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Speaker 1: wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, September twenty fifth, two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: Season fourteen, episode number forty seven. Welcome to another edition
Speaker 1: Up the Break, live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
Speaker 1: here from the s WBC Mortage studio is at the Star.
Speaker 1: It is a Tuesday. It's big picture Tuesday. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a big picture look at this team you're Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys and give you, guys, kind of our thoughts on
Speaker 1: where this team sits right now through three games, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll have something that we can tell you that
Speaker 1: here's you hope, God, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to say at that point. No, but we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes. We'll see how it goes. I mean it,
Speaker 1: hope for what hope? Well, effs, I guess that's a
Speaker 1: good good playoffs. I mean playoffs. I mean, hope for what,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go out and score points, play win games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, go to the super Bowl, something that'll
Speaker 1: make fans a lean. Half the thing is is that,
Speaker 1: you know, you look around the league and you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: one and two, one and two. I mean there's probably
Speaker 1: a couple of one and two teams, maybe a few
Speaker 1: that are going to make the playoffs. I mean it's
Speaker 1: so early right now, the whole league is turned upside down.
Speaker 1: You really don't know what to expect. I mean, in
Speaker 1: the second quarter, everybody was tweeting about how this is tragic,
Speaker 1: like fits tragic, And the next thing you know, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy's not bad, Like he's not losing his job.
Speaker 1: I mean, everything changes in a quarter or two. So
Speaker 1: it's still early in the season, it is, And I
Speaker 1: I was talking about that yesterday, like, you know, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks have the same record as the Cowboys, but they
Speaker 1: probably feel a lot better about it than the Cowboys do.
Speaker 1: Having said that, it's it's just it's the trend. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I looked it up afterday This is thirteen
Speaker 1: point seven points per game over the first three games.
Speaker 1: To start a season is as bad as it's been
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety. For the Dallas Cowboys, Gosh, nineteen nineteen
Speaker 1: the lowest scoring average to open a season in the
Speaker 1: first three games since nineteen ninety. That team went seven
Speaker 1: and nine. Worse than that, they averaged nine point three
Speaker 1: the year before that, when they went one in fifteen,
Speaker 1: and every team that's even been close to scoring that
Speaker 1: few points has been pretty bad. The mid you know,
Speaker 1: the twenty twelve team first three games was fifteen point
Speaker 1: seven points. They went eight and eight, And then there
Speaker 1: were some teams in the early two thousands, you know,
Speaker 1: the Campo years, when they weren't good like that. It's early,
Speaker 1: it's definitely early, and things can definitely change. But the
Speaker 1: trend over three weeks is very bad about well, no,
Speaker 1: because and I'm I'm being facetious, but I said this
Speaker 1: too though. I mean, it's a it's a seventeen week season.
Speaker 1: It's never like it never stays the same as it's
Speaker 1: supposed to, for good or bad. I mean, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: they sucked for a month, remember that the Vikings game,
Speaker 1: the second Giants game, Like they forgot how to play
Speaker 1: offense for a month. Last year, they had their ups
Speaker 1: and downs. They looked like the best offense in the
Speaker 1: league for a month, they look terrible. Like it's gonna change.
Speaker 1: It will be better at some point this season. I
Speaker 1: guarantee you that. Who knows how long it'll last. But
Speaker 1: NFL season is a steadily evolving thing. It's not set
Speaker 1: in Week three. Here's the thing that I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about today. Earlier this morning, Jerry Jones had his
Speaker 1: weekly call with the guys over at the Fan and
Speaker 1: one of the questions he was asked was about whether
Speaker 1: he's ready to push the panic button, and his response was,
Speaker 1: I like our players, I like our coaching staff. I
Speaker 1: think your question is have I hit the panic button?
Speaker 1: The answer is no. A question for you guys, are
Speaker 1: you ready to panic yet? And should fans panic yet?
Speaker 1: Based upon what they've seen so far and the possibilities
Speaker 1: of them being better this season? What does panic mean?
Speaker 1: Whatever you wanted to me, Yeah, but think about it.
Speaker 1: Let's really break down. What if Jerry was hitting the
Speaker 1: panic button? What is that mean? Though? Panic button means
Speaker 1: like some kind of tragic situation, We got to get
Speaker 1: the hell out of here or something. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: time to evacuate. But what does the panic button mean
Speaker 1: to this team? The coach? Are you worried about it?
Speaker 1: I mean, are you worried that they are gonna be
Speaker 1: what we see? Worried about what his football team? He's
Speaker 1: got to be worried about his football team because his
Speaker 1: offense can't score and they haven't been able to score
Speaker 1: since last year, and the backup behind the quarterback looked
Speaker 1: horrible in the preseason. So there's no recourse there, there's
Speaker 1: no changing, there's no Fitzpatrick there. So yeah, he's worried
Speaker 1: about the offense. There's no doubt he's got to be
Speaker 1: panic button, though, I mean, I don't know what that
Speaker 1: really means other than firing people or having them change
Speaker 1: their jobs. I think the point of the question, whether
Speaker 1: it's the right wording or not, the point of the
Speaker 1: question is are you worried that what you've seen so
Speaker 1: far is the trend and that's what you should expect
Speaker 1: from the year's team for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: If it is, you should be you should be worried.
Speaker 1: So the question is if what is what you've seen,
Speaker 1: is that an aberration or is that what you're going
Speaker 1: to expect to see still, And I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: to what Dave actually wrote on the board up there.
Speaker 1: You wrote, you know, just to the story that you
Speaker 1: wrote already, you said, Jerry changes. Yeah, That's what I
Speaker 1: think you're saying, is is that to the point where
Speaker 1: you need to make changes? And I don't know what
Speaker 1: changes you can really make. And I'm sure people have
Speaker 1: just said to themselves, well, I know what you can do.
