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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, September twenty fifth, two thousand eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Season fourteen, episode number forty seven. Welcome to another edition

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Speaker 1: Up the Break, live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and

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Speaker 1: here from the s WBC Mortage studio is at the Star.

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Speaker 1: It is a Tuesday. It's big picture Tuesday. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a big picture look at this team you're Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and give you, guys, kind of our thoughts on

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Speaker 1: where this team sits right now through three games, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll have something that we can tell you that

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Speaker 1: here's you hope, God, I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to say at that point. No, but we'll see

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Speaker 1: how it goes. We'll see how it goes. I mean it,

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Speaker 1: hope for what hope? Well, effs, I guess that's a

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Speaker 1: good good playoffs. I mean playoffs. I mean, hope for what,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna go out and score points, play win games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, go to the super Bowl, something that'll

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Speaker 1: make fans a lean. Half the thing is is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, you look around the league and you're like, wow,

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Speaker 1: one and two, one and two. I mean there's probably

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Speaker 1: a couple of one and two teams, maybe a few

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Speaker 1: so early right now, the whole league is turned upside down.

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Speaker 1: You really don't know what to expect. I mean, in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter, everybody was tweeting about how this is tragic,

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Speaker 1: like fits tragic, And the next thing you know, you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this guy's not bad, Like he's not losing his job.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everything changes in a quarter or two. So

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Speaker 1: it's still early in the season, it is, And I

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Speaker 1: I was talking about that yesterday, like, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks have the same record as the Cowboys, but they

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Speaker 1: probably feel a lot better about it than the Cowboys do.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, it's it's just it's the trend. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I looked it up afterday This is thirteen

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Speaker 1: point seven points per game over the first three games.

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Speaker 1: To start a season is as bad as it's been

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety. For the Dallas Cowboys, Gosh, nineteen nineteen

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Speaker 1: the lowest scoring average to open a season in the

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Speaker 1: first three games since nineteen ninety. That team went seven

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Speaker 1: and nine. Worse than that, they averaged nine point three

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Speaker 1: the year before that, when they went one in fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and every team that's even been close to scoring that

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Speaker 1: the twenty twelve team first three games was fifteen point

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Speaker 1: seven points. They went eight and eight, And then there

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Speaker 1: the Campo years, when they weren't good like that. It's early,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely early, and things can definitely change. But the

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Speaker 1: trend over three weeks is very bad about well, no,

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Speaker 1: because and I'm I'm being facetious, but I said this

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Speaker 1: It's never like it never stays the same as it's

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Speaker 1: they sucked for a month, remember that the Vikings game,

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Speaker 1: the second Giants game, Like they forgot how to play

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Speaker 1: offense for a month. Last year, they had their ups

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Speaker 1: guarantee you that. Who knows how long it'll last. But

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Speaker 1: NFL season is a steadily evolving thing. It's not set

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Speaker 1: in Week three. Here's the thing that I wanted to

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Speaker 1: one of the questions he was asked was about whether

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Speaker 1: he's ready to push the panic button, and his response was,

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Speaker 1: I like our players, I like our coaching staff. I

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Speaker 1: The answer is no. A question for you guys, are

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Speaker 1: I think you get that urgency is not his thing.

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Speaker 1: just saying, you have an idea of what you're trying

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Speaker 1: So whatever they're doing, let's go it deep to table on,

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of that as well, But but I

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Concrete Cowboy. I think the food's

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Speaker 1: really their food is speaking of Concrete Cowboy. Tonight at

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Speaker 1: foods delicious. I never I never thought of the food

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Speaker 1: at Concrete Cowboy before. It's good. It's pretty good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I exactly go out there and dance and nary night

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Speaker 1: dance on table, you know the funny things. I had

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Speaker 1: a Concrete Cowboys story when I was I was maybe

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Speaker 1: four or five months ago. I had some friends of

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Speaker 1: we were going out. So we decided we're gonna go out.

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Speaker 1: we don't want to go home and go gass some

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Speaker 1: drinks somewhere. And somebody said, well, whyn't we go up

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Speaker 1: to the Star I go to Concrete Cowboy. I'm like, man,

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Speaker 1: that's fine, I've heard good things about it. We go

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Speaker 1: in there was liddy let me just say it. At

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Speaker 1: one point there was a table full of people dancing

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Speaker 1: on the table and I was like, whoa, Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: the scene we got. I have not did you go

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Speaker 1: up and talk to Dave or did you you don't

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Speaker 1: know me at all? Many there we go, There we go. Hey.

