WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: The Buc Starts Where? 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.680 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:15.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.279 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.599 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.960 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.080 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:39.599 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, January tenth, twenty twenty three, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.000 Season eighteen, episode number one oh four. Welcome to the 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.440 latest edition of The Break. We are alive from the 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.080 s WBC Morgan Studios at the Star presenter. I'm Little Light, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.760 the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys A Day. We 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.839 got a lot of different topics we're gonna hit and 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.920 as we do on each Tuesday, we got a little 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.520 game from Brian. The Matt Scientists is over there whipping 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.600 up some questions. I'm sure that we'll bother the minds. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.360 But before we get to that, and we do have 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:04.840 a few other things we want to get to, I 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.240 want to start first with Jerry Jones A Day. He 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.800 was on our sister station one on five out three 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.360 the Fan and I was asked specifically about Mike McCarthy, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.000 and the question was if is there anything that can 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.800 happen this weekend or I guess it would be Monday 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.320 versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that would change his job status. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.600 Jerry very emphatically and literally like without a lot of explanations, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.760 said flatly no. His expectation is that you know, that 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.319 won't change anything. And for me personally, quite frankly, I 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.160 think it's the right decision. What did you guys think 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:44.040 hearing that? Well, I mean, I don't know if Jerry 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.800 can change his mind whenever we can, so we'll see 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.280 what happens and this week, in this weekend. You know, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.960 he's also has complete confidence in the staff. He said that, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.600 I have complete confidence. I think he expects to go 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.760 and beat an eight and nine football team. I think 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.520 that's what he expects the Cowboys to do. They're a 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.680 better team than the Bucks. They have been all year 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.920 and they you know, and um, he expects that. So 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.680 when that doesn't happen, if that doesn't happen, sorry if 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.400 or when, but you know, then we'll see if he 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.200 still sings the same you know, same tune, because he 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.040 can change his mind whenever he wants and he's proven 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.359 that he can. He'll do that. But I mean, I 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.560 think you're right. But you know, so I don't love 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.120 the question because it's just hypothetical and we'll see what 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.040 happens because he's gonna it's all about how he feels 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:28.680 and how does he know how he feels. Yeah, the 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.600 guys over there debated the Morning show, Sean and him debated, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.359 I don't even asking the question. But you know, it's 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.920 one of those things that in radio, you mean, the 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.600 one thing is where we're looked at in a way 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.400 of like if you don't ask that question, you got it. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.560 Then then people are like, well, you never ask tough questions, 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.400 You never put you know, I mean you with Cherry, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.560 I think it's very hard for Jerry to lie. I 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.800 think Jerry's one of those guys that will like to 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.960 you know, like he's standing there after the Tampa game 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.679 and telling you where Dak's thumbs broken, Edward's late to 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.160 the platy. Ed's asking the question, well, let me repeat, yeah, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.400 he broke the you know, instead of just you know, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.320 he's trying to like be accessible and he's trying to 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.840 be and I know that Sean and r J and Bobby, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.239 and you know, they kind of debated on asking the question. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.440 But if you don't ask the question, then you're looked 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.959 at it like you don't ask the tough questions. So 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.560 I'm with Nick. I don't think he does anything at 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.640 the head coach I do. I do worry a little 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.080 bit though, if you have a little bit of the 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.519 same result that you had from like the Commander's game. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:30.919 You know, if you have it where you go out 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.880 and you look that bad, you know, is there now? 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.440 I think he brought Mike McCarthy in here to win 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.040 divisions and win games, which he has the last two years. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.120 But now it's about January football, you know. I mean, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.520 Mike likes to talk about how the months and stuff 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:50.000 lead up to January football, and that's important. And I 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.160 agree with Nick as well that Jerry could very well 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.839 change his mind. He could say, listen, this is not 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.560 we talk about January football, and we're failing at January football. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.400 But I think that I think that he doesn't make 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.720 a head coaching swap, even if the Cowboys lose this game. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.560 But are there other pieces in play here? How'd you 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.920 look offensively? You know? What do you think about that? 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.720 Even though the statistics tell you have this really great offense. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.440 Your quarterback does well except he throws interceptions. You know, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.640 your defensive coordinator is on the short list of teams 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.400 around the league that we're looking for head coaches. So 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.120 this thing by itself could just naturally change. You know, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.159 if Dan Quinn takes a job, he might take a 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.719 guy with him or two, and now your staff is 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.440 completely different. But to your point, I don't think that 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.560 he'll make a change if they lose this weekend, And 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:44.360 me personally, I don't. I don't. I understand the frustration 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.039 from fans and all that, because it's just like another 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.359 year and another year and all that. But at the 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.960 same time, I think on me personally personally, depending on 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.400 how this game goes, even if they were to lose, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.440 I think I'm okay with McCarthy getting another just having 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.920 that last year, one more year, because aside from everything, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.920 and I'm basing this from me just knowing Jason Garrett, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.719 so I don't have like a huge list of head 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.800 coaches that I've been with and been around, But just 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.520 from that, I think McCarthy has done some really really 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.440 good things for this team, and it feels like since 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.200 the moment he got here, the positive things that we 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.720 started seeing, Like every time, even this year, you just 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.359 it always feels like you're only this close, like you 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.040 just need to switch here, do it, you know, fix 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.720 tune this here, and tune that, and then you're just 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:43.039 that close. And again compared to what I know, the 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.640 only thing I know from Jason Garrett, this is like 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.520 night and day what I've experienced with Mike McCarthy and 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.560 the type of things that he's done here and how 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.880 he's handled this team. Now, there's a lot of things 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.600 in question, like the time management and some game time 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.320 decisions are huge and important, and that's definitely something that 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.880 needs to be talked about and criticized. But at the 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.880 same time, I don't know how long is the how 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.400 long you guys would say, is the time spam that 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.560 you would give a head coach to see how far 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.320 longer than what they do in Houston? Right, Yeah, I mean, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.520 by the way, Houston not doing uh black coaches any favor. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.520 By the way, the hiring practices of black coaches in 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.920 the league, in my opinion, you know, I mean, that's 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.920 the problem is you don't get the opportunity and you 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.960 hire black coaches, and you hire them and you fire 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.640 them a year later, what progress is being made there? 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.039 You know, too much in a year? Yeah, I don't 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.640 quite get. I mean that that there's a problem about 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.239 black coaches being hired. There's now a bad problem about 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.440 black coaches not getting enough time, right, That is a 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.880 that is an issue in this league, you know, And 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.640 so I just I'm sorry I said that. I'm not 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.479 sorry I said that. I just you know, I know 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.680 it's probably not the right setting here, but just what 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.440 you talk about, how much time do you give a 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.559 coach Houston is a terrible example of what you should 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.479 do in the National Football League. You know, you fire, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.920 if you fire a coach, everybody they've had four coaches 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.480 what in the last three years. You know, you think 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.000 about interim coaches and stuff like that that they've had 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.520 dealing down there. So yeah, do you give You've got 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.160 to give a coach an adequate enough time to me, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.840 I tell you what, Well, Okay, if you get in 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.240 this game this week and Mike McCarthy finds a way 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.880 in the clock management stuff like you talk about becomes 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.040 a problem and you lose a game because of him 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.240 or because of the black of the clock. There's a 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.760 lot of coaches around the league that blow time management problems. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.240 I mean, I mean there's a lot. I don't I 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:39.960 don't like it because I feel like there's a way 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.760 to get around this and do a better job with it. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.920 But my friend Andy Reid Aaron Kansas City is one 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.240 of the worst when it comes to clock management and 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.640 using timeouts and all that stuff like that. So to me, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.320 you know, is it something you worry about. Absolutely, if 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.360 you lose a game because of it, it should be 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.840 a huge concern of yours, you know. And maybe that's 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.840 the thing that he'll say. He's like, listen, he gets 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.240 the team ready to play, he keeps the team healthy. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.360 But the problem is, though he can't finish these games, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.239 then that becomes maybe a reason why that he in time. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.680 Maybe four years is what he's done. Jerry's been very, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.920 very patient. I think he went about two to three 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.720 years too long. With Jason Garrett myself, yeah, I would 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.840 look at it like this. You look around the NFL 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.880 and you try to figure out who are the best 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.000 coaches around the NFL. They, to me are except for 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.520 Bill Belichick, who was an anomaly. Most of the other ones. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.600 They are every year they have their team in the hunt. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.120 Every year, their teams typically in the playoffs. They're fighting 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.120 for something at the end of the season and into 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.160 the playoffs in January football. They don't win it every year. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.000 Most of them have probably won it one time, right, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.880 But the point is they're always there, and then other 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.520 things factor in. You get into a one and done 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.199 type scenario in the playoffs, and it's one of those 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.840 situations where are you really going to fire a coach 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.640 who has your team in the playoffs, who's been twelve 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.200 and five the last two years. I just think when 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.480 you look at that, and Nick and I were having 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.040 this conversation even further yesterday, when you start thinking about, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.839 you know, right now, Mike McCarthy and three seasons has 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.720 thirty wins right out of the fifty games that he's played. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.480 How many of those games did he played without his 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.280 starting quarterback yet a full season? It was sixteen, I 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.960 think is what we counted up Nick. So a full 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.200 season he's played without his starting quarterback and he still 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:26.040 managed to get thirty wins in fifty tries. That to 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.040 me says he's doing something right, and it certainly says 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.839 to me, you would be to me, it would be 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.440 a poor decision right now to say, after two seasons, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.760 no matter what happens this weekend, we're going to give 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.040 up on this experiment. And I think in situations particularly 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.000 you talked about Houston, but I think it's in around 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.240 the league. When teams get rid of a coach after 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.640 a year two years, that to me, says the GM 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.679 or the person that made the decision, they should also 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.200 be held accountable. You made a bad decision because if 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:56.800 only if he only if you knew it after a 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.360 year or two years and he wasn't the right guy, 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.319 then you didn't do enough due diligence on the front 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:01.719 end to know whether he should be the guy that 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.000 got the job in the first place. The guy in 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.480 Denver's living that right now, and the guy and then 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.160 the guy and once they made the decision in Arizona, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.839 and Steve Kim knows that he made a bad decision there. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.880 They've gone through some coaches, so it's time to move 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.959 on from him. And just if you want my opinion, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.920 the best coach in the National Football League is Mike 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.480 Tomlin at Pittsburgh. Don't there's not a better coach than 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.880 Mike Tomlin in this league. I think there's I think 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.559 there's a very talented guys, but you look at consistency 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.600 throughout his team at one time they were looking. I mean, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.720 he's had fight every year he's been a coach fifteen 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.760 sixteen years now, winning record, playoffs, super Bowl, things like that. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.240 I mean, that's that's what you strive for when you 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.440 hire hire a coach. And you look at Pittsburgh, three 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.080 coaches in the history of they're franchises, three coaches. I 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.800 think there's there is something to be said for keeping 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.280 consistency at the head coach position, because you know, every 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.480 year there's a system that you have, there's a way 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.800 of doing things that you just have in place. That 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.840 doesn't mean you stick with a guy for fifteen twenty 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.280 years if he's losing all the time. But they this guy, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.000 they obviously shown they know how to set up the 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.040 right scenario. They find the right guy, they hire the 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.120 right guy, and then they let him go and they 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.959 just trust him to keep doing the right things. Are 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.480 We're gonna take our first break when we come back. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.640 We'ked up to the game. 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And I mentioned this to someone yesterday. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.480 If Tyler Biottish were not to come back this week, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.440 I would actually really consider moving Tyron Smith to left 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.120 tackle and putting Jason Peters on the right side. Right now, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.600 Jason Peters isn't playing that great. I don't think Tyron 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.840 is playing up to his standard'st tough and so and so. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.640 To me, I like, okay, if I can show up 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.680 the left side at least where I have Tyron where 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.640 he's comfortable, and I know Jason's the problem and I 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.840 got to give him some help, then I'm okay with that. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.640 Right now. I can't have both my tackles being a problem. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.360 So for me, I think it's the offensive line. I 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.160 think that's been the biggest problem, and I think they 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.520 got to fix that, probably number one problem they gotta 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.760 fix going into the playoffs in my opinion. Nicky, Yeah, yeah, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.440 I would say probably the offensive line. But I mean 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.560 those are three really good teams, three really good run defenses. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.760 But you know, I wonder if Tyrn Smith, I mean, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.200 do you think maybe he went to the coaches to 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.800 play a right tackle for him or for the team. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.480 I mean, maybe he did that because he was like, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.520 maybe it'll be easier for me to be depending on 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.920 you know, sometimes you get tight end help or sometimes 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.280 you're not facing the best rusher. Is it is it 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.080 best day? And maybe he didn't think he was ready 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.160 to be at left I don't know, I mean, he's not. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.960 I'll wait for his press conference for him to talk 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.520 about that. So I don't know, but I do think 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.920 it's the the old line. It just caught up to him. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.280 I mean, you can't just keep shuffling day in yeah, yeah, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:36.320 every week and expected to not have any issues. Yeah. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.440 Most teams are right handed when they play offense, so 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.520 that's kind of your right tackle. I always talk about 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.560 the left tackle blindside guy, but if you look at 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.400 the point of attack, that's your right tackle and your 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.600 right guard, and they have it, they haven't played as well. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.120 It's so strange. I mean, and I the more I 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.840 evaluated or try to evaluate it, I think, get that 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.640 right tackle spot right. Yet, you know, when you start 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.960 to talk about with Steele and then what I thought 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.920 was going to happen with Tyron Smith plugging in there, 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.880 it just hasn't been as smooth of a transition that 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.720 I thought it was going to be. You know, man, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.720 you're putting a Hall of Fame player over there. You know, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.120 we might be seeing the end of Tyron Smith. I 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.880 mean we might, you know, father time and injuries and 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.800 all that might have just caught up, you know with 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.720 this guy who is a Hall of Fame player. But yeah, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.800 I don't know. And Ber, what do you got run 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.000 as the lack of running success these last several weeks 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.880 and an opponent thing or the offensive line injuries something 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.240 just the injuries. I just looking at all the teams 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.960 they faced since the injury, I don't think every team, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.880 every appointent has put all the resources in trying to 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.120 stop the run. So it can be that. I'm sure 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.520 you face some good teams with like run defense, but 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.440 I don't think that's that's the issue here. It's more 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.320 just having that balance and Tyren Steele, like you, we 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.120 miss him, They miss him, Colboys miss him for sure. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:08.800 And again, well Tony Potter was out one game, right, right, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.560 it was just one. But even with my leak Davis 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.520 in there and Zeke, it's not like their game is changing, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.320 you know. It's not like they're just under perfore I mean, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.240 or like getting worse or anything. So it has to 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.920 attribute to what the old line hasn't been able to 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.800 do currently. Nick, Yes, sir. Who do you think wins 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:33.600 a close game, Dallas or Tampa Tampa? I think Tampa 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.720 wins a close game, and it's close. I think Tom 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.639 Brady will win it at the end. He's done it. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.399 He did it in twenty and eleven when he threw it, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.959 you know, when he drove down. He had played terrible 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.680 all year, I mean all game and then came back 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.720 and won with West welk or just oh touchdown, and 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:51.840 so he's he's done that this year too. I mean 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.800 they're eight nine and I think that they probably won 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.520 three games that I can remember that he just kind 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.240 of saved them at the end. So I think I 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.640 think he he will win. He would win a close 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.240 game there. I mean, Cowboys have lost two overtime games, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.880 so yeah, and both times they've made mistakes. I think 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.720 that's definitely Derek. I agree wholeheartedly. I just I don't 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.760 see a scenario where and by the way, it's not 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.840 just the Cowboys, any team that's fading facing Tom Brady 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.200 and he has the ball in the final moments of 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.760 the game with an opportunity to win. I'm gonna put 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.600 my money on the fact he's gonna win, because, by 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.720 the way, I can't remember so many times when he 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.960 has I can't really think of many times when he 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.359 hasn't drove his team down to win the game. So 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.280 close games, by default, I think go to Tom Brady Anbar. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.560 I think it because the Cowboys have not shown me 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.800 that they're capable of doing something like that. And I'm 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:54.720 specifically talking about how they managed the clock, the decisions 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:59.160 that McCarthy and Kellen Moore make. I think that's gonna 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:04.280 be a problem this weekend. It's just stuff. I'm really 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.560 really concerned about the lack of, like the defensive line 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.880 being able to pressure enough, because again, the defensive line 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.280 looked totally or was performing completely different from that first 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.359 game that they played against Tampa versus what it is now. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.800 So you got a defense that has dropped down versus 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.040 a quarterback that's picking his game back up. And I 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.879 don't think it's gonna be a really favorable matchup for 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.080 the couch so the Philadelphia because it's Gardner Minshew gave you, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.359 guys no hope that you can get a stop on 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.000 at the end of the game. It's not it's not 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.240 about like I said before, it's not about the Cowboys. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.600 It's not about whoever, it's not about all the other 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.520 quarterbacks in the league. It's about that quarterback. He just 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.600 like tell like, I can't remember a time I've watched 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.240 Tom Brady in a scenario where he's got the ball 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.800 to win the game and he doesn't ultimately win the game. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.399 I just don't recall seeing that very much. I just 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.800 don't trust anybody, anybody in the league to stop Tom 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.959 Brady in that scenario. And it's also you know, fifty 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.600 seven fifty eight minutes through where it's like, all right, 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.040 I can I've I've seen what you're doing all game. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:10.520 I mean, I know what you're doing now, and I 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.840