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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 Wednesday, November six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number seventy six. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We are alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios at

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Speaker 1: the Star, and today we're gonna talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the NFC East, a little bit about the NFC

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Speaker 1: where the Cowboys sits sit, and what these guys think

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Speaker 1: about their chances of not only winning the division, but

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Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs, winning maybe the NFC. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about about all of that. Dave will give us this

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Speaker 1: scouting report on the Minnesota offense in the second segment,

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Speaker 1: and then Nick also has his write up that he

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Speaker 1: usually gives us every week on the storylines heading into

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Speaker 1: this game. We'll get into that later in the show

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Speaker 1: as well. But let's start our first talking a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the NFC East. Right now, the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: few weeks, really all season, right, Is there a point

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Speaker 1: this season when they haven't been the leader of the

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Speaker 1: Maybe like week two. No, because the Eagles lost in

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Speaker 1: Week two. Yeah, the Cowboys started talking. Yeah. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: at the worst they were tied. But they've been in

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Speaker 1: the league, I guess since the beginning of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they have. Yeah, So they're a city in

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Speaker 1: five and three. They have Minnesota coming up this week.

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Speaker 1: Philly is at five and four with a buy. You've

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Speaker 1: Don't count out the Jets. And then, of course you

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Speaker 1: they also have a buy. Right now, based on everything

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Speaker 1: you've seen, what's your confidence level on a rating, let's

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Speaker 1: I feel absolutely certain this is going to happen, that

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys win the NFC East six NI six six,

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, to win the division six? All right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'd say six or seven. I mean they got to

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough one. What makes you what makes

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Speaker 1: just the fact that you think it's all going to

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Speaker 1: have to face some tough teams and they've only beaten

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Speaker 1: I mean they that's what they were saying yesterday, is

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Speaker 1: But this is a team that's lost to the worst

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Speaker 1: why I say six. It's not even the Eagles that

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Speaker 1: banged up team. You know the Eagles were missing guys too,

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Speaker 1: Now my concern is can they make it past that?

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Speaker 1: That's the big question. It depends how they win these

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's very confusing. I can see it

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Speaker 1: this offense is all tight ends and fullbacks and just

425
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Speaker 1: super pro style. So I went and looked the Vikings

426
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Speaker 1: play eleven personnel, which is three receivers like the bass

427
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Speaker 1: formation or the bass personnel in the NFL twenty nine

428
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Speaker 1: percent of the time. That's insane. Like I mean, for

429
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Speaker 1: those of y'all that aren't aware, I mean, the average

430
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Speaker 1: NFL team lines up in eleven personnel somewhere between sixty

431
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Speaker 1: and eighty percent of the time. The Cowboys do at

432
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Speaker 1: seventy seven percent. And we think of them as being conservative,

433
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They play twelve perconnel, which

434
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Speaker 1: is two tight ends thirty four percent of the time

435
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Speaker 1: and twenty one personnel, which is two backs twenty three

436
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Speaker 1: percent of the time. And that's not like a Zeke

437
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard situation. They've they got their fullback out there

438
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: a quarter of the time, at least recently. And for

439
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 1: the running game, yeah, oh absolutely. It works in their

440
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Speaker 1: passing game for the most part. I mean they're sixteenth,

441
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Speaker 1: they're sixteenth passing not great, but they also have a

442
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Speaker 1: great running game, so they do what they want for

443
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Speaker 1: the most part um And I don't think that's going

444
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Speaker 1: to change this week because Adam Deland's probably not gonna play.

445
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Speaker 1: So Kyle Rudolph IRV Smith junior, the Alabama tight end,

446
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. Get to know those names. Um. I

447
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,679
Speaker 1: wrote his name down. Where is he? Um? Oh? Yeah, CJ.

448
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:39,679
Speaker 1: Ham that's the I love that name. C J. Ham. Uh.

449
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: He's got decent hands hams uh for a fullback. I'm

450
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 1: trying to keep trying stay focused. Dave Um. Yeah, it's

451
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 1: funny because like as much pub as Stefon Diggs and

452
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Speaker 1: Adam DeLand got a couple of years ago when they

453
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Speaker 1: made it to the NFC title game, Yeah, it ain't.

