WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Getting Loud 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:06.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:15.800 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:16.360 Yes? 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.239 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:19.040 Absolutely? 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.040 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.400 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:35.760 with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:43.440 It is Monday, November fourth, two, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.280 episode number eighty one. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.520 The Break. And as you can tell, this is gonna 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.479 be a really, really weird show. My voice is gone, 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.360 so we're gonna try to battle through this when Patrick 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.440 is not with us today. But I got shared for 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.279 the show. I'm not doing that. We're not canceling the show, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.000 especially coming off the weekend I just had. We're not 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.960 canceling the show. I got too much to say, and 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.679 I don't know if you'll understand any of it. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:07.479 But I got the problem. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.440 You said, you said too much already, right right, No, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.000 I'm gonna battle through this thing. Yeah, and hopefully we can. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:15.200 Hopefully the folks. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.600 Out there understand the sound the voice of a great 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.680 time victory sounded amazing night, an amazing day. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.560 Weekend, weekend, like you go back to Thursday and this 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.080 has been. This has been an epic all time sports 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.440 weekend between the Cowboys win in the way that they 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.679 want it. We talked about that on Friday. On Saturday, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.839 friends and family started rolling in. We had I mean, sorry, 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.679 Friday started rolling in. Saturday. We've got the big game. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.560 We win in grand fashion. Sunday we wake up and 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.360 realize that we've now gotten into the playoff, and then 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.960 the cap it Yesterday afternoon, the Eagles get destroyed by 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.080 the forty nine ers. I mean, everything that I wanted 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.080 to happen this weekend, and by the way, I put 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.920 two fantasy wins. So it's like everything I wanted to 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.600 happen this weekend from a sports standpoint happened. And I 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.400 earned this voice right now. I earned that this weekend. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.519 It's amazing what alcohol will do to your voice. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.680 Alcohol scream and talking loud, barking, a little bit of barking. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.960 That's part of his that's what we do, that's inside 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.160 of him. That's what we do is. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.120 Yeah they bar yeah, part of the. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.399 Yeah, that's a little bit of that. That's a little 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.680 bit of that. We had a good time. We had 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.600 a good time, all right. Where I want to start 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.760 though today is Philadelphia versus uh, San Francisco. I guess 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.600 give me your general thoughts on the game. I assume 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.399 everybody watched it. What were general thoughts on the game? 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:40.760 Yeah? 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.520 The thing with you got to San Francisco when they 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.960 are healthy, they're a hard team to deal with. And 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.600 we've seen the lull that they had, if you want 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.680 to call it that, And they weren't a bad little 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.640 stretch there for about three weeks. Their quarterback really wasn't 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.760 playing well because they were down, you know, their left tackle, 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.119 there were down a running back. There was various things 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.600 that they were dealing with. You know, played against some teams. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.000 I think at the time Cleveland's defense was pretty good, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.880 you know what they were dealing with that. So that's 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.800 really the nature of the National Football League right now, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.239 if you could find a way to have your best 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.320 players being healthy but have them playing at. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.359 Such a high level. And we all understand that, I mean. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:26.440 Philadelphia, we've experienced here what Philadelphia experienced yesterday. When you 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.800 deal with the team that plays with the intensity that 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.240 the forty nine ers do their ability to play on defense, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.640 I don't think well, their defense gets credit. Their offense 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.320 gets a lot of credit. That secondary should get a 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.520 lot more credit than we give them. And I know 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.760 the next time around, you know, if you get to 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.960 see them, then you'll you'll probably appreciate it a little 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.080 bit more. But man, that that is a well built 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.600 team when it's healthy, it's very good to outstanding, and 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.720 they're very well coached, and so they make it makes 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.440 it difficult. And you know, not to give Philadelphia the excuses, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.120 but they're coming off a run, a pretty difficult run 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.440 if you look at the games that they've played up 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.720 until this point, that game against Buffalo, the overtime game, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.200 that took a lot out of them, and so you know, 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.880 that's the part that's tough in the National Football League. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.680 You play your schedule and you hope that you can 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:22.120 survive and move on. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.360 It's a very very physical team and you saw that 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.720 on the field, how much on both sides of the team, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.000 how much everybody care you. The emotions were really really 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.680 high in that game, and it felt like a playoff 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.920 type of game vibe and everything. And also that's karma, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.359 that's what happens when you run your mouth about the 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.760 you know, and then it happens to you because and 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.000 I'm saying this in reference to all those Eagle fans. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.080 I like to get on Twitter and say how bad 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.839 the Cowboys got beat down by the forty nine ers, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.440 which was absolutely true, but then this happens to them 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.599 as well. So it's just funny how just a dynamic 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.680 between the fandom and the things that they say online 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.320 as far as like how certain things only applied to 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.520 the Cowboys and not to everybody else. And it was 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.640 an entertaining game. Obviously we're not fans of the forty 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.040 nine ers, but definitely wanted them to win rather than 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.080 the Eagles, and hopefully they come to a T and 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.799 T stadium. A little shook shook after that game because 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.080 it was a tough game for them. So it's gonna 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:39.000 be interesting to see how their energy level and how 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.279 they show up when they get here for this weekend. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:42.280 That was a game. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.120 If we all remember the playoff game last year where 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.359 Brock Perdy got hurt. After the game, there were a 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.920 lot of comments from the forty nine ers that like, hey, no, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.400 if we'd had our guy playing you guys would have 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:57.480 won this football game. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.680 So there was a lot of talk from that. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.560 Forty nine side about all the things leading up to 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.719 if we see you again, this is what we're going 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.440 to do. They wrote a lot of checks in the offseason. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.719 They cashed every one of them yesterday in that football game. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.520 Yeah you got right now. Philadelphia sitting at ten and two, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.360 and then Cowboys in Detroit both at ninety three with 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.440 the forty nine ers, and the forty nine ers have 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.839 now put up forty two points on both the Cowboys 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.000 and the Eagles. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:26.760 Is there a. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.000 Team or who is the team that presents the best 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.040 challenge to San Francisco when you look at Dallas, Philadelphia 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:34.760 and Detroit. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:42.760 H Honestly, I think it comes down to how healthy 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.040 are the forty nine ers at that moment, because currently. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.840 Let's assume they're totally healthy. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:48.400 See the guys there. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.200 I still think I would say Detroit. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.479 I would say Detroit, and I say Detroit because I 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.520 feel like their offensive line is really good. They've got 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.960 a veteran quarterback that doesn't turn it over very much. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.839 I know in the New Orleans game yesterday, there was 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.600 you know, it was kind of a you know, they 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.240 got out to a little bit of lead, and things 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.520 were kind of falling apart at the end, but they 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.680 were But that's how New Orleans plays. New Orleans has 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.440 been that way all year. They get they let you 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.040 get a lead, their quarterback gets knocked out, and then 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.280 they rally that kind of thing. I think Detroit is 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.840 more built, and I think we'll see this when Detroit 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.800 comes to town. I think Detroit's built more like the forty. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.800 Nine ers than any other team. You're going to see 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:29.840 something very similar. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.320 The offensive line, the quarterback is you know the way 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.360 the quarterback plays, the wide receivers, the defense, they don't 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.680 let you run the ball. There's some questions about the secondary. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.160 You got a coach that's kind of a They've got 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.080 a Ben Johnson. They've got an offensive coordinator that's kind 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.400 of a wide open, creative kind of a guy. Aaron 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.560 Glynn has done a heck of a job on the 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.000 defensive side of the ball as the defensive coordinator. It's 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.760 going to be a difficult game because I think they're 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.040 kind of mirror teams. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.880 But I like the physicality with which the. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.360 Lions play with Right now, the team I'm terrified of 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:07.680 is the forty nine ers. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:08.920 I think the Cowboys. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.920 I mean, I can't sit there and say, you know, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.320 we'll see how those AFC games come up. For the Cowboys, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.960 they've got Buffalo, which is a wounded team right now. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.440 Miami speed terrifies me on the on offense and the 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.600 way that they play, So you'll see a couple of 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.280 how you'll match up against those kinds of teams. I 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.120 don't know if you necessarily want to play Baltimore right 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.120 now the way that they're kind of rolling on. But Detroit, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.520 I think is the team that could give San Francisco 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.559 the most problems right now if I had to guess. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.600 Well, also, you've already seen what it looks like against 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.240 the Cowboys and the Eagles, and how bad like that 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.480 wasn't even close, you know, it was a total beat down. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.120 And what you haven't seen yet is against Detroit. So 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:56.040 you would imagine and the Cowboys how many three times 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.440 now total where they've gone and beat by the forty 0:08:59.520 --> 0:08:59.960 nine ers. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.640 Yeah, yeah, it's like two playoff games and then. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.000 This last you really had no answer this last one, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.960 this last game, and it's getting worse defensively, defensively, Dan 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.120 and then they define job in the playoff games of 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.800 dealing with that. With that offense, you some of the 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.840 now your quarterback is playing at such a high level, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.640 your play callers on it. Your offensive line has not 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.800 allowed a sack I think since the Reagan administration was 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.280 in present. So yeah, that that's kind of where you're 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.200 at right now. Your team is, you know, they're the 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.800 team that scares me. You're going the right direction. It's 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.480 not like you're going to limp into this thing and 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.520 you're going to play You're playing bad football offensively, you know, defensively, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.760 you know there's some some question marks. But but but 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.720 I'll say this, I you know, you got to give 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.319 the Cowboys. I feel like they're a lot better offensively 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.160 than they were the first time they met. I don't 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.640 know if they're better defensively the last time that the 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.360 forty nine Ers and the Cowboys. You know, maybe if 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.400 you had Shack Leonard to that, it might be a 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.480 little bit different story. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.000 Ironically. I think that's what it's ultimately going to come 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.240 down to, is Dallas's defense good enough to make a 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.680 couple stops Because if they play those playoff games like 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.040 what they played last week, when you're playing a playoff 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.160 caliber tea, although right now they're sitting outside the playoffs, Seattle. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.160 Is the fact of the matter is, like your defense 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.040 really wasn't they really wanted their best, They really weren't 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.080 playing at the level we were customed to see, right, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.480 But they made the stop stops absolutely, and that's more 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.120 playoff football anyway. I think in the NFL there's only 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.200 a few times in history where you have that that 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.600 shut down defense that really is special. Most of the 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.280 time you got teams that are very offense heavy and 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.720 they have a defense that's opportunistic. And I think that's 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.080 ultimately what you're going to be asking this defense. If 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.200 you go up against a forty nine ers team, can 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.280 you match them offensively and then can your defense make 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.360 the stop at whatever point in the game it's going 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:55.079 to make the difference. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:11:00.520 Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting month. I'm super excited 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.280 to see kind of how everything shakes up because these 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.760 are very competitive team with a lot of talent, and 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.679 now I think the key part of everything is just health, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.360 not just for the Cowboys, but for even the forty 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.000 nine ers and the Eagles as well. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.960 Yeah, you know, the interesting part about it Brian, when 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.160 you were talking about the lines being the most like 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.320 the forty nine Ers, I actually look at it and 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.560 I think the Cowboys and the Eagles are built to 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.280 play well against Detroit. I think Detroit is built to 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.440 play well against San Francisco. And that's where I'm like, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.800 it's not gonna end up like that in the playoffs, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.480 because if these are your top teams, the Cowboys and 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.520 the Eagles, they can't be in the top four. Both 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.120 can't be in the top four. So one of them 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:41.640 is gonna have to go up to San Francisco if 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.160 San Francisco is the one. If San Francisco the twos 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.800 is the two, that actually sets it up where Detroit 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.040 would have an opportunity to take them on in the 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.040 second round, presuming that all thing holds true and the 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.800 fifteen beats the fourteen. Now you got the four there, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.480 and it would be the Cowboys Eagles matchup and forty 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.840 nine Ers Detroit matchup, where those would be very very 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.240 closely matched teams. In my opinion, both those teams I 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.800 think are matched to be able to play well against 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.360 one another. And then it presents that interesting challenge there 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:09.560 for an NFC championship game. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.240 Yeah, I think when you look at, you know, with Dallas, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.120 the way they're playing offensively right now has been it's 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.160 just super impressive. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.359 I don't think anybody really wants to match up with Dallas. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.640 Uh. You know when you look at the quarterback, you know, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.440 they're starting to run the ball, they get a hint 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.240 of a running game if they could find a way 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.040 to somehow in the next month get that thing where 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.120 it's where it's a buck twenty five, buck thirty five 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.680 a game. Now you're in that and that includes potentially 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.600 Dak having to run the ball some himself. So you know, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.640 they find a way of getting a running game. Where 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.600 I was, we were all talking about the four minute offense, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.600 you know, and and Dallas got into a four minute 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.679 offense game last week and it you know, then they 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.480 had to you know it they they can you know, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.800 they couldn't completely run it out. But in the playoffs 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.960 and down the stretch here, you're going to have to 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.079 be good in that four minute offense to be able 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.160 to And I always like to talk about the middle eight. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.280 You know, they got beat in the middle eight, and 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.120 the middle eight is the first four minute, the last 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.520 the last four minutes of the first half. In the 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.599 first four minutes in Seattle scored fourteen points in the 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.400 middle eight on you. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.160 So you know you got to be able. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.400 You know, coming out of coming going into half, you 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.079 gotta be on it, and then coming out of half, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.240 you gotta be on it. 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I want you guys to rank these teams. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:21.200 We got at the top Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Dallas, UH, 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.119 and then a whole cluster of six and six teams Minnesota, 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.960 Green Bay, Atlanta, the Rams, and Seattle. How would you 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:30.520 rank those NFC teams right now? 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:32.960 You know, it's just looking at something. I think the 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.600 Packers are playing really really well right now. And you know, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.760 if you look at their they're in a three game 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.720 winning streak. I think they've beaten the Chargers, the Lions 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.520 in Detroit, and then they also beat the Chiefs and 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.880 so and then and then the remaining schedule. I think 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.280 they've got Giants, Tampa Bay, a Bears on there. Yeah, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.800 this thing is gonna Yeah, They've got some They've got 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.600 some games that they should absolutely win. You know, Minnesota's 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.440 right now, they were kind of writing the Josh Dobbs 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.120 train and now it's like, you know, they lose a game, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:06.560 but you know, and then all of a sudden, it's like, well, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.919 we've got to look at our quarterback situation. So they 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.639 might be a team that's faltering down the stretch. The 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.040 the Rams are an interesting one because that is really 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.879 about we talk about health and when when the Rams 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.040 are healthy on offense, they're very capable of. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.320 Putting up a lot of points. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.960 And Matthew Stafford actually looks healthy playing football right now. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.720 So the Rams at six and six, we'll see. Seattle's 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.560 a team we all saw, so we know what Seattle is. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.200 Seattle's a team you could put points on. The problem 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.720 is dealing with those wide receivers. I don't want to 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.720 see them again, you know, I really really don't. I 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.520 made that very clear on Friday. I didn't want to 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.320 see him ever again. And but you know that's their 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:57.400 quarterback can also have problems, and I would I would 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.199 say that to me. The team, I feel like it 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.040 has the best chance of going forward and being a 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.840 team that could be a six or seven team in 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.600 the playoffs and then go win a game against it. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.480 You know, a two or three kind of thing. I 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.320 think it's Green Bay because I really do. I think 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.360 that they're kind of figuring things out defensively. Their receivers 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.400 are coming around, but their quarterbacks playing at a really 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.720 nice level right now. They're and they're learning a lot 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.400 about him. So I would give the Packers and the Seahawks. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:35.080 I go Packers, Rams, Seahawks kind of my three right now. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.880 Yeah, I think. I mean with the Packers, you see 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.320 them trending upwards, and you see the teams that they 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.840 have faced in the last few weeks and that they beat, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.960 So that's impressive and you gotta start keeping an eye 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:55.040 on them. But you talk about teams like Seattle, the Rams, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.719 things like they just don't have the consistency they There 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.280 are teams that they have talented players. You see them 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.840 be competitive, but it's just like one of those tops 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.480 you toss the coin and it's like, Okay, which team 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.680 is going to show up? How are they going to 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.919 perform today? Type of situation. Nothing can like I wouldn't 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.520 bet on any of those teams. So not that we 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.080 can't do any beting, but we don't bet. No, we 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:26.960 did not against the law. No, But it's it's impressive, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:31.560 honestly to see the Packers kind of start turning things around, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:36.160 and especially it's still hard to see a Packers team 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.320 without Aaron Rodgers and just see them be successful. So 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.679 it's it's interesting and impressive some of the things that 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.639 they've been able to accomplish here in the last few months. 