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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, October twenty third, two Thy seventeen, Season thirteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number fifty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We're li from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the

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Speaker 1: Star and it is a victory Monday. Cowboys get a

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Speaker 1: big win yesterday they beat to San Francisco forty nine

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Speaker 1: or is forty to ten? Been a while since the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have had that dominating a performance on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball. And there are lots of things for

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Speaker 1: us to get into and talk about. How's everybody feeling

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Speaker 1: this morning? Awesome? Awesome, good, the Cowboys gonna win. Dave

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Speaker 1: and I are wearing comfy clothes. Yeah, yeah, everything's good.

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Speaker 1: You gotta let everybody now we're matching. Yeah. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: flannel got five whole hours of sleep. Yeah, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: always great. Yes, full hours asleep. Actually, five full hours

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Speaker 1: asleep coming off a road trip to the West Coast

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Speaker 1: is actually not bad at all. Right, you guys have

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Speaker 1: had worse, Anna say. The sad thing is You're right right,

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Speaker 1: you guys have had worse. I'm sure. Let's let's talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about some of this stuff. And I

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Speaker 1: guess there were so many different things that happened in

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Speaker 1: that game, and so many different points. Why don't we

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Speaker 1: start first with going around the table? And I want

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Speaker 1: to hear everybody's if you had one thing that you

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Speaker 1: took from that game that was kind of the storyline

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Speaker 1: of the game, the biggest headline of that game, what

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Speaker 1: would it be. Let's start with you, Dave saw some

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Speaker 1: Cowboys football. Derek ran the ball at will Ezekiel Elliott

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Speaker 1: seek stuff. He was ripping off Chunkyard as he took

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Speaker 1: a screen pass to the house. The offensive line was

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Speaker 1: blowing people off the ball. And yeah, I know that

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers are now owen seven,

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Speaker 1: but what were they eighteenth against the run going into

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Speaker 1: that game, giving up one hundred and eighteen yards per game. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys ran for two hundred and sixty five which

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Speaker 1: is the best that an NFL team has done in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. So regardless of the opposition, that was impressive.

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Speaker 1: It was, it really was, and I think everybody listening

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Speaker 1: would agree that that's what they remember watching. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: wasn't always two sixty five, but that ability to remove

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Speaker 1: the ball on the ground seemingly at will, I think

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Speaker 1: is what this team has been missing for the vast

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Speaker 1: majority of this season. It was cool to see again, Amber,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that would have to be the storyline here.

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Speaker 1: But aside from that, one of the things that definitely

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So especially because during this past

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I mean, I've been getting a ton

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Speaker 1: of tweets talking about Jason Witten. Oh maybe he's too

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Speaker 1: But I went to no, yeah, I started with the

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Speaker 1: and we will get it. Get into that, Nick, what

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Speaker 1: They ran the ball well, they rushed the quarterback well,

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that they got. They got turnovers. I

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Speaker 1: I think when you kind of go back to when

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Speaker 1: this was probably just a lot of fun to just

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Speaker 1: Let's back up and talk a little bit about Ezekiel Elliott,

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Speaker 1: Dave you mentioned him. He had twenty six carries for

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Speaker 1: Definitely not um but by the NFL, it's just kind

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Speaker 1: of ironic. Really. It's like it's like, and guys will

431
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 1: know this when they're waiting and they're waiting on somebody

432
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 1: to get ready, and they take forever forever. You hate

433
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,159
Speaker 1: that as much forever and then and then you finally

434
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 1: get in the car and then they're wondering why you're

435
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,880
Speaker 1: not going faster and why why why you're late, And

436
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,119
Speaker 1: it's like the NFL is gonna wait for thirteen months

437
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 1: and now they want to speed up the process, like

438
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 1: why why is this taking so long? Like this is

439
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 1: all on them. So it's just kind of funny how

440
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,879
Speaker 1: now now things aren't moving fast enough for the NFL.

441
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,480
Speaker 1: Good point, YEA I didn't. I'm not married, so I

442
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 1: didn't really Well, by then he was in their hands.

443
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,119
Speaker 1: They had control over it. Right now it's out of

444
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 1: their hands. They never thought that that would take it

445
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 1: this far. They just thought they would just kind of

446
00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 1: take it and then like, oh, now you know the

447
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: season is gonna start and you're gonna miss games. If

448
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 1: they really thought that, if they couldn't see this coming,

449
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 1: then they are stupid and don't deserve the salaries that

450
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 1: they make. And I'll gladly take some of that money.

451
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 1: They just big they they whoever that is? Yeah, I agree.

