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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, December twenty seven, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number ninety seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We are live from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star,

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Speaker 1: back at studio following Christmas and already talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit of Cowboys football. How's everybody doing this morning? Well?

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Speaker 1: Thanks Derek, good good, good, Um, it's we. We have

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Speaker 1: not been on the air since the game on Sunday

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Speaker 1: when the Cowboys lost twenty one I'm sorry, twenty one

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Speaker 1: twelve and are now officially eliminated from playoff contention. Have

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Speaker 1: one more game left though, this week against the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: so I'm sure Dave can give us a scouttering report

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Speaker 1: on the Eagles in about two minutes. But I do

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Speaker 1: think because we haven't been on the air, I do

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Speaker 1: think we should talk a little bit about that game

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Speaker 1: and some of the things that came out of that game,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll take more a bigger picture look at

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Speaker 1: not just how the Cowboys are going to enter this

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Speaker 1: final week, but more so, you know, what does it

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Speaker 1: mean for the future. Are there guys that maybe should play?

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Speaker 1: Are the guys that maybe shouldn't play because of the

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Speaker 1: fact that it's the final game and it really has

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Speaker 1: no no royal impact on this season, unless, of course

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Speaker 1: getting to nine and seven verses eight and eight somehow matters,

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Speaker 1: which maybe to the coaching and to the team it does.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk first about that game. I just want

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Speaker 1: to open it up first to get just some general

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Speaker 1: thoughts on why you thought the Cowboys loss. Nicho. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with you. You have that pondering, Look, what do

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Speaker 1: you think? I know you you've written probably a couple

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Speaker 1: of different stories about this at this point. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you have some pretty pretty pretty pretty good thought here. Well,

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Speaker 1: I thought that this was worse than the Rams game

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Speaker 1: of that they should have won, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I understand that the Rams are a good team, but

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Speaker 1: they couples should have won that game, and they should

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Speaker 1: have won this one. In my opinion, they were better

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Speaker 1: they just as I wrote, they just got too cute.

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Speaker 1: They got too cute down there. And and you know,

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Speaker 1: when eighty five thousand people are yelling for Zeke and

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Speaker 1: you don't give him the ball, that's dumb. That's dumb.

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Speaker 1: You've been waiting for six weeks to get this guy

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Speaker 1: saw last week against Oakland that they couldn't get in

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Speaker 1: there and they had to settle for a field goal

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Speaker 1: and almost lost in the game. You give the ball

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Speaker 1: to Zeke, who they hadn't stopped all game. That that's inexcusable.

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Speaker 1: And to do it twice in a row like that,

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. Amber I'm still confused. I mean, I keep

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Speaker 1: and then they get the one guy that they've been

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Speaker 1: waiting for. And we've seen all season long how good

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Speaker 1: the running game works compared to the passing game. Why

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Speaker 1: Is he you're running back? No, like give it to

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Speaker 1: really awful execution, Like across the board you can say that.

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Speaker 1: two of them were direct results of takeaways. So players, coaches,

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Speaker 1: Just like I said, like, I thought, the plan was

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Speaker 1: to me, is why you get to first and goal.

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Speaker 1: Pound it in, like especially first and goal. What were

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Speaker 1: I'm like, pound it in and just see what happens.

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Speaker 1: what he stopped calling plays in twenty fourteen. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: game is an exhibition game is to play for on

429
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Speaker 1: either side. Yeah, which is ironic because we're in the

430
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 1: exact same spot we were last year. It's just the

431
00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,879
Speaker 1: teams have flipped. Yeah. Wow, the Eagles win. This NFL

432
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 1: is a crazy thing. The Eagles went from so far

433
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 1: out of it that they didn't have anything to play for,

434
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys were in first and they switched, they

435
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,160
Speaker 1: swapped places. That's the NFL for the Eagles finished last

436
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, because the Giants last in the division.

437
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 1: The Cowboys and Giants went to the playoffs and the

438
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,159
Speaker 1: Redskins finished like eight and eight, and then the Eagles. Wow, yeah,

439
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 1: that's the NFL. But the Cowboys aren't in last place.

440
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 1: There in second places. See. Now, it's weird as bad

441
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 1: a season that it's been that there would be in

442
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: second place in the division. They've got second place locked

443
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: up no matter what happens in this game too. So hey,

444
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 1: it also tells you how bad of a season the

445
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Speaker 1: Giants had, and I guess to some degree you could

446
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,919
Speaker 1: say the Redskins as well, but it just feels like

447
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 1: it's been worse for the owoys. That's four of your

448
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,719
Speaker 1: wins right there. That's true, very true. Four of your

449
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 1: eight wins against those good teams. That's amazing. You could

450
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 1: in it in the season five and one in the division,

451
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: and the last week of the season you weren't even

452
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Speaker 1: in contention for the playoffs. It's amazing. All right, Let's

453
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about a couple of players. There's

454
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Speaker 1: one guy that I want to talk about a little bit,

455
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant. In that game, he had, according to my estimation,

456
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Speaker 1: two drops, one of them ending up in an interception,

457
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,160
Speaker 1: and then in addition to that, had a fumble. What's

458
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: the deal with this? I mean, as I said earlier,

459
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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone can claim that this is a

460
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: normal season for des This was very different than what

461
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: you who would try sing him. I'm not saying maybe

462
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 1: he would, I don't know. I'm just saying it's it's

463
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: very different. We've seen a difference in We've seen a

464
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 1: different Dez this year, and I think the biggest thing

465
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 1: is more than in past years, there have been more

466
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,640
Speaker 1: balls that have bounced off of his hands and hit

467
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Speaker 1: the ground than in the past. I've always considered him

468
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: to be a pretty sure handed catch catcher of the

469
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 1: ball and a pretty good radius. You put the ball

470
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: in his area, he's gonna come down with it, and

471
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem to be the case this season. Is

472
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Speaker 1: that an indication of what we should expect in the future,

473
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Speaker 1: or was this just an aberration. Next year he's back

474
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Speaker 1: to who he is. No, and it's not even an aberration.

