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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Buddy. October twenty fourth, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: Season eighteen, Episode number fifty seven. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We're presented by Miller Lite, the
Speaker 1: only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win. They beat the Detroit Lions twenty four
Speaker 1: to six, and it was a game that was pretty tight.
Speaker 1: The score doesn't, I don't think, necessarily reflect just how
Speaker 1: tight the game was throughout most of the game, but
Speaker 1: Cowboys do pull away at the end and make it
Speaker 1: a big win for them. Let's start first with stories
Speaker 1: of the game. What's the story of the game? Nick,
Speaker 1: I think the story of the game is that and
Speaker 1: I this is what I wrote. So I think that
Speaker 1: Dak has a new team around him that he's not
Speaker 1: used to, and I think he had to play that way.
Speaker 1: This is the first time that he's able to play
Speaker 1: with a defense that will carry them when when they're
Speaker 1: not very good, and so I thought he stated, the
Speaker 1: course did a good job kept it rolling until it
Speaker 1: was time, you know, to to score some points there
Speaker 1: at the end. But not all games are going to
Speaker 1: be that way. But I thought that once again, this
Speaker 1: defense carried him along and he didn't make the mistakes.
Speaker 1: He didn't make mistakes and just allowed the game to
Speaker 1: flow to him. And I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be the recipe for this team moving forward until they
Speaker 1: get better on offense, which probably won't be you know,
Speaker 1: this year. So I thought it was it was a
Speaker 1: good win for him and good win, you know, to
Speaker 1: get back into it. But the defense just carried him through.
Speaker 1: I mean, that seems pretty healthy. He didn't seem like
Speaker 1: the thumb was an issue at all. He said it
Speaker 1: after the press conference that it didn't bother him or
Speaker 1: hurt him in any way. It wasn't even something that
Speaker 1: came into thought while playing. So it was just good.
Speaker 1: I know, he didn't have a good first half of
Speaker 1: the game, and typically that tends to for it to
Speaker 1: be that way. Like he always shows up in the
Speaker 1: second half of games, and he did just that. I
Speaker 1: was I like the way that he was able to
Speaker 1: adjust some things a play calling and kind of changed
Speaker 1: a little bit as well. So I'm just looking forward
Speaker 1: to what this team is actually gonna look like in
Speaker 1: the next weeks, next week, after they get through the
Speaker 1: buy and all that, when they come back just the
Speaker 1: second half of the year of the season. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what the team just overall looks
Speaker 1: like with him back in the mix and then scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So that's something we're not being used to see in
Speaker 1: throughout this year so far, it's just those touchdown so
Speaker 1: we were able to tell these get two with Zeke
Speaker 1: running the ball. Yeah, he didn't get to really practice
Speaker 1: all that much. They didn't practice at all. Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: big thing is about trying to keep his team as
Speaker 1: healthy as possible, and so they really didn't have any
Speaker 1: real practices. You know, they got out and throw the
Speaker 1: ball around against air, like Mike was talking about, but
Speaker 1: you know, when they were coming off the Sunday night
Speaker 1: game Monday, didn't do anything. Helmets and T shirts all week.
Speaker 1: The first real, first real action he had was actually
Speaker 1: really playing in that game where things were flying around
Speaker 1: and all that. So I thought he was a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to maybe do a little bit too
Speaker 1: much early on some things. But overall though they scored
Speaker 1: that touchdown before half, you know, that's a different game.
Speaker 1: That's a second they come out in the second half.
Speaker 1: You know, they get the turnover, and now you see
Speaker 1: what happens when this football team when defensively teams have
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. When teams have to throw the ball,
Speaker 1: they can get after him and they've got some players.
Speaker 1: That play was some great determination. Will you look at
Speaker 1: what Michael Parsons did to chase that tight end down
Speaker 1: on that screen and knock that you know, knock him
Speaker 1: out of bounced there or knee down there at the
Speaker 1: one and then the very next play the effort of Lawrence.
Speaker 1: You're gonna win a lot of games playing with guys
Speaker 1: like that, and despite of what the offense might do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Dak was ten of eleven in
Speaker 1: the second half throwing the ball. You know, I mean
Speaker 1: it's they're going to have some busts up front. They're
Speaker 1: not always going to get open on the outside. You know,
Speaker 1: things are going to happen to them. Offensively, they kind
Speaker 1: of stop them along the way. But this defense is
Speaker 1: really your calling card right now and the way that
Speaker 1: they're playing the effort. But man, if they get people
Speaker 1: into situation where they have to throw the ball, their
Speaker 1: pass rush is really really good. They turn over. They
Speaker 1: get people to turn the ball over, and you know
Speaker 1: that's going to be the recipe for them. And they're
Speaker 1: good enough on special teams, the kicker, the punt returner,
Speaker 1: whenever they get those opportunities, they're going to do good things.
Speaker 1: So it's a shame that they had a big punt
Speaker 1: return and didn't get any points out of that, but
Speaker 1: hopefully that's something that they can continue to kind of
Speaker 1: work on here in the future. You mentioned those two
Speaker 1: plays there. I guess it was in the third quarter
Speaker 1: or maybe in the fourth quarter where you had the
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons rundown right tackle him there and then obviously
Speaker 1: the subsequent play, so the next play where they were
Speaker 1: able to create the turnover. What do you guys think
Speaker 1: of that play? When Wright got taken down, do you
Speaker 1: think he was in the end zone or he was down?
Speaker 1: He was down? Now the end zone copy shows knee
Speaker 1: down is what it is. And I think Calvin Watkins
Speaker 1: actually tweeted a picture this morning of a close up
Speaker 1: maybe the pylon cam where knee was down before he
Speaker 1: was able to reach out there. I would have reviewed it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I was Dan Campbell, I would have
Speaker 1: thrown the flag there because they definitely missed the spot.
Speaker 1: I think he I think he would have won the challenge, honestly.
