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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, November twenty six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number ninety. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star and we got a lot of things we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit today. Jerry had an interesting conversation with our
Speaker 1: guys over at one oh five out three to fan
Speaker 1: this morning, Sean and RJ. On this show, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of the things that he said during that interview.
Speaker 1: We'll also hit up some of some storylines. Nick has
Speaker 1: his article they writes every week detailing the storylines of
Speaker 1: the opposing team, and this week it would be the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And then if Dave's going to get to
Speaker 1: the Buffalo offense, we're gonna give a scouting report on
Speaker 1: what that offense looks like and how it matches up
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys defense. All heading into Thanksgiving Day game
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Bills at AT and T Stadium. How's everybody
Speaker 1: feeling this morning? Great? But good? I feel awesome. Let's
Speaker 1: jump right in and let's get first to Jerry's interview
Speaker 1: this morning. Uh, Jerry's been in the news, I guess
Speaker 1: for the last couple of days, pretty big coming off
Speaker 1: of what he said at the end of the New
Speaker 1: England game, and had an opportunity this morning to clarify
Speaker 1: some of that. What do you what do you say?
Speaker 1: What are the things that we're a bullet points from
Speaker 1: that interview that were that were of note. Well, I
Speaker 1: think indirectly he said I'm not firing anyone. I mean
Speaker 1: like he's frustrated. He's still frustrated, and he sees the
Speaker 1: room for improvement. But you know, when when that happens,
Speaker 1: everyone wants to know, Okay, what's the cause and effect
Speaker 1: of Jerry's upset, Like if someone getting fired, us Jason
Speaker 1: getting fired, us, you know, especial teams coach getting fired. No,
Speaker 1: he's not doing that. He just frustrated, and I think
Speaker 1: that he he didn't back off exactly, but he just
Speaker 1: kind of tried to, you know, show that hey, we
Speaker 1: got a game in two days. Yeah. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: he didn't back off at all, and I kind of,
Speaker 1: I guess I appreciated that because I've I've you know,
Speaker 1: I thought a lot of what he said on Sunday
Speaker 1: night was warranted, and he didn't. He didn't really back
Speaker 1: down from any of them. He's, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: the same way I felt. Then he taught, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like, that reflects on me ultimately as the owner
Speaker 1: and general manager when you have deficiencies, And he even
Speaker 1: said he's like, you know, praising praising how good the
Speaker 1: New England coaching staff was is obviously a reflection on
Speaker 1: our own and to like try to deny that as silly.
Speaker 1: So he talked a lot about that, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he which I always, even as bad as the
Speaker 1: special teams have been, I always thought it was knee
Speaker 1: jerk to think that he's going to fire anybody the
Speaker 1: Monday after. Like when has he ever done that? They
Speaker 1: fired Paul Alexander last year during a bye week. They've
Speaker 1: done stuff like that on occasion, But like people still
Speaker 1: have a hard time letting go of this image of
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is like the freewheeling, you know, doing crazy
Speaker 1: trades and firing people on a whim like that hasn't
Speaker 1: been the case in forever, and people still act like
Speaker 1: it is. So. But he did say he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it starts with playing well Thursday, and it kind of
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of like added to that
Speaker 1: where he was like, yeah, I want to see us
Speaker 1: play well on Thursday. Everything he said has been warranted,
Speaker 1: talking about the special teams struggles and also at the
Speaker 1: end of the game saying he's frustrated because the talent
Speaker 1: on this team should not have a six and five record.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't be playing there where they are. And I
Speaker 1: agree with that. I think everything he said there has
Speaker 1: been value behind it, and I like agree with Dave.
Speaker 1: I like that he stuck to what he was saying
Speaker 1: today when he was on one of five through the
Speaker 1: fanom was honest about how he felt. I don't agree
Speaker 1: with that, actually, but I mean he's the GM and
Speaker 1: so therefore he's basically saying, I put I put the
Speaker 1: food out there, so I mean you should taste good. Well,
Speaker 1: part don't you agree with I don't think this is
Speaker 1: a talented team, as everyone says I know, I've seen
Speaker 1: stupid quotes out there that this is a nine and
Speaker 1: two team coached by a two and nine staff. I
Speaker 1: mean stupid stuff like that. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: that great of it. And who says who says the
Speaker 1: fans who love the Cowboys and vote them in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, says Jerry, who pays the check. I just
Speaker 1: don't think the players are as good as people say.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the coaching staff has been great, but
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is an all world talented team.
Speaker 1: I think they have a lot of deficiencies when it
Speaker 1: comes to this roster. I just think it was evident Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at this roster relative to
Speaker 1: other teams, I think you would say there are a
Speaker 1: number of players at different positions that you would rank
Speaker 1: highly if you were comparing them to other players at
Speaker 1: that position around the league. And that's where I think
Speaker 1: the at least the reception. But would you be right?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I will say this there. It's
Speaker 1: not just fans are saying it. These are national people
Speaker 1: who are How about commentators about the team? How about us?
Speaker 1: How about us? We spent all training camp talking about
Speaker 1: how sickly talented this team was. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: Were we right? I think so? Yeah? I mean, what
Speaker 1: will we write about MALIEK. Collins? Didn't Malie Collins has
Speaker 1: like four sacks? Yeah, I think he's a pretty good player.
Speaker 1: I mean he's not. He's not. That's what I'm saying though.
Speaker 1: How many Pro Bowlers do you need before you're a
Speaker 1: talented team? No? I just don't think this team. I
Speaker 1: think it's just an easy crutch to fall back on
Speaker 1: and say this is a talented team. They are, they're
Speaker 1: they're top loaded, but they're not on the back end.
Speaker 1: Didn't we have a we had a conversation in the
Speaker 1: hallway before the Patriots game, and that was like, new
Speaker 1: England offense, Dallas offense, how many New England starters are
Speaker 1: you taking? Right? How? What? What was the answer? One? Right?