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.120 Last month, I like what I'm saying from Green Bay. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.399 But the fact is, if I'm looking at the playoffs, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.560 I still put the Rams and Seahawks ahead of them 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.520 as a dangerous team because of the veteran presence on 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.919 those terms. I mean, you've got I mean with the Rams, 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.480 you got those guys, they got they got several of 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.159 their their leaders that were there when they won the 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.880 Super Bowl, So they know how to play that playoff football, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:09.960 right And I think, you know the Packers right now, 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.080 they're kind of surprising people, kind of jumping up. You 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.000 get to the playoffs, it's a whole different ballgame. Oh 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.120 it is so, and so I still if I'm having 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.399 to to just as you said bet on It, I 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.280 would say I'm more concerned about I would be more 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.200 concerned about the Rams and the Seahawks because they're veteran 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.960 there's a veteran presence there that will understand the playoffs 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.360 a little bit better than the Packers. But I agree 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:30.560 with that. I think the Packers are playing as well 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:31.159 as anybody, right. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.399 Yeah, the Rams, if you look at the remaining schedule, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.040 there's probably a couple of games they are going to lose. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.560 They're at the Ravens this weekend, and then they finish 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.959 up with San Francisco at San Francisco and then they 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.280 traditionally play the forty nine Ers pretty well yep, and 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.639 so you know that that's something to kind of keep 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:46.040 an eye on. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.400 As we like to say, Uh, but I. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.400 Look at Seattle's schedules. The next few games forty nine 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.760 Ers Eagles and then the Titans, Steelers and then Cardinals. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.600 Well those next these next two games for them, those 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:00.440 are tough games. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:00.720 Yeah. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.240 The thing about it is like, yeah, it's it's just 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.399 a matter of you know, can you find ways to 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:06.600 win those games? 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.160 Or you know that that's the thing. 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.760 You're you're along the way, You're gonna win some games 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:12.920 that you probably shouldn't and you're gonna lose a couple 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.800 that you probably shouldn't either, So you know that's where 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.040 we're at right. I never would have believed that that 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.919 Arizona could have gone into Pittsburgh and won a game yesterday, 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.240 but they did with all the weather delays and things that. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:24.040 They had yesterday. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.760 You know that that's that's a really really there's some 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.080 bad losses, and Arizona is usually involved with your bad loss. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.880 You know, if you're one of those teams like Pittsburgh 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.760 Dallas kind of have a shared of the that was 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:37.200 a bad loss deal right there. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.880 One of the tough things is that the Atlanta Falcons 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.119 or somebody from the NFC South is going to take 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.080 a spot from one of these other teams because I 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.080 don't think, I don't think. I don't think there's a 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.720 team in the NFC South that is as good as 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:55.360 the top probably eight teams seven eight teams in the NFC. 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:57.680 But but they're gonna have da have a spot obvious, 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.119 because they're gonna have a division winner. Who do you 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.560 think right now is in line to be that division winner? 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.960 I think it's probably going to be Atlanta myself. But 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.800 the thing with the thing that makes Atlanta hard to 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.679 deal with is they're really not very good on offense. 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.000 I don't think you know, if you just believe in 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.160 metrics and statistics and things like that, you know, they 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.760 really really struggle in the passing game, and you know, 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:22.640 but they want to try and run the football that's there. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.320 That's if you're if you're a team that are playing them, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.760 you have to worry about their ground game, yep, because 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.240 they will. They they they're top three in attempts, they're 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.960 top six or seven in yards, and so if you 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.400 know you're going to get a heavy dose of them 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.200 running the football at you, they're going to try and 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.920 make the game ugly and all that to deal with. 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.760 But defensively they're kind of midpack. You know, I just 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:52.280 think that they're better to me. The Saints are a 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.320 some weeks they find it. Other weeks. The Saints never 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.399 can get a lead in a game and then be 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:01.040 able to It always seems like they're playing from behind, 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.000 and they turn the ball over at an alarming rate. 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.400 So I feel like that's why Atlanta will probably win. 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:07.640 Well. 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:14.280 Neither team, the Falcons or the Bugs. Offensively, they're not 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:17.400 good at scoring, Like, they cannot score many many points, 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:20.159 and that's gonna be a problem at some point. You 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:21.800 got to figure out how to get it in the 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:26.199 end zone and start summing up some points. But right now, 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.679 out of the two, I would say I would agree 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.159 with the Falcons, and also with the schedule that they 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.520 got coming up, and they're gonna face the Bucks here soon. 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:37.399 I think that's the game that the Falcons would end 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:43.600 up winning against the Buccaneers. But it's one of them 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.720 is gonna make it. But I think though it won't 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:48.719 be one of those scenarios where all of a sudden 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:53.320 you get surprised and they end up making it to 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.919 the top. They're gonna be eliminated in the well. 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.040 It's to Derek's point too, if I say. 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.600 That, because you never freaking know in the end, Yeah. 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:00.840 You're right. 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:04.200 No, it's the thing Derek said about the young quarterback. 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:07.000 If Atlanta makes it with with with their with their 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.439 young quarterback there, I mean his first time and all 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:12.280 the like I said, they're going to lean on. I 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:14.680 mean it is going to be can you stop the run? 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:16.000 They are not going to throw a ball in a 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:16.600 playoff game. 