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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, January seventeenth, twenty twenty two, season seventeen,

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Speaker 1: episode number ninety nine. Welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break. Life in the s W Mortgage. He and

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to laugh because it's just actually

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Speaker 1: do kind of want to laugh, just because it's just like,

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Speaker 1: what else can you do at this point near the

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Speaker 1: other one? I'm sure what your people have done, maybe,

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Speaker 1: which our producer did right before we went on the air, Like,

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Speaker 1: I think that was kind of what we're all feeling.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys lose twenty three seventeen to San Francisco. I can't

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Speaker 1: say that it was a surprise. I think we were

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Speaker 1: all very concerned about this matchup last week. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: I think we all had some trepidation. I don't think

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Speaker 1: any of us were like, oh, Cowboys A roll through

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Speaker 1: this team. I don't think like I roll. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought they'd win. I mean I thought they would win.

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Speaker 1: I thought they would play better, but they just did.

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Speaker 1: They're not. They're not. I mean I fell for it.

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Speaker 1: I really did. I wrote this, we talked about I

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Speaker 1: fell for it. I thought they were better. I did.

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Speaker 1: I thought this season was different because it was it

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Speaker 1: was season was different than what we've had, but not

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Speaker 1: to the point where it was going to be a

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Speaker 1: different ending. So everything they've done all year long, they

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Speaker 1: showed it in that game, and they were you know,

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Speaker 1: they were a pretty good team. They've been pretty good

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Speaker 1: shot all year long. Ago, Well, I feel like at

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Speaker 1: the beginning, and I was thinking that this morning as

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Speaker 1: did I personally go from watching the game and feeling

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Speaker 1: so pumped and confident that they would this is a

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Speaker 1: year that they could get to the Super Bowl? You know,

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Speaker 1: the way that the offense was playing, that we're making

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Speaker 1: mistakes and all that, but they were overcoming in every

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Speaker 1: single time. And then all of a sudden it changed

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Speaker 1: in the second half of the season, we've talked about

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Speaker 1: it on here. Oh well, teams start looking at your schemes,

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Speaker 1: they start preparing for you and all that. But it's

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Speaker 1: like it has to be more than that. There has

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Speaker 1: to be something else as to how this team changed

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Speaker 1: we aren't going to the super Bowl, asking for my

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Speaker 1: ring and everything about that. I really don't think they changed.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they were the same team. It's just

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Speaker 1: that they face different changed it. As I was saying,

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Speaker 1: they were pretty good team this year, and pretty good,

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Speaker 1: That's what pretty good does. See. I think you're right,

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Speaker 1: but for different reasons. I think they didn't change. They

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Speaker 1: They looked just as helpless dealing with something that they

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Speaker 1: but it just strikes me as like an unearned type

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Speaker 1: And the problem that we said from training camp and

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Speaker 1: They can't block, they can't move the guys off the ball.

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Speaker 1: And you're not going to change your quarterback because he's

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Speaker 1: making more money than God right now. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: Dad needs your help. He ran more than a cross

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Speaker 1: we did it right. I don't think so. I don't

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Speaker 1: We'll get to them, Amber, because I've left a lot

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Speaker 1: Is he the right guy to be the quarterback and

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Speaker 1: They can't complete the pass and they can't keep the

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Speaker 1: that was the game right there. I don't give me

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Speaker 1: And they were highly ineffective. Not just a few plays,

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Speaker 1: where that's what you want, that's what you dream about

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Speaker 1: if you are a team capable of winning a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: And I definitely I'm not going to absolve Dak. I

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Speaker 1: I always talk about demeanors and vibes and all that

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Speaker 1: and it's dumb or whatever, but I said it to

427
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 1: several people. When I got there and I was watching

428
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 1: the sidelines both teams the Cowboys were just standing there,

429
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: which is fine or whatever. And then I look at

430
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers and I can't I can't remember

431
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 1: what players those two were because they were from the side,

432
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 1: so I couldn't see their numbers, and they were far

433
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 1: but they're hitting each other like this to the point

434
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,719
Speaker 1: where I'm thinking are they fighting? In my head? And

435
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: then I keep watching and what They're just pushing each

436
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 1: other really really hard and just going at it and

437
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: then they hug at the end or whatever. So it

438
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,719
Speaker 1: was like hyping each other up, and like right at

439
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game, like pre game, I could

440
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: see just the energy on both sides. And I know

441
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: I always talk about this, but I made my point

442
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: of sending it to several people. I'm like, this is

443
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: not looking to be great because of how they're coming

444
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: into the game. The game anyway. Point is I feel

445
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 1: like they didn't come in prepared and they didn't have

446
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,919
Speaker 1: the what they needed to do and it was just

447
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: too late at the end of the game. And what

448
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,399
Speaker 1: they did even what was that one where they was

449
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: it they handed the past to Cedric and then he

450
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 1: threw it to get it to the hook and ladder.

451
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,479
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah to Tony Poller, was it right? Well they

452
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 1: messed they botched that one, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it was.

453
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 1: It wasn't good. But my point is, like little things

454
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: like that, when you watch it, it's just like they

455
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: they they were lost, Like it's not like everybody's in

456
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: sync or this was planned or they knew what we're

457
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 1: going to do. And I know they play and they

458
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: practice all this place, but I don't know just the

459
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 1: whole thing from beginning to end. And at the end

460
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: with the ref, what was the problem without in like

461
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: a few more like an extra second and going back

462
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: and saying reviewing this player, and like, you know, I

463
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,959
Speaker 1: know you're gonna talk about it, Nick, what happened there

464
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 1: with the ref at the end, But I don't get

465
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 1: what the big deal is and adding an extra second

466
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: and saying, you know what, we kind of messed up.