452
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: I agree with you. If you didn't see this coming

453
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: after what happened with Brady last year, you had to

454
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 1: know this was going to continue to be the way

455
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 1: that players found remedy. A guy that situation, a guy

456
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 1: who wasn't charged with a crime, was just gonna take

457
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 1: six games worth of no checks and that label he

458
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:38,119
Speaker 1: was Yeah no, why would he fight that? Yeah? Um? Anyway, So,

459
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 1: but Ezekiel Elliott will be on the field on Sunday

460
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: against Washington. Still don't know beyond that, so stick with us,

461
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: But he will be playing against the Redskins. This maybe

462
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: a week two week thing. It is. It has been

463
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 1: all year. It's been. The one thing I will say, though,

464
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Speaker 1: is when we get to this, to this injunction hearing, um,

465
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Speaker 1: I would assume once they make a decision there, then

466
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Speaker 1: you kind of yourself, assuming it falls in Zeke's favor,

467
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 1: to where he's allowed to play until the point that

468
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: they have a resolution in court, you would assume that

469
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,879
Speaker 1: this probably gets you through the rest of the season,

470
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Speaker 1: because then it actually is waiting until the actual court case,

471
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: and that I assume is going to take a while

472
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: to get through the courts. Right. I don't want to

473
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: speak definitively about something I barely understand, but based on

474
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Speaker 1: my very basic understanding, I think if he's granted this injunction,

475
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: it probably means he'll be available until the end of

476
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: the year or through the end of the year. Right.

477
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: So the interesting part will be what happens in the

478
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Speaker 1: event that this thing gets to January. And let's assume

479
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Speaker 1: for a second the Cowboys are in the playoffs. That

480
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: becomes sticky if you have the case then and then

481
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 1: it rules against him. Alfred Morris super Bowl MVP. Next question,

482
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: Let's go orry about that when we get there. We

483
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: will worry about that when we get there. Hopefully it

484
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 1: doesn't happen this year, and hopefully this is something that

485
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: if he's gonna have to serve the suspension at this point,

486
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: hopefully it's just next year and just kind of deal

487
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: with that twenty eighteen problem knowing that it's coming. All right,

488
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 1: let's let's jump into the talk on the defense. Um.

489
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Speaker 1: As I said before the break, we've talked a lot

490
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Speaker 1: about the defense. Rarely hasn't been in positive terms. There

491
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 1: are a few guys that we've talked about positively. But yesterday,

492
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: I think they put it all together, and really it

493
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: was the interesting thing. They got the sacks. They've been

494
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: getting sacks all year, but they had five sacks yesterday.

495
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: The big thing I think that was critical that they

496
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 1: haven't been getting regularly is the turnovers, and yesterday they

497
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: got three of those turnovers and the offense didn't turn

498
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: it over at all. Gotta think that that's a really

499
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: big positive step for this defense. Correct. Yeah, and special teams,

500
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: I mean started on special teams. They did a nice

501
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 1: job and knocked in the ball out there, and and

502
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: you know I thought, I mean, DeMarcus Lawrence continues to

503
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: play just out of his mind, and you know that

504
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: that right there is one of those plays that I

505
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: think that you know, high school coaches would want to

506
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: put on highlight tape and show their their players on

507
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: from a motor standpoint, you know, getting off the edge,

508
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: making the play, going down, getting up getting the ball.

509
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: I just thought that that was just a great play

510
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: all the way around and then taking it all the

511
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: way and then taking it all just in case he

512
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: would have run all the way to la if if

513
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: it was open there. You know, I love that After

514
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 1: the game in the press in the locker room, he

515
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: was like, look, man, I had like thirty something rushes.

516
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to get at least one. I mean, like,

517
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 1: I think I should have more. You know, It's like

518
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: his mentality is such that I'm not really happy one

519
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: nine and a half I have right now for the season.

520
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: I really think I can get more, and I'm excited

521
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: to see that in players that It's not really like

522
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys that be leading the

523
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: league in sacks thinking hey, this is great. I'm the

524
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: best in the league at what I do, and that

525
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be as we got guys happy about

526
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: catching the ball. I mean elaborate, just saying I mean,

527
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Speaker 1: you know, there were some some players on the team

528
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: that were excited about catching the ball on a fast

529
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: that didn't count. But but they caught it and made

530
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: a nice play and didn't get their feet. I was

531
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: but pretty excited about it. I was lost, and now

532
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: I would I'm found, Yeah, pretty excited. I don't think

533
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 1: we need to let everybody. We don't need to elaborate.

534
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: Let's just go back it all, just go East Raggs

535
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: down there on the on the sidelines. Yeah, it's good.

536
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: It was a good play. It was a good Uh.

537
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: Far be it from me to suggest that DeMarcus Lawrence

538
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: is solely motivated by money, because he actually, I mean

539
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: he said last week he's not really worried about his contract.

540
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: Uh you know, if the team wins, everything will take

541
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: care of itself, all that good stuff. But he has

542
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: to know what's at stake if he keeps playing like that.

543
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: And I was suggesting that we did no, no, no no.

544
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is I wouldn't be satisfied by

545
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: one sack either. I'm be like, yeah, let's get this,

546
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: let's get these numbers up, this contract talk, let's go.

547
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: He's he's headed. He's headed towards a game called tag. Yep,

548
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: I don't and you know, I honestly don't know if

549
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: or a guy like him, what is the tag? Oh

550
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: I looked this up a couple weeks ago. I want

551
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: to say, it's like eighteen millions or a defensive end

552
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: or something like that. It might that might be, It

553
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: might be, it might be fifteen. It's high. Is he

554
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: one of those guys you think that would hold out

555
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: if if they tagged him? That's hard to predict, you know,

556
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: I don't honestly franchise tag is. So it's so hard

557
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: to predict, and it's so divisive. Depends on the gy.