Speaker 1: You can fire this guy and this guy and this
Speaker 1: guy from the coaching staff or whatever. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that's I think what he's really saying is are
Speaker 1: you ready to make a change? Ironically, and that what
Speaker 1: panic button means. That's not how it took but you
Speaker 1: can take it over you. That's what I think. That's
Speaker 1: kind of do some different conversation, but I think that's good.
Speaker 1: That's a good conversation. I kind of agree with where
Speaker 1: Nick's going with this though, is what is your recourse?
Speaker 1: Like if you're hitting panic button? What are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you firing the head coach? In week three? Even
Speaker 1: even as the biggest Jason Garrett Hayter on the planet
Speaker 1: would eventually agree that that's a little ludicrous. Like Week
Speaker 1: three one, and two even as I mean nobody gets
Speaker 1: fired week three maybe Yeah, no, I mean you could
Speaker 1: do that. Jerry said he doesn't want to do that either,
Speaker 1: and that I actually I can make an argument for
Speaker 1: that actually, and I said actually like three times right there,
Speaker 1: Um a very ironic bit of timing. The New York
Speaker 1: Jets are doing that. Todd Bowles is taking some play
Speaker 1: calling away from his OC after they lost to the
Speaker 1: Browns the other night. Yeah, which interesting. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you said this, or maybe Brian said, when
Speaker 1: your ass is on the line, who can't like you
Speaker 1: might never have called an offense in your life. You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm trying. I'm going down, I'm going down.
Speaker 1: I don't. The way I read it is that he's
Speaker 1: not just going to be the play caller, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna have more interest than he did he only have
Speaker 1: forty seconds to make a call. Yeah, that's a little
Speaker 1: bit of inside joke there, you saying, Todd Bowls is
Speaker 1: kind of a slow, slow delivering guy. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball man, We're gonna run it here.
Speaker 1: I think you get that urgency is not his thing.
Speaker 1: He's just cool. He's just the cool cat. I didn't
Speaker 1: get bang right, trips left, double y. It's option Isaiah
Speaker 1: and get Isaiah Crowl in there or somebody. It's it's
Speaker 1: never if you are panicked, it's never too early to
Speaker 1: hit that button. I guess you know what I mean? Um,
Speaker 1: I get My thing is like, what what is drastically
Speaker 1: gonna change if Jason Garrett's the one calling the plays
Speaker 1: instead of Scotland a hand, Like, is the playbook or
Speaker 1: the philosophy just gonna be drastically different? And that's ahead
Speaker 1: you look like you got something. Well. The thing I
Speaker 1: was gonna say is I do think there's a big difference.
Speaker 1: You can have the same playbook. The way a game
Speaker 1: is called, though, can be drastically different. And in an
Speaker 1: offense like this one, where, in my opinion, you saw
Speaker 1: a stark contrast in how effective they were moving the
Speaker 1: ball in that first quarter of Game two versus pretty
Speaker 1: much the rest of this season, and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: it was it was for no other reason than the
Speaker 1: fact that the way they call those plays, the way
Speaker 1: they put those plays together in succession, gave them better
Speaker 1: opportunities to be effective. And I think I think there's
Speaker 1: something to that. There's something to developing a rhythm, because
Speaker 1: the rhythm is all about making successful plays and as
Speaker 1: you guys don't want to hear, staying ahead of the chains, right,
Speaker 1: that's all about the rhythm of the offense. And to me,
Speaker 1: play calling has everything to do with that, and two
Speaker 1: different guys perspective on how they like. If you throw
Speaker 1: me into a booth to call plays in an NFL game,
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to go very well. Right, compared
Speaker 1: to even Scott Nhan or whoever anybody's doing that professionally,
Speaker 1: is gonna have a better handle on how you put
Speaker 1: plays together in succession in the same playbook to be
Speaker 1: able to know exactly how to get your offense moving.
Speaker 1: And now I'm worried that I misspoke, because to be clear,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys play calling is great by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. I just don't have a
Speaker 1: ton of confidence that it's going to be a lot better.
Speaker 1: You don't expect that Garrett's better than Lynhan not appreciate
Speaker 1: some type of noticeable way. Well not really. Here's what
Speaker 1: I think is part of the problem too. It's one
Speaker 1: thing to scheme it up for the week. You know,
Speaker 1: you get you install the game plan and you're throwing
Speaker 1: it out there and you've got all week and I
Speaker 1: don't know if they script the first ten plays, I've
Speaker 1: never understood that. I don't even believe that scripted. What
Speaker 1: happens if you get an eighty yard run on the
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like scripting the plays, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you have an idea of what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do. The problem I see is the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: been out scored twenty seven to three in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: So whatever they're doing, let's go it deep to table on,
Speaker 1: let's try to this, let's try to that. That's cool
Speaker 1: and it works, but then you start getting in the
Speaker 1: flow of the game second quarter and adjustments, and now
Speaker 1: it's back to like, what are we doing now? And
Speaker 1: then they become predictable and they get stopped. I mean
Speaker 1: not until they regroup in the third quarter or they
Speaker 1: find themselves down by three scores and they got a
Speaker 1: hurry back. But at the second quarter, that's when the
Speaker 1: flow of the game's going on, get a feel for
Speaker 1: the game, and that's not working well. And that's what
Speaker 1: I think maybe a different play caller maybe can mix
Speaker 1: it up there. I'm try something. This isn't three games though,
Speaker 1: and then Dave would be the first one to say
Speaker 1: this has been seven, eight games, maybe as many as
Speaker 1: eleven eleven games since that awesome Kansas City win. It's
Speaker 1: been and a lot of there's been some factors for that,
Speaker 1: I mean, historically bad, I mean, but the thing is
Speaker 1: is that, yeah, Tyrant Smith was hurt, Deek was out
Speaker 1: and all that, but the Dack that we saw in
Speaker 1: that game, we saw Dak and he was running for
Speaker 1: his life and he was a really gunshot. But from
Speaker 1: that game, even though he's got his left tackle back,
Speaker 1: even though he didn't play that well, he's got his
Speaker 1: running back back. Even though the defense is better, he
Speaker 1: still looks like the Dack that was in Atlanta. And
Speaker 1: that's been That's the problem. I hate to do it because,
Speaker 1: I mean, Ben Roethlisberger's probably going on the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair to compare him to Dak.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, didn't have the left side
Speaker 1: of his offensive line last night, doesn't have a levion bell,
Speaker 1: and he's just bombing away against not a great Tampa defense,
Speaker 1: but a two and oh, up a defensive and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry real quick, I'm just I'm not asking Dak to
Speaker 1: be Ben Roethlisberger and have one hundred and eighty yards
Speaker 1: at the halfway point of the second quarter. But like,
Speaker 1: if you can't, if you can't consistently move it and
Speaker 1: you know, top up over, I just need you to
Speaker 1: get over two hundred yards, man, I get you. But
Speaker 1: here here's the difference. And I looked at at what
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was doing and their philosophy is I mean, think
Speaker 1: about they have They've had the best receiver in the
Speaker 1: game now for what three years? I mean him and
Speaker 1: Odell or Julio. They're all right there. You say what
Speaker 1: you want Fantasy wise, of course, sure A B is
Speaker 1: great and he is, He's amazing. But they haven't stopped though.
