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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, September twenty third, twenty twenty, Season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number twenty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star, got Dave Amber. Dave's actually at the Star
Speaker 1: here today. Amber's at our own home and we've got
Speaker 1: our special guests as we do every Wednesday in third
Speaker 1: see you guys. Welcome man, Bucky Brooks from NFL Network.
Speaker 1: How's it going, Bucky Man? That's all good. How you
Speaker 1: guys doing doing well? And let me just start by saying, Man,
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed having you on the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Been some really good nuggets you've dropped for us. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to what you have to say about
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks team and particularly today the Seattle Seahawks offense.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can give us some reason to believe that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense can stop them, but I'm not really
Speaker 1: optimistic about that. But let's start with the question that
Speaker 1: we ask, like the big, big picture question. I ask
Speaker 1: every week to you tell me what is their greatest asset,
Speaker 1: which we know they probably have a lot, and what
Speaker 1: is their greatest weakness? Talking specifically about Seattle offense, the
Speaker 1: greatest asset is Russell Wilson. And the reason he is
Speaker 1: a valuable asset is because Pete Carroll has finally relented
Speaker 1: to the twelves. The twelve men have been asking for
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll to let Russ cook, and this year he
Speaker 1: has let Russ cook from the beginning of the game
Speaker 1: to the end. And by that, I mean they had
Speaker 1: put the ball in Russell Wilson's hands and allowed him
Speaker 1: to do what he does, which is magical. When you
Speaker 1: look at how Russell has played this year, He's completing
Speaker 1: eighty two percent of his passes, average over three hundred
Speaker 1: yards per game. He has nine touchdowns and only one interception.
Speaker 1: Pass rating of one forty. He is playing like an
Speaker 1: MVP candidate, and this is what the fan base has
Speaker 1: been begging them to do to allow him to really
Speaker 1: throw the ball all over the yard, and he's had
Speaker 1: a ton of success being able to do so. Their
Speaker 1: bigness weakness when you look at it, you would say
Speaker 1: it's still their offensive line. Their offensive line is just
Speaker 1: kind of a collection of misfits and parts kind of
Speaker 1: thrown together and they're kind of finding a way to
Speaker 1: do it. But because Russell is so elusive and they
Speaker 1: can escape, they've been able to have a lot of success.
Speaker 1: Is one of the more remarkable things because when you
Speaker 1: really look at it, I don't know how many blue
Speaker 1: chip players they really have across the board, but when
Speaker 1: you put it all together, it is really working out.
Speaker 1: And part of that is because Russell Wilson is so special. Well,
Speaker 1: last week before the game, we found out that Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown made it into ir and then just recently we
Speaker 1: just heard Mike McCarthy to talk about Chitoga Woozier and
Speaker 1: how he's gonna be out for a few weeks. Can
Speaker 1: you just talk about some of the matchup that we
Speaker 1: might see there with the cornerbacks and the receivers the
Speaker 1: Seattle House, Well, it's gonna be a problem because what
Speaker 1: has happened the last couple of weeks the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and put some bad stuff on tape. And when you
Speaker 1: think about like the way teams attack, I'm sorry because
Speaker 1: you hear my dog in the back round ticking. So
Speaker 1: what they've done, they've put bad stuff on tape, and
Speaker 1: so Woozier and Jordan Lewis in particular, they've had a
Speaker 1: tough time holding up in man coverage. And so the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, the most dangerous part of their passing game
Speaker 1: is when Russell escapes the pocket. And when you have
Speaker 1: a big guy like DK Metcalf who's a big vertical
Speaker 1: stretch player, it is really problematic for those guys with him.
Speaker 1: We saw the work that he gave Stefan Gilmore, who's
Speaker 1: the reigning defensive Player of the Year. And so when
Speaker 1: you think about the dilemma that Mike Nolan has, they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to generate a pass rush with four,
Speaker 1: so they can't really play zone because then quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: too much time. When you do dolled up and go
Speaker 1: man to man with pressure, the guys on the outside
Speaker 1: haven't been able to hold up. So really, I don't
Speaker 1: know how Mike Nolan's going to be able to do
Speaker 1: it unless he gets better performers from Alden Smith, Everson Griffin,
Speaker 1: and to Marcus Lawrence. If anybody has to wear the
Speaker 1: big sumbrero this week, it's the defensive line. They got
Speaker 1: a challenge the defensive line to get home with four
Speaker 1: because you can't expose the cornerbacks down after down to
Speaker 1: man to man coverage. That's a perfect segue, Bucky, because
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, yeah, the pass rush needs to be better,
Speaker 1: or anybody that's watched the Cowboys knows that, and you
Speaker 1: would like to think it's a favorable matchup against Seattle's
Speaker 1: offensive line. But the problem that you already alluded to
Speaker 1: is Russell Wilson. I mean, you can do everything right
Speaker 1: and he still makes you look silly. So what is
Speaker 1: the best strategy for getting after him without creating six
Speaker 1: or seven broken plays that turn into junk games. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the main thing is you still got to
Speaker 1: come after him. You can't just let him sit back
Speaker 1: and have all day, because that is a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 1: Because he is too good in terms of his accuracy
Speaker 1: and efficiency to just pick your part with surgical precision.
Speaker 1: So you have to pick and choose those moments. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this the best. The biggest part of the
Speaker 1: game will be early down situations. Canna, Dallas Cowboys win
Speaker 1: first down many can they hold the Seattle Seahawks the
Speaker 1: four yards of fewer because if you can get the
Speaker 1: Seahawks in the long yard situations, now you can dictate
Speaker 1: the terms. Dallas hasn't been able to do that the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. They haven't been able to really
Speaker 1: get the game on their terms, and so defensively, they
Speaker 1: have to find a way to win early downs. And
Speaker 1: because Seattle has kind of flipped the script before, they
Speaker 1: would run then pass on third down, very predictable, but
Speaker 1: now that they're throwing more, Mike Nolan may have to
Speaker 1: develop some early down pressures to hope that they can
Speaker 1: get them behind the chains and then they can pick
Speaker 1: and choose when they mix in some of the man
Speaker 1: in zone on those second and third down situations. Bucky,
Speaker 1: you've been putting out this article. I don't know if
Speaker 1: all fans know about the five bucks. It's five points
Speaker 1: that you put out on Tuesday. It's great stuff, especially
Speaker 1: yesterday you said McCarthy eats the curve is gambling happening.