558
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: Some guy's a hardcore like I don't want the tag,

559
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 1: and I will do whatever. Some of them will say,

560
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: you're gonna guarantee me eighteen Yeah, okay, I mean look

561
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: at Dwayne Brown out in Houston. He just reported today. Right,

562
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 1: that's one end of the spectrum. And then you've got

563
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has gone on, had taken

564
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: the ket tag for a few years and been like,

565
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: if you're gonna pay me that much for a year,

566
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: bring it on. I'll take it right, it's betting on

567
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: your so you just never know. You never know. The

568
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: funny thing, I mean, the franchise tag was created for

569
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: guys like DeMarcus Lawrence, like he's had an up and

570
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: down career. He had he had not prior to this year,

571
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: lived up to the billing of a top forty pick.

572
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: He's been injured and back injuries, which we've talked about

573
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 1: at length, which are scary and persistent suspensions that forgot about.

574
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: That suspended across the board is a guy that you

575
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: probably would not feel comfortable giving a big money extension to,

576
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: and now he's playing like the best defensive end in

577
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: the league. That's why they got to make a decision.

578
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: That is why they created this in the first place,

579
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 1: so that you can reward him for being great without

580
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: giving him that kind of guarante. He gave me one year,

581
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one year. And but the

582
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: thing is is logically it makes all the sense in

583
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: the world. But if DeMarcus doesn't want to play under

584
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: the tag, you can't force him to. So there's no

585
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: way to predict that. It's way too early in the

586
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: year to even I mean, who knows, for all we

587
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: know he could finish with as many sacks as he

588
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: has right now. I mean it's hard to predict. I

589
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: don't think that'll happen. But even if he does nine

590
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, great point should suggest he's going

591
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: to get a decent contract if he's allowed to become

592
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: a free agent. I would imagine that I'll be in

593
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: mobile in Indianapolis badgering the Jones Is about this. That's

594
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: my that's all. I feel comfortable predicting that the biggest

595
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,959
Speaker 1: free agent they had that year, no doubt. I mean

596
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: I'm trying to Anthony Hitchins's probably number two, and that's

597
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: not even in the same stratosphere. I think. I do

598
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: think he's important. Well, Bryce Butler, Bryce Butler, I mean

599
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of a big deal. DJ duffelback, No, all right,

600
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: I can't sell you on that. Hey, Rice is doing

601
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:32,959
Speaker 1: a really good show for us right now. So I'm

602
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: actually got one miss stick around because I like the show.

603
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: But we'll see. Um. Yeah, I can't think of anybody

604
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: that comes close to DeMarcus in terms of free agency importance. Um. Anyway, Yeah,

605
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: so that's all fun stuff we'll be able to talk

606
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: about later in the year. All right, Um, let's move on.

607
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about Dan Bailey. He uh kicks

608
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: a couple I think it was a couple extra points

609
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: early in the Oh yeah, you're right, yeah too extra right? Yeah?

610
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: And uh and then all of a sudden, the Cowboys

611
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: score touchdown and they're going for two. I know. For me,

612
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, why are they what's going on? Why would

613
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: you go for two in this situation? Then we find

614
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: out it's so that he's that he's that he's out

615
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: with a groin injury. It's so funny, like how like

616
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: we're we're the media, like we're we're there, We're there.

617
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: And literally my best friend shouts out. Meg texted me

618
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: and she's like, what's wrong with Dan? I'm watching it

619
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: right Where where is he? They say he's hurt. I'm like,

620
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: I have no idea what talking about. I'm literally in

621
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: the press box. I thought he was fine. I just

622
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: thought they decided to go for two. So uh, yeah,

623
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: that was surreal. Um, and that happens pretty regularly, seriously, Like, well,

624
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: people are telling me things that I should that I

625
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: should be able to see, but we can't see them

626
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: from the press box. We are often the last people

627
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: to hear this stuff. Yeah, but he's he missed the

628
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: part of game with the growing uh. Nick, you talked about, Um,

629
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: Heath going in and kicking out. I thought, for a

630
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: guy that's a if it's a back, they had to

631
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: be called into emergency duty. Did quite well, especially on kickoffs,

632
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: and then also had the two extra points missed one,

633
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: but he had two that he hit. Um. But really,

634
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: the I think the story here is what goes on

635
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: at this point? Where do we what do we know?

636
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: Do we know anything about the status of his injury

637
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: at this point now, not that I know. I don't

638
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: know if they've even looked at him yet. He probably

639
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: it's third day off, but now he is, he's required

640
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: to come in. So I'm sure that they'll get a

641
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: good idea on it. But I would imagine that this

642
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: is probably bad news for Kellen Moore. That's that's what

643
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: I would suggest, because because they have to get a kicker.

644
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: There's no way you can have three quarterbacks and two

645
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: kickers on your team. I don't think that this this

646
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: roster is built for that. So um, I just the

647
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: fact that they brought in Cooper Rush to play and

648
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: he got a chance to do some stuff. I don't

649
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: know if Jason Gett was predicting a thirty point blowout

650
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: and that's why he wanted him in the up there,

651
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: But I just I would think that this week you

652
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: got to go out and get a kicker. Just I

653
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know who's out there. There is

654
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: no update on a timetable or anything like that. But

655
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett he does his radio hit every morning after

656
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: the game, which is impossibly early considering we all got

657
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 1: back at one o'clock in the morning. But he did

658
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: say that they're going to work out some kickers this week.

