WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Buc the Trend? 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.880 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:15.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Are you ready 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.640 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:23.800 Absolutely ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.160 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.280 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us and bar Garcia and 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:45.879 Derek Eagleton. Good morning, Welcome back to another episode of 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.120 Cowboys Break. I remember Garcia, I have Nick, and I 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.479 was gonna say Derek. Brian brought us completely different person. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.920 Derek won't be joining us today, but we we got 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.600 us three to get the show going. And before we 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.000 getting to think Oh, by the way, presented by meler 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.880 Lie the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and we 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.520 before we get the show started. Word on the street 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.640 is that someone is a year older today, and that's 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:24.600 someone our producer. Yeah, Chris Ban, Chris Beam, I feel Chris, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.479 I feel old. Are you are you keeping score of 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.800 like how many people on this show? Like different shows? 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.840 Because you're gonna do what nine of these today? Eight 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.200 eight eight? Like I mean, I'm sure talking cowboys And 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.760 did they bring it up. Yes, at the end of 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:47.480 the show they did oh, somebody came in late. Oh, well, well, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.800 you know, the earliest I got was brought us this 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.720 morning about midnight. That's kind of weird. Saw it on 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.600 Facebook watching tape. I was watching tape and it Yeah, 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.320 it just popped up on my birthdays. One of the 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.000 great things about Facebook is having people's birthdays if you 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.880 follow him. So yeah, it's kind of cool. So yeah, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.800 I said happy birthday, and I didn't know Beam was. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.760 He was probably up watching something too. He's probably up 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:15.839 playing games. Yeah, I just got finished playing game. Well, 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.040 happy birthday, Chris. And speaking of playing games, the Cowboys 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.919 do have to play a game, first game of the 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.799 postseason wild Card weekend. We obviously know who the opponent 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.120 is and we'll get into the Tampa's defense, which is 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.760 Cowboys offense later in the second segment. But I wanted 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:41.000 to start the show asking you guys about practice. We 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:46.040 know that Mike McCarthy since the month month of December, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:51.000 he's talked about the difference in how he handles practice. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.120 After the game in Washington, he did mention in the 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.200 in the press conference, he was like, well, I take 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.520 all the blame. It's on me. I think we need 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.200 to practice this better and prepare better during the week. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.560 So yeah, me thinking, we know how he's changed to 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.480 where now sometimes they're not going full paths during practice 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.200 or going through walkthroughs, or spending more time in the 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.280 film room and in the rooms with each group of 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.880 people just planning. Yeah and all that. Do you feel 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.959 that the way that they've kind of changed the way 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.440 in the practice in the month of December has actually 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:36.240 hurt them in games? You know what? I think, to me, 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.160 this is how I look at that. McCarthy likes to 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.440 try and keep his teams as fresh as he can. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.839 That's important to him. At the end of the year. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.760 I think that the only team and I might be 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.480 wrong about this because again I cover this team, but 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.360 this team went through three game stretch in twelve days twice, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:02.560 didn't they with Thursday games, Thanksgiving games, you know, games 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.240 on a Saturday game, a Sunday game. I think his 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.680 schedule got really messed up for him late in the year, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.280 and I think that was something that he was trying 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.680 his best to navigate. I'm one of those teams. I'm 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.920 one of those guys though that and I understand this 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.360 on when you're watching a game and the first thing 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.120 comes to your mind is did they even practice this week? 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.000 By the way, you know, some of the mistakes and things, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.080 and you're like, what, they're not working on this stuff? 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.840 You know, I've had I've had guys around the league, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.159 you know, you know, tweet at me or text me 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.480 and say that this team even practice, you know, and 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:45.080 so yeah, they do. The problem is he's trying to 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.800 manage the way the games have been falling for him. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.119 And I don't think it's a normal week to week 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.320 to week that That's the one thing that these coaches 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.760 and players, they get so used to routine, and when 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:03.279 routine gets kind of messed up, it throws them off. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.479 And I'm not using as an excuse, but I just 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.039 think they were a team that late in the year 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.360 they dealt with some some scheduling challenges. I think we're 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.479 the biggest thing. Yeah, And I we talked about it 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.279 every year about you know, once you get to Thanksgiving, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.240 the last month of the season, month and a half 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.440 is just completely different with you know, even our schedule 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.000 here like for this podcast, like we're all like we're 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.000 like we're doing it right now, We're moving it around 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.200 because you know, McCarthy's press conference has moved around a 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.800 little bit, and we understand how this week is different, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.039 but it's all it's a lot of those. It's a 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.360 couple of Thursday games, you got Monday games, you got 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.240 Saturday games, you got Sunday night games. I mean, everything 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.760 kind of changes. And I think that McCarthy will sacrifice 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:49.200 practice so to make sure that his team is healthy 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.520 and off their feet as much. And with everything, it comes, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.479 you know, with a price, and the price is is 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.560 not practicing as much. And then I think sometimes it 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.480 shows if you had to choose, like a percentage, how 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.719 much is the difference. I'm like, how your week is 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:11.279 reflected and how you play during a game. But yeah, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.680 he says it all the time, like the games are 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.880 one on Wednesday Thursday. You know it's not one. I 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.839 think I'm not missing, but yeah, depending like you know, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.320 those practices on Wednesday Thursday. I'm trying to get used to. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.279 For ten years, we all dealt with a Jason Garrett schedule. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.920 You know, it was very regimented. You knew exactly with McCarthy, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.560 you don't know, And like I say, I think there's 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:37.839 you talk to people in the organization they say he 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.200 the best thing he does is trying to keep the team. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.560 Not not the best thing, but one of the positive 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.640 things about him is trying to keep the team healthy. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.840 That's coming from the medical people. I mean, I mean 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.600 you talk to them like it Oxnard and stuff like, man, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.320 your team, what do you what you really like about 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.599 Mike does a great job. He thinks about the players, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.080 he thinks about their health. He thinks about how we're 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.039 going to go forward here. So yeah, I think that 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.040 these practices is like when you when you start to 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.360 install and put in stuff on, you know, on Wednesday Thursday, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.159 you know how you practice Fridays kind of like okay, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.960 we're gonna do some goal line stuff, finishing touch stuff. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.400 You know that you really have to focus on those 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.640 Wednesdays and Thursdays. The things that these games come down to, 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.160 you know, third down defense, you know, you know the 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.640 third down offense. You know, those are the things that 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.280 are now, you know, winning these football games. It's ability 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.559 to stand the field, ability to get off the field 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.840 if you if you have bad days on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:36.520 that affects I remember watching practice as a scout, and 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.960 and and we can do it too, because we've done 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.200 it before training camp. So I'm not excluding you guys 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.240 from this. But how many times have you ever seen 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.400 coaches say repeat the play please now when you're repeating 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.800 plays on a Wednesday or on a Thursday. And I 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.240 remember it during the the Mike Nolan administration when we 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.200 were here watching practice some there was a lot of 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.840 the there were a lot of busts, Rob Ryan, there 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.160 were busts during practice and you're like, coach, guys, that again, please, coach, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.920 can I see that again? But if that's happening during practice, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.280 it's likely to happen in the game. You know you're 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.480 gonna make a call. I'man sure there was a I'm 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.400 sure that Kellen Moore has made calls that. You know 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.480 some of the interceptions like the screen the past that 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.720 got in the Philadelphia game that got intercepted, you know 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.160 every time the one to dacked through that when uh, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.640 you know Sweat went up and got the and got 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.920 the ball that in practice, I'm sure they ran in 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.880 a couple of times and it just kind of clicked 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.720 along good and Tack McKinley didn't try and intercept the 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.079 ball like you know, it didn't like extend and make 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.280 a great catch. So now you're like, wait a minute, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.840 we practiced this play all week with a defensive ends 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.319 not going to make a brilliant play on me like that. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.240 So that's that's the issues we're running into practice. You 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.880 can tell when a team is struggling getting I remember 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.080 as a scout watching practice and going, we got no 0:08:55.160 --> 0:09:00.160 chance this week, just because I saw how many mistakes 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.360 and coach, can I see that again play? You know, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.960 some could like Garrett would just power through it. You 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.079 know you make it mistake, but other coaches will you know, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.240 I need to see that coach. My players don't understand 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.920 what's going on here. And you know, the later it 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.120 gets in the week, the more likely you are to 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.280 have a mistake on a Sunday or a Monday, for sure. Well, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.679 yesterday they did practice, and when we spoke, we've been 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:31.559 waiting to see Layton Hankins and then be odd ish, Yeah, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.320 is there any progress there on the field happening with 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.360 those three guys. Well, McCarthy Usually we do this after 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.080 McCarthy and we had to flip. So McCarthy will still 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.439 talk later today. And because of the way the schedule is, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.880 they didn't have to do an official injury report, so 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.640 we won't get one of those until later Today will 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.040 be the first one of the week, like a Wednesday, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.360 since it is Thursday. So well, I don't really have 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.920 the answers for you there officially, but I do think 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.760 that Hankins and I guess be honest, is ready to go. Yeah, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.640 they're thinking so I will definitely and Hankinson Layton for sure, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.240 I think are gonna be. Yeah. I think Nick is 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.439 absolutely right about that when you look at the injury 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.600 to be oddish by the time they get him ready 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.840 or he's starting to get it. I was told like, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.720 it's eighteen days that he's had now since the injury, 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:26.160 the time off another week, another day. I mean, trainers 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.400 look at this, and I've learned this over the years, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.720 been dealing with a lot of them. They don't look 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.400 at days. They look at hours. Okay, now hours make 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.920 up days, but every hour that they can steal to 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.240 get a player ready, that's what they look at. It's like, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.520 you know, if you ask him right now and say, hey, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.120 Jim Mauer playing on Monday, good for you? Goes you know, yeah, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.480 for injury, sure, because it's more hours that they have to. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.120 I'm not ready right nowt at eight, but I'll be 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.080 ready on nine. Yeah, right out about nine, I'll be set. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.800 But the more hours, yeah, the more hours, because that's 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.760 the you know, that's the Britt Brown on the chords 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.720 out here, you know, that's the that's the opportunity to see. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.520 Like when you watch Beyotish, I'm sure when he's on 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.719 the cord, what BRIT's trying to work with him on 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.920 is the lateral stuff. You know, he's also has to 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.040 work with him on. You know, the one thing with 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.120 a high ankle sprain that they'll tell you with offensive 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.520 lineman is when and especially when when we're talking about 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.720 a guy like Vita Vea and everybody out there that 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.040 watches our podcast know when you talk Tampa Bay, they 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.240 think of this this mammoth Winnebago in the middle of 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.520 the defense that doesn't move. You know that he just 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.280 you know, you fight him all day and that's and 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.360 that's and that's the problem that you run into a 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.079 Keen Knicks is another one of those guys. You run 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.160 into those big bodies. And so if you're if you're 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.640 if you're just trying to sit down and just take 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.600 these guys on. The pressure you put on that ankle 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.960 is tremendous. So BRIT's trying his best. I'm sure to 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.840 get Beyotish's ability to handle the pain of sitting on it. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.360 And then also though, they're gonna have to run the 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.240 football and that means lateral and that means him pushing 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.240 off and then getting up on these linebackers and things 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.960 like that. But that, you know, eighteen days since, so 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.760 that that's that's they're looking at as a positive right now. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.520 Think about it, if you hurt your ankle on us 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.679 on a Sunday morning at ten am and you're like, hey, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.280 I gotta go just you know, I gotta go play 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.480 here in a couple of hours, or I gotta wait 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.240 till you know, Monday night, and completely different. And so 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:31.120 like you said, Thursday, Thursday game against the Titans, that's 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.120 two weeks today, Yeah, four more days and till till 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.200 Monday nights. Yeah, I mean everyone's kind of complaining. I 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.600 think it's ridiculous that the league does a Monday night 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.080 game for for pres for a playoff game. But I'm 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.679 sure in this particular case in the in the Bucks 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.480 are probably the same way. They probably got some guys 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.760 that they they you know, a few extra hours are helping. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.360 I was thinking about that. I'm like, because it is 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.520 unfair having a Monday night game when you're talking about 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.000 the playoffs. But when you look at guys you're really 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.160 really needing to come back, that even that one extra 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.400 day can do a lot. You'll hear it more next 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.120 week when whoever it is Tampa or Dallas when they 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.480 go play if they go play cross country to San Francisco, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.840 who had a who played on Saturday and has two 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.280 extra days for you and you really didn't do anything 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.880 starting doing anything until Tuesday morning. See, that's when it'll 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.280 it'll be. That's what the complaints. Yeah, the league, the 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.839 league will tell you that, you know, just go play. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.040 But the Rams won a Super Bowl. Go on this 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.480 route last year, same thing. Yeah, they did the same 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.800 thing playing on a Monday night against Arizona and then 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.840 went and did I think I have that right? And 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.800 they'll also say, well, wait a minute, Tennessee got a 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.439 ton arrest, Jacksonville played on a short week that Jacksonville 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.040 played on a Sunday, then played on the Saturday night 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.000 and won that game. So the league really doesn't have 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.600 any care about what you think. I mean, you could, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.080 you could complain about it. But the thing about it 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.920 is the extra day. If you're a Cowboy fan, on 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.719 the front end, it helps you for this game. On 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.439 the back end, you know, probably means you're gonna play 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.439 late on Sunday. If if you had to really either 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.319 that or you know, they wouldn't make you play Saturday night. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.760 I don't think or anything like that. Yeah, you're probably 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.439 gonna play late Sunday afternoon. I would be my guest 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.280 if you if you win this game, they'll get to 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.600 probably put you late Sundays. What my guests would be 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:25.880 and if not fishing, Yeah, fishing, basketball and average games. Yeah, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.800 exactly when I saw Yeah, I saw the Pelicans play 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.480 the other day. You went to the maps. I go 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.360 to the maps. I like the maps. I like the 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.920 maps games. They're fun. They got in who's their second 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:41.240 best player? Uh? Depends some nights on the night. Yeah, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.920 Spencer did what He's probably their second best player right now. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.440 Mavericks talk care on playoff week. Yeah, okay, we're not 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.960 We're not there though yet. I'm not. I still I 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.600 still think, I mean, I think this is It's gonna 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.840 be a great, really great game. I really think it's 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.800 I think so. I think the Cowboys are gonna play 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.800 a really great game, but I think Tampa will too. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.640 I'm I think this is gonna be a good football game. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.520 I believe that. I think that Brady, as great as 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.520 he is, I do think he'll bring out the best 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.080 in his players. They haven't had a great season. That 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.280 they're challenged obviously, but I think that they're going to 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.440 bring it. I don't think they're as talented as the Cowboys, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.120 but I think that they'll play a great game. And 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:17.520 that's why I think it'll be a fun one. The 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.320 one thing is why you have this quarterback is you're 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.840 right that Dallas is a better team. Yeah, the quarterback 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.320 is what makes you know. You look across the field 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.720 and he comes running out and he does his Tom 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.600 Brady yelled to the crowd and now and then you realize, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.240 oh damn, we're about to play this guy. You know 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.840 that's sometimes psychologically when you see that, you just it 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.040 freaks you out. And hopefully Dallas has done