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Speaker 6: It is Tuesday, December twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number ninety five. Welcome to the latest edition All
Speaker 6: of the Break. It is uh, it is a Tuesday,
Speaker 6: but it feels like a Wednesday because the Cowboys are
Speaker 6: getting ready for a Saturday game and we're talking about
Speaker 6: a game that happened on Sunday, Sunday.
Speaker 2: Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 6: It's we're all over the map today. We're gonna recap
Speaker 6: that game. It was an interesting game. Although the Cowboys
Speaker 6: lost it lost, there were lots of things I think
Speaker 6: that came out of the game that were noteworthy that
Speaker 6: we're going to talk about today. And then tomorrow we'll
Speaker 6: jump right in and we'll start getting you guys ready
Speaker 6: for Cowboys versus Lions. We'll talk about the Lions offense
Speaker 6: tomorrow versus this Cowboys defense. But let's start first with
Speaker 6: the game versus Miami Dallas loses twenty two to twenty.
Speaker 6: Tell me storyline a game. Let's go around the table.
Speaker 6: Storyline the game Patrol, I'll start with.
Speaker 4: You for me.
Speaker 3: It was basically that this was Philadelphia all over again.
Speaker 3: It is a winnable game from the Cowboys. If you
Speaker 3: go in and you tell me that they're going to
Speaker 3: hold the Miami Dolphins offense to only one touchdown, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you they win this game. But they did just
Speaker 3: enough to not win the game. Talk about the fumbled
Speaker 3: handoff the hunterd lip Key on what was an exceptional
Speaker 3: opening drive, and of course preceding that, Tony Poller gets
Speaker 3: turned around he can't get in. That matters as well.
Speaker 3: And then fast forward to the offense stalling largely because
Speaker 3: your offensive line just didn't hold up to what you doga.
Speaker 3: We get him roses for playing well earlier the season.
Speaker 3: He had a very very bad dad at the offense.
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott pressured on almost half of his dropbacks and
Speaker 3: just couldn't get the offense going because of that, and
Speaker 3: then penalties. Here we are t type and timing penalties.
Speaker 3: That final offensive drive by the Dolphins, you get the
Speaker 3: face mask when de moont Clark gives them fifteen yards
Speaker 3: helps Jym start what was an eventual game winning field
Speaker 3: goal drive. So it was for me, it was the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia game all over again, and that's what makes it frustrating.
Speaker 3: This was not a situation where they got beat down
Speaker 3: like against the forty nine ers, where they got handled
Speaker 3: by the Bills because of penalties and then that train
Speaker 3: went off the rails. They were competitive throughout this contest.
Speaker 3: Defense bent didn't break, but ultimately the defense broke because
Speaker 3: the complimentary football was not there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 7: I mean this tough loss. For sure.
Speaker 5: I think we saw some improvement from the Cowboys playing
Speaker 5: on the road against the team a very competitive team
Speaker 5: like the Miami Dolphins. Patrick mentioned the opening drive and
Speaker 5: that fumble, the recovery that Dolphins get it and all that,
Speaker 5: and then they come back Cede Lamb he gets into
Speaker 5: the end zone they touched. So they responded really, really
Speaker 5: well to that mistake, which was good to see. They
Speaker 5: were competitive, but it just wasn't enough. I did think
Speaker 5: the defense was doing a good enough job. We knew
Speaker 5: how many of like how many offensive weapons the Miami
Speaker 5: Dolphins have and how explosive they are, how quick and
Speaker 5: the defense. I thought they did a nice job all
Speaker 5: in all, just being there fighting and doing what they could.
Speaker 5: But the offense just couldn't catch up. And I'm concerned
Speaker 5: right now. It's like, Okay, yeah they lost, Hey, let's
Speaker 5: come back, rally up and all that. They're in the
Speaker 5: playoffs already, so you at least have that spot. But
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, how are they going to be able to
Speaker 5: survive with this O line?
Speaker 7: I'm thinking about the old line.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm thinking, Okay, what if Tyron Smith it
Speaker 5: rangers his back or maybe he's out longer than we think.
Speaker 5: What are you doing to improve the offensive line? Because
Speaker 5: that look that we got in this game, I don't
Speaker 5: think you're gonna get very far with what you've got.
Speaker 5: And it's very very hard to improve anyone's game, for example, chum,
Speaker 5: how do you improve that in the last couple of
Speaker 5: weeks that are left heading into the playoffs. So I
Speaker 5: just I like their performance as far as like them
Speaker 5: improving or showing signs of improvement on the road, But
Speaker 5: all in all, I am concerned about what the future
Speaker 5: holds with the current situation as far as the O
Speaker 5: line health.
Speaker 2: When they don't hear the attention to detail, they're not
Speaker 2: going to win games. That's just not gonna happen. There
Speaker 2: were several times in this game. And by the way,
Speaker 2: Adoga isn't as terrible as everybody says. I think the
Speaker 2: mental mistakes that he made or farm worse than the
Speaker 2: physical mistakes that he game. I think your quarterback made
Speaker 2: a couple of mental mistakes too. I think there were
Speaker 2: some hot reads that they missed on. I think one
Speaker 2: time they took a sack because they felt like that
Speaker 2: they were he had something picked up that wasn't picked up.
Speaker 2: You went away from creativity that you had early in
Speaker 2: the game, you know, and you you you went and
Speaker 2: focused on other areas of the game. When you had
Speaker 2: an advantage with your receiver, you could have wore them
Speaker 2: out in this game with your with cede lamp. Again,
Speaker 2: attention to detail on that, continue on trying to attack mode.
Speaker 2: Did a good job playing run defense against these guys.
Speaker 2: But you know, if you're if you're not, if you're
Speaker 2: gonna let teams break you down with blitzes and and
Speaker 2: make force you with mental areas you're not gonna win games.
Speaker 2: And as simple as that right there, because they had
Speaker 2: ability to win this football game. And you know, like say,
Speaker 2: you don't give up huge plays on defense. You got
Speaker 2: fortunate though on the on the one play that Hill
Speaker 2: dropped earlier, that could have been a touchdown right out
Speaker 2: of the gate coming out of there. But you know
Speaker 2: what did they do. They moved you with motion to
Speaker 2: get create matchups. They did it a couple of times
Speaker 2: during that game. You know, you just got to be
Speaker 2: ready for that stuff. And it goes back to you know,
Speaker 2: the penalties or a problem. You know, the things that
Speaker 2: like I say, you know when you're supposed to blitz,
Speaker 2: pick up being in the right spot. Quarterback moves the
Speaker 2: back to one side, blitz comes from the side that
Speaker 2: he moves the guy away from. Those are all attention
Speaker 2: to details you got to have to win football games.
