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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, December Night, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number seventy six. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We are alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios at

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Speaker 1: the Star. We got forty five minutes to tell you,

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Speaker 1: guys what went wrong yesterday for the Dallas Cowboys, And

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Speaker 1: there was so much that went wrong yesterday for the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. They lose thirty four seventeen to the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I think we all picked against them going into this game,

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Speaker 1: so I don't think it was a surprise that they lost.

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Speaker 1: But there were certainly some moments where you felt like

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Speaker 1: they missed opportunities and maybe they could have made this

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Speaker 1: more of a game than it was. We start where

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Speaker 1: we normally start the day after a game, with big

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Speaker 1: picture storylines coming out of the game, Nicholas, start with you,

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Speaker 1: what's the big picture storyline for you? Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: they were outclassed, outplayed, out coached, out hit, you know,

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Speaker 1: just everything. Really. I mean, I thought They're offense just

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Speaker 1: didn't play very well at all. The defense was way worse.

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Speaker 1: Special teams wasn't really good other than one play. And

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Speaker 1: you had all that up and you get somebody that

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Speaker 1: scores twice as many points as you and they have

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Speaker 1: twice as many wins as you, So that just you know,

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Speaker 1: they were they were you know, and there were some

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Speaker 1: crazy stuff happening way before kickoff. But when it got

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Speaker 1: to actually play in the game and they decided to play,

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Speaker 1: they got They got beat by a much better football team. Amber,

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Speaker 1: what's your big picture storyline? Big picture, Well, that someone

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Speaker 1: lot of people, probably the defense on the defensive side

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Speaker 1: get into this, but we cannot just blame everything on

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Speaker 1: just not working. So maybe this is something that obviously

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen this year, but for next year

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Speaker 1: in the offseason, I would expect some changes. Dave, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: What do we always say in the NFL? Like December

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Speaker 1: is when you're trying to round into playing your best football.

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Speaker 1: Good football teams are supposed to improve as the year

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Speaker 1: goes along. Specifically the Dallas defense. What on earth was that?

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Speaker 1: Because like we saw this trajectory of them, maybe they're

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Speaker 1: and honestly, leave the offense out of all of it.

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Speaker 1: Like the offense honestly looked pretty decent. Andy Dalton played well.

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Speaker 1: But what about that defense? Like embarrassing doesn't do it justice,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about Dez Bryant last night.

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Speaker 1: He was planning to play the Cowboys. It was going

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Speaker 1: the field and told him that he had to go

428
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,439
Speaker 1: home because he had now tested positive for COVID. My

429
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 1: first question is more on a personal level, what did

430
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: you feel for Dez as this all went down, Because

431
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: as we all know that he's a very emotional guy,

432
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: and this was something he was looking forward to, an

433
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: opportunity just to get out on the field and show

434
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 1: his former team that he still could play. Nick hated

435
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: it for Dez. For Dez, I hated it. I know

436
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: he wanted it so bad. And you know, anytime you

437
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: get that close to a game like this, and I think,

438
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: you know, everybody kind of wanted to see the matchup,

439
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: so we hated it for all of us. I mean,

440
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: we'll get into why it went down like that, but

441
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: for DEAs specifically, I you know, I hated it for him. Dave.

442
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm not speaking for every Cowboy fan in

443
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 1: the world, but I think i'm I think I'm speaking

444
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. Like I didn't have high

445
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: hopes that the Cowboys were gonna win that game. I

446
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: didn't have high hopes that it was even going to

447
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: be a very entertaining matchup. But I was excited to

448
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: see Dez Bryant play football. And even you know, even

449
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: if that came at the expense of the Cowboys, you

450
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,959
Speaker 1: know that that was like a bright spot where you know,

451
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: it's like it's like an old friend and it was

452
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: gonna be weird, but it would have been really fun

453
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: to see him have a moment, like I said, even

454
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: if it was at the Cowboys expense. So I hated

455
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 1: it for Dez, I hated it for us. It was

456
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just classic twenty twenty that it's just

457
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 1: one more bitter disappointment. And then on top of that,

458
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: it was really just I mean, that's des Bryant in

459
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 1: a nutshell. You were kind of saying that during the

460
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: break is the guy. The guy just can't help himself.