enough. They 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.680 played him now the last couple of times opened the 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.800 season with him both times, so it's you know you've opened, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.360 you've played there, and you've played you know, you played 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.160 on a nighttime game too. You know when you went there, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.280 you were a Thursday night game, and so after a 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.400 super Bowl and so that height of that opened in 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.800 the season. There maybe not a lot of guys on 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.320 this team that were there, but some do remember that, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.920 and so you have to be at least it's not 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.120 like you're playing Tom Brady for the first time in 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.840 like five years. You're playing you've seen him the last 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.040 couple of years, and so you kind of know what 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.800 you're up against. You guys know, I know we have 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.240 to go and break but real quick, you guys know, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:27.360 I like to be like receptive of whatever vibe is 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.000 happening in the environment and just like feeling that energy. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.920 And it's weird this week because I don't know how 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.120 to interpret or how to feel about how he feels 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.080 in the building, because it doesn't feel like a playoff week, 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.920 Like it doesn't feel like we're about to go play 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.360 Tampa Tom Brady in the first week of the playoffs. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.760 And that's not to say that people are just walking 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.000 around not carried or just tuned out, completely checked out 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.400 from the season. No it's it's just I guess because 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.960 of how things turned out and how the year ended, well, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:09.439 the season with Washington, it just changed the whole mood 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.640 and roment. I think twenty six or twenty seven years 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.800 will do that to you. And I think there's I 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.520 think there's there's that, there's that unknown now, there's that 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.040 nobody wants to get their heartbroken again. Nobody wants to 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.160 commit and maybe not in the building. I know from 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.040 working on one Hi five three the fan and we 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.760 all hear on Dallas Cowboys dot com deal, you know, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.399 around the world one five three, you know we have 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.159 the reach and stuff too. But you get the feeling 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.280 that that fans are just they're they're they're kind of 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.880 expecting the worst, and it's like, you know, prude to us. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.800 Go out and win a game, go out and beat 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.359 Tom Brady, you know, go to San Francisco and win it. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.280 You know, That's why I think fans are. They want 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.160 to they want to believe, but they also don't want 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.960 to get their their hopes up and then get crushed. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.960 And then it becomes and then the postgame show becomes 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.719 told you told you this team twelve wins being the 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.040 playoffs one and done. You know, I think people are 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:11.359 just really suppressing their real feelings because they feel like 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.959 that they're probably gonna get disappointed, and you know, the 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.240 team's job and Mike McCarthy, Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones trying 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.440 to go out and win these playoff games and get 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.600 the fan base once again believing that, you know what, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.920 it's not a one and done team and this team 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.760 can do some stuff in the playoffs. And that's unfair, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.160 I mean, I think, I mean, it's unfair to the players, 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.399 but but that's the reality. That's way they get paired 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.800 compared to some twenty years ago. Yeah, I mean they 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.720 you're right, I mean, they didn't do this. I mean 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.280 they they haven't lost twenty five or twenty seven years 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.440 since the Super Bowl. Uh, most of them aren't even 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.760 that old. But but that's the way that it is. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.560 And there is a lot of turnover in this league. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.639 Like you said a couple of years ago against Stampa, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.520 I mean, there's probably thirty percent of the roster that 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.240 wasn't even at that game. But but that's that's the 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.160 way it is. That's that's what what the Cowboys have created. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.080 You wear the same uniforms, you wear the same helmet, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.119 wear the same star. It is that, it is the 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.880 whole tradition. It's the history of the team. And these 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.800 fans that have been, you know, through everything, they're they're 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.200 frustrated and if they don't win, they don't go to 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.080 the super Bowl. We're gonna have the numbers. Is gonna 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.600 be twenty seven, twenty seven years in a row since 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.560 that's happened, and that's that's unfair to the players, but 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.080 it is. That's the reality. That's it, and so you 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.280 know that's but if they go and win, you know, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.400 no one will care about that, and it'll I think, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.120 I think you'll you'll feel that excitement that we think 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.119 that we're missing. I bet, I bet it'll come too. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.440 It's not just the way the game ended. It's also 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.000 you know what day is it. It's like, wells Thursday, 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.560 but it's not. It's Wednesday, and you know that kind 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.800 of messes with you a little bit too routine. And 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.320 now we're leaving on Sunday and all that. Once you 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.360 start getting there, I think when the players will get 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.600 there and then the Monday comes and then people here 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.159 at the office, so they'll be they'll be ready to go. 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.800 We're we're still we're still a few days away. You 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:01.240 still mourning that game, but things will quickly change. Let's 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.399 go ahead and take this real quick. The sad thing 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.639 about it, though, is when it's over, you will feel 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.439 a thud. Yeah, we felt that in our lives, you 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.320 know you mean, and hopefully hopefully that you The thing 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.040 you want to avoid is the thud because it's like 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.000 you're going one hundred and eighty five miles an hour 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.199 and then you hit the wall and you stop, and 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.760 that's what being bounced is like. And I think people 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.080 just don't want to feel that. Yeah, you really don't 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.520 want to feel that, especially especially this early and this 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:32.560 early in the playoffs. Every you know, Minnesota messed everybody up. Yea, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.080 and in Minnesota and this Washington game, the Cowboys are 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.240 not as bad as what they showed in Washington. They're 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.400 not as good as what they showed in Minnesota. 