Speaker 4: You mentioned Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6: He was twenty to thirty two, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: three yards, two touchdowns, no interception on one hundred and
Speaker 6: seven point nine rating.
Speaker 4: But Brian, I agree with you.
Speaker 6: I was going back this morning and I was watching
Speaker 6: a lot of those pass plays, and one of the
Speaker 6: things that stuck out stuck out to me, which hasn't
Speaker 6: been something we've noticed a lot from Dak recently. He's
Speaker 6: been really just hot and he knows very decisive with
Speaker 6: the ball. Yeah, I don't think he was that in
Speaker 6: that game Sat Sunday. I think there were a number
Speaker 6: of different times where they ended up with a sack
Speaker 6: or he ended up with pressure because he didn't he didn't.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he wasn't seeing it or if he.
Speaker 6: Was anticipating that a guy was gonna like cut off
Speaker 6: the route, But there were times it appeared again from
Speaker 6: our vantage point looking from that top camera.
Speaker 4: You know, you're not behind the center, so you don't know,
Speaker 4: but but.
Speaker 6: From our vantage point, it looked like there were guys
Speaker 6: that were open and all you had do was just
Speaker 6: let it go. And it just seemed like, for whatever reason,
Speaker 6: he was a bit more tentative. Did you guys see
Speaker 6: the same thing and what would you attribute that to?
Speaker 3: I think that at times I did see this huge
Speaker 3: I think that some of that goes to just the
Speaker 3: offensive line struggles, and I don't think he felt comfortable
Speaker 3: in most much of that game. On his drop back,
Speaker 3: so it likely disrupted some of his time in some
Speaker 3: of his reads and and just his overall window of operation.
Speaker 3: So I did see that a few times where it's
Speaker 3: just like, okay, if you get rid of the ball
Speaker 3: right now, then that's that's a first down potentially. But
Speaker 3: he you know, the pressure was coming at several points.
Speaker 3: Talk about chewmy Dogan. I mentioned this on my hit
Speaker 3: with one O five to three the fan this morning.
Speaker 3: When it comes to Chumu, I don't think Chuma got
Speaker 3: beat up physically. That's not my issue with Chumua. My
Speaker 3: issue with Chuma is choosing assignment. Like you don't let
Speaker 3: Bradley Chubb run free to your quarterback trying to help
Speaker 3: out Tyler Smith. Let Tyler Smith do what Tyler Smith
Speaker 3: does and you get Bradley Chubb. So I think the
Speaker 3: amount of pressure that Dak Prescott felt in that game
Speaker 3: just completely kept him unsettled and because he never was
Speaker 3: able to settle in it just was not the usual
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they missed a shot too. I mean they run,
Speaker 2: they they remember the remember the play that Turpin scored
Speaker 2: on where they put him in the slot and they
Speaker 2: ran vertical and the commanders tried to carry him with
Speaker 2: a safety down in the middle, went to the same play,
Speaker 2: ran the same play against the split safeties, and Dak
Speaker 2: didn't throw the ball. And I don't for the life
Speaker 2: of me, no, because to me, you put Turpin in
Speaker 2: that situation to run that play, you clearly have a
Speaker 2: mind that they're gonna play. They're gonna play twin, they're
Speaker 2: gonna play two safeties back there, and we're gonna send
Speaker 2: Turpin on a vertical that for a forty yard dash
Speaker 2: and nobody's gonna be able to pick him up. And
Speaker 2: for some reason, Dak just did not throw it. And
Speaker 2: the play, I can say it's designed for him to
Speaker 2: throw the ball, lay it out there and let Turpin
Speaker 2: run underneath it. There were several there were several times
Speaker 2: where he pulled the ball down and one time Gallop
Speaker 2: is on the outside, He's gonna throw the slam. Gallop
Speaker 2: gets mugged. I mean, Ramsey is just beating him up.
Speaker 2: And then so now what happens, you know, he falls down.
Speaker 2: Now Dak forced to have to kind of try and
Speaker 2: find play, go forward or throw it someplace else, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there were some. There were some blitzes
Speaker 2: that I think there were a couple, like I mentioned
Speaker 2: the hots. You know, one time, like he's got Cooks,
Speaker 2: He's got a blitzer coming on it into his face
Speaker 2: and it's like you see, Cooks sees it's gonna be hot,
Speaker 2: and he's eighty for it. I know, DA pulls it
Speaker 2: and you're like, God, just hit him. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's a five yard game. But at least you're
Speaker 2: not taking an incomplete or a sack or a negative
Speaker 2: play there. So you wonder, you know, what was going
Speaker 2: through because there was a period of time for very
Speaker 2: early in the game. I felt like he saw what
Speaker 2: he needed to see, and they did some They did
Speaker 2: some really good things, and it wasn't until the end
Speaker 2: of the game that they started kind of getting Lamb
Speaker 2: back in the game, you know, And I think that's
Speaker 2: where all of a sudden, you know, it's the third
Speaker 2: and six. I'll give you an example of that. Finally
Speaker 2: McCarthy is able to scheme Lamb open and it's trips
Speaker 2: to the right. Torbert motions away to the sidelines. And
Speaker 2: now what they did was they got they got the safe,
Speaker 2: they got the corner out of the way and then
Speaker 2: the route comes to the corner, route comes to the sidelines,
Speaker 2: ball goes right there. There you go. That's the kind
Speaker 2: of stuff that you know, you saw it early in
Speaker 2: the game, but then it's the in the like for
Speaker 2: two quarters you were like, what offense is this running?
Speaker 2: Or you know, what offense is this playing football right now?
Speaker 2: And you know, whether it was the blind, the line,
Speaker 2: the receivers, quarterback, the head coach, the play caller, there
Speaker 2: was just a disconnect for a couple of quarters there,
Speaker 2: and then they kind of figured things out at the end.
Speaker 2: You know, it's probably a little bit too late that.
Speaker 6: There was another play I noticed early on in the game.
