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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 Thursday, November fifteenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number eighty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Morgan Studios at the Star

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Speaker 1: talking Cowboys football for Where's that? Where is that energy?

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Speaker 1: I haven't even said anything yet. How do you know

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Speaker 1: I don't have it? Well, you just started. How do

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Speaker 1: you know yesterday? How do you know? I got energy

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Speaker 1: out the wazoo today? I actually like this. Let's keep

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Speaker 1: it going like this is good. You've done eighty one

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Speaker 1: of these shows since March, yes, since April, April. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot and we still got a lot to go. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We are only halfway through the season. Yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 1: That was cute. And we haven't even like a married

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Speaker 1: couple stop and we haven't even we haven't even talked

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Speaker 1: about playoffs playoffs, Well we can if they win this game,

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Speaker 1: can we? Yes? I say that till Friday, but I

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Speaker 1: just jumped right in with it. Didn't we talk about

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Speaker 1: them like tuesday? Anyway, they'll make the playoffs if they

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Speaker 1: win this game. That's not that's my opinion. They will

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs just based on this one. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is the swing game. This is the this is that

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Speaker 1: game that they didn't win last year that Atlanta won

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Speaker 1: and it kind of propelled them. I'm not saying it's

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Speaker 1: exactly the same. Didn't we say Washington was the swing

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Speaker 1: game like three weeks ago? You have to win that one.

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Speaker 1: We have to win that. I mean you can't. I

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Speaker 1: meant the one that they already lost. Oh yeah they lost, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you are. You also probably had the big L

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Speaker 1: already written in Philadelphia, So they came back on that

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Speaker 1: one much much Tennessee. You would know. What's interesting on

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Speaker 1: that note, right now, the Cowboys are owing four against

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Speaker 1: teams at winning records. They're four won against teams with

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Speaker 1: losing records, five of their last seven against teams with

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Speaker 1: losing records. Well, they haven't been consistent, but it certainly

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Speaker 1: lines up to where they can actually get on a

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Speaker 1: roll here if they continue to do what they've been doing.

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Speaker 1: People come up with like different facts and like stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, graphics of like make away. You could also

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Speaker 1: say this team hasn't won a game on the road

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Speaker 1: against the team with a winning record, and but just

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Speaker 1: try to find a way to make it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, even if you go

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Speaker 1: that that's that they have to still win one, I

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Speaker 1: think they still got to win at least one of

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Speaker 1: those games against winning record teams would be Washington and

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Speaker 1: New Orleans. They gotta beat Washington if they expect to

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Speaker 1: win the division because if not, that means that Washington

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have a tie break over them and head to

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Speaker 1: hit the means no way they get to like division

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Speaker 1: without that. I like where I like. I like your hotspa.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this is how I see it, And Jason

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Speaker 1: Garrett wouldn't think this way. But you win this game

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Speaker 1: to get to five and five, Yeah, you gotta beat

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Speaker 1: the Redskins. You just have two, six and five, Okay,

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Speaker 1: six and six, then you got then you got the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: They're not beating the Saints. Even though I know you're

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Speaker 1: saying somebody's gonna beat them. And I just noticed close

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Speaker 1: coming back again. I still I didn't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys got it wasn't the injuries. I mean,

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Speaker 1: interested to see how that works against the defense, where

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Speaker 1: But then they got to face that Eagles team again,

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Speaker 1: They'll beat the Giants nine and seven. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: And this conversation is pretty funny. It's funny, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about this way I started. It's possible. It's

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Speaker 1: the thing is those tie breaks didn't come down when

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Speaker 1: who's out and and what we're thinking is the status

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Speaker 1: You just don't have anybody rotation with him, which again

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Speaker 1: No chance for that because he um, the Cowboys won't

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Speaker 1: the injury report? I forgot. I forgot about Thron mclin

424
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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, he didn't. Bruce was, No,

425
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 1: he's not her. He just he's a rotational guy. Carter

426
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 1: was Jalen Smith before Jalen Smith. Right, that's what they said. Yeah,

427
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 1: he was Are you talking about before he got to

428
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: before he got here, what people said about him. No,

429
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he was a second round draft that

430
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 1: was coming off a knee injury. Yeah, and that's why

431
00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 1: he's never as talented. He wasn't. He did funny sat

432
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 1: about Bruce Carter. He blocked four punts in one game

433
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 1: in college. About that four punts and one game. I mean,

434
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 1: double team him at some point. Yeah, by the third

435
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 1: or fourth of judicious everybody block him. But their pass

436
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: rush is bad. They have seventeen sacks as a team.