454
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Speaker 1: It ain't there for him this year. Injuries is probably

455
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: part of that. But like Dalvin Cook is their number

456
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: two receiver. They throw to him a lot. He's got

457
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: He's played more games, but he's averaging two more touches

458
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 1: per game than Seek. Just to give you an idea

459
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: of like how much they lean on him. He's caught

460
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: the ball thirty three times. I think they've targeted him forty.

461
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: They love play action again, like you're running game works

462
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Speaker 1: as well as it does, Like they get cousins on

463
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Speaker 1: the move a lot, a lot of bootlegs stuff, a

464
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Speaker 1: lot of misdirection stuff trying I think, trying to get

465
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Speaker 1: him easy throws. It sounds it sounds weird to say,

466
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Speaker 1: but I almost feel like the Vikings are afraid of

467
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Speaker 1: their quarterback, for lack of a better word, a lot

468
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Speaker 1: of positive sun. I just I think they want to

469
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: make stuff easy for him and give him time because

470
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Speaker 1: I don't have the stat in front of me unfortunately,

471
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Speaker 1: but like he's he's not good Win pressured, or at

472
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: least was not in this most recent game. I'll say that,

473
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs put bodies on him, and he missed

474
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Speaker 1: a lot of throws in that game, to the point

475
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Speaker 1: that Zemmer actually even came out and was talking about

476
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Speaker 1: like how it looked like his mechanics were off. He

477
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: was nineteen of thirty eight in that game. And we're

478
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Speaker 1: not talking bombs away like I charted it. He missed

479
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: six passes like that were to the flat or like

480
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: you know, five six yards down the field. Like not

481
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 1: difficult stuff. But yeah, this is this is a pro

482
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Speaker 1: style team, Like I don't you're not going to see

483
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: more than two receivers on the field very often. I

484
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,479
Speaker 1: don't think Rudolph and Smith can both flex out, so

485
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: that gives you a little bit of versatility there, But

486
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 1: a lot of guys piled up on the line of scrimmage. Oh,

487
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Speaker 1: line's been a bugaboo. For them for years. I mean,

488
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Speaker 1: it's been a talking point. I would have thought it

489
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Speaker 1: would be better than it looked. Against the Chiefs. They

490
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Speaker 1: have Pat elf Line playing left guard. He was a

491
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Speaker 1: pretty highly regarded guy coming out of Ohio State, did

492
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Speaker 1: not play well, and then they spent a high pick

493
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Speaker 1: on a center by the name of Garrett Bradberry. I

494
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,479
Speaker 1: remember Brian loved him on the Draft show, and I

495
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: was just like, well, he'll be good, kind of like

496
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick, like you just plug him in there and

497
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. He got bullied. He got bullied in

498
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Speaker 1: this game against the Chiefs. So think about the fact

499
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have Michael Bennett. Now, Malee Collins looked

500
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: really good. I'm very encouraged about the ability to push

501
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Speaker 1: the pocket on this offense, which is why I think

502
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of play action, a

503
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Speaker 1: lot of moving the pocket to try to offset that,

504
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Speaker 1: not just play action, but like bootlegs and stuff to

505
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Speaker 1: try to just eliminate the need for Cousins to stand still.

506
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Speaker 1: I don't like, I don't know. I don't see him

507
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Speaker 1: getting the ball out as quickly as like an Aaron

508
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: Rodgers or an Eli Manning. In his day. But I

509
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Speaker 1: think they're going to design a lot of stuff to

510
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Speaker 1: take the pressure off him to just stand back in

511
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Speaker 1: the pocket because that hasn't gone well for him. Yeah,

512
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Speaker 1: one thing I'll note right there is you're going back

513
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Speaker 1: to when you're talking about the personnel that they use. Um.

514
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Speaker 1: I wonder how much vander Eshion injury now plays into

515
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Speaker 1: that because one of the things I've noticed from the

516
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Speaker 1: Cowboys or the ever been games this season where they

517
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: have they have tried very hard to stay within their

518
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Speaker 1: base defense. Even when the other team went to eleven personnel,

519
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 1: they still tried to keep their four down linemen three

520
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: linebackers on the field. This is a game where it

521
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that team. The opposing team even goes

522
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Speaker 1: to eleven personnel very frequently, which means that they really

523
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Speaker 1: can't stay in that base defense, which means all three

524
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Speaker 1: linebackers stay on the field a little bit more. We'll

525
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: see how that goes with like Vandereshan and what happens there. Yeah,

526
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Speaker 1: this will seem like a kind of one of those

527
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: old school type type matchups there. But you know, Rudolphin Smith,