Speaker 6: And this is again where I questioned, you know, was
Speaker 6: it a situation where the pressure really got to Dak
Speaker 6: Because some of these things were happening early enough in
Speaker 6: the game where it was before he was just you know,
Speaker 6: feeling that extra pressure. But there was one play where
Speaker 6: literally I kind of stopped it.
Speaker 4: I stopped the play.
Speaker 6: And you've got Dak standing in the pocket, He's got
Speaker 6: the ball up and there's gallop on the outside. He's
Speaker 6: got two steps on the outside deep. If you want
Speaker 6: to go there, you got another guy. I think it
Speaker 6: was CD in the slot that's coming across the field.
Speaker 6: He's open, like he's coming clear of the window. So
Speaker 6: there are these opportunities and Dak is ready to throw
Speaker 6: and then he pulls it down for whatever reason and
Speaker 6: then ends up in pressure or sack. I don't remember
Speaker 6: what happened on the at the end of the play,
Speaker 6: but it wasn't a good turnout and it was.
Speaker 4: A situation where he had to play. And that's what
Speaker 4: I think was to me.
Speaker 6: That's what I take from this game is that as
Speaker 6: though as as much as we want to say the
Speaker 6: offensive line didn't hold up, Dak I think has to
Speaker 6: take just as much accountability on that because I think
Speaker 6: he was just he was just.
Speaker 4: A little bit not willing to pull the truckle.
Speaker 5: Well, dad comes into the mental game of things. When
Speaker 5: you go into a game knowing what who is protecting you,
Speaker 5: it's gonna change the way you're thinking because now that's
Speaker 5: an added thing that you're trying to take account for. Like,
Speaker 5: it's very different. I'm trying to find a scenario. It's
Speaker 5: like someone that let's say, someone that cuts my hair
Speaker 5: all the time, I'm gonna go in like is if
Speaker 5: I'm not even gonna say anything worry about it might
Speaker 5: be on my phone as opposed to someone that's new
Speaker 5: cutting my hair, I'm like freaking out and just like
Speaker 5: looking over my shoulder the whole time. So I think,
Speaker 5: and I'm not to put I don't. I hate putting
Speaker 5: all of the blame on somebody.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 5: I think because if you look at everything, that's really
Speaker 5: the only change that has happened.
Speaker 7: You still have the same weapons. On offense.
Speaker 5: You have been playing really well the past few weeks,
Speaker 5: and you've been clicking. You've been accustomed to Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 5: play calling. But then as soon as some element changes
Speaker 5: in the online and.
Speaker 7: He's played with that before. But I don't know. I'm
Speaker 7: just trying to find.
Speaker 5: The reason as to why, because there's no injuries there
Speaker 5: on him. He's still the same dick as he's been.
Speaker 5: There's nothing else that has happened to be big.
Speaker 2: They run a double screen. They ran a double screen
Speaker 2: on the play, and you can see after the play,
Speaker 2: Dak is pissed and Lamb is pissed. They run a
Speaker 2: double screen. Dak makes the decision to throw it to
Speaker 2: the left with three blockers when he's got four blockers.
Speaker 4: And he said after the game, yeah, probably should have
Speaker 4: gone out. Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, And that's the thing about it when you have
Speaker 2: it and you have a game where you're kind of
Speaker 2: struggling with the protection. Screen's a good play. Screen's a
Speaker 2: good play, especially when you get upfield. But what happens.
Speaker 2: Give the Dolphins some credit. Dolphins take they take Chubb
Speaker 2: and van Inkle and they put him watch and they
Speaker 2: kind of put them off the ball. So they're like,
Speaker 2: they're like, anticipate, you're probably gonna run either slant or screen.
Speaker 2: So they're they're they're they're playing the defense. Like so
Speaker 2: maybe it's something you check out of. Maybe you're thinking, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I can't get my blocker out there. You know, I
Speaker 2: can't get a doga out there on Chubb.
Speaker 4: You know I can't.
Speaker 2: So I've gotten to think of something. But you know,
Speaker 2: like I say, three blockers one side, four blockers the other,
Speaker 2: and you have a clear advantage, but you choose the
Speaker 2: three blocker side. Those are the kinds of things Attention
Speaker 2: to detailing the game will get you hurt.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this too.
Speaker 6: You say nothing had change, and so you're right from
Speaker 6: the standpoint of the personnel. But I do think part
Speaker 6: of what I saw, at least my opinion, is he
Speaker 6: was playing a defensive coordinator that clearly Dak has a
Speaker 6: lot of respect for. You talked about it after the game.
Speaker 6: They asked him about the question about CD and not
Speaker 6: having CD, and CD said, in the locker room he
Speaker 6: thought it was He agreed with a reporter that it
Speaker 6: was kind of strange that in the second and third
Speaker 6: quarter he was not used as much, and they asked
Speaker 6: Dak about that, and Deck says, I mean, strange is
Speaker 6: a fair word, I guess, he said, but you got
Speaker 6: to remember that we're playing a defensive coordinator that's very,
Speaker 6: very seasoned, and he has ways of not letting you
Speaker 6: continue to do the things that you were getting success with.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, he said he could fall. He had
Speaker 6: a way of kind of fogging things up. And it
Speaker 6: makes me wonder if again, you take a player or
Speaker 6: two where he shows you something that kind of jarji
Speaker 6: and does that make you a little more tentative? Now,
Speaker 6: does that make you now think a little bit more
Speaker 6: about those throws before you make them? And that could
Speaker 6: be what we were seeing. And I think there are
Speaker 6: that could be a part of this. And then the
Speaker 6: way they play defense too. They have one of those
Speaker 6: kind of defenses that they have a lot of guys, a.
Speaker 4: Lot of scrimmage.
Speaker 6: You don't know in any given play who's coming, if
Speaker 6: all of them are coming, if none of them are coming, right,
Speaker 6: And I think that can also cause you to be
Speaker 6: a little more tentative. So I think the difference was
Speaker 6: not necessarily in the personnel he didn't have as much.
Speaker 6: I think it was more about who he was playing
Speaker 6: and the way they play.
Speaker 5: Maybe the fumble with Hunter Lipke that early in the game,
Speaker 5: that that could have a role in his mental aspect
Speaker 5: of thing of now he's trying to be a little
Speaker 5: more hesitant and now trying to risk throwing an interception
Speaker 5: or something else.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that on that particular play because they
Speaker 3: bounced back from that, and like you said, yeah, got
Speaker 3: the CD lamb the big game, your ceed lamb touchdown,
Speaker 3: and then you know you take the lead and at
Speaker 3: that point, your defense because keep in mind, even your
Speaker 3: defense responded to that, Yeah they gave up the fifty
Speaker 3: yard fifty yard or on third down to waddle with
Speaker 3: the you know, backs against the wall for the Dolphins,
Speaker 3: and you hate that, but they didn't break, they fought.
