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Speaker 1: The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. Are you ready

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Speaker 1: 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 Tuesday, January eighteenth, twenty twenty two, Season seventeen,

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Speaker 1: episode number one hundred. Welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break Life nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Nick,

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Speaker 1: there is no one hundred, but we didn't get a

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Speaker 1: ninety nine yesterday because we had other things to talk about,

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Speaker 1: So why don't you give me a ninety nine day

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Speaker 1: antin woods. There we go. I can't think of it.

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Speaker 1: That's about it. Like the only ninety nine I think

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Speaker 1: of is like a guy named Hervin McCormick. I remember

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Speaker 1: the name nineties was in the nineties. Yeah, it's about it, though,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, there's been others, but I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's some good ones. I don't don't. Chris Canty nine nine, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Chris not as fun now, it's not as fun it's

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Speaker 1: lost it it's lost its mojost. I think we're at

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Speaker 1: zero zero. That's where we are, one hundred zero. Good

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Speaker 1: to know, just throwing it out there. I'm still smiling. Well,

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Speaker 1: we do have This is the final regular season show.

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Speaker 1: We will be moving to our off season schedule starting

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Speaker 1: next week. Actually is the last show we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: this week. And just you guys know, here's the schedule.

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Speaker 1: We got all the normal shows today at their normal times.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow there will be a joint show which Nick will

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Speaker 1: be hosting UM and then on Thursday there will be

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Speaker 1: another joint show that day will be on but not

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Speaker 1: hosting Thursday. Have you not gotten the I was I

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Speaker 1: was taking Thursday off. But okay, we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I didn't schedule. We talked about it. I didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: I told you what it was. This is think we

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Speaker 1: all said, like, now, this is this is very us.

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Speaker 1: This is very us. Dave, you do have a calendar

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Speaker 1: on that one, buddy, I'll figure it out. I really

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Speaker 1: just wanted to give Derek a hard time, Okay, good, yeah,

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Speaker 1: to make sure people were talking, So that's good. At

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Speaker 1: least somebody talk to you. So, yes, we will have

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Speaker 1: a joint show on Thursday. We'll have media mash on Wedndsay.

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Speaker 1: I think Nick right, so there'll be a media mash

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Speaker 1: on Wedndesay as well. And then next week we will

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Speaker 1: be flipping to our offseason schedule. You guys can catch

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Speaker 1: us every Wednesday at eleven thirty. We will be doing

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Speaker 1: our show from eleven thirty twelve thirty every Wednesday. And

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Speaker 1: so Dave will also be starting up the Draft Show.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's already got some good ideas rolling on

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Speaker 1: that one. He's going to be hosting that this year.

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Speaker 1: So mister Dave will be taking my spot on that show.

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Speaker 1: That'll be happening on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I think at

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Speaker 1: ten am. So makes you that I will have the

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Speaker 1: full schedule up on the app. I'm sure William had

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Speaker 1: that up for you later this week. You'll be able

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Speaker 1: for them starting next week. All right, let's jump in.

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Speaker 1: There were a few topics that we didn't get to

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Speaker 1: although we kind of dabbled into it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yes Sunday, Zeke's twelve or thirty one yards. His long

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Speaker 1: I think I think Lyle's probably or or or Lyell

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Speaker 1: doing something with those three positions. I gotta have a

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Speaker 1: the hard pot about having these kinds of conversations. You

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Speaker 1: can quickly get painted as oh, you're against Zeke. It's

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Speaker 1: not that. It's that I think right now Pollard provides

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Speaker 1: more in the way of if he has. There was

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Speaker 1: a play this last week. It was a sweep where

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Speaker 1: where Zeke got the ball, he was running to the right.

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Speaker 1: They had it all blocked up. There was only one

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Speaker 1: guy out there that was unblocked. It was a defensive back.

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Speaker 1: There was a time when Zeke either runs that guy over,

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Speaker 1: he makes that guy missed. He didn't. And that's not

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Speaker 1: Zeke's game anymore, Like he if he has that one guy,

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Speaker 1: it's rare that we see him make that guy miss

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Speaker 1: at this point in his career. I do think poloit

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Speaker 1: makes that got missed. And that's my point. I think

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Speaker 1: Polo is more dangerous because he can do those kinds

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Speaker 1: of things that I'm just not saying regularly from Zeu

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Speaker 1: fun Live question here from our friend Jack, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: He says, what about Shiwo Illana Lua would he get

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Speaker 1: a chance next year? I I just want to bring

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Speaker 1: it up because I do want to say I really

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Speaker 1: think he makes the team if he stays healthy this

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Speaker 1: maybe Kellen could have done some fun stuff with him,

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Speaker 1: But he is in a big category of guys where

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Speaker 1: I'm like, that's cool and you can come to training camp,

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Speaker 1: but like I'm not carving out a role for you.

