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

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Speaker 1: for 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: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Friday, December third, twenty twenty one, season seventeen,

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Speaker 1: episode number seventy one. Welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,

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Speaker 1: We've got a win to talk to you about. Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: You get a win on the road Thursday Night football.

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Speaker 1: They beat the New Orleans Saints twenty seven seventeen win that,

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Speaker 1: by all accounts, is nothing more than that. It's us

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Speaker 1: to win, and in these days in the NFL, that's

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Speaker 1: a good thing. And we're gonna break it down for

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Speaker 1: you here on today's show. Let's start where we normally

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Speaker 1: start to day after a game with big picture storyline.

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Speaker 1: I'd love for each one of you guys to tell

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Speaker 1: me what you think is the story of the game.

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Speaker 1: Following that twenty seven seventeen victory, we got Dave remote,

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Speaker 1: So Dave, let's get started with you. What's your big

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Speaker 1: picture story coming out of that game. My big picture

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Speaker 1: takeaway is thank God that this stretch is over. And

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if the Cowboys are gonna

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Speaker 1: play noticeably different down the line, but this has been

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Speaker 1: a tough three or four weeks, you know, the whole

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Speaker 1: the three games in twelve days. Look, everybody's got to

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Speaker 1: do it, but doing it in the back half of

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Speaker 1: the year around the holidays is not easy. They're banged up.

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Speaker 1: They had a COVID outbreak. By the way, I kind

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Speaker 1: of forgot that sounds bad, but like halfway through the game,

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, Mikeelcarthy's not here, or like

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Speaker 1: this this whole week has been so surreal, but you

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Speaker 1: didn't have time to really think about it because you

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Speaker 1: got a game to get ready for on Thursday. So

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Speaker 1: not an inspiring performance. Yeah, I mean, the defense gets

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Speaker 1: four takeaways. That's always great, albeit against maybe a guy

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Speaker 1: like that, But this offense has got to huddle up

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Speaker 1: and have some kind of come to Jesus moment, and

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Speaker 1: fortunately for them, they get time. They got a long

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Speaker 1: weekend off, They've got a long time to get ready

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Speaker 1: for their next game, whole divisions in front of them,

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Speaker 1: and they can be rested for it. So I'm just

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Speaker 1: storyline of the game, well, I wish I was feeling

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Speaker 1: which I'm glad. I'm glad, but it's just it's been

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Speaker 1: and I'm out too. I don't want to blame Dak

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Speaker 1: on everything that they've been through. You know, you got

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Speaker 1: After he got back, we got issues with receivers missing

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Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. But what I was lacking

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Speaker 1: like it's just missing that little spark that we've seen,

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Speaker 1: thought it was a great win. I know that's not

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Speaker 1: the second segment of the Break Life from s WBC

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Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios at the Star. We need to talk about

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Speaker 1: the offense. They had some some some interesting moments last night.

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Speaker 1: There were some struggles. There are also some good things

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Speaker 1: that they They did get Amari Cooper back and and

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00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: so you started to see some things that were that

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Speaker 1: were favorable for them. But they were two of thirteen

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Speaker 1: on third downs, which is obviously not great, oh of

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Speaker 1: one on fourth downs. Dak was twenty six to forty

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00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,120
Speaker 1: a sixty five percent completion rate, two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: eight yards, one touchdown and one interception, and in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: several missed opportunities where he was just off target on

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Speaker 1: some throws that should have been completions. That all being said,

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Speaker 1: tell me what your thoughts were on the offensive performance

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Speaker 1: last night. Nick. We'll start with you offensively. You know,

451
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Speaker 1: they left some some yards out there, and they had

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Speaker 1: they were one dimensional at times when they were running

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Speaker 1: the ball. Like I said earlier, though you know, they

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Speaker 1: stuck to it. What I liked about it, I thought

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Speaker 1: one of the best players of the game was when

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Speaker 1: they got up there, up ten, they were down on

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Speaker 1: their own four yard line. They had to get themselves

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Speaker 1: out of that, and that passed over the middle to

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Speaker 1: to CD where he went down and got it. They

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Speaker 1: gave him some breathing room, took three or four more

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Speaker 1: minutes off the clock. I thought when they really had to,

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Speaker 1: they were able to function just enough. I mean, this,

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Speaker 1: this isn't gonna win any shootouts. We know that, but

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Speaker 1: I thought, based on all the circumstances going on, I'm

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Speaker 1: not giving them as bad grades for this one. Are

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Speaker 1: you saying you brought up that that Kansas City game.