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty awesome. But another one you
Speaker 1: said was tempo tempo tempo. You think the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: offense need to have a faster tempo because that was
Speaker 1: what was working against Russell Wilson and this offense. Is
Speaker 1: it smart for the Cowboys to have that high tempo
Speaker 1: and try to score with the seattle here? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I actually think that what the Cowboys can do. I
Speaker 1: think a couple of things when they discovered when they
Speaker 1: go tempo and play faster, not only is Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: in more control, but what it does is allows you
Speaker 1: to dictate the terms to the defense. Meaning Atlanta was
Speaker 1: having a lot of success with the pressure upfront the
Speaker 1: first quarter. They were able to blitz, they were wearing
Speaker 1: them down. But when you play faster, you limit the substitutions.
Speaker 1: Those pass rushers they can rush the entire game at
Speaker 1: the same level. What that also does is when they
Speaker 1: begin to get tired and fatigue, it creates bigger lanes
Speaker 1: for the run game and Ezekiel Elliott. Now the beauty
Speaker 1: of playing with tempo. They can play fast but not
Speaker 1: really play out of control, meaning they can play what
Speaker 1: I call up tempo no huddle, but slow the game down.
Speaker 1: So if you think about how the Rams played against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the first game, Jerry Golf was go, go, go,
Speaker 1: but a lot of times they would sit into line
Speaker 1: wait fifteen ten seconds on the playcock before they would go.
Speaker 1: But what it does is it limits what the defense
Speaker 1: can do from a communication standpoint, so they're reluctant to blitz.
Speaker 1: And then what it does is protect your officsive alignment
Speaker 1: with those undrafted free agents playing on the edges. If
Speaker 1: you can slow down the pass rush from Seattle, you
Speaker 1: give those guys a great chance. We saw that they
Speaker 1: didn't give up many pressures after this went up tempo.
Speaker 1: I think it's something that you have to use. And
Speaker 1: it's also one of the things that Mike mccarthur used
Speaker 1: successfully back in Green Bay. He look at the Seattle
Speaker 1: offense and I want to take it back to Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson right now has been hit as much as
Speaker 1: most of the quarterbacks in the league. He's now taking
Speaker 1: thirteen quarterbacks quarterback hits that ranks them about twenty ninth
Speaker 1: in the league right now. So where on this offensive line,
Speaker 1: I know you set the offensive lines kind of patchwork.
Speaker 1: Where on the offensive line, though, do you think they
Speaker 1: are most susceptible And where do you think there's a
Speaker 1: good matchup for the Cowboys to possibly expoy thinking about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys front Seattle's offensive line. So here's the thing
Speaker 1: about the Seattle Seahawks offensive line. Everybody's vulnerable if you
Speaker 1: can get them into one on one situations. The thing
Speaker 1: that has been concerning because and this is why Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll has been reluctant to let Russ cook, because he
Speaker 1: knows that the best way to protect Russell is to
Speaker 1: really lean on the running game. He knows that by
Speaker 1: leaning on the running game, he can help his offensive
Speaker 1: line because they struggle when they're forced to really get
Speaker 1: pass protection situations. I don't think it's really the matchup.
Speaker 1: I think the deal is Aldus Smith, Everson Griffin, and
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence have to play up to expectations, particularly
Speaker 1: de Marcus Lawrence. And I know he's battling through a
Speaker 1: knee injury in those things, but the expectation coming into
Speaker 1: the year that he was going to be a premier
Speaker 1: pass rusher, we haven't seen that to this point. He
Speaker 1: has to be the guy that set the tone for
Speaker 1: the pass rush. Everson Griffin and Smith were supposed to
Speaker 1: be compliments. They weren't supposed to be the main andree.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to be the side dishes. We need to
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence to step up and be a guy that
Speaker 1: can be a factor because if he can get a
Speaker 1: couple hits early, they then slide the protection. Then you
Speaker 1: will really see Aldus Smith and Everson Griffin have to
Speaker 1: kind of big days that we want to see them happen. Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously in this game, we're gonna see Russell Wilson throwing
Speaker 1: the ball a lot. And you mentioned the running game
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to ask you about that specifically
Speaker 1: because when you talk about Seattle, Russell usually takes the spotlight.
Speaker 1: But how is the running game currently and what does
Speaker 1: how doing them there? Chris Carson has been a great
Speaker 1: discovery for them. I will say this about the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks and what they've been able to do. They've been
Speaker 1: able to take late round players and really develop put
Speaker 1: them in situations where they can see Chris Carson is big, fast, physical.
Speaker 1: They've done a great job of not only use them
Speaker 1: as a runner, but this year we've seen them become
Speaker 1: a bigger part of the passing game, catching screen passes, swings.
Speaker 1: We saw him catch the wheel, routed the railroad down
Speaker 1: the boundary against the New England Patriots. You have to
Speaker 1: deal with him and they haven't gotten to the running game.
Speaker 1: But just no, Pete Carroll wants to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, because they're very aware. The
Speaker 1: last couple of times that the Dallas Cowboys that played
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, Dallas's offense has been able to control
Speaker 1: the game because they've been able to run the ball
Speaker 1: and kind of play keepaway. Pete Carroll is very aware
Speaker 1: of that, and so they may try and come out
Speaker 1: fast and kind of put Dallas in a hole and
Speaker 1: make Dallas chase points. It is a fascinating matchup to
Speaker 1: watch because look, sometimes matchups makes fights, and this is
Speaker 1: a great matchup for what a reason Dallas typically play.
