick Rose who's 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.840 played Nick Rose, who went to Texas, who's spent a 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.280 little bit time in the league. I think he's got 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:47.560 fourteen career attempts. Yeah, Tristan Vizcaino. I'll if they signed him, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.400 I'll figure out how to say his name. I don't. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.600 I haven't heard anything. It's just a big They brought 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.320 him in last week hour leg from University of Washington's 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.440 never kicked in a game. That's I just I looked 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.400 up his stats when they worked him out the first time, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.360 and he went twelve of twenty in his final season 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.560 at Washington, which I think. I think the reason why 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.079 he gets like to go to training camp because he's 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.639 been to two camps, it's because he can kick and punt. Yeah, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.480 maybe not either one of them, well, but he does both. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.440 And that's a perfect guy. You want it camp. Can 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.680 I just bluntly ask you how you feel about this? 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:24.120 So you know maher misses from forty two on Thursday night, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.080 I mean, I mean we said on Friday like that 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.839 should probably be the last straw. Like he hasn't been 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.440 performing very well. They haven't done anything they have another 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.000 kicker work out today, and I mean it's only Monday. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.040 The players are off. There's not a lot going on 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.680 right now, so they could make a move. But I'm 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.880 just perplexed at this whole process. Yeah, it's obviously the 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:48.800 guys on the street. I mean, think about it. If 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.040 they cut Maher, there's three other teams that might have 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.560 to sign a kicker. And I guarantee you Maha is 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.080 going to be like at the top of the list 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.280 of like, oh, we gotta go. You know he's out there. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.160 It's just like it's just right there. Of like four, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.840 there's probably fifteen guys that are about them miss or 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.720 two away from getting cut, and it's just it's just 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.640 the cycle that rotates through like they're not any better. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.760 I mean, Nick Folks a great example. In two thousand 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.720 and nine, he made the Pro Bowl and No. Seven 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.320 as a rookie. By O nine, he was struggling, missed 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.680 a kick in New Orleans, cut gone. He's still kick 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.560 him today. I mean ten years later, Manor will still 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.280 have a career. He'll just be in that that mode. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.320 But it's just as of right now, it's like you 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.359 gotta get somebody different. Anybody, But yeah, my thing. It 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.880 just reminds me of like you know, you do you 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.040 online shop? Do you online shop? Yeah? I online shop exclusively. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.159 Like you've seen the pile of packages at my desk. Yeah, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.760 And like you know, like when you want something, you're 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.960 a little iffy about the price or like how much 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:49.560 you want it, and you just like let it sit 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.479 in your cart for like you'll just leave it there 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.760 for like days. You know, You're like, yeah, I really 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.159 want that, but I wish it was thirty nine ninety 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.320 nine instead of sixty bucks or whatever. And I'll I'll 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.960 just let it sit in my cart. I'll leave the 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.120 tab open on my browser for like three days at 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.760 a time, and it's like I either wanted or I don't, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.440 like either buy it or close it out. And you're 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.240 just you're just kidding yourself to let me sit there. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.160 Sign somebody one of these kickers bring it in. Just 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.159 keep ma hurt and cut somebody else. You're something on 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.480 the roster that you could cut. You're not the first 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.400 person that suggested that to me, which I mean, that's 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.560 not conventional NFL roster building, Yeah, because you only have 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.600 fifty three spots. But I mean I don't necessarily disagree 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.719 with you, Like they kept two quarter two backup quarterbacks 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.280 last year, you know, I mean different positions. You can 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.039 put one on the practice squad. You could like four 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.039 Bath wouldn't be eligible yet one of those other guys 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.919 maybe on the practice but I know because like I 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.159 need this guy for a game, don't I Like? What if? 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.200 And that's that's my point. That was my analogy, is 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.520 like you're either done with Maher or you're not, and 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.520 like you could get like just make the decision that 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.039 you're switching, or there's three weeks left and you don't 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.680 feel confident that these guys are better, Like it just 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.880 seems so wishy washy to me, Like Maher Sira all 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.840 through the weekend and then on Monday it's like, well, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.680 let's take another look at these guys that we didn't 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.279 like last week. Let me ask you about your analogy. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:23.960 Is it mostly clothes? Shoes? Clothes because stuff for my apartment? 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.400 I don't know. Usually when it comes to that, it's 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.600 like it looks good, but how's it gonna feel and 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.800 how's it gonna fit? And now that's the issue you have. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.360 That's the point. That's what you're talking about. I thought 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.240 you were talking about that analogy for the kicker you're 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.279 gonna bring in you're kind of talking about it's just 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.320 either way, like decide that this is something you want 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.280 or don't and on, Like, I'm not gonna kill you 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.799 either way because I'm not convinced that these guys are yeah, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.600 astoundingly better. I like bringing the guy in for the week, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.320 Let them kick because you know what's going to happen. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.200 You know, Maha will never miss at all in practice, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.320 like like with this other guy sitting here taking some 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.600 of the kicks, like Mars is gonna drill like sixty 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.200 eight yarders. But even still, like I don't like, what 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.000 does that decision process look like? Like let's say they 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.400 sign Kai for Bath today and we don't know that 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.760 they will just hype hypothetical and you let them practice 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.320 all week and then you cut one of them on Friday? 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.120 Or do you make one of them inactive and yeah, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:20.600 carry them both of the game. I mean, what do 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.040 you say, not not the roster? If you're gonna do 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.480 Kai for Bath, then I would love to see the 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.280 Cowboys handle this like a college team and like, you know, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.000 have them both on the roster and Maher can take 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.360 the six, the fifty five and up and four Bath 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.480 can take the you know, forty five and in. I mean, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.760 like I said, it's not it doesn't follow conventional wisdom. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.200 But I'm sitting here, I'm thinking, like, Okay, I don't 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.680 want to single anybody out, but like we know that 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.760 there are guys on this team that do nothing on 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.120 game day and having most of the season. I mean, 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.600 you have your inactives that are inactive week after week, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.280 and I know you feel good about like Joe Jackson. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.920 I like, obviously you feel good about him. He played 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.000 well in training camp. You think he can develop. But 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.560 like you know, you're trying to reverse course and you know, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.000 get some positive s team going for the playoffs. I mean, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.680 be more useful than a guy that you just know 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.120 is going to be a healthy scratch. It's gonna matter, no, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.840 I mean, because you know. I mean, it's just because 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.440 you know the Rams. You knew the Rams were gonna 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.240 turn this thing around by the time they played you. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.080 It's like they're gonna be a good, good team, Like like, yeah, 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.120 they've had some struggles, they got to be bad at home. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.400 They got it figured out. They're playing well, they're a 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.520 win out of a wildcard spot right now. I mean, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.079 Minnesota's doing their thing. They'd have to. They got to 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.040 catch Minnesota. But if Minnesota were to lose and they 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.560 were to win, then all of a sudden, they're the 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.000 sixth seat in the playoffs. I mean, did you see 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.040 how they were how they were rushing the pastor last 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.680 night like Russell Wilson it was like one, two, three, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.000 get rid of the ball like it was. They were 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.480 collapsing him. And I know that this offensive line has 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.760 played well at times, but um, you know, as one 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.880 of the starters just walked by. But uh no, it 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.480 doesn't matter. They're gonna have theirn you know, absolutely, because 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.679 the last time they played the Rams, he got fifty 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.080 yards rushing, and I mean it was a problem. And 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.560 so Aaron Donald still seems like he's the best in 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.840 the league. We were joking on Cover four this morning, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.600 like I was just getting buried in tweets from people 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.760 last night that were like, well, this is gonna be 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.760 a demolition like this is and I don't know, it 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.480 never plays out that way like in the NFL. Maybe 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.800 in college, but like in the NFL, it's never like, well, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.360 the Rams look really good and the Cowboys look really bad, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.480 so it's gonna be forty five ten Like that hardly 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.880 ever comes to pass, but it does look like it's 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.640 going to be a heck of a challenge. Did you 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.360 ever say the words strange lady yesterday? I did? I didn't. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:45.560 Didn't tell you the game that which one was definitely Well, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.679 you can say the Saints and the forty nine ers 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.839 with these two great defense defenses. Yeah, but to me, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.920 the strange Lady one was was Denver and oh god, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.120 Houston had just beaten the Patriots at home, and next 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.760 thing I know, it's thirty eight three Denver at Houston. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:07.439 I'm like, with a rookie quarterback starting, strange Lady's Pittsburgh 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.360 is like the Pittsburgh is eight and five with there 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.320 with a guy named Duck who's like their fourth option 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:18.600 at quarterback. It's yeah, you're not wrong, which please don't 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.680 roll your eyes too hard at me, but like that's why, like, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.280 you can't rule out the possibility that the Cowboys will 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.440 play really well in this game. I know it doesn't 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.680 seem likely based on what we've seen in the last 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.160 three weeks, but it is a strange lady. All right, Well, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.559 we talked about the kicker in that position. It's still 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.040 to be determined. We'll see what happened, what kind of 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.520 decisions the Cowboys decide to make in the way. Yeah, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.840 I mean, if they make a move, they'll have to 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.560 announce something. But like Jason Garrett's not talking to the 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.720 media today and everybody's off tomorrow, so we won't have 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.560 a chance to pick his brain about that until Wednesday morning. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.559 But if I mean, if they were to make a 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.720 roster move, we would hear about it for sure. And 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.560 needless to say, that's not like it's going to fix 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.240 all the Cowboys problem. I mean, yes, it's going to 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.400 fix something. 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Aside from 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.320 that's just like the dominant storyline of the month, right, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.000 But there's also another storyline that's coming out, and it's 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.840 is this Cowboys roster as talented as we have been 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.680 talking about scenes at the beginning of training camp, I 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.560 wanted to get your thoughts on this whole conversation and 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.680 what you really think of whether or not this Cowboys 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.400 team is talented. Okay, I think mean I think. Sorry, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.040 I don't mean to cut you off. Well, I just 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.600 you guys know my stance on this because I've been 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.800 saying it. I mean, you say it's a current debate. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.880 I mean I've been trying to debate it for a while. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.840 After the Jets game, you have been mentioning the Jets 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.200 are one game behind the Cowboys. Who are they really 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.120 five and nine? They're five and eight? Oh my god? 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.120 So it all it all makes sense now when you 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.120 put it into perspective. I think you framed it in 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.440 a really interesting way, like are they as talented as 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.240 we said they are at training camp? And the answer 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.720 is no, Because at training camp it was this is 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.680 the most talented team since the nineties, and YadA, YadA, YadA, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.680 And it was predicated on a lot of stuff happening, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.720 right Like MALIEK. Collins, he's gonna be this, He's gonna 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.520 be this badass pass rushing defensive tackle and he's been 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.840 good for whatever that's worth. Not as crazy as we 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.960 thought he'd be. Xavier Woods was a guy we thought 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.920 would make this crazy jump into being a you know, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.960 maybe not elite, but a really solid starter hasn't happened, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:21.000 Cheeto Woozier hasn't happened. Travis Frederick, he's gonna get back 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.760 to playing at that freakish all pro level hasn't happened. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.640 So let's don't leave out the two linebackers because we thought, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:33.400 of course, and I left them out on purpose just because. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.800 But my point, I still think those are talented guys. Yeah, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.600 and that's that's kind of I got into this argument 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.240 with Clarence Hill on Twitter last night, is like, don't 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.760 tell me they're not a talented team. They have talent. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.000 I mean, I can go down the line like they're 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.720 dealing with injuries and that's not an excuse. Like the 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.360 offensive line is talented. We know they are. The linebackers 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.800 are talented. They sure as hell haven't been playing like it. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.400 But you can't tell me they're not talented. Byron Jones, 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.920 All Pro last year and in my opinion, playing pretty well. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.640 He doesn't get picks, but we knew that about him. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.720 He's doing his job. He's played at an all Pro 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.240 level before. Amari Cooper speaks for himself. Michael Gallup is 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.520 one of the lone guys that did take the jump 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.760 we thought he would. Ezekiel Elliott not living up to 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.440 his contract. Would you say he's a talented player. Oh yeah, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.880 that's that's my that's my thing is So it's more 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.680 meeting that expectation. I just they're not they're not good. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.800 That doesn't mean they're not talented. Am I crazy for 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.160 thinking that I made this? You know, I'm not trying 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.360 to take shots at Derek's team just because he's not here. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.680 The Texas Longhorns are talented. They recruit at the top 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.280 of the sport year after year after year. That doesn't 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.520 mean they're good. You got to play up to that 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.240 level of expectation you. I mean, coaching is part of it, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.960 scheme is part of it, personal accountability, players rising to 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.080 the level of their own talent. I don't think not 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.280 being good means you're not talented. I guess that's where 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.520 I come down on and where I've always said is that, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:01.960 you know, you can't sit here all day long and 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.520 talk about the entire team, But I just don't think 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.720 that the team is talented all the way through. Yes, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.439 they had their top heavy and that's that's always been 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.239 the case. When you have Jerry Jonesy likes the big 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.639 splash guys and and he'll go and get some of 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.480 these guys and pay him at a high level, which 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.720 ultimately we kind of view that, as you know they're 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.040 making a lot of money, then they're obviously worth it. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.560 But it's not always the case. But I think the 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.920 big issue is just down in the in the backup 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.919 area when you have to go next man up is 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.480 a huge drop off and I just don't which is 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.320 unfortunate because even at back at the beginning of the season, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.760 we were talking how much depth there was all around 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.600 this whole roster. We thought so for sure? Is that 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.199 I honestly, I tend to place that on coaching, Like 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.919 I don't believe the way the NFL is structured, you know, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.640 I agree with if you're if you're the if you're 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.400 the twenty thirteen Seattle Seahawks, and you've got a Pro 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.640 Bowl calib or quarterback playing for six hundred thousand, and 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.520 you've got four future Hall of Fame defenders playing on 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.399 rookie contracts, then you might be deeper than the average 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.119 NFL team. But most teams are very similar in the 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.880 sense that you got your big money guys. You got 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:19.160 some solid to replacement level starters and some decent depth, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.520 and if you lose that, you're probably screwed. Like I 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.760 don't think the San Francisco forty nine ers just lucked 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.520 into having fantastic backup tackles like they played without their 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.679 starting offensive tackles for like six weeks. Am I to 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.760 believe that those guys are just magically that much better? 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.760 Or are the forty nine ers really well coached and 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.040 they schemed around it? Same with the Eagles in the 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.560 Super Bowl run. I agree, it's a combination of both. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.320 This team is not as talented as we thought. It's 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.680 actually three things. They're not as talented as we thought 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.440 all the way across the board. Their depth really isn't 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.320 that great and it's noticeable, and the coaching staff has 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.200 not been able to bring that out when they've really 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.240 needed it. So it's a it's all three. I think 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:03.080 you're basically are any of the big, big money guys 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.520 on this team just really and truly living up to 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.000 their deal? Not one guy, I would argue Lyle. I 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.560 think Flyle's fine, and honestly, I know he disappears on 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.200 the road. I know he put up a donut in 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.920 New England. I'm Amari Cooper is playing worth thirteen million 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.920 dollars right now. In my opinion, Dak is playing worth 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.000 the two million he's making. Dak is playing worth the 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.480 salary's on right now, maybe not the salary that he's 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.960 gonna get now. And that one's tricky too with Dak 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.440 because you know, everybody loves him and everyone loves how 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.040 he you know, he plays, and how him as a leader. 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.639 And I've had some people tell me that, you know, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.560 he don't doesn't really seem like he's a really good 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.720 vocal leader. And I'm like, I don't think you're you're 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.760 actually getting I see. I've never heard that criticism, but 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.359 I think it's crazy. It's crazy. But the thing is 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.040 is that he can't have it both ways. For people 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.640 that say, you know, Dad's having a good year, there's 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.960 only one reason they would say that stats, right, I mean, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.239 he's putting up numbers and stats, leading the league all 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.760 that kind of stuff, But he had his team is 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.400 six and seven, so that matters. And so if you're 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.680 going to go off stats, we saw one example, not 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.199 every game, but one example Thursday night that stats can 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.560 lie He didn't have a great game, lied on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving? 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.040 So I sit here and go, do I think he's 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.200 the future quarterback of the team without a doubt? Do 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.720 I think he's playing really well? No, there's there's a 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.040 fun parallel there because like for Hi Derek, for three years, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.720 Dak's stats were like the middle of the road, like 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.880 two hundred and thirty yards. His career high for touchdowns 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.320 is twenty three. You're like, we're paying this guy thirty 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.280 five million, But he won and then just win. He 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.680 like he's leads the league and comebacks and fourth quarter 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.600 winning drives, all that stupid stuff. It's not stupid, you 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.600 know what I mean? All those stats. He's not doing 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.560 that this year. Like he's got the stats that make 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.159 him look like a forty million dollars quarterback. Has he 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.639