Speaker 3: They kept it to a fifty seven yard field goal
Speaker 3: by Sanders. So your defense was holding, not the penalty wise,
Speaker 3: but your defense was doing what they needed to do.
Speaker 3: And as an offense, all you needed to do was
Speaker 3: build on that ced Lamb touchdown and then start to
Speaker 3: create distance. And then now you put them into the
Speaker 3: blueprint that you want them into, which you want them
Speaker 3: to pass the ball, because you've also shown that you
Speaker 3: were doing well in the run defense right coming off
Speaker 3: of a horrible game in Buffalo, you did well in
Speaker 3: containing Moster in a chain and Jeff Wilson. So all
Speaker 3: the Cowboys offense had to do was continue to find
Speaker 3: ways to put up points. But when you go, they
Speaker 3: had that sequence where it was like third consecutive punts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: your defense is bending, not breaking. So it's field goal
Speaker 3: for the Dolphins, field goal for the Dolphins. Field goal
Speaker 3: for the Dolphins. But the whole time that's happening, you're
Speaker 3: looking at your offense not put up points. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: punt punt Aubrey, punt, punt, punt Aubrey, and you're like,
Speaker 3: you're not going to win this type of a game
Speaker 3: against this offense, because sooner or later this offense is
Speaker 3: going to do what they did with that no huddle,
Speaker 3: and it was just lethal, the no huddle at the
Speaker 3: back end of the first half, the hurry up at
Speaker 3: the back end of the game for that game winning drive.
Speaker 3: Your defense is tired. You got to help them out
Speaker 3: and compliment them. So kudos to the defense. I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously they did break eventually, but if the complimentary football
Speaker 3: was there and that offense had put up points, then
Speaker 3: the Cowboys win this game.
Speaker 2: I just didn't feel like that really that they did
Speaker 2: anything defensively different. You know, to me that the drastic
Speaker 2: move to try and take LANMD out of this game
Speaker 2: would have been to walk Ramsey over there. I just
Speaker 2: kind of felt like there were a couple of different
Speaker 2: times where they passed him through zones, buzz linebackers in
Speaker 2: front of him, you know. But to me, it was
Speaker 2: really about Howard Ramsey and who those guys covering him.
Speaker 2: You know, you didn't see stuff really on the back
Speaker 2: end or or where. Like I said, my answer to
Speaker 2: that was like, if I'm thinking Lambs killing me, I'm thinking, God,
Speaker 2: I've got to do something different. I think that I
Speaker 2: think the blitzing of the linebackers bothered Dac in this game.
Speaker 2: I do. I think that that that that you know,
Speaker 2: like you said, being around the line when you know
Speaker 2: when when are they going to blitz? And on the
Speaker 2: flip side of that, Dallas didn't blitz to enough. That's
Speaker 2: the problem when you look at that, when you look
Speaker 2: at his metrics when he was facing pressure or blitzes,
Speaker 2: it's like two of five, you know, and they but
Speaker 2: the no blitz was and that's to me, Dallas's m
Speaker 2: is pressure and pressure and to me, I I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like they missed an opportunity with that because
Speaker 2: you could have I think there were times where when
Speaker 2: he faced that pressure you could see he was clearly
Speaker 2: not interested in standing there and throwing the football.
Speaker 3: And two also had some under pressure and not pressured
Speaker 3: throws that were just bad. It was just like, oh
Speaker 3: that was a bad throw. That throw sailed who was
Speaker 3: he throwing to? Like no man was in the vicinity.
Speaker 3: He was just bad throws and that was not under pressure.
Speaker 3: And then to Bryan's point, when you look at the
Speaker 3: how things flipped. Okay, so we talked about how Dak
Speaker 3: Prescott was pressured almost fifty percent of his dropbacks. Two
Speaker 3: was pressured only twenty five percent of his drawbacks, so
Speaker 3: three quarters of the time he was back there comfortably operating.
Speaker 3: You can't have that.
Speaker 4: You got to get back there now with those weapons. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you got to like that. We talked about it got
Speaker 4: time to run, like that's going to be a problem.
Speaker 2: If Dallas was going to win on the defensive side
Speaker 2: of the ball, it was going to be taking advantage
Speaker 2: of that offensive line. Yeah, you know, and that there
Speaker 2: were times they did, and I just don't feel like
Speaker 2: there was enough enough of getting after Tua.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: And I think that I think Dan and em got
Speaker 2: a little nervous about the big play ability of these receivers,
Speaker 2: and I could clearly understand it. Covering Wattle is not easy,
Speaker 2: you know, and especially if safeties. You know, Wilson a
Speaker 2: couple of times in the game, you know you're wondering
Speaker 2: nearing covered two and you're like, bro, you're supposed to
Speaker 2: help here. You know, what are you looking at? Inside?
Speaker 2: There's nothing there for you, you know. So Hooker, those
Speaker 2: guys they try their best, but you know, when you
Speaker 2: when you're dealing with speed, and all that. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: just get mesmerized. I think Dallas got a little bit
Speaker 2: that in the secondary yesterday.
Speaker 6: All right, we're gonna take our first break and come back.
Speaker 6: We will talk about the rushing offense, Tony Pollard, Hunter Lipke,
Speaker 6: We'll talk about all that and what the Cowboys were
Speaker 6: trying to do and maybe how effective it was or
Speaker 6: was not. We'll talk about that when we come ba Dallas,
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Speaker 6: All right, let's talk about the running game. You've got
Speaker 6: Tony Pollott yesterday, sorry Sunday, he has twelve carries for
Speaker 6: thirty eight yards, a three point two average. The team
Speaker 6: overall had twenty five carries for ninety seven yard or
Speaker 6: three point nine average. I have a big picture question
Speaker 6: for you guys. Is this rushing attack good enough for
Speaker 6: the Cowboys to get to where they want to be.
Speaker 3: It can be not playing the way it did on Sunday, obviously,
Speaker 3: but we talked about prior to Sunday. We talked about
Speaker 3: how things had started to come together for the rushing
Speaker 3: attack for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Now, a large, large.
