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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, November six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number seventy six. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star, and today we're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about the NFC East, a little bit about the NFC
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys sits sit, and what these guys think
Speaker 1: about their chances of not only winning the division, but
Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs, winning maybe the NFC. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about about all of that. Dave will give us this
Speaker 1: scouting report on the Minnesota offense in the second segment,
Speaker 1: and then Nick also has his write up that he
Speaker 1: usually gives us every week on the storylines heading into
Speaker 1: this game. We'll get into that later in the show
Speaker 1: as well. But let's start our first talking a little
Speaker 1: bit about the NFC East. Right now, the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: leading the division, as they have been for the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, really all season, right, Is there a point
Speaker 1: this season when they haven't been the leader of the
Speaker 1: NFC now, I don't know off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Maybe like week two. No, because the Eagles lost in
Speaker 1: Week two. Yeah, the Cowboys started talking. Yeah. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: at the worst they were tied. But they've been in
Speaker 1: the league, I guess since the beginning of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they have. Yeah, So they're a city in
Speaker 1: five and three. They have Minnesota coming up this week.
Speaker 1: Philly is at five and four with a buy. You've
Speaker 1: got the Giants at two and seven, all but out
Speaker 1: of it at this point. They're playing the Jets this week.
Speaker 1: Don't count out the Jets. And then, of course you
Speaker 1: got the Washington Redskins and last play at one and eight,
Speaker 1: they also have a buy. Right now, based on everything
Speaker 1: you've seen, what's your confidence level on a rating, let's
Speaker 1: say a rating scale of one to ten, ten being
Speaker 1: I feel absolutely certain this is going to happen, that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win the NFC East six NI six six,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, to win the division six? All right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'd say six or seven. I mean they got to
Speaker 1: go up there and play, Yeah, so you know that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough one. What makes you what makes
Speaker 1: you the most when you say a six? Is it
Speaker 1: just the fact that you think it's all going to
Speaker 1: come down to that Philadelphia? Well, I mean they both
Speaker 1: have tough schedules here, but I mean the Cowboys still
Speaker 1: have to face some tough teams and they've only beaten
Speaker 1: one team with a winning record, and that's the Eagles,
Speaker 1: who just got a winning record the other day. So
Speaker 1: I mean they that's what they were saying yesterday, is
Speaker 1: that you know they're going to face better teams, and
Speaker 1: when they face better teams, how do they handle it?
Speaker 1: But this is a team that's lost to the worst
Speaker 1: team in football, and they've you know, they've only they
Speaker 1: haven't beaten a lot of tough teams. So I think
Speaker 1: that they probably can and will. But it's not That's
Speaker 1: why I say six. It's not even the Eagles that
Speaker 1: give me pause. Like the Cowboys have been so good
Speaker 1: against the division. They're seventeen and five since Dak took over.
Speaker 1: They swept the Eagles last year, they beat the crowd
Speaker 1: out of them a couple of weeks ago with a
Speaker 1: banged up team. You know the Eagles were missing guys too,
Speaker 1: But whatever, it's everything else. It's everything else that worries me.
Speaker 1: This is a team that lost to the Jets. This
Speaker 1: is a team that has already lost tiebreakers to the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Packers. I know that doesn't matter for
Speaker 1: NFC East purposes, but they haven't handled business outside of
Speaker 1: kicking ass in the division again. I know that's what's
Speaker 1: important to winning the division, but you gotta play a
Speaker 1: lot of other games. You've played four of your six
Speaker 1: division games, so those gimmes are done with. You don't
Speaker 1: get their redskins again until the season finale, by which
Speaker 1: point you would assume it's pretty close to wrapped up.
Speaker 1: I mean, the NFC East hasn't come down to the
Speaker 1: final weeks since twenty thirteen, I believe, right when the
Speaker 1: last time the Cowboys played Week seventeen for the division title.
Speaker 1: So and looking at it, Okay, when the Eagles come
Speaker 1: off of their by, they're off this weekend. Keep going. Okay,
Speaker 1: when the Eagles come off of their by, they've got
Speaker 1: two really tough games against the Patriots and the Seahawks
Speaker 1: after that's over. It's scary how easy the schedule is
Speaker 1: for them because they go Dolphins, Giants, Redskins, then a
Speaker 1: big game against Dallas, and then the Giants to close
Speaker 1: it out. Gimmeas basically for the last like five six
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. So that's that's nerve wracking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'd say, you know, six or seven depending on
Speaker 1: the day. That's how I feel. Amber I feel the
Speaker 1: same way. I just think it all comes down to
Speaker 1: what the Eagles are going to be doing for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. But I think very well the
Speaker 1: Cowboys could make it to the top and win the division.
Speaker 1: Now my concern is can they make it past that?
