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Speaker 6: This Tuesday, November nineteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, episode
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Speaker 6: Cowboys lost lose thirty four to ten at home against
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Speaker 2: Another game where in the first.
Speaker 6: Half you thought, well, maybe there's a chance, and then
Speaker 6: in the third quarter hits and lots of things happen.
Speaker 6: We'll talk about a lot of those things. I think
Speaker 6: we'll at some point in the show. We're certainly going
Speaker 6: to get to some of the coaching decisions that were
Speaker 6: made yesterday and just talk about that and see what
Speaker 6: you guys thoughts are there. Let's start where we always start,
Speaker 6: story of the game. For you guys, what was the story?
Speaker 8: Game?
Speaker 9: Will start with you, Nick oh Man, It's still complimentary football.
Speaker 10: For me.
Speaker 9: This offense is not helping the defense out at all.
Speaker 9: The defense bends and then the offense breaks, and it's
Speaker 9: handicapping this team. It's starting to make me appreciate Dak
Speaker 9: Prescott winning three games a little bit more just because
Speaker 9: without him, I mean, you're seeing lack of efficiency throughout.
Speaker 10: The entire offense.
Speaker 9: And on a day where Rico Daubdle regresses to two
Speaker 9: point eight yards per carry and the attempts go down
Speaker 9: and you have to lean on Cooper rush, you have
Speaker 9: to lean on the passing game, you don't find any consistency.
Speaker 9: And for me, the lack of consistency in the pass
Speaker 9: game was pushing the ball downfield. We saw him do
Speaker 9: it a couple of times in the second half whenever
Speaker 9: they started pressing. But overall, this offense is nowhere close
Speaker 9: to being an efficient offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't know whether to blame Mike McCarthy or say
Speaker 8: he's a genius all the same thought. Because we talked
Speaker 8: about the running game a lot, I'm gonna blame him
Speaker 8: for the fact that he's asking guys to do things
Speaker 8: they can't do. You're asking Ceedee Lamb on the first
Speaker 8: play of the game to block inside on a linebacker.
Speaker 8: Ceedee Lamb wants nothing to do with that. He wants
Speaker 8: nothing to do. You're asking a thirty five million dollar
Speaker 8: your best player on offense to go wham block a linebacker,
Speaker 8: gain to two. It happens more often than not with
Speaker 8: this scheme, and I wonder, Mike McCarthy, I'm blaming you
Speaker 8: for that, But I'm also blaming you for like, man, I.
Speaker 3: Can't run these plays anymore. I can't run the ball anymore.
Speaker 8: Because a lot of my stuff is set up with
Speaker 8: Now you have some guys that are willing to block.
Speaker 3: You have some receivers. By the way, Mingo, I would
Speaker 3: put him at tackle.
Speaker 10: He is your best blocking receiver.
Speaker 3: My man will crack people.
Speaker 2: He didn't put him at tackle. Let's go.
Speaker 8: He will crack people. He will block down, he will
Speaker 8: block on the edge. That is a mean man. That
Speaker 8: is a mean man playing football. And there were a
Speaker 8: couple of times or routes where he was actually opened
Speaker 8: and the ball didn't go his direction to the knicks
Speaker 8: point the offense. You watch it, there's no real rhyme
Speaker 8: or reason to it. Sometimes I can understand why Mike
Speaker 8: McCarthy doesn't want to run the.
Speaker 3: Ball, but I think it's his own fault. I think
Speaker 3: he's asked.
Speaker 8: It's hard to run the ball when you leave people unblocked,
Speaker 8: when you just say, hey, magically, that guy's not going
Speaker 8: to be there when we run this play, and then
Speaker 8: all of a sudden, magically the linebacker shows up in
Speaker 8: the whole gain of zero, gain of two, gain of one.
Speaker 8: Because you don't block everybody on the play. Yeah, you
Speaker 8: got to make some people miss and stuff, but you
Speaker 8: just can't let people. Now they time a safety blitz.
Speaker 8: It's a negative play. Okay, that's just chest right there.