475
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: Last year he really wasn't that great either. I mean,

476
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Speaker 1: they were winning games, but they were winning games without

477
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: him too, which was the first time we've really seen that.

478
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: But he was still making some place, especially they he

479
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Speaker 1: got to the Pro Bowl as an alternate. He got there,

480
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Speaker 1: but I think his numbers were down. They were winning games,

481
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: so you didn't really there weren't a lot of issues

482
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: about it. But I think that this year you're starting

483
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: to see that that Dak and Dez or not that

484
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: they don't have great chemistry. We know that that's obvious,

485
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 1: but I think that it's it's a part of it

486
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: is des part of it is is Dak. I mean,

487
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: I think that he needs a perfect pass to make

488
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 1: the plays, and that hasn't always been him. Like that

489
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: was the thing that was so great about Dez is

490
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: he could take a pass that wasn't a great pass

491
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 1: and turn it into a catch, right, I think when

492
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: you're talking about up in the air going to make plays.

493
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: But I don't know if he's never ever been like

494
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Speaker 1: this great great pass you know, Catcher just just like

495
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 1: balls behind him and stuff like that. I mean, I

496
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what what's the issue, but

497
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: it's it's bad and it's about to be real bad.

498
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: When when you when you put a price tag on

499
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: it and was just going to be on it this year.

500
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: This is you know, y'all, y'all didn't come in yesterday.

501
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: I was here working hard, So I did come in.

502
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: Where were you? I didn't see you? Just because you

503
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: don't see me didn't mean or notever you weren't here.

504
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: I made this point on our show yesterday. You love

505
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: how he just did that like that absolutely meant nothing

506
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 1: to your point. No, that statement just meant nothing. That

507
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: was just a gig with the shovel, That's all that was.

508
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 1: Which show you're talking about? Whatever our show that we

509
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: did yesterday, or we did a joint show, you know whatever.

510
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: Oh cool, go away. Um. Dez Bryant last year looked

511
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: like a great receiver who was playing in an offense

512
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: that wasn't suited to him. Yes, the Cowboys were run heavy,

513
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: they had a rookie quarterback. Uh, they didn't lean on

514
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 1: Dez the way that they did in twenty fourteen when

515
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: he had sixteen touchdowns. But I you can think up

516
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: a dozen great I mean, he blew up in the playoffs.

517
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: He had long, big time gains against the Vikings and

518
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Uh, he did his you know, he did

519
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: his beast mode on it type things. We did a

520
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: lot of des type things. In my opinion, he missed

521
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: three games and still finished with fifty catches for something

522
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: like eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns. Like are those

523
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: great numbers? Not by any stretch, But when you factor

524
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: in that it's a rookie quarterback and an offense that's

525
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: leaning heavily on a run game, those are pretty good numbers.

526
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Speaker 1: And I don't think you don't look at the price

527
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: tag and think, man, we're kind of getting host here

528
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: when you consider his contributions. I don't think you can't

529
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: even you can't even try to make that claim this year.

530
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: It's just it's been it's been a night and day difference.

531
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: Like this isn't a good receiver stuck in a bad offense.

532
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: This is just a guy who's who's going through some

533
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: stuff and on. I mean, I haven't talked to him,

534
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: but he looks like a guy who is well aware

535
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: of the criticism that is swirling around him. Like it

536
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 1: looks like every time he has a chance to touch

537
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: the ball, he's trying to do something insane and shut

538
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: the haters up, and instead it gets him out of

539
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: just doing the most basic things. I mean, how I mean,

540
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: you know, like he's so freakishly strong and athletic, Like

541
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that wasn't even like this amazing play to

542
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,959
Speaker 1: poke the ball out of there like that, that didn't

543
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 1: It literally was just a poke and it's gone. And

544
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: then you know the other thing. I'm gonna rant for

545
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: a minute. I am stunned at the amount of people

546
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: who put that interception on Dak Yeah, because it was

547
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: not don't get me wrong. It was not a good

548
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: throw at all, but I have spent but it was.

549
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: I think it was a throw that needed to be

550
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: made because it was a defender. On the other side,

551
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 1: I have spent far too many hours watching this guy

552
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: stand ten yards away from a jugs machine with it

553
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: cranked up all the way, just catching him like it's nothing,

554
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: one handed, two handed, behind the back. He's he is

555
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: a good catcher of the ball. I don't know if

556
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: he's got his amazing hands as DeAndre Hopkins or some

557
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: of these other guys. Yeah, that catched the other night.

558
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was ever his strong suit.

559
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: But to come at me like he shouldn't be expected

560
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: to catch a ball slightly behind him with both hands,

561
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: are you insane? That's what top caliber NFL receivers are

562
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: expected average receivers are expected at in the NFL. That's

563
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: part of the job. I mean, I know it wasn't

564
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: a perfectly thrown ball, but if you need a perfectly

565
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: thrown ball to catch it, then why are you making

566
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 1: ten figures Like that's just not the way this works,

567
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: or eight figures whatever it is, you know what I mean?