461
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: He never he never has been able to. It's an

462
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: endearing thing sometimes and it's also a problem sometimes it

463
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: is like maybe maybe put the phone down, Dees. But

464
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: that's that's him to a to a t, that is

465
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant, and you gotta you gotta love it. I

466
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: guess it's just it's very typical him, the phone and

467
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,199
Speaker 1: or the wine amber. What are your thoughts on that

468
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: he keeps it entertaining? I mean, I mean, we like drama,

469
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: we like watching, but no, the same thing as these

470
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: guys said, it sucks. And when I heard the news

471
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: and so it happening like on TV and all that,

472
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: I was like, man, what are the freaking odds of that?

473
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: That of everyone on the field, death happens to be

474
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: the one that this happens too. And I'm not saying,

475
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: oh hope, I would have hoped that it happened to

476
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: someone else or anything, but not at all. But at

477
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: the same time, out of all people, this happens to death.

478
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 1: So it just sucks. We all knew the emotion and

479
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: the excitement that he had going into this game, and

480
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: for him to be warming up on the field and

481
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 1: then you get pulled out to get tested again, You're like,

482
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 1: what the heck. So it's just it's crazy the way

483
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: that it went't down. Yeah, the interesting part is I

484
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: actually think that last night was a perfect illustration of

485
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: why Dez Bryan was no longer with the Dallas Cowboys.

486
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 1: I think what we saw last night was how he

487
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: is a highly emotional player, a highly emotional person. When

488
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: things are going good that can be a good thing

489
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,959
Speaker 1: for you. When things are going bad, he tends to

490
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: just not have a filter and he puts it all

491
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: out there. And that's what we saw last night take

492
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: place on Twitter. Once he got back home and he

493
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: had his phone in his hand, he's sitting there, then

494
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: he just kind of starts just throwing everything out there,

495
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: and and it just it feels as though that's the

496
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: kind of thing that in a locker room setting can

497
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: be a distraction, because when things are going wrong, the

498
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: last thing you needs people just kind of losing it.

499
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: You know, you need people that kind of steady and

500
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: know how to pull back and say, Okay, right now,

501
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: I don't need to say anything. I need to just

502
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: let things lie for a second, let my emotions come

503
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 1: down a bit, and then I may say something when

504
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: I'm more controlled in what I say. And I don't

505
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: think that's who des Brian is. I don't know that

506
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: he'll ever be that person. They're good size to that

507
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: because and Nick, I heard you say that on the

508
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: radio when you were talking about him yesterday. Like him

509
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: being a leader, he brought that energy when it came

510
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: to those practices when you're ten days into training camp

511
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: and it's starting to get to a point where guys

512
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: are getting tired and they can be be monotonous. He's

513
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: the guy that would show up and challenge enough guys

514
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: that were made for good practice. So it goes both ways,

515
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: like there's good in it and there's bad in it,

516
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: But at some point it can be a little bit

517
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 1: too destructive. Yeah, without a doubt. And it was there,

518
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: and you know, I think you know, it was gonna

519
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: be his night, you know, and not to say he

520
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: was gonna have a huge game or whatever, but this

521
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: was gonna be his stage. And and you know, it

522
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: got taken away from him. And and you know, I

523
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: don't know all the details there of why they went

524
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: down the way it did, but you know, somebody messed

525
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: up on this. I think you think, well, yeah, I mean,

526
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: don't you I mean, don't you think somebody messed up

527
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: if he's over there and he No, No, I'm not

528
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: gonna ask you that somebody messed up. I'm just gonna

529
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: be I'm just gonna be a firm on it because

530
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: because he went and hugged too many people, too many players,

531
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: too many Cowboy employees, too many Cowboy players. He went