Speaker 1: He's very very well a gains to see how will Seahawks.
Speaker 1: It's another wonderful segue Bucky, thank you, because I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is a great idea, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if the Cowboys have a choice. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we just learned this morning. It doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like Cheeto Woogie is going to be available for the
Speaker 1: foreseeable future. Anthony Brown is already on injured reserve. That
Speaker 1: seems like it leaves Treyvon Diggs as the best option
Speaker 1: to deal with DK Metcalf. Just from a side it
Speaker 1: sounds weird to say have a rookie shadow their best receiver,
Speaker 1: but you don't have a choice in my off base here, No, no,
Speaker 1: I think, actually think it'd be a great twist. And
Speaker 1: here's why. The reason why is because Trayvon Dix has
Speaker 1: been in the SEC He's seen DK Metcalf. So all
Speaker 1: of that superman stuff that DK Metcalf has given the
Speaker 1: rest of the league, Well, when you're Alabama and if
Speaker 1: you dealt with oh Miss, they may have his kryptonite
Speaker 1: and treyvon Dix has the length to go toe to
Speaker 1: toe with him. Now, the thing that you have to
Speaker 1: do if you're treyvon Dix, you have to have a
Speaker 1: plan for how you want to end him, Meaning you
Speaker 1: don't want to go nose to nose each and every
Speaker 1: down with him. Because DK Metcalf welcomes the physicality at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. So maybe you want to play
Speaker 1: a little shadow technique, playoff and make him run. The
Speaker 1: one thing that we'll say about DK Metcalf, if you
Speaker 1: let him get going and do the things that he
Speaker 1: likes to do comfortably in terms of run the vertical rouse,
Speaker 1: he's great, but he's still not a great guy when
Speaker 1: it comes to stopping and starting. You have to challenge him,
Speaker 1: you can't back down, and you have to see if
Speaker 1: he can be the consistent player. He has been great
Speaker 1: through the first two weeks of the season, But is
Speaker 1: that really the DK Metcalf that we think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see for the rest of the time. I think if
Speaker 1: you Trevon Dicks, you have to see if he's really
Speaker 1: that guy, and if he is, you tip your cap,
Speaker 1: you go on and you play the next week. But
Speaker 1: I think you have to challenge him. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can give him easy access and let him have
Speaker 1: the kind of days that we've seen him have the
Speaker 1: last couple weeks. Black he's been the best defensive player
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys team in the first two games. You're
Speaker 1: a pick, I guess, so it's just who's in the
Speaker 1: bad No, I guess. I guess. I would say Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith has been the best in terms of just kind
Speaker 1: of being able to be active and make plays. And
Speaker 1: I know he's undergone a lot of criticism like the
Speaker 1: first week, but I think, um, he's been pretty solid.
Speaker 1: I think the rest of the squad has been up
Speaker 1: and down. I think guys have had moments, but I
Speaker 1: think the most consistent player has been Jalen Smith. And
Speaker 1: I think it's troubling because we thought he would be
Speaker 1: one of the Blue Chippers, but he has to get
Speaker 1: the rest of the game to come along with him.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence and Everson Griffin and all the Smith and
Speaker 1: those other guys. I see everyone making faces. Hey, hey, Bucky,
Speaker 1: just so you know, we had this conversation yesterday at
Speaker 1: Nick throughout Jalen Smith. So he's sitting over there right now,
Speaker 1: just waiting. He's got something for us in the next segment.
Speaker 1: And I laughed at him when he said it, but
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he's got something for me as soon
Speaker 1: as we get to the next the season. I think,
Speaker 1: I don't think he played that great against the Rams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought the Rams was a little shaky, but yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Hey, I mean somebody's I mean, somebody has
Speaker 1: to lead the team in tackles. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: somebody has to be the best player. I mean you
Speaker 1: Gene Lockhart was the best player on the worst team
Speaker 1: back in the eighty nine. That just happens. Somebody's got
Speaker 1: to do. It doesn't mean he's playing well. I thought
Speaker 1: you might say Tristan Hill. Honestly, I mean, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he's played well, but in terms in terms of impact,
Speaker 1: I think Jalen Smith has probably made a greater impact.
Speaker 1: And look, they hadn't made many impactful plays, but I
Speaker 1: think he has been able to kind of step over.
Speaker 1: He was like surprisingly given the calls because they didn't
Speaker 1: expect Lve to go out, and so he's kind of
Speaker 1: had to do a lot. But I think he settled
Speaker 1: in the second game. And let's be honest about the defense. Look,
Speaker 1: the defense didn't play well early, but they did play
Speaker 1: well in spots. They were put in a tough situation,
Speaker 1: a lot of sudden change defense, playing on short fields,
Speaker 1: and they were able to hold the Falcons the field goals.
Speaker 1: It wasn't ideal because they've given up some plays, but
Speaker 1: I think overall there's something he's built up on. I
Speaker 1: think the main thing for Mike Nolan is to identify
Speaker 1: what is the best way to play. And I think
Speaker 1: when we look at Mike Nolan, here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: think we thought he was going to be more aggressive
Speaker 1: than he has been, but I think he's kind of
Speaker 1: had his hands tied behind his back because he hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to really get the coverage from the young
Speaker 1: guys on the outside. I was going to ask you
Speaker 1: the real quick on that touchdown to hayden Hurst and
Speaker 1: Jalen was in there or safety? What was your thought
Speaker 1: on It's hard to say what the Cowboys were asking
Speaker 1: the players to do, but what do you think was
Speaker 1: the breakdown there? I think it was just a blown coverage.