568
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: Ten figures is like a billion dollars, but great, he

569
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: makes a lot of money to catch the football, and

570
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: that is a football that you're supposed to catch if

571
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: that's how much money you're making, in my opinion, and

572
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know, I don't know what the

573
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: root of the problems are, but it just hasn't been

574
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: there for him basically at every level of the game

575
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: this year, and that's something that you got to take

576
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: a hard look at in the off season. It is

577
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a I think a big that might

578
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: be one of the biggest questions this offseason on what

579
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to do in the offseason because

580
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: it does require so much money. As I understand, it's

581
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: twelve million dollars that they will be on the books

582
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: to pay him if he's on this team with the

583
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: current contract that he has, So that's gonna be a

584
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 1: huge point of contention, I think for a lot of fans.

585
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: Obviously in the building there will be different kinds of

586
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: discussions being had, but I think for fans that's gonna

587
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: be a really big thing about how do you keep

588
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: him at that rate or do you try to get

589
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: him lower, or do you have to cut him at

590
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: some point, because he's will take a pay cut and

591
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: you need to get the amount of money done. Absolutely,

592
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: he absolutely will not play at that at that price tag.

593
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: You think that's a confident of that, I'm one hundred

594
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: percent confident here. That means I'm not one hundred percent

595
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: confident of that. But I do think that you're gonna

596
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: have to lower that number. I just I don't see

597
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 1: Dez believing that he deserves a pay cut like other

598
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: people might believe it. Then I would show him sixteen

599
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: games from this year. No, I get that. But but

600
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: you tell me, I'm just knowing what you know of

601
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I understand that. But he he

602
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: will take a pay cut in twenty eighteen, There's no

603
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: doubt about it. He will take a pay cut, whether

604
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: or not he wears the Cowboys star or somewhere else.

605
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: But I just don't think the Cowboys are going to

606
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: keep that same price tag. So if if he won't

607
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: take it here, that's fine. There's pride. I get it.

608
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: You say, no cut me, He'll go to someone else.

609
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: He'll take the pay cut there and he'll have a

610
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: different role and he might be really great there. Whoever,

611
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: wherever it is you know, he might might go to

612
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: another spot where the expectations are not as high. He's

613
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: not Patriots, and they will we have a resurgence. I'm sure.

614
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean right, yeah, you know, yeah, I

615
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: mean but and and I think and I think Dez

616
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: has been great for this team. But what was an

617
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: issue that I had the other day was he's always

618
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: been really good in training camp or any practice where

619
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: he raises the intensity and then throwing a sideline rant

620
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: like that, then to come back out and fumble the

621
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: football and what was what we've you know, don't think

622
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: was a major hit or anything like that. That's just

623
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: it's just a sign of just something that's just not

624
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: there with with him, and it's you know, it's sad,

625
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: and he's a doing all this talking and all that,

626
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: and then you know, like I have a problem with

627
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: I have a problem with those players that don't sit

628
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: and talk in the locker room. And it's not because

629
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: we need a story. It's not about that. It's that

630
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: these other guys are doing it and they had they

631
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: don't have the answers, but they try. And then then

632
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: these guys and there's other guys are just quick to

633
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: get out of there because it's Christmas, and I gotta

634
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: go it went about Christmas? Why whatever it is, because

635
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: it happens, it happens every time in October. Whatever it is.

636
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: It's you know, I think I think that's he's not

637
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: being the leader that you want him to be on

638
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: the pay him to be, Yeah, that you're paying him

639
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: to be here. It's right. So I don't know, I

640
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen. And I like this, I

641
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Speaker 1: really do. I like him, but um, you know, he

642
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Speaker 1: hasn't He hasn't done the things that that, like you

643
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: just said, that they're paying him to do. This is

644
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Speaker 1: a March conversation, So I mean, we don't have to

645
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Speaker 1: get into it right now if you don't want to.

646
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Speaker 1: But I just I don't think it's as easy as

647
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Speaker 1: a lot of people want it to be. In the

648
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: aftermath of a disappointing game, Des Brian and Terrence Williams

649
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: are on the books for a lot of money, and

650
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: you can you can, absolutely, you can get rid of

651
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: anybody you want to at the end of the day.

652
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Speaker 1: But they're they're not easy guys to get rid of

653
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: in the sense of the money, and they're not easy

654
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: guys to get rid of in the sense of, Okay,

655
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: cut Dez, and then so you're locking yourself off into

656
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: a situation where you either got to spend big money

657
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: in free agency or spend a big time draft pick

658
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: on a receiver. And even then, I mean, so now

659
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, rookie, you're the focal point of our

660
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: receiving corps. I mean, I don't think it's as easy

661
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: as a lot of people want it to be. And

662
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: that's why I'm not just penciling Dead's in for a

663
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: pay cut or being released or anything like. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are in a tough spot here.

