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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, December twentieth, twenty twenty one, season seventeen,

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Speaker 1: episode number eighty two. Welcome to the very latest edition

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Speaker 1: of The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios

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Speaker 1: at the Star. It is Christmas Week. We've got all

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Speaker 1: kinds of goodies for you guys all week Monday through Thursday.

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Speaker 1: There will be no show on Friday, but Monday to

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Speaker 1: Thursday we got a lot of great talk for you,

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Speaker 1: better talk than you'll hear anywhere else. And I'll put that,

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Speaker 1: I'll put money on that. This is the best talk

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Speaker 1: show and all the land, definitely, and anything has to

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Speaker 1: do with the Dallas Cowboys. So we're glad you guys

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Speaker 1: joined us. And so let's first talk about this. Cowboys win.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys get three straight road wins, which I don't care

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Speaker 1: who you're playing I don't care what the margin of

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Speaker 1: victory is. Getting three straight road wins is a feat

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Speaker 1: and it is a tough feat to accomplish in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. Let's start with some storylines. Nick, tell

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Speaker 1: me what is the storyline for you of this game. Well,

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Speaker 1: they won three straight games on the road, and then,

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Speaker 1: I don't care what. It doesn't matter who you're playing.

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Speaker 1: That is a feat. That is an accomplishment. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you took it. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: won three straight games comfortably. For the most part. They

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Speaker 1: dominated this game, and their defense is, you know, off

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Speaker 1: the charts right now. Their defense is just absolutely carrying

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Speaker 1: this team. And that's that's the storyline to me. As

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Speaker 1: troubled by this team. I mean, you keep the talents

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Speaker 1: keep saying, well, this team sucks. They'll finally get on track,

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Speaker 1: like they'll finally get on track against this miserable team,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't Ceedee Lamb had a terrible game. Dak

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Speaker 1: and so that made it even more disappointing. Dalton Schultz

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Speaker 1: that was like, if they can't get on track against

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill forever. And then I went back to my

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Speaker 1: I thought Dak played an efficient game. Like his stat line.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what happens once you move past these quote

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Speaker 1: unquote bad teams. What happens when you get to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: maybe against the Cardinals. What does the offense do for you?

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Speaker 1: Because and I was gonna ask you, I mean, do

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Speaker 1: you still fully believe that you can and you mentioned

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Speaker 1: I forgot what team that was that was all about defense,

433
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Speaker 1: and they got to the Super Bowl and one who

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Speaker 1: was it the Giants a long time ago, And it's

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Speaker 1: just like, I'm finding it very hard to believe. And

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Speaker 1: I get it. A lot of people say, oh, defenses

437
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Speaker 1: win championships, but when you see the way that this

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Speaker 1: offense has been playing, I'm just like, it's scary. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's concerning because as much as the defense is

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Speaker 1: doing for you, what are they doing when they give

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Speaker 1: you the ball back? Nothing? So that's my problem. This

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Speaker 1: all they got yesterday on the two turnovers, they got

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns. They had four. Yeah, I'm saying, but on

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Speaker 1: two of those when they got the ball in favorable

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Speaker 1: field position, not not what would be typically when you

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Speaker 1: get it after punt. Let's say, like they turn those

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Speaker 1: into touchdowns. But in the most part, and like when

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Speaker 1: they get to the red zone, they still have issues

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Speaker 1: with the red zone. So that's that's the thing. Is

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Speaker 1: the talent that they have. We know, we've seen it,

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Speaker 1: and that's the problem with such a talented offense. They

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Speaker 1: should be playing better. We've seen them playing better. And

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Speaker 1: Nick kept saying. Nick kept saying, oh, ten and four.

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Speaker 1: How can you be mad at ten and four? Well,

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Speaker 1: you can't. You can't. You keep saying no, but you

456
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Speaker 1: can be mad because you look at I get it.

