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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, November sixth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode
Speaker 1: number sixty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break
Speaker 1: Life Nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. And this
Speaker 1: morning we were talking about a big win Cowboys, make
Speaker 1: it three in a row. I picked the Chiefs. You
Speaker 1: did not even gonna let Derek get into it, okay,
Speaker 1: chief I also picked the Chiefs and Amber did you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Didn pick Boat that week. I'm looking at it t here.
Speaker 1: Derrek picked Dallas to win. Okay. Have you ever picked
Speaker 1: another team twin there? Yes? Picked, Yes, I have picked
Speaker 1: another em to win. And I was actually going to
Speaker 1: pick the Chiefs until my man Zeke came back. And
Speaker 1: I told you guys, when Zeke came back, they can
Speaker 1: beat anybody with Zeke. Like Zeke played well yesterday. But
Speaker 1: let's not act like he like put the team on
Speaker 1: his back and that it is not about it is
Speaker 1: not about his number of yards. It is about the
Speaker 1: thread of having Ezekiel it back there. It makes a difference.
Speaker 1: Act like you're that naive day. Well, you know the
Speaker 1: touchdown to Cole Beasley, the first one that that's all Zeke.
Speaker 1: That is that the play action read, you know, and
Speaker 1: then he just goes right over the middle. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is the luxury of having him on the team.
Speaker 1: And so uh and there there's a couple of other
Speaker 1: runs that you know, it just how many times yesterday
Speaker 1: did it look like minus two, minus one? And then
Speaker 1: he just grinds out four and it's second and six.
Speaker 1: It's a huge difference in what they can do on
Speaker 1: second and third down. So he is a huge difference maker.
Speaker 1: The number of times that Ezekiel Elliott just kind of
Speaker 1: disappears into a mound of bodies and then well just
Speaker 1: and then its five yards by the end of the carry.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. You're like, all right, he's hit at the
Speaker 1: lines probably zero one yard, oh he got five, okay.
Speaker 1: And it's not like it's college football where these guys
Speaker 1: are like pushing from the back all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they don't. We don't see that a lot
Speaker 1: out of this team. No, he's just been nice. If
Speaker 1: they did, he's just a tank. He ended up with
Speaker 1: twenty seven carries for ninety three yards, three point four
Speaker 1: average and a touchdown. Not a great average, but like
Speaker 1: you said, he was getting those really tough yards. And again,
Speaker 1: this was a defense that yesterday, in a lot of instances,
Speaker 1: was trying very hard not to let him get those yards,
Speaker 1: and so I thought it did make a difference. And really,
Speaker 1: to be honest with I think this game yesterday was
Speaker 1: much more about the other two things, the passing game
Speaker 1: and of course the defense. Let's start verse with the
Speaker 1: passing game. Dak Prescott goes twenty one to thirty three
Speaker 1: for sixty four percent completion rate, two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nine yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, and I think this
Speaker 1: was probably the most important part of that. He had
Speaker 1: three carries for twenty seven yards touchdown. The runs. Once again,
Speaker 1: the runs are what opens up everything yesterday, Nick, you
Speaker 1: and I in the game, we're talking about the fact
Speaker 1: they were running a lot of man, and when you
Speaker 1: got teams running man against you, then it opens up
Speaker 1: opportunities with the quarterback because everybody's got their back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, and he took advantage of that in some
Speaker 1: key moments yesterday. Well, everybody was a threat yesterday and
Speaker 1: that that was a big key. I mean, Terrence Williams
Speaker 1: got to give him credit. I mean, he's been criticized
Speaker 1: as much as any player on this team, seems like
Speaker 1: this year and even on this show. But we've asked
Speaker 1: him to step up, and he did. Not only did
Speaker 1: he have nine catches, he had nine targets. I mean,
Speaker 1: you talk about a reliable player catching the football, extending
Speaker 1: to play, getting first downs, getting up the field, and
Speaker 1: then when it's time, you know what, when it was
Speaker 1: time to get out of bound or stay in bounds,
Speaker 1: he didn't. He hasn't always made the right call on
Speaker 1: that one, but he did at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: How he just had a really really nice game. Hopefully
Speaker 1: his ankle injuries not too bad. One of the best,
Speaker 1: like two or three games of his every probably rest
Speaker 1: in the most meaningful game and he had Detroit playoffs,
Speaker 1: probably the Green Bay the first Green Bay Playoff game
Speaker 1: two for that matter. But I mean, yeah, he was
Speaker 1: a phenomenal you look at some of the drives that
Speaker 1: they had yesterday. Check this out. They had on the
Speaker 1: four touchdown drives they had, it was seven plays for
Speaker 1: seventy one yards. There was a seven plays for eighty
Speaker 1: two yards. There's a twelve play for fifty eight yards,
Speaker 1: and then there's a thirteen play for eighty seven yards.
Speaker 1: This offense yesterday was doing some things that really were
Speaker 1: I think reminiscent of what they did last year when
Speaker 1: they get on these runs where just offensively they were
Speaker 1: just turning it over and it wasn't like they were
Speaker 1: getting a tons of really big yards. They had some
Speaker 1: big plays yesterday, but there were also some drives where
Speaker 1: they just methodically moved down the field four yards, tier
Speaker 1: five yards, tier three yards here, seven yards here, and
Speaker 1: they would just move the ball. And the most important
Speaker 1: thing I thought to note was that it was a
Speaker 1: lot of those drives were more passes than there were runs.
Speaker 1: Those first two drives I talked about the seven for
Speaker 1: seventy one, seven for eighty two. That six pass plays
Speaker 1: and one run play on both those two drives. Are
Speaker 1: we seeing what we're seeing right now? Are you guys
Speaker 1: convinced that this offense is now really back to what
Speaker 1: it was last year, because I know it wasn't at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. And what do you think.
Speaker 1: I still I mean, I'm still not one hundred percent
Speaker 1: convinced because we just saw it in one game. I say,
Speaker 1: they've been trying to get that to work, the passing game,
Speaker 1: and they have been trying with they just haven't been
Speaker 1: successful at it. And this was the one game where
Speaker 1: they finally were able to be successful. Example, Terrence Williams
Speaker 1: when he made that first catch. In my head, I'm
Speaker 1: my alright, well, here we go. There's his one play.