Speaker 1: That's the big question. It depends how they win these
Speaker 1: upcoming games, because if they win it, how they've been
Speaker 1: winning this one's I don't feel confident that you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it any further than what you've been in past
Speaker 1: year whatsoever. So it's it's so hard to tell at
Speaker 1: this point, because it's crazy, we're entering week ten and
Speaker 1: we still don't know what the Cowboys really are, you know,
Speaker 1: So it's just it's very confusing. I can see it
Speaker 1: go either way. Can. I just I love that because
Speaker 1: a g I feel like speaks for the fans more
Speaker 1: than any of us, and like that's I'm sitting here,
Speaker 1: like how can they get to the playoffs? Like can
Speaker 1: they win the East? And ambers like who cares about that?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna do better than they did last time? Like,
Speaker 1: which that's probably how most people feel, like nobody cares.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you want to make the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: I feel like most fans would be like, if you're
Speaker 1: telling me we're gonna make the playoffs and not make
Speaker 1: it further than we already have in the last two
Speaker 1: three years, then just screw it. Why what are we
Speaker 1: even doing this for? But that's why maybe we do
Speaker 1: a show every day so you'll go crazy if you
Speaker 1: keep doing That's why the other day, Like y'all have
Speaker 1: a different approach than I do, because if we everything
Speaker 1: is what does it mean? What does it mean? What
Speaker 1: does it mean to the end? And I get it,
Speaker 1: like what does it mean that the final end? But
Speaker 1: like we can't get there, so might as well just announce,
Speaker 1: you know, analyze this one. I'm completely with you, and
Speaker 1: that's I don't approach it that way either, but I
Speaker 1: do appreciate that, and it's good to keep in mind
Speaker 1: because again, this is a team with a coach in
Speaker 1: the final year of his contract. I mean, ultimately, that's
Speaker 1: how it's going to be decided. Even if we don't
Speaker 1: even know right now if they'll I just think, like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's great that they want against the Giants. Obviously that
Speaker 1: was Every game is an important game for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and any other team. But to me, it's like, when
Speaker 1: you start looking at this first half of the season,
Speaker 1: how have they been performing, how have they been winning
Speaker 1: those games and losing those games? And when you start
Speaker 1: seeing this pattern of the way they've been playing, it
Speaker 1: brings the question as to Okay, what happens when they
Speaker 1: get there. Obviously there's still a whole second half of
Speaker 1: the season where it could change completely and they could
Speaker 1: become that team that we've been seeing in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: They could become that team like starting off in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, basically what we saw against the Eagles. But
Speaker 1: it's just like at this point, as I sit here
Speaker 1: right now and what I've seen so far, I don't
Speaker 1: feel very confident of where it's headed. The one thing
Speaker 1: I will say is, if you believe in the Gospel.
Speaker 1: According to Bill Parcels, you used to always say you
Speaker 1: don't know. You're not supposed to know at this point
Speaker 1: what a team really is going to be. Talk to
Speaker 1: me after Thanksgiving. And if you look around in the NFL,
Speaker 1: I think there are some teams you feel pretty good
Speaker 1: that they are good teams that are going to be
Speaker 1: in the mix to your New Orleans. But what you
Speaker 1: don't know is those things that are going to happen
Speaker 1: between now and Thanksgiving that change the complexion of teams.
Speaker 1: There will be some teams that right now nobody's really
Speaker 1: talking about that will get on a role. There will
Speaker 1: be some teams that have been on a role that
Speaker 1: that will for whatever reason fall off and may not
Speaker 1: be on a role by then. So I just think it,
Speaker 1: you know, right now, it's it's kind of a you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of set you guys up a little bit
Speaker 1: by asking you know what's going to happen because you
Speaker 1: really don't know in the NFL, and we watch it
Speaker 1: every year, you really don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You can look at this either way
Speaker 1: you want. If you can, you want to be like
Speaker 1: optimistic about it. You could say, well, you number five
Speaker 1: and three and they've they've blown out every team that
Speaker 1: they've beaten. I mean, I think the average margin of
Speaker 1: victory is nineteen almost three touchdowns. Every time they've lost
Speaker 1: by combined fourteen points, two points, two points, and then
Speaker 1: the ten points to the Packers, So you know they're
Speaker 1: playing relatively close. And they got the you know, number
Speaker 1: one offensive league, top number six defense in the league,
Speaker 1: so things are looking good there. Or you could take
Speaker 1: the negative side, which they lost to the Jetta. You know,
Speaker 1: it's scary. It's injuries, and I know it happens all
Speaker 1: around the NFL, but the fact that they've had to
Speaker 1: deal with major injuries or not major, but important guys
Speaker 1: that have been injured this early in the season, you
Speaker 1: know they're not going to be healthy for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. They're gonna be battling with those But
Speaker 1: we've seen how that affects the offense. But the key
Speaker 1: part in that is, unlike some of the other teams,
Speaker 1: they haven't got had those guys have to go on
Speaker 1: ir and lose him for the year. Tyrone Crawford is
Speaker 1: probably your most important player that you've lost for the year,
Speaker 1: and he was a role player, right, So when you
Speaker 1: start thinking about it from that standpoint, you actually are
Speaker 1: sitting into, I think, a really good position from an
Speaker 1: injury standpoint that it's just you haven't had that major
Speaker 1: injury just yet to a key player who's out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. That certainly is a positive
Speaker 1: for this team. I'm thinking that, I'm kind of thinking
Speaker 1: while y'all were talking in the irony, and you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: But like, since the Patriots kind of started this second
Speaker 1: run of four super Bowls in a row, it's been
Speaker 1: that's not the point. It's not the point. They've been
Speaker 1: very like the league has been very top heavy since
Speaker 1: like sixteen, where I mean the top two seeds in
Speaker 1: the conferences are the ones making the super Bowls. But
Speaker 1: overall since the league aged formats and O two, like,
Speaker 1: it's very normal to see a team that was crap
Speaker 1: in November make a run to a Super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: Giants famously did it a couple of times. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Packers did it. Steelers did I think once or twice.
Speaker 1: It's happened more times than you can count. And that's
Speaker 1: so yeah, all, I mean, I get your point that
Speaker 1: the end result is ultimately what matters. But odds are
Speaker 1: some crazy stuff's going to happen in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. You know, you look at the worse
Speaker 1: he's hard. You look what the Patriots did getting Mohammed
Speaker 1: Sanu and I think that that's a move that the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying they should have done that one,
Speaker 1: but I am a little concerned about the receiver position
Speaker 1: in the depth. If there, if everyone's healthy, they're fine,
Speaker 1: but if not, this team can get lose to the Jets.
Speaker 1: I mean, Amari Cooper plays that game, they win by
Speaker 1: fourteen points, if not more. The Jets can't play that way,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go up and down the field on them.