532
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: and did all of that, and then all of a sudden,

533
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: that's a problem. Now in the middle of the game,

534
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: people are talking about that. We've got the trainers on

535
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: the sideline dealing with that also, and things were different

536
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: on the on the flight back home. I'm not sure

537
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: if it was because of that, but yes, somebody messed

538
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: up if they allowed this guy with two tests that

539
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: were pending and then all of a sudden, the third

540
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: one comes back. See, and I who I'll agree with

541
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: you is I don't know if someone messed up or

542
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: if the policy is messed up, Because what I mean

543
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: by that is if if the policy doesn't say my

544
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: opinion is, if a guy has an inconclusive test on

545
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: the day of a game, until you give me a

546
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: negative test, you shouldn't be or not anybody. That's how

547
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: I look at it now. I don't know if that's

548
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: what the protocol says. And maybe the protocol doesn't say that,

549
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: and so nobody messed up, but the protocol may be

550
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: messed up. This whole thing is airing on the side

551
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: of caution everything we do. That's exactly why it doesn't

552
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: make sense, because everything else is just like, hey, we're

553
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: gonna do whatever we gotta do to make sure we're

554
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: being as safe as we possibly can be under the

555
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: under this scenario. But the fact is, if a guy

556
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: has an inconclusive test, the fact that he's allowed to

557
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: just kind of go and warm up on the field

558
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: and interact with people, go ahead, we'll call you if

559
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: it's bad. Yeah, that to me says that that maybe

560
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: that's just not a great policy. If that's the policy,

561
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: well then that whoever writes the policy messed up. Okay, guy, okay,

562
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: we can agree on that. We can agree on that.

563
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this is there it'd be

564
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: the same guy that changed the game from Monday to Tuesday. Hey,

565
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: here we go. Do you think that there is or

566
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: at least will you guys be keeping a close eye

567
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: on what happens with this team for the next few days,

568
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: because obviously there was some contact. Now And just to

569
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: be clear, the science around this, as much as the

570
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: science they know about the science from the things I've read,

571
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: suggests that you don't necessarily get it just by a

572
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: happenstance contact with someone who has COVID. It typically happens

573
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: when you have prolonged when you're in a setting prolonged

574
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: period of time, typically indoors, where you then are more susceptible,

575
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: let's say, to getting the virus. But all that being said,

576
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: and obviously the NFL has contact tracers on all these players.

577
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: They know how long any of them are around each other,

578
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: so they kind of know and that's why they supposedly

579
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: the game was allowed to continue. It's because their contact

580
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: tracing mechanisms suggested that nobody had been in that kind

581
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: of close contact that would have necessitated them sitting anybody

582
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: else down. But with that being said, do you think

583
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: there is at least caution at this point with regards

584
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys players heading into this week? Dave, Let's

585
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: start with you. I mean, there should always be caution.

586
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: That should be the name of the game with everything

587
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: they do. And I mean, you know, for I feel

588
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: like you gotta give the Cowboys a pretty healthy amount

589
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: of credit because there they are on a short list

590
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: of teams that really haven't had a ton of problems

591
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: with this like they they I mean, the Cowboys have

592
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: not been responsible for these types of situations so far

593
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: this season, not on any sort of you know, Andy

594
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: Dalton caught it, but they managed to limit that. So

595
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: obviously you should be cautious. I'll say what I said

596
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: to you, Derek last night is I don't think it's

597
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: super troubling. Remember, this team played a game against Vance

598
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: McDonald and he had it and they came out Okay,

599
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: the game was outdoors. Everything we know suggests that being

600
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: outdoors helps a lot in terms of like mitigating the spread.

601
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: But that wouldn't make me feel any better if I

602
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: was a guy that had hugged Dez Bryant last night.

603
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: I know that for a fact. So yeah, I mean,

604
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to be cautious and keep an eye

605
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: on it for a few days, but I'm cautiously optimistic

606
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: that this won't be a huge problem for the Cowboys. Yeah.