Speaker 1: I think I just think they blew the coverage. I
Speaker 1: think they didn't get it communicated who was responsible for
Speaker 1: everybody and that's why hayden Hurst was running free. And
Speaker 1: look early in the year, when you don't have the
Speaker 1: preseason games, you're going to see some of those things,
Speaker 1: particularly when you're Mike Nolan and you're trying to do
Speaker 1: a lot, meaning you're trying to show different disguises, You're
Speaker 1: trying to mix in a variety of coverage. Unlike your predecessor,
Speaker 1: and so sometimes you get some of those things lost
Speaker 1: in translations and you have some communication issues that league
Speaker 1: guys to run free down the field. I think as
Speaker 1: we kind of continue to get through the first quarter
Speaker 1: of the season, we'll see those things tightened up, because
Speaker 1: this really is kind of like the preseason. They will
Speaker 1: begin to settle in and really understand what they're being
Speaker 1: asked to do, and also Mike Nolan have a better
Speaker 1: feel for what he has and what he's really able
Speaker 1: to do from a play call and standpoint bucket. Before
Speaker 1: we let you go, I didn't want to ask you
Speaker 1: this question about Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson. I've always
Speaker 1: believed that that if you want to compare Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: trajectory as a quarterback to anybody in the league, to me,
Speaker 1: it is Russell Wilson. You saw when both of them
Speaker 1: came into the league. They came in on teams where
Speaker 1: they were not even close to being the most of
Speaker 1: the best thing that their teams did. But over time
Speaker 1: you saw with Russell how he became and is now
Speaker 1: clearly the best thing that they do. He is how
Speaker 1: everything works there. And my personal belief is that Dak
Speaker 1: is on that same trajectory. What have you seen from Dak?
Speaker 1: If you're trying to compare the two, what have you
Speaker 1: seen from Dak that may he says yes he's on
Speaker 1: that trajecty or not quite sure if he's going to
Speaker 1: get there. It's funny during because I completely agree with you.
Speaker 1: I wrote about this last year that I thought the
Speaker 1: blueprint for Dak Prescott has always been Russell Wilson. You
Speaker 1: come in the league and you're given responsibilities as a
Speaker 1: game manager, and as you mature and as the team
Speaker 1: changes around you, you become the central playmaker. I think
Speaker 1: what we're seeing is Dak Prescott is ready to be
Speaker 1: that central playmaker. Yes, the offense still runs through Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott and all those things like Seattle ran through Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lynch for years. But then as Dak has shown more command,
Speaker 1: more control of the huddle the passing game, he's shown
Speaker 1: more confidence and efficiency as a passer. You now can
Speaker 1: trust him do more. And part of my urging for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to play faster is because in that game,
Speaker 1: I felt like he was the epiphany of Oh, he's
Speaker 1: ready to take it over. He's ready to take it
Speaker 1: home because everyone coming into that last game, oh, let's
Speaker 1: see if Dak Prescott can do it. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: the vaunted offensive line, he doesn't have everything around him.
Speaker 1: They've fallen behind early deficit, and all he did was
Speaker 1: show composure, poise and playmaking ability. I think he is
Speaker 1: in line to be that Russell Wilson type quarterback, and
Speaker 1: I think you can make the argument that, look, he's
Speaker 1: bumping up against the top five in terms of being
Speaker 1: in that conversation. I think we are at a time
Speaker 1: where the quarterback play from the young guys in particular
Speaker 1: is great in this league. But I think every conversation
Speaker 1: when we talk about top five quarterbacks, Dak Prescott has
Speaker 1: to be in there with Pat Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Kyla Murray,
Speaker 1: anybody and everybody that you want to put in there.
Speaker 1: There's not a thing that Dak can do that he
Speaker 1: can't do that those guys do. He does everything, and
Speaker 1: so look, I think Russell Wilson is a great model.
Speaker 1: I think he is on that trajectory and I think
Speaker 1: we have to get comfortable thinking that he is a
Speaker 1: Tier one type quarterback. All right, man, great stuff again
Speaker 1: as usual, We'll be back we'll have you back with
Speaker 1: us again tomorrow. We'll talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Seattle defense. We're gonna take our first break and we
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Speaker 1: of the Break Life nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we just finished our segment with Bucky Brooks. Good stuff
Speaker 1: there about the Cowboys defense versus the Seattle Seahawks offense.
Speaker 1: And before we talk a little bit more about that matchup,
Speaker 1: we do need to talk about some injury updates. We
Speaker 1: found out today that Tyren Smith will be working with
Speaker 1: the trainers, and found out DeMarcus Lawrence will miss practice
Speaker 1: for a personal reasons, as coach McCarthy says, good personal
Speaker 1: reason as opposed to I guess a bad personal reason.
Speaker 1: And then the part that um that I don't know
Speaker 1: that we really knew going in, which is at cheet
Speaker 1: Obey A Woozier will be out for multiple weeks with
Speaker 1: an injury. What do you think when you first heard that,
Speaker 1: nick um crap, like like that's not good, Like Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown's out, Cheetos out. Darryl Worley is gonna have to
Speaker 1: play a lot with um, you know, with Jordan and
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs. And you know, my first thought really was,
Speaker 1: does that mean Reggie Robinson's gonna play Okay, okay, get better?
Speaker 1: Not now Brandon Carr We're thrown there. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's I think I said to Dave
Speaker 1: just before the show of like, is Metcalf good locket?
Speaker 1: I mean, are they they? I mean if they run
Speaker 1: in by st to find Gilmore and doing those things
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, then yeah, they might be doing that
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. David Moore made the that's catch of
Speaker 1: the entire night the other night, number three receiver. That's
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive things I've seen in a
Speaker 1: long time. So I thought your troubling. Yeah, I mean not,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Seahawks receiver he made, Like oh
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah. The interesting thing is they got they
Speaker 1: got speed, and then you've got DK Metcalf who's also big,
Speaker 1: and so it's like, how do you match up with that?
Speaker 1: You know, at the time when when Brandon Carr was
Speaker 1: originally here, I know, Brandon was a kind of guy
Speaker 1: where you'd like, okay, if you're gonna have a big receiver.