457
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Speaker 1: The win is a win and it's great. And at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, if that led you to

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Speaker 1: a trophy, you still have the trophy. But the thing is,

460
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Speaker 1: even when they were playing better, you were seeing the

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Speaker 1: struggles that they were having. They were still having struggles

462
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year with how amazing they

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Speaker 1: were playing, but the difference was that they were able

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Speaker 1: to overcome things. They were able to make adjustment and

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Speaker 1: do better. This part of the season, they are unable

466
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Speaker 1: to do that. They haven't shown the quality of being

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Speaker 1: capable of overcoming things, even though they got their players

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Speaker 1: healthy for the most part back. So let me ask

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Speaker 1: this quite good, I mean, you and I are typically

470
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Speaker 1: aligned on this, but like, they've won three in a row,

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Speaker 1: so clearly they've overcome not being good. Like I have

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Speaker 1: to give them credit for that or finding ways to

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Speaker 1: win these games, which in December you have to be

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Speaker 1: you have to do that in December and in January football.

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Speaker 1: But let me ask you this question, because I thought

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Speaker 1: this was something very interesting that Mike McCarthy mentioned last week.

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Speaker 1: He was talking about December football, and he said, basically,

478
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Speaker 1: early in the season, you can play and you win

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Speaker 1: on you can win a lot of games, and you

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Speaker 1: can move the ball offensively through scheme because teams don't

481
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Speaker 1: know what you're doing. You can catch them off guard.

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Speaker 1: As soon as they catch up to that, you can

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Speaker 1: give them something different. He said, Once you get to

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Speaker 1: December football, it's no longer about scheme. It is about

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Speaker 1: the ability to execute. It is about the ability, it's

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Speaker 1: about your technique. Is it maybe a possibility that we

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Speaker 1: overestimated how good these offensive skill or offensive players are.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying skill, offensive line the whole thing. Are

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Speaker 1: we overestimating how good they are? Where now it's no

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Speaker 1: longer about scheme. Maybe they got by early with scheme.

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Speaker 1: Maybe scheme got them those four hundred yard days. Maybe

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing right now is that when teams know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do, they just can't execute to the

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Speaker 1: level to be able to put up thirty forty point No.

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Speaker 1: Simply put, they gave Dak forty million in the offseason.

496
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Speaker 1: They gave Cooper twenty million the year before that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking about the money. I'm asking you, are they

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Speaker 1: good enough? Why do you get paid that type of money?

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Speaker 1: Amari Cooper has never not had a thousand yards season

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Speaker 1: in his life. Well, like they've given contract They've given

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Speaker 1: contracts to people who haven't live until so all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, guys are not good. No, I'm asking you

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Speaker 1: the question. I'm asking you the question. Is there a

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Speaker 1: possibility here that if they were doing all these things

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Speaker 1: early in the season, and we all agree they're not

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Speaker 1: performing at the level that they were performing early in

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Speaker 1: the season. Is it because possibly that it's caught up

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Speaker 1: to him that the scheme was the reason why they

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Speaker 1: were getting so much success early and maybe now that

510
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Speaker 1: teams know what they're doing, they just don't have the

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Speaker 1: ability to put up those kinds of points. And you

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Speaker 1: have to settle for the fact that this is a

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Speaker 1: good offense, not a great offense, and you hope your

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Speaker 1: defense continues to be great. I mean, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to have runs like they had in September and October.

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Speaker 1: Everybody gets that. But they've scored five touchdowns in the

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Speaker 1: last month. No, lie, they're better than that. They just are. Like,

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Speaker 1: that's at what point? And what do they have to

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Speaker 1: do to make you believe that what they're showing is

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Speaker 1: just who they are. They go, I gotta win, and

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Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta win in the playoffs, because it

522
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You can win all these games, thirty one

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Speaker 1: to ten, thirty seven to ten, we could be sitting here,

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Speaker 1: they could still be ten and four and nothing. None

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Speaker 1: of that's gonna matter if you go to you don't

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Speaker 1: go to Green Bay and win, or you don't go

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Speaker 1: to Tampa or whatever and win. So so I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: here and saying, I'm here, hey, well, well this is

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Speaker 1: this is a good this is a good team. They're

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Speaker 1: they're tending for that. They're like, what second best record