528
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Speaker 1: they don't have a ton of catches, right, No, they

529
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Speaker 1: I mean they've been fine. They're not they have not

530
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: to this point been dynamic. I think they're both. They're

531
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Speaker 1: both pretty well rounded. Like I both they both block

532
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: pretty well. Smith well for a rookie who's seen as

533
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Speaker 1: more of a pass catcher, Like I'm not saying he's

534
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: Martellis Bennett, but he can get the job done. Which again,

535
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: like I would assume they're going to lean on the

536
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Speaker 1: run game another I'm just reading notes I jotted down,

537
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: Like you don't need to be told this, but Cook

538
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: is the type of guy who can do He can

539
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: just generate it himself. Like they're two or three plays

540
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: per game where nothing will work the way it's supposed to,

541
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: and he still turns it into you know, maybe not

542
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: thirty yards but like six ten yards wide. Receivers only

543
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: caught five of nineteen passes in this Chiefs game. Again, like,

544
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: and the funny thing is so again boot boot action everywhere,

545
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: throwing to tight ends in the flat, throwing to running

546
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: backs in the flat, a mirror Abdullah, who you might

547
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: remember is with the Vikings now, so that gives them

548
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: a scatback option. But by the fourth quarter of this game,

549
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had just sniffed it all out. Like the

550
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: stuff that was working in the first quarter just stopped

551
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: working because Cousins wasn't throwing downfield again, Like you didn't

552
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: see much in the way of like take the snaps,

553
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket and look like they didn't do

554
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: hardly any of that, Like it was all stuff that

555
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: kind of got him on the move, or very obvious,

556
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: like designed reads where you know there might be three

557
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: receivers on the field, but you know where it's going,

558
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: like the stuff that Dak does with Witten and Jarwin,

559
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and by the fourth quarter,

560
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: it just wasn't working. So I would assume they're gonna

561
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: need to get more aggressive in this game because I

562
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys can limit the run well enough. You

563
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: saw that last week and without feeling there's not a

564
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: ton that scares you. They've They've got Lakwan Treadwell, who

565
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest whiff of my draft prognosticating career. I

566
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: thought he was going to be Dez two point zero,

567
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: and he barely has a role on this team. I'm

568
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: not saying they're not good enough to hurt you. I

569
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: mean they have a top ten red zone offense, they're

570
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: eleventh and scoring, and again like the run game on

571
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: its own, and obviously, like we've seen Cousins throw for

572
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: four fifty in this building before. I just don't know.

573
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they're as explosive as they have been

574
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: in the past, even those Redskins offenses. It almost sounds

575
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Speaker 1: like this is a very similar scouting report to last week.

576
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: You got a team that can run the ball really

577
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: really well, that makes a concerted effort to run the

578
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: ball really really well. They have one or two options

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Speaker 1: that can get you in the passing game, but by

580
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: and large you don't look at their passing their passing

581
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: game as being just really great and if you can

582
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: get pressure on their quarterback, you can affect the game. Right.

583
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's a very similar game plan to

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Speaker 1: what you saw last weekend, one that the Cowboys defense

585
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: executed pretty well, other than you know, just having a

586
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: more veteran guy at quarterback. Although yeah, but as they've

587
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: seen and that's part of it. But even with that,

588
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: he's still like pressure gets him, Like pressure is the

589
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: problem for him. I argued with you yesterday. I still

590
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: maintain like Cousins has played some really good games against

591
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but like it, does he like genuinely scare you. No,

592
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't scare me in the sense. You know. It

593
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: kind of went viral on Sunday. Just I feel like

594
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: it's maybe a microcosm of who he is. I think

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00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: they had third and seven and the play broke down

596
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: and he made a great play to scramble and then

597
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: he slid after six yards. I mean, he had the

598
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: first down easy and he slid too soon. And that's

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00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: just kind of like who He had a play like

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Speaker 1: that too. Dak's rookie year sixteen. The Cowboys won that game,

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Speaker 1: I think twenty seven twenty three, it's pretty close. It

602
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: was a fourth down play, fourth and ten. They're down

603
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: to their own twenty yard line or whatever, and they

604
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: got some pressure and he threw the ball away. That

605
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: was the game, like two minutes to go, fourth down

606
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: just to get throws it out of bounds. Yeah, I mean,

607
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like that's that's the kind of stuff.