Speaker 1: I mean, he always has one good play per game
Speaker 1: and then that's basically it. But this game he was
Speaker 1: able to get it going and keep it going, and
Speaker 1: they were able to get Cold beastly involved. Dez was
Speaker 1: able to start catching passes and have a better connection
Speaker 1: with Dak. So we finally saw them be successful at
Speaker 1: the passing game. And I would say it's a little
Speaker 1: too soon to jump ahead and say, oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling great about it. I still need to see a
Speaker 1: couple more games before that. Well, you know, they scored
Speaker 1: twenty eight points and I believe it's five straight games,
Speaker 1: and so I think I think they are in a
Speaker 1: nice groove. You know, it's gonna be this is a
Speaker 1: if you want to pick your poison type of offense,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be games where today is Terence's day and
Speaker 1: then Cole is the red zone guy. Jason Witten had
Speaker 1: one catch for five yards, but in Atlanta they could
Speaker 1: be Jason Witten for seven or eight. So I think
Speaker 1: it's you know that Zeke's gonna be constant. You'd like
Speaker 1: to see Dez be constant, and then the other guys
Speaker 1: just kind of whenever it's their turn to step up,
Speaker 1: step up. Well, what's awesome is and I mean we
Speaker 1: are halfway through the season now and Dez has yet
Speaker 1: to have that game and he got hurt yesterdays and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to dog him, but that's what kind
Speaker 1: of what we talk about, is like step up. You
Speaker 1: know who's stepped up, and it doesn't it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who steps up because of this. It's Dak He's he's
Speaker 1: balling out. And honestly, you know, I hear what you're saying, Amber,
Speaker 1: and you know San Francisco they're they're a bad team,
Speaker 1: so you can take whatever you want from that. But
Speaker 1: This is three straight games where they've really been on
Speaker 1: a roll, and yesterday was maybe the most encouraging because
Speaker 1: the like we just talked about, like the running game
Speaker 1: wasn't that was not the way they want to run
Speaker 1: the football, and which is hilarious because they ran it
Speaker 1: pretty well. Thirty three yards, Yeah, a good day. But
Speaker 1: when you're coming off of two sixty three as a
Speaker 1: team against the forty nine ers and one ninety whatever
Speaker 1: against the Redskins, like that's how they want to run
Speaker 1: the football. But Dak picked up the slack. I mean,
Speaker 1: third and fifteen at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: twenty one yards to days third and four. We were
Speaker 1: talking about that last night. Five yards to Witten on
Speaker 1: a play that would have been a pick six if
Speaker 1: it hadn't been placed in just the right spot. Another
Speaker 1: third and four on a scoring drive, Dak scrambles for
Speaker 1: five yards. Like he is just I mean, like I
Speaker 1: was talking about this earlier this morning on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: he's going to start to get more love if he
Speaker 1: keeps this up, especially if Zekee is suspended. But like
Speaker 1: he's playing at an MVP level in my opinion, just
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, he's not making mistakes. He's
Speaker 1: moving the ball. He's doing it with his feet, he's
Speaker 1: doing it with his arm. He's got what twenty total
Speaker 1: touchdowns with four turnovers, and he's just he looks masterful
Speaker 1: with the way he's moving his offense. And I thought
Speaker 1: yesterday he didn't complete them all, but his willingness and
Speaker 1: his confidence to fire the ball downfield yesterday was really impressive.
Speaker 1: I mean, he you know, people want to give him
Speaker 1: all this crap for Dinkin and Duncan. He wasn't doing
Speaker 1: that yesterday. He was throwing, you know, fifteen eighteen yards
Speaker 1: down field, firing in between cornerbacks, looking for gaps in
Speaker 1: the coverage. I thought he looked like a piece. He
Speaker 1: could have easily run the ball there at the in
Speaker 1: the right before halftime, had a first down, could have
Speaker 1: gotten in ten fifteen more yards got out of bounds,
Speaker 1: Terrence playing, but he decided to just sling it to Terrence.
Speaker 1: And you know, that was a huge play I mean
Speaker 1: because I mean it was a nice throw on the run.
Speaker 1: He gave him a chance. Terrence did a good job.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of times with receivers crossing over
Speaker 1: the middle. It just bugs me when when they're running,
Speaker 1: and then they want the ball in stride, of course,
Speaker 1: because they want to catch it and go. That's what
Speaker 1: they want to do. But sometimes the ball's not there,
Speaker 1: and then they won't stop running and they'll just try
Speaker 1: to catch it and still and then they don't make
Speaker 1: the play. And he did a nice job of stopping
Speaker 1: catching it. And then we'll see what happens because it
Speaker 1: was a little bit under thrown. But that's okay because
Speaker 1: you've given your guy a chance. I saw somebody say
Speaker 1: this on Twitter yesterday. I apologize. I don't remember who
Speaker 1: it was, but Terrence is so if there's one thing
Speaker 1: he really is phenomenally good at, it's like turning the
Speaker 1: short route into the long game, like he'll take the
Speaker 1: eight yard curl and then he's just great at maneuvering
Speaker 1: around the tackler and turning that into a mine. And
Speaker 1: I talked about that. That That was DC Blue Forever twenty three.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, DC Blue, but you guys did mention in
Speaker 1: that in that in that series, right there before the half.
Speaker 1: I thought the really the moment of that, and Dave
Speaker 1: you kind of mentioned it. There was a third and fifteen.
Speaker 1: It made so much more sense just from a football perspective,
Speaker 1: you basically think about the scenario. It's a one minute,
Speaker 1: thirty seconds left and a half, you're at your own thirteen,
Speaker 1: it's third and fifteen, and you're facing a team that
Speaker 1: you think is pretty good offensively. Right, in most situations,
Speaker 1: you would think that's a you know, hand the ball off,
Speaker 1: get as many yards you can punt. It forced them
Speaker 1: to take that last time out. That's the importance of
Speaker 1: running the ball right there, and then they have to
Speaker 1: try to see what they can do there with maybe
Speaker 1: a minute ten left and no timeouts. Cowboys, they didn't.
Speaker 1: They were aggressive on third and fifteen at their own thirteen.
Speaker 1: They converted with a pass or they converted with Was
Speaker 1: it a penalty that next play that actually got the
Speaker 1: conversion or was it the pass it was a past
Speaker 1: day it does It was twenty one yard passed today, right,
Speaker 1: and that's how they convert and then they keep it
Speaker 1: moving you get the fifty six yard or so. To me,
Speaker 1: you got to give credit to the offensive coordinator for
Speaker 1: making the call. It's pretty ballsy. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would have made that call, but it was it was.
Speaker 1: They made it work. Yes, go ahead, so no, I'm switching.
Speaker 1: I just I'm I'm I'm not. I'm gonna pat myself
Speaker 1: on the back because I said that I thought they
Speaker 1: needed to be aggressive right there against this and fifteen.
Speaker 1: You you were going for it. I would just that
Speaker 1: drive in general, like that needed to be a drive
Speaker 1: where you tried to get points. Obviously we know in hindsight,
Speaker 1: we know that the Chiefs never really got their offense going.
Speaker 1: But I just thought you had to assume that they would.
Speaker 1: But did you even if and I agree with you,
Speaker 1: and when that series start, I thought they need points
Speaker 1: here and specifically need a touchdown. But did you did
Speaker 1: you at all change when you got to the third
Speaker 1: and fifteen. I don't like if you have a quarterback
Speaker 1: of Dak's caliber, maybe if it's third and thirty or something,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't believe in the give up
Speaker 1: play at the NFL level, not if you have a
Speaker 1: quarterback like that, Like that's what you do in college
Speaker 1: when you don't trust your sophomore quarterback to get it,
Speaker 1: you know, to throw it down field. But and they
Speaker 1: clearly trust him now obviously putting him in that situation,
Speaker 1: you gotta trust And that's Sorry, That's my point is,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, Bryce, Bryce had a drop because of
Speaker 1: the sun. Dez had a drop because of the sun.