Speaker 1: They get Juju Schusters second second round, Juju second round.
Speaker 1: Then what they get James Washington? Yeah, second round. They
Speaker 1: trade for Ryan Switzer who scored a touchdown man and
Speaker 1: really nice catch in that game. Um, they they've added
Speaker 1: a lot of guys and then they keep you know,
Speaker 1: you would think, well, I mean you have Ab, I
Speaker 1: mean they you take Ab out and there was vers
Speaker 1: are still better than the Cowboys right now, He's easily
Speaker 1: and better than a lot of teams. So I'm just
Speaker 1: saying down the field, that's great, They've got the speed
Speaker 1: to do it. Are we gonna talk about that game
Speaker 1: though at all? And in a way we can? I mean,
Speaker 1: there's really only one thing to talk about in that game.
Speaker 1: It seems like everyone's and it comes on the heels
Speaker 1: of what happened with the tyrone. Crawford I mean is
Speaker 1: getting you know, But honestly, I don't know what's I
Speaker 1: don't know. The problem is, I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: going to change. I think the NFL has has now
Speaker 1: basically drawn the line in the sand, and there the expectation,
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion, is unless there isn't all
Speaker 1: out mutiny. And what I mean by that is fans
Speaker 1: actually stop watching the game because and it's a noticeable
Speaker 1: change if you can stop watching. No. Actually, ratings are
Speaker 1: up this year, and that's a part of the thing.
Speaker 1: Is this decision, in my opinion, was all about who
Speaker 1: drives the most ratings in the minds of the people
Speaker 1: that are making decisions. And I think they believe the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks do because I think they believe they are the
Speaker 1: names of the game, and so they are gonna do
Speaker 1: everything they can to keep those guys from being injured
Speaker 1: because that affects ratings, saying and you make a good point,
Speaker 1: you're saying that. Let's say on the other hand that
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers defense has been called for eight
Speaker 1: penalties and their fans are upset about it or whatever.
Speaker 1: That won't get them to stop watching the game. Like
Speaker 1: if they lost their quarterback out for the season and
Speaker 1: now there's season tanks and they're like, who's the backup? CJ. Beth.
Speaker 1: When you got Aaron Rodgers sitting on the sideline last
Speaker 1: year because a guy tackles him and falls on top
Speaker 1: of him, the NFL looks at that and says, that's
Speaker 1: bad for ratings, that's bad for business. If a guy
Speaker 1: as good as Aaron Rodgers, that's going to be on
Speaker 1: our highlights every single week. And he is a name
Speaker 1: that people know and people love to watch him play
Speaker 1: by self included. If he's not playing for eight weeks
Speaker 1: of an NFL season when you only have sixteen games,
Speaker 1: that's a miss. So everything they can do to keep
Speaker 1: that guy healthy, they're gonna do it because it's good
Speaker 1: for business. I hear you. Although you know you mentioned
Speaker 1: Jerry's interview on the fan this morning. It was a
Speaker 1: long answer, and I think that's probably why it's not
Speaker 1: getting more traction. I mean, jeez, this thing is like
Speaker 1: three hundred words long. But you know what, we would
Speaker 1: all agree, Jerry's one of the three or four most
Speaker 1: powerful people in the NFL. He says when it comes
Speaker 1: to pro football, to use a boxing term, that's when
Speaker 1: you put the six ounce gloves on. That's when you
Speaker 1: don't want to fight with those ten ounce gloves or
Speaker 1: you don't want to fight with those head gears. Everybody's
Speaker 1: being really paid to go out, and you're paid a
Speaker 1: lot of money to go out and incur those types
Speaker 1: of situations that have more risks in them. It's real
Speaker 1: important that pro football distinguish itself as a very physical
Speaker 1: game relative to the game at college, relative the game
Speaker 1: at the high school and amateur level. How to find
Speaker 1: that balance, that's one thing. But when we get to
Speaker 1: a point in the future, in time, you'll see pro
Speaker 1: football where they've put the six ounce gloves on and
Speaker 1: where the men are playing. So I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: only half of the answer. It was very long, but
Speaker 1: Jerry basically saying like, yeah, like pro football is supposed
Speaker 1: to be a physical, hard game, I mean, reading between
Speaker 1: the lines. I don't think he's really happy about this,
Speaker 1: but that's the thing. Well, obviously there is a committee there,
Speaker 1: and I think that includes guys like Troy Vincent and
Speaker 1: those guys who are making these decisions, and whatever decisions
Speaker 1: being made, they've made the decision they're willing to protect
Speaker 1: the quarterback at the extent of the defensive guys. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't care as much stairs they do about what
Speaker 1: I and I hate this rule. This is the worst rule,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, in all of football. And you know
Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, probably because I've said it
Speaker 1: for years. I don't understand how hippocritical the league is
Speaker 1: at times, and I think it is. And we'll talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, in concussion protocol and all that, But then
Speaker 1: they played Thursday night. You cannot touch the quarterback in
Speaker 1: the head. You can't. You can't hit him in the head.