Speaker 1: You put him up against a big receiver. It's rare
Speaker 1: that you see a guy the size of d Kid
Speaker 1: Matt Metcalf that can also run, right. That's the part
Speaker 1: that's really rough, is how do you like, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you match up with that guy? Because
Speaker 1: it's rare to find size and speed combined like that,
Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna be one of the biggest
Speaker 1: challenges here for the Cowboys. Yeah, that's why I asked
Speaker 1: Bucky that question, is because Treyvon Diggs is the only
Speaker 1: guy on this roster that's healthy. That seems like a
Speaker 1: good idea. I mean, I love Jordan Lewis, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna put him up against the guy that's got three
Speaker 1: four inches on him. I mean that, you know, that's
Speaker 1: what we all. That's that's the snapshot of Treyvon Diggs
Speaker 1: is that he's got rare length and athleticism for a cornerback,
Speaker 1: like guys his size don't typically move as well as him,
Speaker 1: which is that's the case for DK as well. So
Speaker 1: you know, hey, with the best skill set, hopefully Worley
Speaker 1: can stop it up because he had a good training camp.
Speaker 1: I know, last game. He had some plays where it
Speaker 1: wasn't all that great, but hopefully these guys can get
Speaker 1: into this game and take advantage of it. He was
Speaker 1: a guy that was impressive to me during training camp.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Jordan Lewis, and I remember something that
Speaker 1: Brian brought us would always point out about Jordan's is
Speaker 1: his long arms. Like the length of his arms, which
Speaker 1: helps him. But at the same time, you need length
Speaker 1: on your feet and legs so you can be able
Speaker 1: to jump high enough in order to cover people like
Speaker 1: that that are much bigger in size than him. So
Speaker 1: I'm very concerned because this is a position that we
Speaker 1: have been talking about all of season. With these guys
Speaker 1: that were healthy, we were already very concerned and worried,
Speaker 1: and now you got more injured players, so it raises
Speaker 1: more questions. You know, as good as metcalf is and
Speaker 1: and and you know, he's scary just because just looking
Speaker 1: at his measurables. The guy that's scary it scares me
Speaker 1: the most is Locket. I mean that guy, and that's
Speaker 1: where Jordan Lewis will probably be matched up on with.
Speaker 1: But he is really good, I mean, and he's one
Speaker 1: of those players that he can get down the field,
Speaker 1: it makes big plays, but he also over the middle
Speaker 1: and bubble screens, and you know, I know I've had
Speaker 1: him on my fantasy team for a long time, and
Speaker 1: it just he just always seems to get seven eight
Speaker 1: catches a game for eighty ninety yards. I mean, if
Speaker 1: not more than that. So he's he's a problem. So
Speaker 1: how would you guys match up? I mean, obviously, Dave,
Speaker 1: you're you're saying that you would probably go digs. Are
Speaker 1: you saying you travel digs with with with DK? It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's never really been a thing for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It seems like where they like actually exclusively travel a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we lost Dave, I'm thinking we
Speaker 1: may have lost him. Nick would would you? Would you
Speaker 1: agree with that going on? Dave? I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on, Dave, But yeah, I come back. Yeah, you're back?
Speaker 1: With the deal is you're back? Now? How'd you why'd
Speaker 1: you go again? Let's see what you get through it
Speaker 1: this time. I don't know either. And you're in two
Speaker 1: different places, right, it doesn't Yeah, like it ain't even
Speaker 1: my apartment. Yeah, and sorry, anyway, the Cowboys never seem
Speaker 1: to like actually exclusively travel a corner with a receiver, Like,
Speaker 1: that's not something we ever saw under Rod. It's not
Speaker 1: thing that I that that looks like they do, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's only two games, so we'll see so
Speaker 1: every snap. No, but as many times as I can
Speaker 1: get that matchup, I would prefer it because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I just I feel better about his odds than anybody else's.
Speaker 1: That's healthy. You know what I will say though, David,
Speaker 1: when you're when you're trying to do that, Sorry, I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask, when you're trying to do that, what
Speaker 1: are some of the what would you say is the
Speaker 1: advantage or disadvantage between the two different scenarios as to
Speaker 1: why you would prefer or not prefer for him to
Speaker 1: be able to travel with him. I just think he's
Speaker 1: he's the best blend of size and athleticism that they have.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cheeto is another one, but he's not able
Speaker 1: to play, so you know, I mean, Treyvon is what
Speaker 1: he's like six one two something. I mean, he like
Speaker 1: he's got almost safety type size. Then you think about Jordan.
Speaker 1: Jordan's you know, five ten and a half five eleven,
Speaker 1: He's got long arms. Um, but when you do that,
Speaker 1: because you're really talked about that. I'm saying more when
Speaker 1: you when you do that, Let's say he does travel
Speaker 1: with him, what does that mean for the rest of
Speaker 1: the secondary and what does that look like? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a really that's a wonderful question, which I mean you
Speaker 1: mentioned Darryl Worley. I would guess Brandon Carr is going
Speaker 1: to need to be available to play some cornerback. He's
Speaker 1: another guy with size opposite side from where that seems
Speaker 1: like at least an idea. But I guess we're going
Speaker 1: to see how they We're going to have to see
Speaker 1: how they practice them. Yeah. The one thing I will
Speaker 1: say is they've talked about this throughout training camp. They've
Speaker 1: mentioned several times that they really believe a lot in matchups,
Speaker 1: that this is a game of matchups. So it does
Speaker 1: make me wonder if Dave, even though we haven't seen
Speaker 1: that from the old coaching staff very much, if this
Speaker 1: coaching staff looks at it and does agree with you that, Hey,
Speaker 1: if we're looking at a guy like DK Metcalf that
Speaker 1: has this really weird and uncommon blend of size and speed,
Speaker 1: maybe we have to match him up with our guy
Speaker 1: that we think that can manage best manage his size
Speaker 1: and speed. I just think about that play that that
Speaker 1: Diggs was able to break up and maybe almost get
Speaker 1: the interception there when he was covering Julio up. I
Speaker 1: look at that and I say, Okay, that's what you need.