Speaker 1: There were definitely Dak had a bad misfire to James
Speaker 1: Hannah early in the game on just one of those
Speaker 1: little actions, and he came right back though and just
Speaker 1: darted it right down field to Deaz. I think it
Speaker 1: was the very next play. He didn't complete them all,
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm trying to say, but he was
Speaker 1: just firing the ball downfield yesterday with a confidence and
Speaker 1: their willingness to do that. That really impressed me. Here's
Speaker 1: what's interesting on that play. Let's say that third and fifteen,
Speaker 1: they decide to run call time out. They have nice
Speaker 1: punt by Chris Jones. With no timeouts, the Chiefs don't
Speaker 1: really get anything. Maybe Kel always get a sack half
Speaker 1: in At seven to three, a four point lead, You'd
Speaker 1: be feeling pretty good about that. They had a four
Speaker 1: point lead, and they weren't feeling good about it. Nobody
Speaker 1: was feeling good about it. It's just kind of funny
Speaker 1: how one minute of play can change everything. Even if
Speaker 1: the score seven to three, you'd been like, wow, this
Speaker 1: defense is playing out standing offensives to pick it up
Speaker 1: a little bit, but who would have thought this. Instead,
Speaker 1: it was fourteen to ten, and I'm sure we'll segue
Speaker 1: into that, and it was like, well it's over. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's over. Yeah, that play there before the
Speaker 1: half and I've I've as a Texas fan, experienced that
Speaker 1: earlier this season, happened in the USC game. But it
Speaker 1: it almost makes you wonder, like, what's the right answer there,
Speaker 1: because you do want to have you guys back in
Speaker 1: case you think they're gonna throw a hell Mary, because
Speaker 1: they were they hadn't. I mean, it was obviously where
Speaker 1: they were on the field, all hell Mary, huh, hell
Speaker 1: he'll marry. Yeah, that was possible where they were on
Speaker 1: the field. So conventional wisdom says, yes, get your guys
Speaker 1: back and make sure you protected against that. I told
Speaker 1: you in the present Pox, I believe it was either
Speaker 1: you or to the other side. But I was like,
Speaker 1: don't leave the middle this way. I remember just saying
Speaker 1: ridiculous because you put two guys there right in the middle.
Speaker 1: You don't need seven in the back. Just put five
Speaker 1: in the back, two in the middle. If they do
Speaker 1: that dump off play, those two blockers are just gonna
Speaker 1: hit those two guys. I would put show on Lee
Speaker 1: because when he back, I think he was back on
Speaker 1: the field. It was all it was all hands me
Speaker 1: give me and Hitchens, gimme Wilson and Hitchens or somebody
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the field. When they do
Speaker 1: that play, Kelsey and the other tight end are just
Speaker 1: gonna blast them. Now it's hill against five guys, right,
Speaker 1: I think I'll take my chances. You never know, you're
Speaker 1: talking about a world class athlete though. I mean, that
Speaker 1: just was a horrible coaching job. But I don't like
Speaker 1: to blame the coaches all the time, but that alignment
Speaker 1: was ridiculous. Now make the play. I get it, Scandrick.
Speaker 1: I'd like for you to touch the guy. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking you to run. You know, every touch him. Everything
Speaker 1: you're saying is right, and they could have aligned it better,
Speaker 1: but like everybody just kind of broke down, like everybody
Speaker 1: was afraid of it was just right. But that's what
Speaker 1: the that's what speed does to you. When you got
Speaker 1: a guy that's that fast, everybody kind of freezes because
Speaker 1: you're like, if I run him too if I go
Speaker 1: at him too fast and he takes off I don't
Speaker 1: have a chance to recover, and he's gonna run right
Speaker 1: by me. All that was was a stat grabbing play.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna dump the ball off to very hill.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get some stats. My quarterback is gonna get
Speaker 1: some stats, and maybe they'll face mask us and we'll
Speaker 1: get a field goal out of that. I don't think
Speaker 1: they thought like that. I think they this guy, I
Speaker 1: think they got it like this. You give you give
Speaker 1: him a chance, but there's no way they thought we're
Speaker 1: gonna score. Well. But here's why. Here's why I think
Speaker 1: they thought they would score is because when you think
Speaker 1: about it, basically, you got a guy that's extremely fast,
Speaker 1: was really good in the open field, already knows how
Speaker 1: to return punts really well. You gave him a punt
Speaker 1: return situation now with about thirty or forty yards to
Speaker 1: get a touchdown. Right, don't you like that kind of matchup?
Speaker 1: Because basically he's had what two three guys got You
Speaker 1: got two or three guys in front of him. You've
Speaker 1: got on that side of the field two or three,
Speaker 1: four maybe guys. So all you need is this speed
Speaker 1: to be able to find acreasing get through it, to
Speaker 1: get to a touchdown, and that's that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: So it actually is a I think a very brilliantly
Speaker 1: designed play. When teams are thinking, hey, let's just get
Speaker 1: everybody back, it actually creates a great scenario for them
Speaker 1: with the kind of personnel that they had. That's why
Speaker 1: they should never just get everybody back. That's why it's
Speaker 1: a horrible alignment for the defense. There's no reason to
Speaker 1: be everybody back. I mean, there's fifty three yards across.
Speaker 1: If you put five guys, there are ten yards splits.
Speaker 1: That's plenty of space and time. Put a couple of
Speaker 1: guys right up there or just I mean, now I
Speaker 1: just put two guys in the middle of the field
Speaker 1: that I just thought marion Elli and then they just
Speaker 1: butchered that one. And that that may also be a
Speaker 1: situation of a player like I don't know that there
Speaker 1: are a problem. There may be two or three guys
Speaker 1: in the league that would have gotten a touchdown in
Speaker 1: that play. Literally, you could you could run that every
Speaker 1: if you ran that with every team in the league,
Speaker 1: Like they're one of a couple that has that type
Speaker 1: of playmate, right, and I know they have one. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this sounds silly for us because every game we've ever
Speaker 1: seen in our life is from a pie from the TV.
Speaker 1: But when you have a dynamic player like that two
Speaker 1: tight ends, I guarantee you not everybody sees him at first.
Speaker 1: That's what one of the reasons why Emmett was so good,
Speaker 1: because linebackers would say, we didn't see Emmett for about
Speaker 1: a half second, and then all of a sudden, there
Speaker 1: he is because he's little, and then you got these
Speaker 1: blockers and you're down there, and then all the next
Speaker 1: thing you know, he's here. And when he's fast, of course,
Speaker 1: I mean blazing fast. So it worked out perfectly for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. But I do think if they do that
Speaker 1: ten times, I mean, I don't think the Cowboys, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a touchdown. I mean maybe the one
Speaker 1: that's the one time so wild that I mean, well, really,
Speaker 1: it's funny how the story is like. That's the difference
Speaker 1: between this was a nice win against one of the
Speaker 1: NFL's better teams. It could have been a domination of
Speaker 1: one of the NFL's right I mean, and I still
Speaker 1: kind of put it in that category because I think
Speaker 1: of that play as I don't take plays away. But
Speaker 1: I do say that that play is not as reflective
Speaker 1: of how this game really was played. Like they that
Speaker 1: was one of those flute plays where yes, you give
Speaker 1: them the points and it was a great design and
Speaker 1: they scored with it. But when I look at this defense,
Speaker 1: I don't really put the defense down too much of
Speaker 1: that all makes no it does. It doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: But you can't take it away right absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 1: but it's on the scoreboard. But you look at it
Speaker 1: and say, two catches for fifty six years sixty four
Speaker 1: yards he had. He I mean, I don't call me
Speaker 1: a homer if you want to, like, he did not
Speaker 1: have an impact on this game. I know that. I
Speaker 1: know that sounds stupid. Nor did Kareem Hunt. He scored
Speaker 1: a fifty six yard touchdown. I get how silly that sounds.