Speaker 1: Maybe that's irrelevant because of the coach and we all
Speaker 1: know that, like, okay, that that that's that team is
Speaker 1: different and we know that. I mean what Bill Belichick is,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the other teams thirty what's the next
Speaker 1: best team in the day in the day and age
Speaker 1: where the salary cap so strictly limits, like how much
Speaker 1: talent you can compile on one team, like what they're
Speaker 1: what don't they have? They have a lot of they
Speaker 1: have a lot of really really good football players, but
Speaker 1: they have some bad players too at the bottom end.
Speaker 1: I say it for twenty years, from one to fifty three,
Speaker 1: they're not as good as other teams. And they they
Speaker 1: have and that was when you play the Jets and
Speaker 1: you have all these injuries, then you have to play
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight and all that that that's not that's not
Speaker 1: a good good team. I mean they have they don't
Speaker 1: have backups at receiver. When Mary goes down, they can't function.
Speaker 1: I don't think there is from one to fifty three
Speaker 1: a great talented team. They got some top top end
Speaker 1: players though that are really good. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, do you think they have
Speaker 1: sufficient talent to be to be good enough to be
Speaker 1: able to go deep into the playoffs? Now, maybe, and
Speaker 1: that's all relative time we start talking about how talented
Speaker 1: they are, But do you think it's sufficient that, if
Speaker 1: other things we were right, that this team could be
Speaker 1: a deep playoff run type team. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say. That good, good teams make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and they haven't beaten a good team yet, so that's
Speaker 1: that's hard to say. But they they're close to winning
Speaker 1: these games. There are a player two here and there
Speaker 1: from winning these games. It just they haven't yet. But
Speaker 1: I mean I think that they're they're good enough to
Speaker 1: win if all falls right. It has to be perfect,
Speaker 1: can't be raining, and it's gonna be perfect for them,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that they can be. It just doesn't sit
Speaker 1: well with me. I mean, this is essentially the same
Speaker 1: team that did what they did last year. I mean
Speaker 1: for the most part. You know, Randall Cobbs here, Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn's here. So I mean, arguably, on paper you'd say
Speaker 1: they're better, more talented, a winning that's the same talented
Speaker 1: they are. They got some talented players. I just don't
Speaker 1: think this is this loaded roster that that sounds good
Speaker 1: to just blame it all on the coach, you know,
Speaker 1: but I think you look at the players, they should
Speaker 1: still be performing better because we've seen them perform better.
Speaker 1: I think it just kind of falls more on you're
Speaker 1: not meeting expectations in terms of what I think of.
Speaker 1: So whose fault is? Its same coach. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to defend the coaches. I'm just saying it's everybody.
Speaker 1: It's the coach, of course it is. Yeah, alayers have
Speaker 1: a responsibility execute, and the coaches have an have a
Speaker 1: responsibility to get them ready. And I think yesterday on
Speaker 1: the show we detail quite a few things that from
Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint, we think probably the Cowboys could have
Speaker 1: done differently than they have given them a better chance
Speaker 1: to win this game. So, yes, the coaches have to
Speaker 1: take their part in that. But when you can see
Speaker 1: guys missing tackles that are in position, that's all about
Speaker 1: the players, and it's both it goes both, Lates. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to change my tune and put it all
Speaker 1: on the coaching staff right now. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: people got mad at me earlier in the season because
Speaker 1: you know, you look at things that happened in the
Speaker 1: Saints game and the Packers game, like, how is it
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's fault that Amari Cooper bobbles a forty yard
Speaker 1: game that turns into an interception, Like, I get that,
Speaker 1: and a decent chunk of it. You know, if I
Speaker 1: had to if I had to put a percentage on it,
Speaker 1: I'd say it's like sixty forty coaching in my opinion,
Speaker 1: Plenty of blame to go on the players, but I
Speaker 1: just think you got to remove quarterback from the equation
Speaker 1: because it skews everything. But like, if you're looking at
Speaker 1: the entire roster minus the quarterback, I think twenty six
Speaker 1: or twenty seven teams in the NFL would take this
Speaker 1: Cowboys over their own, which means they're pretty damn talented
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I would probably fall somewhere close
Speaker 1: to that. Closer to that than saying that it's not
Speaker 1: a t I really believe it's a talented roster, and
Speaker 1: I think that it's it's evidenced by if you go
Speaker 1: down and listen, just say take this guy versus this guy.
Speaker 1: More often than not, you look at just the fact
Speaker 1: they got a quarterback. Now, they got a top three
Speaker 1: running back, they got an offensive line with three guys
Speaker 1: that are all Pro caliber players. Now you can question
Speaker 1: how well they've played at any point this season, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't change the fact that that's the kind of
Speaker 1: player that they are. You just start going through that list,
Speaker 1: and I think you definitely say there's talent here. You
Speaker 1: might be right. The lower part of the of the
Speaker 1: roster may be holding them back, And that's a great point,
Speaker 1: But I still that I still don't think that means
Speaker 1: they're not talented. I think they're talented. They just may
Speaker 1: not have enough to overcome other deficiencies. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: have the depth they probably need. But their starters are
Speaker 1: so strong that if everyone can be healthy and play
Speaker 1: to their top ability, then this is a team that's unstoppable.
Speaker 1: But they just haven't for whatever reason, whether that is
Speaker 1: coaching or players with execution, they haven't been able to
Speaker 1: find the balance to get the job done. Which you
Speaker 1: can't have one without the other, right, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: special teams was bad on Sunday, Jerry Jones himself said
Speaker 1: that's one percent reflection of coaching. I thought Goose Gosselin
Speaker 1: had a great tweet on Monday morning. Though. The Patriots
Speaker 1: employ four Pro bowlers on their special teams. Like four guys,
Speaker 1: I mean Matthew Slater's made Pro Bowls for being a
Speaker 1: special teams beast, So you can't have one without the other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like Bill Belichick deserves a lot of credit for that,
Speaker 1: But they're playing really good players on special teams too.