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Speaker 1: Are you saying that Dallas would have been in a

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Speaker 1: simmer Bowl last night if they had to win a shootout,

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Speaker 1: they would have scored more points than twenty seven. I

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Speaker 1: think so. I mean, sometimes you have to you have

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Speaker 1: to for I mean, why why do teams always kind

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Speaker 1: of score a little bit more there at the end

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Speaker 1: of the game. It's based off coverage and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I just think sometimes games take on a life

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Speaker 1: of their own, and if you have to get it

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Speaker 1: a shootout, you kind of do. I think they could

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Speaker 1: have scored more if they needed to. So yeah, similar

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Speaker 1: to that, they kind of played within themselves. When you

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Speaker 1: see Taysom Hill on the other side making those throws,

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Speaker 1: I just don't do anything stupid here, Let's don't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna throw. They're shorthanded, they don't have Kamar,

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Speaker 1: they don't have their guys. They're leaning on him in

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Speaker 1: his arm. Eventually it's gonna go the other way. Amber.

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Speaker 1: I mean, with you saying they could have scored more

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Speaker 1: if they needed to, it's like they've needed to be

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Speaker 1: scoring more and they haven't. So you know, I you

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Speaker 1: know what, if that sounds weird, I get it. I

488
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Speaker 1: just believe what. I don't even know how to how

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Speaker 1: to even interpret this. I just think the games take

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Speaker 1: on a different life if if they're over there going

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Speaker 1: up and down the field, Saints so scorn. I think

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys match them to some degree. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's a low scoring game. Well, we have seen in

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Speaker 1: plenty of different games where they're down and Dak somehow

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Speaker 1: every time at the end of the game just starts

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Speaker 1: playing better and putting points out there. But anyways, overall,

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Speaker 1: and I mentioned it earlier, this offense is just lacking

498
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Speaker 1: that spark right now. And the good thing, the positive

499
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Speaker 1: thing is that they are getting some of their guys

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Speaker 1: back in slowly and every week we should start now,

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Speaker 1: we should now start seeing a lot of progress. They

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Speaker 1: get a little break here. So with them being back

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Speaker 1: again together, the receiving group being together again, the old

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Speaker 1: line hopefully taking form now and being more solid as two. Okay,

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Speaker 1: these are the guys that are gonna be in playing

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Speaker 1: week after week. It should get better. I think that

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore should get better again. I know he's getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of criticism, but we've seen him being capable

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Speaker 1: of doing great things with this offense. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a good end of the year

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Speaker 1: for them and they're gonna get back on track. But

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Speaker 1: I do want to bring this up Dak Prescott, and

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Speaker 1: I know I feel like all of us on this

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Speaker 1: show are agree with what we think of Dak. I

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Speaker 1: know Nick makes some comments here and they're sometimes criticizing Dak.

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Speaker 1: But all in all, we think that Dak has been

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Speaker 1: pretty solid. He's a great leader, he's everything, and he's

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Speaker 1: shown upward trending. But when I get on Twitter and

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Speaker 1: I see all these comments and so, you know, people

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00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: really attacking him right now and like, oh see, he's

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Speaker 1: not the quarterback that he needs to be, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: deserve the amount of money that he's getting paid. Blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. I mean, I want to ask you guys

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Speaker 1: and bring that from Twitter into this conversation real quick.