665
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Speaker 1: I mean, let me say one more thing. I don't

666
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: know if you guys have points on this, but I

667
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: know what I just said about Dez. But if they

668
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: more than anything, I think they need a different offense

669
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: in here. They need an offense that's that's gonna really

670
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: tailor things around Dak and maybe Diz. If they are

671
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: going to have a difference that a different play caller

672
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: or anything in here, then I think that you know,

673
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: with that in mind, whoever you brought in, I would say,

674
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: let's keep eighty eight at the forefront of these conversations, here,

675
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: figure out a way the things that work best for

676
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: him so I can see. I don't mean to talk

677
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: out of both sides of my mouth. I don't think

678
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: he can play for that number. But if you are

679
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: going to make a change an offensive coordinator, I would

680
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: make sure that Dak and Daz are are vocal points

681
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: of whoever this offense is. The Other thing to consider

682
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: in all of this is if you were to somehow

683
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: get to a point where you said, Okay, he's not

684
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: gonna take a pay cut and we're not gonna keep

685
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: him here for twelve million. If you cut him, I'm

686
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: not sure how much relief you get, because that's the

687
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: other part of that is you say you have to

688
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: go out down free agency free agency and replace him

689
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: or spend a draft pick. You may still be paying

690
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: him a significant amount of Maybe maybe it's not twelve million,

691
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: maybe it's six million, maybe it's eight million. I don't

692
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: know what that number is. But there's gonna be some

693
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: money that's still left on the books for Dez Bryant

694
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: that you're gonna be paying for him not to be here.

695
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: That factors in as well. Maybe he's straight out yea.

696
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is, oh, so yeah, yeah, do you

697
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: want to talk about that? Yeah, I don't think that

698
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: was awesome awesome, of course you would love for Earl

699
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: Thomas to hey, I hate I hate Texas, and I

700
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: thought it was awesome, it was gonna happen. It was

701
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: absolutely awesome. Well, well, it depends if that time comes

702
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: when they boot him out, as he says, and he's

703
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: no longer a good player, then I don't know that

704
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: it happens at that point. Did It's like you're not

705
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: getting yeah, but yeah, tell us you're getting Leo's He's

706
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: twenty nine, he's got a huge salary. He's starting drama

707
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: in their locker room on a weekly basis. Maybe they're

708
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: have Seahawks break is having the same talk about him

709
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: as we are about Dez. Maybe the team could use

710
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: a safety. I'm just gonna say that'd be nice. My

711
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: main takeaway from all of that is, like, that's why

712
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: there are harsh penalties and language for talking about other

713
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: teams players that are under contract, Like that's why Jerry

714
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: Jones and Jason Garrett aren't allowed to say. They can't

715
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: even comment about that because the minute you put that

716
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: it literally, player, I guarantee this. Players say this that

717
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: type of stuff to each other and to other coaches

718
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: every week. Ye like, like whether it's his hometown or

719
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: whether it's buddies on that, he's just like, hey man,

720
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: like you know, these guys are gonna release me at

721
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: some point. Coming like that happens every week, but the

722
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: media picks up on it once and it's a firestorm

723
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: because it's interesting, you know, And that is why those

724
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: rules are in place, is to keep stuff like this

725
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: from becoming. But it's ridiculous. And you know how how

726
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: AT and T Stadium has lined up. We know the

727
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: center of the field where all the jersey swap goes on,

728
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: and one team goes this way, one team goes that

729
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: way to get over there to make I mean, he

730
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: has a hamstring strain probably for running over that quickly

731
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: to go get Jason Garrett before he gets in the

732
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: locker room. I'm honestly surprised that he didn't get lost.

733
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: I get lost at AT and T every week and

734
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: I go there all the time. Like he's a maneuver.

735
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: That's a lot more about you. Okay, really, it's a

736
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: complicated place to get around. He followed the circle he

737
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: got Jason Garrett. It's a circle. I mean, Garrett doesn't

738
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time out there, I don't think.

739
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not swapping polos with Pete Carroll. Now,

740
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: that would be kind of funny if the coaches kind

741
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,959
Speaker 1: of started, Man, can I get that polo and they're

742
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: like exchange and taking pictures with each other's polos? Would

743
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: that would be awesome? Pretty funny. All right, let's talk

744
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: a little bit about before we take our final break

745
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: about Tyren Smith. He was only able to play one

746
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: series and then was out of the game due to

747
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: the injury that he hit he sustained a week ago,

748
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: or really that he'd been playing with for a lot

749
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: of the season. We don't know which one. It was,

750
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: the knee or the back, the same thing, I guess

751
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: to some degree, I'm pretty all injuries, I'm pretty sure

752
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: it was the knee it was in this case. I mean,

753
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: he's still got all that other stuff. Are you are

754
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: you concerned at this point? I mean, this is this

755
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: is just it's getting to a point where it's so

756
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: regular for him with these injuries. Are you getting concerned?

757
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm on about the long term I'm relieved that he

758
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: couldn't finish that game because because he's human, like, I

759
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: like the fact that he gave it a go and

760
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: was like I'm too hurt. I'm like, okay, you're the

761
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: same species as me, because if he had like just

762
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: gone out there and played sixty snaps, that would be unreal.

763
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: Like he sprained hiss LCL seven days, six and a

764
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 1: half days prior to that, on top of the back,

765
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 1: on top of the groin like it. At some point

766
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: it's reasonable to be like, you need to rest, dude.

767
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: It almost sounded like a contract clause to me, and

768
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: I don't know this at all. It just sounded like

769
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: if you start thirteen game games are more this year

770
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: you get. I mean, then he plays three plays and

771
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: he's out, and they don't and they don't sit the

772
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: eighth eighth tackle, you know, like they normally do. They

773
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: made sure they had two tackles back. I guess that's

774
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: I guess that's possible. I feel like we would have

775
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: heard about something, because when Sean Lee did it, it

776
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: was everywhere like John Lee didn't well when he did.