Speaker 1: You know how you talk about any sport those players
Speaker 1: that they just say they got that it factor. They
Speaker 1: just have that that thing. They don't know how to quantify.
Speaker 1: It is just they have that something. You never really
Speaker 1: say it when you don't have it, you know, like
Speaker 1: no one ever says, well, they just don't have the
Speaker 1: it factor. And that's what I don't think this team has.
Speaker 1: They don't have that you know what when it's now,
Speaker 1: when it's third and forty collectively or individuals don't have
Speaker 1: it both really, because the individuals make up the whole.
Speaker 1: I mean, like who really has it there? Like this
Speaker 1: team doesn't last year that we're winning these close games
Speaker 1: this year when it's really time to make a play,
Speaker 1: like gotta have it right now, yes, clutch, no one's
Speaker 1: doing individually backs not even doing it. It's great at
Speaker 1: that's playing you need him to make this throw right
Speaker 1: here to make this play. Well, that's evidence by the
Speaker 1: fact that they've had opportunities to get those come from
Speaker 1: behind wins at the end of games this year, and
Speaker 1: they haven't done that by large yet individually. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen it from Dak, we've seen it from Cooper,
Speaker 1: but I mean, Jason Garrett loves to say like, oh,
Speaker 1: that team is totally different, this is team fifty nine
Speaker 1: or whatever. Well, team fifty nine doesn't have it. I
Speaker 1: agree with that completely Team sixty. Sorry, Team sixty, My bad.
Speaker 1: Don't get nix. I know, I know, I know that
Speaker 1: he trust me. I know he said that on purpose.
Speaker 1: That is that is a I'm just letting it. This
Speaker 1: is this is Team sixty. It is right. We agree
Speaker 1: with you. We agree that. All right, were gonna take
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some storylines, Nick, Okay, tell me
Speaker 1: a little bit about this Buffalo Bill team. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going to try not to step on Dave's Toy's gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the offense, but their storylines. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: they're eight and three and their fans can't believe it.
Speaker 1: This first time they've been eight in three since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six. Maybe their fans, well, they're just excited about
Speaker 1: what they have. It's been a while since they've gotten
Speaker 1: this far. Now that year they did go eight and
Speaker 1: the last time they went eight in three, they only
Speaker 1: finished ten and six, stumbled into the playoffs, lost in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're hoping for better than that. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to probably be a wild card team because they're
Speaker 1: not gonna beat the Patriots. Eight and three is where
Speaker 1: they are right now, and everyone's excited in Buffalo. Now
Speaker 1: why the national media is not excited is because the
Speaker 1: same knock on the Cowboys as they haven't beaten anyone.
Speaker 1: Buffalo hasn't beaten anyone either. They don't have any big wins.
Speaker 1: Give them credit for being eight and three, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. Their schedule percentage I looked this up
Speaker 1: is thirty three percent of the teams that are their
Speaker 1: opponent's winning record forty and eighty one. The only winning
Speaker 1: thirty three percent of the time. Their best win is
Speaker 1: a six and five over six and five Titans team.
Speaker 1: It's the only team they've beaten with a winning record.
Speaker 1: So they're taking advantage, like the cop we are taking
Speaker 1: advantage of a week schedule and beating them. They just
Speaker 1: haven't faced those other teams and they got They got
Speaker 1: their ass kicked at home by the Eagles. So that's
Speaker 1: that's one thing to look at. You get after them,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, they kind of struggled. This is a return
Speaker 1: of Cole Beasley, little alm Texas right up the road,
Speaker 1: coming back for Thanksgiving. His little compared to other football players,
Speaker 1: he's little, but he's been a really good player in
Speaker 1: this league. He's second on the team and receptions and
Speaker 1: receiving yards and touchdown catches. He's doing what Cole Beasley did.
Speaker 1: Now we can talk later about where that ranks with
Speaker 1: Randall Cobble will play have a story on that. Also,
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, he just passed. This doesn't seem right. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but Frank Gore just passed Barry Sanders on third on
Speaker 1: the all time rushing a Hall of Famer. So it
Speaker 1: happens when you play for thirty years. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he is a Hall of Famer. If he's third
Speaker 1: all time, he's going to be a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Okay, If Frank Gore's not a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, then Jason Witten's not a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: He's got to be. I mean, if he's stirred all time,
Speaker 1: If he stirred all time, he's in the Hall. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no doubt. I'm no bout in my mind.
Speaker 1: Like you could argue greatest running backs of all time,
Speaker 1: greatest tight ends of all times. Witten make the conversation
Speaker 1: because the NFL just had a list of top one
Speaker 1: hundred backs or top twelve backs. I mean, he's nowhere
Speaker 1: on it. I'm just saying, if you're always available and
Speaker 1: can play at a high level for a super long time,
Speaker 1: you'll put together a Hall of Fame resume. Frank Or
Speaker 1: did it. Running back, Jason Witten did it at tight end.
Speaker 1: I mean, Rob Gronkowski obliterated most of what Witten did
Speaker 1: in like a third of the time, because if he's
Speaker 1: a freak. But I mean, I'm not knocking Witten, but
Speaker 1: it's more about longevity than eye popping production. And I
Speaker 1: think think about Gore's. Gore's He's never been the kind
Speaker 1: of running back that was just gaudy, like he had
Speaker 1: this one thing he did that was so spectacular. But
Speaker 1: the fact is his greatest skill was that he was
Speaker 1: healthy enough to play for as long as he did
Speaker 1: and it was productive for many, many, many years. And
Speaker 1: that's gonna get him in the Hall of Fame. Well opinion.