467
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: Let's just let you guys go it, even though it's

468
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: not gonna work out for you guys at the end,

469
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 1: because they they don't think that they did mess up

470
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,879
Speaker 1: because they're there. What the official said was as we

471
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: spotted the ball correctly. The Cowboys supposed to hand the

472
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: ball to the official apparently, and they be honest, tried

473
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: to spot the ball and whatever. But my issue though,

474
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: is just that the back judge was he was in

475
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: it was at six flags when that play started, when

476
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: that play ended, I mean he would he was at

477
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line and he stayed at the fifty.

478
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 1: When Dad got down, he had to run and sprint.

479
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: He should have already been doing that. And once Dak

480
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 1: took off his job to get the ball, he should

481
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: have been running. He was out of position. So yeah,

482
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: he spotted the ball, but it took way too long

483
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: for him to get there. I mean, he's not twenty

484
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: five years old. I mean he he as a as

485
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: a ref, and your job is to be athletic and

486
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: get up there, then you better get up there quicker.

487
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: And he wasn't. So I mean they're not going to

488
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: probably make the helmet or the player or whatever. I mean,

489
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 1: that's not why they lost. But I don't I don't

490
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 1: I think for the NFL to say that our guys

491
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: did it properly, I don't think that's correct. I mean,

492
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: you got you got seven refs there or eight refs,

493
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: you got a thousand refs on the sideline. He got

494
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: New York sitting up there. I mean, I'll say this,

495
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: they didn't win anything with New York this year. It

496
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 1: was either New York called down and changed the call

497
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: on him, or they didn't call or whatever. I mean,

498
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta figure that out. About when do

499
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: we go to New York and when do we not?

500
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: You know, it seems a little weird, But I just

501
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: thought the ref was out of position. I mean, for

502
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: sure that's not why they lost, but he was out

503
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: of position to me, Yeah, I mean I think that,

504
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, and I'll ask you guys this question. It

505
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 1: was that a situation where you think they didn't understand

506
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: they needed to get the ball to the ref because

507
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 1: we've seen you see this all the time in the NFL,

508
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: where where I know, I get that, but I'm saying

509
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: like we see it all the time. We see it

510
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: all the time in the NFL where at the end

511
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: of game, guys go down and they immediately look for

512
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: the ref to try to get the ball to them

513
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: because they know he's the one that has to spot it.

514
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 1: So they try to help him along like like you're right,

515
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: like he should have been up there a lot of

516
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: times he's not. So the player will get the ball

517
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: to the ref so that the ref can you know,

518
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: at least you make it a little bit faster because

519
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: you're helping him. Do you think this was a situation

520
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys aired and not doing that and not

521
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: looking to identify who the ref is. Get the ball

522
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: to him, so it makes it move a little faster. Yeah,

523
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: I mean that that was That's probably part of it.

524
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: But again it goes back to he's not there, so

525
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: you're just in panic mode or whatever. To go back

526
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: to what Dave said on the play, And I actually

527
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: was standing down there and I said to the guy

528
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: next to me, I would have thrown Pollards in the slot.

529
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: I said, I'd go right over the middle of the

530
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: field here and go down and spike it. That's a

531
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: lot quicker. Pollard's faster, he's right there. You throw it

532
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: to him, he gets ten fifteen yards and then everyone's moving.

533
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: The quarterback didn't have to go back and then forward.

534
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: I like the middle of the field. I just would

535
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: have done it with Pollard. It's wide open. But good call. Yeah,

536
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: I mean I have to go back and look at

537
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: the coverage they were playing, but it's obvious they left

538
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: the middle of the field wide open on purpose. You

539
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: can take advantage of it. But that is a slow

540
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: developing play, not I don't want to be a douche.

541
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: I'm getting aggravated all over again, because like we're spending

542
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: a significant chunk of the show and there's so many

543
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: other reasons why they lost this game. I mean, they

544
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: got pretty thoroughly outplayed and outcoached in almost every facet.

545
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: I mean, the slow starts are ridiculous, and I mean

546
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: at this point, I mean, we talk about the offensive

547
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: coordinator and all that, but he's gonna be a head coach. Like, seriously,

548
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't see it. I haven't seen it all year.

549
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't see it. And I don't know how you

550
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,479
Speaker 1: would see that. Like his teams aren't prepared in the

551
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 1: first half, like in the first quarter of games. I mean,

552
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: they haven't been that good. Now they make some adjustments,

553
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: but you know, they they rally back, but I mean

554
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be down so much. And I think it

555
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: all comes down to preparation. So and I'll throw this

556
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: out too, and I think this is where I want

557
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: to go next, is the penalties. This is a game

558
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: where once again penalties killed them. And I you know,

559
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: I heard somebody say it like this this is more.

560
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: I think it was on Sean and RJ here at

561
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: in one on five to out three the fan they're like,

562
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: you know, the first time you get cheated on, you know,

563
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: you look at the other person, You're like, man, I

564
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: was really messed up. By the fourth time, you gotta

565
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: start looking in the mirror and being like, why am

566
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: I in this situation? Maybe I am allowing this to happen.

567
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: Maybe there's something more I need to be doing, so

568
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: on not in this situation. And it's a similar situation

569
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: here with Reps. I'm kind of tired of this team

570
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: talking about after games, talking about the refs did this

571
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: and that and the other. I don't like it's one

572
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: thing one game. It's been multiple games. It is the epito.

573
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: It's petulant, like they sound like whiny kids and like

574
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: from the coach on down. Honestly, I mean it's yeah,

575
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: it's gross. I mean they were flagged fourteen times yesterday.