659
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: So I mean, but like Nick said, I mean, even

660
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: if he's theoretically okay to play on Sunday, you can't

661
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: just wait around and hope that that's going to happen.

662
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: You need a kicker for the Washington game. Yeah, no,

663
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: you need to. You just need to have somebody you

664
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: know you're not gonna I mean, it's not like a

665
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: wide receiver where it's like, all right, well that we

666
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: looked at him all week and Dez can't go, so

667
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: Noah browns up. It's like, if you don't have a kicker,

668
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: then you don't have a kicker. So yeah, I think

669
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna work some guys out this week. You know

670
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: there are guys out there, I'm sure, And then there

671
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: are probably some older guys that are pretty good at

672
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: making field goal kicks. For you. They might be older,

673
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: but you know, I would think if you got a

674
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: guy that's a pretty good kicker but he doesn't kick

675
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: off that well, I would think that you you lean

676
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: that way anyways, you just give me a guy that

677
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: can make some kicks, because if I have to, I

678
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: can put Jeff Heath out there to kick the kick

679
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: off off. I mean, it's not gonna be great, but

680
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it was you. But people in the

681
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: press box were joking before Heath's first kick off, like, well,

682
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: this will go to the thirty I did. I thought

683
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: it would go to the twenty five yard line. I

684
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: didn't think this is going to look like a high

685
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: school game and clearly not like that. That might have

686
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: been more impressive than hitting a couple of extra points.

687
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: Really like, he had two touchbacks and then the ones

688
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: that he had that weren't touch backs bounced down inside

689
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: the ten yards were they were hard to yeah and yeah,

690
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: and guy bobbled one of them like, way to go, Jeff.

691
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: But would you guys not worry about repetitive motion for

692
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: a guy that's not used to doing that? I mean

693
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: that I would. I would worry a little bit about

694
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: his leg getting sore and you need him to run

695
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: and so because he's not accustomed to the rig years

696
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: of doing that over and over again, does that become

697
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: a problem. Well, they're not always going to score forty points.

698
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: That's a good point, kick off really good. Ideally you'll

699
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: just sign a kicker that can do both, you know.

700
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: But if they're out there, yeah, are they? I don't?

701
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's there's guys supposed to be kickers.

702
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: Is Roberto Is Roberto Aguio about to be oh that road?

703
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: Is there a long list of definitively, I would bet you.

704
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: I would bet you there's some kicker out there that's

705
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: a veteran kicker that's had some success in this league,

706
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: that's right now sitting on his couch waiting for somebody

707
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: to call it. Seems like Dave Hey Saint super Bowl

708
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: Hero Garrett. There's some there's some guys out right now.

709
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: The Aguio has been horrible since he's gotten in the NFL.

710
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: I mean he's a first round what was the first

711
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: round kicker? Second half? Did they cut folk? Yeah, he's

712
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: on I R. I think that would happened. He's not

713
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: their kicker anymore. I don't know if he's on I

714
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: R or not. Don't know. I might be on IR. Well.

715
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: Just like you can get two peaky with who you

716
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: can get, you have to get you. I'm gonna step out.

717
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna step out on a limb right now and say,

718
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: like four guys are gonna work out here on like Wednesday,

719
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: and Roberto Aguayo is gonna be one of them. I

720
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: don't have any inside in Dave, don't even put that

721
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere, Like, no, the guy's been horrible. He

722
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: I know he's been horrible. He's also like physically he's

723
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: he's got to be the most physically talent kicker on

724
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: the street, right But the problem is Aguayo's He's a

725
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: guy you pick up if you want to develop, if

726
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: you want to give a kicker a chance to grow

727
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: right right now. They need a kicker for right now

728
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: to get him through whatever number of games if they're

729
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: gonna be any games when their kicker is gonna be

730
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: out because guess what, as soon as Bailey's back, they're

731
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: getting rid of him. So you don't want a guy

732
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: that's that's got some issues and you got to help

733
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: him work through those issues because that didn't help you. Now.

734
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just I just got a feeling. We'll

735
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: see if I'm right. I don't know, he's don't nick

736
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: you you mentioned that you thought this might be bad

737
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: for Keller more. Would it also maybe be a situation

738
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: where you just brought up ash You probably didn't need to.

739
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week. You've been running with

740
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: three defensive tackles most of the year. You don't necessarily

741
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,439
Speaker 1: need to have that extra body. Could they could Richard

742
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: ashe be a guy that they just you know, cut again,

743
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: get him back to the practice squad hopefully. I don't

744
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: think so. Number one, he played a lot in the game.

745
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: He played pretty well. I don't I don't think, um

746
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: that you want to let him go. He gives you something, um,

747
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: you know that that you don't really have with some

748
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: of the other guys. I mean, he's got he's got

749
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 1: a lot of size to him, So I would imagine

750
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: they're going to keep him up um for the next

751
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: few weeks. Now we can talk also about the defensive

752
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: end situation and what was going on there, and and

753
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: I think some some things are going to come out

754
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: from from that. Like I don't really know all the details,

755
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: but I know that it's more than just playing time.

756
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: That there's a reason why they set Demontre Moore and

757
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: Vincent Mayowa. Um, I don't, I don't know, but it

758
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: just seems like some kind of your rule was broken

759
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: or red flags should be raised. Yeah, to established, you know,

760
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: veteran starter caliber guys or by the way, who haven't

761
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: played poorly, Like yeah, it's not they've been. I don't

762
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: think they've been. That they've played better than Taco Charlton exactly,

763
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: and that's what they So I'm not saying this happened.