608
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Speaker 1: And that was a few years ago. But it's like

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Speaker 1: I thought about this while I was I don't know

610
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Speaker 1: if I wrote it down, but while I was watching,

611
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: like he is, he's everything you wanted a quarterback. As

612
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: long as everything goes according to plan, like if the

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00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: protections there by nature is not the quarterback position exactly exactly,

614
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Speaker 1: but like if everything's perfect, he can hurt you. Like

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00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: he's got a great arm. He made a great throw

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Speaker 1: to Rootolf. Yeah, I got a little more. I like

617
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: Stafford a lot more than you do. But I hear

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. But he had a great throw to

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Speaker 1: Rootolf in the back back of the end zone in

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00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: this game where it went through three defenders, again perfectly clean.

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Speaker 1: Pocket had time to stand there, wasn't really harassed. Like

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Speaker 1: the minute somebody gets pushed back into him, or the

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Speaker 1: proct protection breaks down or somebody's not open or whatever,

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Speaker 1: it just don't I don't trust him. I don't trust

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00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: him to improvise or make those gut check type of plays.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a huge difference, not just in

627
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Speaker 1: this game, but like that's what I love so much

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Speaker 1: about Dak is it's not always picture perfect, but he

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Speaker 1: does make those type of plays. All Right, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take our final break. We'll come back. Let's get some calls.

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Speaker 1: treat you. Back to the break. Hey, hey, you didn't

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Speaker 1: know this. I mean the AT and T Stadium can

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Speaker 1: What they've hosted some championship championship of course, but Big

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Speaker 1: twelve and you have a chance to watch this game

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Speaker 1: this year September December, the seventh's Saturday. The top two

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00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: teams from the Big Twelve Conference will be there. Kickoff

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00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,719
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674
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675
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: Not sure who's going to be in the game. You

676
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: were so kind of got a feeling who's not gonna

677
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: be You were so excited about that game last year.

678
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: I was not. I had a reason to be exciting,

679
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: So they got too excited about it. This year saw

680
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: the committee took all the credit for beating Texas away

681
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: from LSU last night and they're like, now, we're not

682
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: impressed by that anyway. That well, after we lose the

683
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: way we lost, Yeah, there's there's no credit to be given.

684
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Speaker 1: Get a chance to go watch Oklahoma or Kansas State

685
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: or Baylor or I don't know, I don't know who

686
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: else can get in there. Texas, Yeah, I think it's

687
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: gonna be Baylor and Oklahoma. Miss so glad. I don't

688
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: care about college football. So you're not gonna go to

689
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00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: want to be consumed by stress. Something is of the weekend.

691
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: It really is stressful. It really is very stressful. College

692
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: is way more stressful for me than NFL football. I

693
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: would no doubt about it. I would think selling tickets

694
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: to this game, it would be tough. Before you know

695
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: what's happening, you know, Yeah, I mean you don't know

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Speaker 1: who's going to be there. Right, last year, you did,

697
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: you bought your ticketbook behind and yeah after they be Oklahoma,

698
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: I went and boughtom last year. All right, but I

699
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: won't be doing that this year. So there'll be more

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Speaker 1: tickets for you guys. All right, we appreciate you join us.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's get into some phone calls. You guys can

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Speaker 1: call us eight eight eight eight five five two two

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Speaker 1: ninety seven. We will start first with a call from

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Speaker 1: Chris and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Chris, what up? How's it going? UM?

705
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: I got a question. Um has to do with the

706
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: dbs that play on that path to a Golden Tate

707
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: that was on Byron Jones. It's a great catch by him.

708
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: But have you guys noticed that most of the dbs

709
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: now around the league, and especially with the Cowboys, on

710
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: back shoulder passes, they seem to want to if I

711
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: want to use a basketball reference, they want to get

712
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: into like a rebound position, hands on with the guy

713
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: instead of actually turning sideways and being able to look

714
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: at the ball to actually go get the ball. That's

715
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Speaker 1: what I kind of noticed around the league now, but

716
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: I see it more with the Cowboys, especially Buying Jones

717
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: lately than a lot of times with a Woozier. Didn't

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00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: know if you guys had noticed that or wanted to

719
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit. All right, thanks for

720
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: a call. We've talked about it specifically with Cheeto and

721
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 1: how it just doesn't ever seem like he plays the ball,

722
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: which like in my head, I'm like, well, maybe they're

723
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: coaching him that way because it's so easy to draw DPI,