Speaker 1: But he had one catch for eight yards in the
Speaker 1: real scheme of Kansas City's offense, when you're not when
Speaker 1: it's not a gimmick at the end of the half,
Speaker 1: and let's actual, let's take our break when we come back.
Speaker 1: I'll let you get to that. But we got to
Speaker 1: talk about the reason why that happened, the reason why
Speaker 1: Kareem hunt was held to what he was. This defense
Speaker 1: played outstanding. That's now three weeks in a row when
Speaker 1: they've played really, really good football. Are we starting to
Speaker 1: see maybe the turning of this thing a little bit
Speaker 1: to where you can start relying on this defense. So
Speaker 1: at least hold the side of the of the coin
Speaker 1: on this thing. So we'll do when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: the second segment of a break life from the SWBC
Speaker 1: Morket Studios At the Star. We're talking about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: big win versus Kansas City Chiefs. They moved to twenty
Speaker 1: eight and seventeen, and we've been talking about the off
Speaker 1: it's quite a bit and what they were able to
Speaker 1: do yesterday. It was a really good game for them,
Speaker 1: But we really do have to talk about this defense
Speaker 1: to be able to hold the Kansas City Chiefs to
Speaker 1: seventeen points, which is the second lowest output for them
Speaker 1: all season. They only scored thirteen against Pittsburgh to be
Speaker 1: able to hold Kareem Hunt to thirty seven yards rushing yards.
Speaker 1: It was the second lowest day of rushing that he's
Speaker 1: had this season. Again, twenty three to Pittsburgh was the
Speaker 1: most or the least, to allow only four of eleven
Speaker 1: on third downs just thirty six percent, and zero of
Speaker 1: one on fourth downs. I mean, this defense played against
Speaker 1: an offense that is considered, if not the best, one
Speaker 1: of the best in the league. I thought it was
Speaker 1: probably it was their best performance I think of the season.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the defense? Tell me about
Speaker 1: by what your thoughts were there? It's not even close.
Speaker 1: And I think I'll go ahead and speak for all
Speaker 1: three of us. I think that's okay that anybody that
Speaker 1: picked the Chiefs to win this game did it because
Speaker 1: of the defense. Yeah, that's cool, awesome, you always picked Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's fine. No, I did not expect them to stop him. No, no,
Speaker 1: nobody did. No. But you can go back and find
Speaker 1: the tape. I thought the Dallas offense would be just fine.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd score between twenty seven and thirty points.
Speaker 1: They'd look exactly like they always do. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't see that coming from the defense, and I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone did. And if you say you did, you're
Speaker 1: a liar. Yeah, which and it's amazing because, Okay, you
Speaker 1: can go back to San Francisco, they're not very good team.
Speaker 1: You can go back to Washington. They played that game
Speaker 1: in a monsoon. This was indoors against one of the
Speaker 1: most explosives off explosive offenses in the league, and they
Speaker 1: dominated them. I mean they really did. Alex Smith two
Speaker 1: sixty three fifty six of which came on that hail Mary,
Speaker 1: so about two hundred passing yards. Travis Kelsey did all right.
Speaker 1: I mean he had a pretty good and a lot
Speaker 1: of that happened in some of the junk time there
Speaker 1: at the end when they were just kind of trying
Speaker 1: to drive them. But I mean he but Kelsey. But
Speaker 1: he beat up on Byron Jones a little bit. That's fine.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Kareem Hunt non factor in this game. Really.
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean Lee was everywhere sniffed out a screen
Speaker 1: that might have been a sixty seventy yard type of play.
Speaker 1: It seemed like every time Tyreek Hill they tried to
Speaker 1: get Tyreek Hill involved as a runner. He carried the
Speaker 1: ball four times, which is a lot for a wide
Speaker 1: receiver and average two point three yards per carry pass rush.
Speaker 1: I mean they got two sacks, but even more than that.
Speaker 1: From the very first series, Alex Smith was on the
Speaker 1: run or moving around in the pocket. It seemed like
Speaker 1: every single play. And the key thing they didn't let
Speaker 1: him get outside the pocket too much, because that's another
Speaker 1: thing he can do is he can beat you with
Speaker 1: his legs, and they didn't really allow him to do
Speaker 1: that too much yesterday. Sean Lee, though, when you think
Speaker 1: about what he does for this team now, I know
Speaker 1: he was on the field in Denver. Nobody played well
Speaker 1: in that game. He didn't play well, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to think if you had him for those
Speaker 1: two losses against the Packers and the Rams, it might
Speaker 1: have been different, and it just might have been a
Speaker 1: different story. He's that much of a difference maker, and
Speaker 1: we're really seeing it. I mean, they had him for
Speaker 1: twelve tackles. I bet you the Cowboys coaching staff gets
Speaker 1: him for about sixteen. I mean, he seemed like he
Speaker 1: was in every play yesterday. You know, I was very
Speaker 1: concerned at the beginning because the defense start off really
Speaker 1: good and I'm like, okay, well they're sorry enough like that.
Speaker 1: I hope they're able to keep it going and I'll
Speaker 1: get tired and just kind of let the game go
Speaker 1: by and let the Chiefs start scoring point But it
Speaker 1: was really really great to see that they were able
Speaker 1: to balance everything out and keep it going. Again, very
Speaker 1: promising to see how they played. But yes, there are
Speaker 1: areas that need to be improved. Example, they're tackling, and
Speaker 1: that's one of the things I kept seeing on Twitter,
Speaker 1: everyone talking about the way they're tackling and how they
Speaker 1: need to improve that, and we saw that. Thank god,
Speaker 1: it worked out to their advantage that they were able
Speaker 1: to stop them and stop them from scoring so many points.
Speaker 1: Aside from that big mess up before halftime, I thought
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown played a really nice game. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was challenged a lot that they had Tyreek Hill on him,
Speaker 1: and that's one thing about Brown is that he's a
Speaker 1: very fast player himself. He's not, you know, I rekill fast,
Speaker 1: but he definitely can run. And I thought he did
Speaker 1: a nice job yesterday, and they tried a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't there And Jordan Lewis of Scandrick, those guys,
Speaker 1: all of them, really, I mean they were tested. They
Speaker 1: did a good job. I thought the safety, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that was a horrible thirty minutes for one player,
Speaker 1: thirty minutes and fourteen of it is. And I don't
Speaker 1: think he played, honestly, I don't think he played overall
Speaker 1: horrible game. Talking about Byron Joe, talking about Bron Jones,
Speaker 1: I don't think he played. And you guys made different
Speaker 1: I don't think he played a horrible game. I think
Speaker 1: you're right. There was that that moment, like the penalty
Speaker 1: on all the way through till touchdown in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: That whole period was kind of his moment to five
Speaker 1: plays in thirty minutes, five played, five moments. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's because he has a stupid penalty throwing the guy
Speaker 1: out of bounds. That's dumb. That that that changed from
Speaker 1: them kneeling the ball down to saying, let's try for
Speaker 1: something here. Then he was a part of that that
Speaker 1: didn't make a play. And then he takes his helmet
Speaker 1: off because he's mad about something. That's another penalty. So
Speaker 1: then they kick off from the twenty and then that
Speaker 1: they were in a perfect field position to start, he
Speaker 1: gets a stiff arm to the face and goes for
Speaker 1: a little ride like on six flags for fifteen yards
Speaker 1: with Kareem Hunt. Then he gives up a touchdown to
Speaker 1: Kelsey and seriously, I counted it was thirty two minutes
Speaker 1: of real lifetime and thirteen minutes of it is in
Speaker 1: the locker room. So tough, really bad stretch there for him.