Speaker 8: Chess match boom. They brought up blitz, you know.
Speaker 3: But like I say, Mike.
Speaker 8: McCarthy, we complain about your running game, and you say, well,
Speaker 8: you know, we get behind.
Speaker 3: We can't. I want to do it more.
Speaker 8: They need to figure out they kind of got They
Speaker 8: got to figure out how to block everybody. And like
Speaker 8: I said, that first play of the game. It just
Speaker 8: was so evident to me why they don't run the ball.
Speaker 8: And it happened throughout this game when guys don't get
Speaker 8: picked up and you're asking your best offensive weapon to
Speaker 8: go in there and crack on a linebacker and you
Speaker 8: could see he clearly is like.
Speaker 3: I'm going and I'm not gonna go.
Speaker 8: And then that linebacker steps up and and Rico Duell
Speaker 8: gets hit for a two yard game where the rest
Speaker 8: of the play is blocked beautifully, beautifully get.
Speaker 3: That one block. You got it?
Speaker 8: Maybe an eight nine yard game happens a lot. It
Speaker 8: happens a lot, and I understand why they don't run
Speaker 8: the ball because they're asking their guys to do things
Speaker 8: that they can't do, and they can't go back to
Speaker 8: it because they see it one time and they're like, man,
Speaker 8: that didn't work the first time.
Speaker 3: I can't go back to that. And that's part of
Speaker 3: the game plan.
Speaker 2: I want to say.
Speaker 6: Last week, there was a situation where I want to
Speaker 6: say it was Tolbert, but one of the receivers they
Speaker 6: put in motion and he's like lead blocking and it's
Speaker 6: like that's not gonna work. No, you put a receiver
Speaker 6: one of these receivers, particularly a situation where they're having
Speaker 6: to lead block through a hole in the middle of
Speaker 6: the offense. Like there's just like that just doesn't you're
Speaker 6: sko for success?
Speaker 3: No, no, and there there does? You know?
Speaker 8: Ceedee Lamb is a tough guy, but you're asking him
Speaker 8: to go dig out a linebacker. Yeah, And I've seen
Speaker 8: scoon maker, hunter Lipke. I've seen guys that should be
Speaker 8: able to go do that, not get that job done,
Speaker 8: and you're asking him to go in there, you know,
Speaker 8: with a bad back and all that and code block
Speaker 8: on a guy. Okay, you get what you you get
Speaker 8: what you set up. And I think we're in a
Speaker 8: mode right now with this offense. They're asking some of
Speaker 8: these guys to do things. I'll tell you another thing.
Speaker 8: Where was where was Turpin in this game? It's a
Speaker 8: couple of opportunities. The big play they really watched the game,
Speaker 8: They didn't really cover him very well. His speed was bought.
Speaker 8: Was troubling to those guys.
Speaker 10: I saw stat yesterday.
Speaker 9: Obviously that big touchdown sixty four yards, Well, yeah, that
Speaker 9: that was certain.
Speaker 6: That was the big thing fast since twenty two, I
Speaker 6: want to say twenty twenty.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it was obviously it was a slant. Do
Speaker 9: you want to guess how many slants Cavante Turpin has
Speaker 9: run this year? That was his second slant run all
Speaker 9: year for the fastest guy on your team.
Speaker 10: Yeah, two slants.
Speaker 3: Caught him, caught him in, caught him in perfect coverage.
Speaker 8: They if you watch the play, they're a cover too,
Speaker 8: and they rotate it to go single high. So they
Speaker 8: at the snap they dropped this. They dropped the right
Speaker 8: safety down and the other safety comes to the middle
Speaker 8: and he runs away from the safety. So here's the
Speaker 8: safety coming down. Give Mic and them credit for this,
Speaker 8: or Cooper Rush or somebody. Turpin, the you know, safety
Speaker 8: comes down, he runs to where the safety was, Ball's there,
Speaker 8: and now it's a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just you're not gonna catch him when he's
Speaker 2: even with you.
Speaker 10: No, he destroyed Jeff Akuta off the line too.
