WEBVTT - Hangin' with the Boys: Throw Out The Analytics 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:21.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Flowing out of the backfields, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:26.400 flooding down the sidelines. He's hanging with the Boys, presented 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:31.360 by Wing Stuff where Flavor gets its wings. Now, your hosts, 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:40.680 Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, Jesse Holly, and Shannon Gross Welcome 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:46.160 to the shows WBC Mortgage Living Room, Fresco, Texas show Us. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.879 Jesse Holly, Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels. Gonna try to keep 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.440 it in between the ditches today, how you guys, feeling 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:59.440 you good? Feeling good man, good beer from Louisiana. You know, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.399 everybody else have their side roles. They call them side roles, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.480 they call them soft curves. But he los, Hey, man, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:14.240 I'm running that ditch over the ditches for sure. So 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.800 out of between them two ditches, and you'll find we 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:25.880 shouting the messay to the eighteen different houses. Listen right past, 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.120 right past the ditches, the trailer parks. So you know, 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:35.000 I know I know my way around them ditches. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.080 there you go, there you go. Well, and we're talking 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.280 about something earlier. Man, It was a question that uh 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.920 my man is supposed to ask us, and that wasn't 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.760 supposed to be nice. So what is that question? I 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.880 want to jump right into it because I'm curious. What 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.440 is that question? Kurt? Well, it's not it's not it's 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.680 not that it's not nice. It's just I don't think 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.560 I want to participate in this segment. This is Kurt segment. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.920 This he's leading out with fire. I'm sure. I'm sure, Jesse, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:09.040 you'll have any lead. I don't Nate. Oh, I know, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.960 fellas is. It's easy to it's easy to answer things 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.600 like this whenever COVID is going on and you're working 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.800 in your living room. But when they opened the doors 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.640 back up and I have to go back in that 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.919 building and get on that airplane and those buses with 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.640 these coaches and players, it's a little bit different. So Kurt, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.760 you don't You're not faced with that. So go ahead, Kurt, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.000 this is your segment. What would you like to what 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.400 you were telling Rose? You got me really excited about 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:44.360 doing this. Now it's got me all worried, paranoid. Come on, no, wow, Jesse, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.840 So I guess you would take over the Kurt, Oh, Jesse. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.400 Jesse will definitely jump in on this Jesse, Definitely, I 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:56.800 guess the question I posed to in our no Kurt, Kurt, Kurt, Kurt. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:02.680 Just read the first one, two, three, the first seven 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.840 words of that email. Just read it just like you 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:09.600 said it. The question to us is McCarthy. Has McCarthy 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.680 been better than Garrett? And we know there's been questionable 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.920 coaching calls already, We've been talking about that. He also 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.480 came in promising a lot of new analytics in kind 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.480 of boosting the offense with some new thoughts and practices. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.560 But the question is has he really done it? And 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.040 this is based off an article that Next Gen Stats ran. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.080 When was the last week or so, maybe two weeks ago, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.000 But if you look at the stats, the next Gen Stats, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.320 it kind of brings into question if he's really following 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:46.840 up on his promises. There are some stats like early 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.800 pass play percentage. There's a lot of criticism about where 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:56.200 the Cowboys running too much and McCarthy, Kellen Moore, they 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.240 are passing more on the early downs, first second downs 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.320 or so. It's fifty four point eight percent last year 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.720 under Garrett, sixty two point one percent this year under McCarthy, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.160 and that's sixth in the league. Obviously, we know he's 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.480 going for more on fourth downs. They have already tried 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.520 more fourth down attempts in the history of the Cowboys. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.400 They've already set a team record. In the just eleven 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.120 games in they've been successful forty eight percent of the time, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.039 which was better than last year, but that still ranks 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.039 only twenty sixth in the league, So you have to 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.000 kind of guess where that's working work. What I found 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.039 really interesting and fascinating and made me kind of bring 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.960 up this question is that one of the criticisms that 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.159 Garrett got was that the offense was too dull, that 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.440 they weren't using play action enough, that they weren't shifting 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.320 enough the pre snapped shifts moving the receivers down. But actually, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.400 if you look at what McCarthy's doing it there play action, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.640 they're actually using play action less than they did under 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.680 Garrett last year. Last year they used at twenty four 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.400 point seven percent of the time. This year are using 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.559 a twenty point two percent of the time, which ranks 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.880 twenty fourth in the league. And then if you look 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.400 at the pre snap shifts moving the running backs around 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.320 the receivers around last year they were using pre snap 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.040 shifts sixty point one percent of the time, which we 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.080 ranks sixth in the league. This year they're at fifty 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.440 point six percent of the time, which is thirteenth in 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.800 the league. And that nine point five percent drop, that 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.600 difference is the fourth highest drop in the NFL, which 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.840 makes you wonder are we getting what we asked that 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.440 before n before Nate jumps in. I misread the question, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.200 so that on actually is not that bad of a question, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.039 because your email says, is McCarthy been better than Garrett? 