764
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: Please do not quote me as saying this. I mean,

765
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: this just seems like a missed meeting curfew type of thing.

766
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: That's what it just seems like. So just all of

767
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: a sudden, two guys same position not playing this game.

768
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: That just seems weird to me. Yeah, and yeah, and

769
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: but I'm not saying that happened because we really don't know.

770
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: But but there's some kind of rule procedure or something

771
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: that was broken. I think like when when the inactives

772
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: list shocks people that are like in the know in

773
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: the organization, that is typical usually points to something typically

774
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: assigned that I asked the question. I said, so I'm

775
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: trying to figure out I'm down on the field, and

776
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: I asked some people and I said, okay, well just wait.

777
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: So Mayowa and Demantree More because he kept saying more,

778
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I got it, quarterbacks out right. He said, no, no,

779
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: the other more More More and may are both down.

780
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: I said, they're both down for this game? Yes, why

781
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: because they're both down? Okay? And always started the show.

782
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: I could see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a

783
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: nice little dramatic pause. And probably just looked at you,

784
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: like because they're down. Yeah, because they're down. What else

785
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: do you need to You know, you can tell when

786
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: someone's like staring at you with sunglasses on, like they

787
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: got sungl and you know that they're still staring at you,

788
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: like at least you get smack you guys. Ever see

789
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: Raiders of the Lost Ary Raiders of the Lost Arc. Yeah,

790
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: he's like, we've got top men working on it. Who

791
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: top men. No, this isn't resonating. I watched it like

792
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: long time again. Well, it's impressive because it probably came

793
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: out when you were more or before decade before I

794
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: was born. Yeah. I did have one more question before

795
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: we go to break and you and I talked about

796
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: this in the press press box, Nick, as they were

797
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: deciding what they were doing with the kicking situation. Why

798
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: isn't that every team has their punter? And I thought

799
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: you made a good point about this, so I wanted

800
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: to bring it there. But why didn't every team just

801
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: make their punter their back up kicker? It doesn't make

802
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: sense to me that you got a guy who's trained

803
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: to kick, and maybe it's it's punning, maybe that's a

804
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: different mechanics, but it's still kicking, and I would think

805
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 1: that would be closer to kicking a field goal or

806
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: kicking off than would be a guy that plays safety.

807
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to this question one hundred percent,

808
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 1: But not five minutes ago, you were worried that kicking

809
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: off too many times would hurt Jeff Heath's leg. So

810
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: why are you going to ask your amazing punter who's

811
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: doing his job as well as anybody else on the

812
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: team to mess with his motion because he kicks for

813
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: a living. You're like, that's what he does, completely simplifying,

814
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: You're completely simple. It's really this is any different. I

815
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: like bet, But the point is is if the best kicker,

816
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: the backup kicker, is the punter, then I bet you

817
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: he does it. I bet you he'll do that. But

818
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: it's the whole operation of the snap, the whole the kick.

819
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: If Chris Jones was the best guy to to kick

820
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: the ball, then somebody's got a hold and yeah they

821
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: can do it. And I'm sure there's five players on

822
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: the team that have done it before. But Chris Jones

823
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: does it. He works with he knows exactly where that

824
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: ball is going to be and how to get it

825
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: the laces exactly like it needs to be. And the

826
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: fact that they have Jeff heat that can kick it

827
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: that's probably why this is the situation. He is the backup.

828
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: If Jeff Heath kicked the ball out of bounds and

829
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: kicked it, you know, like hit Bucky with the ball

830
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: every time, then Chris Jones would probably be the kickoff guy.

831
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's that's just the way that it is.

832
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: And you don't like to switch two positions if you

833
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: don't have to. And he's probably just as good, if

834
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: not better than Chris Jones and Chris Jones as the holder.

835
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: That's that's the operation issues. That's a way better reason

836
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: than what I did is but better, don't like whatever,

837
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: don't mess with your punter's mojo. That's if you have

838
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: a guy, you're gonna message your safety's mojo. I mean,

839
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just safe. All right, We're being we're

840
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: being real nice to Jeff Heath today and he deserves it.

841
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: But like mojo at safety. Oh, I'm just saying like

842
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: he's not a trained kicker, as I guess what I'm saying,

843
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: and so, and he doesn't practice and doesn't play in

844
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: the motion. I mean thinking very often. That's the only

845
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: reason I'm saying, like you would think, I know, punning

846
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: is different than kicking, but it's much closer than playing

847
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: safety and kicking. I would think I got into nice

848
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: little Twitter situations with people because I asked the question,

849
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: if you can do if you can kick off to

850
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: the three yard line, if you've got that ability to

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Speaker 1: kick off, then why aren't you kicking extra points? Like?

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Speaker 1: Why didn't they even try that. They did later boy

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Speaker 1: nasty responses about you know anything about football, if you

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Speaker 1: think it's the same, Well, it's definitely not the same.

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Speaker 1: But you're still kicking the ball right, and you can

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Speaker 1: So I think over time we saw that. I think

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Speaker 1: Jason Garrett and the Cowboys figured out the same thing,

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Speaker 1: like we could we could try. Plus the game got

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Speaker 1: out of hand and you could you could kick it off.