Speaker 1: It's a bad sequence for thirty one right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he you know, he kinda turned it around a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean I would I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: try to say Byron had a great game. But I
Speaker 1: mean seventeen total points, ten ten real points, ten points
Speaker 1: from your actual offense against. And I remember, go back
Speaker 1: to Wednesday of last week, we were just like one
Speaker 1: one one. The Chiefs are ranked one, two or three
Speaker 1: in every category. I mean explosive play and a lot
Speaker 1: of the day they had him with Kelsey. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the part that you have to remember, is he
Speaker 1: had Kelsey a lot yesterday. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: he did a good job. I think going into the game,
Speaker 1: they were they had thirty seven plays of seven catches
Speaker 1: for seventy three yards in a touchdown. I hear what
Speaker 1: you're saying, But you got to watch Kelsey every week
Speaker 1: and to appreciate the fact that that still to hold
Speaker 1: him to seven and seventy seven catches. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like two or three catches just on the last year.
Speaker 1: It's the same. It's the same thing I say all
Speaker 1: the time, is you know, this isn't again, This isn't
Speaker 1: college where you're just gonna completely dominate somebody like you're
Speaker 1: gonna give up chunk plays. In the NFL, these guys
Speaker 1: are too good not to do that. And so if
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey had that stat line, but Tyreek Hill had
Speaker 1: sixty total yards, one of which was a chunk play,
Speaker 1: and Kareem Hunt had one of his worst games as
Speaker 1: a pro, Like that's a win and exact, you know,
Speaker 1: that's okay. If Travis Kelsey had a good day, if
Speaker 1: nobody else did, that's the way the NFL works. So
Speaker 1: I guess I guess that being said, you know, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have had several I think they had thirty seven
Speaker 1: plays of twenty yards or more. Um So the play
Speaker 1: at the end of the half was one and I
Speaker 1: think I don't have my stay out in front of me.
Speaker 1: But had they had two more three total, yeah, two
Speaker 1: more of twenty two yards. So you have to say
Speaker 1: that your safeties are doing something right if they're not
Speaker 1: giving up the big plays, because it's their job to
Speaker 1: make sure that everything's in front of him. So as
Speaker 1: bad as it was there for that stress for Brymon Jones,
Speaker 1: they obviously did their job kept things in front of course.
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath, you know, I don't know how if he
Speaker 1: had a great game in all the way around, but
Speaker 1: I know they had a great play, great play on
Speaker 1: the ball. He almost had two. I talked to him
Speaker 1: about that last night too. In the third quarter he
Speaker 1: read he read Alex Smith's eyes beautifully. It was a
Speaker 1: throw to d' anthony Thomas, and he jumped it just
Speaker 1: like he did on the interception, and he was in
Speaker 1: position to get it and lit like d' anthony Thomas
Speaker 1: just like undercut him. And it was a lot like
Speaker 1: the Witten catch. He just stole it from him, basically.
Speaker 1: And he told me he was like, I thought it
Speaker 1: was either incomplete or an interception. I'm still oh. And
Speaker 1: then the guy got up in like sixty yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: but he was down, but yeah, yeah it was. I
Speaker 1: mean it was bang bang, like super close to being
Speaker 1: an their pick. So I thought Jeff Heith played just fine,
Speaker 1: totally honest, Anthony Thomas, I just thought about that. Man.
Speaker 1: If the Chiefs have like a if every team had
Speaker 1: like their own relay team, I'm going with the Chiefs
Speaker 1: the Anthony to speak. I don't know who else other
Speaker 1: than those two. But although a good sign for all
Speaker 1: of you, uh you know, the youth movement fans out there,
Speaker 1: of which I know there are a lot. Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: got a lot of playing time at safety last night,
Speaker 1: and I got to assume one of these days Cheeto
Speaker 1: is gonna return to practice. So the secondary that first
Speaker 1: summon along, he had a really nice play there. They
Speaker 1: were they were going to at Kelsey third down um
Speaker 1: and and basically Byron Jones was manned up against him.
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods comes up and gets the past defense. Uh
Speaker 1: so he from the very beginning he made a play
Speaker 1: there to that kind of set the tone for the
Speaker 1: day against these guys. You watching that play, I just
Speaker 1: now got your new Day reference. Can that was that?
Speaker 1: The delayed reaction on my I agree all those guys
Speaker 1: just yeah, you guys can't see if it's Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: watching the tire kill play. It's an ugly it's an
Speaker 1: ugly play. But you know what it's if that, if
Speaker 1: that's the big I mean, if that's the biggest gain
Speaker 1: of their day, if that's the highlight of their day,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty absolutely I like I said, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can come up with excuses for why these guys.
Speaker 1: The defense played well in the last two wins, but
Speaker 1: in indoor track, closed roof, like perfect conditions against one
Speaker 1: of the most explosive offenses in the NFL. I thought
Speaker 1: they had a hell. Hear what Jerry Jones was doing
Speaker 1: on that eating hot dog. Yeah, he left early to
Speaker 1: get a hot dog because he was like, there's no
Speaker 1: way they'll score with two. So you scored and you
Speaker 1: got the touchdown, so you're like, let me go grabble.
Speaker 1: But see, here's my thing is like, okay, me as
Speaker 1: the lowly reporter, I need to make strategic moves like that,
Speaker 1: like I need to leave early to get my hot
Speaker 1: dogs so I don't have to wait in line. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones owns the building, Like I would do that on purpose.
Speaker 1: I would walk down in the middle of halftime and
Speaker 1: cut the line and be like, yeah, do something about it,
Speaker 1: Like I'm the owner. I'm gonna jump in front of
Speaker 1: the hot dog line. Actually, you're actually like there's a line,
Speaker 1: the line the hot dogs. I don't think there's a line.
Speaker 1: There's the hot dogs are probably in the site, yes,
Speaker 1: well no, they're in they're in the sweet but not
Speaker 1: in his little viewing stand. I would guess you don't think.
Speaker 1: I bet he went down I bet he went downstairs.
Speaker 1: I bet he did. I would I would talk to
Speaker 1: some food there, or he can actually make a request
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it would come to him very quick.
Speaker 1: It's like they do for you guys, Dave. They bring
Speaker 1: the tray of hot dogs a halftime for you guys,
Speaker 1: like a little buffet. They got that for Jerry. Probably
Speaker 1: don't see that. I'm not familiar with the tray being
Speaker 1: brought around. I must be missing something. No, not brought
Speaker 1: around like or you guys get served pregame. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Time food there. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like there's a line though, because the long line because
Speaker 1: people sports writers are not the healthiest types. They love
Speaker 1: eating bad food. Not self included. All right, let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about the one thing yesterday in my opinion, Hold
Speaker 1: on real quick, because I can I segue something very
Speaker 1: really quick here anytime talked about running, Yeah, talked about
Speaker 1: speed and track. Okay, can I just talk about a
Speaker 1: half marathon for a second. We're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: in the third segment. Geez, you just let me run
Speaker 1: this show man seriously later kill me. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about let's talk about the one thing that did
Speaker 1: not go well for the Cowboys yesterday. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of notable players that by the end of that
Speaker 1: game where on the sideline injured. True, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that we know a lot, but we do need
Speaker 1: to at least talk about it. Dez Bryant, Tyren Smith,
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams all left the game. Talk to me about
Speaker 1: what you know at this point and what you'll be
Speaker 1: watching this week with regards to their injuries. Well, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: they'll be did not practice. Well we know that for
Speaker 1: Tying for sure. Right, that's actually Daz has an ankle,
Speaker 1: which he says he's hopeful you know too. Well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, did you go to the m R. Did
Speaker 1: you get our MRI not that I'm aware of, he said.