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.200 I thought it said, is McCarthy better than Garrett? And 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.600 I was like, of course you did Louisiana education. Man, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.039 of course you did. Of course you did the guy 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.960 who went to school in Louisiana. I know you misread 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:02.880 the email. I know that you have trouble with comprehension. Current, 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:09.240 which which runs our publication, which runs our publications, wrote McCarthy, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:15.599 no stop, is McCarthy been back? That is that is 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.359 what sale newspapers the way he presented that. You know, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.800 the average guy would have bought that because of how 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:29.880 you presented that. That's great edity, uh, scaring shining, scared 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:35.320 to death was coming to end. But but I will 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:45.039 say this, right here man. Uh in defense of coach McCarthy. Uh. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.919 And it's something just said, man, it's the mindset of 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.320 the players and whether they're at and what they're trying 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:58.400 to do. Uh. A lot of things you're acting from Uh. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.400 Our offense, you know, if they are capable of doing, 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.400 if they were one hundred percent, even the analytics of it, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.200 they if they were one hundred percent, but they're not. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.280 That's so that's one of the one of the things 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.840 they pointed out was that even under when Dak was 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.000 behind playing quarterback, the percentages were down from last year. Yeah, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.200 and that's where I'm going And the reason, the reason 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.120 the Cowboys and you can just market us now, the 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.360 reason the Cowboys will and always will be in this 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.800 position and they will be in this position next year 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.679 because the one thing they're not going to address the defense. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.200 The defense had something to do with this. And when 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.160 our defense, when when Zeke doesn't turn the ball over 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.960 and our defense get a turnover, our chances are going 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.960 back and look about our chances to go up greater 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.280 of winning. Okay, before this year we didn't have to 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.520 worry about Zeke turning the ball over. But every other 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.640 year we had to worry about our defense. So until 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.720 you ain't something on your defensive end, all of these 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:07.760 things and with the offensive coordinator of Kella Moore, this 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.360 is what this these this is lining up just like 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.119 I thought it would. You know, mister sixteen and old man, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.960 I'm surprised to hear you say that that the dom 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.560 has that big of an impact on them. What the 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.960 offense is trying to run? You you you you, you 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.400 look at you look at Kansas City chief as high 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.480 powered as their offense is, and nobody's gonna question Green 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:37.079 Bay or Kansas City and their quarterbacks. But at different 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.960 times in this year, their defense have have not helped. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.520 And I'm not talking about it. Kn't send them to 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.440 my Green Bay and it hurts tremendously, and you've seen 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.800 where they've gotten off to a slow start, but their 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.960 defense have done just enough to keep it close enough 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.040 so these guys can have a chance to win in 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.040 the end. I'm not saying the defense have to be dominant, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.160 no one not in today's NFL. But defense has to 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.439 be able to hold on when you're our owner comes 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.720 on the day out of the game, when he first 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.240 appears on and he said, well, coach, why did you 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.800 feel you had to do the the the reverse the 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.520 way y'all did it so early in the way he 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.679 looked in the past and all this. He said, what 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:24.720 we felt we was gonna get gashed. If your defense 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.319 could just hold up, maybe maybe coach McCarthy won't think 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.880 we're gonna get gashed. Maybe they're gonna maybe maybe they're gonna. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:33.920 And I'm you know what, I don't be like a 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.080 good Baptist preacher. You every chance I get to turn 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.120 it back to defense, I'm gonna turn it back to death. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.320 I'm just being honest with you. Man. Yeah, but what defense? 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.959 No fame? What about the fact you know we we 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.360 we were talking last year the offense needed to, you know, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.880 have more movement. They they were too boring. We wanted 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.199 to see him like the Rams and even McCarthy and 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.120 in some of his h before he got here and 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.640 some of his comments raved about the Rams forty nine 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.040 ers or okay, but but but you didn't. But you 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.680 didn't come in and run the offense. You came in 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.719 and read Jason Garrett offense stay in place. So how 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.360 can you expect to change something? When you said Keller 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.440 Moore did Keller Moore is doing a great job. He's 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.360 doing an awesome job. I'll just tweak him a little 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.240 bit and everything will be will be great. That's what 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.400 he said. A week after he said that he's gonna 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.720 be calling plays. Then a week and a half later 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.160 he said kell him, So this this is what you get, man. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.160 Along with the injuries, I'm serious, along with the injuries. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.880 We've had some and I still think our offensive line 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.559 has done a decent job being who is lining up 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.040 playing for us. So that should he have come right 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.160 in and said, we're doing my offense my way, no 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:55.719 matter what or because of because of the COVID situation. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.719 But as the season went on, just like we saw, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.920 this defense evolved a little bit. I seeill got high hope. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.880 So the defense as far as where they have progress 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.600 since they got with the uh jelly doughnuts and stuff 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.360 like that, and I'm still happy about that, but rather 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.520 so so. So here's how I was looking around and 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.240 I finally found it, And here's how I look at 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:37.320 those analytical stats you and here's why. And here's why. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:42.760 Because you're you're you're you're taking one, you're taking sample sizes, 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.959 you're taking an offense that was under the tutelage and 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:55.440 uh instruction and play calling of Jason Garrett for the 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.080 large majority of his time here the last year or so, 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.240 Keller Moore was having it right. So all of that 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.560 knowledge and information and players, everything that was based on 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.760 any information that you give me from a year, two years, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.040 three years, five years up to ten years ago. All 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.440 that information is built upon the foundation of this is 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.880 the formula in which Jason Garrett wanted to operate, the 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.440 formula and players in which he wanted to operate with. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:34.240 We We've said this a million times, and Kurt Shannon, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.840 Chris Nate, it's so profound. And I told you guys, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.960 when the season begins, look how the season is shaking out. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.720 I said this in the spring. I said, those teams 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.800 who have the most veterans and who've been around one 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.640 another the longest, with those type of head coaches will 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:01.240 see the most success because it is so difficult. It 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.440 is so difficult. I'll say it again, It is so 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:09.240 difficult to try to put together a team, a game plan, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.000 roster via zoom. I get it. It is the way 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.120 that we the world is now running. But that's not 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.440 how coaching is done, and maybe we all have to 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.600 evolve with coaching, but we're not to that point yet 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:29.360 coaches in the National Football League, probably in all sports, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.120 but we're talking about football. Football is a hands on 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.040 type of thing. I need to I can't just put 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.480 it on a zoom call or put it on a board. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.720 I need to go out and see what it looks like. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.480 I need to see is that guy going to be 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.479 able to do X, Y and Z in this assignment, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.679 in this call, and if he can, if he cannot. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.160 That's how I based upon how I'm willing to build 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.480 this roster. The Cowboys team and Mike McCarthy and his 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:03.360 staff had zero opportunity. Remember the first time, the very 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:09.160 first time that Mike Nolan, McCarthy, Kellen, who name a coach, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.400 that they were able to physically put their hand to 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:19.280 a player legally was when we got to training camp. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.080 Think about that now here it is. I'm a brand 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.760 new coach. I'm coming into a brand new situation. Whatever 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:32.600 my beliefs are, whatever my ways about going, all the 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.600 stuff that that comes along with me who I am 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.119 as a coach. I am not physically able to implement 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:47.680 that until six seven eight months after I'm hired. And 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.320 the way that football works, it is a chronological order 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.640 of how things are put in. I insert this, I 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.640 look at this, we draft, we see rookies, we bring 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.520 it back veterans, we have them all together. So all 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.760 these steps that these coaches normally are allowed to take 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.480 in the way that they process players, in the way 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:13.360 that they process off his defense, special teams, all that 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.480 was lost. So for a new coach to come in 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.400 and want to implement his things, it is so difficult. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.200 HiT's why you had to say, hey, we're going to 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.880 rely on Kelly Moore so much because everything that we 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.160 have on this roster, he and they are familiar with 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.800 each other more than they are with what I am 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:40.240 as a coach, what I want to do as a coach. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.720 They're more familiar because we haven't had the necessary physical 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.440 touch time to put in different things. And then you 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.600 enter in the season, Yes it is. You know why 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.000 Sean McVay is able to do all this motion and 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.640 moving and stuff. They've practiced it, don't You don't come 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.360 into a season not being able to practice that stuff 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:01.960 and think you're going to be able to do it 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.160 efficiently effectively. On Sunday. That's why they're able to still 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.760 do those things because of the amount of practice that 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.200 they have put in. That core has been together, That quarterback, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.160 those receivers, that running back, that offensive line, at OC, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.560 all these guys have been together for a while. So 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.000 it's almost just, hey, let's just polish up on what 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.400 we already know coming into this year training camp. I 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.360 got four weeks. I got ninety guys that I have 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.400 to evaluate, that I have to cut, that, I have 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.720 to build a roster. Oh, by the way, I also 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.080 have to put in some sort of game plan with 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.640 zero preseason games to do so. So you get into 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.320 a season and all of a sudden, you're kind of 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.600 almost just trying to stay afloat and try and not drown. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.120 Oh damn, three and a half weeks in, I lose 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.520 my starting quarterback. What do I do now? No one 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.400 ever prepares for what happens when the QB one goes down. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.120 I forgot what coach said that, but it was talking 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.560 about painting man and saying like, like, you know, when 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.440 Peyton Manning. I think it might have been Howard Muddy 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.639 was talking about like, hey, you know, Peyton Manning is 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.840 so controlling at the line of scrimmage. What do you 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.480 do when a guy like that goes out? How do 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.280 you function? And he basically said, we're ft. If he 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.960 goes down, we're screwed. That's most of You can say 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.520 whatever you want about the knick Foles situation that happened 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.000 and and in Philly that that is more of anomaly 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.800 than it is an actual thing. You know, you can 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.359 give me the well, Matt Cassel win eleven and five 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.720 when he was in New England. Tom Brady went down. Yeah, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.280 but people felt to realize, yeah, Matt Cassel won eleven 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.439 to fly. They didn't make the playoffs. They didn't make 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.800 the playoffs. And so when your QB one goes down, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.639 you that that plan is done because everything that you 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.439 put into you put on the shoulders, on the mind 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.480 on who the QB one is. And now you've had Kellum, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:58.600 you've had Andy Dalton, you've had h Garrett Gilbert, and 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.840 you're saying, you lose your left tackle, you lose your 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.000 right tackle, and you have all these things functioning. You 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.240 got the pandemic, and now you're trying to say, how 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.040 do hell do I keep this thing afloat? And it's 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.080 unfortunate that we're in a situation and it's the Dallas 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.840 Cowboys and it's the biggest franchise in the world, and 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.280 everybody's watching and everybody's expecting great things because you hired 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.440 this new coach. But people aren't looking into the details 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.560 of how this thing is built. So they write these 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.280 articles and they want to compare a sample size of 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.320 what this team was early on when they had their 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.480 starting quarterback to what they are now to last year 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.720 and coach Garrett, who's had a full roster, who's built 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.639 the roster, who's built the players, who's programmed the players, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.600 who's everything that they had in there to a year ago. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.560 So sometimes these articles that are written they leave out 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.240 those facts, and people hang on to the man, we'll 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.880 look at this and look at that, and how come 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.440 it isn't what it is this year like it was 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:56.119 last year, and they conveniently leave out all these other 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.919 things in the process. When you're trying to evaluate all 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.919 these numbers, say whatever you want, and how you have 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.919 to be able to function and move what they depleted roster. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:10.919 When QB one goes down, all hell normally breaks loose 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:16.399 and you're seeing it right now. You're seeing it right now? Okay, good, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:22.639 that's good. If this dude was trying to write a 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:27.119 novel of some sort on one on one football and 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.280 how it's being built in the process and the chroninological 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.520 auders that Jesse won't, we wouldn't be able to do 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.040 this show, Jesse, all right, So the next time you 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.520 go off like that right there, Shannon, can you cut 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:45.399 him off? Nope? It was a great. 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I just didn't want to 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:27.000 you know, I didn't want to say it out a lout. 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.720 I was thinking the same thing. That sounds good, that'll 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:32.880 keep you warming night. It's supposed to get cold this week. 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:35.840 It is already December, fellas, it is December the first. 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:39.760 And by the way, it's Tuesday, and I'm taking the 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:41.600 rest of the afternoon off and I'm gonna chalk it 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.280 up to research because the Steelers are playing the Ravens 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.040 here at two thirty and I need to watch that 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.800 game to know what our opponent's gonna be for next week. 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:52.400 But think about what. It's the first and you're just 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.280 talking about it getting cold. We live in a great place. Man. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.240 It's the similar and you're just like, man, it's finally 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.640 getting cold outside. It's the simbler first. I know, it's 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.560 so great, so great. It's a great thing. We don't have. 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.240 We don't have very many seasons. We don't have the 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:11.720 four seasons in Texas. We have winter. It gets it 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.399 goes from ninety degrees and you have about two weeks 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.040 of seventy degree weather and then it goes to thirty 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:20.040 and then it flips. It flips in the springtime. So 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:28.600 what we're saying, Kurt, I don't know. Show man. I 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.880 know you. I know you're trying to do. You're trying 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.240 to do. Let me know, you're trying to write the book. 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:38.360 You know you're trying to be. But come home, man, 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.480 that that game is tomorrow. Like Chris said, so, oh 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:47.439