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Speaker 1: I mean you could, you could try the field goals.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see the third one third extra point was

863
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Speaker 1: right down in the middle. Uh, yep, yep, Okay, that's on.

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Speaker 1: Dan Bailey and Chris Jones will be on the Cowboys

865
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Speaker 1: Then why he's not the kicker. Yeah, that's a good question.

867
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Speaker 1: Who's on tonight, Chris Jones and Dan Bailey on the

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933
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Speaker 1: Kind of. I think there's anybody out there just like

938
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943
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961
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964
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966
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Speaker 1: Let's get some questions from you guys. Our numbers two one, four,

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971
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972
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Speaker 1: have a call first from Rob in Vegas. Rob, what up? Hey, everybody,

973
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: how you doing. Hey? It was hey, listen, you dropped

974
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: forty on the road. I don't care. It's the forty nine.

975
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: Is that I was impressive. They didn't win twenty to ten.

976
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Speaker 1: They won forty to ten. They probably could have scored

977
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: fifty maybe, you know. I thought Dez probably played its

978
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: best game. I made some tough catches, especially that slammed

979
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: for the first down, which could have been picked. Maybe

980
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Speaker 1: it was he didn't wear a visor. I don't know.

981
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: But let Ahan I thought got a little cute in

982
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: the first half. I thought they could have ran Zeke

983
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. I didn't think they

984
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: needed to take him out. I think after the second

985
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: series to bring Alfred Morrison, and especially when they were

986
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: down by the goal line, I thought that was some

987
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: bad play calling. But other than that, I thought they

988
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: played great. I thought Ash actually did show up. It

989
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Speaker 1: was nice to see a guy bring up from the

990
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Speaker 1: practice squad and actually do something, and just a great win.

991
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Speaker 1: And it was an easy win. I didn't have to

992
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Speaker 1: screw my head off. All right, thanks for the call,

993
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Speaker 1: I will you know it is it nitpicking? Of course

994
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Speaker 1: it is, no, of course it is. But I don't.

995
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,959
Speaker 1: I don't get the Morris possession either. To be totally

996
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't. They do it. They do

997
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: it forever, they do it with they're not gonna change it,

998
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: like and we maybe we want maybe it's a you know,

999
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: maybe it is a way to limit Zeke's workload. You know,

1000
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Speaker 1: I think he was on he's on pace for somewhere

1001
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Speaker 1: around two hundred and fifty two hundred and eighty carries

1002
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: or something like that, which is that's well within an

1003
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: acceptable range for a feature back, you know, And it's

1004
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: not an issue when you beat a team forty to ten.

1005
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: But the thing that bugs me is it is an

1006
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: issue in a close game where all right, your third

1007
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: possession probably comes somewhere early to mid second quarter. Let's

1008
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: say it doesn't go well, then the forty nine ers

1009
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: get the ball and all of a sudden, like Zeke hasn't.

1010
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: It's the third quarter, and Zeke hasn't touched the ball

1011
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: since like late in the first Because you know, you're

1012
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: always gonna most times, you're gonna get the ball first,

1013
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: which means other team's gonna get it coming out. And

1014
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: we have seen that play out in closer games than this.

1015
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: It's not an issue when you run for two sixty

1016
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: five and win by thirty. But I don't like it

1017
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: and I don't get it, and it's no disrespect to

1018
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris, but you have a twenty two year old

1019
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: beast of a running back that you're paying four million

1020
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Speaker 1: dollars a year two and I just don't you know,

1021
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: if Alfred Morris was Darren McFadden or Lance dunbar even

1022
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: and he had this very specific purpose like an Alvin Kamara,

1023
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: where you know you're gonna get him involved in the

1024
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: passing game and he can do different type of stuff. Fine,

1025
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: but Alfred Morris is basically the same running back as

1026
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, just not as good. And I don't understand that,

1027
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: and it bothers me. I don't think it's going anywhere,

1028
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: but I can at least empathize with fans who feel

1029
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: that way. Not to compare players, but just I know

1030
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: some of the things that Jason does. He count of

1031
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: models after his own experiences, And so you look back

1032
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: at the nineties Cowboys and see certain patterns. Nick you

1033
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: were watching as intently back then as you are now,

1034
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 1: even though you didn't work for the team. At that point.

1035
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Speaker 1: My grades were bad. Way, but you land at this job, right,

1036
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: So do you did you back then? Was that kind

1037
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: of was There were there moments in games when Emmett

1038
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: came out of the game specifically just to give him rest,

1039
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: not not to spell him when he was tired because

1040
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Speaker 1: he just had a long run, but just series where

1041
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, Emmet's gonna come out during this

1042
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: series in most games because we're gonna give him a

1043
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: break at that point and put somebody else in, whoever

1044
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: that might be. Yeah, And there were times when when

1045
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: that would happen and it would would come out of games.

1046
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about a whole decade. So it

1047
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,439
Speaker 1: also depend on depending on the player that they had.

1048
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: I mean, um, you know, Sherman Williams, I guess it

1049
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: would be one, and Chris Warren later in his career,

1050
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: and you know, but Emmett it was such a different

1051
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: player because you know, when Troy went down, they could win.

1052
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: They won games without Troy. They didn't win without Emmett.