Speaker 1: You need a guy like that if you're going to
Speaker 1: be playing up against DK metcalf right. But you also
Speaker 1: got to remember too, you send matchups that you can
Speaker 1: get yourself in a bad matchup. So just like what
Speaker 1: Amber is just asking, is what happens when you do
Speaker 1: travel players, they can put you in bad matchups. The
Speaker 1: Julio Diggs is a good example of that. Diggs doesn't
Speaker 1: play in the slot very much, and so if you
Speaker 1: if he matches up with a receiver like let's say
Speaker 1: Julio did last week, he runs right past them down
Speaker 1: the field. He's not that much more athletic than than Diggs,
Speaker 1: but he's in a spot where he's not used. But
Speaker 1: do they use DK in the in the slot? I
Speaker 1: don't know. All I'm saying is is when you do that,
Speaker 1: you can put yourself. Well, I travel with him wherever
Speaker 1: he goes. Okay, well I'm putting Jordan Lewis on the
Speaker 1: outside where he's not good, or I'm putting this corner
Speaker 1: on the inside where he's not as good and you
Speaker 1: can be exposed that way as opposed to if you
Speaker 1: just kind of play your game and you know where
Speaker 1: players are, that might be the better solution. But I
Speaker 1: will say this, I don't think it has to be
Speaker 1: all or none. Like they could say when he's on
Speaker 1: the outside. Let's assume they put DK in the slot.
Speaker 1: They could say when he's on the outside, we match
Speaker 1: him up. When they put him in the slot, we're
Speaker 1: gonna bracket him. We're gonna use Jordan and a safety
Speaker 1: to be able to bracket him, to be able to
Speaker 1: better get some coverage around him. Right. So, all I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, I think right now the way they've talked,
Speaker 1: at least during training camp makes me think that every
Speaker 1: week we may see something a little different from this
Speaker 1: defense because they want to create matchups and favorable matchups
Speaker 1: for themselves, both on the offensive and defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. And I'll be interested to see if this
Speaker 1: is one of those weeks who they're willing to do that.
Speaker 1: Real quick, Let's also talk a little bit about Chris
Speaker 1: Carson Right now, he's second on their team in receptions
Speaker 1: with nine, so he is a threat coming out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, probably more so than he is running the ball,
Speaker 1: at least through two games this season. My question for
Speaker 1: you guys is, do you guys look at this and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I think we need to really well we can trust
Speaker 1: our linebackers to be able to handle him coming out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. Or is this a situation where you
Speaker 1: really got to get the safety's more involved, which creates
Speaker 1: even more strain on a secondary it's already got his
Speaker 1: hands full with some of those receivers. Let's start first
Speaker 1: with you, Dave. I know what Bucky said in the
Speaker 1: last segment makes me excited. Are you really again? No,
Speaker 1: you're You're back now, Dave, I know how to fix
Speaker 1: the problem. Come sitting here down at us. Yeah, come
Speaker 1: put your mask on, the whole show of your masks.
Speaker 1: Come on, Nick, Nick, give us. Oh, Dave, I gets
Speaker 1: you're back. Tell us real quick. You were saying something
Speaker 1: about Bucky, which I know what you were saying, but
Speaker 1: go ahead and say that for the people out there listening.
Speaker 1: I know what Bucky said in the first segment, but
Speaker 1: I don't feel great about the Cowboys linebackers and coverage
Speaker 1: right now. It seems like a problem for the time being.
Speaker 1: So but at the same time, like, and I think
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods is off to a really nice start, but
Speaker 1: I don't think of him as a coverage ace either.
Speaker 1: Somebody make me feel better. Yeah, um, I think go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I was just gonna say, I think this
Speaker 1: is a game where you're gonna have to be all
Speaker 1: hands on deck and get a little bit of from
Speaker 1: everyone just because of you know, Bucky just talked about
Speaker 1: the Seattle offense, and we know how Russell Wilson is
Speaker 1: and what he can do. So I think that hopefully
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are able to adjust as the game goes
Speaker 1: on and figure out exactly what combination is better for
Speaker 1: their defense in order to handle their offense. But I
Speaker 1: think it'll it'll just end up being some where where
Speaker 1: hopefully the linebackers are able to chip in more and
Speaker 1: play a little better than they've been playing so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Nine is that a lot of catches.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's second on the team, but I mean
Speaker 1: Dalton Charlts had nine in the game. I mean, but
Speaker 1: he's a running back. He's for running back to be
Speaker 1: averaging five catches a game like that's that's a decent clip.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think he's got at least I
Speaker 1: think five is a decent clip, especially on a team
Speaker 1: like this one, where you know where you got a quarterback. See,
Speaker 1: the thing I think makes it really interesting is you
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that runs, and so when you can
Speaker 1: have a running back that can also get out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, I think now you put a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on the defense to cover all areas of him
Speaker 1: to throw it too. Yeah, absolutely, he can do. Russell
Speaker 1: can do anybody that's open. He's gonna he's gonna find him.
Speaker 1: He's he makes it so tough. But I mean he's
Speaker 1: a tough guy to tackle. Carson. I mean he was
Speaker 1: a problem last year. I remember I think it was
Speaker 1: last year or two years ago, that game where Dave
Speaker 1: was actually saying, Carson, you know, should get the ball
Speaker 1: way more than he does. And he gave it to
Speaker 1: him that game and and we saw why so um
Speaker 1: and that was two years z Zeke has nine receptions
Speaker 1: on the year. Yeah, I mean four or five a game.