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Speaker 1: in the NFL right now, They're they're they're a good

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Speaker 1: team with a great defense and an average offense. That's

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Speaker 1: what it's looking like right now. But like even if

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Speaker 1: it was an above average offense, that doesn't mean it

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Speaker 1: matters if you don't go to and win in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I I'm sitting here and saying I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it's like all fine and stuff. They're still

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Speaker 1: gonna have to go and execute in the playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's I mean, I just don't think

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Speaker 1: it should be disappointing or embarrassing or anything because this

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Speaker 1: football team is leaning on its defense now, I mean

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Speaker 1: that they their defense is special. You have to have

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Speaker 1: something special to win, and they have something special. They

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00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: just flipped on this. It's agree. I'm not disappointed. I

545
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: don't know what they're gonna do. What they're gonna do,

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Speaker 1: I just think and to answer your question more directly,

547
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Speaker 1: every win buys them another week where I'm like, okay,

548
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: like we started to clock back over, they get another

549
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: opportunity to go out there and and this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. Not so much this game. I mean, this

551
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: will still be a big game, but you get a

552
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 1: chance to go against Kyler Murray and the team. I

553
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: know they just lost to the Lions, but it's still good.

554
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Speaker 1: Still have been. They've had the best record in the

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Speaker 1: NFC basically all years. So you get a chance, and

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Speaker 1: it's fun to think. You get a chance to test

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Speaker 1: yourself against that type of opponent without the stakes being

558
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Speaker 1: as high like you're gonna be in the playoffs. So

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00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: that's fine. This isn't gonna make or break your season,

560
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Speaker 1: and so that'll be that'll be a fun measuring stick.

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Speaker 1: I just think, and I swear I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: take away from anything the defense has done. They've been amazing, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, Taylor Heineke, and Mike Glennon. He was they

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Speaker 1: scored nine points. I mean, I'm just saying, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: reminds me like we did his best if they scored

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Speaker 1: that point. We did this last year or too, where

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Speaker 1: they beat Cincy, San Francisco and Philly and they forced

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Speaker 1: a bunch of turnovers. And again like, I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to take that away from them, but it'll be Rogers

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Speaker 1: at some point, or Kyler or Tom Brady, whatever it's

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Speaker 1: And that's so that's I think. It's not disappointment, so

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Speaker 1: much is concern of like you can get away with

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Speaker 1: this right now, you won't be able to forever. I

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Speaker 1: know we're on the same page. And to answer your question,

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Speaker 1: like I still strongly believe that they are really talented,

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Speaker 1: it is there. It is one of those I'm not

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Speaker 1: a musician, so I don't know, but when I see

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Speaker 1: someone like with a guitar or something and it's just

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Speaker 1: like they're turning a knob to the sign and he's say,

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Speaker 1: and then you just needed to turn something. I've been

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00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: looking to turn it around just one bit. Like that's

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Speaker 1: how I feel this off is. It's just like I've

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00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: been looking for. They're kind of flat right now. You

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00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: gotta get them, you gotta get them right. You've nailed it.

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Speaker 1: I've been looking for an analogy, and that's perfect. Like

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Speaker 1: you can play the song and it'll be fine, but

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Speaker 1: you like, it's not right in the pitch then, and

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Speaker 1: even and even to the average listener it sounds okay,

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Speaker 1: but to the person playing and it's I'm just a tash,

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Speaker 1: gotta find that turn and then they'll be right there.

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Speaker 1: Like that's how close I think there really are. And

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Speaker 1: I firmly believe that the talent is there, and I

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Speaker 1: really hope that they're able to show it before the

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Speaker 1: season ends, at least in the last two games. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, you got I'm not so convinced.