607
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that, Dave, because I know we

608
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: all probably know people who have had COVID. I've had

609
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: friends who have had it, and to me, and one

610
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: of the things that a lot of them have told

611
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: me is the craziest part about it is the mind game.

612
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: Because you're sitting around and you're like, you have a

613
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: little shortness of breath, and you're like, oh God, oh God,

614
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: is this like the am I gonna need to be

615
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: in the hospital by tomorrow? Or you know, you got

616
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: this you know this cough, this little cough, And all

617
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're like, oh God, is that it?

618
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: Like is this the telltale sign that now it's about

619
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: to tip? And so it is. It's that part where

620
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: maybe there's some players that maybe had that interaction that

621
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: they know the science says they're probably okay, but in

622
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: the back of their minds Now, the mind game starts

623
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: of every time you feel something a little bit weird

624
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: in your body, is this covid? Is am I now infected?

625
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,239
Speaker 1: And you start wondering about those things, and then it

626
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: becomes some of those things kind of start really playing

627
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: with you after a while. Do you think Lamar was like, Oh,

628
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna rush for ninety four yards against the

629
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: Cowboys in about ten days, or we're only gonna only

630
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: gonna score three touchdowns against them, you know what. I

631
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: don't know what he said in the post game, but

632
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: like if he said, man, I was only seventy five

633
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: to eighty percent, I mean, how demoralizing would that be

634
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: if he was like I wasn't really back to one

635
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Yet you're like, oh, man, well you saw

636
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: the their offensive lineman that was in the camera after

637
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 1: the touchdown. It's like easy money like that. Those are

638
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: the kind of things where when you're playing like this,

639
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you want somebody on that defense to just

640
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: be like, look, we're not gonna be a laughing stock.

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Speaker 1: So hey, you know, and this is gonna sound really bad. Guys,

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Speaker 1: get back in. Let's talk about some moments that mattered.

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Speaker 1: There were as as my co host here joked with

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Speaker 1: me before the show, I've laid out a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of moments in this game that

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Speaker 1: that mattered. There are a lot of moments, and then,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, there are a lot of

712
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Speaker 1: missed opportunities in this game. I think the Dallas Cowboys

713
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Speaker 1: had opportunities to maybe even win this game. You could

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Speaker 1: make that argument because there were so many moments that

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Speaker 1: had they been a little more discipline, had they made

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Speaker 1: a play that was there and available to them, had

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Speaker 1: the right call been made on the field, they would

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Speaker 1: have put themselves in position to possibly be in this

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Speaker 1: game and maybe even win it. But we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: around and each one of you guys to give me

721
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Speaker 1: the moment that you thought mattered. Most ambulests start with you,

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Speaker 1: this might not be the moment that mattered the most

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Speaker 1: when you look at the game in general, but to me,

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Speaker 1: I think that Lamar Jackson's rushing touchdown in the first

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Speaker 1: quarter was the moment that mattered the most to me

726
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: because I was like, Okay, here we go again. This

727
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those games. And prior to

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Speaker 1: that touched them, the Ravens were able to run the

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Speaker 1: ball in a few plays pretty well as well, but

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Speaker 1: it was still like, Okay, it was still in the

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Speaker 1: first quarter, and maybe the Cowboys are just kind of

732
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Speaker 1: warming up. But as soon as I saw that touchdown

733
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Speaker 1: and the way it happened, how he was completely wide open,

734
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Speaker 1: like he just had the whole thing to himself and

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Speaker 1: he just ran all the way forward, I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I guess it is. It is gonna be one of

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Speaker 1: those games where the defense is simply not able to

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Speaker 1: stop the run. So to me, that was the one

739
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: moment that I was just like, okay, does that basically

740
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Speaker 1: even though that we're still not out at that point

741
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Speaker 1: of the game. You know, I think interesting part of

742
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: that play too. It was third and fourteen before that,

743
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys, if you look at their defensive alignment.