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:16.920 Now. 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:19.840 The problem, to your point, Ambar, is Dallas can also 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:22.840 put a lot of points up on a board, and 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:25.560 that that puts a lot of pressure on you. To 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:28.240 have to make plays and if you can't do that, 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:30.080 then Dallas will run you out of the park. 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:32.080 And that's really any one of those teams you want 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:34.359 to mention NFC South, I think the one that would. 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:36.640 I mean, all of their offenses can tend to be 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.520 very sporadic. Yeah, New Orleans, if they get on a roll, 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.400 they can make they can score sho points, but they're 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:44.040 so erratic and they turn the ball over. Tampa Bay 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:45.800 the same thing. Like Tampa Bay's a team that's kind 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:47.600 of erratic. If you get them on a roll, they 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:50.240 got some weapons that can kill you, but they're just 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:51.520 so erratic you don't know what you're going. 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:54.320 There used to be a big, big home field advantage 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:56.720 in New Orleans, right and I don't think it's there anymore. 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:00.600 I think New Orleans used to have that ability to 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:03.399 kind of hurt you like Seattle used to hurt you 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:06.880 with their crowd, you know. And I think that if 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.240 they have to go, if Dallas has to go to Atlanta, 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:12.120 huge crowd based from the east coming that way, if 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:14.920 they go to New Orleans, huge crowd based coming, you know, 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:17.600 We'll find a way to get down to New Orleans 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:20.120 for that game, so they'll they'll make it difficult. 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:21.160 They'll battle either. 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.680 Atlanta's fans or the Saints fans for that stadium for sure. 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:28.080 Before we go to break, I want to selfishly talk 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.639 a little bit about college football and I want to 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:33.560 get your opinion on where do you think the college 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:36.600 football Playoff Committee got it right? I think that's kind 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:40.280 of the topic that's dominating football fans around the country. 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:44.280 They put in Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama. Yeah, two 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:47.120 teams in there, Texas and Alabama who both have one lost. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.640 Florida State did not lose this season. Did they get 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:51.000 it right? 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:53.600 Well, they might not have got the first team right. 0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:56.320 If you want to be honest with you. The Washington 0:25:56.359 --> 0:25:58.760 I think is I know Washington has had its moments. 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:02.200 Michigan's schedule does nothing for me right now. They won 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:04.720 the Ohio State game, which is a big win, huge win. 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.600 It's one of the legendary wins and Jim Harbaugh has 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:09.600 done it three times in a row now, which is huge, 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:11.600 which is huge for his because there was a time 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:14.080 three four years ago where Jim Harball they were talking 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:17.480 about getting rid of him, and now the circles they're 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:20.600 still hearing circles about him leaving Michigan in that program 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.080 and going to coach the Bears. So that just shows 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:26.119 you kind of where maybe everything's at Michigan right now. 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:31.760 I do feel like though that I do feel terrible 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:34.200 for Florida State, and I feel terrible for the reason 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:37.199 why I think they're punishing them for their quarterback not 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:39.639 being in the you know, not being in the in 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.760 the in the part of the game now, and you know, 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:45.840 it's it's unfortunate part of the game, the injuries. And 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:50.040 they talk, but that's scheduled that they've played. They've you know, 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:54.000 they've managed it. They play tremendous defense. I mean Florida State. 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:57.800 They they turned the ball over. They turned the ball 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:00.440 over in that game the other night against Louisville basically 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:03.320 on their own ten yard line, and they get an 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:07.080 interception to stop that, you know, and they all they've 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:07.720 done is. 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:09.919 All the games that they've played. 0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:12.399 You know, they've asked these kids to play, keep playing, 0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:15.280 keep playing, keep playing next man up, and they keep winning. 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:18.240 And I think that you have to respect that at 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:22.199 some point in time. Now, is it pretty to not 0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:24.600 have a quarterback and go into one of these games. 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:25.119 No, it's not. 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:27.640 It's not that you know, we've we've seen that bad 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:30.840 quarterback play leads to blog games and nobody wants to 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:34.920 blog game. But Florida State the way that they're everybody 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:37.800 talks about offense and that the team's left, you know, 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:43.320 Michigan and Washington and Texas, Florida State's defense is capable 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:46.320 of stopping any one of those offensive attacks. 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:48.080 And Alabama. 0:27:48.200 --> 0:27:49.840 To me, and I'm not saying this because I'm an 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:53.240 LSU guy, I have the utmost respect for Alabama, but 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.959 they there, They were a fourth and thirty one away 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:00.480 from not being in this thing at all. And you 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:02.359 want to talk about and you want to talk about 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.600 the eye test and all that stuff. Hey, they won, 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:08.160 they won the game. They beat Auburn, but Florida State 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:11.639 won under a lot of duress themselves. I just feel 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:15.560 like it's completely unfair to keep a thirteen win team 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.480 out of this playoff, you know. And I think, whether 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:22.199 it's the quarterback or not, their defense could play with 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:25.000 anybody in the country and make it that type of 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:25.399 a game. 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:27.800 Yeah, that's kind of part of my issue with this too. 0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:29.840 And I'm gonna be honest with you, guys like even 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:33.720 As Texas being the third seed. I personally believe that's 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:36.399 a travesty. I don't think Florida State should be ranked 0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:38.760 lower than Texas in this case. They should have been 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:42.960 the number three team in this poll because everybody they 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:46.480 face they beat exactly, that's it. Everybody they face they beat. 0:28:46.480 --> 0:28:48.920 And my belief is that when we start talking about, 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:51.760 well the quarterback is out, this is how much how 0:28:51.800 --> 0:28:53.840 many times do we talk about football being a three 0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:57.160 phase Sportland. Sure, the offense, you got defense down, special teams, 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:00.600 really good teams, Really good teams know how to even 0:29:00.600 --> 0:29:03.720 if one phase lacks, they know how to bring it 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.240 up another notch. And that's exactly what we've seen them do. 