Speaker 1: The Bill's defense is second and actually third in the
Speaker 1: league in total defense points allow. They're really good turnovers though,
Speaker 1: they are just even. They had fourteen or thirteen takeaways
Speaker 1: and thirteen turnovers, so they're not like getting the ball away.
Speaker 1: They're just they're just sound. They're just a sound team.
Speaker 1: And you put a bad offense out there and they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat them. So they've been good. They've taken advantage
Speaker 1: of this schedule. I think that they're a quality team,
Speaker 1: but I think the jury is still out on when
Speaker 1: they face teams that are that are pretty good. Don't
Speaker 1: know what type of team you're gonna face, thirsty if
Speaker 1: this is a pretty good team or a talented team
Speaker 1: or a team that doesn't have depth or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, give him credit for their eight wins,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they've been tested yet. Yep, it's
Speaker 1: a perfect segue. I mean, the Buffalo Bills are perfect
Speaker 1: example of like what can happen when you just do
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: knock him too much because you just play who's in
Speaker 1: front of you. But yeah, Nick Nick said it. Their record,
Speaker 1: their combined record of their wins is their nineteen and
Speaker 1: fifty seven. They haven't played really anybody, and the handful
Speaker 1: of like quality team the Eagles aren't even a quality team.
Speaker 1: The Eagles beat them pretty bad. They beat the Titans,
Speaker 1: who are six and five. They won that game fourteen
Speaker 1: to seven. I actually looked that up. The only games
Speaker 1: this year where they've hit the thirty point mark were
Speaker 1: both against the Miami Dolphins. The Cowboy's offense does what's
Speaker 1: supposed to do. They've scored twenty points or fewer in
Speaker 1: six of their eleven games. Like they're winning games fourteen
Speaker 1: to seven, twenty to three against Denver. The other day
Speaker 1: they lost nineteen to sixteen to the Bills, Like it's
Speaker 1: it's the Bills. I'm sorry the Browns got excuse me
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. That's the game I watched. I couldn't watch
Speaker 1: the Denver game because All twenty two is not up
Speaker 1: until Tuesday afternoon. Usually it's a short week. But so
Speaker 1: credit all credit to them. They handle their business. Their
Speaker 1: resumes is kind of thin, but they have an eighty
Speaker 1: three percent chance to make the playoffs as it stands
Speaker 1: right now, just from handling their business. And once you
Speaker 1: get there, who knows what can happen. Um, there's not
Speaker 1: a ton in the skill player department that freaks me
Speaker 1: out here. Um, it just is what it is. You
Speaker 1: got Frank Gore, who is a Hall of Famer, but
Speaker 1: he's averaging three point nine yards because he's he's just
Speaker 1: a tank. Like he he does the up the middle stuff,
Speaker 1: thunder style, the obvious running situations. Your wide receivers are
Speaker 1: John Brown, who's super fast, super not well rounded, but
Speaker 1: he is a deep threat, Cole Beasley, who's your slot guy,
Speaker 1: and then they honestly just sort of have a rotating cast.
Speaker 1: I was surprised when I looked at him. I was like,
Speaker 1: there's no way these guys run three receivers because they
Speaker 1: don't have any receivers. Like after John Brown and Cole Beasley,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Isaiah McKenzie. You're talking about Andre Roberts,
Speaker 1: who's a special team's ace but not you know, Audrey Read. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good, he'sa No, he's not a period, but
Speaker 1: I mean former right after John Brown, who, let's honestly,
Speaker 1: you probably only know John Brown from fantasy football yet,
Speaker 1: like he was stuck in Arizona for forever and you
Speaker 1: knew he could run, and you knew he could run.
Speaker 1: After John Brown and Cole Beasley, it's a who's who
Speaker 1: of like huh, so I'm I'm like, there's no way
Speaker 1: these guys play eleven personnel. They actually do, but they
Speaker 1: mix and match. Sometimes it's McKenzie, sometimes it's Roberts. They
Speaker 1: use Dawson Knox as basically a big receiver. You might
Speaker 1: remember him from the draft process. He's white, Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: But I mean it's I mean that, Oh, the similarities
Speaker 1: are really weird. Like they both went to Old Miss,
Speaker 1: they both wear eighty eight, they both have the same game.
Speaker 1: They're like athletic tight ends who can scoot and you
Speaker 1: know you're not counting on him to wam the nose.
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox scure a touchdown? I know that was the
Speaker 1: thing in college, right it all Miss. He was this
Speaker 1: prospect all that he never scored a touchdown. That's a
Speaker 1: good in his entire college career, probably high school, but
Speaker 1: not in college. I'm holding it up. I'm pulling it up.
Speaker 1: You know he's got two. There you go, But that
Speaker 1: the fun He's on the board, kept the ball. No,
Speaker 1: check this out though. Seriously, John Brown's caught fifty eight balls,
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's caught forty nine, and then Dawson Knox is
Speaker 1: third with twenty two. Oh wow, that's I mean, this
Speaker 1: is keep up with the little guys and you can
Speaker 1: This is ah, this is sort of like a let's
Speaker 1: just see how we can get it done type of
Speaker 1: offense case and they predominantly do three wide. Is that
Speaker 1: the yes? I mean alet but again like it ain't.
Speaker 1: It ain't Cooper Galloper Cob where you're like, oh, they
Speaker 1: got three guys. It's like here's their one guy, here's
Speaker 1: their deep threat, here's their slot guy. And they kind
Speaker 1: of makes that other back and he and there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna talk about We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. I'm I'm send in Montgomery. I have a
Speaker 1: big I have a big crush on Devin's single on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You he's loving him. He's fun man. They drafted him
Speaker 1: this past year out of Florida Atlantic. He was a
Speaker 1: Draft Show favorite. He's really fun to watch. He's he's,
Speaker 1: you know, five eight, tiny guy, but he is deceptively powerful.