777
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: But still if somebody would have picked up on I know,

778
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: I know, I'm not. I'm not saying it. I talked

779
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: to him, and I talked to him in the locker

780
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: room and I was like, how were you even in

781
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: a spot where you could get into uniform? And he

782
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: was like, I had to. I had to try to

783
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: give it a go. You do what you gotta do.

784
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: Ye And it didn't work out. But I'm not implying anything.

785
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that. And I know Tyrren Smiths as

786
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: tough as nails. And but after that third play when

787
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: he was running not running off the field, I remember

788
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: looking up at the at the scoreboard seeing him kind

789
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: of trying to get off the field. I was like, God,

790
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: this doesn't look good. And I guess he never played again.

791
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I get your point. It's a

792
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: lot of stuff has stacked up for him. He's had

793
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: the back injuries two years in a row. I would

794
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: be shocked if he plays in Philly. So that's five

795
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: games in the last two years that he's missed. Um,

796
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: it's concerning, and I think tackle is something you need

797
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: to look at, whether it's in free agency or the draft,

798
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: Like you need to be better equipped to deal with

799
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: that in the future. Slash just think about the future

800
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: of the position. I'm not. I'm not ready to like

801
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: send him off to retirement. Amber he's he's twenty seven years.

802
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what are you saying, guys are giving him.

803
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he is a great player, no doubt, and

804
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 1: he definitely has a body that can take a lot.

805
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: But he is human, like you just said, he absolutely

806
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: he absolutely is, and you know, maybe who knows where

807
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: it goes from here. But I'm not in a situation

808
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: where I'm panicking about it. I'm just I talked to

809
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: him after the game. I was like, dude, go go

810
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: do something. Like I don't know what what might need

811
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: to be operated on or what might need, but like,

812
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: go do something. And he's like what I mean, I agree,

813
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: But I just I don't know what the issues are

814
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: in enough detail where I can be like, well, he's

815
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: got to go get that taken. Like, just go do something,

816
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: talk to people, figure out what I'll do the most

817
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: for you, get it done, and just rest. And I

818
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: would like to think that that's enough. I mean, DeMarcus

819
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: Lawrence had to do this two years in a row,

820
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: and he's been great this year with full health, So

821
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not panicking that his career is over,

822
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: but he needs to take better steps toward getting ready

823
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: for next year than he probably did last year. Don't

824
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: don't go to the Pro Bowl. He's not going on.

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00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: There's all right, let's take our final break. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: come back. Let's get to some questions and numbers two one, four,

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829
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,399
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00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 1: got their ideas, but I just say to myself, it's

853
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: what's up top that matters. Sure, you need men with

854
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: the muscle and heart to get her done. But if

855
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Speaker 1: your scouts and coaches are listening out there a word

856
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857
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Speaker 1: That's the one most cut out to be a cowboy.

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Speaker 1: Stetson hats are handmade right here in Texas and have

859
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Speaker 1: been on Cowboys heads for over one hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 1: The rest of you can visit stetson dot com slash

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Speaker 1: Cowboy to find a retailer nearest you. What does it

862
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: mean to be a Dallas Cowboys fan. It means you've

863
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: got the passion and the heart to do your part

864
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: supporting the Boys no matter what. That's why when the

865
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: game's on the line, you're on your feet, whether you're

866
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: at home or in the stands. Actually, you're more than

867
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: a fan. You are a member of Cowboys Nation, and

868
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: so is AT and T doing their part to keep

869
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: you connected to America's team all season law At and

870
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: T is a proud member of Cowboys Nation. Back to

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Speaker 1: the Break Welcome Back. It is the final segment of

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Speaker 1: the Great Life of the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Nick,

873
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Speaker 1: take it away. No, I'm not gonna take it away,

874
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Speaker 1: Just give me a second. I forgot about this, He's Nick.

875
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: You get out of one day and all of a

876
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: sudden you can't do it anymore. Why don't you read

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Speaker 1: it then? Because John not you? You know, Tommy John

878
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879
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Speaker 1: slash Cowboys seems like kind of a double standard, doesn't it. Yeah,

884
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: I don't know where Knicks reads are gonna go. He

885
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: brought up the South Pole last one. Oh yeah, that

886
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: was uncomfortable. Well I think actually, yeah, very Actually it's

887
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: not uncomfortable. That's Tommy John. It is very comfortable. And

888
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: when I read it, I speak from experience, and I

889
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: think they can read it too. I don't think you

890
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: speak from experience. South Pole. That's pretty down there. Do

891
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: you know your geography? I mean that's pretty low. I

892
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: would go with like Central America or like, you know,

893
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: the Caribbean. But how are you being god? Even? Yeah,

894
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: I did get Tommy John for Christmas this year. I

895
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: saw your tree sited. I saw your tree sited. That's

896
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: gonna be great. Sweet. I'm almost ready to have a

897
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: complete overhaul. So that's impressive. That's very nice. All right,

898
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: let's let's get some questions rolling here, you guys, give

899
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 1: us a call. The numbers two one four eight seven

900
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: two twenty one O two again. Two one four eight

901
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: seven two twenty one O two is the number Let's

902
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: take a call first from Lorenzo in North Carolina. Lorenzo,