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Speaker 1: In February of this year, you know, like like the

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Speaker 1: first thing Kyle Shanahan did when he signed in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna do some fun stuff with you. This

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Speaker 1: ain't that well I mean, I also you got to

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Speaker 1: remember too, is you know all the running backs that

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Speaker 1: come back from neck injuries. I mean, good point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling for him. That is a fair point. And

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Speaker 1: I have just learned how to say his name, so

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Speaker 1: I'm I was excited about him. But um, we'll see,

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Speaker 1: We'll see how he comes back. But those are you know,

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Speaker 1: those are missed minor little storylines like do they win

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl because he's on the team. No, but

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Speaker 1: he was a fun player who could have done some

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Speaker 1: unique stuff that that might have unlocked some things for

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Speaker 1: Kellen's offense for sure. All right, let's take our first break.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about the about some of those jobs. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about these wide receivers and how they've performed

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Speaker 1: in particularly Ceedee Lamb and what he's done, oh the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks. We'll talk about that we come back.

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Speaker 1: just like Nick's read there like I just can't imagine

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Speaker 1: you listen to this show if you like kind of

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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, right, you know, there's no way we

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Speaker 1: appreciate it a little bit, especially on a day like

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Speaker 1: today Tuesday, following a playoff loss. I got the funniest

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Speaker 1: tweet yesterday after you know, my little, my little speech

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Speaker 1: I tried to give. I do it the same thing

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Speaker 1: every year, This guy on Twitter wrote, he said, and

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Speaker 1: some people said thank you for saying that. I kind

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Speaker 1: of needed that, and some people are like probably like fo.

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Speaker 1: But anyways, this guy says, after time reflecting and speaking

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Speaker 1: with my family, my wife who hates when the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are on, that's his family, he says, I have decided

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Speaker 1: to return for my senior season as a Cowboys fan.

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Speaker 1: I would like to thank Cowboys Break Nick Eatman for

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Speaker 1: talk taking me off the ledge with his speech. We

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Speaker 1: go Nino is the name there, so I love it.

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Speaker 1: Got like a like all these concerned for the season years,

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Speaker 1: all these college kids with the transfer pro I've decided

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Speaker 1: to I'm exit the transfer port roll. I'll stay here.

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Speaker 1: I believe in this team. Maybe a little bit like

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Speaker 1: that's funny, No, I mean it's but I also want

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Speaker 1: to reiterate too, like I understand. I mean it's oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I I wasn't ready for it. I just I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got nothing for these guys, Like what are we

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Speaker 1: doing this week? I'm like, I don't know, preparing for

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Speaker 1: the Bucks? I mean, yeah, I thought we'd be writing yeah, rematch, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: rematch from week one? What's different this time around? Five

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Speaker 1: things that are different between the Bucks game? You know? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but Nick, you were talking about you and I were

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Speaker 1: talking about that this this morning. They're really for us.

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Speaker 1: We've never played longer than this, like usually because the

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Speaker 1: NFL is going. But it's true, like when you say

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Speaker 1: when you say one week pass, like this is as

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Speaker 1: long as we've been in it. This is a this

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Speaker 1: is what our bodies know, Like our bodies know about

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Speaker 1: this time is when we're usually heading home at the

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Speaker 1: very best case scenarios. Wasn't I just wasn't prepared. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I honestly, I thought they'd beat San Francisco. I was

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Speaker 1: rooting for San Francisco. Feel bad about that, m especially

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Speaker 1: after watching them. Yeah but yeah, but like like I got,

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of messages last night that were like,

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Speaker 1: we we played this Cardinals team. I was like, you

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen if they play, Like

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Speaker 1: don't you don't but Cowboys three points, Cowboys don't have

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Speaker 1: Donald last time I checked. Yeah, well that's I mean

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Speaker 1: Shannon upstairs. Today, Shannon was like, looking at the schedule,

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Speaker 1: he goes some pretty good games next week. Too soon,

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Speaker 1: I would say. I we talked about that after the show.

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Speaker 1: You I don't. I mean, yeah, I wish the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: were still playing, but like if it's on, I'm watching.

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Speaker 1: I watched. I couldn't even watch most of that game.

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Speaker 1: I watched the whole thing. I just watched Eli and Peyton.