Speaker 1: But after Cooper and then Gallop, it really drops off
Speaker 1: because Cobb and Tavon are not outside sievers really, and
Speaker 1: Devin Smith and Cedric Wilson are barely in the league.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. Smith wasn't available anyway
Speaker 1: for the Jets game. I mean just saying, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm saying, but if you had an injury,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the depth. I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a spot. I mean, you don't have you know
Speaker 1: the defensive line rotation. You don't have a Sean Lee
Speaker 1: you could put in here, or Joe Thomas you could
Speaker 1: put in. I don't I don't trust what's going on
Speaker 1: at receiver in the back end. I think they need
Speaker 1: some more depth there. Do you think that is a
Speaker 1: normal a normal occurrence around the league or is that
Speaker 1: particular to this team? And the reason why I asked
Speaker 1: that questions because if you look over the last several
Speaker 1: years with this team, it seems like there's always that like, well,
Speaker 1: we can't play without turn so that's why they lost
Speaker 1: that game. Or they can't play without Sean Lee, that's
Speaker 1: why they lost that game, can't play without Amark Cooper,
Speaker 1: so why they lost that game. Is that a typical
Speaker 1: occurrence around the league, do you think or is this
Speaker 1: something that the Cowboys for whatever reason, there are just
Speaker 1: players that when they're out, it just everything. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's specific to the Cowboys because I think their
Speaker 1: backups are not all around receivers like Gallop and Cooper.
Speaker 1: They really don't have all around receivers. They have these
Speaker 1: other guys that they want to put them in in
Speaker 1: packages and things like that. But if somebody goes down,
Speaker 1: You're asking Tavon to go out there and run route
Speaker 1: line up correctly, you know, and that's not always going
Speaker 1: to happen. So I think the depth that receiver, it
Speaker 1: could be a problem because we've already seen if they
Speaker 1: don't have their top guy, you know, things change. I do.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's a problem for everybody in the
Speaker 1: NFL injuries, But like the best teams overcome it all
Speaker 1: the time. And you know, I keep saying that paint
Speaker 1: by numbers analogy, like that's the Cowboys to a t.
Speaker 1: Like it never feels like they game plan. First of all,
Speaker 1: they don't always gain plan to take advantage of the
Speaker 1: other team's weaknesses, do what we do, and they don't.
Speaker 1: It's like they don't want to admit it when they
Speaker 1: have a problem like that. I mean, we've covered this before,
Speaker 1: but they never you never see them switch it up
Speaker 1: drastically to account for a deficiency. They typically just try
Speaker 1: to do what they always do with a lesser player.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it works out, like Cam Fleming and Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: handled it pretty well. Chaz Green not so much. And
Speaker 1: they didn't adjust, I mean throughout the game they didn't.
Speaker 1: They it's it's maddening. And you know, I always say
Speaker 1: it's you know, I think Jason Garrett probably gets a
Speaker 1: little bit too much hate, but that is a valid criticism,
Speaker 1: and it's it's just is what it is a little
Speaker 1: bit a little bit like not he deserves plenty of criticism.
Speaker 1: It's probably a little too much, but that is not
Speaker 1: one that is not an area where he gets too
Speaker 1: much criticism. That's like you're saying, don't you know, don't
Speaker 1: don't message me about this, okay, you know, like from
Speaker 1: fans and listen a little too much. I mean, I understand,
Speaker 1: I hear. Well, it happens everywhere. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's Jason Garrett's fault that Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: drops a screen pass. I think I said that yesterday.
Speaker 1: I do think it's Jason Garrett's fault that they don't
Speaker 1: come up with more creative or more varied game plans
Speaker 1: and try to work around their own deficiencies or the
Speaker 1: opponents deficiencies. All right, we're gonna take our first break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We're gonna let Nick talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about some of the storylines heading into this game
Speaker 1: versus the Vikings. Uh this Sunday night. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: Welcome back the second segment of the Break Life from
Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortar Studios. At the start, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go now to Nick Eatman. Let him talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about some of the storylines heading into this game
Speaker 1: versus the Viking. What you got, Well, Dalvin Cooks leading
Speaker 1: the league and rushing and he comes in here at
Speaker 1: eight hundred and ninety four rushing yards. He's good. He's
Speaker 1: pretty good. He's averaging ninety nine yards the game, so
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good. He's played nine games. Zeke's ninety
Speaker 1: four or ninety three, so he's he's Zeke greg right now,
Speaker 1: he's six six. Okay, yep, that's one of the Cowboys storylines.
Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna focus on that. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that when we get to it. Yeah, is it weird?
Speaker 1: Sorry to interrupt, Like, I don't even think about that anymore,
Speaker 1: because like Zeke has just been at or near the
Speaker 1: top for so long that I just assume he's up
Speaker 1: there somewhere, like, you know, if I'm sure, like the
Speaker 1: Panthers are probably tracking Christian McCaffrey's progress because he's you know,
Speaker 1: this is I don't know, it's a new territory for
Speaker 1: them to have this great running back. And I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's leading the league in all purpose yards twelve forty
Speaker 1: four and Cook's right there at twelve thirty two. So
Speaker 1: he's catching the ball, running mainly running. But I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's really good and he's healthy, you know, which
Speaker 1: is it's good for them. So he's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: Who's not healthy. Adam Feelin is not healthy. He suffered
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. Um, they try, he missed a couple
Speaker 1: of games, try to bring him back. Last week, got
Speaker 1: hurt again, so he's probably not going to play. Um,
Speaker 1: they're Stefan Diggs is playing pretty well. They also have
Speaker 1: Josh Dobson, so he's excited about a homecoming. He's off
Speaker 1: of ir Uh. He's from TCU from Mansfield, so he's
Speaker 1: from you know, Mansfield Legacy. Okay, Kidden and I went
Speaker 1: to the same well similar school. You went to Mansfield. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mansfield Legacy. No, she went to Mansfeld. I was teammates
Speaker 1: with Josh Dawson at Mansfield Legacy. You were teammates with him,
Speaker 1: But that was right there. What position did you play?
Speaker 1: I was a corner, He was wide receiver, so he
Speaker 1: went against each other every day. Who won that battle?