Speaker 3: Part of that was based on the continuity of the
Speaker 3: offensive line in the health when you had Tyren Smith
Speaker 3: plays seven consecutive games, that helps. But when you look
Speaker 3: at what happened on Sunday, you know that we talked.
Speaker 3: We were talking about it during the break, we were
Speaker 3: talking about it after, you know, on the flight home,
Speaker 3: we were talking about it after it happened. Tony Pollard
Speaker 3: has to get in on that. Uh that that touch
Speaker 3: on the one yard line. You can't get turned around
Speaker 3: like that, especially by defensive back like you just you can't.
Speaker 3: You got to get that in and then what happens
Speaker 3: after that? You get the the botched handoff the hunter
Speaker 3: lift key, which goes to a rushing attack issue as well.
Speaker 3: And then we know that ric o'dowdle is battling that
Speaker 3: the ankle injury, but we've also seen him perform admirably
Speaker 3: despite the ankle injury. So they only have two touches
Speaker 3: for total yards, Like where was Rico dawdle on the ground?
Speaker 3: So if that is what they present on the road
Speaker 3: and the playoffs, the d answer is absolutely not. If
Speaker 3: the trajectory that we saw them on even though they
Speaker 3: got walked by the Buffalo Bills, but you'd liked what
Speaker 3: you saw from Tony Pollard and those games preceding that
Speaker 3: as well. If that's the version of the tech and
Speaker 3: the offensive land that they take on the road, they
Speaker 3: do have a chance in the playoffs.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I think they've improved, that's one thing.
Speaker 5: But is it depends what kind of offense are you playing,
Speaker 5: what kind of offense are you getting? Are you getting
Speaker 5: the offense that plays at AT and T Stadium, because
Speaker 5: in those scenarios, you barely even need to run the ball,
Speaker 5: like they have so many explosive plays in the passing
Speaker 5: game that sometimes the run becomes a little bit secondary,
Speaker 5: like you don't really think about it because you just
Speaker 5: don't really need it.
Speaker 7: They've just playing so well in the air.
Speaker 5: But we know that's not always the case, especially when
Speaker 5: you're gonna have to play away from home. That kind
Speaker 5: of disappears at times, and sometimes the one thing that
Speaker 5: you can rely on or in the past, not this year,
Speaker 5: but we know how essential and how important the running
Speaker 5: game can be for your offense. So right now as
Speaker 5: it is, I think you've had plenty of time this
Speaker 5: season to kind of get a better running game going,
Speaker 5: and it hasn't been the case. And I think that, sadly,
Speaker 5: it's gonna bite them in the butt at some point.
Speaker 5: I don't want to say that, but once they start
Speaker 5: playing away from AT and D Stadium, I think, and we've.
Speaker 7: Seen it already.
Speaker 5: We've seen games where you wish you could have relied more,
Speaker 5: like even in Buffalo, you wish they would have rent
Speaker 5: the ball so much more, And at times it was
Speaker 5: working and then it just they kind of went away
Speaker 5: from it. So right now I think they've been okay,
Speaker 5: But it's just you're gonna need I love complimentary football,
Speaker 5: and you're not always gonna be able to throw the
Speaker 5: ball in the air pass it what happens in a
Speaker 5: game where they do take out a CD lamp and again,
Speaker 5: so it's those scenarios where I do find some concern
Speaker 5: and it back to the O line health. I always
Speaker 5: bring it back to the health of the line and
Speaker 5: how that affects not only Dak Prescott but also the
Speaker 5: running game. I think that has a lot to do
Speaker 5: with kind of the issues they've had this year.
Speaker 2: I think Mike told you what he thought about the
Speaker 2: running game when he started the second half. After the
Speaker 2: Dolphins go three and out and you get the ball
Speaker 2: backed up and he hands the ball to Pollard one time,
Speaker 2: they get one yard and then they throw the ball
Speaker 2: two other times after that, you know, and then you
Speaker 2: get a blitz and there might be a hot question
Speaker 2: there and stuff like that, but they had no confidence
Speaker 2: coming off the goal line. He said he had a
Speaker 2: poor plan when they were backed up, you know, and
Speaker 2: they were doing with that. So yeah, it was encouraging
Speaker 2: against Buffalo, not so encouraging against the Dolphins. And I
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of things that happened for those
Speaker 2: two quarters. I think the play Carlo lost his way.
Speaker 2: I think the line lost their way. I think the
Speaker 2: quarterback lost his way. I think the running game, whatever
Speaker 2: exists it might had lost its way. They just did
Speaker 2: not have it. They did not have the When their
Speaker 2: running game works, it's about rhythm, it's about they kind
Speaker 2: of get it going and it supplements some of the
Speaker 2: other things they do it. They do it with jet sweeps,
Speaker 2: they do it with crack tosses, they do it. You know,
Speaker 2: we just didn't see that. You know, there's some creativity
Speaker 2: to the running game, and they can get it, they
Speaker 2: can get it working. But you know, in this football game,
Speaker 2: it was just a non factor at all. And no, absolutely,
Speaker 2: they cannot win a single playoff game, much less a
Speaker 2: regular season game if they run the football like this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting because Brian, I was going to point
Speaker 6: to the playoff thought, this is where you were going.
Speaker 6: You said, there's one play that tells you that told
Speaker 6: you that. But that fourth quarter, first in goal and
Speaker 6: they decided they're going to back them to throw the
Speaker 6: ball and here you go sack. And I'm like, when
Speaker 6: they first got first to goal at the one, I
Speaker 6: was like, okay, here we go.
Speaker 4: You pound the ball in. There's no reason not to write.
Speaker 2: Maybe the lipkey, maybe the lip key fumble freaked them
Speaker 2: out in that maybe, but take Yeah, they tried to run. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they tried to run. It's funny, could you say that?
Speaker 2: Because everybody it's like a hard play action, right, and
Speaker 2: you know, and and a dog is wrong, he doesn't
Speaker 2: block out and so now you get this, you get
Speaker 2: the you get the sack. But they're trying to Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're getting they're playing cute football. They're gonna try and
Speaker 2: to run the tight ends across and the other way
Speaker 2: and just flip it to them in the corner.
Speaker 4: And to me, that's where I look at it.