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Speaker 1: It's probably not in that order, but uh yeah. When

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Speaker 1: I saw Eli wearing that death Row Records chain, like

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Speaker 1: that was pretty funny. And I'll be out, I will

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Speaker 1: be front and center. This is this isn't gonna be

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Speaker 1: a fun weekend. Oh by the weekend, I'll be Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday it was too soon. I couldn't do it. Man.

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Speaker 1: I was just because the whole quarter I sat there

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Speaker 1: and watched it. I'm thinking, man like, but Dallas at

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Speaker 1: their best, they could play with these teams. I just

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Speaker 1: they just can't always show up and play at there

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Speaker 1: but they don't. But here's here's the thing, though, anything

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Speaker 1: that happens in the NFC or even the AFC, because

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Speaker 1: they played one of those teams, Like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: you can watch any game next weekend and be like

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Speaker 1: Dallas could have beat them. They didn't show that they could.

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Speaker 1: They really didn't. They showed they could beat and they

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Speaker 1: could whip the Eagles and the Giants more than this

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Speaker 1: team beat them. But when it came to like good

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Speaker 1: on good, they didn't. They didn't show they could do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm just more forgiving, and I get it is

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Speaker 1: a results driven business and I mean moral victories all

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Speaker 1: that good stuff. But like they played the Bucks to

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Speaker 1: the final snap, They played the Niners to the final snap.

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Speaker 1: They could they played a they were competitive against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: They didn't look great doing it, but like they didn't

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Speaker 1: look like they didn't belong on that field. But you

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Speaker 1: know that. I think that's the point though, Dave, the

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Speaker 1: way I look at it is and they did with

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Speaker 1: with Arizona. They played to the last snap. And guess

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Speaker 1: what in the playoffs in that first round against San

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Speaker 1: Francisco they played to the final snap. Well, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: quite a snap, but they played to the final snap

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Speaker 1: like they're good enough. They are good enough to play

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Speaker 1: with any team in the league. They're not necessarily good

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Speaker 1: enough to beat those Yea, I think different. I think

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Speaker 1: we're saying the same thing. Yeah, no way, since yesterday. Oh,

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Speaker 1: trust me, I haven't. I haven't. I'm well, your mood

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Speaker 1: is completely different than yesterday. Yesterday we should have had

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Speaker 1: a camera just recording Dave all day long. Yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: I was, I'm I'm still, I'm still pretty bitter, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, I'm just yeah, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: most interesting about that. I remember when Day first got here,

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Speaker 1: he was so emotionally detached from this team, Like it

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Speaker 1: was just kind of like you were very much. I'm

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Speaker 1: a media guy, Like, I don't. I don't get here

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Speaker 1: in the thing, and if we want to do this,

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Speaker 1: we can't. Like I'm not, I'm really not upset that

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Speaker 1: they lost a playoff game. I'm I'm upset and I

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Speaker 1: feel like I this is I feel like this is

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Speaker 1: how a lot of Cowboy fans feel. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: the hamster wheel of it all. It's like, I get you.

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Speaker 1: We did all of this, and like you know, it's like, uh,

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Speaker 1: you got, you got. You didn't get near the mountaintop.

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Speaker 1: But like, and that's even more frustrating, Like you got

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Speaker 1: back to the same mile marker on the mountain, then

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Speaker 1: you tumbled back down and you look around and we're like,

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Speaker 1: we gotta do this whole thing again. You literally look

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Speaker 1: back up at that mountain again and you're like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I came along, I've tumbled a long way. I went

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Speaker 1: up a long way. I tumbled a long way and

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even at the top, and now I gotta

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Speaker 1: start climbing all over. Yeah, it's I mean, it sucks

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Speaker 1: that they lost, but like for me, it's not. It's

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Speaker 1: not the pain of the cowboys losing. It's the pain

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Speaker 1: of thinking, like I gotta start walking up the stam

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Speaker 1: mountain again. I don't really want right now, show here

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Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, all right, so let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: wide receivers again. It wasn't a great day for them

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Speaker 1: yesterday either, I guess holistically, if you think about it,

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00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: um ceedee Lamb only had one catch. My question for

636
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: you guys is do you think the challenges with the

637
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: wide receivers was more about what was happening with the

638
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: offensive line in the quarterback or do you think that

639
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: just they weren't getting open, they weren't creating opportunities for

640
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Yeah, I had to answer that. Somebody. Somebody

641
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: asked that question on Twitter he had one catch. Is

642
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: it Dax fault or is it Kellen's fault? And I

643
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: was like, I would put three people in that. UM.

644
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: I like him as a player a lot. I do.