Speaker 1: He is deceptively his game speed is much better than
Speaker 1: his time speed. You're not taking him down on first contact.
Speaker 1: He's slippery. He doesn't offer you a clean hitting surface.
Speaker 1: He's averaging five point eight yards per carry. He's averaging
Speaker 1: six in something yards per catch. I don't get why
Speaker 1: they don't throw him the ball more often where they
Speaker 1: draft him? What round he fell because of his time
Speaker 1: actually seven point two yards per reception. Here we go.
Speaker 1: He was drafted in the third round. People were talking
Speaker 1: about him as a fringe first rounder, and then he
Speaker 1: ran a four or six five, and dumb people took
Speaker 1: over instead of just watching the tape. He's kind of
Speaker 1: totally pollared, like, yes he can. I mean they which again,
Speaker 1: they don't throw him the ball enough. He's got seventeen
Speaker 1: catches on the year. I would be throwing this guy
Speaker 1: the ball all the time, assuming he can catch. Maybe
Speaker 1: he can't. I only watched one and a half games,
Speaker 1: but man, he's he's kimaraolike in the sense that he's
Speaker 1: his balance is outstanding. He's gonna slip off the first contact.
Speaker 1: So again, it sounds like something that's given the Cowboys problems,
Speaker 1: does it not. So yeah, Frank Gore's the guy that's
Speaker 1: going to the Hall of Fame. Devin Singletary, for my money,
Speaker 1: is the second most problematic weapon for the Bills, the
Speaker 1: first being Josh Allen, and not because he's this amazing
Speaker 1: thrower of the football. Honestly, he's fairly average. He's completing
Speaker 1: sixty percent, he's averaging two hundred yards per game, but
Speaker 1: he runs a lot, a lot. He's averaging sixty rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game. He's at three Wow, he's at three
Speaker 1: eighty seven on the year. Again, if you play fantasy football,
Speaker 1: you probably know he's got seven rushing touchdowns this year too.
Speaker 1: Like they're not that they're they're dicey in the red
Speaker 1: zone and he's kind of their cheat code where you know,
Speaker 1: he'll do the quarterback draw, he'll do the readoption scores
Speaker 1: from five, ten, twelve yards out. Seems kind of useful, right,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe like something the Cowboys could consider doing, which
Speaker 1: I'd like something they faced a few weeks ago that
Speaker 1: they didn't really have an answer for. I actually put
Speaker 1: some of that on deck too, because he I mean,
Speaker 1: go back and watch that third down play could have run.
Speaker 1: He could have run. He needs to be more aggressive
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I know we're getting to that later,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, yes, the coaches need to do
Speaker 1: a better job because he needs to design runs. But
Speaker 1: when it's there, he also needs to know that he's
Speaker 1: bigger than anybody number seventy eight and he run. I
Speaker 1: looked this up just for the just to cover my
Speaker 1: basis because I was like, well, Allen Allen's really athletic.
Speaker 1: That was part of his scouting report coming out of college.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a better athlete than Dak. He ran a
Speaker 1: four seven five and the combined Dac ran a four
Speaker 1: seven nine, so it's a pretty comparable. Yeah, and in
Speaker 1: one game, I mean, you know, he runs the quarterback
Speaker 1: draw often. It works often. He's really good when he scrambles.
Speaker 1: He extends plays, and he's got the speed to turn
Speaker 1: the corner and scramble for six, seven, ten, twelve yards.
Speaker 1: That's that terrifies me. And they do run the read
Speaker 1: option with them too, because they have two running backs
Speaker 1: that you have to account for. He does that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. Again your point, Jeff Driskill killed these guys,
Speaker 1: and I'm terrified Josh Allen's gonna do this. That's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. It's it's the guys that you're
Speaker 1: not expecting. But yet, if I remember Sam Darnold had
Speaker 1: a couple of big runs up the middle, Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: I think did that. I know Aaron Rodgers had had
Speaker 1: a few as well. So it's it's you know, if
Speaker 1: they were to face like Lamar Jackson, which they have
Speaker 1: to next year, you know, that's gonna be a completely
Speaker 1: different animal, you know, like who's gonna be the spy
Speaker 1: and all that. But it's when you just think, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got this guy. That's the guys that heard him.
Speaker 1: I will say this, and I noticed this in last
Speaker 1: week's game against the Patriots. They spied Dak a lot.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of times when you saw Dak
Speaker 1: in the in the pocket and there was a guy
Speaker 1: and as soon as he'd take a move to the right,
Speaker 1: there was a liebacker you would immediately notice would take
Speaker 1: that move to the right with him. It makes me
Speaker 1: wonder again, if you're looking at the comparison between these
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks, and obviously they use him a lot more
Speaker 1: in the running game than than the Cowboys used. Should
Speaker 1: the Cowboys go into this game thinking maybe we do
Speaker 1: need to dedicate somebody to keeping up with him, especially
Speaker 1: when you look at their receivers and you say there's
Speaker 1: nothing there that really scares you. Maybe you should take
Speaker 1: another resource and have him shadow him. Here's another thing
Speaker 1: I noticed too that makes me feel good about this
Speaker 1: matchup for the Cowboys is at this stage in his career,
Speaker 1: I think Allan's still pretty limited as a passer and
Speaker 1: one thing I noticed is he's this is an exaggeration,
Speaker 1: but like he's only good in the film that I've watched,
Speaker 1: Like the receiver has to present him a target like
Speaker 1: curl routes, crossing routes, screens, anything where the receiver can
Speaker 1: turn himself back and present himself to the quarterback. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen can do that when it comes to leading guys
Speaker 1: back shoulder balls anything where like you, it's on the
Speaker 1: quarterback to get the receiver open. More so, it's not
Speaker 1: very good. He sails throws, he overthrows people. His accuracy
Speaker 1: is an issue in my opinion, which I mean he's
Speaker 1: completing sixty percent on the season. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that because they're scheming easy throws for him, like
Speaker 1: time and time again, dig routes, crossing routes. Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: does a lot of stuff coming over the middle and
Speaker 1: presenting his numbers to him and then you watch him
Speaker 1: take shots down the field and it just like the
Speaker 1: balls like sailing upward. Just he just doesn't have his
Speaker 1: touch fine tuned. And I think part of that's because
Speaker 1: he's got such a cannon and I'm sure he'll take
Speaker 1: some huge shots in this game because he's got John
Speaker 1: Brown and he does have a huge arm, but his
Speaker 1: downfield accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. And so
Speaker 1: the reason why I say I think that's good for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys is we always complain about, well they don't
Speaker 1: play the ball, they know they're not aggressive. Well, that
Speaker 1: could suit you well in a situation like this, to
Speaker 1: where if he can only throw those types of routes,
Speaker 1: as long as you rally and tackle, it's probably not
Speaker 1: going to kill you. So I think that's a silver
Speaker 1: lining at least. Let's take our first second break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about this offensive line, specifically how they match up against
Speaker 1: a front like the Cowboys where they have some guys
Speaker 1: that can get after the quarterback. A bit about that one.