903
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: what up? Hey, how y'all doing. Hey, I'm gonna try

904
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: to I'm gonna try to get this out. Please bear

905
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: with me. Okay, I think our problem, well I know

906
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: our problem is Jason Garrett. Here's the reason why. Um

907
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: we're having the same discussions about um das Brian as

908
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: we had about TiO. Just like we said earlier, is

909
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: Scott Lenahan. He got praised, he got met to trying

910
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: the ball. He come here. Our offense never looked like

911
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: Detroit's offense. It looked like Cowboys offense. You remember Jason Garrett,

912
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: he was real mad about giving up play caller because

913
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: he wanted somebody that was not gonna change the system,

914
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: that was gonna do what he wanted to do. And

915
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: I think he's very much involved. You remember back when

916
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: Tashar Choyce was playing against you know, we were playing

917
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: the Peace First Steelers. He was dominating the run game.

918
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: We was up by five, needed one first down, first

919
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: and two. What do he do? He get the ball

920
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: to Terrea Ns coming out in the backfield. Kind of

921
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: the same thing that we're seeing throughout this whole process.

922
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about just the game seven eight

923
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: years that he's been coached. Um offensive cordin there. Two

924
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, great season, but he also had a

925
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: little help with with with Sperrano in here after that

926
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: year and we kind of tell Taylor dog and just

927
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: like last year, everything's new. Nobody expected that, nobody knew

928
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: what to expect. We did pretty good. People get wind

929
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: of them, and then it's like he can't adapt. Remember y'all,

930
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: I heard y'all talking about it all the time. Why

931
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: not dance in the slot? He made a this game.

932
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: See what he did in the slot. Then the rest

933
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: of the game. In the next game, you don't see

934
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: him in the slot. You don't. I mean, if if

935
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: he can't run the route, treat get some teachers in

936
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: here that that can do it. But I think we

937
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: need to change our philosophy on offense because it just

938
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: seems like when we're the type of team that if

939
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: I man beat your man, we look great. If I

940
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: man is not beating your man, then we have no

941
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 1: way to innobate some type of scheme to get that

942
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: player the ball or to get that person some help.

943
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 1: We appreciate the call, and I just want y'all to

944
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: talk about that. Okay, there's a lot to impact there,

945
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: and some of it I agree with, some of it

946
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: I disagree with, but go ahead. Well a lot of

947
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: that I don't know what to do with. But like

948
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: that last statement, like if you had just summed it

949
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: all up with that, I'm like, yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah,

950
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys are beating there, guys, head up, they

951
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: look pretty good. And if they're if they're struggling with that,

952
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 1: they probably won't look very good. And lay that wherever

953
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: you want to lay at that. The head coach is that,

954
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinators, that the players for not winning their matchups.

955
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: Probably a little bit of all of that. But I

956
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: agree with that basic summary. I don't I mean, I

957
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: wasn't here for two shared choice and t O. I'm sorry,

958
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: but yeah, the game that two shared choice was dominating.

959
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't call that one ever, ever, ever, ever.

960
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: I do remember some kind of run t O trying

961
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: to be cute. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't always work. Yeah, um,

962
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's just that's which that's just a

963
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: passionate fan. I admire anybody who can work up the

964
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: energy to basically be yelling at ten o'clock in them,

965
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm not there. I never am ever,

966
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: But like if I was gonna do that, I would

967
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: need it to be like I needed afternoon, like after

968
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: I've had some coffee and that that was impressive. Um, No,

969
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: Dez doesn't get Megatron type looks in this offense. But

970
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: like that would be a mistake anyway. Like this is

971
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: a run oriented offense. That's why you drafted all these

972
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: linemen and drafted this running back. I mean that's not

973
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: the way it should look like if you were throwing

974
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: to Days eighteen times a game when you've got Zeke

975
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: and all these offensive linemen, I think that would be

976
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: a mistake too. The problem is it just don't maximize

977
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: the looks they give any of their receivers really, at

978
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: least not this year. Yeah, I think that's a little

979
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: bit unfair to say it doesn't look like the Detroit offense,

980
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: because quite frankly, I don't think you want him to

981
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: come in here and do the Detroit and you want

982
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: anyone to bring the Detroit off Detroit hasn't had a

983
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: one hundred yard rusher in years. Yeah, and it wasn't like,

984
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: even with whatever they did at that time, they weren't

985
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: winning a heck of a lot of games. It was

986
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: still doing the Detroit Lion type things. So I don't know, no,

987
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: But seriously, like I don't think, I don't think the

988
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: idea and bringing him in here will say take what

989
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: you're doing in Detroit and do it here. I think

990
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: the idea was you're a good play caller. You've shown

991
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: you can be a good play caller, because guess what,

992
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: this guy's had a long career. It wasn't just with

993
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. You've shown you can be a good,

994
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: good play caller. We'd like you to come here and

995
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: call place for our team. Here's what we have as

996
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: far as personnel, do what you can with it. And

997
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: so I think that last year, and this is the

998
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: part that comes a little bit frustrating. I think probably

999
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: for the coaches if they listened to all the noise,

1000
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: is that nobody was complaining about these things last year.

1001
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: Last year it was called very well. I mean, they

1002
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: had a really good The way they ran this offense

1003
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: last year was in my opinion, masterful at times. So

1004
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: I think you have to kind of give them credit

1005
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: for that. And say that this year, maybe it wasn't

1006
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: what you what you wanted, and certainly the league seems

1007
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 1: to have caught up with them to some degree because

1008
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: even when Zeke was here earlier in the season, they

1009
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: weren't playing great. The offense wasn't clicking great in a

1010
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: lot of games early in the season. So for whatever reason,

1011
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: it didn't work this year, but last year it did.