Speaker 1: Who won that? I? Actually, no, you didn't. Over five years,
Speaker 1: I won a couple of times, right, yeah, yeah, two
Speaker 1: times over an NFL player. I'll take that, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, all right. So, by the way, that was
Speaker 1: Kaden Gates out of our producers. So for you guys
Speaker 1: that are listening to that boys and don't know who,
Speaker 1: its a point real quick. The storyline. So the Vikings
Speaker 1: are signing Katon Kates as a corner this week. I
Speaker 1: probably need him help them out. Uh. Big plays kind
Speaker 1: of a problem for them last week. Ninety one yard
Speaker 1: touchdown they gave up, so they're were worried about that. Also,
Speaker 1: forty yard touchdowns the Tyreek Hill, a forty a couple
Speaker 1: of forty yard plays the Tyreek Hill. So he's fast
Speaker 1: and they don't have anybody on the team like that,
Speaker 1: but still that's a problem. Dan Bailey comes back he's
Speaker 1: been thirteen of fifteen this year. Danny b missed two
Speaker 1: extra points. You missed two last week, but he's two
Speaker 1: extra points two. But two extra points he's missed, and
Speaker 1: he's been perfect on field goals. Field goals he's missed,
Speaker 1: and I know a distance on him. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't either, but he's been good enough to win Special
Speaker 1: Teams Player of the Week twice. I mean, he's having
Speaker 1: a pretty decent thirteen of eighteen. Mahar's missed five and
Speaker 1: then Kirk Cousins comes back. He's won six with the
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, all with the Redskins. This is his
Speaker 1: first game against the Vikings. He's third in the NFL
Speaker 1: one twelve as a quarterback rating. So I feel like
Speaker 1: that kind of steals some of Dave's things that he talks. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but Dave's gonna go deeper, will be much deeper. We'll
Speaker 1: be okay. Yeah, I was watching tape of the Vikings. Uh.
Speaker 1: I was watching him last night and yesterday afternoon on
Speaker 1: game Pass, and I thought about it because you know,
Speaker 1: Lizzo is really popular right now, so I was thinking,
Speaker 1: this is a new plan for the Minnesota Vikings. Instead
Speaker 1: of a yeah, you get it. New Man Nah, there
Speaker 1: you go. I should have sung it when when I
Speaker 1: heard that, I thought they were talking about Terence Newman
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota No man on the man Annesota Vike,
Speaker 1: that's true? Is he still there? No, he's not, damn it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he decided not to play his in twenty fourth season
Speaker 1: with the league, So we'll stick with new plan for
Speaker 1: the man Annesota by Kings. There you go. No, all right, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Nick did cover a lot of that, but let's go deeper.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not saying it's I'm not saying it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a coincidence that Mike Zimmer and Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: are really familiar with each other, but this offense feels
Speaker 1: like Jason Garrett fantasy. Honestly, I looked at the stats
Speaker 1: on this because, like you know, typically, like I write
Speaker 1: down the starting roster, then I watch, you know, I
Speaker 1: watch a series or two, and then I start looking
Speaker 1: at stats, and like, I was struck immediately. I was like,
Speaker 1: this offense is all tight ends and fullbacks and just
Speaker 1: super pro style. So I went and looked the Vikings
Speaker 1: play eleven personnel, which is three receivers like the bass
Speaker 1: formation or the bass personnel in the NFL twenty nine
Speaker 1: percent of the time. That's insane. Like I mean, for
Speaker 1: those of y'all that aren't aware, I mean, the average
Speaker 1: NFL team lines up in eleven personnel somewhere between sixty
Speaker 1: and eighty percent of the time. The Cowboys do at
Speaker 1: seventy seven percent. And we think of them as being conservative,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They play twelve perconnel, which
Speaker 1: is two tight ends thirty four percent of the time
Speaker 1: and twenty one personnel, which is two backs twenty three
Speaker 1: percent of the time. And that's not like a Zeke
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard situation. They've they got their fullback out there
Speaker 1: a quarter of the time, at least recently. And for
Speaker 1: the running game, yeah, oh absolutely. It works in their
Speaker 1: passing game for the most part. I mean they're sixteenth,
Speaker 1: they're sixteenth passing not great, but they also have a
Speaker 1: great running game, so they do what they want for
Speaker 1: the most part um And I don't think that's going
Speaker 1: to change this week because Adam Deland's probably not gonna play.
Speaker 1: So Kyle Rudolph IRV Smith junior, the Alabama tight end,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. Get to know those names. Um. I
Speaker 1: wrote his name down. Where is he? Um? Oh? Yeah, CJ.
Speaker 1: Ham that's the I love that name. C J. Ham. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's got decent hands hams uh for a fullback. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to keep trying stay focused. Dave Um. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: funny because like as much pub as Stefon Diggs and
Speaker 1: Adam DeLand got a couple of years ago when they
Speaker 1: made it to the NFC title game, Yeah, it ain't.
Speaker 1: It ain't there for him this year. Injuries is probably
Speaker 1: part of that. But like Dalvin Cook is their number
Speaker 1: two receiver. They throw to him a lot. He's got
Speaker 1: He's played more games, but he's averaging two more touches
Speaker 1: per game than Seek. Just to give you an idea
Speaker 1: of like how much they lean on him. He's caught
Speaker 1: the ball thirty three times. I think they've targeted him forty.