437
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 1: That's twenty eighth in the league, even with Tack having

438
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 1: an Yeah, Beasley's not helping Tack and your secondary suffering

439
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 1: for it. Because you know, two years ago, Desmond Truffont

440
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: and Robert Alford were very highly thought of them. Of

441
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: course they were. You make a run of the Super Bowl,

442
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,199
Speaker 1: everybody gets inflated. But they're not. I mean, maybe it's

443
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 1: because they don't have a pass rush. Maybe it's just

444
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: because it's hard to play cornerback in the NFL. But

445
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 1: they're not having nice seasons again, I mean they're giving

446
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: up three hundred yards per game, and this goes I mean,

447
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 1: you know, this isn't just This isn't just because of

448
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:58,360
Speaker 1: who they're playing, like Washington, who has been similarly aerially challenged.

449
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: Like the Cowboys. They threw for three hundred. Granted that's

450
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: a game that they lost thirty eight to fourteen, so

451
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 1: you're gonna be throwing a lot more, but still hit

452
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: the three hundred. Who lost The Redskins blown out by

453
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 1: the Falcons a couple weeks ago. M Tampa threw for

454
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: four hundred on him. New York through for four hundred

455
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 1: on him. Throw for that much on everybody. Oh, I know,

456
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: New York who? And that was a close game. New

457
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 1: York the Giants three two h even. You know, Cleveland

458
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 1: only through for two sixteen, but Baker Mayfield only through

459
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: three in completions in that game. He finished with a

460
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: one fifty one rating. So I'm sure it all works

461
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: in tandem. Pass rushesn't getting home and that's hurting the secondary.

462
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: But um, I'm gonna be I want to see, you know,

463
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 1: much like the Eagles, I want to see how the

464
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys throw against these guys, because they should be able

465
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: to and if Tyran Smith is in the game, which

466
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: he's back at practice, so knock on wood, Like, I

467
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: don't think Dak is gonna get sacked eight times. I

468
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 1: would get probably probably two, three or four based on

469
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: what they're doing every league. The trend, Yeah, but I

470
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Speaker 1: go with eight. I would hope not. My god, the

471
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: times does that happen? And like in league history, how

472
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 1: many times does that happen? Well, it's not the it's

473
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,239
Speaker 1: not the eight. It's not the eight that jumps out

474
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 1: at the same guy. It's the six from one guy,

475
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: because I mean Matt and just a regular guy. This

476
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: was not Reggie White. Matt Stafford got sacked ten times

477
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: by Minnesota the other day, and Joe Flacco was sacked

478
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: eleven time. No, I'm sorry, Marcus Mariota was sacked eleven

479
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: times by Baltimore. So our sacks up this year because

480
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:27,679
Speaker 1: it seems like there have been some a lot of

481
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: There have been a few games where you've seen a

482
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: lot of sacks. I couldn't tell you. I just wonder

483
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 1: if there's a trend that's starting just because there's so

484
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,959
Speaker 1: much passing happening around the league. Are sacks up as

485
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 1: a result. But I really like this, you know, famous

486
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: last words. I'm sorry, but like I'm just looking. I

487
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: watched two and a half games of these guys, and

488
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys should be able to run, like I

489
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 1: think you can. You can bulldoze these guys out of

490
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: the way. Tack McKinley is a good player, but I

491
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: think he's he's far more useful as a pass rusher

492
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: at this point in his career. I don't think he's

493
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Speaker 1: as well rounded as like a Demarcuslawrence that he's gonna

494
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: make serious hey in the run game. Uh, Grady Jarrett

495
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: is a great pass rushing defensive tackle. I don't think

496
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: he's like this amazing space eater. Which side is he

497
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: gonna be lined up in? My majority of time three tech?