Speaker 1: He said, it's not serious. He said, he's okay, Now,
Speaker 1: I all right, I'm catching jokes slow today. I went
Speaker 1: to bed late. Uh, I don't. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in the third segment. I don't think you needed an MRI.
Speaker 1: Uh Terrence. Also, I think I heard it was the
Speaker 1: same ankle he heard in like week one, right? Um
Speaker 1: was he okay? I don't. He did talk in the
Speaker 1: locker room afterwards. I I it's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those things, like he's gonna be on the practice report.
Speaker 1: I'm not particularly concerned that it's like a missing game
Speaker 1: time type deal. I would think with Dez, I would
Speaker 1: think Des has a chance to maybe miss the game.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we'll we'll see what he said. But
Speaker 1: I don't mean this in a bad way. But you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't always trust a player always see after a game.
Speaker 1: You can't. When I mean, I'll always remember Felix Jones
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight rookie year. He said he heard
Speaker 1: his hip or thigh and he was like, I'll be
Speaker 1: I'll be fine next week. He didn't play again the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, missed end games, so it just happens.
Speaker 1: I mean they think one way, especially after a game,
Speaker 1: they got adrenaline pumping. That's where I was gonna go
Speaker 1: with Tyron. Jerry said. I visited with Tyron, he says
Speaker 1: he's fine, and then I talked to Tyron and he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'm fine, And I'm like, but it's
Speaker 1: a groin, right, And I was like, well, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna practice Wednesday anyway. So but I mean growing to me,
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you hurt, you're growing. I don't
Speaker 1: know of a lot of people that are playing by
Speaker 1: you know, a week. Well, it also depends on how
Speaker 1: severe obviously hurt. But just growing is a scary injury
Speaker 1: because it's not typically the same the type of thing
Speaker 1: you can bounce back from in a week. Now. If
Speaker 1: there's one guy that you would probably not bet against,
Speaker 1: it's Tyring because he's an iron man. He'll you know,
Speaker 1: he plays through a bad back situation where he doesn't
Speaker 1: practice whatever. So it's it's something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: It's troubling. But like I said, if there's one guy
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to rule out, it's probably him,
Speaker 1: but that that would be troubling for sure. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: these that's that's probably I mean, Jonathan Cooper's playing great,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but that's all the more reason
Speaker 1: to keep Chaz Green on the shelf because with him
Speaker 1: having not played in a month, he's healthy to play
Speaker 1: left tackle right now. And that's what I think you
Speaker 1: start wondering about, and at least it's what I was
Speaker 1: thinking about last night. You got these three guys who
Speaker 1: are um at least um in moments in trick your
Speaker 1: parts of what you do, some more than others, but
Speaker 1: you know, you know my point. And then you got
Speaker 1: this whole thing kind of still hanging over Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: And you've got games here coming up that I think
Speaker 1: are extremely important, like this Atlanta game. Outside of division games,
Speaker 1: this Atlanta game and the Seattle game at the end
Speaker 1: of the season are very very important because those are
Speaker 1: about tie breaks if you're working around the wild if
Speaker 1: you're a wildcard contender, and and so these games are
Speaker 1: extremely important. And now you're going into this week, heading
Speaker 1: into game where you have to go to Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: these guys are hurt, and the stuff with Exekula just
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on now, and they got to
Speaker 1: figure this stuff out and you hope that you got
Speaker 1: all hands on deck, but you just don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's victory Monday, and they just played great
Speaker 1: against one of the best teams in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: get all that, but you look at it and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: by the end of the week, they might not have Zeke,
Speaker 1: they might not have days, they might not have Tyring. Right.
Speaker 1: I know Dak's playing like a monster, but I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of key components missing heading into
Speaker 1: a road game against And I know the Falcons have
Speaker 1: been bad the last month, but there's still one of
Speaker 1: the NFC's marking still got a ton of talent. Yeah
Speaker 1: that drop that you saw Julio Jones, he ain't doing that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take our final break. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: one O two is the number. Uh. That was also
Speaker 1: a moment yesterday before the game began that I thought
Speaker 1: was probably as cool as any moment during the game
Speaker 1: as well. Tony Romo came back to the stadium. He
Speaker 1: was back there in a working capacity for the first
Speaker 1: time this year, working for CBS, covering the game, calling
Speaker 1: the game um and before the game, our very on
Speaker 1: Kimp Garrison put together this really cool video. And there
Speaker 1: was actually a part in and Corey Miller, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give Coreys due two um and and there was
Speaker 1: actually most part in the most of Kim. But then
Speaker 1: there was also this area in the end zone where
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys had Welcome Back nine. And it was
Speaker 1: just kind of an ode, you know, a tip of
Speaker 1: the cap to Tony Romo, who had you know, ments
Speaker 1: welcome home? Is that I said to say something different,
Speaker 1: said back, I'm sorry, welcome home, um and and so
Speaker 1: so so it was a pretty cool moment. Uh, Tony
Speaker 1: was obvious there and it looked like he was kind
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Speaker 1: was just the video from the yesterday's game. Kent Garrison
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Speaker 1: about Tony Romo just kind of welcome him back, and
Speaker 1: it just just I thought it was a nice feeling thing,
Speaker 1: just to say, we appreciate what you've done for this
Speaker 1: franchise and for this team. He seemed moved by What
Speaker 1: do you guys think? Well, I didn't watch it till
Speaker 1: last night, like about one apart to see from where
Speaker 1: we are, yeah here, but I and I went back
Speaker 1: and watched the broadcast for the most part and listened
Speaker 1: to Tony and yeah, what he said was really he
Speaker 1: was moved by it. You know, he's prepared for everything,
Speaker 1: and that was the one thing that kind of caught
Speaker 1: him off guard a little bit. So that it was good.
Speaker 1: I thought he handled it well. I thought the crowd
Speaker 1: gave him a nice salvation. It's a lot of them,
Speaker 1: you know. There were some Chiefs fans there and they
Speaker 1: and they were cheering a few well, so overall it
Speaker 1: was it was good. It was a nice gesture by
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. It was a nice job of getting that done.
Speaker 1: Kent and Corey. I'm gonna say Kent though, because I
Speaker 1: know that I saw it, can't working on it a lot.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was really great. It was nice,
Speaker 1: nice to have him back and to do that. I
Speaker 1: never think about the obvious thing in situations like that
Speaker 1: because I'm just a jerk, and like the main thing
Speaker 1: I could think about, which great video, Ken, awesome job,
Speaker 1: you know how amazing I think you are. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know they inlaid Romo on the video on the
Speaker 1: jumbo tron, so you could see his reaction, and I
Speaker 1: was like, man, that seems like it feel awkward as hell.