1053
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: They didn't win. And that's why I think when you're

1054
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: looking at the offensive line, you're talking about great offensive

1055
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: lines in the history. You know, I don't know, Sorry, Nate,

1056
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't necessarily know where that one

1057
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Speaker 1: ranks better than this one because we've seen three different

1058
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: we've seen scenarios where guys come in and do well

1059
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: in this line and three different backs in the last

1060
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: four years and so, but when Emmett Smith was out,

1061
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: they didn't win. Derek Lassic didn't let him win, and

1062
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: Lincoln Coleman and Troy Hambrick and Chris Warren and Sherman

1063
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: Williams and whoever, they didn't win that line as great

1064
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: as they were or they they were great with him

1065
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: it and so, um, I just think that I don't

1066
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: know where I'm going with that, but I just I

1067
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: feel like it was different. It's a different situation that

1068
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: then Ben pulling the gay out. But it's a big

1069
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean, we see, we see that they're You even

1070
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: said to me, like, why don't they running the balls

1071
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: like they did run the ball they ran into Alfred

1072
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: Morris for no gain or one yard. I mean they did.

1073
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a different guy. But you know,

1074
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: you want to run him into the ground, But then

1075
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: you love the fact that he's run away from people

1076
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,879
Speaker 1: in the middle of the third quarter on a screen pass.

1077
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: Its point, so I'm not sure that you know, three

1078
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: extra carries in the second quarters the difference between that

1079
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: and again it's nitpicking, but I think the Cowboys knew

1080
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 1: this game, was it going to happen? Maybe? I think

1081
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: they mean, I think they run away with it. I

1082
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: think they did. I think they looked at it and

1083
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: said that. I think so. I think that maybe there's

1084
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: a chance to get him in to play. They're about

1085
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: to get they're about to get beat down. That would

1086
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: be shockingly out of character for Jason Garrett to make it.

1087
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: Just to be so confident that you're going to get

1088
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: a big time win that you purposefully make your if

1089
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: that's why they decided to make Yeah, I mean, if

1090
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: you're making them inactive anyways, was out of character for him,

1091
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 1: you know, I mean just just changing it up. Yeah,

1092
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,919
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, I mean he's not gonna work great

1093
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: at eh no yeah or white yeah. Oh. One thing

1094
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: we haven't touched on that. I just I wanted to

1095
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: real quick, all right, the run defense, which that was

1096
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: a Twitter question. Um, thanks for taking somebody's good questions.

1097
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Puts say their name so they at least

1098
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: they get a shout out David Hellman. Oh thanks. It

1099
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: still wasn't great by like, don't think no. The Niners

1100
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred yards and average five yards per carry.

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00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde had a long of sixteen and ran for

1102
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 1: you know, twelve and fourteen yards. But here's here's the thing.

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00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,959
Speaker 1: Total was what sixty eight? And this is a double

1104
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: edged thing because the forty nine ers ran the ball well,

1105
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: but what did we see they had stopped doing it?

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00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: That's that I mean, it's not like this was ever

1107
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: a jug or not of a defense. It's that when

1108
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: your offense is playing like that, you have to abandon

1109
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: the run. I looked at this. Carlos Hyde had fourteen carries,

1110
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: six of which came after halftime, one of which came

1111
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. He just they took him out

1112
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: of the game. You can't run the ball when you're

1113
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: trailing by And as soon as you made them a

1114
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: one dimensional team and put it all on the rookies back,

1115
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: the defense was just coming. Remember thinking at one point,

1116
00:53:57,719 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 1: I think it was early second quarter, it was four

1117
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: teen to three, and they were driving around the twenty

1118
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: yard line, twenty five yard line, and it was that

1119
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: Hannah had a holding penalty. Uh Morris had a nine

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00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: yard screen got back and I remember thinking or anything,

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00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: I might have said this to you. I said, if

1122
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: they get a field goal here, it's gonna be a

1123
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: tough game. It's going we're gonna have that. But if

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00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: they score here, it's over. So if they score a touchdown,

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00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: and I think two plays later went in one handed touchdown, which,

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00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: by the way, he did the exact same catch in

1127
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: patent Go like in the pregame. I was just watching

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00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: him standing right there. He made the exact same one

1129
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: handed catch. I was like, man, it's nice, nice play, well,

1130
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: same exact doing it with Ja Whiskey Tart Drake to

1131
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: over use a little bit different Quiskey, but whis with

1132
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: the amount of hype that we put on and not

1133
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: personally put on Sean Lee and Anthony Hitchins playing together.

1134
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: I think the run defense could have been better, but

1135
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: it is encouraging to think that you can take that

1136
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: away if your offense is humming the way it's supposed to.

1137
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: And this all still goes back. I think it points back.

1138
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: I agree with your point, but I think it all

1139
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: points back to when the Cowboys are running the ball effectively,

1140
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: and I mean not just overall what your number is

1141
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, but able to impose

1142
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:12,760
Speaker 1: their will on the teams. When it comes to running

1143
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: the ball, everything else becomes a move point. This defense

1144
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: one hundred times better when the offense is able to

1145
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: be efficient and able to stay ahead of the chaine

1146
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: and that means they keep them off the field, and

1147
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: that means they score points, and that means they get

1148
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: a lead. This defense is so much better. Everything on

1149
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: this team is predicated on how well can they run

1150
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: the ball, particularly on first down. The fourth quarter play

1151
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: by play is just like CJ. Bethard incomplete. CJ. Bethard

1152
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: sacked CJ. Bethard complete for four yards. CJ. Bethard incomplete.