498
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: So I mean take your pick, but I mean is

499
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 1: this gonna be a I would just gonna be an

500
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: equally challenging game close. Grady Jarrett's a good player, right,

501
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: not a great player. Fletcher Cox is something else, right,

502
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: I mean, he's in He's not on Aaron Donald's level.

503
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody is right now, but it's kind

504
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: of hard to say anybody. Fletcher Cox is a different

505
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: and that's he's definitely he's probably the next closest. Another

506
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: day I was talking is about it. I was like,

507
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can think of another defensive

508
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: tackle between Donald and Fletcher Cox, Like, I think that's

509
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: probably one two. I would guess Tampa McCoy. Is he

510
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: better than is he better than? Is he better than him?

511
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 1: I think I would probably take those two if I

512
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: was starting a team. Yeah, uh, Coxon and Donald for sure. Um,

513
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: if they at Irving would just stay healthy or he

514
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: would be. He really would be. He's got more talent

515
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: than probably some of those guys you just mentioned. He

516
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: just doesn't have the consistency. Doesn't have it, and we

517
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 1: see it every year those few games he plays, he's

518
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: just he can be dominant. Now there's also some games

519
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: we've seen where he can be absent, Like you're he's there,

520
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: he's playing, but he's just not. I get what you're

521
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: saying that a whole lot. I can't go there. I

522
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: mean we've seen, we've seen flashes and like he's had

523
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: some amazing performances. He's been really impressive, but like Aaron,

524
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Speaker 1: Donald has literally destroyed everything that's been put in front

525
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: of him since he was like nineteen, I'm gonna, I'm

526
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: going back to college. He's like the most decorated player

527
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: in Pitt history, which really one of them if he

528
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, you know, he didn't win the Heisman,

529
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: but he racked up every freaking thing else you can

530
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: win at defensive tackle. And that's not when Pitt was good,

531
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: when Dorset and Marino were there. This is doormat Pitt

532
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Yeah, so no, he's I mean, Phil,

533
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: he's And if you watch it, it's rare you watch

534
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle wreak that much havoc. But it's like

535
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: Warren Sapp used to do, Like you would just watch

536
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: and watch the defensive tackle position because you knew on

537
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: every play he had the potential to do something big.

538
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 1: I think it. It'll be big. It'll be big for

539
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: the Falcons if Dion Jones can come back. But even

540
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean another another bit. You know, Vick Beasley's having

541
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: a terrible season by his standards, but Lyle Collins has

542
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: has struggled. That's he's primary a left side guy. You know,

543
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know Falcons talk is like, well, maybe

544
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: this is a favorable matchup. Well, you know, Lyle Collins

545
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: is figured out, has lost a step. So it's something

546
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: to watch. But I mean, talk, this is his this

547
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: is his favorite. This is as good. This is as

548
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: good as I've felt about an opposing defense in a while.

549
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, even I wasn't super impressed by Tennessee's,

550
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: but you know, they had Darrell Casey. They had some

551
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: guys there that give you pause, whereas I don't. I don't.

552
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: I just but it sounds like you're it's more about

553
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: how they're playing than the player, because it sounds like

554
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: some of these guys have been traditionally pretty good players.

555
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: They're just right now not playing well for whatever reason,

556
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: or not playing exceptionally as they had in the past.

557
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: They're playing horribly, yeah, across the board, and so I

558
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: mean that's I fully expect. I think Suefieldo is going

559
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: to play well. I think if the Cowboys can't run

560
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: on this team, then I don't know, I don't know

561
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: what happened, basically, and I think that should set everything

562
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: else up. I don't Dak's I in the throw for

563
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: four hundred yards, but they don't want them to. But

564
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: there should be plays there against these guys. On bottom line,

565
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: how about this stat. This is just I don't even

566
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: know what this stat means. But penalty yards. The Cowboys

567
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: have four hundred and fifty eight penalty yards against them

568
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: four ninety nine for the Falcons. That's about the same

569
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: opponent penalty yards Cowboys three thirty nine the Falcons six

570
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: forty six. So teams that are playing the Falcons are

571
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: being penalized six hundred and forty six yards. That's double

572
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys at Cowboys gotta be or at the

573
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: bottom of the league. So as far as wheat zero zero,

574
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: big old doughnut, which is curious in and of itself, right, Yeah,

575
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: but six forty six, Like, what does that mean? Like

576
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of past interference penalties that's probably that's probably

577
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I mean, think about the guys.