1012
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: So I think, and Nick, this is something you said.

1013
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: I think you said it in the break. I think

1014
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: that there is a real possibility and fancy to start

1015
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: getting themselves ready for this is a real possibility. These

1016
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: same coordinators are going to be back next year and

1017
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: they'll be calling and maybe they had just to do

1018
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: something a little bit different, but they'll be back next

1019
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 1: year to probably call this offense and call this defense.

1020
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: I didn't say that, and I don't believe that you don't, Okay,

1021
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: so you saying that. I thought somebody said there's been

1022
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: talking around this is what people think. But I don't

1023
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: believe that. I believe that there will be a change.

1024
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 1: And I think that if you listen to what Jerry

1025
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: Jones said, I should have the direct quote in front

1026
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: of me, but he said it after the game, he

1027
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: talked about the You know that he's been around a

1028
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: long time and he's seen a lot of quarterback I

1029
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: mean coordinators and head coaches, and I don't see a

1030
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: reason to change our head coach. He said it right

1031
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: after he said coordinators and head coach, and then he

1032
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: said something about the headcach. And this is one of

1033
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: those typical things. You don't listen to what Jerry says.

1034
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: You listen to what Jerry doesn't say. Well, yeah, he

1035
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: just kind of reading between the lines there. I think

1036
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: you got them, and I think you do need to

1037
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: make some changes there. If that's typical. Both coordinators are

1038
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: just one of them. I changed them both. Actually I

1039
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: think I would change both of them. But see, it's

1040
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: hard to compare it. Sorry, it's hard to compare it

1041
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: to last year, because yes, they did have a great year,

1042
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: a great season, but then again, they had two new

1043
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: players that came in full of energy, came in to

1044
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: change the whole dynamic of the team, and that nobody

1045
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: else knew what to expect. So now it goes back

1046
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: to the whole adjustment thing. Okay, now, other teams had

1047
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: a full season to evaluate these players, figure out how

1048
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: they work now, they got to figure it out. But

1049
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: then the Cowboys are still doing or trying to do

1050
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over, you know, and not

1051
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: having them themselves making those changes. Okay, they figure this out,

1052
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: how do we trick them or how do we change

1053
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: things up a little bit to give them a little confusion.

1054
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you guys have been here way

1055
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: longer to figure out year by year what it's like.

1056
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, because then a good game happens and

1057
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: then that kind of tends to wipe off the surface

1058
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: a little bit. But then what's the core of this team?

1059
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: Looking year after years, since Garrett has been here, and

1060
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: since the offensive coordinator has been here, what are the

1061
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Speaker 1: things that just kind of tend to happen more often

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Speaker 1: rather than those once in a while great games. The

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Speaker 1: culture here has and it's not not just with Garrett,

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Speaker 1: and it's been here with Bill Parcels, the Wade Phillips.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it goes back to maybe in

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Speaker 1: the mid nineties that they've went they've gone to the

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Speaker 1: playoffs in consecutive years, maybe I'm or six six z seven.

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Speaker 1: I think I think the stat was ten ten wins

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Speaker 1: um in a season that goes back that far. But um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, in the last even the last decade,

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Speaker 1: when you make the playoffs in the expectations are high

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Speaker 1: the next year, and this team hasn't hasn't been able

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Speaker 1: to capture that so and and they you can say this,

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Speaker 1: they haven't had consecutive playoff runs in twenty twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Uh since with the same coach, you know, I mean

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Speaker 1: not since Barry Switzer did it in ninety four or

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Speaker 1: ninety five and ninety six. Have you had the same

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Speaker 1: coach cut in and have consecutive years to go to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and go I want to make one point

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Speaker 1: that isn't true. Gaily did it twice. I want to

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Speaker 1: make one point though, based on what Amber was talking about.

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Speaker 1: I do think though there's a possibility that this coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: and I do think Garrett falls in this category. And

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Speaker 1: this goes back many a long time. We're talking back

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Speaker 1: to Vince Lombardi days. There are certain certain coaches and

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Speaker 1: certain philosophies that are we believe that if we do

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00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do, we will do it better

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00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: than you can stop us. And so we're gonna do

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00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: what we do scheming is not really a part of

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00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: that's not really what we do. What we do is

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Speaker 1: we know what we do well. We're gonna do that

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Speaker 1: regardless of whether you whatever, whatever you do, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to do that well. And we believe we're

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00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that well. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: stick to what we do. And I do believe that

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Speaker 1: maybe that's a part of the philosophy here, and that's

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Speaker 1: why when you say they didn't they didn't change that

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Speaker 1: going into this year. I do believe that maybe part

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00:51:58,120 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: of that is because they came into the year believe

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Speaker 1: again in their philosophy which worked for them last year,

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Speaker 1: which is we're gonna do what we do well, and

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Speaker 1: we don't care what you do. We're gonna do what

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00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: we do well, and we think that's good enough to

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00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: get us wins. That BlackBerry do it. And I'm not

1105
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: saying I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying it's right,

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00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: but this is something that goes back again. This is

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00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: a coaching philosophy that's been around a long time. And

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00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 1: then the nineties Cowboys were they were the same way.