576
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: I challenge you to go find more than two or

577
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: three that weren't just outright flags like I thought. I

578
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: thought Connor got flagged for a holding early where I

579
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: mean the guy did go to the ground, but it

580
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: looked like he kind of lost his footing. And Randy

581
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: Gregory one, I think sure, I think that he was

582
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: moving his foot the tackle was moving. Yeah, I mean,

583
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: Trump Williams got away with some stuff, but Randy Gregory

584
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: had the worst. Maybe the defensive holding on Randy. I mean,

585
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: don't come at me, don't come at any like most

586
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: of these weren't earned, right, you know, I was by

587
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: you like just you know, that was just that was

588
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: just and that's it. Almost thought like he thought he

589
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: had the ball, like he was tackling him. Yeah, what

590
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: he mean, MICA's there, MICA's got this thing. It's gonna

591
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: be third and nine with a minute and a half

592
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: to go. You call your second time out like you're

593
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball back with about one twenty five

594
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: instead you got it with thirty two seconds. But do

595
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: you think this is all the reflection of the fact

596
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: that number one, the coach says he wants the team

597
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: to play on the edge, which means he's okay with

598
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: a lot of these penalties, especially the penalties that are

599
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: kind of between the whistle. He was more concerned about

600
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: the pre snap ones. But that particular penalty, to me,

601
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: is about playing like trying to play at the edge.

602
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: Guy kind of got you, so you just kind of

603
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: pull him down. Whereas if the coaches maybe coaching, look,

604
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: we're not gonna be stupid, We're not gonna make dumb penalties.

605
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: That's not about playing on the edge. That's about being

606
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: smart about the time of the game and what's happening

607
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: into what they've said earlier arrogant. I think that that's

608
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: what he goes back to because at the beginning of

609
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: the year, you saw them making these mistakes penalties, but

610
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: it was working out. Okay, you come out with the

611
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: win and you can take it whatever. But then you

612
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: see how now it's affecting you. And they had play

613
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: enty of time to be working on this, because this

614
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: is like you guys have been saying, this is nothing new.

615
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: It's been happening week after week, and then we somehow

616
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: end up talking about the refs or whatever. But I

617
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: think that going back to that, I now do start

618
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: seeing this team as maybe they were pretty arrogain throughout

619
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: the season, and it bait them in the butt at

620
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: the end of the game. At the end of the year,

621
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: it beat them in the butt, because that's the only reason,

622
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: the only way that you do not work on it.

623
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: I mean, let me not say work on it, because

624
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: maybe they have been working on it and trying to

625
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: improve of that, but for you to constantly be making

626
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: the same mistakes and not see any kind of improvement

627
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: week after week that's you thinking that you got the

628
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: better team and at the end of the day, you're

629
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: going to come out with the win regardless. My lasting

630
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: impression right now of this team is like this air

631
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: of defiance coming out of these losses, where it's like,

632
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: not our fault, it ain't US Vegas Cardinals. Last night.

633
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: He haven't even talked about Dak's comments about the referees.

634
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: It just it's a it's a terrible look. It's not

635
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: a good look. That was bad. It's not a good

636
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: look for your franchise quarterbacks. Costly as a costly game

637
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: of what they had a chance to do, it's gonna

638
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: be costly for him to say that. Just didn't hear

639
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: what was what happened after the game. Obviously you saw

640
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 1: the people throwing stuff onto the field, um, and you know,

641
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: and and it was they was asked about it, he

642
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: gave a he gave a very Dak answer on it

643
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: was disgusting. These players fight so hard, why would throw

644
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: stuff at him? And then he was brought to his attention,

645
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: was like, well, actually I think they were thrown at

646
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: the refs, and he said, well, credit to them, credit

647
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: to them. Then he got a chance to come back

648
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: and he was given he was given an opportunity to clarify,

649
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, that's that's what it meant.

650
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: And you know that's I get it. I get I

651
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: get that he's frustrated. Uh. You know, he talked about

652
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: how this this is gonna last stay with him for

653
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: a long time. I'm sure will. But let me let

654
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: me also let me also say this too. Um. You know,

655
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: we do this every day. We sit here in front

656
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: of the mics. We say things, We've said things that

657
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: we regret. You know, you get finished off the show

658
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: and said that. You know, it happens all the time,

659
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: and and you know, and and Dak shouldn't have said that,

660
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Um. I got a problem

661
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: with the people that didn't say anything. You know, that's

662
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: that's that's my issue. Are you talking about I'm talking

663
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: about the guys that that that don't step up to

664
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Speaker 1: the mic and talk. You know, nobody wants to. You

665
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: think Dak wants to do that. You think Zeke wants

666
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: to do that. Zeke, Zeke's the best one that we've

667
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: had in many years. As far as this is my job,

668
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: I go, I talk to the me if I had

669
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: twenty four yards rushing in two fumbles or whatever. This

670
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna do. And I stand down there

671
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: and I you know, I mean, I got I got

672
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: heismaned more than anybody you know last night, Chris and

673
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: I did down there, and it's ridiculous. It really was,

674
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: and so so I yes, Dak, you shouldn't have said that,

675
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: But I also think that there's not enough credit that

676
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: that gets taken to the guys that do face the music,

677
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: stand up there and have the answers, and you have

678
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: veterans that had great seasons, Pro Bowl seasons, Pro Bowl

679
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: players that said, I don't feel like talking. All right,

680
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: he was there last night. I think he I think

681
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: he was. He was tweeting about it. I would guess

682
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: he was an appropriate uh drop there, Chris. It really is. Yeah,

683
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: that's these It's funny though. I mean, I agree with

684
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: everything you just said, but I think I'm big enough

685
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: to admit I would tell everybody to f off if

686
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: I were one of those guys after a game like

687
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: that would be like, I can't get in front of

688
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: a microphone right now. It's not gonna be good for anybody.