Speaker 1: If you're a defensive lineman, you cannot put your hand
Speaker 1: in an offensive lineman's face and drive him back. However,
Speaker 1: if your advance McDonald and you can get the ball,
Speaker 1: you can club a defensive guy straight in the face. Yep,
Speaker 1: twice though it was awesome, But why what if he
Speaker 1: has a head injury? Does his helmet? Does it not
Speaker 1: hurt anymore because you have a ball and you hit
Speaker 1: him a like? Is he okay now? Because of that? Like,
Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense to me. If you can't hit
Speaker 1: in the head, you can't hit in the head. That's
Speaker 1: the crap that I think is a problem, and that's
Speaker 1: why defensive players should be mad. And then they're gonna
Speaker 1: get into this body weight thing when a safety he's
Speaker 1: gonna put his body weight on Cam Newton even though
Speaker 1: he weighs four hundred pounds more than him. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I said yesterday. I don't know if proud's
Speaker 1: the right word, but I was just I was impressed
Speaker 1: by Tyrone Crawford's willingness to kind of come out and
Speaker 1: crap on it basically because it's crap in my Opinionum.
Speaker 1: Another thing worth noting about that Judy Batista, longtime NFL
Speaker 1: writer for the New York Times. I think she's with
Speaker 1: NFL now, But the Competition Committee's having a call about this, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of unhappy people about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't. She said, it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: likely they can drastically change it this season they stop
Speaker 1: calling it. I mean, that's the thing you could stop.
Speaker 1: You can stop emphasizing it too, with your your referees, right.
Speaker 1: I will be surprised if it stays like this for
Speaker 1: all seventeen weeks. I think there is a clarification that
Speaker 1: you can make there, I really do. And I think
Speaker 1: it's one thing to drive a guy down. It's another
Speaker 1: thing to pick him up by his legs alf the
Speaker 1: ground and then deliver him to the ground. Now, Romo
Speaker 1: had three broken collar bone injuries in his career, something
Speaker 1: like that. Three, And I'm trying to think if I
Speaker 1: can remember them. The second one, the one in Philly
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, Now, that would have been a penalty
Speaker 1: right in today's game. I mean, if I remember driving
Speaker 1: him in and I think the first one against the
Speaker 1: Giants back in twenty ten, I think that was the case.
Speaker 1: Carolina was a little different story. I don't know about
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, I don't know if you get a
Speaker 1: penalty there, But um not that none of it matters.
Speaker 1: I mean, but but I'm just saying, you go back
Speaker 1: and see, I guess over the course of you know
Speaker 1: that that body weight has been some you know, had
Speaker 1: some injuries. But maybe there's a way to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: you tackle the guy to the ground, but maybe you're
Speaker 1: not lifting him up. And but even at that, my
Speaker 1: thing still comes back to, how else are you going
Speaker 1: to take down Ben Roethlisberger? How else are you gonna
Speaker 1: take down Cam Newton? These are big These are not
Speaker 1: just your average quarterback. These are big quarterbacks that are
Speaker 1: really strong, heavy. How if you're not going to tackle
Speaker 1: them by basically grabbing them, buy their legs and lifting up, well,
Speaker 1: how are you going to take them down? Because you're
Speaker 1: force hitting them. A cornerback or a safety that's coming
Speaker 1: in to try to hit that quarterback, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: take him down by just groute force. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to actually get leverage, and leverage means grabbing their legs
Speaker 1: lifting to actually take their legs from We're getting so
Speaker 1: close to having like a training camp situation where like
Speaker 1: if you hit the church, you hit the quarterback. He's down. Now, Now,
Speaker 1: how good is Cam Newton? And changes everything? Changes everything?
Speaker 1: And that's my point is I just think I think
Speaker 1: that the game has gotten to a point now with
Speaker 1: this particular call where it's become completely this is it? Sorry,
Speaker 1: what Vince? What was Vince Young's best year? I can't
Speaker 1: remember five, two thousand and five, four, six, okay, back
Speaker 1: then two thousand and four or five. Ever. Remember they
Speaker 1: were playing the Giants in a game, and I think
Speaker 1: his name was Kiwanuka for him. I remember from the
Speaker 1: Giants there was a play where he did that. He
Speaker 1: came off the edge and he had him wrapped up
Speaker 1: and then he kind of let him go and then
Speaker 1: Vince scrambled out and got a really big play in
Speaker 1: the game. I think they won the game, and it
Speaker 1: was just because he was afraid to tackle him like that,
Speaker 1: and so that that was going That's been going on
Speaker 1: from fourteen years or so. But you get players like that,
Speaker 1: you don't know, now, Tyrone not going to know how
Speaker 1: to hit a guy, and it's it's frustrating. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break when we come back. I
Speaker 1: have some other big picture questions from these guys that
Speaker 1: include things like Dez Bryan and whether the Cowboys made
Speaker 1: the right decision with him, and whether you think Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is the quarterback for the Cowboys. Moving forward into
Speaker 1: the future, not this year, but into the future. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that when we come right back. This is
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Speaker 1: lot of good options out there at the start. What's
Speaker 1: your favorite day Oh, I'm a big meet Casina fan.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of that as well, But but I
Speaker 1: mean places that you really haven't heard of as well.