Speaker 1: Ninety thousand people can just watch her and it's not
Speaker 1: like five seconds. I mean he was up there for
Speaker 1: the whole length of the video just kind of like, okay,
Speaker 1: am I still on camera, like and man, all right,
Speaker 1: everybody's looking at me. I don't really feel down with this,
Speaker 1: Like I thought he looked uncomfortable, and I would too
Speaker 1: for that, I would be like this awkward. But you
Speaker 1: don't forget he is a part time golfer, and when
Speaker 1: you're a golfer you have to master that look where
Speaker 1: you kind of put your lips together like a bitter
Speaker 1: beer face kind of like yeah yeah, and he is yeah.
Speaker 1: And so it's like he did that part. He did
Speaker 1: it for the night, for ninety seconds. He had to
Speaker 1: do it like eighteen times over the span of that video.
Speaker 1: But I mean it was a nice gesture. I told
Speaker 1: you it wouldn't come back to bite him that they
Speaker 1: put that into Well, my only concern and I'm taking
Speaker 1: you guys out a little bit behind the curtains. My
Speaker 1: only concern last week when I first heard of there's
Speaker 1: curtains not in the stadium when I when I first
Speaker 1: heard about this last week, my only concern was, Okay,
Speaker 1: so not that this is likely to happen, but what
Speaker 1: happens if you do all this and you say welcome home,
Speaker 1: Tony and you're great and we love you, and then
Speaker 1: that goes out in terms of interception, and then Dak
Speaker 1: kind of is trying to catch up with the chief saw.
Speaker 1: Dan just can't quite do it. And you know we
Speaker 1: did it before right after the end, right, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. And I was just a little bit concerned, like, man,
Speaker 1: cut this backfire. I don't think it will, but cut
Speaker 1: this backfire. And Dave, I was telling you before the game, like,
Speaker 1: it's not that the media would have been like trying
Speaker 1: to roast Dad's done enough I think so far to
Speaker 1: where people give him the benefit of doubt he's a
Speaker 1: good quarterback. But it's just the side comments and the
Speaker 1: little jokes they think they're jokes that are just kind
Speaker 1: of like sometimes I think can be a little bit unfair.
Speaker 1: And I was just a little bit concerned. But what
Speaker 1: did I say. I don't remember, I don't listen. I said,
Speaker 1: Dad's gonna ball, Like, yes, you did, sorry about it.
Speaker 1: He did say that, and he did he balled, and
Speaker 1: so all's good, and everybody felt great about Romo coming
Speaker 1: back and tipping his cap and Dak going out and ball.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, listen, I've listened to a lot
Speaker 1: of Tony's calls this year. It will make me watch
Speaker 1: Jets versus Bills on Thursday Night with bad the rush uniforms,
Speaker 1: because I like listening to Tony and I think he's
Speaker 1: really good. I think this was one of the least
Speaker 1: entertaining games. He's really yes, and I believe and I
Speaker 1: know this. Everyone was concerned about him calling out plays beforehand,
Speaker 1: and he didn't do it. He really didn't, not not
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys had the ball. Maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, but for the most part he was
Speaker 1: told not to do that, and so it probably limited
Speaker 1: him a little bit because he now but he had
Speaker 1: some really great things to say. I mean, he talked
Speaker 1: a lot about um. He said, Terrence Williams is in
Speaker 1: his mind, one of the most underrated players in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And he did say that last year. He wasn't just
Speaker 1: saying right. And he said that about Sean Lee too.
Speaker 1: He did. Did you guess hear what he said about
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders and what Deon Sanders said back? Yeah, not
Speaker 1: what Dion said. What do you think? Oh god, Marcus
Speaker 1: Peters did not make a tackle? And he said he
Speaker 1: makes Deon Sanders look good a tackling that's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's like a playful jab at, like a
Speaker 1: three out of ten. And and well, Dion has said
Speaker 1: many times in his life he's like, yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: pay me to tackle, blah blah blah blah blah, like
Speaker 1: it's he took offense. Eon said, Oh my god, what
Speaker 1: didn't he say? He said? He was like, he was like,
Speaker 1: I I want to take the high road, but I
Speaker 1: don't know where. I don't know how to find it.
Speaker 1: So he was basically after that, he was like, I've
Speaker 1: got a gold jacket. You're two and four in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You threw this many picks, you did this, you never
Speaker 1: won the big game. Like he was just like he
Speaker 1: went down everything that always hated Tony. He's always well,
Speaker 1: he was like, and he was saying, he was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know why we keep getting into this stuff.
Speaker 1: But he said, I thought we had let it go.
Speaker 1: I thought we were all cool, and and then he
Speaker 1: just unleashed. Yeah, so you could tell it touched the
Speaker 1: nerve like, oh yeah, like I mean a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was a dig, but a playful dig that is
Speaker 1: like based in some fact and and one I mean
Speaker 1: the digs Deon took her based in fact too, but
Speaker 1: like I was just like, damn, dude, like you have
Speaker 1: to go that. I turned it from three to about
Speaker 1: fifty five, Like my god. He started off with a
Speaker 1: compliment though. He was like if I saw him at CBS,
Speaker 1: I would shake his hand and say you're doing a
Speaker 1: great job, man, and then he out with the knife
Speaker 1: and start stabbing. I don't think their next interaction will
Speaker 1: not be uh, I don't be awkward, I would guess.
Speaker 1: I don't think. So all right, let's let's get some questions.
Speaker 1: We got a call from Horace in Atlanta. Horse, What up? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Guys? You know one thing I love here
Speaker 1: and am you just keep it real? Y'all need to
Speaker 1: have a segment for Ama just called say keeping it real,
Speaker 1: because she keeps it real. You know, every little every
Speaker 1: little thing she comes out and says she keeps it real.
Speaker 1: So I love that. Thank you know, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with the Cowboys win. I thought
Speaker 1: that they played a phenomenal game, you know, despite that
Speaker 1: one play which really just told me crazy. But I
Speaker 1: think this was one of the first complete games. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to do that when they come here
Speaker 1: to Atlanta because that offense that Atlanta has, I mean,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan will give you a gift. He will, he
Speaker 1: will give you one to respect that, and they need
Speaker 1: to take it. But we're gonna have to cap wise,
Speaker 1: we'll have to tackle and I look forward to that
Speaker 1: and I think that we can make a run. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking at dak As being the catalyst. He is
Speaker 1: what people are just this man is balling out of control,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know if you all spokes
Speaker 1: on that earlier, but this guy, I know, Nick, you
Speaker 1: mentioned it right there after the game. Dak is playing
Speaker 1: like a man. He is playing very well. And his
Speaker 1: running and his ability to to to get out the
Speaker 1: pocket and find people. They got to do that more
Speaker 1: and I like to see that more often. Like here,
Speaker 1: which you guys think about that. You know what, thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks hars You know, the great one's guess right a lot.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, Troy Palomalo, for one for one
Speaker 1: stretch was one of the best safeties in the NFL,
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the NFL. I always
Speaker 1: seem like when it was time to be at the quarterback,
Speaker 1: he was at the quarterback. When it was time to
Speaker 1: be forty yards down the field and coverage, he was there.
Speaker 1: And he just guesses right and knows how to play.
Speaker 1: That's what a good player does. Dak guess is right.