744
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: They pretty much were standing about fourteen to fifteen yards

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Speaker 1: off the ball to make sure that they didn't give

746
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Speaker 1: up a first down. But okay, Luke Wilson caught a

747
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Speaker 1: pass for twelve yards and if you saw. I don't

748
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: know if the cameras caught this, but but Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: like Adam Lee told, you know, the coaching staff, keep

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Speaker 1: the special teams off the field, punk kick, field goal, whatever,

751
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Speaker 1: we're going for this, we're gonna score touchdown probably is

752
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Speaker 1: what he said. And they did. But but I thought

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Speaker 1: the twelve yard I mean, she's right, that was a

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Speaker 1: huge moment. The play right before that was big because

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Speaker 1: it just gave him enough to say, all right, we

756
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Speaker 1: will go for this, we can get this, and they scored. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I will mention this too. And I was talking to

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Speaker 1: Isaiah standback last night. He was here in the building.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about that play particular, and we were

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Speaker 1: talking about it. I talked about it literalier in the show.

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Speaker 1: The fact that the Cowboys decided that they wanted to

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Speaker 1: go with the goal. They basically they stuck with the nickel.

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Speaker 1: They had only two linebackers in the game. They had

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Speaker 1: Jalen lined up outside, they had Lvee and Darien Thompson

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Speaker 1: in the middle, and so there was really basically once

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Speaker 1: Vee took himself out of the play by getting completely

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Speaker 1: tangled up and then dry and Thompson, he had no

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Speaker 1: shot when their offensive lineman gets onto his body, he

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Speaker 1: has no shot of being able to do anything with that.

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Speaker 1: And my thought was, what are you why would you

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Speaker 1: do that? And hem actually made a good point. Isaiah

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Speaker 1: was like, look from a schematic standpoint, he was like,

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Speaker 1: I used to be a running quarterback. And what teams

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Speaker 1: would do, and it's a really good strategy is they

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Speaker 1: would try to line it up and match it up

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Speaker 1: to where they had two spies on the field and

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Speaker 1: one was on one side of the field, one was

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Speaker 1: on the other, which would make sense. You put Jalen

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Speaker 1: on top, you put Darien Thompson on the other side,

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Speaker 1: and essentially you got two guys that can spy. He

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Speaker 1: set The problem with that he had with that alignment

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Speaker 1: and that scheme or the players that they had on

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Speaker 1: the field, was that they decide to go man and

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Speaker 1: you get a quarterback like Lamar Jackson immediately when he

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Speaker 1: sees man. And by the way, the way they were

786
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: lined up, they basically zero coverage. There was no safety

787
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Speaker 1: back deep. All the guys were lined up in man across.

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Speaker 1: When he sees that, he immediately says, I'm running the

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Speaker 1: ball because none of those defensive backs are gonna see me.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be looking at the defender that they're having

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Speaker 1: to cover in man. So it creates this great opportunity

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Speaker 1: for him to do what he does best. And that

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Speaker 1: was the problem he saw there, And I agree. I

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Speaker 1: think again, you can look at this thing and you

795
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Speaker 1: can come up with a number of different schematic challenges

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Speaker 1: and personnel challenges with this defense that have nothing, in

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00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: my opinion, necessarily to do with execution. It has to

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Speaker 1: do with putting your players in the right position. And

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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're doing enough of that right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dave, what's your moment that mattered? I mean mathematically?

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Speaker 1: Nick mentioned it at the top of the show. The

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Speaker 1: third down that Lamar picked up, Xavier Woods probably could

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Speaker 1: have forced him out a bound if he'd taken a

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00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: better angle, didn't Baltimore scores. You know, he finds Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Brown on the next play to go up twenty four

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Speaker 1: ten that Hay in the quarter. You know, there's no

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Speaker 1: way the Cowboys are making up that deficit with the

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Speaker 1: amount of time they have left, So mathematically I think

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Speaker 1: it would be that. But I completely agree with ag

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Speaker 1: in the sense that between Lamar's touchdown run, you know,

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Speaker 1: he finds Boykins, I think for a thirty eight yard touchdown,

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Speaker 1: Gus Edwards had a thirty six yard run, and JK.