689
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: But I admire the guys that do it. I mean

690
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: that's I mean, they're paid handsomely to do it. But

691
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: that's gotta be tough. Yeah, I mean, I mean it's

692
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: part of the job. It's a part of the job

693
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: for a lot of them. I'm not gonna say for everybody,

694
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: because everybody is not a part of their job necessarily.

695
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: I think for the leaders, it is a part of

696
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: their job because that's what leadership is. If you're gonna

697
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: talk about great a leader, they are, that's part of

698
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: being a leader. There's a lot of disappointing stuff we

699
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: can go over. We haven't scratched the surface, Like there's

700
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: so much the Cowboys play, calling the way the way

701
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: like the forty nine ers, like the way they scheme

702
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: things up for their guys, getting Diggs to bite on

703
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: multiple double moves, Like if if Jimmy G's a more

704
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: accurate quarterback, they end the game by burning Treyvon Diggs. Basically,

705
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just very smart coaching stuff. Well coached team.

706
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: But to go back to what I was gonna say, like,

707
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: not only did he play great, but Micah Parsons once

708
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: again comes out and like is is like the mature

709
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: Like we didn't do enough enough of this, like just

710
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: very like down to business. We gotta clean this stuff up.

711
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: It's not good enough. Yeah that I mean, if you're

712
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: if there's a bright spot for this game other than

713
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: Zeroline not missing anything, it's probably that Laydon played the

714
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: game of his season. From this season, I think it

715
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: is Michael Parsons And what how had somebody tell me

716
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: last night? Man, when he becomes a leader of this team,

717
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: look out? I was like, he's already as a leader

718
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: of this defense. For sure, there's no doubt in my

719
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: mind he's a leader of this team. I felt so smart.

720
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: But like he I mean he did he blitzed and

721
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 1: he did some edge stuff, but like they used him

722
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: against the running game and the forty nine ers ran

723
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: for one forty five, but like they did enough. This

724
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of the Cardinals game. Like the

725
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: defense they helped him to twenty three points. And this

726
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: is a dan Quinn trend at this point, Like the

727
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: forty nine ers script worked to perfection. They got exactly

728
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: what they wanted. They go down and get seven. Defense

729
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: kind of cracks its neck and they were good the

730
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Their only other touchdown came on

731
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: a short field because of Dakh they got a takeaway

732
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: that set the offense up to get back into the game.

733
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: Not the best game of their season at all, but

734
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: they played well enough to win, and Michael was right

735
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: there in the run defense, I mean, I think San

736
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: Francisco couldn't have had more than like two explosive runs.

737
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of that was gritty, tough running.

738
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: No sacks though, that was that was tough. Yeah, you know.

739
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: But the other thing I'll mentioned on that day of

740
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: two though, that that I think you have to take

741
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: a few points off the defense is there were a

742
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: number of times yesterday where they had opportunities to make

743
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: tackles and the guy got another four or five yards.

744
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: That was a problem. That's what they're good at. Yeah, problem,

745
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: I mean it is, it's it's that was what we

746
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: were talking about all week when we said the kind

747
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: of the brand of football that San Francisco plays is

748
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: a tough, gritty running style, and and that's what they

749
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Speaker 1: live on is you think you got us, We'll get

750
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: another four yards and that like it's seven to nothing

751
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: and it's third and twenty one at like midfield and

752
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 1: they throw a little pass to the fullback U and

753
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: you know he stopped at the forty yard line and

754
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: he spends and gets to like the thirty five and

755
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: the fullback yeah wow, because I can't say his name,

756
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: you check whatever. He I don't think he's gonna kick

757
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: a fifty eight yard field goal with him, but he's

758
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: gonna kick a fifty three and you know that five

759
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: yards because you know, every every defensive players so point,

760
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: you know, so excited to put their hand up and

761
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: be like fourth down, fourth down. I'm like, well, you

762
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: just lost three points. Yeah, because you didn't get them

763
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to. You know, yeah, great, it's fourth down.

764
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 1: It's still gonna be three points as opposed to them punning.

765
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: So and you know, and then I know you can't

766
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: play the game that way, but I mean, just think

767
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: what three less points does when you're trying to drive

768
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: and you're down by three, you're at the forty yard

769
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: and you're already in field goal rings. So you know,

770
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 1: those things, those things add up. You're not saying anything

771
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: that's incorrect, but twenty three points twenty yeah, twenty three

772
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 1: points should win you a home game. Yeah, the offense

773
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: had eleven possessions. Eight of them ended without points, either

774
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: a turnover at the end of the game or a punt. Again,

775
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: nothing we haven't seen this season. Three hundred and seven

776
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: yards of offense and again again the other We talked

777
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: about it a lot. It's like, can can the offensive

778
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: line give Dak time to stand in there and throw?

779
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: And the answer was no. I mean, that's the only

780
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: thing you can fix. Now you can't. You're not gonna

781
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: change your quarterback. You gotta fix that. You have to

782
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: figure well, I'm gonna throw one at you when we

783
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: come back from a break. That I think is something

784
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: that can be fixed that. I'm not sure the Cowboys

785
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Speaker 1: have what it takes to actually go down this route,

786
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Speaker 1: but I think it's something they should. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: all right, because, like you, Dave, we're gonna wait till

849
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: next just give me some time to digest what just

850
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: happened and maybe start looking that. You know, last year

851
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: they were out of the playoffs for all intents and

852
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: purposes before Christmas. I don't know anything about this draft class.

853
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: So all right, let's wait till next week for you day,

854
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: thank you, and and we'll just kind of but just

855
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: so the fans know. Next week, all right, we're gonna

856
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: hit the ground running. I will be excited. I will

857
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: be excited next week or even later this week, but

858
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: right now, I'm just like, oh my god, you can't

859
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: just jump into another relationship that quick. Thank you, Thank you.