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Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios. At the Star, Nick tell us something interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: there's Christmas at the Star. It kicked off last weekend
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Speaker 1: and Tom Thumb this week. This week they're gonna have
Speaker 1: some pretty good tree lighters. One of the lights we're
Speaker 1: calling to the Hall of Fame, and Jason Witten will
Speaker 1: be there with this family. And don't think Frank Gore
Speaker 1: will be there, but I do think Jason Whitten will
Speaker 1: be Maybe Frank Stick and maybe he's gonna hang back
Speaker 1: after the game and maybe he's gonna come and him
Speaker 1: and Witten together will like the tree. Who knows. Honestly,
Speaker 1: they might go in together. For more information at point,
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Speaker 1: in together because Whitten will be first ballot and Gore
Speaker 1: will have to fight through three or forty. Oh he won't.
Speaker 1: He's the third most leading rushing sand running back thirds
Speaker 1: leading ranks third on the all time rushing list. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so he's getting in first ballot. Hey, here's Jerome Bettis
Speaker 1: was first ballot, right? I think so if Jerome Bettis
Speaker 1: is first ballot, that Frank name Frank or I don't know.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need one. That's the thing on the ramp
Speaker 1: bus right, you got a bus commercial. Yeah, you just
Speaker 1: got Frank. Frank's getting in first. He's been Frank Smith
Speaker 1: never had Frank Is Okay, Frank the tank beat Emmett
Speaker 1: Smith's rushing record, and he will be. He seems like
Speaker 1: he's gonna three four years. He needs nine one years
Speaker 1: at a thousand yards, which thousand yards in today's NFL
Speaker 1: is not hard for running back. That's good. It's hard
Speaker 1: for him has been getting thousand How may need to
Speaker 1: be getting the last fw years. He hasn't seven eight,
Speaker 1: hasn't had one in four years. He hasn't hit a
Speaker 1: thousand since twenty sixteen. Where is he now? Like eight seven,
Speaker 1: he's at five forty right now, that's he's he's gonna
Speaker 1: get to probably seven fifty. He serves a purpose in
Speaker 1: this offense. But he's averaging three point nine yards per
Speaker 1: carry in forty nine yards per game. I mean, realistically
Speaker 1: probably needs five more seasons. Realistically he ain't. He might
Speaker 1: can he get too He might get Walter? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: might well Walters at sixteen, but two seven we were
Speaker 1: sort of having that debate over on the break. It's
Speaker 1: like there's there's transcendent talents and sometimes they play for
Speaker 1: a flash. But I mean Barry Sanders played what like
Speaker 1: eight nine seasons? Ten Calvin Johnson, I mean, is Calvin Johnson,
Speaker 1: for my money's like probably this one in the single
Speaker 1: most talented receivers that's ever existed. But did he play
Speaker 1: long enough to deserve to be to use Gail Sayers play? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He didn't play a long time was seven eight years.
Speaker 1: There's two types of Hall of Famers. I don't know,
Speaker 1: not the backtrack, but Jerome Bettis didn't make it his
Speaker 1: first four times the sport time. Okay, well that hurts
Speaker 1: my argument a little bit. I'm just there's two types
Speaker 1: of Hall of Famers. There's transcendent talents and there's dudes
Speaker 1: who just played at a high level for a freakishly
Speaker 1: long time. I just I just think when you have
Speaker 1: a running back at a high profile position like running back,
Speaker 1: and you're talking about it one of the loftiest goals,
Speaker 1: which is actually being the leading rushier in NFL history,
Speaker 1: if he's number three on that list, I just have
Speaker 1: a hard time thinking that he's not getting in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And certainly I've alread I'm thinking he
Speaker 1: didn't get in early, like first maybe second ballot, but
Speaker 1: I think I think he's no brainer. He's getting in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I agree. All right, let's get back to
Speaker 1: let's get back to our tour, our scouting. Important. Talk
Speaker 1: to us a little bit about their offensive line and
Speaker 1: how they match up against the Cowboys defensive front, particularly
Speaker 1: the past rusher of the Cowboys defensive front. This is
Speaker 1: you know what. I don't have their sex allowed, but
Speaker 1: I mean they get by their offensive line gets by
Speaker 1: and I think, I mean, josh Allen is athletic and
Speaker 1: that helps. Like he's good at scrambling, he's good at
Speaker 1: buying time, he's he doesn't get murdered back there. I thought, Um,
Speaker 1: the Browns did Scott? I keep doing that. The Bills
Speaker 1: did a decent job against Myles Garrett. This was before
Speaker 1: Myles Scott himself suspended for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: But he did. I mean, he ripped around that corner
Speaker 1: and a couple of times. And Josh Allen did not
Speaker 1: have fun. He took a couple helmets in the back.