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00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: Dobbins had runs of eighteen and thirty yards And that

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Speaker 1: was all on the first half. All of those plays

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Speaker 1: happened in the first half. And after what I was

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Speaker 1: just like, they will not win this game. Their defense,

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Speaker 1: they cannot win this game. And I think, you know

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Speaker 1: it was it was seventeen ten at halftime. They had

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Speaker 1: a few opportunities to make it even closer than that

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Speaker 1: zerline misses a kick, so mathematically they were in it.

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Speaker 1: But seeing the way the defense was playing, like in

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Speaker 1: the late first quarter, early second quarter, I was like,

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Speaker 1: they will not win this game the way they're playing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, one of the interesting things Mike McCarthy

825
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: said after the game, it was actually point of emphasis

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Speaker 1: that his coaches were talking to the team about all week,

827
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Speaker 1: saying we can't give up big plays big plays will

828
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: kill us in this game. He can't give up big plays.

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Speaker 1: And then they go into halftime and he thought it

830
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: was by at that point there were five, as he

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Speaker 1: defined him, five big plays heading into halftime that they'd

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Speaker 1: already given up. And this was after a whole week

833
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: of telling players over and over we can't give up

834
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: big plays. But again, if you're not giving them the

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Speaker 1: tools to not give up big plays, then you still

836
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Speaker 1: you know, you could talk about as much as you want,

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Speaker 1: but it may not matter. Nick, what was your moment

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Speaker 1: that matter? I got a couple, but I'll leave this

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Speaker 1: one free to go. Now, I'll just do the one.

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Speaker 1: You know, if the teraway jerseys were back, the Cowboys

841
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: might have won this game. Seriously, I mean that was

842
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: a huge play in the game. Amari Cooper, he's rolling

843
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: like he if he gets away from this guy that's

844
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: got in out of the jersey, it's just one other

845
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,919
Speaker 1: game and there's a blocker. I mean, I'm not seeing

846
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: these scores, but this is gonna be a really big play.

847
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Speaker 1: They're gonna get down into the thirty twenty yard line

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00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: of the Baltimore They're already up ten to seven, and

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00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: then a great job for making that that tackle there,

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00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: Harris made it. DeVante Harris made that tackle. So that

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Speaker 1: down's first and ten on the thirty seven, still in

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00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: good shape. And then interception interception the next play a touchdown.

853
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Speaker 1: I mean that if he can break out of that

854
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: that was that would have been huge. And then the

855
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: other one real quick is CD right before the half.

856
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not asking you to be a superhero,

857
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: but catch it. I mean, yeah, I mean I understand

858
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: that's a tough, tough play, but it's there. I mean

859
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: catch it. And literally, it wasn't a situation where you know,

860
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: somebody was interfering with him, somebody was grabbing him. I

861
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 1: mean literally, the ball was there. The ball went straight

862
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: through his hands, and there is no really excuse. Really

863
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: it's a tough it's a tough play, but but that's

864
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: the kind of play you expect him to make. I

865
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: think Andy had that. Andy had that in him. No

866
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: matter fact. I was wondering why they I was wondering

867
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: why they would line up to do it instead of

868
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: just saying let's just go to half and then let's

869
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: just get out of here. But he slung it down there.

870
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: He absolutely slung it. Yeah, and I just I was surprised,

871
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: were either you got surprised that CD didn't come up

872
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: with that catch because that's what we expect from him,

873
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: is to make those kind of plays. Right, I'm gonna

874
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: try my best to be a like I'm gonna I'm

875
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: gonna spin it really good here. This is gonna be

876
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: some really good cowboy propaganda, because I think we would

877
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: all agree. You know, CD's had a great rookie year

878
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: all things considered, Like he's he's lived up to the pick.