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:08.480 That Louisville team has a good offense, they do they 0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:11.840 shut them down. They completely. Defense is legit, and and 0:29:11.880 --> 0:29:14.880 my problem is they should have had the ability and 0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:18.280 the opportunity to be able to go out there and say, yeah, 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:21.040 we don't have our starting quarterback, but our defense may 0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:23.560 still be good enough, as you said, to stop all 0:29:23.600 --> 0:29:25.959 those other offenses. And if we can do that and 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:28.280 manufacture some points as they did in a Louisville game, 0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:29.520 we could win some game. 0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:31.800 Gave up, they gave up a block punt and didn't 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:33.880 give up. I mean, it's it's amazing the things that 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:36.320 happened to Florida State in that game, and their defense 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:39.080 would not allow them to lose that game. They you know, 0:29:39.160 --> 0:29:41.360 and and really they tried to. They tried to coach 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:44.000 around the quarterback. They did, and they you know, their 0:29:44.000 --> 0:29:46.480 second quarterbacks and concussion protocol and by the time the 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.760 games are going to be played, he should be fine. 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:51.360 So they're you know, they're but you know, they're they're 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:55.280 punishing Florida State for not having their quarterback and that's unfair. 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:56.840 And the other thing we're saying here, and this is 0:29:56.920 --> 0:29:59.480 just the reality of where college football is going. It's 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.280 not a Power and the Power two. It is the 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:05.120 Big Ten and the SECC and they are never going 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:08.240 to leave those conferences out of a playoff scenario like this. 0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:10.320 They're just not going to do it. This was the 0:30:10.400 --> 0:30:12.479 prime opportunity for them to do it. They're just not 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:14.560 going to do it. And especially now that you have 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:17.360 these big brands from the Pac twelve and the Big 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.520 twelve now moving into the SEC and the Big Ten, 0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:21.640 it's only going to get worse. It is a two 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:24.600 power conference well in college football, and that's where that's 0:30:24.600 --> 0:30:26.200 where the champions are going to typically come from. 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:29.160 Yeah, we got twelve twelve teams next year and you 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:31.800 know that, Well, hopefully that'll help them, but the thirteenth 0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:34.480 team will have a complaint. I think I think LSU's 0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:36.000 the thirteenth team right now, and. 0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:37.680 They have found a way to get LSU in this too. 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:40.760 Well, we didn't deserve an opportunity, but how poorly. But 0:30:40.800 --> 0:30:42.880 you're going to have a Heistman Trophy winner from LSU 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:45.080 this year. The thing about it is to me and 0:30:45.240 --> 0:30:47.560 I just you know, there's going to be a day 0:30:48.120 --> 0:30:50.640 and Derek, you know this because of your background in media, 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:52.400 is that there's going to be a day where we 0:30:52.480 --> 0:30:56.360 have forty college football teams playing and they're going to 0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:58.560 play each other and it's going to be just for TV. 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:02.600 It's going to be a TV driven league where number 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:07.160 number two Texas plays number fourteen LSU, and it's gonna 0:31:07.160 --> 0:31:09.960 be those teams playing and they're going to control all 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:12.240 the telem It's about inventory and they're going to have 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:14.320 the best inventory and that's how they're going to sell 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:17.520 these packages. You know, and maybe teams thirty nine and 0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:19.960 forty get relegated. If you're not good enough, then you 0:31:20.040 --> 0:31:23.120 get relegated, and we bring two more teams into the myth. 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:24.440 That's going to be college foot it's going to be 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:25.080 college football. 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:27.720 But yeah, we're going to have forty teams playing each 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:30.760 other every single week and it's going to be billions 0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:31.680 of dollars involved. 0:31:31.800 --> 0:31:33.680 I think that at the at the least, there's going 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:35.640 to be two conferences, but I think it's going to 0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:37.880 all consolidate where you're right, You're going to have the 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:41.640 best teams in the super conference. Well, these two super conferences, 0:31:41.720 --> 0:31:43.200 and that's where all the games are going to be, 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:45.080 and it's going to fund the championship is gonna come 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:45.400 from there. 0:31:45.440 --> 0:31:47.280 It's going to fund all the other sports that are 0:31:47.320 --> 0:31:49.840 involved in those athletic programs too that they you know, 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:52.200 they always talk about, you know, hey, the women's sports 0:31:52.240 --> 0:31:55.200 and the lower sports men's sports and stuff, and that's 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:56.560 what they're gonna do. It's going to make so much 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:59.120 money in this thing that all the the the all 0:31:59.160 --> 0:32:01.840 these universities that are part of this are going to 0:32:01.920 --> 0:32:04.040 be rewarded for it, and their athletic. 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.000 Programs will be rewarded to it through through through money. 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:07.680 All Right, We're going to take our final break. 0:32:08.840 --> 0:32:10.840 Y'all know. 0:32:09.280 --> 0:32:09.760 I know. 0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:15.360 Football, but just listening to this, I'm already stressed out. 0:32:15.440 --> 0:32:19.760 Like I'm like, man, I could not handle another layer 0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:22.560 of football level experience. 0:32:22.960 --> 0:32:23.479 It stress. 0:32:23.600 --> 0:32:25.160 That sounds very very stressful. 0:32:25.200 --> 0:32:27.840 It's stressful when your team's involved, it really really is. 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:30.200 And I feel terrible for guys like a John Mashoda 0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:32.560 who is a huge fan. He spends his money and 0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:34.840 travels and goes and sees games at Florida State. We 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:37.040 all love John and what he does. But you know, 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:39.520 I mean, you know, you take that hard, you do. 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:41.640 I mean, hey, trip to the Orange Bowl is nice, 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:43.560 but it's not the same as being in New Orleans 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:45.480 or in Pasadena for a match. 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:48.880 Yeah, exactly, That's exactly right. And that's fandom. And I 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:52.040 was I was having this conversation with Steve Dennis on 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:55.240 Twitter on Twitter and the fact, yeah, he was trying 0:32:55.280 --> 0:32:57.320 to make the difference between and a lum and a fan, 0:32:57.360 --> 0:32:59.720 and I'm like, no, man, fandom is hard. 0:32:59.840 --> 0:33:00.440 It's hard. 0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:02.520 If you're a real fan, you don't just pick up 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:04.960 and leave because your team's losing. You go through it, 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:06.600 and when you go through it, you go through the friar, 0:33:06.920 --> 0:33:08.960 however long it takes, so you can get back to 0:33:09.000 --> 0:33:12.880 that moment of glory, because those moments of winning are 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:15.800 worth all the bad stuff you deal with the oi 0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:18.400 of the years. So that fantom is hard. 0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:19.360 Man, it is very hard. 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:20.560 And I don't I don't ever. 0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:22.640 I deal with enough stress with the Cowboys. 0:33:23.040 --> 0:33:23.240 Right. 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:26.960 It's hardcasually when you got NFL and you've got college, 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:29.880 it's a lot, just a lot. But in moments like this, 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:31.960 as you can tell from a voice, man is so great. 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:34.360 Team actually wins. It's so great. All Right, we're gonna 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:36.000 take our final break. We'll come back and we ask 0:33:36.000 --> 0:33:37.880 some questions as she's gotten from you guys. We'll get 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:40.400 to those in just a moment. Is Dallas Cowboys dot 0:33:40.400 --> 0:33:40.880 Com Radio. 0:33:42.520 --> 0:33:44.240 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:33:44.280 --> 0:33:47.200 Cheatah Savannah. 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At the start, the segment 0:36:15.880 --> 0:36:20.080 brought to you by blockchain dot Com. And now I'm 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:21.360 going to do what I should have done at the 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:23.000 beginning of the show. I'm going to hand it over 0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:25.279 to Amber. Let's go, all right. 