Speaker 1: I think I think if you challenged the spot, you
Speaker 1: don't challenge the touchdown, you challenge the spot. I think
Speaker 1: you would have won the challenge. So you're saying it
Speaker 1: may not have been a touchdown, but the spot would
Speaker 1: have been different. Yeah, and then where he got hit
Speaker 1: in the backfield, you know, maybe maybe he's already in
Speaker 1: the end zone at that point, because that spot was
Speaker 1: ridiculous for where the ball actually because it was really
Speaker 1: really close for being a touchdown. So I think if
Speaker 1: you have to word it that way, because if you say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm challenging I think he scored, now he didn't score,
Speaker 1: you lose the challenge. But if you challenge throw it
Speaker 1: and say your spot is off big time, like we
Speaker 1: should be nosed up on the line there. I think
Speaker 1: they would move it. I think he wins the challenge
Speaker 1: and then yeah, it's good Tack. I had never thought
Speaker 1: about it from next I thought, you have to word
Speaker 1: it though way that way. I remember chan Gaily one time.
Speaker 1: That happened to them on a spot thing. You have
Speaker 1: to say that to the to the officially, you have
Speaker 1: to tell him what you want them to look for. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you know, it's just just back to back plays,
Speaker 1: you know, for you know, for him, I mean, Parsons's
Speaker 1: five yards I mean he's up to field and he's
Speaker 1: and literally, you know, the catch is made and now
Speaker 1: he's five yards seven maybe six yards behind, and he
Speaker 1: just goes flying through the defense to run run the
Speaker 1: tight end down and to make that play. And then
Speaker 1: the very next play Tank does like he's it's like
Speaker 1: he's pinballing off guys. You know, he's swimming through tight ends,
Speaker 1: blocks and stuff like that, and his elbow knocks the
Speaker 1: ball loose and and then happen you know, the you know,
Speaker 1: bars just waiting for it right there. They're all playing scheme.
Speaker 1: How many times we've seen ball out he ends up
Speaker 1: in the end zone and the lineman falls on or
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, everybody was where they needed
Speaker 1: to be to make that play and that's why you
Speaker 1: keep playing. I mean, Michael Parsons just showed you. It
Speaker 1: might be one of the best plays he's ever made.
Speaker 1: You can talk about sacks and things that he's done
Speaker 1: in his short career with the Dallas Cowboys. That might
Speaker 1: be when they when they send him to Canton, that
Speaker 1: might be the play that they show of him. And
Speaker 1: how he saved He saved you a touchdown. He saved
Speaker 1: you a touchdown right there. We talked about it last week.
Speaker 1: I think Mike McCarthy mentioned in his press conference that
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn had some self scouting type meeting with Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: and Mica talked about it after the game yesterday and
Speaker 1: he was talking about how he said, you know, one
Speaker 1: thing that DQ told him was using your speed to
Speaker 1: make plays out down the field. That's your superpower. If
Speaker 1: you're not doing that, you're not using your superpower. That's
Speaker 1: how he put it, and that play was exactly that
Speaker 1: it was. You saw him literally run by Vanderesh because
Speaker 1: Vanderes was closer to the play that he was up.
Speaker 1: He just literally just ran by him, getting blocked pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying at one point he was running and
Speaker 1: you saw him just kind of go past him. And
Speaker 1: the point was, like, Mica just has this rare ability
Speaker 1: of size, speed, all the things that you kind of
Speaker 1: put together in a player, and he can do some
Speaker 1: remarkable things if he's willing to do those things. And
Speaker 1: another thing about that too that he has is at
Speaker 1: that point in the game, he has zero sacks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he had zero sax until the very last drive
Speaker 1: the game. Um, that pisses him off, Like he plays
Speaker 1: piss And we talked about this last week. I think
Speaker 1: he when he's frustrated, he's out of his game. Right
Speaker 1: when he's pissed, watch out. Yeah, that's he's angry lion
Speaker 1: at that point. Penny souled. Penny souled at a nice
Speaker 1: job blocking him yesterday. That he's a very talented tackle
Speaker 1: from Oregon. He's very highly talented, maybe one of the
Speaker 1: best tackles in the draft. He's going to be a
Speaker 1: good one for a long time. I know he struggled
Speaker 1: with some injuries and stuff, but he did. He did
Speaker 1: a really good job in that football game that wasn't
Speaker 1: like you, Micah can take advantage of some of some blockers.
Speaker 1: But you know, you get those guys that they're kind
Speaker 1: of evenly matched there. That's that's kind of a one
Speaker 1: on one thing. Right, Was that Bar's best game or
Speaker 1: or up there? I think there was some times there
Speaker 1: was when you watched him play, he Bar, to me
Speaker 1: is a fifty fifty player. There's times where he gets
Speaker 1: the ball. When they went on a crossing route and
Speaker 1: Hackinson caught a ball in the flat that was a
Speaker 1: waggle and it's Bars guy and he just he's like
Speaker 1: staring at the quarterback with the titing going by him
Speaker 1: and that's this guy, and it just and it's a
Speaker 1: big play. I mean, you know, it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those things you look up. But there was a couple
Speaker 1: of tackles that he was able to make. I just
Speaker 1: feel like that there's there's times where he doesn't react.
Speaker 1: They used him as a blitzer in this game a
Speaker 1: little bit yesterday, and it just it wasn't what we've
Speaker 1: seen from him from a guy that's had a pretty
Speaker 1: good career doing that. You know, who else is a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty player and it was probably skipping around your
Speaker 1: offensive line. But Terrence Steele like he had some issues
Speaker 1: in the passing. You know, like you said pass block,
Speaker 1: I mean Aidan Hutchinson man run blocking. I mean he's
Speaker 1: just walls off the him and he's a really good
Speaker 1: athlete with that him when they when they blocked d Yeah,
Speaker 1: when him and when Martin and Steele get together like that,
Speaker 1: they can really run block. The first thing was Steele's
Speaker 1: played really well as a pass blocker since the first week.
Speaker 1: But you know on that first sack that they gave up.
Speaker 1: If not Tyler Smith, it was gonna be Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: Skoy different. You know What's like, what's really the difference there?
Speaker 1: Because in my mind, I just feel like sometimes like
Speaker 1: blocking for a run game and like a run play
Speaker 1: seems harder than having to block for a passing play.