Speaker 1: That's that's about what that is. I mean that but
Speaker 1: that's that. But that is but when you start thinking
Speaker 1: about like him ranked in on the teams, Dak is
Speaker 1: what fourth or fifth? I mean fifth? At this point,
Speaker 1: I would think a number of receptions on the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Zeke you mean, I'm sorry, Zeke gets probably probably fifth, right,
Speaker 1: So when you look at that and Carson is second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that that's all the point I'm making is that
Speaker 1: he is an integral part of what they do in
Speaker 1: the passing game, more so than even than Zeke is.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think Gallup has that many catches actually,
Speaker 1: and so maybe it's those others interesting plays and some
Speaker 1: you know, but he hasn't really come on yet with
Speaker 1: with you know, consistent and that's gonna happen. We know
Speaker 1: Schultz has nine at least at least nine because he
Speaker 1: had nine last week, right right? Ten? Ten? All right?
Speaker 1: All right, let's like our final break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we can get some fan questions. Amber got some questions
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Speaker 1: to the final segment of the Break and Amber and
Speaker 1: next week makes you you keep a close distance, I
Speaker 1: mean a far distance. I know sometimes you want to
Speaker 1: come over and talk and everything, but it makes sure
Speaker 1: you stay away. And we're gonna get through this together.
Speaker 1: I mean, they say in the press box. I mean
Speaker 1: that things spread out. I mean, you know so much.
Speaker 1: For twenty years we've been You've been like breaking your
Speaker 1: own ribs having to write write with all these people here,
Speaker 1: and now it's just like hey, I mean David Robert, like, hey,
Speaker 1: are you writing that? Okay? And just as a side note,
Speaker 1: at and T, I did itself again with the food.
Speaker 1: I was not expecting much with COVID, but man, they
Speaker 1: had some good food in there this week. It was
Speaker 1: so good. I don't know. I went home thinking about
Speaker 1: those little tiketos to brisket taketos. Man, I wish I
Speaker 1: could get some more of those. It was so good.
Speaker 1: I was expecting like a ham and cheese sandwich. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a I got a bacon egg and cheese
Speaker 1: croissant with some collops. It was so good, like they
Speaker 1: had like they made like hash brown. Um. They were
Speaker 1: like tater tots with mashed potatoes, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Like it had like cheese and bacons like in it.
Speaker 1: It was, Oh my god. Yeah, anybody eat a gummy bear?
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, you don't waste you don't
Speaker 1: waste calories in the in the AT and T Stadium
Speaker 1: press box on candy, I don't like they got to
Speaker 1: the foods too good, if you agree, Nick disagrees with
Speaker 1: all right, y'all are ready for some questions? Yes, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry sorry, She's like, let's say the Cowboys um once
Speaker 1: again start off with a slow start. How confident are
Speaker 1: you guys, and then turning things around again in the
Speaker 1: second half of the game. Oh, I'm I'm very confident.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they can, if they can do it
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, and I mean obviously not like a twenty
Speaker 1: point whole, but Seattle's Seattle's defense is susceptible, like you
Speaker 1: know that there should be big plays for the for
Speaker 1: the offense to make in the run and the past,
Speaker 1: so I'm not worried about their ability to you know,
Speaker 1: if they happen to fall behind, that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: What does bother me is I just think the world
Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson, and I don't think he's gonna let
Speaker 1: his team squander a second half lead the way the
Speaker 1: Falcons did. Yeah, that's where I'm more skeptical than Dave,
Speaker 1: is it. I don't think they will get in a
Speaker 1: situation where they're not going to match the Cowboys score
Speaker 1: for score. If you get into that second half where
Speaker 1: they have a lead, if the Cowboys get a score,
Speaker 1: I think Russell's gonna go right back and get a score.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be that kind of sea. So I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys have to get out fast in this game,
Speaker 1: because if not, I think, you know, he could be
Speaker 1: pretty ugly. Yeah, well, I do think that when you're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, the style of offense the way the Seahawks
Speaker 1: do and the Falcons do, you can come back phone
Speaker 1: teams like that because they're forced to play a way
Speaker 1: that they don't really want to. Like Atlanta doesn't really
Speaker 1: want to run out the clock. They don't have I mean,
Speaker 1: girly of girley, but that's not really the way they play.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if Seattle plays that way.
Speaker 1: So yes, I agree, he's gonna keep being aggressive regardless
Speaker 1: if he's got a ten point lead or fifteen point lead.
Speaker 1: But I do think you can come back against teams
Speaker 1: like that a little bit more than you would because
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to run the ball a little bit,
Speaker 1: and that's not it's harder to come back against Dallas
Speaker 1: a team like that, because if they could just run
Speaker 1: Zeke all the time, that would be good. But you know,
Speaker 1: I get the impression Seattle's not the kind of team
Speaker 1: that's gonna try to salt the way a win like
Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna keep being aggressive and keep
Speaker 1: their foot on the pedals. So they're still bombing the
Speaker 1: ball out there, and you know, and they got a
Speaker 1: two score lead, like, I mean, I get that, but healthy.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, if they're so as efficient as
Speaker 1: they've been, they might just put up fifty points on you.
Speaker 1: So I just think that's the part that's gonna make
Speaker 1: this a lot harder. You're dealing with a much much
Speaker 1: better offense and than you had in in Atlanta, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, did you see, Yeah, did you see what
Speaker 1: they did? On third and one against the Patriots the
Speaker 1: other night, end of game situation, end of game situation,
Speaker 1: dying minutes, you need a first down and you can
Speaker 1: kneel it out. They bombed at forty yards down field,
Speaker 1: and I remember that it was incomplete, which worked. It
Speaker 1: worked in New England's favor. But if they're willing to
Speaker 1: do that in that situation an skier that that worries me.
Speaker 1: It worries me that how willing they're gonna be to
Speaker 1: air the ball out? I don't think they're gonna be shy? Yep.
Speaker 1: How concern are you guys about them just going on
Speaker 1: the road again? We know that this year because of COVID,
Speaker 1: they're different stadiums that have different capacity of fans and
Speaker 1: loud crowd noises and all of that. How are you
Speaker 1: expecting this game to be? And how he could have
Speaker 1: affect the whole environment? How could the environment affect the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in this game? I'll start This is a break.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those breaks that they
Speaker 1: talk about it because not playing Seattle in that stadium
Speaker 1: like it typically is. I mean, it's been a problem.