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Speaker 1: How are you guys currently feeling about him? And can

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Speaker 1: he turn things around back again for the remainder of

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Speaker 1: the season. Dave, what do you think? Yeah? I mean,

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Speaker 1: and this is this is what happens when you give

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Speaker 1: a quarterback forty million dollars a year, It comes with

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Speaker 1: the dinner. You're gonna be hyper criticized. And Dak Dak

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Speaker 1: has been down this month. And if anything, the impression

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Speaker 1: that I keep coming back to, and I take my

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Speaker 1: impressions from Dak himself, because last night he said a

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Speaker 1: lot of that is maybe me being too greedy, trying

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Speaker 1: to put the dagger in on one play instead of

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Speaker 1: going through my reads, I think Dak has been pressing

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Speaker 1: for most of the last month. Now. Is that because

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Speaker 1: he knows that they're banged up and he's got to

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Speaker 1: raise his level of play? Is that because he's here

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Speaker 1: an MVP chatter whatt Is that because he wants to

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Speaker 1: justify the contract. I don't know, But for how much

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Speaker 1: we talk about the Dak yard and how these guys

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00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: are in the lab all the time, Dak hasn't looked

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Speaker 1: like he's been on the same page with his receivers

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Speaker 1: consistently for about a month. I mean the fourth and two.

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Speaker 1: If there's better communication between DAK and CD on the

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Speaker 1: fourth and two early in the game, not only do

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Speaker 1: they probably score a touchdown, but we're throwing laurels at

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's feet because it's such a cool play design.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they schemed it up beautifully, and whether it

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Speaker 1: was supposed to go to the inside shoulder or the outside,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Dak and CD just weren't on the

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Speaker 1: same page. We've seen that throughout the last month, I

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Speaker 1: mean throughout the game. On the play where Dak got

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00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: picked CD for the eighteenth time in the game, is

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Speaker 1: gesturing to the sideline, like, I don't know what the

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00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: hell's going on, what's happening? And sure it's the Superdome,

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Speaker 1: but these guys love to tell you how much that's

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Speaker 1: not a big deal. So I'm gonna take their word

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Speaker 1: for it and say, surely we should be better than this,

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Speaker 1: Surely we should have better communication. So, I mean, everybody

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00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: can see the inconsistencies. I think it's a result of

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Speaker 1: pressing on Dak's part, and again going back to the

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Speaker 1: having a break thing, this group just needs to take

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Speaker 1: a deep breath, reassessed self scout, think about what we

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Speaker 1: do well and where we've been messing up. I really,

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Speaker 1: I think they're just a few tweaks away from being better.

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Speaker 1: But it's been frustrating to watch. You know, how many

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Speaker 1: games do you think Dak has not played as well? Here? Four? Five, five?

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Speaker 1: You know what else is darting with Denver? Yeah? You

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Speaker 1: know what else does not happened in five games? Was

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Speaker 1: that Zeke hasn't gone like over fifty yards rushing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and it's just and it's hand in hand. I'm not

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Speaker 1: just saying it's Zeke not running the ball. So Dak

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Speaker 1: hasn't played as well. Maybe Dak hasn't played as well Zeke.

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Speaker 1: They go hand in hand that this is where they

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Speaker 1: are now. It's not back to rookie season when it

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Speaker 1: was mainly it was Zeke first and then Dak was

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Speaker 1: able able to kind of, you know, compensate and and

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Speaker 1: and play complimentary football. I think I think it's fifty

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Speaker 1: fifty if if not leaning more towards Dak, but I

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Speaker 1: do think that he needs a running game, and that

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Speaker 1: hasn't happened. So I kind of put it on both

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Speaker 1: of them. They're they're they're having to play one dimensional

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Speaker 1: football right now. And and I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: that's never anyone's strong student. It's certainly not Dax. That's

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Speaker 1: not his game. He he needs play acts and to

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Speaker 1: help him, uh, flee flickers and things like that. That

589
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Speaker 1: was my big thing about the flee flicker on a game.