578
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: They got the best part of their team I think

579
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: is their their receivers. That's where you probably got the

580
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: most talent on that team, and they'll go down field.

581
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: So think about how many I mean, that's where you

582
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: can get forty fifty yards Because it doesn't sound like

583
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: those guys are being hard to block that they're just

584
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: getting held every time, which that raises another key component.

585
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: Go back to yesterday, red zone Cowboys defense, Falcons offense,

586
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: Like the tenor of this game can change completely if

587
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: the Falcons are just zipping downfield for I mean, you

588
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: get yourself in a fourteen to three hole or twenty

589
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: one to nothing hole. That changes the complexion of everything.

590
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: Zeke says every week, we gotta start fast, we gotta

591
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: start fast. That would be I mean, you know, I'm

592
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: not expecting you to build up a huge lead against

593
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: such an explosive team, but you can't afford to fall

594
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: behind against that offense and let the defense change the

595
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: way they play the ball. No, but I wouldn't hate

596
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: it as much as I have in other weeks. I

597
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: still I would still, I would still defer, I would

598
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: still defer to, but I wouldn't hate it if I

599
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: just love the possibility to turn around, Like that's why

600
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: that's you know, you can double up points exactly. It's

601
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: it's too big of a flip to know that you're

602
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: getting the ball coming out a halftime. But if they

603
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: took the ball in this game, I would be like,

604
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: all right, I get it. I mean the good part

605
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: is I mean, if you do that, then you know,

606
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: even if you're down, you got two opportunities right there,

607
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: back to back. If it all works out like that,

608
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: you get two opportunities back to back to maybe catch up.

609
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: If you're a head, it's gravy like that means you

610
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: got two opportunities to get points that puts you farther

611
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: ahead before they touch the ball again. I just think

612
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: that there's no other part of the game that gives

613
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: you that kind of advantage than deferring. The only thing

614
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: I don't like is of teams, and I think the

615
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done this. When they get the ball to

616
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: start the third quarter, it changes their aggressiveness and at

617
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: the end of the half, like still go down and

618
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: still you know forty seconds to go, you still try

619
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: to go get that field goal. Doesn't matter if you're

620
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: getting the ball. I would actually turn around and come

621
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: out of halftime in no huddle the same way like

622
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: my two minutes draw. I would run it coming out

623
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: of halftime with the adjustments that I'm gonna make in

624
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: the types of people, the types of matchups I want

625
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: to exploit and try to catch them off guard there

626
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: and try to get that quick score. I just think

627
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: there's such an opportunity there when you get the ball

628
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: at the end and at the beginning of the half.

629
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: It's your call. I mean, whoever, Crawford, I mean, tails

630
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: tales never fails. Sorry if you already said this, Dave

631
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: and I just missed it. But how's their defense in

632
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: the red zone? Oh crap, I don't know. I didn't look.

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Speaker 1: Break Live from the SWBC Barris Studios. At the start,

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Speaker 1: we just had a conversation about Star Wars that didn't

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Speaker 1: involve Can't. Can't probably could have downloaded. They've been all

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Speaker 1: in on that he's definitely Star Wars. Yeah, what was

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Speaker 1: that about, talking about the fact that they're not really

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Speaker 1: to six, one, two, three, seven, eight. But you don't

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Speaker 1: two and three. I think you're good. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to watch over We asked if if she could, uh, oh, basically,

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Speaker 1: how we started talking about this is the fact that

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Speaker 1: I thought they will have a cover four over there

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta where they have a kind of a younger

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Speaker 1: what they called. And then we asked Ammber if she

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Speaker 1: could name one character, and she said, Darth Vader. That's

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Speaker 1: nice as a movie I mean, as a movie buff

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Speaker 1: and a Star Wars fan like you and I both are.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you could be in a room with

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Speaker 1: three people that know less about Star Wars and I

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Speaker 1: am right now, no, no, no, you know all about

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Speaker 1: Star Wars. Yeah, Nick, But but okay, I'm not Grito.