Speaker 1: The way that they block, it's really convenient for him,
Speaker 1: or it lends to his skill set because it's movement,
Speaker 1: it's being an athlete, it's you know, when he has
Speaker 1: to pass block, it's about power and kind of holding on,
Speaker 1: you know, and being in position when he run blocks.
Speaker 1: He's got a good feel for how to work with
Speaker 1: Martin next to him and then get off on the
Speaker 1: next guy or wheel himself to get to make the
Speaker 1: defender have to run over him to get to the football.
Speaker 1: So he plays with much better position as a run
Speaker 1: blocker because of how he moves as opposed to how
Speaker 1: he passed blocks. He's still not a bad pass blocker,
Speaker 1: but you see the things when they get this, when
Speaker 1: they get the shoulder on him sometimes tis he can't
Speaker 1: get over and stop somebody from just running up the field.
Speaker 1: And think about it like this too. Amber When you're
Speaker 1: when you're pass blocking, you're having to react to the
Speaker 1: other guy, so you're you're taking your steps and then
Speaker 1: literally you're like, Okay, what is he gonna do? Is
Speaker 1: he gonna come out with your power? Is he gonna
Speaker 1: use a move? Is he gonna spin? Like you're having
Speaker 1: to react when it's run. It's like, Okay, I know
Speaker 1: where I need to move this guy, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get engaged with him and I'm trying to move him.
Speaker 1: So you can be on the offensive because you now
Speaker 1: know exactly what you're trying to do rather than having
Speaker 1: to react to what he's doing. That's why I think
Speaker 1: it's harder a lot of times for and I think
Speaker 1: offensive lineman personally, you listen to them talk a lot
Speaker 1: of them. I think prefer run blocking because they can
Speaker 1: go on the offensive. They can say, they can dictate
Speaker 1: to the other person, I don't care what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do. I know what I'm trying to do, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move you from point A to point B,
Speaker 1: as opposed to I have to just kind of figure
Speaker 1: out what you're doing and then react to that. So
Speaker 1: I think that's why run blocking is a little a
Speaker 1: little easier. All right, um, let's talk about about Dak
Speaker 1: prescott um yesterday. It's interesting because if you watch the game,
Speaker 1: there's probably more reason for you to be concerned than
Speaker 1: if you just look at his stat line. His stat
Speaker 1: line yesterday, nineteen to twenty five. That's a seventy six
Speaker 1: percent completion rate, really good, two hundred and seven yards,
Speaker 1: one touchdowns, no turnovers, one hundred and thirteen point two rating.
Speaker 1: You look at that and you say, he did his job.
Speaker 1: He did a really good job yesterday. But you watched
Speaker 1: the game and there were moments where, oh wow, why
Speaker 1: did he throw it into that? Oh man, he threw
Speaker 1: it into some coverage there he got got away with one.
Speaker 1: What did you guys think as you put all that together.
Speaker 1: What did you think of his performance yesterday? You know,
Speaker 1: I thought he was he was okay. I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was okay early on. He just he had
Speaker 1: like like Brian said, I mean, obviously you're going to
Speaker 1: be rusty because he you know, he didn't even get
Speaker 1: to get the flow back into of the week. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he did some things that we saw in that Tampa
Speaker 1: game too, where he throwing it in there when you
Speaker 1: don't really need to. One time he got away with it.
Speaker 1: He threw a past and the CD made a really
Speaker 1: nice catch on there. Um. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: he's still having to learn how this this team works.
Speaker 1: Like you don't have to do everything. Two or three
Speaker 1: years ago, he had to do everything. He the offense
Speaker 1: had to do everything. You don't have to do that
Speaker 1: right now. So I think he's going to continue to
Speaker 1: get better and better. I think they'll finish off a
Speaker 1: couple of drives and and this is a recipe for
Speaker 1: a team that that can have success. I mean, like
Speaker 1: you look at this schedule and you're going to be
Speaker 1: able to really to win some games and and and
Speaker 1: and maybe blow him out. But he's just gotta, you know,
Speaker 1: keep it going. And don't f it up like that's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the model right now. And he's not
Speaker 1: used to that, but that's what it is. Just don't
Speaker 1: mess it up. Just keep playing punt. You saw. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but you saw that field goal. I think that you
Speaker 1: see usually they would have gone for it down there,
Speaker 1: but they're like, you know what, take the point, Take
Speaker 1: the point, right, And I was fine with that too,
Speaker 1: because just this points points points points. It'll add up
Speaker 1: because this team's not given up much. Yeah, there were
Speaker 1: you know with Dak and I. You gotta remember, and
Speaker 1: I mentioned it last week too, he didn't have a preseason.
Speaker 1: He just played one game all seasons. So keeping that
Speaker 1: in mind, okay, you gotta expect that now he had
Speaker 1: been out what was it a total of six weeks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was five weeks, five week weeks. The point is
Speaker 1: he hasn't been out there, so of course you're gonna
Speaker 1: get some rusts. He's gonna be rusty and he has
Speaker 1: to go out there get the field. I thought he
Speaker 1: did a really good job in the second half of
Speaker 1: the game, but there were moments that I also thought
Speaker 1: he he had some risky throws in there. There were
Speaker 1: times where you could look at Michael gallups Cede Land.
Speaker 1: They had two or even three defenders at times, and
Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball that could have easily been intercepted.
Speaker 1: I mean that was Those were not even fifty fifty balls,
Speaker 1: So moments like that that he could have been bad.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even those were even catches. But just like Nix,
Speaker 1: it just play it safe, get back in the groove,
Speaker 1: I thought even I think it was in the second
Speaker 1: half where he they were in the red zone and
Speaker 1: he kind of took off on his feet. He didn't
Speaker 1: gain much, but just seeing him doing that, Yeah, gives
Speaker 1: me the belief that, Okay, he has his feet where
Speaker 1: he feels comfortable. That is something that he hasn't lost.
Speaker 1: We most I'm thinking we're gonna see more of that
Speaker 1: as the season goes. And he just think I think
Speaker 1: he did a nice job taken into consideration everything that
Speaker 1: has happened till this point. He got fooled on that pass.