Speaker 1: Something there's um, try Tip that's a barbecue type ish place, Sushi,
Speaker 1: Marquee is really good, Marquis is really good. Liberty Burger.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Concrete Cowboy. I think the food's
Speaker 1: really their food is speaking of Concrete Cowboy. Tonight at
Speaker 1: six o'clock there will be the happy hour. I just
Speaker 1: foods delicious. I never I never thought of the food
Speaker 1: at Concrete Cowboy before. It's good. It's pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I exactly go out there and dance and nary night
Speaker 1: dance on table, you know the funny things. I had
Speaker 1: a Concrete Cowboys story when I was I was maybe
Speaker 1: four or five months ago. I had some friends of
Speaker 1: mine and we decided we were going out, Like we'd
Speaker 1: never go out, but these are all middle aged guys
Speaker 1: with wives and children, so we just decided one night
Speaker 1: we were going out. So we decided we're gonna go out.
Speaker 1: We went out and had dinner, and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't want to go home and go gass some
Speaker 1: drinks somewhere. And somebody said, well, whyn't we go up
Speaker 1: to the Star I go to Concrete Cowboy. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: that's fine, I've heard good things about it. We go
Speaker 1: in there was liddy let me just say it. At
Speaker 1: one point there was a table full of people dancing
Speaker 1: on the table and I was like, whoa, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: the scene we got. I have not did you go
Speaker 1: up and talk to Dave or did you you don't
Speaker 1: know me at all? Many there we go, There we go. Hey.
Speaker 1: I had a very similar story just with hanging out
Speaker 1: with one guy tried to go to Concrete Cowboy like
Speaker 1: one thirty in the morning. He's wearing like Nike dry
Speaker 1: fit stuff and they're like, nah, may not happening. So
Speaker 1: with the sushi Marquis, No, it was it was. It
Speaker 1: was a club, it was it was. This was a
Speaker 1: late night Saturday. I think it was like a Saturday night.
Speaker 1: That is not my scene. The people from Virginia right
Speaker 1: now that a listener like, I'm not going up there
Speaker 1: just talking about the offense. Yeah, probably go that's okay. Though,
Speaker 1: that's okay they can. But if you're close, come to
Speaker 1: the Star. If you're gonna go to the game, like
Speaker 1: this weekend or something like that, you want to come
Speaker 1: over here. There's some things to do. I had four
Speaker 1: big picture questions that I was going to ask you guys.
Speaker 1: We took so long in the first segment. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna get to all four, and I
Speaker 1: kind of have a feeling this next one might take
Speaker 1: us most of the rest of the show, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it anyway. Um No, Actually, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say that one, because that's gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: show onto itself. I think, okay, but there's I think
Speaker 1: that all of this happening with the offense, um it
Speaker 1: begs the question did the Cowboys make the right decision
Speaker 1: with regards to its wide receiver position. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can take this, and I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear your opinions. I think you can take
Speaker 1: it from the standpoint and did they make the right
Speaker 1: decision with Dez? Do they make the right decision in
Speaker 1: free agency? Should they have gone after a I like
Speaker 1: Watkins who it was rumored that they were trying to
Speaker 1: go and get you. They have maybe even willing to
Speaker 1: spend more money to get him. Should they have evaluated
Speaker 1: it differently in the draft? And maybe draft? As Dave
Speaker 1: told me this morning, every wide receiver in the draft,
Speaker 1: including Calvin Ridley, was available to them in the first round.
Speaker 1: Should they have maybe considered making that first round pick
Speaker 1: a wide receiver? Have they mis evaluated what they can
Speaker 1: do with the wide receiver position. Knowing what you have
Speaker 1: at quarterback and how he has played, does he need
Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver a difference making wide receiver
Speaker 1: or are they still okay with the strategy they have.
Speaker 1: Now you want to jump on this first, I'll start.
Speaker 1: I think, you know my stance on Ridley when I
Speaker 1: watch what he's done, and I've heard people will tweet,
Speaker 1: you know, wow, why did the Cowboys do that? I
Speaker 1: don't think it matters because I don't think Ridley is
Speaker 1: First of all, he's not you know, he wouldn't be
Speaker 1: opposite of somebody like Julio Jones over here, and he
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a Matt Ryan type quarterback throwing him the ball.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's a totally different situation. They
Speaker 1: have a better overall offense, hands down, So in a
Speaker 1: lot of receivers, you can you can make that case
Speaker 1: for I think it does stem back to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a number one receiver, I mean,
Speaker 1: he'd help, he'd help here, you know for sure. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think that they looked at it like
Speaker 1: they they had a chance to kind of help some
Speaker 1: other things and get some you know, good quality route
Speaker 1: running receivers. But that's not working like that, that's not
Speaker 1: it's not working right now. But I still think that
Speaker 1: they need to throw the ball deep more. And you
Speaker 1: know what. I was going to ask you a question yesterday.
Speaker 1: I forgot to do this. You were in dak Um
Speaker 1: press conference after the game. Yeah, and if you just
Speaker 1: if you just listen to it, not a big deal.
Speaker 1: But if you put it out on tram, you know,
Speaker 1: like just put it out on paper and look at
Speaker 1: a quote, He says. I'm still shocked that it didn't
Speaker 1: blow up me either, because if you just if you
Speaker 1: just put it like on Instagram and just put the
Speaker 1: quote and says we need to throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field more. We need to take more shots down
Speaker 1: the field. He says that, I mean he kind of
Speaker 1: I think everyone was kind of surprised at what he
Speaker 1: was looking like. I mean he was a little different,
Speaker 1: different post game attire and you know, had all down
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It's so different. He said that,
Speaker 1: And I only did he say he said twice. He
Speaker 1: was like, it's not that they're taking it away, it's
Speaker 1: just that we haven't tried it. Well, but here's my thing.
Speaker 1: He could have easily said, we just haven't tried here's
Speaker 1: the follow up question that who's who's at fall for? That?