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Speaker 1: I mean I had him, dere and Derek and ambar

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Speaker 1: a Brown right now. Though I saw when I was

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Speaker 1: a kid, I saw one of them, and that's about it.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember much from it, draw characters out of

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Speaker 1: my mind. I could visualize them. I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: the story behind it, but I have this. Actually, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I wish I could experience Star Wars at her age.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a fitting topic of conversation because the star

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Speaker 1: you know, Star Wars, y'all gonna make me actually want

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Speaker 1: to go and just kind of watch them all bad

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Speaker 1: through him like one. Just put them on the first three.

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Speaker 1: The most recent ones are pretty good too. Skip the

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Speaker 1: first three. The originals are the best, and then the

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Speaker 1: new ones are Okay, the new ones are pretty good.

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Speaker 1: We got our buddy Steve Buchanan from Draft Kings on

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Speaker 1: the line talk a little fantasy football with us. How

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Speaker 1: you doing, Steve? Good? And you can't talk the original three?

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Speaker 1: That's where it I'm from. There you go totally agree.

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Speaker 1: So you guys, you're saying, Steve that jar Jar Binks

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Speaker 1: is not, you know, on your fantasy team. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was it for me. Gets the ultimate cut, never to

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Speaker 1: be up, never add yeah, drop forever. Hey, I will

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Speaker 1: not ask you about kickers this week, so I won't

741
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Speaker 1: ask you every once in a while, you know, but

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Speaker 1: I am going to ask you about a punter because

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones is every now dirt. I did have a

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Speaker 1: question for you, though. I wanted to start with a

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Speaker 1: Cowboys matchup this week, Cowboys playing the Falcons um and

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Speaker 1: I was looking at a guy like Austin Hooper who

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Speaker 1: has had He's been a pretty good tight end in

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Speaker 1: fantasy throughout the year. A little bit inconsistent, but I

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Speaker 1: think most tight ends, except for the top two, are

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Speaker 1: pretty or can be inconsistent at times. That being said,

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Speaker 1: looking at what Zach Birch was able to do the

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Speaker 1: to Cowboys last week, how affective do you think a

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Speaker 1: guy like Austin Hooper will be, not just from a

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Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, but just as a matchup for the Cowboys?

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Speaker 1: How do you think they'll deal with a guy like

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Speaker 1: Austin Hooper? Yeah? You know, Hooper has been a guy

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Speaker 1: who's just wild, you know, like you said, like you said,

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Speaker 1: just from the tight end position to begin with. But

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Speaker 1: he's seeing a ton of targets of the Lady. He

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Speaker 1: saw eleven last week against the Brown caught ten of

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Speaker 1: But the problem is he just doesn't get utilized enough

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Speaker 1: in the red zone that I'm looking at him on

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Speaker 1: a more consistent basis. I mean, I feel like the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have been pretty much inconsistent with titles as a

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Speaker 1: whole as it is. But yeah, who puts this soone?

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Speaker 1: They've been leaning on a lot lately, But you're actually

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Speaker 1: starting to remember that Hulo Jones is on that team,

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Speaker 1: and they're starting to go to him a little bit

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Speaker 1: more in the wet zone because he scored almost all

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Speaker 1: season long, but he's finally scored two weeks in a row,

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Speaker 1: So definitely don't mind Hooper about Yeah, he's sound. I

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Speaker 1: can kind of speak up the cracks there as well.

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Speaker 1: And you guys are doing your projections of each week,

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Speaker 1: and you got Julio Jones there, and there's a guy

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Speaker 1: that hadn't been catching a lot of touchdowns until recently,

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Speaker 1: Like do you do you think, Okay, he's gonna snap

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Speaker 1: out of it this week or this week he's gonna

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Speaker 1: snap out of it? I mean, like, how do you

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Speaker 1: how do you project a guy that has been so

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Speaker 1: good for so long but he's kind of maybe been

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Speaker 1: in a touchdown slump. I mean it's maddening. I mean

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00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: it's absolutely maddening that, by far the most talented guy

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Speaker 1: on their team and it's just not utilizing him in

784
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Speaker 1: the red zone. What's been saving him all season long

785
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: ago is that he's still get those targets. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's averaging over ten a game this season, but he's

787
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Speaker 1: just getting those yards. When you look at what he's

788
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Speaker 1: done over the past four weeks, he's had over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and four receiving yards in all of those games.