724
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: but the quickest way to draw DPI and my experience

725
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: is by not playing the ball. I don't have an

726
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: awesome answer for you, unfortunately. I think somebody, um our

727
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: friend Bobby Belt had a great stat I'm paraphrasing, I'm

728
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: going to ruin it, but basically, Jordan Lewis has way

729
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: more takeaways in way fewer games than any other dB

730
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Speaker 1: on the roster, and maybe and by this point in

731
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: his career, Byron Jones made a joke about it himself

732
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: like he has bad ball skills. He just does. And

733
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: it seems fair to question that about Cheetoh as well

734
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: at this point too, even though he has made some

735
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: crazy athletic plays. One of those was in the preseason.

736
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Speaker 1: But maybe that's just a factor of, well, if you

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Speaker 1: don't trust your ball skills, then try to trust your

738
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Speaker 1: coverage instead. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not really worried

739
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: about you know, if guys are gonna make catches like that,

740
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much you can do. You'll take

741
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: the percentages that the player is not going to make

742
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: that catch all the time. But I don't I don't

743
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: have a good answer as far as how they're playing

744
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: the back shoulder fade and all that stuff. And I mean,

745
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: if it's thrown correctly, it's really almost impossible to stop. Man.

746
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: So I kind of wish the Cowboys would do it more.

747
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: I wish, And I don't understand why teams don't do

748
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: it more. Why you have to do it right by

749
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Speaker 1: the goal line, think, I mean, if it's third and

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Speaker 1: two or third and three, you even have a more

751
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: of an advantage because you have all this room, or

752
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: you can run by somebody if you do a back

753
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: shoulder fade at midfield, like you're gonna probably be wide open.

754
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: Wasn't there? It seemed like to me it didn't. Just

755
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: may have been four or five years ago, it seemed

756
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: like that was like a lot. It was used a

757
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: lot more in the NFL. It seemed like there was

758
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 1: a period where back shoulder fades were happening every week

759
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: in every game. And now it doesn't seem like you

760
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: see that nearly as normally as you saw it back.

761
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. For whatever reason, that just how it

762
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: felt to me is that it felt like that was

763
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 1: a very InVogue thing to do. Marcus Marcus Colston made

764
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl career basically only catching that pass. YEA.

765
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: I will say this, and this is a story point

766
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: with when Dez was still here the you know, the

767
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: last two years of his career. I think you got

768
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: to have a really, really accurate quarterback to really make

769
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: your living throwing that pass. And I think Dak is

770
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: more accurate than he gets credit for. But I don't

771
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: know if that's a route that he really excels at.

772
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: And we saw it not really work out right before

773
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: des left town. So again, he's more accurate than he

774
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: gets credit for, but to really excel at that, like

775
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is incredible at it because he can put

776
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 1: the ball exactly where he wants to every single time.

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00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: I don't think that's Dak's specialty. And maybe that's why

778
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: they've kind of gone away from it. All Right, let's

779
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: get a call from Horse in Atlanta. Horse, what up? Hey,

780
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: what's up? Guys? Hey, I've been I feel like a

781
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: lot like about what Amer said. You know, my expectations

782
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: coming into the season. We're just out the roof. I

783
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: expect us to be in the super Bowl, and you know,

784
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: feel like we have the talent to do that. But

785
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: if we don't get to the championship game, which I

786
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: really don't feel like our coaching will allow us. And

787
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: I say that because if you look at how we

788
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: played against the Jets, you know, for example, not once

789
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: did we ever really bliss them. And as you look

790
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: at the other some of the other you know, Belichick,

791
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: some of the other guys, they didn't give that guy

792
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: anytime whatsoever. They blissed them and he folded up like

793
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: a launch air. And to me, that is what you're

794
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: coaching has to do. They have to see these weaknesses

795
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: and exploit them, and our coaches just don't do that,

796
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 1: and that is what is really depressing me. I guess

797
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: about this season. We have so much talent and yet

798
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: we just can't seem to get out of our way,

799
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: and that to me is coaching. And so, yeah, David,

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00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying. You don't want to throw

801
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: it all on Garrett, but you know what, when it

802
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: comes down to what he is the head coach, he is,

803
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: he is the straw that stirs the glass. You know,

804
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: he makes that team. They make that they make peop

805
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: Awards and call these you know, trophies, Lombardi Trophies and stuff.