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You know I'm talking about 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:39.199 little trademark are Oh yeah yeah registered, yeah yeah rowdy? 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.080 All right. Welcome back to the second segment off the Break, 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:47.560 presented by blockchain dot Com. The Commander Teddy's like, want 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:51.240 to know against us here, that's true? What we got 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:57.760 behind you? Brian Nate MP I want to hit Nate's 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:59.439 gonna want to hear this about because we're gonna talk 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.600 about the uh, the Tampa Bay defense. I'm interested to 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:04.400 see how he wants to block some of these guys 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:08.560 An open chair. You know, you go perfect, n Nature. 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:11.520 Nate has a really nice, expensive suit he just threw 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.080 on the ground like nothing. He has it in a 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.320 nice case and he just you know, basically now he's 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:18.600 got the wheel of the chair on top of it. 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.280 So hang on, Nate, say hello, everybod I'm gonna fix 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:26.080 your suit for you. Okay, hold on? How everyone doing? Uh? 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:28.680 I'm used to Derek Leader that I heard of what like? Whoa? 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:31.199 It's a different deal today, you know. Oh yeah, Derek's 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:33.600 on that. He's doing some interviews today. Yeah, you know 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:36.000 we had Woody last night and you didn't show up, Sir, 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:38.600 I didn't know. I don't I told you I was, 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.520 but I passed it off to Mickey. How did that go? Oh? Great? 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:45.119 Oh it was man did a great job. Kevin Gray. 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.280 How you doing, young lady? Doing great? Yes, Kevin Gray's 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:49.719 a good teammate in mind at one oh five three, 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:51.800 You guys did a good job there. Anytime you get 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:54.480 he did a great job. What are you doing some 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:57.200 stories now? He's you know, in your Hall of Fame finalists. 0:24:57.520 --> 0:24:59.199 You know you're kind of making some rounds a little bit. 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:01.200 You're gonna see him there a little bit more. That's 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:05.480 great though he deserves it well. Boil on the show, 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:12.240 we're about to start talking tampas defense offense. Yeah. First 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:15.560 of all, I would take my maybe five or six 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:18.480 of my best plays that has been very successful during 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:21.960 the year, you know, especially teams that we've had struggled against. 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:25.080 What were some of the runs that we had and uh, 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:27.879 and I would try to incorporate them. But what I 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.240 need to know first and foremost is who is my 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:34.159 starting lineup? You know, is Tyler be Adish Is he 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.000 gonna be back? And then Connor mcgovernor can go back home, 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:40.359 and uh, Tyler Smith can go back home. These guys 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:43.560 have struggled. Who has been your biggest concern on the 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:47.560 line after the kind of shuffling to happen after the injury, Uh, 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:54.480 after I wondered about the center because I'm a firm 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:58.040 believer that if you're strong in the middle and you're 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:00.520 strong on your left side, you can you can you 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:04.200 can help everything else. And that that was my big concern. 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:07.720 I was one of the guys that was fighting for 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:10.320 beardist and economical government at the beginning of the year. 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:13.600 I believe that you should you know, and they did it. 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:15.760 They eventually to say, hey, let's just leave these two 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:18.479 guys alone and quit trying to replace them and let 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:21.760 them get good. I think that average to good players 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:27.320 with time and good coaching can be solid NFL players. 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:29.760 I don't believe that you have to draft in the 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:33.600 first round top flight lineman, but when you do get one, 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:35.560 you don't mess around with him. And I was your 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:38.000 left tackle, you'd let them stay there. Yeah. I was 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:39.840 going to ask you the state, and we're blessed with 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:41.560 your presence here. I know I am, because I have 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:43.560 this question for you, and I meant to text it 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:46.040 to you or call you. What's going on on the 0:26:46.119 --> 0:26:51.520 right side with Martin and Smith is there? It seems 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:55.320 to be a little disconnect about the thing that Still 0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:58.040 was able to do. Is Martin had to feel for 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:01.320 how Still what's going to fit and how they were 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:04.879 going to the combo blocks and things like that. Is 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:07.600 that something that like, you got two Hall of Fame 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:11.800 guys playing on that side. Is it really that difficult 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:14.679 for those two to work together like that? We're considering 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:17.760 how much that Martin has worked with Still this year, 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:21.800 your your your right tackle has lost a lot. Yeah, 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:24.359 he's not the great athlete that he wants was. He 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:27.000 still has the determination. You can see how he's set 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:30.400 with the authority and everything. But it's once you set, 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:32.959 it's got you gotta fight after that, and and and 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:37.000 he wants to, but he doesn't. He doesn't have it. 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.720 He's still he's he's an average right tackle now and 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.199 a lot of the things he does he kind of 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:46.040 finishing like from like he's still on the left side, right, 0:27:46.520 --> 0:27:50.600 you know. So, uh, but that's that's what he's helping 0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:53.320 the team. Like I said, he's not a he's not 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:56.520 a shell of himself like I hear some people say, 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.199 but he's not what we used to see in and 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.240 it's gonna take some time. But we don't have time. Yeah, 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:06.560 you don't have time. Yeah, yeah, it's now. So what 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:10.480 coach fieldman has to do and coach the offensive coordina, 0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:13.119 they're gonna have to find out what's your five or 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:16.080 six best plays and just run a lot of different 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.880 formations making sure that you execute these five or six plays. 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:23.800 You don't need a pleasure of plays going against this defense. 