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Speaker 1: I honestly believe this offensive line is not performing at

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Speaker 1: the level that that kind of great offense has to

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Speaker 1: have from its offensive line. I think as a result

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Speaker 1: of that, this offense is not able to operate at

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Speaker 1: the optimal level and they were able to do it

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Speaker 1: earlier in the season when number when they were healthier,

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Speaker 1: but number two, when they had a situation where they,

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Speaker 1: you know, would just they could do some things with skin.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's all caught up with them. And

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Speaker 1: I know, I think defenses know exactly where they need

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Speaker 1: to affect this offense because of whether there are deficiencies

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Speaker 1: in the offensive line. And I think that's what shows up.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think they will solve that this season.

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Speaker 1: I really don't see. I think they might because I

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Speaker 1: going back to the run game, I thought you could

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Speaker 1: and I want to talk about if we think Connor

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Speaker 1: the final segment of the break Life in SWBC Mortgage

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Speaker 1: Studios at the start did mentioned earlier, I want to

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Speaker 1: keep reiterating we will not be doing shows on Friday.

662
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: These guys are going to get a little time to

663
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: spend some time with their families. On Chris, what episode

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Speaker 1: is this? Do you did? I forget the number? It

665
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Speaker 1: was eighty two? Thank you, we can move on. Okay, good,

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Speaker 1: we all know what that is, all right. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think I needed to say it, but eighty two. We

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Speaker 1: know who it is. It's to the goat, all right, good,

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Speaker 1: all right now, Dave, you brought at this point right

670
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: before the break, and I thought it was interesting. It

671
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: was one thing something I noted that I wanted to

672
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: give you guys all a chance to sound off about.

673
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: Had Connor Williams back at left guard yesterday? Had Connor

674
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 1: mcgovernment back at his fullback, whole package, whatever whoever they

675
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: want to put him. And I think to me there

676
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: was no coincidence that the running game seemed to be

677
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: more efficient yesterday. Do you guys think that that was

678
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: in large part due to them going back to that lineup?

679
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's there's always gonna be more

680
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: to it than that. You need like eight people doing

681
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: their jobs right to run the ball well. But yes,

682
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: I thought Connor made a difference. He got a great

683
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: he sealed the alley for Zeke on the first touchdown.

684
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: He got to the second level. They used his athleticism

685
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: to pull him on. Some of the players to the outside.

686
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: They looked like themselves like Zeke. It wasn't like the

687
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: most amazing run of his life, but he ran like

688
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: the stretch, play to the edge and looked for the

689
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: whole like you know, like we've seen him do a

690
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: million times. I feel like I haven't seen him doing

691
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: that in the last six seven weeks, and he was

692
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: doing that yesterday for decent, if not amazing gains. And

693
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: so the reason I said that at the end of

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Speaker 1: the last segment was put Connor with tyring. Hopefully he'll

695
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: be back sooner rather than later. Maybe maybe you're cooking

696
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: with something. They're both more comfortable in those positions. I think.

697
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: I think Connor Williams is more comfortable starting, and also

698
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: they pull with him a lot more. He's a lot

699
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: more athletic. And then strangely enough, I mean Connor McGovern

700
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: seems to be just a better player in this whole package.

701
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: I mean, he does a nice job of of, you know,

702
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: having space and then finding the guy in blocking, and

703
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: I think they're they're doing different things with him. I

704
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,719
Speaker 1: think both of them, though, are in a better spot.

705
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: And I think that they can run the football and

706
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: be a little bit more versatile, especially you know in

707
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: the red zone that they didn't they didn't really do

708
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: anything in this red zone. But I honestly think they

709
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: kind of took their foot off the gas a little bit.

710
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: I think you get in a game like that. I

711
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: think that they were a lot more conservative with some

712
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: of the play calling and just and you know, we're

713
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: not getting throwing an interception in that end zone. You're

714
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: not gonna do anything. You're gonna get your field goal,

715
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: get your points. We saw it. Third and seven, Yeah,

716
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: third and seven in a draw at the middle. Was

717
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 1: that because of ze I mean Dak, was that because

718
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: of their phraserline might miss again, whatever it was, But

719
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: they went and took the points. And I think that

720
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: was kind of a combination of Hey, let's just let's

721
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: just keep this thing going. Let's just keep stacking points.