806
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: Because these guys motivated me and to do better than

807
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: what they can do. So he needs to do better

808
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: if our team needs to get to that home, I

809
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: expect more from him. All right, thanks for the call,

810
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: which I agree with what he just said for the

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00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: most part. Is again, I don't think it's Jason Garrett's

812
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: fault when a player drops a wide open pass that

813
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: could have been a touchdown. But yeah, not really blitzing

814
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: Sam Darneld, not doing anything to make him uncomfortable. I remember,

815
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Jets week, or maybe

816
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: it was even this week heading into the Giants game,

817
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: Chris Richard like, it sounds really good. It sounds like

818
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: this awesome quote where he's like, we don't really we're

819
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: not really focused about what they do and we talk

820
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: about this all the time. He's like, it's not about them,

821
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: it's not about what they're doing. It's about us, and

822
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: are we executing our stuff? And like it sounds great

823
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: until you really think about it, Like, so you're going

824
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: to approach a rookie quarterback the same way you would

825
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: like Drew Brees, Like, you don't change anything about the

826
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 1: way you're gonna do this. You're not You're gonna throw

827
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: nothing different at this guy as if it was another guy,

828
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: Like you don't think you can get away with zero

829
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: blitzing Sam Darnold a little bit easier than Tom Brady. Yeah,

830
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: And I it's disconcerting to me, and I think it's

831
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: a deficiency of this coaching staff and has been for

832
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: a while. It's interesting that he mentioned Lombardi there, because

833
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: what I've read of Lombardi is he was actually the

834
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett type of head coach. He was more of

835
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: that line of thinking of we're going to have a

836
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: certain few things that we do extremely well, Like we're

837
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: gonna be so good at these few things that we're

838
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: not going to necessarily go into a game and do

839
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: things differently to address what the other team has a deficiency,

840
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: And we're just gonna do these things really really well.

841
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: And we feel like if we can do those things

842
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: really really well, we can win most of our games,

843
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: if not all of our games. And obviously did that

844
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: for a very long time to great success. And not

845
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: only that, but he mentioned like they can motivate men.

846
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: That's the part that I actually think Jason does a

847
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Speaker 1: pretty good job at. I think he does a really

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Speaker 1: good job of motivating his team. Where I kind of

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00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: agree with the caller though, is I really would like

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Speaker 1: for this team to adapt more to those situations because

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Speaker 1: I believe the best coach in the NFL today, in

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Speaker 1: today's NFL and how it looks today, Bill Belichick. That's

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Speaker 1: what he does. And it's kind of baffling to me

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Speaker 1: that no other coaches, well I shouldn't say no other coaches,

855
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like anybody's been able to figure

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Speaker 1: out that this formula that he's using of being able

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Speaker 1: to adapt every week to whoever he's playing and take

858
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: away their best offensive weapon. That is going to happen

859
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: every single week. You just look at the numbers. Whoever's

860
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: the best offensive player, they're gonna take him away. And

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Speaker 1: then I'm sorry, well, I mean he is coming off

862
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: or just getting killed by Lamar Jackson. That is an

863
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Speaker 1: anomaly for the New England Patriots, that is totally an anomaly.

864
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: But every week they go and they look at the

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Speaker 1: best offensive player and they say, how can we neutralize

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Speaker 1: the best offensive player and force them to win with

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Speaker 1: their second best offensive player? Right? That's what they do

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Speaker 1: every week, and so I love that and it's obviously

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00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: been extremely successful. He did everything he could get those

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Speaker 1: guys in position. But if you can't tackle it, you

871
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: can't catch. And that's where it gets to do that

872
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: thing we talked about earlier, where at the end of

873
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 1: the day, you can't if your guy's missing a wide

874
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: open you know, screen passed, and that's not on the coach.

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Speaker 1: I will say that. Sorry, Nick, go ahead, well just

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Speaker 1: remember about you know one thing, when you blitz, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you have a chance to give up ninety yard touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: So I mean I don't know if if if that's

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Speaker 1: scared off them to blitz more. But I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you've got a corner who's going to fall down in

881
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: our safety, who's gonna misplay the ball for nine two

882
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: yard touchdown to an average receiver, it probably is going

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00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: to limit what you do blitzing more. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they shouldn't have done it more,

885
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: but I mean that wasn't something they normally do, and

886
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: they gave up a big one, So I would imagine

887
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: that backs them off will bit like maybe doing that again.