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Speaker 1: So even though he wasn't reaching the end zone, he

791
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Speaker 1: was still doing it from a fantasy perspective, because he's

792
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Speaker 1: utilized so much in that game and it just feels

793
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Speaker 1: like nobody can stop him. I mean, no matter what

794
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Speaker 1: juncture or what team he's facing, he still ends up

795
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Speaker 1: getting it done so completely. It was nothing for the

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Speaker 1: first start eight weeks of the season where he just

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Speaker 1: wasn't reaching the end zone, but the consolation prizes you

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Speaker 1: want to call it, that was he was still scoring

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Speaker 1: those fantasy points and you know, keeping imrelevant. We got

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Speaker 1: Steve Buchannan here from DraftKings talking a little fantasy football

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Speaker 1: with us as we do every Thursday. In the third segment,

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Speaker 1: Mary Cooper, He's a guy that that obviously got to

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys a few weeks ago. Has hasn't had numbers

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Speaker 1: that are off the charts, but I think he's played

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Speaker 1: a really important role for this team and you can

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Speaker 1: see some of the results of having him on the field.

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Speaker 1: Is he at a point yet from a fantasy standpoint

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Speaker 1: that he is a you know that he is a

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Speaker 1: guy you would start each and every week knowing that

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Speaker 1: if any receiver is going to do anything for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: It's probably gonna start with him absolutely, I mean to

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Speaker 1: be totally honest, and he's actually one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: plays of the week. The Cowboy and Salton came. Altogether,

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Speaker 1: it's just so chock full of fantasy goodness this week.

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Speaker 1: It feels like, because there's just so many good plays

816
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Speaker 1: in there, Cooper has to be one of them. I mean,

817
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Speaker 1: last week the Falcons allowed the least amount of receiving

818
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Speaker 1: yards to opposing team, but that's because they're getting absolutely

819
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Speaker 1: torched on the ground because otherwise they're averaging over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy receiving yards to opposing receivers on the season.

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Speaker 1: And Cooper, how he's played only fifty four hundreds. This

822
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Speaker 1: is a guy who's you know, been averaging just about

823
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Speaker 1: eighteen targets since he came over with the Cowboys. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's been He's he's a savior for Dexscott. It feels

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Speaker 1: like because Pscott has been leading on him and he said,

826
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Speaker 1: such a great playmaker, and it just overall of is

827
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Speaker 1: this offense looks so much better than it has and

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Speaker 1: you guys know more than anybody how it looks down

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Speaker 1: becaus even like what zeke Elcot has been doing as

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Speaker 1: of lane. I think it has so much to do

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Speaker 1: with just this offense absolutely clicking right now. This is

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Speaker 1: such a great spot for them again for Balcons. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I got a really general question for you, Um, how

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Speaker 1: do you weigh the talent of a player verse how

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Speaker 1: favorable the matchup is? Go ahead, Sorry, it does sends

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Speaker 1: We've taken into consideration. And one of the things I

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Speaker 1: U I like to allude to is James Connor with

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. He was going to match up the other

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Speaker 1: week against the Ravens where the Ravens are going one

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Speaker 1: of the best run defenses in the league. So you

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Speaker 1: look at that and you say, well, Connor is a

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Speaker 1: talented player, but the defense is so good. In turn,

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Speaker 1: Connor goes out and rushes for one hundred and seven yards,

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Speaker 1: has set of receptions on nine targets. So for me,

845
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: it's I like to just take a look at the

846
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Speaker 1: whole general perspective for the defense. What have they done

847
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Speaker 1: all season long? And I have to give it to

848
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Speaker 1: the defense because obviously these players obviously in different matchups

849
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: every single week, and we know Connor is talented, but

850
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Speaker 1: the matchup just didn't set up well, and then he

851
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Speaker 1: goes and has a game like it is. So it's

852
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Speaker 1: definitely tough. You have to pick and choose your battles here.

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Speaker 1: But that was one that really stood out to me

854
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Speaker 1: because everybody was so down on Connor two weeks ago

855
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Speaker 1: because I was good the Ravens where and then he

856
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Speaker 1: goes out and have one of his best games of

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Speaker 1: the season. So that's just so tough really to really

858
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Speaker 1: distinguish between those two. Hey, Steve, real quick before we

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Speaker 1: let you get out of here. I have a personal

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00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: question from my fantasy team, of course, Kenny Galladay playing

861
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: Carolina or Tyler Boyd at Baltimore, which way would you go?