722
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: Because Mike glenn is still throwing balls. As as as

723
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: disappointed as I was by the offensive performance, like I

724
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: think there was a very deliberate they're not beating us

725
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: as long as we're as long as we get to

726
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: like fourteen and fifteen whatever points, Like, they're not going

727
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: to score seventeen to twenty one points. And I think

728
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: that was part of their philosopher standing at the ten

729
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: yard line at the end of the game and they're

730
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: they're down there and I'm on there with you and Shannon,

731
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, they're not gonna score. There's no They're

732
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: They're sitting on the ten and they're like, they're not scoring, ye,

733
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: and they're just not They're not gonna get in like

734
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: who That's why I called this team of must watch defense,

735
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: because somebody's gonna make a play, somebody. And every time,

736
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: I mean thinking an interception in Dave's like in the

737
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: press box, was that digs Was that digs And I

738
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: was thinking it too well, it was it was almost

739
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: like there's disappointment because it's Hooker, you know, because you

740
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: want digs By the way really well, he's playing really

741
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: good football, play outstanding, I mean Pro Football focus had

742
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: the best defensive player in football yesterday. Um, but like

743
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for Parsons. I'm sure the quarterback is too.

744
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: Every snap I'm looking for Parsons. I get mad when

745
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: he's on the bench, like picking a break. What are

746
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,399
Speaker 1: you doing, hell, rookie, it's not it's probably. I mean,

747
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: it's kind of bs that we've gotten this far into

748
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: the show without really talking about the way that they played.

749
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: I mean that they were amazing, and I know the

750
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: Giants suck, but Parsons switching off of a guy to

751
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: take Gala Day to the to the pieline on and

752
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: break up the pass without drawing a pass interference as

753
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: a linebacker, may are you he insane? Is the best

754
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: defensive player this year in football. And I don't care

755
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 1: what anybody has to say, because I don't care whatever

756
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: guy you name, I'm gonna say he doesn't do all

757
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: the things that Michael Parsons does. Good job, good job

758
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 1: all three of us yesterday for not jumping on side.

759
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: So I was so ready. I was so ready just

760
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: launching him in full debate mode and like talk him

761
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: down to New Yorkers were just going at it about

762
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: and their best New York accent. I can't stand but

763
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: go ahead. They're just going at it, how mica, I mean,

764
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: compare him to Derek Thomas. What you don't have to

765
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: be compared to the best that ever played the game.

766
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: And then then the guy came over and it was

767
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: like he had one hundred and thirty five tackles as

768
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: a rookie. Everyone who can just go f themselves. I'm like, whoa, whoa,

769
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: We're taking it there. You know, people are like weirdly

770
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: defensive of LT, considering like every franchise has a guy

771
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: like LT. Yet well just a guy like that, like

772
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame, goat caliber player, all time player. Yes,

773
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: And I like it would be easy to say, like

774
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: throw some jab and be like, well, yeah, you've been

775
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: pathetic for the last five years. Of course you're going

776
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: to cling to your history. But like they've won Super

777
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: Bowls more recently than the Cowboys have, So what are

778
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: you so defensive about? Like, the comparison is just the

779
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: fact that Michael Parsons has a really, really good chance

780
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: to win two awards that no one has done in

781
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: the same season since Yah Lawrence Taylor. That's what. And

782
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: if you compare Lawrence Taylor I'm not saying he's Lawrence Taylor.

783
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is compare their rookie years. I think

784
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: Mica is making a comparable He's having a comparable rookie year.

785
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: And that's that's the part that to me can't like,

786
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: don't get lost in the fact you brought up his name,

787
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: like no players should be at a point where you

788
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: can't bring up his name like he literally Mica is

789
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: having a rookie year. That's just it's historic in my opinion,

790
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Let's just go down the line and make sure everybody

791
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: gets their flowers. DeMarcus Lawrence maybe, I mean, one of

792
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: the most dominant games I can remember him playing. It's

793
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: amazing what a guy can do when he's finally got

794
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: help and not being double teamed all the time, and

795
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: he's got Michael pars second with him. Wow, Okay, cool,

796
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: Just not don't want to give anybody else some shine. No,

797
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: but Anthony Brown. Anthony Brown got picked on on Thanksgiving

798
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: and every team he's played since has tried to pick

799
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: on him, and he's like, no, you're not doing that.