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Speaker 1: You know, I kind of disagree with the caller when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the talent. I think I don't think

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00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: this team is as talented as everyone says. I think

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00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: it's such an easy thing to say this team's got

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00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: the talent. They got the talent to be pretty good,

893
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: but I don't think they've got talent that that's far

894
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: and above about everybody else. I don't I think they've

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00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: got they've got They're very top heavy, they got a

896
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: lot of Pro bowlers, but I don't think they've got

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Speaker 1: this talented roster. Because if they did, they had all

898
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: this talent, you don't lose two or three guys and

899
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: then get beat by the worst team in football. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they have as much talent as you think. Well,

901
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: it goes back to adjusting and how the coaches adjust.

902
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: I think I always go back to the same reference

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Speaker 1: and just looking at what Chris Richard was able to

904
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Speaker 1: do with Byron Jones, a guy that everyone was getting

905
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: ready to get rid of, and here comes Chris Richard

906
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: and changes everything for Byron, turning him into a pro

907
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: bowler guy. So to me, it does come from the

908
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Speaker 1: coach and you do have the talent, and it's like,

909
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: how do you utilize it? And it upsets me or

910
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 1: frustrates me. I would say the fact that you look

911
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: at how much resource you have here, and you have

912
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: a whole staff that looks at other teams and watches

913
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: their games and gets all this preparation to give to

914
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Speaker 1: the coaches as they prepare each week to face the opponent,

915
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: and it's like, how are you preparing? Like you you

916
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: should have a very very good idea of what this

917
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Speaker 1: team is going to look like as far as the opponent,

918
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Speaker 1: and you should have a great game plan as to okay,

919
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: here's a B or C depending on what they do.

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Speaker 1: This is how we're going to attack, and we don't

921
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Speaker 1: really get to see that, So I don't know. The

922
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Speaker 1: resources are there, you should be doing it, They're not

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Speaker 1: doing it, So I don't know. I'm right there with you.

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Speaker 1: And I've complimented Jason Garrett so many times for the

925
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Speaker 1: Monday to Saturday motivating. Is it showing up on game

926
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Speaker 1: days this year? Honestly? I mean it takes them about

927
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: a half to really get cranked every week. But you

928
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Speaker 1: know something, and again, sorry, I'm sitting here saying, well,

929
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Speaker 1: it's not Jason Garrett's fault that guys are dropping passes

930
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: and getting penalized, And I really I it's hard to

931
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: determine where to come down on that, but the bottom

932
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Speaker 1: line is they haven't. They've come out firing like one

933
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:06,959
Speaker 1: time in eight attempts. So who's making the adjustments though? Absolutely?

934
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Speaker 1: Or I mean if it was the other way around

935
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Speaker 1: and they came out and then that kept losing, they

936
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Speaker 1: would be like, this team can't make adjustments in the

937
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Speaker 1: second half. So yeah, I don't know. It's a sixty

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Speaker 1: minute game, that's the thing. Like, I know that they

939
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: need to get a faster start. I have less of

940
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: a problem with them having a slow start if they

941
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: can win, right, because I look at there's some good

942
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: teams around the NFL that are similar, Like I've seen

943
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: Seattle several several times this year get off slow starts

944
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: and then they get it going and for by the

945
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Speaker 1: end of game they win. You're not going to score

946
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: a touchdown on your on you know, you're not gonna

947
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: score twenty one points in three possessions every week. I

948
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: understand that, but it's just the general competency of it all,

949
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: like they just they don't see him ready sometimes. And

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Speaker 1: again I think that's why Amber and I were so

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00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: down on the Giants win is they started like that

952
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: against the Packers, who are a good team, and it

953
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: killed them. But the Giants were not. In my opinion,

954
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: the Giants game was not a situation of them not

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00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: being ready because if you notice they were moving the ball,

956
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: it was mistakes that killed them. So that's not a

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00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: matter of being ready. That's yeah. I'm not trying to

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00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: put it all at the coaches. Yeah I'm really not.

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00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: But again, like if it is, why does it keep happening?

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00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: Can't And that's that's all I'm saying, is you're not

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Speaker 1: going to score a touchdown on every possession, But just

962
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: do the basic stuff and you'll probably be in a

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00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: better position. I don't know, all right, Well, appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: You want us for back tomorrow normal time, eleven forty

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Speaker 1: five will get into this Vikings defense till then. For

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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, Dave Helmant Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton.

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