Speaker 1: They love play action again, like you're running game works
Speaker 1: as well as it does, Like they get cousins on
Speaker 1: the move a lot, a lot of bootlegs stuff, a
Speaker 1: lot of misdirection stuff trying I think, trying to get
Speaker 1: him easy throws. It sounds it sounds weird to say,
Speaker 1: but I almost feel like the Vikings are afraid of
Speaker 1: their quarterback, for lack of a better word, a lot
Speaker 1: of positive sun. I just I think they want to
Speaker 1: make stuff easy for him and give him time because
Speaker 1: I don't have the stat in front of me unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but like he's he's not good Win pressured, or at
Speaker 1: least was not in this most recent game. I'll say that,
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs put bodies on him, and he missed
Speaker 1: a lot of throws in that game, to the point
Speaker 1: that Zemmer actually even came out and was talking about
Speaker 1: like how it looked like his mechanics were off. He
Speaker 1: was nineteen of thirty eight in that game. And we're
Speaker 1: not talking bombs away like I charted it. He missed
Speaker 1: six passes like that were to the flat or like
Speaker 1: you know, five six yards down the field. Like not
Speaker 1: difficult stuff. But yeah, this is this is a pro
Speaker 1: style team, Like I don't you're not going to see
Speaker 1: more than two receivers on the field very often. I
Speaker 1: don't think Rudolph and Smith can both flex out, so
Speaker 1: that gives you a little bit of versatility there, But
Speaker 1: a lot of guys piled up on the line of scrimmage. Oh,
Speaker 1: line's been a bugaboo. For them for years. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a talking point. I would have thought it
Speaker 1: would be better than it looked. Against the Chiefs. They
Speaker 1: have Pat elf Line playing left guard. He was a
Speaker 1: pretty highly regarded guy coming out of Ohio State, did
Speaker 1: not play well, and then they spent a high pick
Speaker 1: on a center by the name of Garrett Bradberry. I
Speaker 1: remember Brian loved him on the Draft show, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, well, he'll be good, kind of like
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick, like you just plug him in there and
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. He got bullied. He got bullied in
Speaker 1: this game against the Chiefs. So think about the fact
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have Michael Bennett. Now, Malee Collins looked
Speaker 1: really good. I'm very encouraged about the ability to push
Speaker 1: the pocket on this offense, which is why I think
Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of play action, a
Speaker 1: lot of moving the pocket to try to offset that,
Speaker 1: not just play action, but like bootlegs and stuff to
Speaker 1: try to just eliminate the need for Cousins to stand still.
Speaker 1: I don't like, I don't know. I don't see him
Speaker 1: getting the ball out as quickly as like an Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers or an Eli Manning. In his day. But I
Speaker 1: think they're going to design a lot of stuff to
Speaker 1: take the pressure off him to just stand back in
Speaker 1: the pocket because that hasn't gone well for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one thing I'll note right there is you're going back
Speaker 1: to when you're talking about the personnel that they use. Um.
Speaker 1: I wonder how much vander Eshion injury now plays into
Speaker 1: that because one of the things I've noticed from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys or the ever been games this season where they
Speaker 1: have they have tried very hard to stay within their
Speaker 1: base defense. Even when the other team went to eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: they still tried to keep their four down linemen three
Speaker 1: linebackers on the field. This is a game where it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that team. The opposing team even goes
Speaker 1: to eleven personnel very frequently, which means that they really
Speaker 1: can't stay in that base defense, which means all three
Speaker 1: linebackers stay on the field a little bit more. We'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes with like Vandereshan and what happens there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this will seem like a kind of one of those
Speaker 1: old school type type matchups there. But you know, Rudolphin Smith,
Speaker 1: they don't have a ton of catches, right, No, they
Speaker 1: I mean they've been fine. They're not they have not
Speaker 1: to this point been dynamic. I think they're both. They're
Speaker 1: both pretty well rounded. Like I both they both block
Speaker 1: pretty well. Smith well for a rookie who's seen as
Speaker 1: more of a pass catcher, Like I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: Martellis Bennett, but he can get the job done. Which again,
Speaker 1: like I would assume they're going to lean on the
Speaker 1: run game another I'm just reading notes I jotted down,
Speaker 1: Like you don't need to be told this, but Cook
Speaker 1: is the type of guy who can do He can
Speaker 1: just generate it himself. Like they're two or three plays
Speaker 1: per game where nothing will work the way it's supposed to,
Speaker 1: and he still turns it into you know, maybe not
Speaker 1: thirty yards but like six ten yards wide. Receivers only
Speaker 1: caught five of nineteen passes in this Chiefs game. Again, like,
Speaker 1: and the funny thing is so again boot boot action everywhere,
Speaker 1: throwing to tight ends in the flat, throwing to running
Speaker 1: backs in the flat, a mirror Abdullah, who you might
Speaker 1: remember is with the Vikings now, so that gives them
Speaker 1: a scatback option. But by the fourth quarter of this game,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had just sniffed it all out. Like the
Speaker 1: stuff that was working in the first quarter just stopped
Speaker 1: working because Cousins wasn't throwing downfield again, Like you didn't
Speaker 1: see much in the way of like take the snaps,
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket and look like they didn't do
Speaker 1: hardly any of that, Like it was all stuff that
Speaker 1: kind of got him on the move, or very obvious,
Speaker 1: like designed reads where you know there might be three
Speaker 1: receivers on the field, but you know where it's going,
Speaker 1: like the stuff that Dak does with Witten and Jarwin,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and by the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't working. So I would assume they're gonna
Speaker 1: need to get more aggressive in this game because I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys can limit the run well enough. You
Speaker 1: saw that last week and without feeling there's not a
Speaker 1: ton that scares you. They've They've got Lakwan Treadwell, who
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest whiff of my draft prognosticating career. I
Speaker 1: thought he was going to be Dez two point zero,
Speaker 1: and he barely has a role on this team. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're not good enough to hurt you. I
Speaker 1: mean they have a top ten red zone offense, they're
Speaker 1: eleventh and scoring, and again like the run game on
Speaker 1: its own, and obviously, like we've seen Cousins throw for
Speaker 1: four fifty in this building before. I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're as explosive as they have been
Speaker 1: in the past, even those Redskins offenses. It almost sounds
Speaker 1: like this is a very similar scouting report to last week.