Speaker 1: Is it that it's not being called but no running
Speaker 1: down the field. That's my question, is is it not
Speaker 1: being called or is it that Dak feels like when
Speaker 1: he says we held includes himself and that he's not
Speaker 1: taking those shots because we've seen some of that earlier
Speaker 1: in like I know that that play that he had
Speaker 1: where he had um Swain opened down the field in
Speaker 1: the end zone, like he didn't take that. He didn't
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on and he had a guy open.
Speaker 1: So is it partially him or is it partially the
Speaker 1: But think about called fifty yards and and that was
Speaker 1: like twenty five yard line. He's he's vertical down there,
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about down the field deep balls. We
Speaker 1: don't even see them running like, oh man, there he is,
Speaker 1: Like he was running down there and he had I
Speaker 1: mean they did the last game and it worked once
Speaker 1: out of three times. Giants. Yeah, I know, But I'm
Speaker 1: saying last week, it's not like you saw these verticals
Speaker 1: that he didn't. Ah, he could have gone to gallop there,
Speaker 1: but he didn't. Like they're not being called. I'll steal
Speaker 1: a line from Garrett Well and no verticals that going
Speaker 1: sixty yards? No, But I think Garrett said it like
Speaker 1: three times yesterday, like every every play they call has
Speaker 1: a deep route of intermediate routes kind of checkdown route,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I know that it's making the
Speaker 1: rounds on Twitter, like his throat of Zeke that Zeke
Speaker 1: dropped Cole Beasley was probably open, like further down the field.
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell from like screen grabs, like he
Speaker 1: probably could have gotten it to him, but he had
Speaker 1: Zeke with a step on the linebacker way easier. So
Speaker 1: I don't fault him for that. Certainly, certainly they're not
Speaker 1: throwing it down the field enough. But again I go
Speaker 1: back to, you know, the Tavon play was nice, Like
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think Dak's gonna win just consistently
Speaker 1: chunking those types of balls, but they got to be
Speaker 1: able to go deep. Again, not deep, but more than
Speaker 1: ten yards down the field. But if he does it more,
Speaker 1: if Tavon runs by a guy, he can run by
Speaker 1: a guy on any play. If he runs by a
Speaker 1: guy once a quarter, then in the third quarter when
Speaker 1: he does a stop route at the you know, after
Speaker 1: ten yards, he's probably wide open. There's no doubt that.
Speaker 1: So defenses and I mean, we saw this coming even
Speaker 1: when we were optimistic about these wide receivers. Gary Brown
Speaker 1: said it back in May is like, give me a
Speaker 1: lot of stack boxes. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: defenders near the line of scrimmage until these receivers can
Speaker 1: prove that they don't that they can't be there, which
Speaker 1: hadn't been the case so far, Which to your which
Speaker 1: I don't have a good answer, to be honest with
Speaker 1: any like, I don't think this offense would look remotely
Speaker 1: different with Dez Bryant and it. Honestly, I don't think
Speaker 1: it would. And he might have more yards, he'd certainly
Speaker 1: have more targets. I don't think it would look different
Speaker 1: or better. The fact is we saw it last year
Speaker 1: when when they started this, as you were saying, it was,
Speaker 1: what's nine or ten games with offense has been kind
Speaker 1: of anemic. He was a part of that last year
Speaker 1: for most of those games. He was a part of that.
Speaker 1: So I don't think this is something where we didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to see Dez and we just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden assumed he couldn't that he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to make a difference. But let me say this part
Speaker 1: about Dez and I don't think they you know, I
Speaker 1: think they probably did the right thing and they don't
Speaker 1: need to go get him back and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, it wasn't like this was late December
Speaker 1: in the Giants game where he had some drops, but
Speaker 1: he also made a slant over the middle told you know,
Speaker 1: told the guy to get off me and went fifty
Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. I mean, would you would die
Speaker 1: for a play like that right now where a guy
Speaker 1: could make a play, break a tackle, have the speed
Speaker 1: to do that. Taylene is not breaking any tackles. We
Speaker 1: saw that in the open field. I mean, he'll get
Speaker 1: away from a guy that's not going to happen. He
Speaker 1: did the same thing against Seattle last Christmas that Michael
Speaker 1: Gallop did last week, difference of meaning dropped an easy
Speaker 1: ball that should have been a first down and was
Speaker 1: an interception instead, it didn't come back with his cap
Speaker 1: hit was is way bigger than Michael Gallas, which I
Speaker 1: love Dez. I don't necessarily know that they needed to
Speaker 1: or should have cut him, but I don't think he
Speaker 1: would be making a big difference right now. And that
Speaker 1: same thing, which I don't like what I'm about to say,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think Calvin Ridley and or Dj Moore
Speaker 1: would be making a drastic difference here, and I'm not
Speaker 1: These receivers aren't just like wide open and Dak is
Speaker 1: missing him. But like, it comes down to quarterback play.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I think you could probably be doing
Speaker 1: the job well enough with better quarterback play in my opinion,
Speaker 1: which the one thing I will give. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins isn't on this team eating up sixteen million
Speaker 1: dollars in salary and finishing with three catches for thirty yards. Like,
Speaker 1: thank god they didn't do that. Their quarterback will sling it.
Speaker 1: If he's open, God, he would have found him. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna take our final break, will come back,
Speaker 1: and and I will ask that question. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: ask the question, is Dak the quarterback or should he
Speaker 1: be the quarterback the Cowboys rely on in the future
Speaker 1: based on what you've seen through this point of his career, Well,
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Speaker 1: about a lot of things on this team. We've talked
Speaker 1: loosely about the quarterback. But now I want to ask
Speaker 1: you guys a very pointed question based on what you've
Speaker 1: seen from Dak Prescott over the course of his career,
Speaker 1: because I don't think you can just take the last
Speaker 1: ten games. You got to think about that first year
Speaker 1: when he did some pretty amazing things. Do you think
Speaker 1: right now, based upon what you know, that Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is the guy that will be the quarterback of the
Speaker 1: future for the Cowboys, or should be the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the future for the Cowboys, or do you think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys need to start looking at other options, even if
Speaker 1: that means you get to the end of the season,
Speaker 1: you're looking in the draft, you're looking in free agency. Well,
Speaker 1: I think these next you know, thirteen games or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they're going to be thirteen games probably for him,
Speaker 1: because it's not like you've got a backup option that
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to. I don't I don't see that
Speaker 1: happening at all. If they had a veteran guy in here.