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Speaker 1: When you're running the ball better, I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: work better when you're not running as well. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to be like, all right, well, I'm the safety is

593
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Speaker 1: not just gonna jump up there and bite because they're

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Speaker 1: not getting more than five yards anyway, So that that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be my favorite time to run it, but hey,

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Speaker 1: I've asked for it for twelve years or fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: so can't be greedy about it. But I do think

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Speaker 1: that they're not running the ball as well and that

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Speaker 1: is affecting dec. I think they kind of playing off

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Speaker 1: each other. But I agree with Dave. I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: not talking about a bunch of tweaks here. They're getting

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Speaker 1: their receivers back, They're getting everybody kind of back. The

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Speaker 1: offensive line will be will be okay, I mean, but

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Speaker 1: there'll be a huge test this week or the next

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Speaker 1: game against Washington and the other thing I'll say too

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Speaker 1: is that, and I want to keep an eye on this.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Dave, quit you go. I'm sorry, and I

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Speaker 1: wanted to bring this up y'all y'all got really heated

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Speaker 1: about the did they or did they not run the

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Speaker 1: ball well? Things? So I left it alone. But like,

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Speaker 1: I get what Nick is saying, and yes, this offense's

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Speaker 1: best performances came when they were running the ball well,

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Speaker 1: but I really hate their stubborn insistence on trying to

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Speaker 1: do it when it's not working. And yeah, you can't

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Speaker 1: take you can't take the good runs out, like that's

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Speaker 1: not how that works. But at the same time I

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Speaker 1: looked this up for the story that I wrote last night.

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Speaker 1: They ran at twenty four times. Six of the twenty

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Speaker 1: four went for more than three yards. That's awful, that's

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Speaker 1: so bad. And one of them, that's how you get

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Speaker 1: a lot of three and out. Yeah, and a thirty

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00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: three yard rushing game was a bubble screen to Ceedee Lamb,

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Speaker 1: where it's really more your receiver corps and the design

624
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Speaker 1: of the play doing the blocking and not your offensive line.

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Speaker 1: So that's twenty three percent of your rushing total that

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Speaker 1: isn't traditional rushing yardage. And I just I say all

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Speaker 1: that to say with the exception of the big breaks,

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Speaker 1: and also two of those runs that went longer than

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Speaker 1: three went for four, So it's not even like those

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Speaker 1: were eight or nine yard games. Like they had three

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Speaker 1: sizeable running games the whole time. And yet they just

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Speaker 1: kept on plowing right up the middle. And I would

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Speaker 1: argue hurt Dak in the process, because the last thing

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Speaker 1: you want to do is put him into an obvious

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Speaker 1: third and seven, which I felt like they did six

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Speaker 1: times last night. I don't have that number in front

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Speaker 1: of me, but it had to have been more than

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Speaker 1: a handful m and so that's that's what's frustrating to me,

639
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: is just stubbornly trying to do something that that wasn't working.

640
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: It broke in the third quarter with the Pollard run,

641
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: which was great, but again that that's something I would

642
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: like to look at as well. I felt like this

643
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: offense was a lot more adaptable earlier in the year.

644
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: That Pollard touchdown, was it number forty three? Was that Latimer?

645
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: That no? Which was there? Safety Marcus Williams, He's still

646
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: waits Williams. He's still waiting for Pollard to cut back.

647
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: I guess like when I watch that play out, but

648
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: just it's funny watch the play and watch the safety

649
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: and watch Pollard. The safety is just kind of like, well,

650
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: all right, what's gonna happen. What's gonna happen? And Tony

651
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: Pollard is just like running like he's in the Olympics,

652
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: just straight, like I'm not even looking at anyone else.

653
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: I'm going as fast as I can. And it's like,

654
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, your angle is known, you don't have an

655
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: angle anymore. Like it's gone. He's gone. And that's two

656
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: weeks to the row. We've seen that, and I mean

657
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: he's Tony Pollard is going to get himself into the

658
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and probably as a kick returner. But you

659
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: know how those games go, you know if the Cowboys

660
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: playing the game, But how those games go is that

661
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: he'll be He'll be running the ball. He'll probably get

662
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: more carries than anyone, but he might because of the

663
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: kickoff returns. He might get himself in there. He's doing

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Speaker 1: it on national TV, Big Games. All right, Can I

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Speaker 1: ask a question real quick? Dave talked about how it

666
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: bothers him when they're like trying to run the ball

667
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: it's not working, then why do you keep going back

668
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: to that? But I feel like a lot of times

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Speaker 1: we also talk about them the opposite way and say, well,

670
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Speaker 1: they're not trying to run the ball enough to worry

671
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: it actually gets going. So how do you how do

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Speaker 1: you how do you figure out, like, at what point

673
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Speaker 1: do you decide, Okay, let's keep running the ball, let's

674
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: actually not this game. Well that's a good point because

675
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Speaker 1: also the play that I thought was a real big

676
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: moment there. I just mentioned it about that passed the

677
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Speaker 1: CD down in the end zone when Dak was kind

678
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: of hanging out in the end zone for a few

679
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: seconds and found CD. But that was a play acction passed.