Speaker 8: And yes, but you know he's he's he gets you know,
Speaker 8: he's gets just that many targets and you're throwing the
Speaker 8: you know, span Ford's got more targets.
Speaker 3: You know, guys like that and and and nothing to
Speaker 3: get spanned Ford.
Speaker 10: But I'm just saying, go ahead, tell us how you
Speaker 10: really feel.
Speaker 8: Heyd Let me tell you what real quick, if I
Speaker 8: could just real quick, gayg you know, then I think
Speaker 8: that the interception, and this is maybe a reckless speculation
Speaker 8: on my part, that that uh you're tied in Ferguson
Speaker 8: came out after the interception. He might have run the
Speaker 8: wrong route concussed on the interception. I think he took
Speaker 8: his man into where they were throwing the slant because
Speaker 8: of where the collision where uh where uh lamb wran
Speaker 8: it was rented and and his and you see you
Speaker 8: see Ferguson running out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you think he defend after on
Speaker 2: the sidelines, you.
Speaker 8: See Linda Wells is like, you know, trying to explain something,
Speaker 8: and then we didn't see him the rest of the game.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean that might be better actually got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean he might have got it, but then he
Speaker 8: was but he didn't play after that and was maybe
Speaker 8: he was disoriented.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I'm that's probably reckless to my part, but it looked
Speaker 8: like to me, the way the route designed the combination,
Speaker 8: that they got something wrong there which allowed which got
Speaker 8: lamp picked.
Speaker 3: Off by the flat route. Yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's something that probably need to dig into
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just feel like you don't know your players,
Speaker 5: Like I like, you don't really know.
Speaker 11: Who your players are. And I hate it's weird.
Speaker 5: I hate saying this because who the heck am I
Speaker 5: to be saying this when they're the ones out there
Speaker 5: with the players every single day. But watching the game
Speaker 5: sometimes and like you just questioned some of the positions
Speaker 5: that they put their own players in and you're like, wait,
Speaker 5: that doesn't make sense or why'd you do that?
Speaker 11: Or why didn't you do that? So it's just confusing.
Speaker 5: And with the play calling, and we've talked about it
Speaker 5: all along, but again it's a combination of play calling
Speaker 5: and bad execution. It comes to the players too, where
Speaker 5: they just can't I mean some of those throws that
Speaker 5: Cooper Rush was throwing, You're like, what the heck?
Speaker 11: We know you can do better than that. What are
Speaker 11: you doing? And I know, heading into this game, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 11: I know what we've got. You know, I'm not expecting
Speaker 11: much at this point.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, I can't help but still
Speaker 5: get frustrated when you see yourself having a chance, and
Speaker 5: you're so close, and you're like, Okay, you're in the game.
Speaker 5: A lot of other things are working in your favor
Speaker 5: when it comes down to you. A lot of those
Speaker 5: penalties you got away with, so with having so many
Speaker 5: extra chances, but you still couldn't do anything from it.
Speaker 5: So that's the frustrating part. And when you see how
Speaker 5: the defense is playing, and I'm seeing the score here
Speaker 5: on the TV right now, the final I mean like
Speaker 5: that score doesn't truly illustrate what happened in the game,
Speaker 5: which is the story of the season. Like every score
Speaker 5: of every game doesn't really tell the story of how
Speaker 5: the game was and how many times you actually did
Speaker 5: have a chance, but you just cannot for the life
Speaker 5: of you. I don't even know the Americans saying here,
Speaker 5: but you're gonna.
Speaker 10: It was a Spanish saying, you just can't do.
Speaker 5: Anything offensively to score those points. And then I'm like,
Speaker 5: we have seven games left. Are you gonna have enough
Speaker 5: players to play games? At this point? They just keep
Speaker 5: dropping and dropping, and the injury list just keeps getting
Speaker 5: longer and longer. And you see how much that affected
Speaker 5: the offensive line. When two of your guys came out
Speaker 5: of there, and you're like, oh, my gosh, so I
Speaker 5: it's concerning knowing that you are about to play another
Speaker 5: game and then quickly turn around for Thanksgiving. So that's
Speaker 5: another area of the game that you're just like, how
Speaker 5: are you gonna be able to manage to keep playing
Speaker 5: these games at this rate?