645
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: I think he could be really good. I would probably

646
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: put CD as my most disappointing player of this team

647
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: this year if they Yeah, I know, Kean O'Neil's of

648
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: trendy picked there, but CD is probably the most disappointing

649
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: for me. Explaining that for me, ox Nardi was Randy Moss.

650
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, and he was beating the guy that turned

651
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: out to be really good this year, Treyvon Diggs. He

652
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: was making play after play after play after play, and

653
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: he didn't do that this year. He really didn't. He

654
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: had he had some nice a thousand yards it's take

655
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: such sounds, I believe, but he didn't make those. I

656
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: don't have anywhere. I don't know where to throw it,

657
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna throw it up here and let

658
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: him go get it, and I thought he would be

659
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: even more dynamic going into the season. I think it was.

660
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: It was a close battle between Justin Jefferson and cd

661
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: On who's the better It's not right now, Yeah, and

662
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,479
Speaker 1: it's not like the Vikings were in the playoffs. You know,

663
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: I just don't think he took the next step that

664
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to take. He still took

665
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: a step, but not as big as I thought he

666
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: would take. I don't know if I don't know if

667
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: I'm willing to say he's the most disappointing player on

668
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: this team. But I'm glad you said it because I

669
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: was going to like what we saw in training camp.

670
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: Looked like a guy who was about to take over

671
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. And yeah, and again he wasn't drumming on scrubs.

672
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: Raypon Digs led the league in interceptions. I don't get

673
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: that's cool that he gave up yards. I get it,

674
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: but like he was doing it against pretty solid cornerback play,

675
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: and he just looked different. And he had some nice games.

676
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: I mean, his game against New England was fantastic. Both

677
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: of his touchdowns in that game were huge. But yeah,

678
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: it's I was expecting more. To be honest, he had.

679
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: He had five more catches and two hundred more yards

680
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: than he did as a rookie, and that was playing

681
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: without Dak for most of the year. I just I thought, yeah,

682
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to see a Justin Jefferson

683
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: like season. I think I said that yesterday, like all

684
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, we joked for a solid year,

685
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: like I can't believe the league let us have this guy,

686
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: and the guy taken five or six picks later is

687
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: better than him by a pretty significant margin. Right now,

688
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 1: that's just facts. I think that's all. You think a

689
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: lot of that is on him, or do you think again,

690
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: this is this goes back to the quarterback and him

691
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: not having and even him not having time, so it

692
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: still goes back to our original conversation the offensive line.

693
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: I think there's a big chunk that's on him because

694
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: I keep trying to make sense of it all, and

695
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: I keep thinking, I want to keep bringing myself to Okay,

696
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, boat, when you look

697
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: at how they started the year, you were able to say, Okay, wow,

698
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: look at all the different weapons that they have, all

699
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: the talent that they have. I was wont to say

700
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: each position had one of the best ones in the NFL.

701
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: I would say that back then, and then looking at

702
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: it now, you start looking around the roster and you're like, okay,

703
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: you could argue Zeke with the injury. You could argue

704
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 1: Dak got injured and came back. There was the mental

705
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: aspect of things and things like that. Michael Gallup injured,

706
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: but then ceedee lamb. He stayed pretty healthy and he

707
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: didn't show talking about the abilities that you were mentioning,

708
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: those kind of abilities that you've seen him do even

709
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: last year when he started. So I don't know what

710
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: exactly to pinpoint there too, Okay, this is what happened

711
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: to him, and that's why he wasn't as successful. And yes,

712
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: obviously the old line is gonna have an effect, Dak

713
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: Prescott is gonna have an effect. But at the end

714
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: of the day, there were many plays too that the

715
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: ball could have been caught by him he didn't. And

716
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing that you saw last year, how many

717
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: crazy plays and balls that he would catch. I don't

718
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: know where You're like, whoa And that made one of

719
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: the biggest highlights for his career. And then that was

720
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: all gone, So what do you give the blame to

721
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: other than just him and whatever? We might not know

722
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: that he's struggling with, but for sure we haven't heard

723
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: of any kind of injury that might have been affected him. Yeah,

724
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: you know. I was also trying to think too, like

725
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: we didn't see those plays that we saw on camp.

726
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: Did they even attempt it? Though? Good question? I mean, like, well,

727
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: but I think it's also I don't know if it's

728
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: it's I don't even I don't look at it open though. Yeah,

729
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: I have to be open for that. It's just first thing,

730
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: the goal in the floor thrown up. I get that,

731
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: but I would even ask the question further than that,

732
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 1: like that play it was a touchdown last year where

733
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: he contorted his body Minnesota, and the question becomes was

734
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: there as has there been a single catch like that

735
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: even this year. I'm not talking just to throw it up.