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00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: They had what they did well and they continued and

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00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: over and over. That makes sense because Garrett loves to

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00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: identify himself as an old school guy. So why don't

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00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: you run the ball? I know, I know, I know,

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00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't go, it goes, It doesn't make any everything

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00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: that you would expect them to be able to do

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00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: in that situation. I mean, Garrett, I give him credit

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00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: for this. And I remember it was in It was

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00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: at the combine when he was saying that, you know,

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00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: they want to be like the forty nine ers and

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00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: who had drafted a lot of offensive linemen in the

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Speaker 1: first round, and we want to get that's that style

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00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: and kind of built that team. And he built I

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00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: won't say he built it, but I mean that was

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00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: what he wanted to have and he's got it and

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00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: it's working and it's working in this game, and so

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00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 1: it just still goes back to it. So it's like,

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00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: you're right, they are hard headed and stubborn when it

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00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,439
Speaker 1: comes to that, but then they just then they get

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Speaker 1: cute and not enough, not hardheaded enough. I know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. And more than I mean, not not just

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00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,280
Speaker 1: run the ball, but with all the stuff that's happened

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00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 1: and what your running back had gone through, he deserved

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00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get that football and get into the

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00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: Are they gonna stop him if I lose? He hadn't

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Speaker 1: been in there in six weeks. Yeah, don't score a touchdown.

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00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: If I'm the Cowboys and I lose that game because

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00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 1: I ran the ball too much, I'm okay with that.

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00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose the ball, lose the game

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00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: getting cute. If I'm gonna lose, I'm gonna lose doing

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Speaker 1: what I do well. And that's why I had a

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00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: big problem with that. Is the best thing you do,

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00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 1: the thing that you thought you had lost for six weeks.

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00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: That was the reason why you were against the ropes

1143
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: and having to have other teams win, which, by the way,

1144
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: a lot of them were doing that for you and

1145
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: getting you right back into the picture. Was because you

1146
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: lost this guy for six weeks, you get him back.

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00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: I am running him until his tongue is on the ground,

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00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 1: like I am. I am running and running and running.

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00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: And they did it earlier in the game and it

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00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: was successful. That's the part that's so baffling. It made

1151
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: sense for them to continue to do it, and they didn't.

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00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: Seattle who Seattle played this week? Arizona. No San Francisco

1153
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: chats gonna make the playoffs. Sea. I think Seattle is

1154
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: gonna make the playof I don't know San Francisco on

1155
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: a roll now, Jimmy ge is gonna stream. San Francisco

1156
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: is on a role. That's true, they're playing well, but

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00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: they absolutely could. I mean Atlanta's gotta be a good

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00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: Carolina team and that I love what the NFL did

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00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: by not flexing a game. Agree to improve the drama

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00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: with all of that, so it should be an interesting

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00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: Sunday night game that they moved to. They didn't have

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Speaker 1: a night game on Week seventeen. They usually flex one,

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Speaker 1: but they decided not to because of in order for

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Speaker 1: all those games to be aromatic, they need to be

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Speaker 1: happening at the same time, and for a competitive balance too,

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Speaker 1: because what you didn't want is you didn't want to

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Speaker 1: get to that game. And now one of those teams

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Speaker 1: is in a situation where they need something Everything that

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00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 1: they needed to happen happen, and one right one can

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Speaker 1: play for it and the other one doesn't, and it

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Speaker 1: affects other games, right other teams getting That's what I

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Speaker 1: was thinking might happen if the Cowboys did win the game,

1173
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: they're playing Philly, and then you wonder, oh, I bet

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00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: Carolina has nothing to play for it because they can't

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Speaker 1: win the division. You go right, they wouldn't. They would

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Speaker 1: have flexed us if we had won. I bet you,

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Speaker 1: I bet. I'm starting to believe they would have taken

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00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: the gamble. So basically, you would have needed Carolina to

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Speaker 1: beat Atlanta in order for the Cowboys game to mean anything,

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Speaker 1: And I think they would have taken that gamble and

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00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: just been like, well, if we if we're wrong, this

1182
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: will still be a well rated game because it's the Cowboys.

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00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: And if we're right, then this will be a bonanza

1184
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: because it's a holiday and the Cowboys are playing for

1185
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: a chance to get into the play I think they

1186
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: looked at it and said just the opposite of that.

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Speaker 1: Like with the Cowboys out and the teams that actually

1188
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: have relevant games, we do better having those games all

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00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: played at the same time from a rating standpoint than

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00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: pushing one of the night and risking that it means

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00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: nothing and then trying to get people to sit down.

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Speaker 1: You talked about this the other day when the College

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00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: Football Playoff did this a few years ago and did

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00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: games on a z it tanked and so you now

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00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: put a bad matchup on a New Year's Eve night

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00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: makes it really really tough party watch Cooper Rush. Right,

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Speaker 1: So I think I think all things consider, I agree

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Speaker 1: with you, David. The Cowboys would have been still in it.

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Speaker 1: They probably would have flexed it. So they aren't. They

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00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 1: are not so back at nine NFC. Yeah. Hey, it'll

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00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: be dramatic in half the city's in the NFC, but

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Speaker 1: not Philadelphia. Yea, all right, we appreciate you guys joining us.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We're gonna give you a scouting report

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Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles. I think that may take a

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Speaker 1: few minutes and then we'll try to get to some questions.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys can can join us and uh and

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about your favorite team. The Dallas

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