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:27.640 You I would almost want them to stay base so 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:30.440 I can see what they're doing, because if they don't 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:32.920 stay base and they start blitzing all over the place. 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:36.680 I'm to about run blitzes, not pass bliss, I'm about 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.840 run blitzes. That's gonna be hard for our offensive line. 0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:42.480 If if be artist, you don't get back to be 0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:44.800 able to adjust to be artists you get back. I 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.480 feel a little bit more confident, you know, because now 0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:50.720 you're just dealing with Tyron, and Tyrone is savvy enough 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:54.000 to figure it out, and he can do just enough 0:28:54.040 --> 0:28:56.760 to get by. But if you got to everybody slide 0:28:56.800 --> 0:28:59.480 down one space, and you got Peterson out there, and 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:02.880 you got two weekends when your book is you can't 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:05.240 figure it out. Yeah, you know, Brian, we talked about 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:08.360 um having the extra night, you know, extra hours on 0:29:08.400 --> 0:29:11.520 Monday night for for Beotish to get back and play. 0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:15.200 But it's also important. We talked about it too, about Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Yeah, 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:18.120 the practice if they're not if he's not in there practicing, 0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:21.000 because then then it's all these other shuffling going on. Yeah, 0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:22.960 I think I think it'll be clear to see if 0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:26.080 they have like like a Dakota Shepley or somebody in 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:30.280 their backup center as the center for practice, then that 0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:33.040 that would let me think that Beodish would be back, 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:35.640 because if not, then you're shuffling all these other guys around. 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:37.600 So it'll be interesting to see kind of these next 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:39.600 couple days, even when we get to watch practice, how 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:41.960 they're lining up. Yeah, that's the thing about it. I 0:29:42.000 --> 0:29:45.160 think that to me, it's you know, it's it's difficult. 0:29:45.200 --> 0:29:47.240 You would hope that Beodish would be able to get 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:49.240 some reps, you know, you would hope that he would 0:29:49.280 --> 0:29:51.600 be able to get out there and have some opportunity. 0:29:52.000 --> 0:29:54.360 You know, they they need to, like Nate's talking, I 0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:57.360 think they need to incorporate him back as quickly. It 0:29:57.520 --> 0:29:59.800 just move every if they can move everybody back to 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:04.520 where they were and yels, Yeah, I really like what 0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:08.600 you're talking about. Okay, when when you look at Tampa 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:11.400 and you're dealing with guys like Vita Vea and a 0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:16.720 Keem Knicks okay, and these linebackers with David and then White, 0:30:17.120 --> 0:30:21.160 the two linebackers, Hey, it's getting scared. Yeah. I mean 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:25.280 that's where the problem I have, Nate, is that I 0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:27.840 want to try and run the football. I want to 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:30.400 I want to do that, but now I have to 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:33.280 deal with those two big inside techniques and then I 0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:36.400 have to get somebody up on the linebacker? Where where? 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:39.560 Where would you play this? Is it secure the down guys? 0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:42.080 Because that's why I was watching San Francisco do when 0:30:42.080 --> 0:30:44.480 they ran the ball with McCaffrey earlier in this well 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.040 the middle of the year, and they were hitting it quick, 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:50.160 but they were doubling. They were doubling the down guys. 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:53.160 And then and then McCaffrey was good enough to make 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:56.880 the linebackers miss. Is that more of a Tony powered 0:30:56.960 --> 0:31:00.640 thing than it was? Or is it because shot? Don't 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:04.200 be shy. That is what I'm trying to tell people 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:09.840 is if you're about winning, it's about personnel. Take some 0:31:09.960 --> 0:31:12.600 of them plays that San Francisco didn't let Tony make 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:17.000 people miss. Yeah, don't worry about Zeke. It'll be He'll 0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:20.400 have his plays. He'll have his plays. But this is 0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:22.480 about winning. And I'm gonna get off there because I 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.000 gotta go. Let me. Let me say this. I heard 0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:29.000 a young lady, miss miss Haley, asks a good question. 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:34.120 Are we're gonna try to get ga Michael Gallup more involved? 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:39.400 This is not the regular season. I need for CD LAMB, 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:44.280 for Dalton shows and for this this t Y guy. 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.720 I need for them to have ninety percent of the passes, 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:51.160 and with Tony coming out of the backfield, I need 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:53.560 for those guys to have ninety percent of them. If 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:55.640 Gallup is a part of it, so be it. If 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:58.000 eighty five is a part of it, so be it. 0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:01.719 But these are not the guys. Goal with what you know, 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:05.720 goal with the guys that are proven. And that's why 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:08.080 I won't be iddish back. That's why I want things 0:32:08.160 --> 0:32:12.960 back to normal. Now, Tony, we've nursed you and Zeke, 0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:16.920 but I need Tony to get seventy five percent of 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:20.920 the offensive snaps from the running back position because he 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:25.680 could make people miss. Yeah. I have a great a Nate, 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:28.719 thank you, Thank you. I will I will say this 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:31.080 though as name walking off, but I will say that 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:34.040 that they they're gonna have to do some improvement improvement 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:36.080 there in the ring game, because I know you watched 0:32:36.560 --> 0:32:39.800 the first game. Yeah yeah, and it was in Zeke 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:42.920 average five yards to carry there and it was Poler 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:46.800 that kind of struggled. Are they Has it changed that much? 0:32:47.000 --> 0:32:49.600 I think to me, I think that Nate's absolutely right 0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:52.160 about this. Though. You find your five or six players 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.000 that you can hang your hat on and and and 0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:57.560 work from there and then try to The thing I 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.160 noticed about Zeke running the ball the ball was is 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:02.720 a lot quicker, you know. I mean Zeke has not. 0:33:03.360 --> 0:33:05.720 When Zeke was a little banged up, it wasn't as quick. 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:08.040 But now I kind of feel like, though, you're gonna 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:10.800 have to You're gonna have to find a way. And 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:14.200 and I think it's about the timely runs. I know 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:17.880 everybody loses their mind on the first down run because 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:20.840 then it turns into second and nine or second and ten, 0:33:21.000 --> 0:33:24.360 you know, and everybody's I've said this before. I think 0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:26.680 it's when you It's when you run when you're supposed 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:29.040 to pass, and pass when you're supposed to run. And 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:30.960 I think Dallas has got to find that. When you 0:33:31.000 --> 0:33:34.040 play the Bucks, I think it's a struggle to have 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:37.440 to kind of control their inside guys. I just think 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:40.880 it is. I think it's Vita Vea and Hicks. This 0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:43.560 teams like six and one when those two play together, 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:46.600 when they don't you get you get my drift. They 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:49.480 don't win games, So you got to find ways. But 0:33:49.960 --> 0:33:52.720 I think I think there has to be some quickness 0:33:52.840 --> 0:33:57.160 to this game, and to me, that's where I think Pollard. Now, 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:01.480 Pollard has struggled against teams with big friend unts. Some 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:03.800 of his worst games running the ball against the Commanders. 