Speaker 1: So and they also didn't have The Browns don't have
Speaker 1: I don't think the I don't think the caliber of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys pass rush. Would you agree with that had
Speaker 1: they faced the team that had as many guys that
Speaker 1: can get after the quarterback as the cow The Eagles
Speaker 1: can get after teams, and they got after the I
Speaker 1: don't know what the sacks, but you know against the
Speaker 1: Jets they got ten sacks in the games of the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles have pass rushers for sure. Let's see
Speaker 1: the Bills Bills ran, I mean twenty four sacks allowed
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack. There I mean, and they
Speaker 1: get it done, and a lot of it is the
Speaker 1: athleticism of their quarterback. They drafted Cody Ford out of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I think they're working on it, and that goes working
Speaker 1: on fixing the line. Is my point, which goes back
Speaker 1: to what I was saying about the roster at the
Speaker 1: top of the show, is like the Bills have a
Speaker 1: better record than the Cowboys. I think they would gladly
Speaker 1: take the Cowboys roster, like top to bottom, like this
Speaker 1: offensive line, these receivers, defense, Well, we'll get to the
Speaker 1: defense tomorrow. Their defense is pretty nice, but pre stacked
Speaker 1: on defense. All things considered, I still think they would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: their offensive line. Do they trip um, probably, but they
Speaker 1: don't got to find a way to get that in.
Speaker 1: They don't get called for it on third and one.
Speaker 1: Most people don't get a called for it twice in
Speaker 1: a game. Iman called nine times this year, Yeah two
Speaker 1: of those times one game. No, I didn't see any trips. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I didn't see any trips. Talking about the coy
Speaker 1: I sorry, oh man, I'm always makes you feel good,
Speaker 1: you know, like when it's like, well, you know, three
Speaker 1: days later, like maybe it wasn't a trip do you
Speaker 1: feel any better when the league said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: when the league said that, you know, we missed those calls,
Speaker 1: I don't really feel any better. That doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 1: It's no different than when the league came out but
Speaker 1: three years later and said, does actually caught the ball? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's worse today, Like, don't don't tell me, Like, it's
Speaker 1: just it's by guns. Let's just we'll just all agree
Speaker 1: to disagree and we'll keep moving because it's just it's
Speaker 1: not it doesn't serve any one's person. Something makes me,
Speaker 1: something makes me deeply uncomfortable talking about calls because and
Speaker 1: it was a bad call. That's not what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: But it's just there's so many variables that go into
Speaker 1: whether you win or lose a football game, and the
Speaker 1: refs are so consistently atrocious, and unless you're absolutely serious
Speaker 1: that you're going to stop watching because it's so bad,
Speaker 1: then yeah, point yeah. I know the first tripping call
Speaker 1: might have been worse than the second as far as
Speaker 1: how it affected the game. And I know people remember
Speaker 1: the end all that stuff, but if you remember, if
Speaker 1: you go back, the first tripping call put him back
Speaker 1: to second and twenty two, they didn't get anything. There
Speaker 1: had to punt. Of course it got blocked, so they
Speaker 1: were about to be I think, you know, second and eight,
Speaker 1: second and seven could have been a completely different series there.
Speaker 1: Maybe don't get the punt blocked. So both of those
Speaker 1: were really big. That first one where he slid into
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith knee. Yeah, same guy, well coached Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Devin Singletary. I think will be the
Speaker 1: reasons why the Bills would win this game. On offense.
Speaker 1: Let's play well enough on offense to win. But I also,
Speaker 1: I mean, the stats say it. They've hit thirty points
Speaker 1: twice against one of the worst teams in the league.
Speaker 1: Twenty points or a fewer half the time. I just
Speaker 1: if they score twenty four points, that's a fail for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Yeah, so, I mean this is a team
Speaker 1: I think you can hold them to somewhere between fourteen
Speaker 1: and twenty points. But they've also proven that they can
Speaker 1: win these games. They're three and three when they do that,
Speaker 1: so their defense haven't had a chance to look at
Speaker 1: them yet, but their defense is clearly pretty good, even
Speaker 1: though the level of competition is questionable. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get a couple of phone calls before we end the show.
Speaker 1: We got a call from Horace in Atlanta. Horse up, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Guys? Hey man, Hey good. I disagree with
Speaker 1: Nick earlier about the talent on this team, because I
Speaker 1: do think they do have talent. I think that the
Speaker 1: issue's coaching. I think that when you lose a game
Speaker 1: by seven points, so last best coaching because your team
Speaker 1: is in it. Look at last night talents the team
Speaker 1: on both sides, they just got blown out. Wasn't coaching.
Speaker 1: They just could not play with them. You know, But
Speaker 1: when the game is close, your coaches make plays that
Speaker 1: your team can either get over the hump or fall under.
Speaker 1: And Dak is one that is not gonna call his
Speaker 1: own number. He's not gonna He's gonna follow whatever the
Speaker 1: coaches say. And you know, also, so Orris real quick.
Speaker 1: So I don't remember you calling last year telling me
Speaker 1: how great Garrett was. Was he great last year? He's
Speaker 1: been great? I have called many times. Let me tell it.
Speaker 1: Was he great last year? He had been great last
Speaker 1: year because they were winning all those close games. So
Speaker 1: they were great last year and now he's not so good?