Speaker 1: When it's time to run. He knows, all right, I
Speaker 1: gotta took it down and run when it's time to
Speaker 1: just throw it. I mean there's occasion when you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I should have run it there, But for the most part,
Speaker 1: what he's choosing is the right choice. And then that
Speaker 1: that means what I've always said. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, he's
Speaker 1: doing a great job of preparing seeing it, and he's
Speaker 1: when he gets to the game it shows up. I
Speaker 1: mean he but that's the only way to really say
Speaker 1: it is that he is bawling out right now. He's
Speaker 1: doing everything right, and he's he's helping this team. I mean,
Speaker 1: three straight wins. He's missed a handful of throws. I mean,
Speaker 1: just as a general statement, probably probably I don't know,
Speaker 1: two or three per game if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you go back and watch every
Speaker 1: game this year, how many bad decisions has he made.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been lucky with a couple of non interceptions,
Speaker 1: but he got unlucky with I would say three of
Speaker 1: his four picks are probably more a result of the
Speaker 1: receiver than him. Like, I mean, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I could think of that was just a bad one?
Speaker 1: Was was Denver second? Yeah? Yeah? He I mean he's
Speaker 1: been phenomenal. I'm really not trying to poke Bryce here,
Speaker 1: but that throw he made to Bright unbelievable. That was
Speaker 1: a heck of a thing. That's and that's my point.
Speaker 1: Like I said, he didn't complete them all, but like
Speaker 1: he fit that in between the safety in the corner.
Speaker 1: He had one I think it was in it was
Speaker 1: too deaz in the back of the end zone at
Speaker 1: on one of those drives, Like he's not afraid to
Speaker 1: try to fit it between defenders, and I think that's
Speaker 1: something he gets criticized for, or did last year at least, like, well,
Speaker 1: he only throws it to the guy that's not covered,
Speaker 1: Like that's not true, Like he's not going to complete
Speaker 1: them all, but he has a willingness and a confidence
Speaker 1: to hit that or to attempt that throw, and he
Speaker 1: hits them more often than I would say he doesn't.
Speaker 1: All right, real quick, before we end the show, I
Speaker 1: did want to talk a little bit about a little
Speaker 1: running here this last weekend. It was one major this
Speaker 1: one major feat in the history of running in the
Speaker 1: world by our own David Hellman, who ran his very
Speaker 1: first half barrathon. And the impressive part about it was
Speaker 1: not that he finished, because he could have finished a
Speaker 1: lot slower than he did, but Dave ran pretty good time. Dave,
Speaker 1: tell us about that experience. I mean, it's your first
Speaker 1: time running. Tell us about the experience of actually finishing
Speaker 1: thirteen miles um, you know race. It's I never it's
Speaker 1: not really something that I ever set out to do
Speaker 1: but back. I remember I woke up in Philly Week
Speaker 1: seventeen last year feeling like slightly hungover and groggy and
Speaker 1: out of shape, and I was like, I should fix this.
Speaker 1: So I was just like, I'm gonna run a ten
Speaker 1: k and I did that, and then you were like,
Speaker 1: maybe you should try half marathon and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: like running's not that bad, I guess I'll do that.
Speaker 1: And so I've spent a pretty good chunk of this
Speaker 1: year running and I ran a half marathon and I'm
Speaker 1: really sore right now, but it was very it was gratifying.
Speaker 1: I did a lot better than I thought I would,
Speaker 1: to be totally honest, and did great. Y'all's y'all's encouragement
Speaker 1: and support. It has felt very nice, So thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did it really great? But I don't understand this at all.
Speaker 1: I always feel like running is you're really running against
Speaker 1: just one person. So, um, now you get into the
Speaker 1: Olympic style competition, yeah, you're competing against people. But when
Speaker 1: I texted you any Saturday, he said Shannon Gross was
Speaker 1: also running. Yeah, and Shannon is just he's the worst.
Speaker 1: He's just he's not the worst. I mean he really
Speaker 1: didn't train that much for it. He just kind of
Speaker 1: gutted it out. And and I talked to Dave, and
Speaker 1: Dave was like, well, yeah, Shannon was there, and he
Speaker 1: smoked me. And I'm thinking, how do you get smoked
Speaker 1: in a half marathon? I mean, you finished finished the
Speaker 1: damn thing like you You won as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: But I mean, like, you know, it's it's interesting that
Speaker 1: your competitive juices were out like that, because I would
Speaker 1: have been like I finished that, Dawn. I don't care
Speaker 1: when Shannon got there, you know, or anybody. You know.
Speaker 1: I trained a lot more diligently than Shannon. And I
Speaker 1: went to bed at like nine thirty on Friday with
Speaker 1: like I had my I had my running tape on,
Speaker 1: like you know, I had like the sounds of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Just I was trying to maximize, like I'm just in
Speaker 1: I'm in it to win it, you know, like Shannon went.
Speaker 1: Shannon was out drink until two. He barely trained for
Speaker 1: this thing, and he finished like fifteen minutes before me.
Speaker 1: I think I think he kisses me. I think he
Speaker 1: knew there was a race, and so I don't think
Speaker 1: he went to last call. I really don't. I think
Speaker 1: he stopped about one third exactly. You know what, I
Speaker 1: gotta get in for a real I can't go one more.
Speaker 1: Some people, some people are just blessed that way, but
Speaker 1: I'm not one of them. So I was. I was
Speaker 1: very happy with it. We don't have to spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time on it, but thank you' all. I
Speaker 1: would just say this, I'm glad you liked it enough
Speaker 1: to do it again, and so yeah, no, I'm to
Speaker 1: see it up and do it down, to do that
Speaker 1: one in February. If you don't get hurt and back
Speaker 1: out this time. Yeah, that's why. Yeah, yeah, amber Amberley, Amberley,
Speaker 1: I applaud Dave's commitment because it takes a lot. That
Speaker 1: is something I would not do at all. That that's
Speaker 1: the best part about it. It's just in anything, just
Speaker 1: saying this is what I'm gonna do, and I did it,
Speaker 1: stick to it. And that's the thing David I talked
Speaker 1: about this like, that's the great part about long distance
Speaker 1: running and training for a race. It's not so much
Speaker 1: the race day as much as it is the weeks
Speaker 1: and weeks and weeks that you spend when you don't
Speaker 1: want to get up and run. When you get up
Speaker 1: and run anyway and you finish and you feel great
Speaker 1: about it, and that's just one day out of the
Speaker 1: many days when you have to do that. And then
Speaker 1: you get to race day and you feel like, man,
Speaker 1: whatever I do today, I've already accomplished something because I
Speaker 1: was actually I was actually diligent enough to stick with
Speaker 1: the training throughout the whole problem. It was the MVP
Speaker 1: and in your in your ears. As far as music goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm very particular with my playlist, um, but there was
Speaker 1: probably a song. There was probably a moment when you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this a little little loozy for sure. Yeah, none of
Speaker 1: y'all know who that is, but yeah four four four
Speaker 1: plus two two two go listen to that and don't
Speaker 1: tell me you don't get hype like that's the best
Speaker 1: running song ever. All Right, y'all won't like it. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm sure about three and a half hours of just
Speaker 1: really hardcore rap, like just not a whole lot else.
Speaker 1: But it was so opposite, like, oh, yeah, will you
Speaker 1: listen to gospel music? I know, like I need inspiration.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about I want to I want
Speaker 1: to hear about the trap house and slinging rocks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to hear about the opposite. All Right,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys, Jonas. We're back tomorrow. We'll be
Speaker 1: talking more Cowboys football. We'll give you guys a big
Speaker 1: picture look around the NFL, what's happening in the NFC East,
Speaker 1: which is all of a sudden gotten pretty hot bar
Speaker 1: the Giants, and we'll do that tomorrow. Until then, for
Speaker 1: Nick even, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagle from
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