0:34:03.800 --> 0:34:06.120 The Cowboys didn't run the ball at all against the Commanders. 0:34:06.440 --> 0:34:10.320 But if you look at Pollard bow times, terrible games 0:34:10.320 --> 0:34:13.640 for him, you know, and maybe it's maybe it's like 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.720 if you, like I was talking about with Nate, secure 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:20.760 down guys and then let him hit it. But maybe 0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:23.480 you work more with him on the perimeter, more with 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:26.759 Zeke inside. They just haven't had the running lanes that 0:34:26.800 --> 0:34:28.520 they had earlier the year. Wear the ball and that. 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:31.080 But against Tampa there were a couple of times where 0:34:31.080 --> 0:34:33.320 they pressed it hard and then and then Zeke was 0:34:33.360 --> 0:34:35.319 able to cut it back and it's a four or 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:38.160 five six yard game. Man, we would take that all 0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:41.160 day if we're if every time they're impiling, and it's 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.520 and it's you know, instead of it's second in, it's 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:47.439 second in five and you know Zeke's got a first 0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:49.480 down because you know he's getting four or five yards 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:52.880 a shot. I think that's where that's I gotta try. 0:34:53.320 --> 0:34:56.160 I can't just I can't abandon the running game like 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:58.479 I did the first time. You played there a couple 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:00.319 of years ago. I just don't think you could do that, 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.080 you know. Um. One of the things that when he 0:35:03.120 --> 0:35:07.200 went into the offseason with Kellen Moore, Um, it was like, hey, 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:10.319 he's got to get CD involved, He's got to figure 0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:12.239 it out how to get the ball to CD. He's 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:14.200 got to figure out how to get the ball to Pollard. 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:16.719 And he's done that. He's done that this hit and 0:35:16.760 --> 0:35:19.080 so you talk about what the focus is a little bit. 0:35:19.239 --> 0:35:21.080 It took It took a little bit there. Yeah, I 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:22.799 mean it took four years, but they figured out well, 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:26.719 I mean this season, yeah, and then first game. I 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:29.040 mean neither one of them had a great game against Tampa, 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:32.000 no one did. But but um, you do wonder about 0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:34.280 the focus of you know, what the focus is this weekend. 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:37.120 Also we didn't mention this earlier in the show, but 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:40.280 you know, you got you got teams at least one 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:44.239 calling to to speak with him. Um, the Panthers are, 0:35:44.280 --> 0:35:46.960 you know, trying to seek permission and they to get 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:49.719 to interview him as their next head coach. So I 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:52.680 always wonder that during the week you know, how do 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:54.319 you balance the two there? I mean, this is a 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:56.960 huge game obviously, and and Kellen Moore is going to 0:35:57.040 --> 0:35:59.920 do his very best, but he's also well, we'll getting 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:03.479 to that. I had that for the last segment. Yes, okay, 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:07.239 then we'll talk about that then. But this for preparation. Yeah, 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.799 you think that that affects his preparation. Yeah, I think 0:36:09.880 --> 0:36:12.440 that him and Dan Quinn anytime. You know, because now 0:36:12.440 --> 0:36:14.080 in the back of your mind, you're starting to get 0:36:14.080 --> 0:36:16.880 ready for interviews. At least these guys have interviewed before, 0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:19.359 so they have an idea what they're up against. You know, 0:36:19.480 --> 0:36:22.160 you use it. If it's your first interview, then you're like, Okay, 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:23.520 I gotta do this, I gotta do this, I gotta 0:36:23.560 --> 0:36:25.040 have this ready and all that, I have a staff 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:27.080 list ready, I gotta you know, there's so many things 0:36:27.080 --> 0:36:29.600 that kind of take away the fact that they've already 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:31.759 done it and they kind of know what works and 0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:36.080 what doesn't work. I think they'll be better prepared for 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:39.200 getting the team ready this week. It's a really delicate 0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:42.880 situation you have to deal with because when they're doors closed, 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:46.280 you're thinking that they're probably getting ready for an interview, 0:36:46.440 --> 0:36:48.640 when you want to believe they're getting ready for a game. 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:51.920 You know, that that's that's just reality, you know. I 0:36:51.960 --> 0:36:56.040 mean you cannot focus. You cannot focus on you know, 0:36:56.320 --> 0:37:00.319 like the task on hand when you have something maybe 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:04.239 even majorly in your life, a life changing move or 0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:09.319 an interview, your your hope, you're focusing. But we're human. Yeah, 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:11.879 it's not that. No, And anyone that says, oh, well, 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:14.000 he should be focused in the playoff, I'm not even 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:16.839 entertained that it does be. Yes, if it was you, 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:19.399 you would do it too. I mean that's like you said, 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:22.240 it's major, so you and there are very very few 0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:26.440 opportunities that come up every year, so you gotta, I mean, 0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:28.799 look out for yourself. I think your window opens and 0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:31.359 closes too, right, Like you know, it's hard to think 0:37:31.360 --> 0:37:33.440 that it'll open back again real quick though, If I 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:35.680 could just say this, we've talked about Vita via a 0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:38.319 Keem Hicks inside. That's going to be tough. The linebackers 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:40.920 will be tough to block. They're banged up in the 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.200 secondary with Mike Edwards is banged up, Logan Ryan's banged 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:47.120 up and Carlton Davis checked the injury report today to 0:37:47.200 --> 0:37:50.000 see what happens with those guys there. I think they're 0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:52.960 one of their best defensive players in the secondaries, Antoine Winfield. 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:55.600 He's the guy that intercepted Dak in the game. Kind 0:37:55.600 --> 0:37:57.919 of a guy that plays around the line of scrimmage, 0:37:58.000 --> 0:37:59.600 you know, is always going to be in an area 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:02.400 to tie. You have to watch him on the turnover stuff. 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.080 He's just like his dad, punches the ball loose, you know, 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:07.800 gets in the right you know, area to make plays 0:38:07.800 --> 0:38:10.120 and stuff like that. It's a good defense. 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Who are you mostly concerned for me. 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:08.840 I mean it's got to be right there at the middle, 0:41:08.880 --> 0:41:11.640 I mean, be Ata Vea and then whoever is your center. 