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00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: So if you don't run the ball and you don't

681
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: commit to the run, your play accents is not gonna

682
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: work either. So that's a fine line of when do

683
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: you say this in working like Tampa, or say let's

684
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Speaker 1: keep let's keep going. Let's keep going because it'll it'll

685
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 1: open up more things for us. It's a fine line

686
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: to walk. And who knows. Who knows if that fifty

687
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: eight yard run happens had they not been just consistently

688
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: trying to pound them up the middle to where it

689
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: created opportunities for them. Like that's what you don't know

690
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: is what kind of side effects happened as a result

691
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Speaker 1: of them continuing to consistently try to run the ball.

692
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Speaker 1: And I get it, like you can't take away the

693
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Speaker 1: big plays. But at the end of the day, like

694
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Speaker 1: they got. I think they got as much as they

695
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: probably could have expected to get against that defense that

696
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: was a number one rush defense in the NFL. So

697
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I went into that game thinking the

698
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys were gonna be able to run very well, especially

699
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: with Zeke in the condition that he's in right now.

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00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: I expected whatever they got out of the Running Game

701
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: was gonna be gravy. For them to get a fifty

702
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown out of it, that's a win in

703
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: my opinion. That was a huge play for them. Also,

704
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: the way I see it though, is, and I know

705
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: we're specifically talking about this game, but when it's like

706
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: a reoccurring thing that we've seen game after game lately.

707
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: And yes, Seek has been banged up, but when I

708
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: was mentioning the Running Game and not working, Yes, they

709
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: had those two plays that were great and l and

710
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: you can't take those away whatever. But the thing where

711
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: I became becoming critical of them is when you see

712
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: a game after game where it's not necessarily working, and

713
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: then we start talking about them becoming one dimensional, and

714
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: then you look at the rest of the stretch and

715
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, who are they really gonna scare down

716
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: the line? And is it gonna even ever get going

717
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: and work. So it's just one of those things that

718
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: it's just to me, it's been happening every week. Well,

719
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: everybody knows. What's really the problem is they haven't had

720
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Speaker 1: McGovern as the fullback and for a game I'm sorry,

721
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: but the McGovern fullback package I mean, what's going on

722
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: with they've been that it seems like it. I mean,

723
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: we haven't seen we haven't seen that McGovern as a fullback. Now.

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00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: Connor Williams did it something at the end of the

725
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: game last night, but it didn't matter. M Yeah, we're

726
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: gonna say our final break. We're gonna come back. I

727
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: do want to talk about the offensive line. I want

728
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Speaker 1: to get some opinions from you guys on what you

729
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: saw from laoll Collins, from McGovern, from yadish how did

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732
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Speaker 1: At the start, Hey Dave, I got a question for you?

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Speaker 1: Is there any chance at all we can get we

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00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: can get Papa Hellman or Mama Helman to come and

781
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: give us some opinions on the game. Al Well, I'm

782
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: still in my hotel. Oh, I thought you were back

783
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: at the house. So okay, I thought you were back

784
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: at the house. Man hell I'm I'm I'm gonna use

785
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: every minute of free hotel time that I am afforded.

786
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: I get you. So, I know they're not here, but

787
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see them in a little bit. I

788
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: thought maybe we could get a little little perspective from

789
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: them as as Louisiana folks on what they thought of

790
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: the game. What are you Saints fans? Aren't they? Well

791
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, Dave, are these Saints fans? They are

792
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Speaker 1: Saints fans? Well, that would have been fun, Yes, they are.