862
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: I'd have to go with Galladay because especially if Marvin

863
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: Jones didn't practice again today, so it looks like Golliday

864
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: is going to be the number one guy. The problem

865
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Speaker 1: was Boyd is that he's going up against that Ravens

866
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: defense and they've been so good. But without a J. Green,

867
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: we've only seen it for one week. I just saw

868
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: how bad that dangles off and close. Without Green, they're

869
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: able to go after Boyds, They're able to go after

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Speaker 1: John Y. So Galladay potentially being the number one receiver overall.

871
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: No Jones obviously, no more Golden Tate. You have to

872
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: like Galliday and that spot awesome. I love it all right, man,

873
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Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us, Steve. We'll be back next Thursday.

874
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Speaker 1: We'll have you on in our third segment again about

875
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Speaker 1: maybe not we appreciate you. That's Steve. You can't I'm

876
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: liking it. I'm sorry, what was that. I like the

877
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: Cowboys this week. I think they're going to take down

878
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: the talk. That's what they've just told us too, So

879
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: we'll see if that works. There's a snowball effect going on,

880
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: like a lot of people are liking the care liking

881
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: the Cowboys considering it's a four and five team going

882
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: on the road where they are one and four on

883
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: the year. Well, you know why it is. It's I

884
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: think it's because you everybody keeps looking. Everybody keeps looking

885
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: at two things, and that's one of them. I think

886
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: the first thing is a Marik Cooper. And since the

887
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper has been here, you've seen defenses have to

888
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: loosen up a little bit, and just the threat of

889
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: him being there has forced defenses to change a little

890
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: bit of how they're playing. And then on top of that,

891
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: last week, what you saw a Sulphila, you saw that

892
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: offensive line for the probably maybe the first time this

893
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: season be the dominant offensive line that you expected when

894
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: you first came into the year. So now people are

895
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: starting to say, well, maybe cow Boys can get rolling.

896
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit easier than that. I

897
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: think people want to believe that that's all there is

898
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Speaker 1: to it, because I mean, and I'm one of them,

899
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: I'm spoiler alert. I'm very likely going to pick the Cowboys,

900
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: like very likely, because I was incredibly impressed by what

901
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: I saw in Philly. But they had a maori when

902
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: they sucked against Tennessee. True, but the offensive line wasn't

903
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: as good. And that's the difference, Like when you've showed

904
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: up now those two different things that changes things in

905
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Speaker 1: a lot of people's mind. Can I clarify a little

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00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 1: bit there? Hopefully Steve is still listening, because I sounded

907
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: like I was like, we'll see if you'll come. Oh,

908
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: you were making a joke because they're playing on things

909
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: and you didn't. I was forging ahead. I'm going to

910
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: see if we talk to him on our show on Thursday,

911
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: because we will not probably won't be doing but we

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00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: will have Steve back the next time we do have

913
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: but we won't have a show for the next two Thursdays. Well,

914
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: something he can call on us can ask when it's

915
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: gonna be Thursday next week. To answer a G's question,

916
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: the Falcon there thirtieth in the league in red zone defense.

917
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Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the time when the opposing offense

918
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: gets into the red zone they give up a touchdown.

919
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Speaker 1: They're bad. This is gonna be a high scoring game.

920
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: I mean famous last words, because like every time I

921
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: say something, it's the opposite. So like, get ready for

922
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Speaker 1: the Falcons to win twenty three to sixteen or some crap.

923
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Speaker 1: But I can't think of a reason why the Cowboys

924
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to move the ball. I can't. All right,

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00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna we appreciate you guys. You want us to

926
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Speaker 1: move back tomorrow, we'll tell you, guys what's going to happen.

927
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Speaker 1: Dave has already given his pick, but the rest of

928
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Speaker 1: us will give our picks and we'll make sure we

929
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Speaker 1: get you ready for the game till then. For Nick,

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Speaker 1: even Dave helm and Amber Garcia, I'm Derek eagleson this

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Speaker 1: has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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