Speaker 1: You got a team that can run the ball really
Speaker 1: really well, that makes a concerted effort to run the
Speaker 1: ball really really well. They have one or two options
Speaker 1: that can get you in the passing game, but by
Speaker 1: and large you don't look at their passing their passing
Speaker 1: game as being just really great and if you can
Speaker 1: get pressure on their quarterback, you can affect the game. Right.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's a very similar game plan to
Speaker 1: what you saw last weekend, one that the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: executed pretty well, other than you know, just having a
Speaker 1: more veteran guy at quarterback. Although yeah, but as they've
Speaker 1: seen and that's part of it. But even with that,
Speaker 1: he's still like pressure gets him, Like pressure is the
Speaker 1: problem for him. I argued with you yesterday. I still
Speaker 1: maintain like Cousins has played some really good games against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but like it, does he like genuinely scare you. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't scare me in the sense. You know. It
Speaker 1: kind of went viral on Sunday. Just I feel like
Speaker 1: it's maybe a microcosm of who he is. I think
Speaker 1: they had third and seven and the play broke down
Speaker 1: and he made a great play to scramble and then
Speaker 1: he slid after six yards. I mean, he had the
Speaker 1: first down easy and he slid too soon. And that's
Speaker 1: just kind of like who He had a play like
Speaker 1: that too. Dak's rookie year sixteen. The Cowboys won that game,
Speaker 1: I think twenty seven twenty three, it's pretty close. It
Speaker 1: was a fourth down play, fourth and ten. They're down
Speaker 1: to their own twenty yard line or whatever, and they
Speaker 1: got some pressure and he threw the ball away. That
Speaker 1: was the game, like two minutes to go, fourth down
Speaker 1: just to get throws it out of bounds. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like that's that's the kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And that was a few years ago. But it's like
Speaker 1: I thought about this while I was I don't know
Speaker 1: if I wrote it down, but while I was watching,
Speaker 1: like he is, he's everything you wanted a quarterback. As
Speaker 1: long as everything goes according to plan, like if the
Speaker 1: protections there by nature is not the quarterback position exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: but like if everything's perfect, he can hurt you. Like
Speaker 1: he's got a great arm. He made a great throw
Speaker 1: to Rootolf. Yeah, I got a little more. I like
Speaker 1: Stafford a lot more than you do. But I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying. But he had a great throw to
Speaker 1: Rootolf in the back back of the end zone in
Speaker 1: this game where it went through three defenders, again perfectly clean.
Speaker 1: Pocket had time to stand there, wasn't really harassed. Like
Speaker 1: the minute somebody gets pushed back into him, or the
Speaker 1: proct protection breaks down or somebody's not open or whatever,
Speaker 1: it just don't I don't trust him. I don't trust
Speaker 1: him to improvise or make those gut check type of plays.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a huge difference, not just in
Speaker 1: this game, but like that's what I love so much
Speaker 1: about Dak is it's not always picture perfect, but he
Speaker 1: does make those type of plays. All Right, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: ninety seven. We will start first with a call from
Speaker 1: Chris and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Chris, what up? How's it going? UM?
Speaker 1: I got a question. Um has to do with the
Speaker 1: dbs that play on that path to a Golden Tate
Speaker 1: that was on Byron Jones. It's a great catch by him.
Speaker 1: But have you guys noticed that most of the dbs
Speaker 1: now around the league, and especially with the Cowboys, on
Speaker 1: back shoulder passes, they seem to want to if I
Speaker 1: want to use a basketball reference, they want to get
Speaker 1: into like a rebound position, hands on with the guy
Speaker 1: instead of actually turning sideways and being able to look
Speaker 1: at the ball to actually go get the ball. That's
Speaker 1: what I kind of noticed around the league now, but
Speaker 1: I see it more with the Cowboys, especially Buying Jones
Speaker 1: lately than a lot of times with a Woozier. Didn't
Speaker 1: know if you guys had noticed that or wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit. All right, thanks for
Speaker 1: a call. We've talked about it specifically with Cheeto and
Speaker 1: how it just doesn't ever seem like he plays the ball,
Speaker 1: which like in my head, I'm like, well, maybe they're
Speaker 1: coaching him that way because it's so easy to draw DPI,
Speaker 1: but the quickest way to draw DPI and my experience
Speaker 1: is by not playing the ball. I don't have an
Speaker 1: awesome answer for you, unfortunately. I think somebody, um our
Speaker 1: friend Bobby Belt had a great stat I'm paraphrasing, I'm
Speaker 1: going to ruin it, but basically, Jordan Lewis has way
Speaker 1: more takeaways in way fewer games than any other dB
Speaker 1: on the roster, and maybe and by this point in
Speaker 1: his career, Byron Jones made a joke about it himself
Speaker 1: like he has bad ball skills. He just does. And
Speaker 1: it seems fair to question that about Cheetoh as well
Speaker 1: at this point too, even though he has made some
Speaker 1: crazy athletic plays. One of those was in the preseason.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's just a factor of, well, if you
Speaker 1: don't trust your ball skills, then try to trust your
Speaker 1: coverage instead. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not really worried
Speaker 1: about you know, if guys are gonna make catches like that,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much you can do. You'll take
Speaker 1: the percentages that the player is not going to make
Speaker 1: that catch all the time. But I don't I don't
Speaker 1: have a good answer as far as how they're playing
Speaker 1: the back shoulder fade and all that stuff. And I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's thrown correctly, it's really almost impossible to stop. Man.
Speaker 1: So I kind of wish the Cowboys would do it more.
Speaker 1: I wish, And I don't understand why teams don't do
Speaker 1: it more. Why you have to do it right by
Speaker 1: the goal line, think, I mean, if it's third and
Speaker 1: two or third and three, you even have a more
Speaker 1: of an advantage because you have all this room, or
Speaker 1: you can run by somebody if you do a back
Speaker 1: shoulder fade at midfield, like you're gonna probably be wide open.