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Speaker 1: That would have been a lot of fun. They my

794
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: my dad, Hey, he doesn't listen to the show, but

795
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Speaker 1: love you dad, because he my dad hated the Cowboys

796
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: my whole life, Like he couldn't stand them. And now

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00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: he's like calls me and he's like, oh my god,

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00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: when you think about Parsons, I'm like, Dad, I know

799
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Speaker 1: you don't like the Cowboys. You don't have to talk,

800
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: you don't have to humor me. But he loves it.

801
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: He's like roots for the Cowboys when they're not playing

802
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: the Saints. Yeah, you know that's what's great. You know,

803
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: your parents will do some crazy things. Kids. My dad listens.

804
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: My dad listens to the show, and yeah, he'll he's

805
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: he'll send a text message or twelve. You know. He

806
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: gets frustrated too with the in the game. So yeah,

807
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: maybe he was feeling better last night. Talk to me

808
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: about this offensive line. What do we see last night?

809
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: Let's start with Lyle Collins. What were your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: Lyle Collins play last What show is it? Derek? Episode

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Speaker 1: seventy one? There we go, Lyle Collins. Oh good, it's

812
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Speaker 1: my seventy one? Thank you. He's playing. He's playing did

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Speaker 1: all right? Nate Livings? Nate Livings? Um, how about two

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Speaker 1: an A? But um, anyways, I thought he played, you know,

815
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Speaker 1: pretty well. I mean, it's hard for us to kind

816
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: of talk about that. We didn't see all the you know,

817
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: we don't grade him out like that, but it seemed

818
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Speaker 1: like Dad had a lot of time lesson they were right, Yeah,

819
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 1: that was I just kind of know there were sometimes

820
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Speaker 1: he did. I thought Lyle played pretty well. You can

821
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Speaker 1: kind of tell, you know a guy. Especially after the game.

822
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: I talked to him. He was feeling pretty good about it.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's going back home to Louisiana two with

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Speaker 1: him and you know, being in lsue guy and you know,

825
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: and getting it to play, and I think this is

826
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: where he feels like he should be starting. He should

827
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Speaker 1: be starting to right tackle. Of course, he feels that

828
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: way back with Zach Martin and you know, they they

829
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: they did okay. I think they'll they'll continue to get better.

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Speaker 1: But I don't I don't think Lyell was a problem there.

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Speaker 1: Camber Um trying to remember if there was anything noticeable

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00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: that I watched from the game, but I can't think

833
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: of anything good or bad. You know, it was just

834
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: like one of those where you didn't necessarily noticed the

835
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: whole a whole lot, which we haven't had in quite

836
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 1: a few games. So that's good, that's a positive, and

837
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: it's to me an indication that they are starting to

838
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: hopefully get better and kind of figuring things out there

839
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: with the old line. But just in general, nothing necessarily

840
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: stood out. I don't know if DATE saw anything differently.

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00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't watched the game back at all,

842
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: but Dak got sacked one time. I thought, I thought

843
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: the protection was pretty good, especially for being in the Superdome. Ironically,

844
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: there were at least two plays where they did go

845
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Speaker 1: to play action and like the protection was impeccable and

846
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Dak had like two and a half three and a

847
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Speaker 1: half seconds to look down field and almost made it obvious.

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00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: The push up front concerns me. Obvious. Like I said,

849
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: I think they averaged like one point five yards per

850
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: carry between the tackles. I get it, outside the tackles

851
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: was awesome, but you'd still like to see better. But

852
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 1: I thought they were fine. Yeah, that's that's the one

853
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: thing about it, and is I think that from a

854
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: standpoint of running the ball, I give a lot of

855
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: the a lot of what we've seen over the last

856
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: several weeks with the guards of the running game. I

857
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: think a lot of that's about the offensive line because

858
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: these these backs are not getting a lot of room

859
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: to be able to run. I think you got two

860
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: quality backs obviously, and even with Zach, I mean, even

861
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: with a Zeke being hurt, Zeke still can run the ball.

862
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's just getting a lot of opportunities.

863
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: They're not giving him much room. And that's where I

864
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: look at this offensive line and I just think right

865
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 1: now as a unit, they're not performing at their best

866
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: when it comes to the running game. Yeah, you don't

867
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: see them really creating those holes that we have been

868
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: used to see. It. It's like you see usually seek

869
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: when he's at there and then he just kind of

870
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: hits a wall. He just there's no space for him

871
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: to get in. They don't get to the second level.