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Speaker 1: I had a very similar story just with hanging out

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Speaker 1: with one guy tried to go to Concrete Cowboy like

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Speaker 1: one thirty in the morning. He's wearing like Nike dry

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Speaker 1: fit stuff and they're like, nah, may not happening. So

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Speaker 1: with the sushi Marquis, No, it was it was. It

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Speaker 1: was a club, it was it was. This was a

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Speaker 1: late night Saturday. I think it was like a Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: That is not my scene. The people from Virginia right

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Speaker 1: now that a listener like, I'm not going up there

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Speaker 1: just talking about the offense. Yeah, probably go that's okay. Though,

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Speaker 1: that's okay they can. But if you're close, come to

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Speaker 1: the Star. If you're gonna go to the game, like

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Speaker 1: this weekend or something like that, you want to come

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Speaker 1: over here. There's some things to do. I had four

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Speaker 1: big picture questions that I was going to ask you guys.

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Speaker 1: We took so long in the first segment. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna get to all four, and I

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Speaker 1: kind of have a feeling this next one might take

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Speaker 1: us most of the rest of the show, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about it anyway. Um No, Actually, I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say that one, because that's gonna be a whole

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Speaker 1: show onto itself. I think, okay, but there's I think

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Speaker 1: that all of this happening with the offense, um it

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Speaker 1: begs the question did the Cowboys make the right decision

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Speaker 1: with regards to its wide receiver position. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can take this, and I'd

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Speaker 1: love to hear your opinions. I think you can take

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Speaker 1: it from the standpoint and did they make the right

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Speaker 1: decision with Dez? Do they make the right decision in

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Speaker 1: free agency? Should they have gone after a I like

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Speaker 1: Watkins who it was rumored that they were trying to

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Speaker 1: go and get you. They have maybe even willing to

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Speaker 1: spend more money to get him. Should they have evaluated

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Speaker 1: it differently in the draft? And maybe draft? As Dave

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Speaker 1: told me this morning, every wide receiver in the draft,

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Speaker 1: including Calvin Ridley, was available to them in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Should they have maybe considered making that first round pick

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver? Have they mis evaluated what they can

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Speaker 1: do with the wide receiver position. Knowing what you have

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Speaker 1: at quarterback and how he has played, does he need

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Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver a difference making wide receiver

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Speaker 1: or are they still okay with the strategy they have.

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Speaker 1: Now you want to jump on this first, I'll start.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know my stance on Ridley when I

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Speaker 1: watch what he's done, and I've heard people will tweet,

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Speaker 1: you know, wow, why did the Cowboys do that? I

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Speaker 1: don't think it matters because I don't think Ridley is

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Speaker 1: First of all, he's not you know, he wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: opposite of somebody like Julio Jones over here, and he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have a Matt Ryan type quarterback throwing him the ball.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's a totally different situation. They

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Speaker 1: have a better overall offense, hands down, So in a

547
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Speaker 1: lot of receivers, you can you can make that case

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Speaker 1: for I think it does stem back to the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if a number one receiver, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he'd help, he'd help here, you know for sure. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that they looked at it like

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Speaker 1: they they had a chance to kind of help some

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Speaker 1: other things and get some you know, good quality route

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Speaker 1: running receivers. But that's not working like that, that's not

555
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Speaker 1: it's not working right now. But I still think that

556
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Speaker 1: they need to throw the ball deep more. And you

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Speaker 1: know what. I was going to ask you a question yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I forgot to do this. You were in dak Um

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Speaker 1: press conference after the game. Yeah, and if you just

560
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Speaker 1: if you just listen to it, not a big deal.

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Speaker 1: But if you put it out on tram, you know,

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Speaker 1: like just put it out on paper and look at

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Speaker 1: a quote, He says. I'm still shocked that it didn't

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Speaker 1: blow up me either, because if you just if you

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Speaker 1: just put it like on Instagram and just put the

566
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Speaker 1: quote and says we need to throw the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field more. We need to take more shots down

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Speaker 1: the field. He says that, I mean he kind of

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Speaker 1: I think everyone was kind of surprised at what he

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Speaker 1: was looking like. I mean he was a little different,

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Speaker 1: different post game attire and you know, had all down

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It's so different. He said that,

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Speaker 1: And I only did he say he said twice. He

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Speaker 1: was like, it's not that they're taking it away, it's

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Speaker 1: just that we haven't tried it. Well, but here's my thing.