860
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: Amber Da and I were sitting up there in the

861
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: in the press box US night and he said something

862
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: that I didn't think of right off the bat, but

863
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: he was like, this fan base this year, I mean,

864
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. This offseason is going to be tough.

865
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: God bless you. If you're listening right now, well you

866
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: you're listening now, but are you gonna listen in March?

867
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: Are you listen? You know, like these folks are like

868
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: even like, what if the Cowboys not to mention I

869
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: mean first place schedule. I used to think that was

870
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 1: kind of not a big deal. But when you add

871
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: another game, you're adding another first place team. You know,

872
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: you you face I think you face four. They got Rogers,

873
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: they got Brady, they got Joey b You don't know

874
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: if they got Rodgers, maybe they have the team that

875
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,919
Speaker 1: currently employs Rogers. Point being, there's some really really good

876
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: teams on the schedule next year. It's a bits tough.

877
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: It'll be tough as it is Tampa every years. My

878
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: point to that is is you get to four though five,

879
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Okay that listening, you know, it goes back.

880
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: It kind of goes back to the arrogance thing. And Nick,

881
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: maybe you're right, maybe they were just pretty good, not great,

882
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:30,479
Speaker 1: But like twelve wins is the reasonable expectation. That's that's

883
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: the best most fans are ever gonna hope for. Like,

884
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: you don't go into a season excuse me, yeah, you're right,

885
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't. You don't go into a season

886
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: like fourteen and three or fifty fifteen and two. I'm

887
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: still getting used to the new records, But like, nobody

888
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: goes into a season expecting to lose two or fewer games,

889
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: Like twelve wins is the reasonable expectation. And this team

890
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: at times this year looked like a pretty special team

891
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: and it just didn't translate. And if you care about

892
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: this team. Even if you're like the biggest die hard,

893
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: I don't blame you at all. If you need to

894
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: see more, you're like, I ain't getting excited about a

895
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: win in October? Why should I? I don't blame you

896
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: at all. That's the hard parts me the most is

897
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: that we get to this point and you always think, Okay,

898
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,760
Speaker 1: we're only a few pieces away. That's what it always

899
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: feels like, as opposed to last year. I was like, okay,

900
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: far everybody here from defen on the defense. But it

901
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: always feels like that. But then you got to go

902
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: through the whole thing of like you're never gonna have

903
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: the same team and just like you might get some

904
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,479
Speaker 1: other better player at a certain position, you're gonna lose

905
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: players are have been doing a good job. So it's just, man,

906
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do the draft. Don't care

907
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: about it. The draft is great though, because the draft

908
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: like and I think that's why you know, I've already

909
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of tweets about like when is the

910
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: Draft show start? Because it might be unhealthy. It's definitely unhealthy,

911
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: but like hope Hope springs etern like it renews you. Yeah, well,

912
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: and then you have free agen they're going to deal with. Yeah,

913
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: it does have a way every new Yeah. I was

914
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: like not to be a downer though, And you never

915
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: know what you can find in the draft, Like, shoot,

916
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson was the third receiver taken in his class,

917
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: and he's all of a sudden looking like far and away,

918
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: not all of a sudden, he's far and away the

919
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: best receiver. Like we talked so much it was like,

920
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: can't believe the league led CD fall to seventeen. Now

921
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm more like, I can't believe the league led Justin

922
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 1: Jefferson fall to twenty two or wherever he was taking

923
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: the point I was gonna make. It's just like this,

924
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: They're not going to be significantly better next year than

925
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 1: they are than what they were right now, unless a

926
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: minor miracle happens. You know, like they've got a lot

927
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: of tough decisions in front of them in free agency,

928
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: not a lot of money to spend, and you could

929
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: always stumble into an amazing draft pick. But I think

930
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: they're picking twenty fourth odds that you're finding a difference

931
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: maker at twenty four, and then whatever pick is after that,

932
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: they're not good. So this is what you got and

933
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: you got to find a way to get better results

934
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: with it. And we talked about the twelve wins, you know,

935
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: about being a pretty good team. I mean, this is

936
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 1: another thing we mentioned of those twelve wins. I mean,

937
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: nobody's still playing. No, I mean, you won three playoff

938
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: game three. You won three games against playoff teams. The

939
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: Eagles showed that they didn't belong and the Patriots didn't show,

940
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: you know. And the thing about it is is what

941
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: what are those two teams have in common? They have

942
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks that really aren't that ready to play, you know,

943
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: and it comes down to quarterbacks. I mean, I mean

944
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: and da you know, we thought, you know, MVP or

945
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: at one point he should be time. We thought comeback

946
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 1: player of the year. He's not gonna win that. Yeah,

947
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: because I don't think they voted yet. They don't they

948
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: don't vote yet. Um, I don't know. And they're gonna vote.

949
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: They're gonna vote Burrow because he's already won a game.

950
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: Burrows won as many playoff games as Dak that that'll

951
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: be said. And it's true. How many years I know

952
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: there are quarterbacks that come in and they played really

953
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: well right off the bat. I mean Dak did it

954
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: himself his first year, you know, but how many years

955
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: to a quarterback's life does do they get that turning

956
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: point where it's like, Okay, this guy could be elite

957
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: or could be really good. Is there usually like maybe

958
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: a certain amount of years that he takes a quarterback

959
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: to there's no start becoming that. There's no definitive timeline it.