Speaker 1: It almost got intercepted. Coverage, Yeah, the one Kirby Joseph
Speaker 1: the safety. They're playing a single high look with that
Speaker 1: safety in the middle of the field, and then and
Speaker 1: Joseph just they rotate him and he goes straight back
Speaker 1: into two and I think he thought he had a shot.
Speaker 1: I think he when he when he saw the initial read,
Speaker 1: he's thinking, single high, I could fit it. I got lamb,
Speaker 1: it's gonna run the route, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: that that safety Joseph that was down went back and
Speaker 1: he and it's like the next thing, you know, now
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a wait a minute, that
Speaker 1: guy's not where I thought he was gonna be. So
Speaker 1: that particular time, I felt like that, like you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes quarterbacks get fooled. Sometimes they see something they think, okay,
Speaker 1: single high, I could fit it on the hash right
Speaker 1: there before that safety gets over. But then you got
Speaker 1: the drop safety. That kind of gave him a little
Speaker 1: bit of a problem there the first pass of the game,
Speaker 1: and that was one of those times where you're thinking.
Speaker 1: He even said he felt like that he was going
Speaker 1: to run and then he just kind of just really
Speaker 1: didn't make a great throw. I mean it, you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where he could have led.
Speaker 1: He could have just tooked the ball and fired it
Speaker 1: to Noah Brown in it and just carried Noah Brown
Speaker 1: to the sidelines, and it would have been a completion,
Speaker 1: much like what the lines did in their first play
Speaker 1: of the game, the same kind of throw out front.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a big play up the sidelines. So
Speaker 1: he got it, got caught in no man's land there,
Speaker 1: just fired the ball of the outside. There was there
Speaker 1: was a play that they got sacked on on the
Speaker 1: third and two where he was in a situation where
Speaker 1: they had no they had they ran CD from the
Speaker 1: slot on the out and then Noah Brown curl behind him.
Speaker 1: He's looking at Noah Brown the whole time, or I
Speaker 1: think the first read was the lamb Brown and then
Speaker 1: he tries to come back inside. So you can't, Bro,
Speaker 1: you gotta just you see it. You see where that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. There's there's space there, there's three lines. There's
Speaker 1: space to throw the ball in the third and two.
Speaker 1: So when he's bad, it's usually because he's not reading
Speaker 1: it the right way. Yeah, that's when Dak struggles. When
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I think I could throw this ball.
Speaker 1: Even said, oh my thumb was feeling good and I
Speaker 1: thought I could throw it all the way down the field.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, cool, you're great, Just don't throw an interception.
Speaker 1: But when Dak is not at his appolute best is
Speaker 1: when he doesn't see it cleanly. And that third two
Speaker 1: he could have fired the ball to Noah Brown and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a first down, you keep it going.
Speaker 1: Instead he gets sacked, you know, I mean steel strange,
Speaker 1: Steel gets knocked back. They have problems and all that,
Speaker 1: you know. So, yeah, he had three different reads, but
Speaker 1: he didn't get the right He went from the first
Speaker 1: read and said, Okay, that's not gonna work. Second read, boom,
Speaker 1: just fire the ball because the lions were all around
Speaker 1: where it was, there was nothing keeping him. But but
Speaker 1: he got a flash because they got a flash off
Speaker 1: the edge because of what happened was steel. So I
Speaker 1: think when Dak's bad, it's reading, that's the thing. I
Speaker 1: think that that the most problems. And also a field too,
Speaker 1: like you can't take a sack right there. Yeah you're
Speaker 1: at you're in field goal range. You know points you
Speaker 1: need them, and that that that was one of those
Speaker 1: were you know, you just can't. You have to get
Speaker 1: rid of the football quicker than that. Because the sa
Speaker 1: I mean, they would have kicked the field goal. I
Speaker 1: think now I'm not sure he would have made it,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's been good enough where you do
Speaker 1: kick it there. He still could have kicked the field goal,
Speaker 1: you know, at that point, like it was going to
Speaker 1: be a sixty yard he still could have done it,
Speaker 1: but you know you don't. Why give them the ball
Speaker 1: to do that? You know, Yeah, that's where he misses
Speaker 1: those high fifties. Punt it, keep it down there. That's
Speaker 1: a negative quarterback play that doesn't show up in the
Speaker 1: stat sheet, is what that is. Because I just he
Speaker 1: just can't take that set. I think there's things that
Speaker 1: when you play, you know, he's a seven year vet.
Speaker 1: I just think if you go back and look at
Speaker 1: all of Dak's really bad plays in his career, he
Speaker 1: would go what was he looking at? What was he
Speaker 1: looking at? But there was plenty of times where he
Speaker 1: saw the right things. He saw development, the routes that
Speaker 1: he hit with Scholtz, the spot routes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He threw some good balls, no question. It's when he
Speaker 1: tries those you only live once type of throws and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, you're kind of thinking, man, did he
Speaker 1: not see that safety? Did he not see that guy?
Speaker 1: Did he not see that curl where he could have
Speaker 1: thrown the ball and then he tries to come back.