872
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's kind of like you got a

873
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: guy on a guy, but nobody ever gets up to

874
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: that second level to the linebacker to where you can

875
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: create that play that's more than two or three yards. Basically,

876
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: the running backs are running right into the line and

877
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: there's nothing there, and you just can't get to the

878
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 1: second level because none of the offensive linemen are getting

879
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: to the second level. Maybe, you know, I mean Connor Williams.

880
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: Of the penalties have gone down obviously from you know,

881
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern. But who's to say that Connor Williams isn't

882
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: blocking better than than McGovern, You know what I mean?

883
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: Would you take some of those penalties if you. I mean,

884
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: because they were running the ball better with him. If

885
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: you're resting with McGovern as the fullback. Well, but how

886
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: long has ever been starting now as a second game,

887
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: I feel like this is the third Yeah, okay, okay,

888
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: So I mean, I honestly I did. I thought running

889
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: over Connor Williams was a problem. When Connor Williams is

890
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: in there, You're right, I don't want to rewrite that history.

891
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: I think he was a problem in the run game

892
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: as well as the pass game hasn't fixed anything. Yeah,

893
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: And honestly, what I think we've learned is they're about

894
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: comparable players. Yeah. I don't think one's necessarily better than

895
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: the other, um, except for they don't have the penalties.

896
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: So if you're getting a comparable player without the penalties,

897
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: I still think at this point you probably made the

898
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: right movie. He got one penalty, right and for the

899
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: legal man downfield, you know, I feel like that that

900
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: penalty is getting called a lot more these days, and

901
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: it's probably because of the run pass options and these

902
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, and these guys thinking it's run they don't

903
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: know it's past. You're seeing it a lot. But um, yeah,

904
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: he was only a couple of yards down the field.

905
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: I thought that was a little sicky tack. But for

906
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,959
Speaker 1: the most part, though officiating like it was, it wasn't

907
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving crew for sure. You know. Yeah, I mean,

908
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: can we talk about Anthony Brown too, because I thought

909
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown just the bounce back game, you know, and

910
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: and he did. Michael Irvin texted him before the game saying, hey,

911
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: you got this. You know you have a bad memory,

912
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: go out there and do it. And they picked on

913
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: him early, you could tell, but it didn't really work

914
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: out for him. I mean, you got to give a

915
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: pass breakups. Ye give him some credit for the way

916
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: he kind of fought through that Mentally, he even said

917
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: it was a long week. It was a long week,

918
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it was only seven days, but I

919
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: get it. It was a long week. And he came

920
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: back and and you know, I give him props for

921
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: the way he played in that game. But let's be honest.

922
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: I think that most of us who have watched this

923
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: team playoff season, we know how good Anthony Brown has

924
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: been this season. He has not been as bad as

925
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: people want to say he's been. And I think it

926
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: all started with that Week one mistake that wasn't his

927
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: mistake that got got given to him, and I think

928
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: from there people just had that opinion of him. But

929
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: I think he's played really well. He's played as as

930
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: well as any cornerback on this team, minus the interceptions. Obviously,

931
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: Dix gets a lot of interceptions, and that matters. Don't

932
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: get me wrong now saying that doesn't matter, but just

933
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: on a play to play, who wins that play. I

934
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: think Brown has been every bit as good as Dicks

935
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, And I just think he's had some moments,

936
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: and that's gonna happen when you play cornerback. They're gonna

937
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: be some days. They're gonna be some moments you're gonna

938
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: give up plays. That's the National Football League. All right, guys,

939
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: we appreciate you join us. We'll be back on tomorrow.

940
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 1: I'm sorry now, we'll be back on Monday. I don't

941
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: even know what day it is. We'll be back on Monday.

942
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 1: We'll start getting you guys ready for the division. Man,

943
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: these next four out of those five against the Division,

944
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna get real interesting here. We'll play the Washington

945
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 1: football team next week in Washington. Util then for Nick Eatman,

946
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. This

947
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

948
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949
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