1153
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: Like you don't see any There's no rush attempts, there's

1154
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: no nothing. There's just one dimensional, simple effective. It's exactly right.

1155
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: Let's take a question from Twitter. Well, we all saw

1156
00:55:55,200 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys obviously dominated the forty nine ers, But

1157
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:05,720
Speaker 1: if you were nitpicking and just taking account into account

1158
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: that it was indeed the forty nine Ers, a team

1159
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: that had six straight losses, what is one specific area

1160
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: that each one of you thinks that they finally clicked

1161
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: and they finally did make some real improvement. Putting aside

1162
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: the fact that they were playing against the forty nine

1163
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: ers one area the left guard, I mean, I thought

1164
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper was Actually we talked about it earlier, but

1165
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: I thought he had some really nice plays where you know,

1166
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,240
Speaker 1: he was out pulling and they kind of ran behind

1167
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: him or he opened up the lane. It wasn't just

1168
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: you know, three guys and then two others. I thought

1169
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: those two others, Collins and Cooper both did really a

1170
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: really nice job. Just go look at the twenty five

1171
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: yard touchdown and run by Zeke the second one of

1172
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: the game. Go watch all of the linemen, Cooper and

1173
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins are doing their job tremendously. Zack, Can I

1174
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: take one more step beyond that? Is Cooper on the outside,

1175
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: his ability to get outside where he did that? Yeah,

1176
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: I think that was where if they can get him

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00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: to do that consistently, you already got guys that are

1178
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: very athletic on this offensive line. And Zeke talked about

1179
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: it after the game. The reason why that that screen

1180
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: works so well was to say, he said, it's exact

1181
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: same play they were in in Pittsburgh last year. But

1182
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: the reason it works so well is because they got

1183
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: good athletic offensive lineman. If they can do that consistently,

1184
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: it presents a whole new wrinkle in this offense that

1185
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: teams that are aggressive, some of these teams that they've

1186
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: played so far that are really aggressive, like Denver, if

1187
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: you can get those guys on the outside out there blocking,

1188
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: you can open up some opportunities to be able to

1189
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: really take advantage of aggressive defenses, and they haven't been

1190
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: able to do that consistently this year. That's the one there.

1191
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: I think that its started to click yesterday. I'm interested

1192
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: to see not just in the runs, but also in

1193
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: the passing game how you can get those guys out

1194
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: into space blocking for Zeke and that gives him some

1195
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to make big plays. Yeah, and Zi, I was

1196
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: talking to Zack Martin. He was telling me that their

1197
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: biggest problem was just being like everyone being on the

1198
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: same page, the five of them being on the same page,

1199
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: to where everyone is capable of doing their own job

1200
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: and not having to worry about the guy next to

1201
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: you and taking care of that. So hopefully this was

1202
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: the start of an offensive line being right on the

1203
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: same page and everything flowing smoothly. Now here's a question

1204
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: about Terrence Williams. Where was he this week? And once

1205
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: again we've had some issues with him seeing him struggle.

1206
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: Had three targets and zero So who cares people do?

1207
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: Apparently yeah, people care, still care about that. But I

1208
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: don't know. You played offense exactly the way you want

1209
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: to play. Zeke's had a new career high. Deaz had

1210
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: a solid game, made a great catch, Jason Winton Austin. Like,

1211
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: I mean, Cole Beasley didn't have an amazing day either,

1212
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: but like that doesn't matter when they had five hundred

1213
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: yards of offense. I mean, there's only so many balls

1214
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: to go around. Terrence had a chance at a touchdown.

1215
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean you could say he didn't do a good

1216
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: job with his hands, it was a little bit overthrown whatever,

1217
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: But if he'd come down, yeah, it would have been

1218
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: a very nice play. I'm not gonna kill him for that.

1219
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: I mean, um, but I'm I don't. I'm just I'm

1220
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: not gonna dog the guy for not having a great

1221
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: day when the overall result was so awesome. You know,

1222
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: that's just fans nitpicking and forty points isn't enough. I mean,

1223
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: they did everything they wanted to. Forty nine ers couldn't

1224
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: take away des and so that's what happens if you're

1225
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: not gonna take away Dez and went. And then we've

1226
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: said how many million times have we said that Terrence

1227
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: is technically the number two receiver, but he's really the

1228
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: fourth or fifth option. You saw that come play out.

1229
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: So no, yeah, he didn't. He didn't have a great day.

1230
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: He didn't need to have a great day. Everybody else did.

1231
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 1: So all right, guys, appreciate you. Joonius. We're back tomorrow.

1232
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: We'll give you a bit picture look at what's happening

1233
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: around the NFC East, particularly tonight the reds I mean

1234
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Redskins face off in Philadelphia. That's

1235
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: a very important game for the Cowboys. To make sure

1236
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: you check that out. We'll talk a little bit about

1237
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 1: that tomorrow and then give you a bigger picture look

1238
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: at Cowboys as well. Until then, for Nick even, Dave Hellman, Ambergarcia,

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01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,560
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