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Speaker 1: He could have easily said, we just haven't tried here's

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Speaker 1: the follow up question that who's who's at fall for? That?

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Speaker 1: Is it that it's not being called but no running

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Speaker 1: down the field. That's my question, is is it not

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Speaker 1: being called or is it that Dak feels like when

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Speaker 1: he says we held includes himself and that he's not

582
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Speaker 1: taking those shots because we've seen some of that earlier

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Speaker 1: in like I know that that play that he had

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Speaker 1: where he had um Swain opened down the field in

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Speaker 1: the end zone, like he didn't take that. He didn't

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger on and he had a guy open.

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Speaker 1: So is it partially him or is it partially the

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Speaker 1: But think about called fifty yards and and that was

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Speaker 1: like twenty five yard line. He's he's vertical down there,

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Speaker 1: But I'm talking about down the field deep balls. We

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Speaker 1: don't even see them running like, oh man, there he is,

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Speaker 1: Like he was running down there and he had I

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Speaker 1: mean they did the last game and it worked once

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Speaker 1: out of three times. Giants. Yeah, I know, But I'm

595
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Speaker 1: saying last week, it's not like you saw these verticals

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Speaker 1: that he didn't. Ah, he could have gone to gallop there,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't. Like they're not being called. I'll steal

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Speaker 1: a line from Garrett Well and no verticals that going

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Speaker 1: sixty yards? No, But I think Garrett said it like

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Speaker 1: three times yesterday, like every every play they call has

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Speaker 1: a deep route of intermediate routes kind of checkdown route,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, I know that it's making the

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Speaker 1: rounds on Twitter, like his throat of Zeke that Zeke

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Speaker 1: dropped Cole Beasley was probably open, like further down the field.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to tell from like screen grabs, like he

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Speaker 1: probably could have gotten it to him, but he had

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Speaker 1: Zeke with a step on the linebacker way easier. So

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Speaker 1: I don't fault him for that. Certainly, certainly they're not

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Speaker 1: throwing it down the field enough. But again I go

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Speaker 1: back to, you know, the Tavon play was nice, Like

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think Dak's gonna win just consistently

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Speaker 1: chunking those types of balls, but they got to be

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Speaker 1: able to go deep. Again, not deep, but more than

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Speaker 1: ten yards down the field. But if he does it more,

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Speaker 1: if Tavon runs by a guy, he can run by

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Speaker 1: a guy on any play. If he runs by a

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Speaker 1: guy once a quarter, then in the third quarter when

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Speaker 1: he does a stop route at the you know, after

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Speaker 1: ten yards, he's probably wide open. There's no doubt that.

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Speaker 1: So defenses and I mean, we saw this coming even

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Speaker 1: when we were optimistic about these wide receivers. Gary Brown

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Speaker 1: said it back in May is like, give me a

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Speaker 1: lot of stack boxes. There's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 1: defenders near the line of scrimmage until these receivers can

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Speaker 1: prove that they don't that they can't be there, which

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Speaker 1: hadn't been the case so far, Which to your which

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Speaker 1: I don't have a good answer, to be honest with

628
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Speaker 1: any like, I don't think this offense would look remotely

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Speaker 1: different with Dez Bryant and it. Honestly, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it would. And he might have more yards, he'd certainly

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Speaker 1: have more targets. I don't think it would look different

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Speaker 1: or better. The fact is we saw it last year

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Speaker 1: when when they started this, as you were saying, it was,

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Speaker 1: what's nine or ten games with offense has been kind

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Speaker 1: of anemic. He was a part of that last year

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Speaker 1: for most of those games. He was a part of that.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think this is something where we didn't

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Speaker 1: get a chance to see Dez and we just all

639
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden assumed he couldn't that he wasn't going

640
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641
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: about Dez and I don't think they you know, I

642
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: think they probably did the right thing and they don't

643
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Speaker 1: need to go get him back and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it wasn't like this was late December

645
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646
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647
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648
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Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. I mean, would you would die

649
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Speaker 1: for a play like that right now where a guy

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652
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653
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654
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655
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656
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Speaker 1: ball that should have been a first down and was

657
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: an interception instead, it didn't come back with his cap

658
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: hit was is way bigger than Michael Gallas, which I

659
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Speaker 1: love Dez. I don't necessarily know that they needed to

660
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: or should have cut him, but I don't think he

661
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: would be making a big difference right now. And that

662
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: same thing, which I don't like what I'm about to say,

663
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: Like I don't think Calvin Ridley and or Dj Moore

664
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: would be making a drastic difference here, and I'm not

665
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: These receivers aren't just like wide open and Dak is

666
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: missing him. But like, it comes down to quarterback play.