960
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: I mean, when do you start playing, Like are you

961
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: a day one starter as a rookie like Dak? Do

962
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: you sit on the bench for four years like Rogers

963
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: or Romo? Are you on a good team earlier in

964
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: your career? I mean, Brady got carried by amazing defenses

965
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: for the first few years. There's there's no formula. But

966
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: by year six, with as much starting experience as you have,

967
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say you're a finished product, but that's

968
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: where these results should start coming in. Yeah, That's where

969
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, guys, do you think

970
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: it's fair for fans who look at Dak now and

971
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: say he's been starting since he was a rookie, he's

972
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: passed that first contract, he should be in his prime.

973
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: And if he's in his prime, this is the best

974
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: of what you're going to see from Dak Prescott. Yeah,

975
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: and that. And I remember writing this article in two

976
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: thousand and eight and Romo came up to me and

977
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: was upset about it. And he said, yeah, I heard

978
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: you called me Matt Hasselbeck. And I said, that's not

979
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: what I said. Did you read the article? He goes, no,

980
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: someone told me about it. I was like, well, that's

981
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: your first mistake. Please read the article and then come back,

982
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: because what I wrote was is that everybody in the

983
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: league there's there's only a couple of Drew Brees and

984
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: Bradies and Mannings or whatever. Seattle's got Matt Hasselbeck and

985
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: that they're committed to him, and that's who they've got.

986
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: And so you have to the way though the quarterback

987
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: market works. You have to pay your guy, but it

988
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: may not be as good as you want it to be,

989
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: but that's that's your guy. You at your pot committed

990
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: with him. So I said, it's I mean, Seattle's got this,

991
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: you got the Cowboys have. Romo's who you have. I

992
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: didn't compare him to that. I'm basically saying he's better

993
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: than that. You could you could be this guy. That's

994
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys are, and you said it. I don't

995
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: know if you want to go there that route, but

996
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: you said it, and you're right, Well, actually I know

997
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, and I said it last night

998
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: actually when I was talking to some of my family

999
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: members would come to the game, and I literally took

1000
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: my sister off for a feast. She had to sit

1001
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: down like, oh God, please tell me, no, that's not

1002
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: the case. But I was like, tell me the difference, like,

1003
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: do the Cowboys have a Kirk Cousins, Like do they

1004
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: have a guy who is like you were in a

1005
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: situation where you needed to pay him because there weren't

1006
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: a lot of other guys that were better. You didn't

1007
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: have a lot of options. But what you've seen as

1008
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: far as results aren't quite there yet, Like, yeah, you

1009
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: got some sets, but as far as getting your team

1010
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: to that next level, like he hasn't shown you yet

1011
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: that he can do that. And again, I am not

1012
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: It's the same thing what you were saying, Nick. I

1013
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: think Dak is way better than Kirk Cousins at his best.

1014
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: The results, though right now are saying they're about the same.

1015
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: It's hard to argue that the results are different. That's

1016
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: what I was about to say, I still I have

1017
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence that Dak is a better quarterback

1018
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: than that. I just I don't even know how to

1019
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: articulate it, but I think I still think he's one

1020
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: of the best in the league when everything is working

1021
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to, right. But the fun thing is,

1022
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: nuance goes out the window when you sign one hundred

1023
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollar contract. And I'm not going to

1024
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: bother arguing because the results are what they are, Like,

1025
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna sit here and pound the table

1026
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: after you put up a sixty nine passer rating in

1027
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: a playoff game like it is what it is, and yeah,

1028
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: you had no time to throw. Your offensive line got mauled. Sorry,

1029
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: there were also some opportunities though that he had. Sure

1030
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: he did no, no, no, again he did. He played

1031
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: like crap. I think he's a better player than that.

1032
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: I sitting here right now, I do not think quarterback

1033
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: is a problem for the Dallas Cowboys. But I'm not

1034
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: going to argue with the people that think that it is,

1035
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: because that's if you don't like it, don't sign the

1036
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: forty million dollar contract. Like that's the nature of this business.

1037
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: And I think Dak is that he's just going to

1038
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: have to eat that and let it hopefully, let it

1039
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: fuel him. Right. I think he's gonna be pissed off

1040
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: until he has a chance to get out there and

1041
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: show something better. But until then, what are you supposed

1042
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: to say? Yeah, I will say this. I do think

1043
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: that a lot of what we saw in the second

1044
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 1: half of the year from Dak Prescott was a result

1045
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: of an offensive line that just is not good enough.

1046
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: And if there's one thing that this team has to

1047
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: do this offseason, they have to figure out how to

1048
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: start the process of remaking their offensive line. That's going

1049
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: to be extremely difficult for the reasons that Dave was

1050
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 1: just talking about. Don't have a lot of money, you're

1051
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: picking late in the draft. It's going to be difficult.

1052
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: But they got to start that process now. They got

1053
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: to start figuring out how they can start remaking this

1054
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: offensive line because this offensive line is highly unreliable and

1055
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: they're just not good at What did they do with

1056
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: Romo to bring it full circle? They waited way too

1057
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: long to do that. Ye, Like they waited until he

1058
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: was closer to the end of his career. Yeah, yeah,

1059
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: And I don't I mean I don't think DA's at

1060
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: that point, but yeah, you can't. You can't let that

1061
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: thing slip. Maybe to knock on him. There are some

1062
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league that can make it work with less,

1063
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's one of them. They're too

1064
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: light on offensive line. I mean, I went back, I

1065
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: was watching a game two thousand and nine or ten.

1066
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: Would they they play? I watched that offensive line and

1067
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: you know, Leonard Davis at at at right guard, and

1068
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: Flowzell Adams and Mark Colombo and Kyle Kozer is not

1069
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: the biggest guy, but the center was Andre Garrod. They

1070
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: got they had a big, big offensive line. And I

1071
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: get the football has changed a little bit, but the

1072
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: forteen hundred had a big line and they have a

1073
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: veteran line. I mean, I think this whole underside. I mean,

1074
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: how many screens are we really running here? How many

1075
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: screens are pulling? Get the screen pages out of the

1076
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: playbook anyway, But their athleticism, how much does that factor in?