736
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: I'm talking just to where he does something that's so remarkable,

737
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: where it's like his athleticism is so much better than

738
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: the guys that are out there trying to cover him.

739
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't care about this conversation, to be very blunt

740
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: about it. No, no, no, I mean I'm taking it

741
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: in a different direction because I've been thinking about this

742
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: and I I don't know, maybe maybe I'm feeling a

743
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: little bit of a philosophy change or something like that.

744
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I still I still don't believe in

745
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: the idea of like being stubborn. But is the play

746
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: caller doing enough to force the issue to get the

747
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: ball into the hands of his good players? How many

748
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: times dolle targeted this last game, I'd barely remember. I

749
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: think I think he was close to I think he

750
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,919
Speaker 1: was targeted five times, um, which is insane. Yeah, five

751
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: targets one catch. But like you look at you look

752
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: at the numbers. CD was targeted one hundred and twenty

753
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: times on the year. Uh, second best after that was

754
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz one hundred and four times, which, like, Dalton's great,

755
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: but should he be second on your team in targets,

756
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: like in terms of like trying to get the ball

757
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: to that guy? Then you go, then you go look

758
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 1: at Cooper. Do you know how many times Cooper Cup

759
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: got targeted this year? Probably one hundred and ninety one times,

760
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: Like they always threw the ball him and by the way,

761
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: he made something of it and all and like these

762
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: are on teams where there are other weapons, Like I

763
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: know he got hurt. If you extrapolate his numbers for

764
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: a full season, Robert Woods was on pace for eighty

765
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: five targets. Odell Beckham's only been there for half a season,

766
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: but if you extrapolate, he's on pace for sixty five.

767
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: They've got an athletic tight end as well. Tampa. Um,

768
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Chris Godwin and Mike Evans were both

769
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: targeted north of a hundred times. I'm just not convinced

770
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are making enough of an effort, like we're

771
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: getting the ball to our studs instead of go through

772
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: your progressions and if they're not open, then find the

773
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: other guy. Yeah, that's useful, don't get me wrong, But

774
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: there is an element of this thing where like you

775
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: gotta be like we are. We have guys that we

776
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: have brought here tell you that saybody, no, no, go ahead.

777
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was just thinking, let's be careful now

778
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: because we did have that situation a couple of years ago.

779
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: I know, you know it can't be either, or I

780
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: know it can't be either, or you know we talked

781
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: about earlier in the year, Like the thing that's making

782
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: this thing work is that these receivers are mentioned together

783
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: and Dak doesn't care. He's gonna get it to whoever.

784
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: If it's nor Brown, it's nor Brown, which it probably

785
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: shouldn't be, but you know, so it's a great but

786
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: they staffs not doing that, and Stafford's like, I'm getting

787
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: the ball to Cooper Cup. They did it on Sunday.

788
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: I don't remember the exact moment in the game, but

789
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: like Cedric and Noah checked in in twelve personnel and

790
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: that was when Dak through probably his only truly deep

791
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 1: pass of the day. Well, I mean, the Amari touchdown

792
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: was only twenty yards I'm talking he threw it forty

793
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: yards down field. I think it was even in double coverage.

794
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: And I was like, why are we doing this way?

795
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this when Lamb and Cooper aren't

796
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: on the field, Like what why? Like it's great to

797
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: say we're gonna take what we're given, We're not gonna

798
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: change what we do based on what they're do, but

799
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: like you don't have to be willfully ignorant of it either, Like, hey,

800
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: maybe maybe our pro bowler in our first round pick

801
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: should be the guys that we're testing double coverage with

802
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 1: or whatever. I just I think you got to find

803
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: a better balance there, Like you can't just be completely

804
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: stubborn and just be bound and determined all the time.

805
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: But I think you gotta make more of a concerted

806
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: effort to put the ball in your playmaker's hands. Yeah,

807
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it's real quick. I think that

808
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: we talk about it, and actually they talked about this

809
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: earlier in the season a lot. They were going to

810
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: aggressively take what the defense gave them. I think the

811
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: difference in that philosophy is you spend more passive recent Yeah.

812
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: I know, but but I would even say even from

813
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: that standpoint, you look at a team like we were

814
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: just talking about Cooper Cup, I think the difference is

815
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: what they do with the Rams, is they say not,

816
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: we're just not going to take aggressive of what you

817
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: give us. We're going to create ways that we can

818
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: get the ball into cups hands. The same thing with

819
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: San Francisco. We're going to create ways to get the

820
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 1: ball in Deebo's hands. By the way, everybody knows who's

821
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: playing San Francisco. Deebo at Samuels gonna get the ball.