0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:28.600 One of the questions, I've been seen a lot any 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:31.799 updates on Shack and I know people are waiting on this. 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:36.040 I asked this morning and they're still waiting. So there 0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:38.680 was thought that maybe in talking to some folks in 0:36:38.680 --> 0:36:40.359 the front office, they thought maybe they would get an 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:42.800 answer on Sunday, and then they got pushed to Monday, 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:47.440 and as of say ten thirty this morning, they were 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:47.960 still waiting. 0:36:48.360 --> 0:36:51.800 And as we thought, shack Letter is driving this decision. Ultimately, 0:36:51.840 --> 0:36:53.840 he'll decide what team he wants. This is a recruiting 0:36:53.880 --> 0:36:56.479 type situation. He'll decide which of those teams he wants 0:36:56.520 --> 0:36:58.080 to be on and that'll be how. 0:36:57.960 --> 0:36:59.920 It works us so many it should happen. 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:03.080 I think I think today you get today, we'll get answered. Yeah, 0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:03.960 today you'll get answered. 0:37:04.000 --> 0:37:08.040 Yeah. What helps the Cowboys down this stretch with these 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:12.360 tough games coming up? Red zone efficiency woos disappear or 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:15.120 defensive penalties go down significantly? 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:17.560 That's a really great question. Who answered that? Do you 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:19.200 have an ant who answer asked that question? 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:28.319 Here we go our oreg ALEX fifty two. 0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:30.880 Okay, yes, I'm sorry, great and Twitter nobody has their 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:33.359 real name except us, right, we put our names out 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:37.279 there on the line every day. But the the the 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:39.759 thing about it is, I do think the penalties are 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:40.360 a problem. 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:43.240 I really do. And I know Dallas. 0:37:43.280 --> 0:37:46.279 To me, there's times that they can overcome things that 0:37:46.320 --> 0:37:48.279 happened to them in the red zone as long as 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:50.120 they don't turn the ball. But they could get penalties 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:51.600 down there is that and they kind of figure it 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:54.680 all out, the defensive penalties, the way with the lining 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.839 up of off sides and you know the false well 0:37:57.920 --> 0:38:01.200 the you know, jumping off sides, the defensive holdings, things 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:01.520 like that. 0:38:02.080 --> 0:38:03.160 You know those penalties. 0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:05.360 I mean, we haven't seen any, you know, Sam Williams 0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:07.960 roughing the passer penalties or hands of the face here lately. 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:10.719 But yeah, I think tho's some of these defensive finds. 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:13.799 The DPI penalties were big. The other day, defensive passingerference 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.040 penalties were big. So if you're going to be any 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:19.320 good in these games, you can't give these offenses second 0:38:19.360 --> 0:38:22.239 chances and third chances. And I think the Cowboys did 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:24.640 that in that Seattle game, you know, And so I'd 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:25.960 like to see that go away. 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:28.680 Yeah, I was trying to pull it up. I couldn't 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.920 get it up quickly enough to see. But the red 0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:34.759 zone efficiency seems to be a problem, and especially in 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:36.440 the games that they've lost this year, and then it 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.439 creaked back up here against Seattle. They were only fifty 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:41.960 percent in the red zone, only fifty percent and this 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:43.920 is the bigger one, only fifty percent in goal to 0:38:43.960 --> 0:38:47.160 go situation. Yeah, that's a problem because when you get 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:49.760 into the playoffs, you're going to need those scores, especially 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:52.200 when you're dealing with the likes of Philadelphia, with the 0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:54.879 likes of San Francisco, with the likes of Detroit. You're 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:57.600 gonna have to score h And So although I think 0:38:57.600 --> 0:39:00.440 the penalties are a problem, I think the zone is 0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:04.400 an even bigger problem just because and it's like, the 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:07.600 red zone isn't the problem itself, it's emblematic of other things. 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:09.839 It's emblematic of the fact that you can't consistently run 0:39:09.880 --> 0:39:10.160 the ball. 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:11.680 That's really what the problem is. 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:13.360 And so you get down the red zone, you have 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:16.200 compact feel and you can't effectively run the ball. You 0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:18.600 get in gold to gol situations. How many times we've 0:39:18.600 --> 0:39:20.920 seen you know, you know, first and goal at the 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:23.680 eight and you only pick up one yard on first down. 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:25.719 Like it's if you can't run the ball in those 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:27.839 situations when there's a compact feel, you make it even 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:29.520 harder to be able to throw because you don't have 0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:32.080 a lot of room to throw right. So at the 0:39:32.160 --> 0:39:33.920 end of the day, they got to figure out this 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:37.040 running game. Because they solve the running game, that will solve, 0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:38.680 in my opinion, a lot of the red zone and 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:39.560 goal to go situation. 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:42.160 I think they're not showing you Dak Prescott pulling the 0:39:42.160 --> 0:39:43.400 ball down on the goal line. 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:45.080 I think they're not. I think they're going to. 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:47.520 I think we're going to see if it gets into playoffs, 0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:49.640 there's going to be a lot more of Dak pulling 0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:52.560 that ball and trying to hammer it, hammer it at home, 0:39:52.840 --> 0:39:54.799 you know, like they're on the eight first down, that 0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:57.640 pull the ball. Everybody's collapsing because they don't think Dak 0:39:57.760 --> 0:39:58.239 is going to run. 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:01.440 But I think I think those have mostly been successful. 0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:02.560 They haven't been done it. 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.600 If they have been, absolutely And I think that's something 0:40:05.640 --> 0:40:07.680 that you know that that to me, that would be 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:12.240 a quick fix. More Dak pulling the ball and trying 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:14.719 to get you know, the four or five yards or 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:16.479 maybe even break that thing into the end zone. 0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:21.240 Yeah, what's your confidence level? And Terrence Steel putting together 0:40:21.320 --> 0:40:23.200 a good game against the Eagles this week? 0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:27.080 Man, he had another rough one last week, So I 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:27.480 don't know. 0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:28.080 I mean. 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:32.360 The tough part is that he's going to be facing 0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:34.200 a guy in Reddick that I think is among the 0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:38.240 very best rushers in the league. And so even even 0:40:38.320 --> 0:40:41.960 giving up two to three pressures in this game is 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:44.239 going to be somewhat of a win because that guy 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:48.120 is a he's a beast. So I think you put 0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:49.960 it on it, you graded on a curve. I think 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:51.799 he will have I think he will have a better 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:54.080 day than he had last week. Yeah, I don't know 0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:55.759 if it'll be without flaws. Though. 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.719 The problem they run into is they have such good 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:02.280 inside players that Zach Martin can't help him all the time. 