667
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I think you could probably be doing

668
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,200
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671
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,920
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672
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: thank god they didn't do that. Their quarterback will sling it.

673
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: If he's open, God, he would have found him. So yeah,

674
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Speaker 1: and and I will ask that question. I guess I'll

676
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: ask the question, is Dak the quarterback or should he

677
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Speaker 1: let's get back into it. We've been talking a lot

731
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: about a lot of things on this team. We've talked

732
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: loosely about the quarterback. But now I want to ask

733
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: you guys a very pointed question based on what you've

734
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: seen from Dak Prescott over the course of his career,

735
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: because I don't think you can just take the last

736
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: ten games. You got to think about that first year

737
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: when he did some pretty amazing things. Do you think

738
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: right now, based upon what you know, that Dak Prescott

739
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: is the guy that will be the quarterback of the

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00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: future for the Cowboys, or should be the quarterback of

741
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: the future for the Cowboys, or do you think the

742
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: Cowboys need to start looking at other options, even if

743
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 1: that means you get to the end of the season,

744
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: you're looking in the draft, you're looking in free agency. Well,

745
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 1: I think these next you know, thirteen games or whatever,

746
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: and they're going to be thirteen games probably for him,

747
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: because it's not like you've got a backup option that

748
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to. I don't I don't see that

749
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: happening at all. If they had a veteran guy in here.

750
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 1: I think we would be talking about it a little

751
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: bit if they had a veteran and you think that

752
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: might be the reason why they didn't have one. Other

753
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: reasons we don't have one maybe, But anyways, I think,

754
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: as what we know right now, he's got to be

755
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: better than this. He's got to his arrows got to

756
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,959
Speaker 1: go up for him to be the quarterback of the future.

757
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: He's got to show us more than he show because

758
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 1: if it's just like this, up down, up down, up down,

759
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: and it ends with this season, I think the Cowboys

760
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: are going to draft a quarterback in the draft. I

761
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 1: mean one hundred percent believe that now. He's gonna have

762
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: to be better than that. He's gonna to show us, oh,

763
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: look at that, look at that he can play better,

764
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: and maybe they runs the ball better and all that stuff,

765
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: But as what we've seen right now, I think if

766
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: it continues, I think they get a new quarterback next year.

767
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of it is, which I answered a

768
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: tweet about this this morning, is this is a hot

769
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: take society. Like everybody like you know, you're supposed to

770
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: have a firm opinion on this. I don't have to.

771
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: And that's what I said this summer when I said

772
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott has more pressure on him than anybody in

773
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Speaker 1: this organization right now, And did I mean has from

774
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: the beginning, Because if Jason Garrett gets fired, he's gonna

775
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: fall back on a ton of money that he already

776
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: got and he can have a job in the NFL

777
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: a week later doing something. Dak Prescott, this is the

778
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: dividing line between are you a guy who had a

779
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: great year and we talk about you five years from

780
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: now the way we talk about RG three, or are

781
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: you going to be the face of a franchise like

782
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: that's what this season's all about. And that's a huge disparity.

783
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: It is trending one way right now, but we got

784
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: thirteen more games to figure it out, and I think

785
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: about I think about twenty fifteen and even in twenty sixteen,

786
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: you had an aging, you know, all pro caliber quarterback

787
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: in Tony Romo, which he was, he was your guy.

788
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: He gets hurt and you're just scrambling. You're like, we

789
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to stay afloat. You remember twenty fifteen,

790
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: we got to find a way to if we can

791
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: go five hundred when Tony gets back, if if you know,

792
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: it sounds ridiculous now, but in twenty sixteen, like, if

793
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: Dad can do the job until Tony gets back, we'll

794
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: be fine. Obviously, it went way better than anybody expected

795
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: and let us down this road that we're on right now.

796
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 1: But this isn't that team. This team is a blank slate.