822
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: We gotta stop Deebo Samuel. They still find ways, creative

823
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: ways to get the ball in his hands, and that

824
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: I think maybe the difference here is that Dallas is saying, hey,

825
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: we'll get it in Cedric Wilson's hands if he's the

826
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: guy that's open and we expect him to do the

827
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: things that Amari can do, instead of saying, no, Amar's

828
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: our best player or CD's our best player. We're gonna

829
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: find ways and create ways we can get them open

830
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: and get the ball in your hands and let them

831
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: do things right, which and I wanted to talk. I'm

832
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up because I do think that's

833
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: a point worth talking about. And my friend Seth Kalina

834
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: for Pro Football Focus actually wrote a really great story

835
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: yesterday about Kellen's offense. You can go read it if

836
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: you want to. It's really interesting, just about like it

837
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: relies a lot on Dak to do everything and like

838
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: go through his progressions, whereas a lot of other coaches

839
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: scheme easy looks for their quarterback to get balls to guys,

840
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: and like there's this weird toxic attitude to where it's

841
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: like you can only be a good quarterback if like

842
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: you don't have a line and you make all the

843
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: progressions yourself, you know what I mean. It's like, well,

844
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: if Dak was great, he could overcome this off defensive

845
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: line killing him every down. It's like, why can you

846
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: only be good if life is really difficult? Like why, Like,

847
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a bad thing for your coach

848
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: to scheme up easy throws to Amari Cooper for you,

849
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: and I just that hasn't been a thing enough for

850
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: this offense. I think I don't like comparing anybody to

851
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,959
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. I don't think that's fair.

852
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: They're never gonna He's never gonna be that, you know.

853
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: But you can see, especially for Brady, you can see

854
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: why he has played for so long. He is not

855
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: worried about the stats at all. He's he is not

856
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: worried about making all the best throws. There was that

857
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: one play we saw with Dak where all all season

858
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: he keeps saying, yeah, I got a little greedy there.

859
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: You don't have to get greedy. You take what's there

860
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: and keep going. It's first and twenty and Cooper is

861
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: gonna give you seven eight yards maybe if you break

862
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: a tackle and make more than that. But you trying

863
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to blank Jarwin down the field.

864
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: That's not your strength, and that's not his strength right

865
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: now in the middle of you know, in the middle

866
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: of him coming back and all that. I just don't

867
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: think that was a smart play. And now it's second

868
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: and twenty you're trying to get in field goal range.

869
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: And I just thought that was an example of somebody

870
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: like a Brady who's just like, Okay, you're gonna give

871
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: me that boom. I got it because I'm gonna do

872
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: another seven, and I'm gonna do another seven and I'm

873
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: gonna get a first down. And I just I think

874
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: that the greedy part of is is something we don't

875
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: talk about as much. And I wonder do you remember

876
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: from week from Week two against the Chargers, which was

877
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: a very penalty heavy game if you remember, not on

878
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: the level that we've seen in the second half of

879
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: the season, but there were a lot of flags in

880
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: that game. From there going to New England, they kept

881
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: getting out of those first and twenty situations, like they

882
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: would get a hold and then they would get it

883
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: back like instantly, and they did it pretty reliably for

884
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: like a month. Maybe that just gave him an inflated

885
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: sense of confident. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, yeah, we're getting

886
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: this back right here. Don't worry about we're getting twenty two.

887
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's first and twenty and that's

888
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: not a way to live. You get the feeling that

889
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: Dak is going to say something like in It won't

890
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: be the US, It'll be some like CBS Radio, a

891
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: serious interview or something where he'd be like, I was

892
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: never the same after the calf injury. It hurt me

893
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,479
Speaker 1: all year long. I was playing with you know, something

894
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: like that where you're like, honest. I don't think he'll

895
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: say that now. I think once he retires and he

896
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: looked back on his career, I think he will talk

897
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: about this season and say I wasn't right, because we

898
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: all see it. Like some of the things we see

899
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: from him, I've never we haven't seen Dak be, in

900
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: my opinion, be as inaccurate as he as he was

901
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 1: this year. So many times he doesn't talk about this season.

902
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope this isn't the season that he

903
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: talks well, he'll talk about it from a standpoint of

904
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: the question will be like, what was the season that

905
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: was most disappointing you, and I think, get you know,

906
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: Danny'll get into it. I honestly don't think. I don't think.

907
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak was himself this year for whatever reason.

908
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: I don't know the reason. Only he knows the reason.