800
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: Like he's been awesome for the last three weeks. Treyvon

801
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: Diggs ten picks speaks for itself. Malie Hooker's coming on

802
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: Jayron curse the play he made where he took the guy.

803
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Saquan or Booker, but

804
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: he came from the backside. He's just he just never

805
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: stops hustling, like he just wants to hit somebody all

806
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: the time. And it's fun to be in the Pro Bowl.

807
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore just bullying the interior of the line. They

808
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: didn't have Tristan Hill or OsO DIGGI zooa. He was

809
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: fine with that. I don't know if did Randy even

810
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: notch a stat. He might not have, but like that's

811
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: just why stats are kind of bs, because he was

812
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: giving them fits all day. He I don't know if

813
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: he did. Look I don't, Okay, No, Randy Gregory had

814
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: one tackle for loss and nothing quarterback hit and he

815
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: I mean he You're talking about them not scoring from

816
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: the ten yard line, Like that's why if you give

817
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory a free run at the quarterback, you're the

818
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: play is not going to go the way that you

819
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: wanted to. They were awesome, Layton Vanderesh. I thought he

820
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: was more physical than he has been in recent weeks.

821
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: Probably let the team in tackles, which you know, like

822
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: they I mean, you gotta consider the opposition at times,

823
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: but like, I mean, they're dominant. What so seventeen points

824
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: against the Saints really thirteen points against Washington because of

825
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: the pick six and then six points. I mean, it

826
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: speaks for itself. But I was gonna mention earlier when

827
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,959
Speaker 1: Nick started talking and making his point, it's like, how

828
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: cool is it the fact that you see so many

829
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: different players making a play like names that you're like,

830
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: oh wait, who was that? Oh I don't have a

831
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: graphic for that guy. Okay, let's just put a generic

832
00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: graphic out. Sorry. But and you compare to the offense again,

833
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: how we were talking about the offense earlier on in

834
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: the year. It's like, oh man, everybody on offense is

835
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: making plays. Everybody's getting like you got all kinds of

836
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: different weapons on here and now somehow and that's the

837
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: crazy thing. Somehow the defense is becoming what the offense

838
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: was earlier in the season, and everybody on defense is

839
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: winning something. And if it's not one guy, it's the other.

840
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: So when you see and I was thinking, I'm like,

841
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: I bet I wonder how upset Mica is at this

842
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: game that he wasn't able to really you know, show

843
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: up on numbers or big plays like that. But that's

844
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: the amazing part. And that's actually where I was going

845
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: to go with this, and I was trying to get

846
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: I need to pull it all together. A number of

847
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 1: the plays, big plays that other guys got, go back

848
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: and see what Michael was doing on There were so

849
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: many plays where he was really the guy that created

850
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Speaker 1: the situation. And that's why I mentioned it to you.

851
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: I didn't want to take shine from anybody, but I

852
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: think the reason why this defense is playing at this

853
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: level ultimately comes down to a guy that soul can

854
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: do so many different things and can affect the game

855
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: in so many different ways like Mica can, and it's

856
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: creating all these opportunities. And by the way, all these

857
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: guys are capable when they get in those situations to

858
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: take advantage, which oh, sorry, go ahead, and well, you know,

859
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Speaker 1: I only I get to talk to these guys after

860
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: the game. I don't get I don't get the guys

861
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 1: on the podium. So I've talked to Dak only once

862
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: and that was Minnesota when he didn't play. I've talked

863
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: to Michael one other time, and it was New England.