1077
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: You're I like having good athletes on the line, I

1078
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: mean good they all got to the line and we

1079
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: got to get the ball spiked. I'm sure everybody would

1080
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: have done that, you know, Lyell and Tyrant got there.

1081
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,720
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying athleticism for the all offensive line

1082
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: for the most probably want a guy that's mean and

1083
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: nasty and big he can push you back, and they

1084
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,919
Speaker 1: don't have that. Connor Williams is athletic. Good for him.

1085
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna go to free agency and his

1086
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: Dagan is gonna sell that. But he's not. He's not.

1087
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,479
Speaker 1: His technique isn't great, and he doesn't push people back.

1088
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: He's probably a tackle. That's where he should have been

1089
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: playing along. Yeah, it's a hell of a hell of

1090
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: a final impression to leave. I will say real quick though,

1091
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: I do think before before we end the show, lay

1092
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: leave a good one thought. Layton played one of his

1093
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 1: better games of the season. In all honesty, I said

1094
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,919
Speaker 1: this off I said this off the air. I think

1095
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: he did play well, But he needs to go to

1096
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: a team that's gonna face the forty nine ers a

1097
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: lot and that's that style. Yeah, that style because him,

1098
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: because when they're gonna run like that. He he did

1099
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: have a nice game. He had a great play that

1100
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: could have changed the game when he stopped Debo at

1101
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: fourth and one or third and whatever. He stopped the

1102
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: one yard trub was a huge play in the game.

1103
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right. I mean, because you're not asking

1104
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: to do as much in coverage a lot that's that's

1105
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: not if that's his liability. So I don't know if

1106
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: he comes back or not. I don't know who your

1107
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: coordinator is going to be. We might we're gonna we're

1108
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: gonna get into a lot of that tomorrow with the

1109
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: guards to the coaches. We're gonna need we might need

1110
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: to do more shows than you would anticipate. I just

1111
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot of moving parts, like we're

1112
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: not going into the off season like well, this is

1113
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: what we've got, and these are the guys that will

1114
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: be here, Like we could be dealing with some drastic

1115
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: changes over the next week or so. And there certainly

1116
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: are reports out there that are swirling, which happens when

1117
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: you lose in the playoffs first round. They are going

1118
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: to be those kinds of reports. We'll get into some

1119
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: of that stuff tomorrow because I thought we have a

1120
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: lot of answers, like we can sit and know about it,

1121
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: but it's like, okay, what's the answer then you know, Yeah,

1122
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 1: a good punt of questions that we won't find out

1123
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,720
Speaker 1: until well, you never know, you never know how quickly

1124
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: things can start moving around here too. Well, the good

1125
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 1: thing is we got something to talk about, so I

1126
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: never I'm like, you gotta get, you gotta get and

1127
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: y'all know better than me. You've got to get the

1128
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: NFC title game. What is that exactly? You gotta get

1129
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: there at some point for me to believe that it's

1130
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So like, even at the highest of high

1131
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: of this season, I don't think I legitimately believe that

1132
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: they could reach that level just because they haven't done it.

1133
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: I definitely thought that they were. They were a divisional

1134
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: round team, like this was a team that I thought

1135
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 1: was good enough to get where the other ones have gone.

1136
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: And they weren't even that good. They weren't even good

1137
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: enough to go one and one in the postseason like

1138
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: the Owen one with some of the highs we saw

1139
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: from this team. Owen one is just a Dak said

1140
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 1: it himself. I'm not even I'm not even calling him out.

1141
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: Dak said it himself. They underachieved this year. Yeah they did.

1142
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody that can that can question

1143
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: that they did. All right, uh, real quick, before we

1144
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: end this year, I do want to say to all

1145
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: you guys that are out there listening, and Nick mentioned

1146
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: you guys, but I want to mention you because it

1147
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: means a lot to us that you guys through an

1148
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: entire season, and really this starts in the off season.

1149
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: It goes into training camp when we starts gearing up

1150
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: and talking about this team every day, and then you

1151
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 1: guys take this ride with us every season and through

1152
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: the ups and the downs, you laugh with us, you

1153
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,720
Speaker 1: probably cry with us a little bit, but you're definitely

1154
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: there with us, and we appreciate you guys taking your

1155
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: time every day come and sit in on our shows

1156
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: and listening to what we have to say. I ran

1157
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: into a guy yesterday at the stadium just randomly like

1158
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Derek, and I was like yeah, and we

1159
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: talked for a bit and it was just that does

1160
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 1: me good because I know the people out there listening,

1161
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: they're willing to take this ride with us. We appreciating

1162
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:28,720
Speaker 1: We don't want you to ever take that for granted.

1163
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,280
Speaker 1: We appreciate you taking this ride with us every season,

1164
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: and we can't promise the results. What we can promise

1165
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: you is that we're gonna get on here every day

1166
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:37,359
Speaker 1: when we're supposed to get on here, and we're gonna

1167
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 1: talk about it, and we're gonna hopefully entertain you while

1168
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: we keep you informed about this team. And that's what

1169
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: we try to do, and so we appreciate you doing

1170
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: it with us. I think the whole night, Like the

1171
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: whole night last night, I love being like the conduit

1172
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: for information for people that care about this team, Like

1173
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: it's what it's your hobby, it's your passion, it's your life,

1174
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: and it's awesome that I get to help you do that.