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:05.120 You know, they've got those big defensive tackles, and they've 0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:06.960 got guys they'll put inside and rush. 0:41:06.760 --> 0:41:08.640 The passer, and and you know. 0:41:08.680 --> 0:41:11.560 And so all of a sudden, Philadelphia turned you into 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:14.399 a one on one blocking team. You know, how much 0:41:14.480 --> 0:41:17.400 can the out how much can Pollard help? You know 0:41:17.440 --> 0:41:20.200 how much can Rico Doubtle help? How much can putting 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.400 Sean McEwan over there, or putting Ferguson over there, putting 0:41:24.440 --> 0:41:27.240 Schoonmaker over there. You know, you've got to find ways 0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:31.480 to widen him away from the ball, make him have 0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:35.759 to deal with a full man two gaps away from 0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.120 being If you put him right on the shoulder of steel, 0:41:38.400 --> 0:41:41.040 that's a that's a quicker path to the quarterback, move 0:41:41.120 --> 0:41:45.080 him out a whole player, another whole two gaps. That's 0:41:45.160 --> 0:41:47.680 maybe the ball gets out with Dak before he gets 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:50.080 around the corner. But you got to be careful of 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:53.399 helping him because if you get backs, they bump into 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:57.040 linemen sometimes and it throws them off, It throws their 0:41:57.080 --> 0:41:58.960 blocking to their sets, and all of a sudden they 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:00.600 have they get hit from the side and they're like, 0:42:00.640 --> 0:42:03.120 now they're thrown off, and now you've got two guys 0:42:03.160 --> 0:42:06.000 and the one guy gets around him. Because folk blockers 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:08.919 are problems, you have to be really careful about trying 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:10.520 to help him in how much in this game. 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:12.560 Yeah, I think the thing that also will save him 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.560 and then the entire offensive line is the fact that 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:17.839 Dak is just playing on a whole other level right now. 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:20.720 So even when pressure gets there, escape, Dak is escaping, 0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:23.000 he's finding the open guy down field, he's getting the 0:42:23.040 --> 0:42:26.640 ball out. So you know, this last game, unless you 0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:29.320 went and looked at some of the specific stats around pressures, 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:32.040 it didn't really look like Steele had a horrible day. 0:42:32.239 --> 0:42:34.000 You go look at his number of around pressures, you're like, oh, 0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:35.560 that's kind of a high number. I think what I 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:35.920 saw was. 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:39.320 Like Hian Smith had a high high pressure number. Time 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:40.080 it happens. 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:42.560 But the beautiful part about it is you don't notice 0:42:42.560 --> 0:42:44.839 it as much right now just because Dak's playing at 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:48.360 such a high level. Man, it's it's just unconscient, unconscionable 0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:51.919 to think about how good he's playing relative to what 0:42:52.000 --> 0:42:54.880 this looked like at other times in his career. And 0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:56.359 that's not to say he was bad in those times. 0:42:56.400 --> 0:42:58.879 It's just saying he's been a good quarterback. Right now 0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:01.279 he's playing on a different level to well. Also, just 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:02.799 such a higher. 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:05.239 Level for being in sync with the receivers, Like now 0:43:05.239 --> 0:43:08.120 he doesn't have to stay there in the pocket holding 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:10.359 the ball and thinking where am I going to throw 0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:10.640 it to? 0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:11.000 Is? 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:13.319 I think it's a combination too, with some of the 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:16.880 play calling and the receivers just doing what they're supposed 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:19.560 to do, being on time in the route that they're doing, 0:43:19.840 --> 0:43:21.520 and Dak being able to kind of get rid of 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:22.480 the ball very quickly. 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:24.520 One of the big problems they had in the last 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:27.480 meeting with Philadelphia was the pressures. And I think the 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.880 coaches realize that playing at home will help. Yeah, but 0:43:30.920 --> 0:43:33.120 I think Mike now will Taylor a game plan to 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:34.000 help in that way. 0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:36.879 I think this is a very, very different team than 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:41.120 when they faced the last time. So I'm so pumped 0:43:41.120 --> 0:43:41.520 for this week. 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:43.440 Really at home, they are a different Oh yeah. 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:43.640 No doubt. 0:43:44.360 --> 0:43:47.360 Last question, real quick, can the Cowboys apply next Sunday 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:50.680 some of the concepts that San Francisco used to this 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:53.520 mantle the Eagles mostly on defense. 0:43:56.120 --> 0:43:58.439 I'm looking forward to sitting down and really studying that game, 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.640 which I'll do tonight. But you can always steal things 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:04.080 you could. Matter of fact, I know we talked about 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:06.680 how to stop San Francisco with how what Cleveland did 0:44:06.960 --> 0:44:08.960 with We thought about playing too deep and then running 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:10.719 the run in the running the safeties in the middle 0:44:10.760 --> 0:44:13.120 field as a robber that you know, so you're playing 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:16.120 you're really playing at three levels. So yeah, you know, 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:20.080 there's there's always things. There's always ideas that you could 0:44:20.080 --> 0:44:22.680 steal from previous games and say, Okay, we can do 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:25.359 it this way. It might not be exactly what San 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:29.719 Francisco does, but the thought of it, of how to 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.840 get to it will come to Dan Quinn. 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:35.759 And then watching this tape, Yeah to me, Buffalo too. 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:37.520 I mean there'll be some things that even you know, 0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:40.400 you could go back to three games that maybe that 0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:43.080 you know that what what Winterally gave Philly problem and 0:44:43.080 --> 0:44:45.000 there's stuff that you gave them problem with when you 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:46.160 played them last. 0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:47.040 Time, but you don't. 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:49.400 You know, it's all about how you attack their in 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:52.319 my opinion, how you attack their offensive line. That's how 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:54.680 I that's how I think you get after Philly. 0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:56.799 Yeah, I think there are probably some things that that 0:44:56.880 --> 0:44:58.839 you could look at, but quite frankly, for me, this 0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:02.120 game is more of a measure stick on how much 0:45:02.200 --> 0:45:06.920 has this dac led offense evolved since they played Philadelphia. 0:45:07.080 --> 0:45:09.480 I want to see if they can finish the drives 0:45:09.480 --> 0:45:11.759 that they didn't finish in Philadelphia. I want to see 0:45:11.800 --> 0:45:14.160 if they can, you know, in situations where the rush 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:16.759 got to them and really killed their drive. Can they 0:45:16.760 --> 0:45:18.839 take advantage of those situations now like they've been doing 0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:21.040 against some of these other teams. Can they have the 0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:24.719 same type of offense they can they have the type 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:28.239 of offensive production in this game that they've been having 0:45:28.280 --> 0:45:30.799 the last several weeks. If they can do that, which, 0:45:30.840 --> 0:45:32.399 by the way, that was a good game they played 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:35.040 in Philadelphia. They just had some slight things that they 0:45:35.080 --> 0:45:37.360 weren't clicking on, and if they get those things solved, 0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:39.400 I don't know they have to do something different. I 0:45:39.440 --> 0:45:40.759 just think they got to be better than they were 0:45:40.800 --> 0:45:42.920 in Philadelphia, and they've been better the last few weeks. 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:45.200 Now we'll see if it translates against Philadelphia. 0:45:45.280 --> 0:45:49.200 Yeah, I agree, and oh my god, I can't, I 0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:52.040 cannot wait. I cannot wait for this weekend and how 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:54.960 it's going to look because again, the Cowboys are so 0:45:55.080 --> 0:45:57.399 much better than the last time they face them. They 0:45:57.440 --> 0:46:00.440 have every like they have more things going to their 0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:04.160 advantage right now than Phelly does at the moment, and 0:46:04.239 --> 0:46:06.759 when they face them, like you said, it was such 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:08.919 a close game, like it didn't come down to where 0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:11.839 it wasn't San Francisco and how that looked like where 0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:14.799 they got completely dominated. This was such a close game 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:16.919 and it came down to the wire. So it's gonna 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:18.959 be an exciting one for sure. 0:46:19.200 --> 0:46:21.360 All Right, we appreciate you guys joining us. We're back tomorrow. 0:46:21.920 --> 0:46:24.239 We will get to some more fan questions tomorrow. 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