797
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: With the exception of Sean Lee, your whole defense is

798
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: more or less in place. I can't imagine the Cowboys

799
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: are going to let de Marcus Lawrence get away from

800
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: him the way he's starting this season out. Your defense

801
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: is in place for the foreseeable future. Your offensive line,

802
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: as shaky as they've been, is in place for the

803
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: foreseeable future. Quarterbacks a blank slate. You're gonna try to

804
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 1: bench Dak Prescott right now, and you know and scramble

805
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: for worst quarterback play or are you going to let

806
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: this thing play out and figure out if you've got

807
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: a real quarterback? Which I know that's not what a

808
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: fan wants to hear. Who like, you know, you want

809
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Speaker 1: to be able to talk crap to your co workers

810
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Speaker 1: on Monday, and you want that great feeling of winning.

811
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Speaker 1: But if you pull back and look at this in

812
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: the big picture, that's what's important is figuring out if

813
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is your guy, And that's what these next

814
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: thirteen weeks are for. If he's you know, if he

815
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: doesn't have it and the Cowboys are terrible, it's not

816
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: going to be a fun season. But you will have

817
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: a clear answer, you know, by December thirtieth, of what

818
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: you need to do. If he climbs out of this

819
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: and is you know, back to being the guy that

820
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: we saw in twenty sixteen and this team wins ten

821
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: eleven games, it's a different conversation. But I don't know

822
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: right now, but we will know, and you know, it'll

823
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: be interesting how he plays. Is there a new coach

824
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: here in January? Not saying there will be, but if

825
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: there is, his input will matter. He's still under contract

826
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: for a year. It's not like you have to get

827
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: rid of the guy. You could bring a whole new

828
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: guy in here and he could revamp his career the

829
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: way Sean McVay did for Jared Goff. But that I

830
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: view this as a thirteen week audition to figure out

831
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: if Dak Prescott is worthy of a one hundred million

832
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Speaker 1: dollars investment. Basically, I'm gonna take you down an off shoot.

833
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: You said your offensive lines in place here for foreseeable future?

834
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: Are you at all Wait? Are you at all concerned

835
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: about that? Because I think we all coming into this

836
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: year felt like number one, the offensive line is the

837
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: best unit they had on this team, and number two

838
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: you had him for a long time. You take Frederick

839
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: out of the mix, and all of a sudden, for

840
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're not looking like the offensive line we've

841
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: been used to seeing the last couple of years. Are

842
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: you now concerned about the statement that they're the best

843
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: unit that you have and number two, they're in place

844
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. I don't want to hear another

845
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: word about them being vaunted or highly touted until they

846
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: start playing better. Yeah. No, how could you not be concerned?

847
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: Tyrann Smith? This is his eighth year. I mean, like

848
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 1: he's ancient by NFL standards, and you know, not necessarily

849
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: about offensive lineman standards. Right, No, no, And I don't

850
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Speaker 1: think Tyren Smith is a bad player. I don't think

851
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Speaker 1: this offensive line is a bad line. There's no doubt

852
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: it has dipped. It is something you should be worried

853
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: about us. I mean, you know it's not his fault,

854
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Speaker 1: but you don't know what Travis Frederick is or will

855
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Speaker 1: be in the future. Lyle Collins, I've been his biggest defender.

856
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Speaker 1: He has not played like the guy that I insisted

857
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Speaker 1: he was in the second half of last year. It's

858
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: definitely something to watch. It is still a functioning and

859
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: competent offensive line. I mean, you know we're not This

860
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Speaker 1: isn't Seattle. I know that they won that game, but

861
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Speaker 1: they would love to have this offensive line, I promise you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not to go back to the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the show. I'm not hitting the panic button, like you

864
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: can play and win games with this offensive line. And

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Speaker 1: but and it kind of goes back to my point,

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Speaker 1: this could be a blank slate, like you built that

867
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Speaker 1: offensive line to help prolonged Tony Romo's career. Right, Well,

868
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: if you're getting a new quarterback, you can start this

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Speaker 1: thing all over again. You can draft, you can sign

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Speaker 1: free agents, you can do things to address it. But

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Speaker 1: you have Tyrn, Connor, Zach. Yeah, you have Tyrn, Connor

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Speaker 1: and Zach under contract for the foreseeable future. And I

873
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: think that's a start at least. I mean, I don't.