Speaker 1: Wasn't there? It seemed like to me it didn't. Just
Speaker 1: may have been four or five years ago, it seemed
Speaker 1: like that was like a lot. It was used a
Speaker 1: lot more in the NFL. It seemed like there was
Speaker 1: a period where back shoulder fades were happening every week
Speaker 1: in every game. And now it doesn't seem like you
Speaker 1: see that nearly as normally as you saw it back.
Speaker 1: I don't know. For whatever reason, that just how it
Speaker 1: felt to me is that it felt like that was
Speaker 1: a very InVogue thing to do. Marcus Marcus Colston made
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl career basically only catching that pass. YEA.
Speaker 1: I will say this, and this is a story point
Speaker 1: with when Dez was still here the you know, the
Speaker 1: last two years of his career. I think you got
Speaker 1: to have a really, really accurate quarterback to really make
Speaker 1: your living throwing that pass. And I think Dak is
Speaker 1: more accurate than he gets credit for. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's a route that he really excels at.
Speaker 1: And we saw it not really work out right before
Speaker 1: des left town. So again, he's more accurate than he
Speaker 1: gets credit for, but to really excel at that, like
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is incredible at it because he can put
Speaker 1: the ball exactly where he wants to every single time.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's Dak's specialty. And maybe that's why
Speaker 1: they've kind of gone away from it. All Right, let's
Speaker 1: get a call from Horse in Atlanta. Horse, what up? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Guys? Hey, I've been I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot like about what Amer said. You know, my expectations
Speaker 1: coming into the season. We're just out the roof. I
Speaker 1: expect us to be in the super Bowl, and you know,
Speaker 1: feel like we have the talent to do that. But
Speaker 1: if we don't get to the championship game, which I
Speaker 1: really don't feel like our coaching will allow us. And
Speaker 1: I say that because if you look at how we
Speaker 1: played against the Jets, you know, for example, not once
Speaker 1: did we ever really bliss them. And as you look
Speaker 1: at the other some of the other you know, Belichick,
Speaker 1: some of the other guys, they didn't give that guy
Speaker 1: anytime whatsoever. They blissed them and he folded up like
Speaker 1: a launch air. And to me, that is what you're
Speaker 1: coaching has to do. They have to see these weaknesses
Speaker 1: and exploit them, and our coaches just don't do that,
Speaker 1: and that is what is really depressing me. I guess
Speaker 1: about this season. We have so much talent and yet
Speaker 1: we just can't seem to get out of our way,
Speaker 1: and that to me is coaching. And so, yeah, David,
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying. You don't want to throw
Speaker 1: it all on Garrett, but you know what, when it
Speaker 1: comes down to what he is the head coach, he is,
Speaker 1: he is the straw that stirs the glass. You know,
Speaker 1: he makes that team. They make that they make peop
Speaker 1: Awards and call these you know, trophies, Lombardi Trophies and stuff.
Speaker 1: Because these guys motivated me and to do better than
Speaker 1: what they can do. So he needs to do better
Speaker 1: if our team needs to get to that home, I
Speaker 1: expect more from him. All right, thanks for the call,
Speaker 1: which I agree with what he just said for the
Speaker 1: most part. Is again, I don't think it's Jason Garrett's
Speaker 1: fault when a player drops a wide open pass that
Speaker 1: could have been a touchdown. But yeah, not really blitzing
Speaker 1: Sam Darneld, not doing anything to make him uncomfortable. I remember,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Jets week, or maybe
Speaker 1: it was even this week heading into the Giants game,
Speaker 1: Chris Richard like, it sounds really good. It sounds like
Speaker 1: this awesome quote where he's like, we don't really we're
Speaker 1: not really focused about what they do and we talk
Speaker 1: about this all the time. He's like, it's not about them,
Speaker 1: it's not about what they're doing. It's about us, and
Speaker 1: are we executing our stuff? And like it sounds great
Speaker 1: until you really think about it, Like, so you're going
Speaker 1: to approach a rookie quarterback the same way you would
Speaker 1: like Drew Brees, Like, you don't change anything about the
Speaker 1: way you're gonna do this. You're not You're gonna throw
Speaker 1: nothing different at this guy as if it was another guy,
Speaker 1: Like you don't think you can get away with zero
Speaker 1: blitzing Sam Darnold a little bit easier than Tom Brady. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I it's disconcerting to me, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a deficiency of this coaching staff and has been for
Speaker 1: a while. It's interesting that he mentioned Lombardi there, because
Speaker 1: what I've read of Lombardi is he was actually the
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett type of head coach. He was more of
Speaker 1: that line of thinking of we're going to have a
Speaker 1: certain few things that we do extremely well, Like we're
Speaker 1: gonna be so good at these few things that we're
Speaker 1: not going to necessarily go into a game and do
Speaker 1: things differently to address what the other team has a deficiency,
Speaker 1: And we're just gonna do these things really really well.
Speaker 1: And we feel like if we can do those things
Speaker 1: really really well, we can win most of our games,
Speaker 1: if not all of our games. And obviously did that
Speaker 1: for a very long time to great success. And not
Speaker 1: only that, but he mentioned like they can motivate men.
Speaker 1: That's the part that I actually think Jason does a
Speaker 1: pretty good job at. I think he does a really
Speaker 1: good job of motivating his team. Where I kind of
Speaker 1: agree with the caller though, is I really would like
Speaker 1: for this team to adapt more to those situations because
Speaker 1: I believe the best coach in the NFL today, in
Speaker 1: today's NFL and how it looks today, Bill Belichick. That's
Speaker 1: what he does. And it's kind of baffling to me
Speaker 1: that no other coaches, well I shouldn't say no other coaches,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like anybody's been able to figure
Speaker 1: out that this formula that he's using of being able
Speaker 1: to adapt every week to whoever he's playing and take
Speaker 1: away their best offensive weapon. That is going to happen
Speaker 1: every single week. You just look at the numbers. Whoever's
Speaker 1: the best offensive player, they're gonna take him away. And
Speaker 1: then I'm sorry, well, I mean he is coming off
Speaker 1: or just getting killed by Lamar Jackson. That is an
Speaker 1: anomaly for the New England Patriots, that is totally an anomaly.
