WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Time to Hit the Panic Button? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.960 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.879 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.200 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.400 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:25.840 wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.040 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, September twenty fifth, two thousand eighteen, 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.040 Season fourteen, episode number forty seven. Welcome to another edition 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.720 Up the Break, live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.320 here from the s WBC Mortage studio is at the Star. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.120 It is a Tuesday. It's big picture Tuesday. We're gonna 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.880 take a big picture look at this team you're Dallas 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.680 Cowboys and give you, guys, kind of our thoughts on 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.720 where this team sits right now through three games, and 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.080 hopefully we'll have something that we can tell you that 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.400 here's you hope, God, I don't know. I don't know 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.760 what to say at that point. No, but we'll see 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.280 how it goes. We'll see how it goes. I mean it, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.520 hope for what hope? Well, effs, I guess that's a 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.240 good good playoffs. I mean playoffs. I mean, hope for what, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.280 they're gonna go out and score points, play win games. Yeah, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.760 all that stuff, go to the super Bowl, something that'll 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.920 make fans a lean. Half the thing is is that, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.759 you know, you look around the league and you're like, wow, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.440 one and two, one and two. I mean there's probably 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.920 a couple of one and two teams, maybe a few 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.440 that are going to make the playoffs. I mean it's 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.800 so early right now, the whole league is turned upside down. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.840 You really don't know what to expect. I mean, in 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.960 the second quarter, everybody was tweeting about how this is tragic, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.039 like fits tragic, And the next thing you know, you're like, Okay, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.200 this guy's not bad, Like he's not losing his job. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.240 I mean, everything changes in a quarter or two. So 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.520 it's still early in the season, it is, And I 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.520 I was talking about that yesterday, like, you know, the 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.760 Seahawks have the same record as the Cowboys, but they 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.000 probably feel a lot better about it than the Cowboys do. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.080 Having said that, it's it's just it's the trend. I mean, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.400 you know, I looked it up afterday This is thirteen 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.640 point seven points per game over the first three games. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.600 To start a season is as bad as it's been 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.320 since nineteen ninety. For the Dallas Cowboys, Gosh, nineteen nineteen 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.440 the lowest scoring average to open a season in the 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.320 first three games since nineteen ninety. That team went seven 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.000 and nine. Worse than that, they averaged nine point three 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.920 the year before that, when they went one in fifteen, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.760 and every team that's even been close to scoring that 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.480 few points has been pretty bad. The mid you know, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.640 the twenty twelve team first three games was fifteen point 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.639 seven points. They went eight and eight, And then there 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.440 were some teams in the early two thousands, you know, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.120 the Campo years, when they weren't good like that. It's early, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.840 it's definitely early, and things can definitely change. But the 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:47.040 trend over three weeks is very bad about well, no, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.560 because and I'm I'm being facetious, but I said this 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.000 too though. I mean, it's a it's a seventeen week season. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.000 It's never like it never stays the same as it's 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.040 supposed to, for good or bad. I mean, twenty sixteen, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.960 they sucked for a month, remember that the Vikings game, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.440 the second Giants game, Like they forgot how to play 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.600 offense for a month. Last year, they had their ups 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.200 and downs. They looked like the best offense in the 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.000 league for a month, they look terrible. Like it's gonna change. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.040 It will be better at some point this season. I 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.359 guarantee you that. Who knows how long it'll last. But 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.880 NFL season is a steadily evolving thing. It's not set 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.560 in Week three. Here's the thing that I wanted to 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.440 talk about today. Earlier this morning, Jerry Jones had his 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.040 weekly call with the guys over at the Fan and 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.079 one of the questions he was asked was about whether 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.560 he's ready to push the panic button, and his response was, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.480 I like our players, I like our coaching staff. I 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.200 think your question is have I hit the panic button? 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.160 The answer is no. A question for you guys, are 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.680 you ready to panic yet? And should fans panic yet? 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.000 Based upon what they've seen so far and the possibilities 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.760 of them being better this season? What does panic mean? 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.880 Whatever you wanted to me, Yeah, but think about it. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.560 Let's really break down. What if Jerry was hitting the 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.120 panic button? What is that mean? Though? Panic button means 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.080 like some kind of tragic situation, We got to get 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.720 the hell out of here or something. I mean, that's 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.560 time to evacuate. But what does the panic button mean 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.200 to this team? The coach? Are you worried about it? 