Speaker 6: And I was watching this game, the game last night
Speaker 6: San Francisco and Baltimore, and it what what is very
Speaker 6: apparent to me? And I think right now those two
Speaker 6: teams are probably the two best teams in the league.
Speaker 6: I think you can arguably throw another team in there,
Speaker 6: but I think they've consistently tried here been really good.
Speaker 4: We've been talking about the Rams, man, they're.
Speaker 2: Kind of I keep Rams are my hope to go
Speaker 2: beat Philadelpia and they go to San francisc take Francisco.
Speaker 2: If Dallas is going to be the fifth seed, I've
Speaker 2: talked to people. My dream is for the Rams to
Speaker 2: be the seventh seed and just go wreck shop a
Speaker 2: couple of times and take people out along the way.
Speaker 3: The Rams can absolutely smoke Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely can so, so I think I think that
Speaker 6: that's the I was watching that game I side, I
Speaker 6: was like, the difference between those two teams and every
Speaker 6: other team in the league to some degree is the
Speaker 6: style of football they play is extremely physical. They line
Speaker 6: up in those situations and say we're better than you.
Speaker 6: We're going right over you, and we're gonna score right.
Speaker 6: And that's the part where I think, when you have
Speaker 6: to do it the cute way, to me, that says
Speaker 6: something about what you think about your ability to just
Speaker 6: line up and be able to physically impose your will
Speaker 6: on another team.
Speaker 4: And I think that's the difference.
Speaker 6: And that's where I was like, it made me start
Speaker 6: to question how good I think this running game really is.
Speaker 6: I can't think of a game this year where the
Speaker 6: Cowboys have said we're gonna run, We're gonna rely on
Speaker 6: our running game. Happened, and by the way, there've been
Speaker 6: some games where they probably should have done that, but
Speaker 6: they haven't. And that's where I wonder, is this running
Speaker 6: game even capable of being that for them in a
Speaker 6: game where they're gonna need it, because that's gonna happen
Speaker 6: if you're on the road in the NFC in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I think the head coach talked about it in the
Speaker 2: offseason of wanting to try and be like that and
Speaker 2: then he realized he couldn't, and then he had to adapt.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 4: Is that because of the offensive line, are the running
Speaker 4: backs or both?
Speaker 2: I think there was I think the injuries along the
Speaker 2: way have been upon now they played seven straight games
Speaker 2: where they've had continuity and they've been okay. But man,
Speaker 2: I think this offense is really built to throw the
Speaker 2: football myself, especially when the offensive line's healthy with Lamb
Speaker 2: and you know Ferguson, those guys Cooks. They're built to
Speaker 2: throw the ball. And I think McCarthy realized the better
Speaker 2: chance of moving the ball and scoring points throwing it
Speaker 2: than he does run in it.
Speaker 3: I think my biggest problem with the rushing attack is
Speaker 3: kind of exactly what you're alluding to, Derek, in that
Speaker 3: it's the goal to go packages. So that sequence of
Speaker 3: Pollard getting turned around and then lip Key fumbling, that's
Speaker 3: one and a half yurs to go. If you go
Speaker 3: back and look at the combined statistic of how well
Speaker 3: or not well the Cowboys have done with Gold to Go,
Speaker 3: that's been kind of that their biggest achilles heel, because
Speaker 3: first it was red zone. Oh, they can't score in
Speaker 3: the red zone. So then they shrunk in and say, okay,
Speaker 3: well we can scor in the red zone as long
Speaker 3: because it's not goal to go. So then when it
Speaker 3: became gold to gold, they kept running into like a
Speaker 3: brick wall as far as you hand it off the
Speaker 3: rico and it's probably it's stopped right there the one
Speaker 3: you hand it off to Tony, stop right there at
Speaker 3: the one. And now you're thinking, okay, you're going to Dolphins,
Speaker 3: and you say third and short on this opening drive
Speaker 3: handed the lip Key conversion. Yeah, third and short handed
Speaker 3: the lip Key conversion. You're like, they got it, they
Speaker 3: got it.
Speaker 2: They figured out exactly nobody had a problem handed the
Speaker 2: fall go right right nobody did because like, okay, then
Speaker 2: we all went damn.
Speaker 4: And then it becomes a mental thing from the coaches.
Speaker 3: They're like, okay, well now when you get gold to
Speaker 3: go uh, it's well, we're not going to handle the
Speaker 3: lip key because we're shot right, We're not going back
Speaker 3: to that. But then Pollard, well, what happened the last
Speaker 3: time we get hit the ball? He got turned around,
Speaker 3: so you dropped back to Lamb and then he is
Speaker 3: out of bounds. But then, thankfully on that particular drive,
Speaker 3: coach was able to come up with it. But I
Speaker 3: think it's the goal to goal package that's their biggest
Speaker 3: achilles hell. And if you can't punch it in from
Speaker 3: one to two yards out with your running backs, that's
Speaker 3: that's a problem.
Speaker 4: That's where it really could become a problem.
Speaker 5: Also, the defenses who opposing teams are going to be
Speaker 5: using more of the resources on the passing game and
Speaker 5: trying to protect and cover the receivers. I don't think
Speaker 5: right now you've put anything on film that scares anybody
Speaker 5: as far as they're running attack at all whatsoever. So
Speaker 5: going into whoever you're facing, they're gonna.
Speaker 7: Just focus.
Speaker 9: Off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, and I agree with you, Derek.
Speaker 5: It's clearly a passing offense. That's what it's become now.
Speaker 7: But it does, it does it.
Speaker 5: It's just very unfortunate because you do not want to
Speaker 5: become a one dimensional team and just have to always
Speaker 5: rely on the passing game because there will be, and
Speaker 5: we've seen it, situations where you're gonna have to run
Speaker 5: the ball and if you ain't scary anybody, if you're
Speaker 5: not breaking blocks and finding the holes and kind of
Speaker 5: scaping it going for it, I mean, uh, that's gonna
Speaker 5: be definitely a problem.
Speaker 7: What is Zeke doing.
Speaker 6: He's still employed, so we can't talk about We would
Speaker 6: just say that he is on a team that's not
Speaker 6: going to be in the playoffs, but he's asked some opportunities.
Speaker 2: Like your team, you got to win this weekend, right,
Speaker 2: he is keep all.
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Speaker 4: want to flip over the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 6: And Jerry said something very interesting this morning on one
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Speaker 6: j Uh. He mentioned a little bit about Micah and
Speaker 6: maybe why Micah is not getting those holding calls. That
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Speaker 6: at the Star. Let's talk a little bit about Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4: This morning.