Speaker 1: It's I think those are the things that kind of
Speaker 1: get back in a little bit of trouble. All Right,
Speaker 1: we gonna suck our first break. We'll come back. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about surest of the offensive line. This running game
Speaker 1: continues to perform well that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the Cowboys big win over the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lines twenty four to six. This segment brought to you
Speaker 1: by blockchain dot Com. Let's talk about Zeke and Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Zeke carries the ball fifteen times for fifty seven yards
Speaker 1: three point eight average, two touchdowns. Tony Pollard also carries
Speaker 1: it for twelve times for eighty three yards six point
Speaker 1: nine average. He also adds two receptions for twenty six yards.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the running backs and how they're
Speaker 1: using them. From the standpoint of the mix between the two,
Speaker 1: it looks perfect. That's what they want, right I know,
Speaker 1: running backs coach Skip Pete, that's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 1: Right there is is really close. Fifteen carries for Zeke
Speaker 1: doing a lot of the dirty work. I thought, honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought down there in the goal line and they
Speaker 1: I don't think they use Zeke enough actually on third
Speaker 1: and one and even something down in the goal line
Speaker 1: that they kept it with Pollard a little bit there.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of times where I thought they could
Speaker 1: have gone more with Zeke. But you know it's that
Speaker 1: was a thunder and lightning type approach right there. You
Speaker 1: see if really good breakaway runs by Pollard, Zeke doing
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff around the goal line. You know,
Speaker 1: I think Pollard probably could have scored that last touchdown,
Speaker 1: but you know that's not going to come back and
Speaker 1: not thought a touchdown here, So real quick, I will
Speaker 1: I will mention you mentioned the goal line. One of
Speaker 1: the things they're doing down the goal line I thought
Speaker 1: was interesting is they're using that twenty three personnel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they'll actually line up Poller on the wing and
Speaker 1: then bring him in motion. So what it does it
Speaker 1: forces the defense to go wide. They have to respect
Speaker 1: the fact that he has the speed and if they
Speaker 1: turn around hand it to him he has he's gonna
Speaker 1: go around that corner. That exactly. That opens up some
Speaker 1: stuff up the middle. So I think that was something
Speaker 1: that was really interesting they did yesterday. Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: it back that's carrying the ball twenty seven times for
Speaker 1: one hundred forty two yards at five point two yards
Speaker 1: an average. That's what they're doing, right, Yeah. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: got one back that's really really physical and one back
Speaker 1: that's really really fast, and they're playing him the same way.
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do without just look at these guys.
Speaker 1: It's the same guy. Don't look him at don't don't
Speaker 1: look at it as as Ladanian, Tom Woodson or Emmett Smith.
Speaker 1: Look at him as one guy, two bodies. So you
Speaker 1: tell me, I'll take twenty seven carries, I'll take one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two yards. I'll take a five point
Speaker 1: two yard per average per carry. Just it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who gets to carry. Just give me
Speaker 1: the combination of those two guys very similar, once powerful,
Speaker 1: once really quick. You know this, give me that guy.
Speaker 1: And the best part about that is is on Monday,
Speaker 1: you don't have a guy that's had twenty seven carries, right,
Speaker 1: you don't have that, even though you're getting that production,
Speaker 1: you don't have the guy that's the wear and tear
Speaker 1: that needs something else because he had twenty seven carries.
Speaker 1: So that's even better if you can figure that. I'll
Speaker 1: say this though, on the third and one runs, I
Speaker 1: think they were trying to I said this on the
Speaker 1: radio on the post game. I think they're trying to
Speaker 1: break some tendencies here. I think there. I think because
Speaker 1: when you get Zeke and pollowed in the backfield and
Speaker 1: I formation stuff, like one hundred percent of the time
Speaker 1: it was it was Zeke, Zeke carry, Zeke carry, Zeke
Speaker 1: carry that what they did was they said, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna fake Zeke carry and go for the flip.
Speaker 1: The Lions played it really really well on the outside.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Jeff Akuda, I mean he played
Speaker 1: like a down linebacker, kind of like what curse and
Speaker 1: those guys played several times he was the unblocked guy
Speaker 1: and that's why he ended up with fifteen tackles. But
Speaker 1: they did a great job. I think there really were
Speaker 1: trying to break a tendency there with their inside runs,
Speaker 1: inside runs, inside runs on throw down. They said, let's
Speaker 1: see if we could catch him plane like a crash
Speaker 1: defense and flip the ball and get into the edge
Speaker 1: lines just guessed right with you. I absolutely love how
Speaker 1: they ran the ball with the two of them. I
Speaker 1: think this was exactly the type of game that you
Speaker 1: know when you keep asking about oh more Tony Polar, More,
Speaker 1: Tony Polar. This is the exactly like the perfect combination
Speaker 1: that you can get from both players. They were exactly
Speaker 1: like doing what they're best at. You get Zeke doing
Speaker 1: the heavy work. Dirty were going there and just smashing
Speaker 1: it and going through and getting in the extra yards.
Speaker 1: And then you get ze I mean Tony Pollar, just
Speaker 1: like Brian said, the speed getting out those dynamic plays.
Speaker 1: So the combination of the two of them was really
Speaker 1: really great to see. And I was gonna, I was
Speaker 1: gonna make a point and I completely got thrown off
Speaker 1: with something that you were saying, Brian, And now I
Speaker 1: can't remember but oh my god, I'll circle back when
Speaker 1: I remember. But even and Dad mentioned this after the game.
Speaker 1: He was talking about the time that he spent just
Speaker 1: watching from the sideline, how much he realizes because it's
Speaker 1: a thing you see it on the film and all that,
Speaker 1: but it's another one. You're seeing the game live, watching
Speaker 1: from the sideline, realizing what you actually got on your team,
Speaker 1: and trusting that, trusting the defense that you have, understanding that, hey,
Speaker 1: a running game is running is working pretty good right now.
Speaker 1: They keep improving week after week. The running game just
Speaker 1: keeps getting better and better. So and then seeing Zeke
Speaker 1: jumping doing the hurdle, I mean, that's freaking amazing. That's
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Zeke. He looks great. There was a big
Speaker 1: scare when he got hit and you thought he was out.
Speaker 1: I don't think there was any reports after that. I
Speaker 1: mean he stayed in the game playing. Yeah, he said
Speaker 1: he said he had a contusion, but he is like,
Speaker 1: I haven't even gotten to check. That's what said after
Speaker 1: the game. He's having to check. I'll get a check.
Speaker 1: I thought it was more of a thigh bruise than
Speaker 1: it was anything. Didn't. I didn't think it was his knee.
Speaker 1: I thought he got hit on the thigh and that's
Speaker 1: what kind of like jolted him a little bit. But no,
Speaker 1: you're nothing, no, no, no, no, yeah, like he's got
Speaker 1: a ripped acl and he's just that's the thing. No,
Speaker 1: he played through that whole thing. I mean last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was trying to say he has a tough guy.