1175
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: And like the ole last night in the press box,

1176
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: I was just like, how do we sell this to him? Nick? Like,

1177
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: how do we? How do we? It's all it's like

1178
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: your disappointed parents or something. You're like, how do I

1179
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: explain that I wrecked the car? Right? How do I

1180
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: explain that they lost again? I just I don't know

1181
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: how to do it. I mean, and I said it before,

1182
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: I just they are they were. I mean I feel

1183
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: like the like the late Denny Green said it, even

1184
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: though he's like they are who they thought we were,

1185
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, but I didn't. I didn't think they were

1186
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,919
Speaker 1: this way. I didn't see it. I wanted to see

1187
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: differently and I didn't I and I feel like in

1188
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: a way, I feel like broad us here by saying this,

1189
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: I kind of like failed the fans because I kept

1190
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: saying yes. I kept saying, hey, no, they're gonna win,

1191
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: and I said it, they're gonna beat the forty nine

1192
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: ers four nineers could have been nine and eight. But

1193
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: I didn't see it, and I didn't want to see it.

1194
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I didn't want to see it. But

1195
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: they showed us who they were all year and by

1196
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: they kept showing us. We just refused to believe. I refused.

1197
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: I do apologize times. Yeah, that's myself credit. It kind

1198
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: of sounds like you are well. I got so much

1199
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: crap from people saying you're downer, blah blah blah. My dude,

1200
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: I get on here and I talked about what I

1201
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: feel like I see on the field. So I'm just

1202
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: saying I there were times where I was taking myself

1203
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, but there were times where I'm

1204
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: like this, ain't it so you both this season? Rights,

1205
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: It's been on both. It's so true though, like go,

1206
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: I mean on Friday, I don't remember exactly what I said,

1207
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: but like I didn't want to. I didn't want to

1208
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: pick him. I didn't want to, but I was just like,

1209
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the guy that didn't hop

1210
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: on board if they do catch fire, like if they

1211
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: do play up to their potential, I don't want to

1212
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: be the guy that thought they couldn't do it. And

1213
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: our first instinct turned out to be the right one, unfortunately.

1214
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: But enjoy the ride. Yeah, he so fun. But you know, honestly,

1215
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: I still as much as I hated it last night,

1216
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: and I woke up this morning feeling awful because I

1217
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: always do when this moment comes. The fact is I

1218
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: still had some very enjoyable moments this season watching this

1219
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: team play, and so it was a joy to every

1220
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: Sunday watch Michael Parson's play football, Like I got some

1221
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: pleasure out of watching. So yes, you have to enjoy

1222
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: the ride. That's a part of being a fan as well.

1223
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: And it's extremely disappointed, I was telling you before we

1224
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: went on the air, like I got it both ways.

1225
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: My college team and my pro team both Like they

1226
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: just disappoint me. That's what they do. They try to

1227
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: disappoint me. They look for opportunities to disappoint me. But

1228
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: if you don't enjoy the ride, it's the point of

1229
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: being a fan, right, It's no fun if you can't

1230
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: enjoy it, And that's part of the ride, even if

1231
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't get where you wanted to go. Ultimately, that's

1232
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen next year. I mean, they're gonna have

1233
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: some good moments and bad moments, and everything's gonna be

1234
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,919
Speaker 1: compared to the playoffs. But I mean, if if you can't,

1235
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: if you can't enjoy it, that you're right, Like you said,

1236
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like like, we're gonna get to

1237
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving and it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be

1238
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: fest of whatever. Hopefully we're back to normalcy, you know,

1239
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: not wearing masks and full press box and all that

1240
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But you're not gonna sit there and

1241
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: be like, well this doesn't matter, good win. But it

1242
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Once once I started, I wouldn't be here

1243
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: this long. If I'm ready to retire, you know, I'm

1244
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: gonna do something else. We wouldn't. We wouldn't do it

1245
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: for this long. So it sucks. But I mean when

1246
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: the draft show stop so many I'm ready. I mean,

1247
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: I got so many emails guard centers. Let's go this

1248
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: morning of people complaining about how many years since though,

1249
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: what is it? Eighty? For years and years and we're

1250
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two now and they're still writing emails,

1251
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: they're still in it, and I'm like, damn, y'all want

1252
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: to speak. I mean, I do it every year. I'll

1253
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: do it again. It being a fan, you don't choose it.

1254
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 1: It chooses you. It chooses you. You you want you.

1255
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: They're like, I don't want to be cows. I'm done,

1256
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,919
Speaker 1: b f s, you will be there again, all right.

1257
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: I'll just say I'll go, I'll go with the bull

1258
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: and that's it. BFS, you will be here again because

1259
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: the cowboy fandom, it chooses you. Cowboy. You don't want

1260
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: to do it. It It pisses you off. You're done. You're

1261
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna throw it away. You'll be dusting it off in

1262
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: a little bit, and that's who you are, and embrace it.

1263
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: It sucks right now. But man, the real ones, they've

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Speaker 1: been through worse than this. True. True. I hate when

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Speaker 1: someone says I've been a fancy nineteen seventy four or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and I'm done. I'm like, nineteen eighty nine. Where were you,

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Speaker 1: you were here, you could have dusted this thing off

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Speaker 1: a long time if you've been a fan since nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy four. Yeah, like the eighties were way worse than

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Speaker 1: anything we're dealing, right, So you know it sucks, and

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Speaker 1: you have a right too. You have right to be

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Speaker 1: pissed off. You should be. But yeah, stay with us

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna we're gonna do it again. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get on the horse and we're gonna do it again.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's what we do. We're gonna find some

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Speaker 1: damn offensive arm that's your job, Dave, go find us

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Speaker 1: some offensive lineman. You brought us to Kavanaugh Kyle. All right,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you, guys, john us. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Till then for Nick even Dave elm and Ambergarcia. I

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Speaker 1: am Derek Yelton. This has been The Break live on

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