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.840 I mean, are you worried that they are gonna be 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.880 what we see? Worried about what his football team? He's 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.920 got to be worried about his football team because his 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.520 offense can't score and they haven't been able to score 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.440 since last year, and the backup behind the quarterback looked 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.479 horrible in the preseason. So there's no recourse there, there's 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.880 no changing, there's no Fitzpatrick there. So yeah, he's worried 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.360 about the offense. There's no doubt he's got to be 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.680 panic button, though, I mean, I don't know what that 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:45.000 really means other than firing people or having them change 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.600 their jobs. I think the point of the question, whether 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.240 it's the right wording or not, the point of the 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.360 question is are you worried that what you've seen so 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.400 far is the trend and that's what you should expect 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:57.960 from the year's team for the rest of the season. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.920 If it is, you should be you should be worried. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.880 So the question is if what is what you've seen, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:05.960 is that an aberration or is that what you're going 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.160 to expect to see still, And I'm gonna go back 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.680 to what Dave actually wrote on the board up there. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.520 You wrote, you know, just to the story that you 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.400 wrote already, you said, Jerry changes. Yeah, That's what I 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.479 think you're saying, is is that to the point where 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.200 you need to make changes? And I don't know what 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.599 changes you can really make. And I'm sure people have 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.680 just said to themselves, well, I know what you can do. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.480 You can fire this guy and this guy and this 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.120 guy from the coaching staff or whatever. But I'm just 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.000 saying that's I think what he's really saying is are 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.919 you ready to make a change? Ironically, and that what 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.480 panic button means. That's not how it took but you 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.040 can take it over you. That's what I think. That's 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.880 kind of do some different conversation, but I think that's good. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.159 That's a good conversation. I kind of agree with where 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.839 Nick's going with this though, is what is your recourse? 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.320 Like if you're hitting panic button? What are you doing? Yeah? 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.080 Are you firing the head coach? In week three? Even 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.120 even as the biggest Jason Garrett Hayter on the planet 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.960 would eventually agree that that's a little ludicrous. Like Week 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.280 three one, and two even as I mean nobody gets 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.800 fired week three maybe Yeah, no, I mean you could 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.880 do that. Jerry said he doesn't want to do that either, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.960 and that I actually I can make an argument for 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.840 that actually, and I said actually like three times right there, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.520 Um a very ironic bit of timing. The New York 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.479 Jets are doing that. Todd Bowles is taking some play 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.280 calling away from his OC after they lost to the 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.680 Browns the other night. Yeah, which interesting. Hey, you know, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.680 I think you said this, or maybe Brian said, when 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.680 your ass is on the line, who can't like you 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.720 might never have called an offense in your life. You're like, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.279 I'm gonna, I'm trying. I'm going down, I'm going down. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.720 I don't. The way I read it is that he's 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.400 not just going to be the play caller, but he's 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.560 gonna have more interest than he did he only have 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.520 forty seconds to make a call. Yeah, that's a little 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.560 bit of inside joke there, you saying, Todd Bowls is 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.120 kind of a slow, slow delivering guy. We're gonna we're 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.479 gonna run the ball man, We're gonna run it here. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.920 I think you get that urgency is not his thing. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.599 He's just cool. He's just the cool cat. I didn't 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:14.120 get bang right, trips left, double y. It's option Isaiah 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:19.240 and get Isaiah Crowl in there or somebody. It's it's 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.680 never if you are panicked, it's never too early to 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.040 hit that button. I guess you know what I mean? Um, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.440 I get My thing is like, what what is drastically 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.560 gonna change if Jason Garrett's the one calling the plays 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.440 instead of Scotland a hand, Like, is the playbook or 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.640 the philosophy just gonna be drastically different? And that's ahead 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.200 you look like you got something. Well. The thing I 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.280 was gonna say is I do think there's a big difference. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.600 You can have the same playbook. The way a game 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.760 is called, though, can be drastically different. And in an 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.960 offense like this one, where, in my opinion, you saw 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.560 a stark contrast in how effective they were moving the 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.960 ball in that first quarter of Game two versus pretty 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.160 much the rest of this season, and in my opinion, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.000 it was it was for no other reason than the 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.760 fact that the way they call those plays, the way 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.840 they put those plays together in succession, gave them better 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.640 opportunities to be effective. And I think I think there's 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.960 something to that. There's something to developing a rhythm, because 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.640 the rhythm is all about making successful plays and as 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.960 you guys don't want to hear, staying ahead of the chains, right, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.520 that's all about the rhythm of the offense. And to me, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.720 play calling has everything to do with that, and two 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.040 different guys perspective on how they like. If you throw 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.600 me into a booth to call plays in an NFL game, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.120 it's probably not going to go very well. Right, compared 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.280 to even Scott Nhan or whoever anybody's doing that professionally, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.439 is gonna have a better handle on how you put 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.120 plays together in succession in the same playbook to be 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.800 able to know exactly how to get your offense moving. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.800 And now I'm worried that I misspoke, because to be clear, 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.040 I don't think the Cowboys play calling is great by 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.560 any stretch of the imagination. I just don't have a 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.160 ton of confidence that it's going to be a lot better. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.960 You don't expect that Garrett's better than Lynhan not appreciate 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.040 some type of noticeable way. Well not really. Here's what 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.120 I think is part of the problem too. It's one 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.000 thing to scheme it up for the week. You know, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.160 you get you install the game plan and you're throwing 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:12.920 it out there and you've got all week and I 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.080 don't know if they script the first ten plays, I've 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.520 never understood that. I don't even believe that scripted. What 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.040 happens if you get an eighty yard run on the 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.160 I mean, I don't like scripting the plays, but I'm 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.800 just saying, you have an idea of what you're trying 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.760 to do. The problem I see is the Cowboys have 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.400 been out scored twenty seven to three in the second quarter. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.280 So whatever they're doing, let's go it deep to table on, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:32.880 let's try to this, let's try to that. That's cool 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.440 and it works, but then you start getting in the 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.480 flow of the game second quarter and adjustments, and now 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.840 it's back to like, what are we doing now? And 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.040 then they become predictable and they get stopped. I mean 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.640 not until they regroup in the third quarter or they 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.839 find themselves down by three scores and they got a 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.960 hurry back. But at the second quarter, that's when the 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.040 flow of the game's going on, get a feel for 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.440 the game, and that's not working well. And that's what 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.040 I think maybe a different play caller maybe can mix 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.320 it up there. I'm try something. This isn't three games though, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.000 and then Dave would be the first one to say 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.320 this has been seven, eight games, maybe as many as 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:12.360 eleven eleven games since that awesome Kansas City win. It's 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.760 been and a lot of there's been some factors for that, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.240 I mean, historically bad, I mean, but the thing is 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.200 is that, yeah, Tyrant Smith was hurt, Deek was out 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.640 and all that, but the Dack that we saw in 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.040 that game, we saw Dak and he was running for 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.760 his life and he was a really gunshot. But from 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.440 that game, even though he's got his left tackle back, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.719 even though he didn't play that well, he's got his 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.040 running back back. Even though the defense is better, he 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.760 still looks like the Dack that was in Atlanta. And 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.320 that's been That's the problem. I hate to do it because, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.880 I mean, Ben Roethlisberger's probably going on the Hall of Fame. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:47.959 I don't think it's fair to compare him to Dak. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.880 But at the same time, didn't have the left side 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.600 of his offensive line last night, doesn't have a levion bell, 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.000 and he's just bombing away against not a great Tampa defense, 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.680 but a two and oh, up a defensive and I'm 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.080 sorry real quick, I'm just I'm not asking Dak to 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.960 be Ben Roethlisberger and have one hundred and eighty yards 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.120 at the halfway point of the second quarter. But like, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.840 if you can't, if you can't consistently move it and 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.000 you know, top up over, I just need you to 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.320 get over two hundred yards, man, I get you. But 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.480 here here's the difference. And I looked at at what 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.280 Pittsburgh was doing and their philosophy is I mean, think 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.400 about they have They've had the best receiver in the 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.680 game now for what three years? I mean him and 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.520 Odell or Julio. They're all right there. You say what 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.959 you want Fantasy wise, of course, sure A B is 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.520 great and he is, He's amazing. But they haven't stopped though. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:42.400 They get Juju Schusters second second round, Juju second round. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.600 Then what they get James Washington? Yeah, second round. They 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.760 trade for Ryan Switzer who scored a touchdown man and 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.360 really nice catch in that game. Um, they they've added 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.520 a lot of guys and then they keep you know, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.560 you would think, well, I mean you have Ab, I 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.280 mean they you take Ab out and there was vers 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.000 are still better than the Cowboys right now, He's easily 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.080 and better than a lot of teams. So I'm just 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.080 saying down the field, that's great, They've got the speed 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.240 to do it. Are we gonna talk about that game 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.520 though at all? And in a way we can? I mean, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.400 there's really only one thing to talk about in that game. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.240 It seems like everyone's and it comes on the heels 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.160 of what happened with the tyrone. Crawford I mean is 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.439 getting you know, But honestly, I don't know what's I 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.720 don't know. The problem is, I don't know that that's 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.040 going to change. I think the NFL has has now 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.640 basically drawn the line in the sand, and there the expectation, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.520 at least in my opinion, is unless there isn't all 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.720 out mutiny. And what I mean by that is fans 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.120 actually stop watching the game because and it's a noticeable 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.760 change if you can stop watching. No. Actually, ratings are 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.760 up this year, and that's a part of the thing. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.400 Is this decision, in my opinion, was all about who 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.160 drives the most ratings in the minds of the people 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.040 that are making decisions. And I think they believe the 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.200 quarterbacks do because I think they believe they are the 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.440 names of the game, and so they are gonna do 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.920 everything they can to keep those guys from being injured 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.360 because that affects ratings, saying and you make a good point, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.800 you're saying that. Let's say on the other hand that 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.800 the forty nine Ers defense has been called for eight 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.040 penalties and their fans are upset about it or whatever. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.400 That won't get them to stop watching the game. Like 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.080 if they lost their quarterback out for the season and 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.040 now there's season tanks and they're like, who's the backup? CJ. Beth. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.960 When you got Aaron Rodgers sitting on the sideline last 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.600 year because a guy tackles him and falls on top 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.880 of him, the NFL looks at that and says, that's 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.320 bad for ratings, that's bad for business. If a guy 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.120 as good as Aaron Rodgers, that's going to be on 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.679 our highlights every single week. And he is a name 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.840 that people know and people love to watch him play 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.679 by self included. If he's not playing for eight weeks 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.199 of an NFL season when you only have sixteen games, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.520 that's a miss. So everything they can do to keep 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.200 that guy healthy, they're gonna do it because it's good 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.280 for business. I hear you. Although you know you mentioned 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.440 Jerry's interview on the fan this morning. It was a 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.360 long answer, and I think that's probably why it's not 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.520 getting more traction. I mean, jeez, this thing is like 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.160 three hundred words long. But you know what, we would 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.280 all agree, Jerry's one of the three or four most 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.440 powerful people in the NFL. He says when it comes 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.679 to pro football, to use a boxing term, that's when 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.720 you put the six ounce gloves on. That's when you 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.600 don't want to fight with those ten ounce gloves or 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.880 you don't want to fight with those head gears. Everybody's 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.440 being really paid to go out, and you're paid a 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.320 lot of money to go out and incur those types 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.960 of situations that have more risks in them. It's real 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.360 important that pro football distinguish itself as a very physical 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.320 game relative to the game at college, relative the game 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.920 at the high school and amateur level. How to find 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.800 that balance, that's one thing. But when we get to 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.800 a point in the future, in time, you'll see pro 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.800 football where they've put the six ounce gloves on and 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.680 where the men are playing. So I mean, that's the 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.800 only half of the answer. It was very long, but 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.640 Jerry basically saying like, yeah, like pro football is supposed 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.800 to be a physical, hard game, I mean, reading between 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.640 the lines. I don't think he's really happy about this, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.080 but that's the thing. Well, obviously there is a committee there, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.840 and I think that includes guys like Troy Vincent and 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:10.120 those guys who are making these decisions, and whatever decisions 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.600 being made, they've made the decision they're willing to protect 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.200 the quarterback at the extent of the defensive guys. You know, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.480 they don't care as much stairs they do about what 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.960 I and I hate this rule. This is the worst rule, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.880 in my opinion, in all of football. And you know 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.120 where I'm going with this, probably because I've said it 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.240 for years. I don't understand how hippocritical the league is 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.800 at times, and I think it is. And we'll talk about, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.840 you know, in concussion protocol and all that, But then 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.160 they played Thursday night. You cannot touch the quarterback in 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.560 the head. You can't. You can't hit him in the head. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.280 If you're a defensive lineman, you cannot put your hand 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.520 in an offensive lineman's face and drive him back. However, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.840 if your advance McDonald and you can get the ball, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.680 you can club a defensive guy straight in the face. Yep, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:16:00.080 twice though it was awesome, But why what if he 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.160 has a head injury? Does his helmet? Does it not 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.040 hurt anymore because you have a ball and you hit 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.120 him a like? Is he okay now? Because of that? Like, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.320 that doesn't make sense to me. If you can't hit 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.040 in the head, you can't hit in the head. That's 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.480 the crap that I think is a problem, and that's 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.520 why defensive players should be mad. And then they're gonna 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.720 get into this body weight thing when a safety he's 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.640 gonna put his body weight on Cam Newton even though 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.280 he weighs four hundred pounds more than him. You know, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.600 I think I said yesterday. I don't know if proud's 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.240 the right word, but I was just I was impressed 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.080 by Tyrone Crawford's willingness to kind of come out and 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.840 crap on it basically because it's crap in my Opinionum. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.440 Another thing worth noting about that Judy Batista, longtime NFL 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.400 writer for the New York Times. I think she's with 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:52.040 NFL now, But the Competition Committee's having a call about this, Like, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.360 I mean, there's a lot of unhappy people about it. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.840 I don't think I don't. She said, it doesn't seem 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.520 likely they can drastically change it this season they stop 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.600 calling it. I mean, that's the thing you could stop. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.520 You can stop emphasizing it too, with your your referees, right. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.280 I will be surprised if it stays like this for 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.440 all seventeen weeks. I think there is a clarification that 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.040 you can make there, I really do. And I think 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.520 it's one thing to drive a guy down. It's another 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.879 thing to pick him up by his legs alf the 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.720 ground and then deliver him to the ground. Now, Romo 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.640 had three broken collar bone injuries in his career, something 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.720 like that. Three, And I'm trying to think if I 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.480 can remember them. The second one, the one in Philly 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.920 in twenty fifteen, Now, that would have been a penalty 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.680 right in today's game. I mean, if I remember driving 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.639 him in and I think the first one against the 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.160 Giants back in twenty ten, I think that was the case. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.440 Carolina was a little different story. I don't know about 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.119 that one. Yeah, I don't know if you get a 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.840 penalty there, But um not that none of it matters. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.160 I mean, but but I'm just saying, you go back 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.600 and see, I guess over the course of you know 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.680 that that body weight has been some you know, had 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.600 some injuries. But maybe there's a way to say, Okay, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.000 you tackle the guy to the ground, but maybe you're 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.679 not lifting him up. And but even at that, my 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.000 thing still comes back to, how else are you going 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.359 to take down Ben Roethlisberger? How else are you gonna 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.040 take down Cam Newton? These are big These are not 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.000 just your average quarterback. These are big quarterbacks that are 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:23.560 really strong, heavy. How if you're not going to tackle 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:28.360 them by basically grabbing them, buy their legs and lifting up, well, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:29.760 how are you going to take them down? Because you're 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.080 force hitting them. A cornerback or a safety that's coming 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.040 in to try to hit that quarterback, You're not gonna 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.639 take him down by just groute force. You're gonna have 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.720 to actually get leverage, and leverage means grabbing their legs 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.919 lifting to actually take their legs from We're getting so 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.679 close to having like a training camp situation where like 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:53.400 if you hit the church, you hit the quarterback. He's down. Now, Now, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:57.040 how good is Cam Newton? And changes everything? Changes everything? 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.640 And that's my point is I just think I think 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.399 that the game has gotten to a point now with 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.879 this particular call where it's become completely this is it? Sorry, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.560 what Vince? What was Vince Young's best year? I can't 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:15.359 remember five, two thousand and five, four, six, okay, back 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.640 then two thousand and four or five. Ever. Remember they 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.760 were playing the Giants in a game, and I think 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.280 his name was Kiwanuka for him. I remember from the 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.320 Giants there was a play where he did that. He 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.479