Speaker 1: But every week they go and they look at the
Speaker 1: best offensive player and they say, how can we neutralize
Speaker 1: the best offensive player and force them to win with
Speaker 1: their second best offensive player? Right? That's what they do
Speaker 1: every week, and so I love that and it's obviously
Speaker 1: been extremely successful. He did everything he could get those
Speaker 1: guys in position. But if you can't tackle it, you
Speaker 1: can't catch. And that's where it gets to do that
Speaker 1: thing we talked about earlier, where at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you can't if your guy's missing a wide
Speaker 1: open you know, screen passed, and that's not on the coach.
Speaker 1: I will say that. Sorry, Nick, go ahead, well just
Speaker 1: remember about you know one thing, when you blitz, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have a chance to give up ninety yard touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So I mean I don't know if if if that's
Speaker 1: scared off them to blitz more. But I mean, if
Speaker 1: you've got a corner who's going to fall down in
Speaker 1: our safety, who's gonna misplay the ball for nine two
Speaker 1: yard touchdown to an average receiver, it probably is going
Speaker 1: to limit what you do blitzing more. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they shouldn't have done it more,
Speaker 1: but I mean that wasn't something they normally do, and
Speaker 1: they gave up a big one, So I would imagine
Speaker 1: that backs them off will bit like maybe doing that again.
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of disagree with the caller when
Speaker 1: it comes to the talent. I think I don't think
Speaker 1: this team is as talented as everyone says. I think
Speaker 1: it's such an easy thing to say this team's got
Speaker 1: the talent. They got the talent to be pretty good,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they've got talent that that's far
Speaker 1: and above about everybody else. I don't I think they've
Speaker 1: got they've got They're very top heavy, they got a
Speaker 1: lot of Pro bowlers, but I don't think they've got
Speaker 1: this talented roster. Because if they did, they had all
Speaker 1: this talent, you don't lose two or three guys and
Speaker 1: then get beat by the worst team in football. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have as much talent as you think. Well,
Speaker 1: it goes back to adjusting and how the coaches adjust.
Speaker 1: I think I always go back to the same reference
Speaker 1: and just looking at what Chris Richard was able to
Speaker 1: do with Byron Jones, a guy that everyone was getting
Speaker 1: ready to get rid of, and here comes Chris Richard
Speaker 1: and changes everything for Byron, turning him into a pro
Speaker 1: bowler guy. So to me, it does come from the
Speaker 1: coach and you do have the talent, and it's like,
Speaker 1: how do you utilize it? And it upsets me or
Speaker 1: frustrates me. I would say the fact that you look
Speaker 1: at how much resource you have here, and you have
Speaker 1: a whole staff that looks at other teams and watches
Speaker 1: their games and gets all this preparation to give to
Speaker 1: the coaches as they prepare each week to face the opponent,
Speaker 1: and it's like, how are you preparing? Like you you
Speaker 1: should have a very very good idea of what this
Speaker 1: team is going to look like as far as the opponent,
Speaker 1: and you should have a great game plan as to okay,
Speaker 1: here's a B or C depending on what they do.
Speaker 1: This is how we're going to attack, and we don't
Speaker 1: really get to see that, So I don't know. The
Speaker 1: resources are there, you should be doing it, They're not
Speaker 1: doing it, So I don't know. I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: And I've complimented Jason Garrett so many times for the
Speaker 1: Monday to Saturday motivating. Is it showing up on game
Speaker 1: days this year? Honestly? I mean it takes them about
Speaker 1: a half to really get cranked every week. But you
Speaker 1: know something, and again, sorry, I'm sitting here saying, well,
Speaker 1: it's not Jason Garrett's fault that guys are dropping passes
Speaker 1: and getting penalized, And I really I it's hard to
Speaker 1: determine where to come down on that, but the bottom
Speaker 1: line is they haven't. They've come out firing like one
Speaker 1: time in eight attempts. So who's making the adjustments though? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Or I mean if it was the other way around
Speaker 1: and they came out and then that kept losing, they
Speaker 1: would be like, this team can't make adjustments in the
Speaker 1: second half. So yeah, I don't know. It's a sixty
Speaker 1: minute game, that's the thing. Like, I know that they
Speaker 1: need to get a faster start. I have less of
Speaker 1: a problem with them having a slow start if they
Speaker 1: can win, right, because I look at there's some good
Speaker 1: teams around the NFL that are similar, Like I've seen
Speaker 1: Seattle several several times this year get off slow starts
Speaker 1: and then they get it going and for by the
Speaker 1: end of game they win. You're not going to score
Speaker 1: a touchdown on your on you know, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: score twenty one points in three possessions every week. I
Speaker 1: understand that, but it's just the general competency of it all,
Speaker 1: like they just they don't see him ready sometimes. And
Speaker 1: again I think that's why Amber and I were so
Speaker 1: down on the Giants win is they started like that
Speaker 1: against the Packers, who are a good team, and it
Speaker 1: killed them. But the Giants were not. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: the Giants game was not a situation of them not
Speaker 1: being ready because if you notice they were moving the ball,
Speaker 1: it was mistakes that killed them. So that's not a
Speaker 1: matter of being ready. That's yeah. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: put it all at the coaches. Yeah I'm really not.
Speaker 1: But again, like if it is, why does it keep happening?
Speaker 1: Can't And that's that's all I'm saying, is you're not
Speaker 1: going to score a touchdown on every possession, But just
Speaker 1: do the basic stuff and you'll probably be in a
Speaker 1: better position. I don't know, all right, Well, appreciate you guys.
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Speaker 1: five will get into this Vikings defense till then. For
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, Dave Helmant Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton.
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