Speaker 6: Jerry was on one on five out three of the
Speaker 6: Fan and he mentioned that he was asked about why
Speaker 6: maybe Micah is not getting those holding calls. I think
Speaker 6: it's been now thirty eight I want to say thirty
Speaker 6: eight quarters since the last time they had a holding call.
Speaker 4: I run that I've done this numbers.
Speaker 2: How many how many holding calls you think the Cowboys
Speaker 2: is a unit have drawn this year?
Speaker 12: It's got to be single digits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna say it's nine over ten?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: Sixteen?
Speaker 4: Sixteen?
Speaker 2: Sixteen? But they've but but seven. Didn't have a holding
Speaker 2: call in this game? Right, So make that make that
Speaker 2: they played fifteen games Thomas smith Hill No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: the defense he didn't have one, didn't draw in this game, right,
Speaker 2: didn't have when this ya. Eight of their fifteen games
Speaker 2: have gone without a holding call. Half their games, half
Speaker 2: their games, more than half their games have gone without
Speaker 2: a holding.
Speaker 4: Call, which is amazing for a team to get this
Speaker 4: much fresh as they do.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, that's exactly right. How can you be
Speaker 2: one of them, one of the one of the most
Speaker 2: pressure teams in the National Football League most Yeah, and
Speaker 2: not draw more holding calls sixteen total for the year.
Speaker 2: That's amazing to me.
Speaker 6: The interesting thing was Jerry said on the on the
Speaker 6: air this morning, which I'd never really heard someone from
Speaker 6: from a team or league articulate this, But basically what
Speaker 6: he said was the rest essentially won't call holding if
Speaker 6: they don't think the player could have gotten to the quarterback.
Speaker 6: And and Jerry's argument is that may work for the
Speaker 6: vast majority of the players in the league. The problem
Speaker 6: is Micah is different. Michael Micah is special. Micah has
Speaker 6: a burst and a speed and speed that can close
Speaker 6: so quickly that it's hard to make that determination if
Speaker 6: he's three yards from the quarterback to say well, he
Speaker 6: couldn't have gotten there if he was in hell, when fact.
Speaker 4: Is he's so fast that he probably could have.
Speaker 6: Gotten there, and and and they're trying to legislate it
Speaker 6: based upon how they're legislating everybody else, but it just
Speaker 6: may not work for Michael.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't understand how, and we sound like
Speaker 2: we're bitching about it, you know, really, but I don't
Speaker 2: know how you can watch games and like arms around
Speaker 2: his neck, you know, arm around his waist? How I
Speaker 2: mean hands inside or hands outside the frame?
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: Hell, they had a damn Zach Martin got his helmet
Speaker 2: knocked off and was pass blocking in this game and
Speaker 2: they didn't call it, you know, I mean literally, he's like,
Speaker 2: whoa bro? I mean, you know, Watkins Wilkins just knocks
Speaker 2: his helmet off and he's pass blocking, still in the play,
Speaker 2: and they don't call it. You're like, now, okay, how
Speaker 2: do you not see that? But the thing I understand,
Speaker 2: hands inside that's a hard hard call. But hooking a guy,
Speaker 2: you know, grabbing him around the neck. Rodeo maneuvers and
Speaker 2: you don't call it. I don't that part. I don't understand.
Speaker 2: I don't know how the officials each week when they
Speaker 2: get their tape and you miss this one, you miss
Speaker 2: this one. It's like every week they probably see Michael
Speaker 2: Parsons go damn, he gets held a lot.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: That would be my impression if I was one of
Speaker 2: these officials, I'd be going, gosh, dang, they missed a
Speaker 2: lot of these holding calls in this guy, you know,
Speaker 2: and you're kind of looking for that, you know, but
Speaker 2: you're right. His closes as fast as he closes because
Speaker 2: that roughing the passer penalty. As I told you guys
Speaker 2: in the break, that was super close. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was so explosive. When you stop the tape, ball's gone
Speaker 2: and he is literally his foot is right behind toua
Speaker 2: as that ball is out of that out of his hand.
Speaker 4: That's and usually there's grace for that kind of situation.
Speaker 6: Again, as long as you're not driving the guy into
Speaker 6: the ground or something like that, there's grace that there's a.
Speaker 4: Little period when he gets rid of the ball. That's
Speaker 4: why I was like, I don't know, I don't know,
Speaker 4: Like I.
Speaker 2: Said postgame, they said, he tried, he was trying to
Speaker 2: punish the quarterback.
Speaker 4: I didn't get that.
Speaker 2: He pushed him. Yeah, what's what's that? Yeah, he's not
Speaker 2: gonna this poor guy is not going to get calls.
Speaker 2: He's just not And it's a it's a I don't
Speaker 2: know how these officials on a weekly basis review the
Speaker 2: game tape and don't see that.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: I love what Michael said because what Jerry is saying
Speaker 3: today to the fan echoed what Michaeh said one two
Speaker 3: weeks ago, I believe in an interview with the media
Speaker 3: about the lack of holding calls, and he said, Michael
Speaker 3: did that the officials are telling him the same thing
Speaker 3: that Jerry just said, Well, you weren't going to get
Speaker 3: to the quarterback, and Michael said, this was a quote,
Speaker 3: he said, you couldn't get to the quarterback.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me what I can't do.
Speaker 3: I can get to that quarterback, or maybe someone else
Speaker 3: can't get to the quarterback. But he's like, I can
Speaker 3: get to the quarterback, so let me do my job
Speaker 3: and you do your job, whichot which kind of goes
Speaker 3: to my next thing. It also is these officials are
Speaker 3: human and I've said this to several colleagues as well.
Speaker 3: And we love Michael to death, and you know, his
Speaker 3: podcast is enjoyable and he's always enjoyable with the Q
Speaker 3: and a's, But the officials are listening. They're listening when
Speaker 3: every week he gets on the mic and we understand
Speaker 3: his frustration and it's justified. It is right, his cause
Speaker 3: is proper right. But he has to let the others.
Speaker 3: Stephen Jones on the competition committee, let him fight that battle.
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones fight the battle. The front offic is, Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 3: the coaching staff fight the battle. I think now, because
Speaker 3: it's so egregious, the lack of holding calls, I'm starting
Speaker 3: to wonder if it's the human element coming in where
Speaker 3: these officials are hearing what Michael Parks isn't saying and
Speaker 3: being like, oh okay.