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:15.680 I mean, because when it was Beoddish, I believe two 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:18.160 years ago when he played, I mean he was getting 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:20.160 thrown around pretty good up there, to the point where 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:22.839 they didn't even as Brian talked about two years ago, 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:24.840 they didn't even mess with the middle. They everything was 0:41:24.880 --> 0:41:27.400 more outside running him and it worked. I mean, they 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:29.520 moved the ball. They I think over four hundred and 0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:33.160 five hundred yards of offense, scored twenty nine points. I mean, 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:35.520 nearly won the game. But but I mean it's got 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:38.239 to be balanced because they also got down in the 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:40.360 red zone and didn't score. They had to go wide 0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:42.600 and jar and missed the blocks. He got tackled. That 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:44.759 was a huge play in the game. So they've got 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:46.960 to be able to kind of control the middle and 0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:48.920 they can't be intimidated there. And I think it starts 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:51.200 with Bava in the center. Yeah, I think this game 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:52.839 is going to come down to how well in the 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:56.080 secondary can you just can you prevent the big place 0:41:56.239 --> 0:41:59.480 they they don't run the ball statistically, I think they're 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:01.200 going to try run the ball on you, because they 0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:05.759 had success on him, the turnovers, the turnovers. Though they 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.719 had him in the last they had two games they 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.719 had back to back games, they had seven turnovers, had 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:14.439 five against the Bengals and two against It was two 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.080 and but it was it was San Francisco and the 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:20.280 and the Bengals games were just they've had some turnover 0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.200 Early in the year, they did they weren't turning the 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:24.680 ball over. Now they've had some turnovers, but they had 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:27.640 They've had a couple of games that were alarming with 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:30.520 the turnovers. The Cincinnati game, since I was down seventeen 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:32.800 nothing at half, it looked like to me that Tampa 0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:35.040 was going to cruise and win and then all of 0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:40.320 a sudden interception, muff, fake punt, uh, Tom Brady fumble. 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:43.759 Tom Brady fumble had four They had four turnovers in 0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:46.760 like eleven place is what it was. It was crazy 0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:49.399 how they how that just fell apart for him. So, yeah, 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:52.239 it's a it's something they've dealt with the thing with 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:54.400 Brady around when you get around him in the pocket, 0:42:54.719 --> 0:42:56.880 he's put the ball on the ground, you know, like 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:58.759 people have punched the ball out on him. You know, 0:42:59.080 --> 0:43:02.279 he doesn't move all that great, so but to me, 0:43:02.520 --> 0:43:05.160 but their secondary can their secondary can of get the 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:07.040 fans on the ball. Yeah, they're gonna if you if 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.680 you're well, they prove that too. They mean you they had, 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:11.920 you know with Dak in that game. But the thing 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:14.640 about it is, to me, this game is going to 0:43:14.719 --> 0:43:17.600 come down to their big plays, and you're big plays. 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:24.399 Dallas has struggled to eliminate big plays, so huge chunk plays, screens, 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:28.560 you know, the big play down the sidelines. I mean 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:31.080 that that's something that you and you know they're gonna 0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:34.360 they're gonna do that to you. You know, Dallas is 0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:36.680 playing well in this game, it's going to be They're 0:43:36.719 --> 0:43:39.239 not going to be given up the chunk plays. That's 0:43:39.280 --> 0:43:40.640 the thing I think. And I think it's going to 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:43.879 happen in the secondary. Who knows what's going to happen 0:43:43.880 --> 0:43:47.120 at left corner? You know, is this Xavier Rhodes? I mean, 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.319 do they trust right? You know, there's just so many 0:43:50.400 --> 0:43:52.919 unknowns right now, and it's a shame you're going into 0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:55.680 this game with that kind of unknown Well, since we're 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:58.759 running out of time, we'll leave the coaching and the 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:02.520 fan question for tomorrow. But to end the show, I 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:04.440 did want to ask one question that I kind of 0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:09.880 saw repeatedly, people asking should Dak Prescott and how Kellen 0:44:09.960 --> 0:44:12.879 Moore decides to manage the offense. Should they focus more 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:16.040 on just short passes rather than trying to be that 0:44:16.120 --> 0:44:19.960 aggressive throwing deep down the field. I don't think that 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:22.879 they have the receivers that you could just do that. 0:44:22.960 --> 0:44:25.480 I really don't. I mean, I think CD has been 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:28.800 shifty and he could break some tackles, but Gallop and 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:32.640 Noah Brown and t Y Hilton, I mean, I mean, 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:35.439 they're kind of more vertical players. They're not these big 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:37.440 guys that just catch the balls they get off me 0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:40.560 and may so you can do it some, but I 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:42.200 don't think you can make your living with those kind 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:44.400 of receivers because I don't think that they're built that way. Yeah, 0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:47.319 the problem with Dak is he's got that never die 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:51.560 attitude and he is the thing that hurts Dak Prescott 0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:54.919 the most. You know, you say, you have to live 0:44:54.960 --> 0:44:58.560 with his decisions in a game. Some days you're living great, 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:00.960 in other days you're just you're sitting on the curb, 0:45:01.040 --> 0:45:03.920 you know, And and that's the problem with this. You mean, 0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:06.640 you don't know. You don't know which guy you're gonna get. 0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:08.640 You might get the guy that looks brilliant throwing the 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:11.520 football like he did against Philadelphia. You know, Dallas got 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:14.480 four turnovers in that game and and want it. I 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:16.520 think they're gonna have to have a similar type game. 0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:18.840 I think Dak is going to have to have the ability. 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:21.880 He can't throw that he can't throw the killer turnover 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:24.799 to He just can't. But history tells you that he 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:27.959 is and and that's and that's something you just when 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:30.040 is that going to happen in the game. You know, 0:45:30.200 --> 0:45:31.839 you don't need it to happen at the end when 0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:34.080 you're trying to drive or something. You don't need a 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:37.000 catastrophic mistake like they had in the San Francisco game 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:39.240 where they're driving the ball in all cinema, a quarterback 0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:41.400 draw and they run out of time. You know, they 0:45:41.880 --> 0:45:45.239 have to avoid those types of plays, but they also 0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:48.719 have to avoid you know, his his uh, you know, 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:52.480 willingness to try and create something. You know that's you know, 0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:55.439 there's a time and a place, and in a playoff game, 0:45:55.520 --> 0:46:00.000 you get punished when you make mistakes like that. Yeah, well, 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:03.719 all right, tomorrow we'll get into predictions and see what 0:46:03.760 --> 0:46:06.360 we got for this Monday night game. That is it 0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.000 for the show. 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