Speaker 1: Is that what happened? I called for Garrett to be
Speaker 1: fired at in Dak's first year. But wait, they were
Speaker 1: winning those playoff games. They were winning those. It doesn't
Speaker 1: know they were they were they had Todd, Dak was running,
Speaker 1: they were he was moving. They haven't running. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any rollouts. I haven't seen any linebacker run lenses.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen. I think the point the Knicks making
Speaker 1: is you just argue it was that when when you're
Speaker 1: winning close games, that's about the head coach. Last season,
Speaker 1: they won a lot of close games, and the argument
Speaker 1: Nick is making is based on your argument. That would
Speaker 1: mean Garrett had to do his job well last year. Right,
Speaker 1: The play calling in that moment to help you get
Speaker 1: get to that point would be better than it is
Speaker 1: right now, I don't understand. Say it again. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you got a new offensive coordinator right this year? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: completely different. This is this man's first year calling plays.
Speaker 1: So you had a completely different offer. You had a
Speaker 1: season offensive coordinator. Now, now I'm not saying that he's
Speaker 1: good at utilizing Dak's talent, but he is good enough
Speaker 1: to make sure your team is winning in crunch time. Now,
Speaker 1: that's two different skill sets, correct, So you're saying. What
Speaker 1: you're saying, you're talking about the offensive coordinator. So you're
Speaker 1: saying that last year, the reason why they were winning
Speaker 1: those coach games because the offensive coordinator, and so you're
Speaker 1: pointing more to the offensive coordinator this year not doing
Speaker 1: his job. That's your argument. That's my argument is that
Speaker 1: whoever's calling the plays in the last minute to put
Speaker 1: the team in a position to win the game isn't
Speaker 1: doing their job. And I'm not saying that that the
Speaker 1: new guy needs to be fired or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but what I'm saying is, at some point it all
Speaker 1: falls on the head coach to say, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to run here, I want to pass here, I want
Speaker 1: to roll out, or something. I've seen film where Bill
Speaker 1: Parcel said, you know what, I want to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Peyton tells him, okay, Sean says, I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you. Bill is yelling at him, I want a run,
Speaker 1: you know, And that is what he's not saying to play.
Speaker 1: But he's telling him what he wants him to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Garrett is doing that all right,
Speaker 1: thanks to the call. You know what Garrett said yesterday
Speaker 1: that he's not doing that to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: He really said that he doesn't feel like he should
Speaker 1: get into the play caller's head that much. He said
Speaker 1: that yesterday's paid if you don't want to interject in
Speaker 1: that situation too much. I don't like that. It was.
Speaker 1: I was like, you don't know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: interject the whole time. You just say, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is four down territory we have, we're down here.
Speaker 1: We haven't been down here all the job, right, he's
Speaker 1: managing the team to including the coaches and making sure
Speaker 1: that they know what his plan is, which we didn't.
Speaker 1: I sorry, go ahead, I mean, just not trying to
Speaker 1: argue with the caller. But this is so much more
Speaker 1: than just a black and white thing, and so to me,
Speaker 1: I just don't don't feel like you can just come
Speaker 1: in and say when they lose these close games, that's
Speaker 1: on the head coach, because history has shown that this
Speaker 1: team has actually been better in these close games, and
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, that's one thing he's actually been pretty good at.
Speaker 1: And I don't think people give him credit for that.
Speaker 1: Of course they don't. So let's don't. Let's don't just
Speaker 1: say it's completely because of this. I mean, it's got
Speaker 1: to be there is more to it than that, because
Speaker 1: that argument doesn't hold up well. And if they beat
Speaker 1: the Bills in overtime on Thursday, no one's gonna say
Speaker 1: he did a great job. So that's not it's not
Speaker 1: just that, But he is right about I think they
Speaker 1: need to do a better job of saying, play more
Speaker 1: than one play at a time, two or three plays ahead,
Speaker 1: we've got to get four yards, So don't call a
Speaker 1: stupid pass where he rolls out and throws it to
Speaker 1: Shannon Gross in a corner over here. Actually run a
Speaker 1: play where we can get four yards. Would that We
Speaker 1: didn't even get into the analytics conversation, which I would
Speaker 1: like to have a segment on that, But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it doesn't Garrett, you know tis paraphrase. Garrett and
Speaker 1: Jerry both said, you know, they don't consult that stuff
Speaker 1: during the game, and it seems way too reactionary. I
Speaker 1: just I just thought about this while you were talking.
Speaker 1: Is like one of Garrett's favorite phrases is the only
Speaker 1: thing that matters is what we do now. And it's great,
Speaker 1: and to a degree I like it. It's like, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: don't worry about the past. Worry about what you can
Speaker 1: do next, but maybe you need to make some informed
Speaker 1: decisions before you make them. You know what I mean
Speaker 1: is like you need to be You're not like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna kick this field goal because it's fourth and seven.
Speaker 1: You need to be like, we can't be in fourth
Speaker 1: and seven. You gotta be better than that, and that
Speaker 1: the only thing that matters is what we do now.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like you're so reactionary. You're never
Speaker 1: thinking one to two to three steps ahead, or I
Speaker 1: think it bites him, or we haven't moved the ball
Speaker 1: to this point on the field the entire most of
Speaker 1: the game. We're down here now, we got to take
Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunity. So let's think about how we
Speaker 1: get these plays called to be able to put ourselves
Speaker 1: in the best position to get us touchdown because we
Speaker 1: cannot take a field goal here because we don't know
Speaker 1: if we're going to get back to this plan right.
Speaker 1: And if you think about it, Garrett basically just kind
Speaker 1: of told you about what he thinks about the analytics,
Speaker 1: because if he doesn't want to be telling Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: that this is a four down territory, he certainly doesnt
Speaker 1: want some guy up and you know, up in the
Speaker 1: box saying eighty three percent of the time they actually
Speaker 1: major mathematics like that. Don't want that if he doesn't
Speaker 1: think Kellen Moore could say, this is four down territory.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, we appreciate you, John Us. We're back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap up this whole discussion about Cowboys versus Bills.
Speaker 1: Get you guys ready for the Thursday game. Till then.
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