Speaker 1: I think we would be talking about it a little
Speaker 1: bit if they had a veteran and you think that
Speaker 1: might be the reason why they didn't have one. Other
Speaker 1: reasons we don't have one maybe, But anyways, I think,
Speaker 1: as what we know right now, he's got to be
Speaker 1: better than this. He's got to his arrows got to
Speaker 1: go up for him to be the quarterback of the future.
Speaker 1: He's got to show us more than he show because
Speaker 1: if it's just like this, up down, up down, up down,
Speaker 1: and it ends with this season, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to draft a quarterback in the draft. I
Speaker 1: mean one hundred percent believe that now. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be better than that. He's gonna to show us, oh,
Speaker 1: look at that, look at that he can play better,
Speaker 1: and maybe they runs the ball better and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: But as what we've seen right now, I think if
Speaker 1: it continues, I think they get a new quarterback next year.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of it is, which I answered a
Speaker 1: tweet about this this morning, is this is a hot
Speaker 1: take society. Like everybody like you know, you're supposed to
Speaker 1: have a firm opinion on this. I don't have to.
Speaker 1: And that's what I said this summer when I said
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott has more pressure on him than anybody in
Speaker 1: this organization right now, And did I mean has from
Speaker 1: the beginning, Because if Jason Garrett gets fired, he's gonna
Speaker 1: fall back on a ton of money that he already
Speaker 1: got and he can have a job in the NFL
Speaker 1: a week later doing something. Dak Prescott, this is the
Speaker 1: dividing line between are you a guy who had a
Speaker 1: great year and we talk about you five years from
Speaker 1: now the way we talk about RG three, or are
Speaker 1: you going to be the face of a franchise like
Speaker 1: that's what this season's all about. And that's a huge disparity.
Speaker 1: It is trending one way right now, but we got
Speaker 1: thirteen more games to figure it out, and I think
Speaker 1: about I think about twenty fifteen and even in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: you had an aging, you know, all pro caliber quarterback
Speaker 1: in Tony Romo, which he was, he was your guy.
Speaker 1: He gets hurt and you're just scrambling. You're like, we
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to stay afloat. You remember twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: we got to find a way to if we can
Speaker 1: go five hundred when Tony gets back, if if you know,
Speaker 1: it sounds ridiculous now, but in twenty sixteen, like, if
Speaker 1: Dad can do the job until Tony gets back, we'll
Speaker 1: be fine. Obviously, it went way better than anybody expected
Speaker 1: and let us down this road that we're on right now.
Speaker 1: But this isn't that team. This team is a blank slate.
Speaker 1: With the exception of Sean Lee, your whole defense is
Speaker 1: more or less in place. I can't imagine the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to let de Marcus Lawrence get away from
Speaker 1: him the way he's starting this season out. Your defense
Speaker 1: is in place for the foreseeable future. Your offensive line,
Speaker 1: as shaky as they've been, is in place for the
Speaker 1: foreseeable future. Quarterbacks a blank slate. You're gonna try to
Speaker 1: bench Dak Prescott right now, and you know and scramble
Speaker 1: for worst quarterback play or are you going to let
Speaker 1: this thing play out and figure out if you've got
Speaker 1: a real quarterback? Which I know that's not what a
Speaker 1: fan wants to hear. Who like, you know, you want
Speaker 1: to be able to talk crap to your co workers
Speaker 1: on Monday, and you want that great feeling of winning.
Speaker 1: But if you pull back and look at this in
Speaker 1: the big picture, that's what's important is figuring out if
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is your guy, And that's what these next
Speaker 1: thirteen weeks are for. If he's you know, if he
Speaker 1: doesn't have it and the Cowboys are terrible, it's not
Speaker 1: going to be a fun season. But you will have
Speaker 1: a clear answer, you know, by December thirtieth, of what
Speaker 1: you need to do. If he climbs out of this
Speaker 1: and is you know, back to being the guy that
Speaker 1: we saw in twenty sixteen and this team wins ten
Speaker 1: eleven games, it's a different conversation. But I don't know
Speaker 1: right now, but we will know, and you know, it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting how he plays. Is there a new coach
Speaker 1: here in January? Not saying there will be, but if
Speaker 1: there is, his input will matter. He's still under contract
Speaker 1: for a year. It's not like you have to get
Speaker 1: rid of the guy. You could bring a whole new
Speaker 1: guy in here and he could revamp his career the
Speaker 1: way Sean McVay did for Jared Goff. But that I
Speaker 1: view this as a thirteen week audition to figure out
Speaker 1: if Dak Prescott is worthy of a one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars investment. Basically, I'm gonna take you down an off shoot.
Speaker 1: You said your offensive lines in place here for foreseeable future?
Speaker 1: Are you at all Wait? Are you at all concerned
Speaker 1: about that? Because I think we all coming into this
Speaker 1: year felt like number one, the offensive line is the
Speaker 1: best unit they had on this team, and number two
Speaker 1: you had him for a long time. You take Frederick
Speaker 1: out of the mix, and all of a sudden, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're not looking like the offensive line we've
Speaker 1: been used to seeing the last couple of years. Are
Speaker 1: you now concerned about the statement that they're the best
Speaker 1: unit that you have and number two, they're in place
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. I don't want to hear another
Speaker 1: word about them being vaunted or highly touted until they
Speaker 1: start playing better. Yeah. No, how could you not be concerned?