864
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: He was pissed, so he didn't like coming to see you. No, No,

865
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: he was pissed because he didn't play well. He was

866
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: gonna go to the podium, except for when Diggs got

867
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: that pick. They flipped it. So I thought he might

868
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: be kind of upset a little bit because you know,

869
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: he had one tackle or whatever. Now he I think

870
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: he understood and and and he you know, he answered

871
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: the LT thing again and you know he said, no

872
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: disrespect to him at all. You know, I'm not at

873
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: that level. I'm just trying to make my own way

874
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: and all that. But um, but you're right. I mean

875
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: he did a lot of things. I thought that the

876
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: play with Tank that he knocked him, you know, the

877
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: first interception, I think he was coming around the edge

878
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: just stepped up just a little bit. He had to

879
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: step up. But um, you know, when I when I

880
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: make my mental highlight reel of what Mike has done

881
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: this year, the freaking the pass breakup on Galladay, I'll

882
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: be in there. So like people can talk about him

883
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: not having a great game, I thought he made one

884
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: of his like five best plays of the season. Like, yeah,

885
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: that in New Orleans sue with Herbert interception, the Herbert sack,

886
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,240
Speaker 1: the Taysom Hill sack. Yeah, the Saints play this play.

887
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but yeah, I mean that's

888
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: on the short list, like and yeah, I mean it's

889
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 1: obvious the way offenses have to account for where he is. Yeah,

890
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: he's He has been a remarkable player for Dallas, and

891
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: I think when when it's all said and done, I

892
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: don't I'm not gonna make a prediction of what he's

893
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 1: gonna be long term throughout his career. What I can

894
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: say is this year has been one of the best

895
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: seasons I've ever watched the defensive player play, just from

896
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: the standpoint of all the things he's had to do.

897
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: I mean literally going from I'm gonna play linebacker to

898
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: know this week I'm gonna put my hand on the

899
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: ground and be a defensive end like he has done

900
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: things that you just don't see players, not just rookies,

901
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: player is doing NFL, and it's done it at an

902
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: extremely high level. If he were a linebacker, he'd be

903
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: going to Pro Bowl as a linebacker. If he were

904
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: a defensive end full time, he'd be going to the

905
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl as a defensive end he has been. He's

906
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: at that kind of season. Lawrence had a great quote

907
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: last night where he was like, that's the beauty of

908
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: it when you like, you gotta play all eleven of us,

909
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: it's not just one guy. It's a good quote. But

910
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: the really fun thing is that he's wrong because they've

911
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: got like nineteen guys that you I mean, you know

912
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: they got I can't. I still can't believe I'm saying this,

913
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: Like they got more safeties than they know what to

914
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: do with. Donald Wilson's not even playing right now. He'll

915
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: be back eventually. You would assume Osa and Tristan will

916
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: hopefully be ready for this game. How does that work?

917
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: They were ruled out what sad Saturday, and it's well,

918
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: it depends on it. They they could get a ten

919
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: day they'd missed the next one, yes, but Cedric Wilson

920
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: only missed four days, just as recently as last week.

921
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: So I think we're gonna protocols. We're gonna have to

922
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: readjust the way we think about some things with the

923
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: new protocols, for sure. But yeah, no, I mean this

924
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: defense is incredible. There's like seventeen or eighteen legitimate playmakers.

925
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna start getting a lot better for

926
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: the NFL teams. And it's not a coincidence either, but

927
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna start getting better for teams. The numbers of

928
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: cases and players missing, I think are about to go

929
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: down dramatically. So yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that.

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00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: As soon as we get some more clarity on what

931
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: the protocols are and what they mean, we'll talk about

932
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: that a little bit more. All Right, we appreciate you guys, Joannas.

933
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Speaker 1: We'll be back on tomorrow. We're gonna start getting ready.

934
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Speaker 1: We've got a short week here, so we'll start getting

935
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Speaker 1: ready for Cowboys versus the Washington Football team that will

936
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Speaker 1: be for the division. Assuming tomorrow night there isn't a

937
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: tie between the Washington Football team and the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 1: That still is the one slight chance Cowboys app to

939
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: clinch the division this week, but otherwise that will be

940
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,439
Speaker 1: the game for the division next weekend. We'll start talking

941
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Speaker 1: about that tomorrow. For Nick Even, Dave Helmont, and Amber Garcia.

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Speaker 1: I am Derek Eagletson. This has been The Break live

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