Speaker 9: I think you made a really good point in there,
Speaker 9: and I give credit to the people who taught me
Speaker 9: the game very early on, and this is something that's
Speaker 9: kind of stapled in my brain. One of the top
Speaker 9: responsibilities as a play caller KYP know your personnel, know
Speaker 9: what your guys do best, and put them in positions
Speaker 9: to play to their strengths. Having seen Crack a linebacker
Speaker 9: not handling stunts well, and so you throw in a
Speaker 9: guy like TJ. Bass was not handled stunts well, my
Speaker 9: first guy would have been brock Hoffman in there at
Speaker 9: right guard.
Speaker 10: Personally, But that's that's very minuscule.
Speaker 9: I'm just saying, from top to bottom, it doesn't feel
Speaker 9: like either side of the ball really knows their personnel
Speaker 9: to the best right now.
Speaker 5: And also, how come we didn't see tree Lance like
Speaker 5: that's confused? That was confusing to me, especially how the
Speaker 5: previous game against the Eagles, how they played that and
Speaker 5: they threw him in there, and then this game you
Speaker 5: don't use him at all. And it's just like, okay,
Speaker 5: when you would think, my opinion, when you get guys
Speaker 5: on the offensive line that started coming out and you
Speaker 5: see that Cooper Bush will not run. I mean, he
Speaker 5: had a couple of times that he tried to, but
Speaker 5: he he doesn't have that in his game to run
Speaker 5: and escape. Throw somebody out there that can actually run
Speaker 5: and run for his life.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Actually that's where honestly, if you look at it, and
Speaker 6: I know, Brian, you and I talked last week about
Speaker 6: the the know, hey, do you just flip this into
Speaker 6: a college kind of offense. I don't know that they're
Speaker 6: going to do that, but I'll tell you where. I
Speaker 6: do think they missed an opportunity if you're at fourth
Speaker 6: and two. First of all, I disagree with the decision
Speaker 6: to go for it there. I think when you got
Speaker 6: a team a compromise game, right, when you got a
Speaker 6: team miscompromise, you keep them in the game. That's that's
Speaker 6: priority number one. So you take the three points. There's
Speaker 6: no question about it in my mind. But if you're
Speaker 6: just want to be aggressive and you're like, we're going
Speaker 6: to go for it and fourth and two.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing where I'm like, if.
Speaker 6: You're crea, I know, I know, But if you're creative enough,
Speaker 6: you had you've had two weeks now to figure out
Speaker 6: I got a fourth and two situation. If I can
Speaker 6: use Trey Lance out there, this is a great situation
Speaker 6: fourth and two. I can show them something a little different,
Speaker 6: something that's not on tape. What can I do with
Speaker 6: Trey Lance that I can't do with Cooper Rush? That
Speaker 6: can pick up two yards for me to extend this play.
Speaker 6: That's where I'm like, you missed an opportunity, and it
Speaker 6: shows me that that you're not thinking creatively enough to
Speaker 6: be able to take advantage of this guy's skill set
Speaker 6: in situations where you can use it. It doesn't mean
Speaker 6: you got to give him a whole series because Mike
Speaker 6: talked after the game and said, you know, I really
Speaker 6: wanted to get him a series.
Speaker 2: You don't need to get him a series.
Speaker 6: There were opportunities in that game rate when you could
Speaker 6: have put it out there for a play, because in
Speaker 6: that play, in that situation, the defense would be like, Okay,
Speaker 6: this is different.
Speaker 2: This is something we haven't seen.
Speaker 6: How are we going to adapt? And if you're creative enough,
Speaker 6: you can draw up the right kind of play. Pick
Speaker 6: up two yards, bring him right back off the field,
Speaker 6: put Cooper in, try to see if you can convert
Speaker 6: your touchdown.