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Speaker 1: It's concerning, but it's it's not time to hit the

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Speaker 1: panic button. Yeah, I agree with that. The one thing

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Speaker 1: I will say, though, is I do think that the

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Speaker 1: way the Cowboys want to play, I think, and with

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00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: what they have, the other pieces they have around, I

879
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: think it's not going to be good enough for this

880
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: offensive line to be pretty good. I think this offensive

881
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: line is gonna have to be exceptional in order for

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00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: them to be successful in twenty eighteen. Yes, for these

883
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: next thirteen games, they gotta get better, but this team

884
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: could go in a completely new direction next right, and

885
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: we don't know that. I'm saying, as far as the

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00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: strategy that they've kind of put out there, this is

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Speaker 1: how we're gonna play football. We're not gonna worry about

888
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: having a number one wide receiver. We're gonna have complimentary receivers.

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00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna be focused on having a great running game.

890
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: We're trying to build our defense to being a great

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00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: defense in order to do that well, and to do

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00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: that exceptionally, I mean, the offensive line is gonna have

893
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: to be exceptional, in my opinion, or to do that well,

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Speaker 1: especially with the quarterback you has that looks like he's

895
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to feel comfortable, because it doesn't seem like

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00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: he feels comfortable all the time. The blueprint they have

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00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: put down for themselves, with the way they've drafted the

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Speaker 1: linemen and Zeke and all that, it's it's not working

899
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Speaker 1: right now. It's not working well enough, which that's a

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Speaker 1: problem that we have to figure out in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: But and again this is all hypothetical, but draft a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the top ten. This offensive line is probably

903
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Speaker 1: good enough to let him sling the rock around a

904
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Speaker 1: little bit. So it could all change in the coming months,

905
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Speaker 1: which we will see. Yeah, Nick, Nick, at this point,

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Speaker 1: would you shuffle this offensive line? Are you? Are you

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Speaker 1: at a point now where you're worried enough to where

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Speaker 1: you would shuffle things around. Well, while Dave was talking here,

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Speaker 1: I thought about the right tackle. I thought about I

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Speaker 1: wonder if they what they viewed Connor Williams as a tackle.

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Speaker 1: I know that they wanted him as a guard and

912
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: that was where the need was. But I wonder if

913
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Speaker 1: they how they projected him at tackle. I don't know

914
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Speaker 1: about flipping him right now, maybe Lyle back to guard,

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Speaker 1: Maybe Cameron Fleming on the right side. You Cameron Fleming,

916
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Speaker 1: though you're gonna with Tyron the way he is. I

917
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: think right now you might need, you know, need to

918
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Speaker 1: hang on to that that spot right there. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's something worth talking about, um,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't know if that's really the issue.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'd never liked Lyle as a guard.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty good as a tackle, and

923
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Speaker 1: he's been pretty good, but I don't I don't really

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Speaker 1: like him as a guard so much. But then again,

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Speaker 1: Connor Williams was a tackle in college. Maybe he's better

926
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Speaker 1: at right tackle. I I got him and panic button again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think you do it. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a knee jerk reaction. Lyle's got to play better, Tyrn's

929
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Speaker 1: gotta play better. I think, all things considered, I think

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Speaker 1: Joe and Connor are holding up fairly well, like they

931
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Speaker 1: are not sinking this offense. I do not think. Um.

932
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Speaker 1: I think they both have moments where it's like and

933
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Speaker 1: that's the thing about an offensive linement. This was the

934
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Speaker 1: the to me, the narrative on Doug Free. You could

935
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Speaker 1: have a pretty good game. You could have two or

936
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Speaker 1: three bad plays, and two or three bad plays turned

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Speaker 1: to sacks, and now everybody's like, he had a horrible game, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what's happening with Connor Right now.

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Speaker 1: He holds up pretty well most of the time he

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Speaker 1: gets but it's gonna be, Yeah, there's gonna be one

941
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Speaker 1: or two three times in a game where it's like, wow,

942
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Speaker 1: he just got beat really bad. Right, It's it's not

943
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Speaker 1: bad enough that I'm trying to shuffle the line in

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Speaker 1: week three, right week four? Now, that's just me. All right.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys joining us. We are back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We are going to jump into Cowboys versus Lions. That'll

947
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Speaker 1: be an interesting matchup, not as not the game that

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Speaker 1: we thought it was gonna be maybe a week ago,

949
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Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that tomorrow. We'll get into the Cowboys, sorry,

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Speaker 1: the Lions offense versus the Cowboys Defense to then for

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Speaker 1: Nick Eaton, Dave Helm and I'm Derek Eagleson. This has

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Speaker 1: been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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