Speaker 1: They've won there, but not a lot, and so you
Speaker 1: know they might lose, but it won't be because of that.
Speaker 1: It'll be unless and that being the crowd noise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unless Seattle, you know, figures out a way to pipe
Speaker 1: in some crowd bays. They're gonna pipe in crowd noise
Speaker 1: because everybody has the right to do it. But there's
Speaker 1: only a certain amount of decibels. I think it's seventy
Speaker 1: decibels is the max that you can put on it.
Speaker 1: I would suspect regularly they're well above seventy years. All
Speaker 1: about experience, though, Do you want your quarterback to have
Speaker 1: a fifty starts or one start? You know, they're they're
Speaker 1: decibel guys, got experience, That's all I'm saying. He knows
Speaker 1: how to hype it up. Well, you know, I can
Speaker 1: always just pull out my trusty watch and I can
Speaker 1: tell you how many decimals. Maybe I need to let
Speaker 1: you take that with you. No, you can't have one
Speaker 1: knew that. Derek loves doing that at every stadium. He'll
Speaker 1: pull out the watch and measure. Let's see how loud
Speaker 1: this crowd. I want to know. I want next to you.
Speaker 1: For twenty years, I've never seen you do that all
Speaker 1: the time, and I always did it with Amber because
Speaker 1: I knew she hated it, so I would purposely be like, Amber,
Speaker 1: look how loud it is? You know? So yeah, he'll
Speaker 1: show me. I'm like, get away. Well, I wish you
Speaker 1: would have done it again against the Rams. There's nothing, No,
Speaker 1: there's nothing. Drop something me eating a chip? Probably. Do
Speaker 1: we have time for one last question? Yeah, let's throw
Speaker 1: one in there, all right, last question? Um, we know
Speaker 1: we heard Dak Prescott in the press conference talk about
Speaker 1: how this can become a domino effect and get the
Speaker 1: whole team pumped up and playing at a high level
Speaker 1: and energized. Again, when you look at this game, in
Speaker 1: case they were to lose, what do you think that
Speaker 1: will do to the team as a whole and just
Speaker 1: the spirit of what they're you know, just the whole
Speaker 1: mood of the team if they go on the road
Speaker 1: and lose another game. Dave mean, I think that's one
Speaker 1: of the many reasons why beating the Falcons was so
Speaker 1: important is that, I mean, they're professionals. I would hope
Speaker 1: if they lose, they say, well, that's arguably the best
Speaker 1: player in the league, and you know, one of the
Speaker 1: better teams in the NFC, and we're below five hundred.
Speaker 1: We got to get back to work and beat Cleveland
Speaker 1: so we can keep treading water. Like I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: you want to win every game that you play, but
Speaker 1: I think beating the Falcons gives you the margin for
Speaker 1: error that you're not in deep crap if you lose
Speaker 1: this game. Because even as bad as the NFC East looks,
Speaker 1: oh and three is not the place to be ever.
Speaker 1: You just very rarely do you rebound well from that.
Speaker 1: But one and two, A lot of teams are one
Speaker 1: and two, and you know, Cleveland, Cleveland, It's got Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and after that it's the Giants and at the Cardinals
Speaker 1: Cardinals who the Cardinals looking really good. That's going to
Speaker 1: be a big challenging game that that I don't know
Speaker 1: that we thought of in the same way when the
Speaker 1: schedule first came out. But it's gonna be a challenge,
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be challenge. But all three of them at
Speaker 1: home lost they've just for a second. But what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say about that, sorry about sorry, we'll see
Speaker 1: we'll see you tomorrow. I don't know where I cut off.
Speaker 1: But being Atlanta gives you the leeway that you don't
Speaker 1: have to beat Seattle in my opinion, Well, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and what I was gonna say is, if there's any
Speaker 1: team player wise that understands what it takes to go
Speaker 1: up and then down and then up and then down,
Speaker 1: it would be the Cowboys. I mean, that's how you
Speaker 1: get to the eight and eight land is because you
Speaker 1: you have to come back from a really tough loss.
Speaker 1: But you also didn't really capitalize on the win. And
Speaker 1: I say it for years, I always think that the
Speaker 1: Week two game is the most important game of the
Speaker 1: season because it kind of sets a tone for what
Speaker 1: you're going to be or if you won the first one.
Speaker 1: You know. Of course last year you could say they
Speaker 1: didn't because they got three and oh, but I just
Speaker 1: think you this that was, like Dave said, huge, huge win.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if this team has been a
Speaker 1: very good at capitalizing on those big wins. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: Joe McCarthy can help. I'll look at this from the
Speaker 1: opposite view, which is if the Cowboys should happen to
Speaker 1: be able to go to Seattle and win, I think
Speaker 1: that game last week maybe the turn of this front
Speaker 1: of this team, this particular team starting to realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're up there at the top. Echelon the league, and
Speaker 1: it could put them on a trajectory to where they
Speaker 1: end up being one of the best teams in NFC.
Speaker 1: You see that all the time with teams. They have
Speaker 1: that moment. There are moments in seasons where teams are
Speaker 1: successful where you're like, that was a moment. When you
Speaker 1: go back and look at totality of the season at
Speaker 1: the end, you find these little moments where it kind
Speaker 1: of changed for them. That could be a moment for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys if they can go to Seattle and win.
Speaker 1: This is a great test for them, I think, and
Speaker 1: we're about to find out if they can use that
Speaker 1: last week as a springboard or if it's just going
Speaker 1: to be another game that they just barely eked out
Speaker 1: and they're right back to doing what they do and
Speaker 1: you're right back to that five hundred football that they've
Speaker 1: been in the situation they've been in for so many years.
Speaker 1: All Right, we appreciate you guys joining us. We'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We're gonna talk about Cowboys offense versus Seattle defense.
Speaker 1: Till then for Nick Eatman, Dave helm and Amber Garcia.
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