879
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: He's done some really impressive things. Who knows how good

880
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: his season would have been if he gets to play

881
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: with Dak all year. But I think he's gonna look

882
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: at this as a humbling experience, like because you know,

883
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: this season of that guy out there he said, just

884
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: he has had moments throughout this season that should humble him.

885
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: Gott and say, hey, you're a really good player. You

886
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: are not DeAndre Hopkins. Who is you know? That's his guy,

887
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: that's his favorite player, That's the guy he says he

888
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: models himself after. DeAndre Hopkins made that exact catch like

889
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. DeAndre Hopkins has performed like a badass

890
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: throughout the years and not always with a good quarterback,

891
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: by the way, So if I'm Ceedee Lamb, I'm going

892
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: out like I'm leaving this season saying okay, I belong.

893
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm a good player to do if I want to

894
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: be one of the league's best. And I mean, you know,

895
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: I've never met Ceedee Lamb face to face because of

896
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: this whole dumb pandemic, But just based on my impression

897
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: of him from Afar, I feel like he's got the

898
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: right makeup where you know, he's I can be a

899
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: much better player in year two than I was in

900
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: year one. I mean, Dave, I'll speak, go ahead and

901
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: broke ahead. I was just gonna say that it sucked

902
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: that he wasn't able to catch that ball. But at

903
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: the same time, on the positive side is the fact

904
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: that I don't think that many of us expected to

905
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: see that kind of play happening. So the fact that

906
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: it was something that we didn't really expect we saw

907
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: Indy Dalton throw the way that he did, and it

908
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: was almost a great play had it been caught by

909
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. But at the same time, just seeing a

910
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: little moment so of just opportunities like that that, Okay,

911
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,240
Speaker 1: you get a sense that, Okay, maybe with sometime he's

912
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna be able to make those kinds of catches and

913
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. Maybe not a Deander Hopkins level,

914
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: but close to that. So it's just it's good even

915
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 1: though it didn't work out this time, but it's still

916
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: good looking forward. I don't think I was gonna say

917
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: it's just kind of piggyback on what Dave said about

918
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. He is his heart, his stuff is critic

919
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: is himself, I mean, and that's a good quality to have.

920
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: I mean, no excuses for him. He's had some really

921
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: tough games, you know, specifically against Washington. You know, you

922
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: think about it, now, that's two weeks in a row

923
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: that hit the ball has been in his hands in

924
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: the end zone. One was ten yards, one was sixty.

925
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: But still you know it's you know, it's been there,

926
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: and he prides himself on making that play. So I think, Dave,

927
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: I think you're right about that is humbling experience that

928
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: you're both right. You know, he goes about it the

929
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: right way. And you know he didn't care about when

930
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: airon in some NFL record or or cowboy record for rookie.

931
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: You know, catches. He's gonna look at the plays that

932
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: he didn't make it. I think that'll help him as

933
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: he tries to get better and be one of those

934
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: best great receivers. Yeah, there's a lot of guys you

935
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: look at that make that that missopportunities and you start

936
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: worrying about their confidence. I think you can look at

937
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: him and you can look at Digs there. They're similar mentalities,

938
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: at least from what I can tell from the outside

939
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: looking in, they seem to be those type mentalities that

940
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: are gonna really make that push them and fuel them

941
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 1: to be even better. They're not, I don't think, deterred

942
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: necessarily by their their bad plays or misplaced All right,

943
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, you want us, We'll be back tomorrow.

944
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: We'll start getting you guys ready for Cowboys versus Bengals. Actually,

945
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: that game has been flexed down. The Cowboys will be

946
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 1: playing at noon on Sunday instead of a Sunday. I'm sorry, No,

947
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: that was a San Francisco. No, this game already be

948
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: at noon, but the Cowboys will be on a plane Saturday, Nick,

949
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: So go ahead and get your big backpack. You may

950
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: not even have to unpack he's getting ready again. Saturday.

951
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: We'll be back on a plane. All right. We pro

952
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: ate you guys. Jones. We're back tomorrow for Nick even

953
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: Dave Him and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleson. This has

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00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

955
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