Speaker 1: I asked the trainers last year about that. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: what hell you know? Oh no, he's good, he's good,
Speaker 1: he's good eating and after this season, oh man, I
Speaker 1: had a ripped you know. I'm like, Zeke's a tough guy.
Speaker 1: He is not miss games. But that's but that's the
Speaker 1: thing about with there's there's no fall off with these backs.
Speaker 1: There's if Zeke was struggling where I mean, last year,
Speaker 1: you could argue that Pollard was averaging like two and
Speaker 1: a two a half yards more a carry, and you
Speaker 1: saw it. You're like going just play this one, play
Speaker 1: play this one. But now it's like, you know when
Speaker 1: you the people that like, oh no, Paulard needs more pop, well,
Speaker 1: why Zeke's running the ball just as well. Last week
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia, who ran the ball better, Zeke ran the
Speaker 1: ball better. So you know, just if you could tell
Speaker 1: me every week, I'm gonna get twenty seven carries in
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty two yards rushing. Just give me
Speaker 1: that whatever whatever combination that seems to work or that is,
Speaker 1: that's what you need for the Dallas call. The one
Speaker 1: thing that Pollard obviously is doing better than Zeke is
Speaker 1: in the passing game is is you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think Zeke has really made a big play at all.
Speaker 1: And Pollard's catch coming out of the end zone that
Speaker 1: was big, crazy, big play, good call, and I don't
Speaker 1: think you know what's funny if you when you get
Speaker 1: to the all twenty two on that, I don't think Pollard.
Speaker 1: I don't think Pauler knew where the ball was. I
Speaker 1: Paulard just stuck his hands up and the ball happened
Speaker 1: that because he doesn't have his head back looking for
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean literally, the defender dives and he's
Speaker 1: got his head kind of not even looking, and he
Speaker 1: puts his hands up and the ball goes right in
Speaker 1: his hands and then he catches it and then he
Speaker 1: goes up the field. It was like it was like
Speaker 1: it was almost like he was surprised that he caught
Speaker 1: it from our angle. I was active sworn it was
Speaker 1: an interception. I was like, oh, and then I was like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, he's running. Yeah, it literally looked like an intercept.
Speaker 1: What It's crazy. I heard the crowd in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and we give them some some props out here too.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this yesterday. The Lions fans, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they brought it yesterday. I knew this. I was really
Speaker 1: surprised by how many fans were there. This is a
Speaker 1: one in four team. They sucked last year. They're not
Speaker 1: much better this year. Sucked forever. True, that's who the
Speaker 1: Lions a bad. Let's be honest. I mean, I got
Speaker 1: I got friends who are Lions fans, which I when
Speaker 1: I was when he told me, I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, they were Lions fans. But they got Lions
Speaker 1: fans and they stuck through it and with their no
Speaker 1: matter Ryan said it. Remember you said they're gonna come
Speaker 1: in here, they're gonna play hard, they'll figure out a
Speaker 1: way to lose it, and they did. You know, they
Speaker 1: figured out a way to fumble in the one and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But but yeah, I mean, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they brought some fans. But I'll say this get ready
Speaker 1: next week too. Oh, next week's should be very origey.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about it. Much we do our we
Speaker 1: do our pregame show out in the plaza, in the
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Speaker 1: lot of Bears fans. Last time they came here, it
Speaker 1: was a ton of them. Yeah. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: of Bears fans. I want to help them. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna help them play. Probably not play tonight. We'll
Speaker 1: see short week. Yeah, all right, let's take our final
Speaker 1: bike when we come back. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: third downs because this team is let's get to that.
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Speaker 1: beer of the Dallas Cowboys Let's Talk Third Downs. Cowboys
Speaker 1: were three of nine yesterday on third downs thirty three percent.
Speaker 1: The good side is they also held their opponent to
Speaker 1: three of nine on third downs, and it was a point.
Speaker 1: It was into the second half before the Lions had
Speaker 1: even converted the third downs, So the Cowboys defense was
Speaker 1: doing their job. Yeah, you expect more of the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 1: And I broke down their third downs. Check out these numbers.
Speaker 1: They ran to the right side three times on third downs,
Speaker 1: all three of them didn't get converted. They tried to
Speaker 1: pass the ball four times on third downs, only one
Speaker 1: of those was converted, and two times they ended up
Speaker 1: with sacks. Here was the most interesting thing. Of the
Speaker 1: nine third downs, seven of them came on third and shorts.
Speaker 1: I'm talking two yards or less. And they couldn't come
Speaker 1: up with a better convergent percentage than thirty three sent
Speaker 1: What is the problem on third downs or what was
Speaker 1: the problem yesterday? On third downs? They struggled with sustain
Speaker 1: of blocks and I was going through all of them,
Speaker 1: and the first third and one you had Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: He could not keep his guy from making the play.
Speaker 1: That's that was that was very very clear there, and
Speaker 1: he's had a problem with that. They had ay, I
Speaker 1: went back. They had the third and two was one
Speaker 1: we just talked about where Dak didn't read it clean.
Speaker 1: But the previous play to that was a second and
Speaker 1: one and they lost a yard on the second and
Speaker 1: one Noah Brown, McGovern smith all missed their blocks, so
Speaker 1: now it's third and two instead of they try to
Speaker 1: get the first down on second down, but they lose
Speaker 1: a yard, so now it's a third and two and
Speaker 1: then that leads to the sack on the next play.
Speaker 1: They had another third and one where where there they
Speaker 1: had three players the lines had three players on the
Speaker 1: on the field that didn't get fooled at all on
Speaker 1: the play, the lineback of the safety and the defensive end.
Speaker 1: That was the flip that they try to run on
Speaker 1: third and one. So yeah, they've struggled. Yeah, they have struggled.
Speaker 1: They have they have. They've struggled in this game yesterday,
Speaker 1: they really struggled a not sustaining blocks and be not
Speaker 1: fooling anybody if they tried to get a little cute,
Speaker 1: you know, and sometimes being cute it works and then
Speaker 1: other times it doesn't. But in this game, it it
Speaker 1: kind of it kind of held him up a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know they put turpin in the game. We've been
Speaker 1: asking for that, and they gave him the ball into round,
Speaker 1: which is which is fine. I mean he got the
Speaker 1: poorly block play, Yeah, poorly block. He got three yards. Fine.