Speaker 2: So that's where I have more of a problem with
Speaker 2: not using Trey Lance.
Speaker 6: It wasn't so much about getting making him the starter
Speaker 6: or playing him a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think it were opportunities.
Speaker 6: Where you should have been able to come up with
Speaker 6: something creative, a creative way to use him and to
Speaker 6: be able to help this team win.
Speaker 9: That's that's another point of just knowing your personnel. I
Speaker 9: think if Trey Lance is in the situation there, then
Speaker 9: you're not cutting off half the field on a Cooper
Speaker 9: rush rollout to the right. I just there was so
Speaker 9: many things about that play call that I just completely hated.
Speaker 9: But is an opportunity for this team seven games remaining.
Speaker 9: They might not know their personnel right now, but they
Speaker 9: can learn their personnel and it'll give them a lot
Speaker 9: of clarity this offseason whenever they have to ask these
Speaker 9: important questions. They have seven games to answer those questions
Speaker 9: right now. I think It's an opportunity for this team
Speaker 9: that you know some contenders might not have, because if
Speaker 9: you're contending for a playoff spot, you want to have
Speaker 9: the best chance at winning. I say, right now, you
Speaker 9: throw all fifty three guys on the field, give them
Speaker 9: legitimate playing time.
Speaker 10: Over the course of the next seven find out.
Speaker 3: Figure out what everybody played in that game betray Lance.
Speaker 3: Figure everybody that dressed. Everybody that dressed played betray Lance.
Speaker 9: See he was the only one starting Josh Butler at
Speaker 9: outside corner, starting Israel mcwama slot, putting Ryan Flinoy at
Speaker 9: outside corner, giving him all those options. Bingo, Brevin span Ford,
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Speaker 9: what you have to know what you need.
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Speaker 2: Aber, we're right back to you as your question.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, I was just thinking here, I'm like, howdo
Speaker 5: you go from last year from what you had offensively
Speaker 5: last year to this and what you currently have with
Speaker 5: you No, Han, let me finish the question. Sorry with you,
Speaker 5: because he's still the same play caller right, and when
Speaker 5: you look at the players that you had, I mean nothing, Yes,
Speaker 5: you've had players that have changed, but nothing that's extremely drastically.
Speaker 5: If you look at the running backs you're running, you
Speaker 5: didn't have a great running game last year.
Speaker 3: Answer.
Speaker 8: You know exactly what his answer is about the baby
Speaker 8: go ahead offensive line.
Speaker 2: It's the offensive line.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's to me, it's so clear by the way,
Speaker 6: it's not just the personnel. It's the fact that the
Speaker 6: personnel you had last year is not playing well. They're
Speaker 6: not playing to the standard dat last year.
Speaker 2: And I am.
Speaker 6: Convinced, and I know this is going to probably this
Speaker 6: might get me in trouble, but I am just convinced
Speaker 6: something more has got to be going on with Zach.
Speaker 6: This is not Zach Martin. And I just look at
Speaker 6: him and I'm like, this is not the Zach Martin
Speaker 6: I know. And I don't know if there's more that
Speaker 6: he's dealing with. I don't know what's going on, but man,
Speaker 6: when he was down yesterday and Nick and I were
Speaker 6: looking at this when he went down the game, he
Speaker 6: was on that knee and you could just see him
Speaker 6: just like shaking his head no, And I'm like thinking,
Speaker 6: Nick was like, man, I don't know if we're going
Speaker 6: to see Zach Martin playing anymore at this point, Like,
Speaker 6: I don't know if this is just a breaking point.
Speaker 6: I just there's no I've not seen a player of
Speaker 6: his caliber. And when I say his caliber, I'm talking
Speaker 6: a clear Hall of Famer that's going to Hall of
Speaker 6: Fame probably first ballot. He's da caliber player. From the
Speaker 6: moment he showed up at the Cowboys, he has been stellar.
Speaker 6: To go from that to what we've seen from him
Speaker 6: this year, I just don't I don't know how you
Speaker 6: can make that make sense to me other than something
Speaker 6: else going on.