Speaker 7: I don't know if.
Speaker 5: So you cannot silence people like oh no, and I'm
Speaker 5: not trying. I'm saying and I get it. Like sometimes
Speaker 5: Mike goes on a rant and he'll get on Twitter
Speaker 5: and say all kinds of things and maybe you'll.
Speaker 7: Be like, hey, maybe you don't.
Speaker 3: Exactly that He's right.
Speaker 5: Let him just because anybody, anybody that was in that
Speaker 5: position and on the field and having to deal with
Speaker 5: that on a constant basis and feeling like, damn, I
Speaker 5: cannot catch a break, Like it's constantly happening the same thing.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be mad and it's okay to let it
Speaker 5: and I'm tired, Like what gets me frustrated is this
Speaker 5: whole thing, Like, quit blaming it on.
Speaker 7: The rests deal with it. That's just what it is.
Speaker 5: Well, no, it doesn't have to be that, like it's not.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna get any change if you don't speak up.
Speaker 5: So speak up and keep talking about it.
Speaker 3: And to that, to that RTP call, that rough and
Speaker 3: the passer call, and I said this in the press box,
Speaker 3: the reaction that Micah had it wasn't because of that
Speaker 3: RTP call in and of itself.
Speaker 4: Micah is fed up.
Speaker 3: And then the optics of the fact that you won't
Speaker 3: call them for holding me, but you called me for
Speaker 3: that tiki tag RTP in a game that's close on
Speaker 3: the road, So all of it's kind of boiling over.
Speaker 3: And because we've seen Michael react and be upset at
Speaker 3: ref's but he exploded to the point he had to
Speaker 3: be pulled back by a teammate to potentially avoid you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: to avoid potentially accidentally making contact with the ref and
Speaker 3: then you get fined and ejected and might maybe suspended.
Speaker 4: So it's at that point.
Speaker 3: And because it's at that point and the whole world
Speaker 3: is watching now, because these types of reactions are non calls,
Speaker 3: are on film, something has to be done. So my
Speaker 3: thing with Mike is I'm not saying, you know, silent,
Speaker 3: because he his his cause is right. We're sitting here
Speaker 3: beating the drum for it. Everybody's beating the drum.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 3: We've heard you say it, we get it, all of
Speaker 3: that's on tape. But to do it weekly now, I'm
Speaker 3: starting to wonder. This is just me starting to wonder.
Speaker 3: I'm not making accusations, but I am allowed to wonder.
Speaker 3: I'm starting to wonder if these officials, who are human beings,
Speaker 3: who are emotional people, are starting to see this and say, oh, well,
Speaker 3: if you're saying we can't do our job, well then
Speaker 3: maybe we don't see this hold. So I'm saying it,
Speaker 3: you can't convince me one thing doesn't play unto the
Speaker 3: other thing, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Well, that crew, that particular crew their number one call
Speaker 2: that they've made all year has been offensive holding. That's
Speaker 2: their number one and the one I mean they missed
Speaker 2: with Micah, but the one that Cotton had on Clark
Speaker 2: that ended the game. Basically, that needs to be called.
Speaker 2: And that's Sean Hockley not following the play, not seeing
Speaker 2: and that's the side judge not seeing the play as well.
Speaker 2: They missed a bad holding call right there that could
Speaker 2: have backed the Dolphins up and maybe given you a chance.
Speaker 2: I know, the way their field goal kicker is making
Speaker 2: field goals, it it was probably a point, but at
Speaker 2: least you've got to call the game that way. You know,
Speaker 2: if you see a guy getting tackled and when the
Speaker 2: ball going right at him and then like a defender
Speaker 2: not being able to make a tackle because he was
Speaker 2: getting tackled, that's you got a call right.
Speaker 6: There, honestly, and I hear what you're Sam Patrick, and
Speaker 6: I think in a lot of instances that makes sense.
Speaker 6: The reason why that would I wouldn't go that far
Speaker 6: is because I look at the rest and I think,
Speaker 6: first of all, as a part of their livelihood, they
Speaker 6: are judged and graded based upon getting the calls right
Speaker 6: or wrong. I don't think they will risk their grades
Speaker 6: being lower just to prove a point to a guy.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, I personally don't think so,
Speaker 6: because that affects by the way, that affects your ability
Speaker 6: to get other games and more preferable games. It affects
Speaker 6: your ability to be able to playoff, Super Bowl, all
Speaker 6: that kind of stuff. Are you willing to give that
Speaker 6: up just to make a point to a guy?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think it's one of those things where, honestly, I
Speaker 6: think it's a judgment call, and I think their judgment
Speaker 6: is hwed by the fact that they don't think he
Speaker 6: can get there, when quite frankly, he could get there.
Speaker 4: And that's the difference.
Speaker 6: And I really believe that when it comes down to it,
Speaker 6: you know, I agree. I think they're humans, so they're
Speaker 6: going to make mistakes. But I think a lot of
Speaker 6: this there's some gray area. It's even with the pass
Speaker 6: I mean with the roughing the passer call. They are told,
Speaker 6: they are told to refit in a way to where
Speaker 6: if there's any doubt that maybe it could have been
Speaker 6: rough in the passer.
Speaker 4: You got one.
Speaker 2: They got one. Yeah, that's how it worked. In that game.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what the league last night. They
Speaker 2: put Bill Vinovitch on that crew in that game last night.
Speaker 2: Bill Venovitch will let you kill each other in a game.
Speaker 3: And I know what.
Speaker 2: I applaud Bill. Sign me up, give me every week
Speaker 2: of Bill Vinovich because he will let the players decide these.
Speaker 4: Doubt I love it. I love it. All right, we
Speaker 4: appreciate you, guys. Jones. We're back tomorrow. We're gonna jump
Speaker 4: into Lions talk about the Lion's office.
Speaker 6: This is going to be an interesting matchup because two
Speaker 6: things have to kind of come into play. They're at home,
Speaker 6: but they're playing a really good team. This is going
Speaker 6: to be an interesting one. We're gonna find out a
Speaker 6: lot of things about this team this weekend. We'll start
Speaker 6: breaking that down tomorrow to then for Patrick Walker. Brian
Speaker 6: brought us in Ambergarcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been
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Speaker 4: Thanks Baby, so you make a good point there.
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