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is is use that use
Speaker 1: it again, put him out there and then fake it
Speaker 1: to him. I mean, just keep it, keep it rolling
Speaker 1: out the way. I mean, put a play on tape
Speaker 1: like that so you can play off of it. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, has he not proven in the
Speaker 1: open field? He can kind of do some things. I mean,
Speaker 1: like this guy, he every every play, every game, he
Speaker 1: is making a play on special teams that gets him
Speaker 1: in great field positions at least once. It's amazing. I
Speaker 1: wonder this. I wonder about if they should maybe change
Speaker 1: the kickoff return part, like you know how far he
Speaker 1: can go back with it. But the problem is is
Speaker 1: you get the ball to twenty five If you just
Speaker 1: let it go and it's not him, I think he
Speaker 1: could get to the twenty to twenty five. I just
Speaker 1: don't trust one of these young tight end running back
Speaker 1: somebody to block in the back and put you first
Speaker 1: and ten on the tent. And I don't want him
Speaker 1: taking extra hits if he doesn't need to. If he's
Speaker 1: only get him back to the twenty five, it's not
Speaker 1: worth the extra hit on him. He's already a slight guy.
Speaker 1: I want to limit his his hits or the exposure
Speaker 1: to hits, as much as possible. I'd rather be on
Speaker 1: plays when I think he can take it to the
Speaker 1: house or get me to the forty fifty or the other.
Speaker 1: We'll have some cold weather games where it'll happen. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll kick it shorter or whatever, and he'll he'll go
Speaker 1: off to make a play. You know. Um, before the show, Derek,
Speaker 1: you you ask me, what are you gonna talk about today?
Speaker 1: Be mad about today? And I was like, I'm mad.
Speaker 1: I don't know that mad. But now that we're talking
Speaker 1: about third downs, I'm like, you know what, there is
Speaker 1: something im is starting to piss me off, and it's
Speaker 1: forget about third down because okay, no, don't forget about it.
Speaker 1: It's clearly a problem. But what is happening before third downs?
Speaker 1: Like for us to get to that point, you look
Speaker 1: at the whole since the moment they get the ball,
Speaker 1: the offense goes in there. And I'm tired of this happening.
Speaker 1: I'm there with my laptop and I've mentioned this on
Speaker 1: the show for sure before, and this is something that
Speaker 1: it's not Oh, Dak Prescott, it was happening with Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush as well. So it's just the play calling or
Speaker 1: something that they're doing that is not working. Because how
Speaker 1: many times do we watch the offense go in and
Speaker 1: then go right back out. It's like a bunch of
Speaker 1: three and outs, and it's just not like a one
Speaker 1: time thing. It just happens over and over. And I
Speaker 1: think that last yesterday it happened a bunch of times.
Speaker 1: Didn't keep track, but even in that first half, it
Speaker 1: just kept happening over and over, and I'm like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: They're already back out like nothing happened there. So I guess,
Speaker 1: how do you even how do you extend the place
Speaker 1: because okay, clearly third downs issues, but then how do
Speaker 1: you keep your defense off the field so much? How
Speaker 1: do you extend the place that you're creating with your offense?
Speaker 1: Because and I guess that to me the way I
Speaker 1: see it, Brian, and I don't know what you guys see,
Speaker 1: but I mean it comes down I would say to
Speaker 1: the play call and you're the play strategy. That's part
Speaker 1: of it. But I also think that you know, when
Speaker 1: like this, you kind of you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: gloss over a five, you won five out of six,
Speaker 1: you're kind of glossing over some of the issues. But
Speaker 1: this team, in my opinion, has a real problem at
Speaker 1: wide receiver. They don't have any ride receivers that can
Speaker 1: go make plays that you're really scared of. I like CD,
Speaker 1: he had a good game, but CD doesn't dominate the game.
Speaker 1: He doesn't and they're gonna have a tough decision to
Speaker 1: make when it comes resigning him and all that, because
Speaker 1: he's not that guy that's just killing the team. Noel Brown,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, good players and all that. They don't have
Speaker 1: a dude at receiver. And I think it's a problem.
Speaker 1: I think I can kind of grind out some yards
Speaker 1: here and there, when you get to it, you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to him. I don't think it's it's there.
Speaker 1: Do you think Amari Cooper was that guy? I think
Speaker 1: the combination of having CD and Amari Cooper and Gallop
Speaker 1: and all that, and yes, Cooper was just enough of
Speaker 1: that guy where he could do it. And then he
Speaker 1: had it and it kind of worked. But yeah, because
Speaker 1: he was a great route runner. I think he was
Speaker 1: close to that guy. He needs help a little bit
Speaker 1: around him, but I think, yeah, I think it kind
Speaker 1: of worked together. But when you take him away, you
Speaker 1: basically replaced him with NOELH. Brown, And now you don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't think you've got it got you know
Speaker 1: what I would have probably several weeks ago I had
Speaker 1: have disagreed with you. But I'm coming around to what
Speaker 1: you're saying, because you look at the one guy that
Speaker 1: we talked about that could benefit from Dak coming back
Speaker 1: and maybe it'll happen against the Bears or you know,
Speaker 1: off week Packers, whatever you know. But Michael Gallup, you
Speaker 1: know he had two targets, just catches, and you're and
Speaker 1: so I started watching. Are they winning off the line? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they? Are they getting open? It? Is it the
Speaker 1: is it the play calling? Where you know Cooper? I
Speaker 1: think you got to give Kellen Moore credit for at
Speaker 1: least like winning these games with Cooper Rush at quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could just completely say the defense,
Speaker 1: but you had to score. You have to score to
Speaker 1: win these games somehow, some way. You have to score.
Speaker 1: But I'm starting to come around to your thought about
Speaker 1: the wide receivers because I don't I don't see that.