909
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak was the same. I don't get

910
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: why he would be so defensive about it if that

911
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: was the case. You know, like he just refused to

912
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: eat because of his personality. He's that type of personality

913
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: where when you have those people that are extremely optimistic

914
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: and always thinking the positive, they will never let the

915
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: negative ever get into their mind, even if it might

916
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: be true. They never let it get into their mind

917
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: because it takes them away from their optimism. Yeah, well,

918
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: I was thinking of that, and like the injury aspect,

919
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, it would have been so much easier if

920
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: that was really the case, to just say, Okay, he

921
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: is struggling with because then you get people that are

922
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: like us or other people from the media looking at

923
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: it like, well, makes sense, he's struggling with this injury,

924
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: but he's out there battling through it and blah blah blah.

925
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: So because yesterday I was thinking of that random I'm like, Okay,

926
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: is this something that in the next few weeks we're

927
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: gonna hear like kind of like Zeke but we knew

928
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: about Zeke and we knew he was I don't but

929
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: something that came about with Dak. Oh yeah, he was

930
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: still dealing with that, and that's kind of what led

931
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: to his inaccuracy or the way that he was playing

932
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: and all that. But then at the same time, like

933
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: that would have been if that's the case, it would

934
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: have been great to be mentioned all throughout the season

935
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: because then you get a lot less heat for it. No,

936
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: but that's it's and I've been around the block enough

937
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: times and I don't want to put words in Dak's mouth,

938
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: but I could see that happening, or even if it doesn't.

939
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: That's it drives me crazy because like, and it doesn't

940
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: have to be Dak. So and so is struggling and struggling,

941
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: and we come on the show and we're like, he

942
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: looks like crap, he's struggling, And then so and so

943
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: is like a holes, like, hey, I've got a high

944
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: grade ankle sprain that nobody knows about, and this that

945
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 1: and the other. I'm like, can you say it? Then

946
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: because otherwise, like I got nothing to go on, I

947
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: gotta just I'm I'm just watching the game and trying

948
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: to analyze it based on what I see. You hiding

949
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: it from me isn't helping anybody, yourself included, because people

950
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: will go easier on you if they know that you're

951
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 1: banged up. But I want to be clear, I don't

952
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: know that I think that it was an injury or

953
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: he wasn't right physically from the standpoint if he was

954
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: still hurting, I know, I think it actually is, and

955
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if you guys have

956
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: ever experienced this, but sometimes when you get an injury,

957
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: what tends to happen is you start you start overcompensating

958
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: for the area that was injured. Even once you're healthy,

959
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: you still overcompensate because you don't quite use it the

960
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: same way. You don't quite trust that muscle, that ligament,

961
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: You don't quite want to put the same torque on it,

962
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: and so it changes your mechanics a little bit on

963
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: how you do things. It happens when me running all

964
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: the time, like you, you just change up what you

965
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: do because you're trying to overcompensate for the pain that

966
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: you were feeling before, even though that pain may not

967
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: be there anymore. And I just wonder if some of

968
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: that stuff happened for Dak where he just wasn't the same,

969
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: It wasn't quite perfect the way it was before because

970
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: he was still overcompensating for my bone was sticking out

971
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: of my leg months ago, right, And I just I

972
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: just wonder, I don't know this, I just wonder if

973
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: maybe that was a situation hopefully not, because and that

974
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: makes me think of a guy like late in Vanderesh

975
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: and him with the times that he got injured. I mean,

976
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: every time he came back, he just seemed like worse

977
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: and worse. And I don't think that it was necessarily

978
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: a physical thing. It was more well, yeah, a combination

979
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,879
Speaker 1: of it. But at the same time maybe mentally where

980
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: he's like not playing or hard throwing himself to tackle

981
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 1: as hard because of his mind he's gonna get hurt

982
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: again in his neck and this and that. So I

983
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: don't know, hopefully it's not that, because it could lean

984
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: melt into like next year and the years to come.

985
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would I would probably think this year,

986
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: I would guess Dak is probably going to spend a

987
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: lot of time in the off season just work on

988
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: his fundamentals. That's what I would guess. Because we saw

989
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:51,959
Speaker 1: him a lot of times this year kind of throwing

990
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: off his back foot, I would probably guess this offseason

991
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna spend a lot of time working on footwork,

992
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: working on his fundamentals, the things he couldn't do last

993
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: year because he was rehabbing. He couldn't really work on

994
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: those things that you have to keep up on as

995
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I would suspect he's gonna do a lot

996
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: of that this offseason. Are you gonna take our final break?