Speaker 1: Tyrann Smith? This is his eighth year. I mean, like
Speaker 1: he's ancient by NFL standards, and you know, not necessarily
Speaker 1: about offensive lineman standards. Right, No, no, And I don't
Speaker 1: think Tyren Smith is a bad player. I don't think
Speaker 1: this offensive line is a bad line. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: it has dipped. It is something you should be worried
Speaker 1: about us. I mean, you know it's not his fault,
Speaker 1: but you don't know what Travis Frederick is or will
Speaker 1: be in the future. Lyle Collins, I've been his biggest defender.
Speaker 1: He has not played like the guy that I insisted
Speaker 1: he was in the second half of last year. It's
Speaker 1: definitely something to watch. It is still a functioning and
Speaker 1: competent offensive line. I mean, you know we're not This
Speaker 1: isn't Seattle. I know that they won that game, but
Speaker 1: they would love to have this offensive line, I promise you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm not to go back to the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show. I'm not hitting the panic button, like you
Speaker 1: can play and win games with this offensive line. And
Speaker 1: but and it kind of goes back to my point,
Speaker 1: this could be a blank slate, like you built that
Speaker 1: offensive line to help prolonged Tony Romo's career. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: if you're getting a new quarterback, you can start this
Speaker 1: thing all over again. You can draft, you can sign
Speaker 1: free agents, you can do things to address it. But
Speaker 1: you have Tyrn, Connor, Zach. Yeah, you have Tyrn, Connor
Speaker 1: and Zach under contract for the foreseeable future. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a start at least. I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: It's concerning, but it's it's not time to hit the
Speaker 1: panic button. Yeah, I agree with that. The one thing
Speaker 1: I will say, though, is I do think that the
Speaker 1: way the Cowboys want to play, I think, and with
Speaker 1: what they have, the other pieces they have around, I
Speaker 1: think it's not going to be good enough for this
Speaker 1: offensive line to be pretty good. I think this offensive
Speaker 1: line is gonna have to be exceptional in order for
Speaker 1: them to be successful in twenty eighteen. Yes, for these
Speaker 1: next thirteen games, they gotta get better, but this team
Speaker 1: could go in a completely new direction next right, and
Speaker 1: we don't know that. I'm saying, as far as the
Speaker 1: strategy that they've kind of put out there, this is
Speaker 1: how we're gonna play football. We're not gonna worry about
Speaker 1: having a number one wide receiver. We're gonna have complimentary receivers.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be focused on having a great running game.
Speaker 1: We're trying to build our defense to being a great
Speaker 1: defense in order to do that well, and to do
Speaker 1: that exceptionally, I mean, the offensive line is gonna have
Speaker 1: to be exceptional, in my opinion, or to do that well,
Speaker 1: especially with the quarterback you has that looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to feel comfortable, because it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: he feels comfortable all the time. The blueprint they have
Speaker 1: put down for themselves, with the way they've drafted the
Speaker 1: linemen and Zeke and all that, it's it's not working
Speaker 1: right now. It's not working well enough, which that's a
Speaker 1: problem that we have to figure out in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: But and again this is all hypothetical, but draft a
Speaker 1: quarterback in the top ten. This offensive line is probably
Speaker 1: good enough to let him sling the rock around a
Speaker 1: little bit. So it could all change in the coming months,
Speaker 1: which we will see. Yeah, Nick, Nick, at this point,
Speaker 1: would you shuffle this offensive line? Are you? Are you
Speaker 1: at a point now where you're worried enough to where
Speaker 1: you would shuffle things around. Well, while Dave was talking here,
Speaker 1: I thought about the right tackle. I thought about I
Speaker 1: wonder if they what they viewed Connor Williams as a tackle.
Speaker 1: I know that they wanted him as a guard and
Speaker 1: that was where the need was. But I wonder if
Speaker 1: they how they projected him at tackle. I don't know
Speaker 1: about flipping him right now, maybe Lyle back to guard,
Speaker 1: Maybe Cameron Fleming on the right side. You Cameron Fleming,
Speaker 1: though you're gonna with Tyron the way he is. I
Speaker 1: think right now you might need, you know, need to
Speaker 1: hang on to that that spot right there. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's something worth talking about, um,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't know if that's really the issue.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'd never liked Lyle as a guard.
Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty good as a tackle, and
Speaker 1: he's been pretty good, but I don't I don't really
Speaker 1: like him as a guard so much. But then again,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams was a tackle in college. Maybe he's better
Speaker 1: at right tackle. I I got him and panic button again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't think you do it. I think that's
Speaker 1: a knee jerk reaction. Lyle's got to play better, Tyrn's
Speaker 1: gotta play better. I think, all things considered, I think
Speaker 1: Joe and Connor are holding up fairly well, like they
Speaker 1: are not sinking this offense. I do not think. Um.
Speaker 1: I think they both have moments where it's like and
Speaker 1: that's the thing about an offensive linement. This was the
Speaker 1: the to me, the narrative on Doug Free. You could
Speaker 1: have a pretty good game. You could have two or
Speaker 1: three bad plays, and two or three bad plays turned
Speaker 1: to sacks, and now everybody's like, he had a horrible game, right,
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's happening with Connor Right now.
Speaker 1: He holds up pretty well most of the time he
Speaker 1: gets but it's gonna be, Yeah, there's gonna be one
Speaker 1: or two three times in a game where it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: he just got beat really bad. Right, It's it's not
Speaker 1: bad enough that I'm trying to shuffle the line in
Speaker 1: week three, right week four? Now, that's just me. All right.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys joining us. We are back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We are going to jump into Cowboys versus Lions. That'll
Speaker 1: be an interesting matchup, not as not the game that
Speaker 1: we thought it was gonna be maybe a week ago,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that tomorrow. We'll get into the Cowboys, sorry,
Speaker 1: the Lions offense versus the Cowboys Defense to then for
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