Speaker 1: I don't see that dynamic player. And I saw a
Speaker 1: dynamic player in college with Ceedee Lamb. How they used
Speaker 1: him in Oklahoma and how he was all over and
Speaker 1: making plays and all that. I haven't. I haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's creativity or it's To me,
Speaker 1: it's there's times where they don't went off the line.
Speaker 1: I mean, Philadelphia ate them up in that game last week.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get away from anybody. This game a little
Speaker 1: bit better, you know, getting open, but not nearly enough,
Speaker 1: not to the point where it's just an easy throw,
Speaker 1: easy throw, easy throw and all that. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I to me, I say, I don't know. I know that.
Speaker 1: What I see that, I'm starting not to like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a problem, because there's gonna be as good
Speaker 1: as your defense is, you're gonna have to score some points.
Speaker 1: You know, you're I mean, this defense is finding a
Speaker 1: way every week to to you know, get this offense
Speaker 1: back the ball and do some things. But I think
Speaker 1: you know, when they sit down and self scout at
Speaker 1: the buy. That's when, and that's the week of the
Speaker 1: trade deadline too. I mean, maybe this is something that
Speaker 1: they need to really really really think about going in
Speaker 1: going in forward. I honestly, and I know what I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying, Brian, and I agree with you, Nick,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that it is a personnel issue.
Speaker 1: I tend to wonder, and I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is true, but I tend to wonder if it's just
Speaker 1: that you don't You're gonna have to say, Ceedee, Lamb
Speaker 1: has some really unique skills. How do I, as an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator find ways to get him into really great
Speaker 1: situations where he's getting the ball and being able to
Speaker 1: do something with those really great skills. Like you said, Brian,
Speaker 1: I watched this guy do that in college. I watched
Speaker 1: him do it every Saturday in college. Yea, like he
Speaker 1: could do it. It's just a matter of are you
Speaker 1: doing the things that are necessary. Cooper Cup to me,
Speaker 1: is a really really, really great wide receiver. I think
Speaker 1: he becomes a great wide receiver because that offensive staff
Speaker 1: knows how to get him into some really unique situations
Speaker 1: where they can use his skill, where he can use
Speaker 1: his skills to make big plays. I don't know they're
Speaker 1: doing that enough with That's that's the that's the issue
Speaker 1: right now, because you know, on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, dan Quinn is going to take somebody that
Speaker 1: you know, he's going to play to the strengths of
Speaker 1: whoever his defenders are. And you wonder, is is this
Speaker 1: offensive staff really playing to the strengths of the players
Speaker 1: you have, you know, And and to your point, I
Speaker 1: think you're I think you're right about it, But I
Speaker 1: also want and maybe if if Nick you go out
Speaker 1: and you get a wide receiver, they might not use
Speaker 1: him the right way either. No, no, maybe, yeah, But
Speaker 1: I will give them credit for winning football games with
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. This thing could have gone completely off
Speaker 1: the rails. And I kind of feel like that that coordinator,
Speaker 1: whether the head coach went up to him and said, listen, bro,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the football and we're not going to
Speaker 1: turn it over, and we're gonna punt it and we're
Speaker 1: gonna make it. We're gonna get the ball back at
Speaker 1: midfield and then we can drive it, you know, and
Speaker 1: do things like that. But I wonder, I mean, I
Speaker 1: wonder if it is a personnel thing maybe and I
Speaker 1: but I also wonder, you know, is can this these
Speaker 1: coaches use their offensive guys in the right way? What
Speaker 1: is you know thing about CD? And again I rore
Speaker 1: a weapon? I really like CD. I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: He told a story in the locker room the other
Speaker 1: day about some of the stuff he's gone through in
Speaker 1: his life and some of the office field stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: easy guy to root for. Um. I'll say this though.
Speaker 1: On the field though, when you look at say Madden
Speaker 1: rating type stuff, all different attributes, like what is he
Speaker 1: at ninety nine at you know that that's what's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough? Is like making these guys special. He's not
Speaker 1: super fast, His hands are questionable at times. At times
Speaker 1: his route running isn't like super crisp playmaking on the ball,
Speaker 1: we saw it an Oxnard. We haven't seen it all
Speaker 1: the time. Good catch the other yes, we saw it
Speaker 1: more earlier in his career. Yeah, we haven't really seen
Speaker 1: that a lot. So playmaking. He's pretty good. Speeds, good
Speaker 1: hands are you know okay? At times? Are out running okay?
Speaker 1: I mean like like so like what is it? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what he was in college? What the thing
Speaker 1: that stood out to me was he was a guy
Speaker 1: that was slippery. It was hard, It was hard to
Speaker 1: get him down. He got the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: and he's making guys miss all around the field. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're getting him enough situations where
Speaker 1: he's cleanly catching the ball and has an opportunity to
Speaker 1: show some of that stuff, Like, he's not a guy's
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of separation. So unless you're creating
Speaker 1: separation for him by scheming it that way, then he's
Speaker 1: gonna have somebody right on him, and you're gonna trust
Speaker 1: the fact that he can make that tough catch and
Speaker 1: then probably get tackled. Just having those nightmares of that
Speaker 1: cotton bowl where he just ripped text. Yes, yes, that's
Speaker 1: what you build parselves. You say, right, if you've seen it,
Speaker 1: you know they can do it right, And I've seen
Speaker 1: him do it. I know he can do it. I
Speaker 1: just don't know if they're putting him the right situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is the right situation for him? They got to
Speaker 1: figure out how to scheme him open, get into into
Speaker 1: situations where he's getting the ball on the run and
Speaker 1: then can make some plays with they schemed him open
Speaker 1: in New York, the perfect fas. Yeah. True, But to
Speaker 1: his credit, he came back and a Micah Parsons type
Speaker 1: of way and that rest of that game where he
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna just run people. Oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take over this game. So maybe he piss him off
Speaker 1: a little bit, him all off. I guess that's that's
Speaker 1: that's the moral of this story. Five two. Keep winning.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys. Jumps me back tomorrow, get a
Speaker 1: big picture. Look, we'll get some questions. It'll be Fan Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We'll get some questions from you guys. Answer those till
Speaker 1: then for Nick even Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm
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