997
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,239
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1000
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,879
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1046
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1047
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,759
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1049
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,040
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1050
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Speaker 1: Garry Jones needs to do and step in. I'm not

1055
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Speaker 1: sure when McCartney was hired, if he was limited to

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Speaker 1: what he could do, what could he not do with

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Speaker 1: the coordinator? But I blame a lot of this on

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Speaker 1: McCartney too, because he used to have stepped in when

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00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: we stopped running. We need to run to set up

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Speaker 1: the path, and yes, our offensive line needs to be fixed.

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00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 1: But Kellen Moore is the problem, all right. We appreciate

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00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: the problem too, that is the problem too, But Kellen

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Speaker 1: Moore is the problem. All right. We appreciate the call,

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Speaker 1: and I actually do think there is some truth to that.

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Speaker 1: I do think that it didn't seem like, at least

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Speaker 1: it didn't seem like they had a lot of answers

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Speaker 1: for the issues that they had faced since the Denver game.

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00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: Offensively didn't seem like they could quite find their groove

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00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: find their way out of that. And that has to

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Speaker 1: be you have to give a lot of that to

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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator of having to figure that out. I

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Speaker 1: don't like, and I'm not going to I don't like

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Speaker 1: calling for people to be fired, and I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to sit here and like call for Kellen More to

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Speaker 1: be fired. But it's two months of really mediocre offense

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Speaker 1: and not getting results against quality opponents. And there's not

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Speaker 1: a very long list of excuses. I mean, the offensive

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Speaker 1: line wasn't good, but like everybody was available. They tried

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Speaker 1: McGovern that didn't work. They put Connor Williams back in there,

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00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: that didn't really work. You know, maybe they could have

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00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: moved Lyle to guard like break glass in case of

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Speaker 1: emergency whatever. I don't know, But there's not a long

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Speaker 1: list of excuses. When you're like, well, why didn't this work?

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Speaker 1: I mean, who am I wrong for thinking that? So,

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Speaker 1: like I'm I'm not calling for somebody to lose their job.

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Speaker 1: But that is something that the Cowboys should look at

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00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: and consider, and it's concerning. Like I'm not as confident

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Speaker 1: in Kellen Moore as I was before the bye week

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Speaker 1: this season. I thought the call, I mean I thought

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Speaker 1: I thought the caller was a tad bit hypocritical and

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00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: some of the things that he said of saying I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to put it on Ceedee Lamb because I

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Speaker 1: don't know how the play calls are with Kellen Moore.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't know how the play calls are,

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00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: that you're you're also calling him the problem. I mean,

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00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we don't know. But as

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Speaker 1: Davis pointed out, and then the caller pointed out to

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Speaker 1: offensive line, Dak calling Moore, yeah, it's it's a big

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Speaker 1: problem all the way around. Everybody has a say in this.

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Speaker 1: I just know this. If you fix that offensive line,

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Speaker 1: guys can run behind it and Dak can throw behind it.

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Speaker 1: A rookie quarterback in the fourth round who shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: starting is starting and succeeding and wins Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year because the offensive line is awesome. This offensive line

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Speaker 1: needs to get better. And then I think that's where

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Speaker 1: it first started is because you can't change DAK and

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Speaker 1: you can't change the not right now, So fix that

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Speaker 1: and I will, and if Kellen Moore is here next year,

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Speaker 1: I agree with Nick. I mean that that's just the

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Speaker 1: easiest fix, because I don't agree with that part about

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Speaker 1: like they needed to keep running it wasn't working, Like

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Speaker 1: who what game did you see them play after the

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00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: buye where you had confidence that they could run the

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Speaker 1: ball when they needed to. I don't think. I don't

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Speaker 1: think there was a game this year that pissed me

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Speaker 1: off more than the Saints game, just in terms of

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Speaker 1: having to watch it, because they just kept stubbornly running

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Speaker 1: and it didn't work. And ironically Tony scored on a

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Speaker 1: sweep when they finally decided to go outside, but like

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Speaker 1: their bread and butter in between, the tackles sucked and

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't go away from it, and I wanted to scream.

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Speaker 1: I hated that game plan so much, so I don't

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Speaker 1: think that is the right idea either. I think either

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Speaker 1: either change the scheme or fix the offensive line so

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Speaker 1: that this scheme can get back to work in the

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Speaker 1: way that we saw it. All right, we appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys joining us. That's a rap. That's the final regular

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Speaker 1: season show for the twenty twenty one season. We will

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Speaker 1: start next week on our offseason shows. We'll start talking

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Speaker 1: about some big picture things like what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: with these coaches, who are going to stick around, who

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Speaker 1: may be gone? Tot them for Nickiepan, Dave Helm and

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Speaker 1: Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagelton. This has been The

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