Speaker 9: I think he knows his body is catching up, Yeah,
Speaker 9: because whenever he talks at Ota is talking like, yeah,
Speaker 9: my body, my body, and this could be the last year,
Speaker 9: you know. And I think maybe we should have taken
Speaker 9: that a little bit more seriously, all of us, you know,
Speaker 9: I think. But it is sad to see because it's
Speaker 9: it's trending towards a situation where he's not going to
Speaker 9: get a full run at this thing and throughout his
Speaker 9: entire career. So I said it yesterday, like, if this
Speaker 9: is the end for Zach Martin, it's really sad to
Speaker 9: see it in this way.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 6: But I guess back to your point, Amber, when you
Speaker 6: look at the right tackle who's not playing as well
Speaker 6: as he played last year, you look at the right
Speaker 6: guard not playing as well as he did last year,
Speaker 6: the center position, which is brand new and having to
Speaker 6: adapt to the NFL, the left tackle position brand new
Speaker 6: having adapt to the NFL. And then as they were
Speaker 6: talking about I think I was Jerry talking about it
Speaker 6: this morning, talking about how because they have so much
Speaker 6: newness on the offensive line, it has affected their communication.
Speaker 6: So you factored that in to the fact that they're
Speaker 6: also not playing well. Everything else stems from that.
Speaker 2: If you can't.
Speaker 11: Puch a drastic regression.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's the regression happened on the offensive line.
Speaker 6: And when that happens, now the quarterback isn't this comfortable,
Speaker 6: so he's not passing as well.
Speaker 2: There is no running game.
Speaker 6: The receivers aren't able to get open because they don't
Speaker 6: have enough time because quarterbacks got to get the ball
Speaker 6: out quick. So it affects everything else on the offense.
Speaker 6: When the offensive line's not playing well.
Speaker 3: It could it could also be affected.
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy calling place yep, that he has no confidence,
Speaker 8: you know. I mean he could, they could talk about it.
Speaker 8: But it's also his responsibility, like Nick was talking about,
Speaker 8: to make sure that you do things that or that
Speaker 8: can help your personnel. Don't ask this group to do
Speaker 8: things that they can't do. And you know, maybe that's
Speaker 8: some of it right there, But I think I think McCarthy,
Speaker 8: if if you know, if at the at the end
Speaker 8: of this, you know, whatever it is, if it's this
Speaker 8: year or another year, I think if you asked him,
Speaker 8: he and you asked me, like, what really affected you
Speaker 8: the offensive line? Offensive line I just did. I had
Speaker 8: no confidence that I could call any plays. But I'm
Speaker 8: also pointing out, like I did earlier in that ran
Speaker 8: I went on that you're also asking your players to
Speaker 8: do things they probably aren't comfortable doing. Receivers, blocking inside online.
Speaker 8: You know they're not comfortable doing that. And if your
Speaker 8: plays are predicated on that, then you're you're.
Speaker 3: Doing the wrong thing. You're just doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 8: And if he doesn't have confidence in this offensive line,
Speaker 8: you know, he has a say in this. You know,
Speaker 8: head coaches, I've worked in this in this front office before.
Speaker 8: Head coaches have a say in what type of rosters
Speaker 8: they have, you know, they really do. Some take the
Speaker 8: opportunity of Bill Parcells takes the opportunity.
Speaker 3: Some don't.
Speaker 8: Dave Campbo really you know, Hey, whatever you guys want
Speaker 8: to do, let's you know, we'll do it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: So you know, head coaches can come in here and say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 8: let's play with young offensive linemen. Let's do this. But
Speaker 8: you also got to make sure that when things are
Speaker 8: not going well, that you try and find things like
Speaker 8: Nick was talking about, that they can do well. And
Speaker 8: I don't think they've done that. I don't think they've
Speaker 8: done that at all this season, to be honest with you.
Speaker 8: You know, you know they've switched out offensive line coaches.
Speaker 8: Has that made a difference. I mean, at right tackle
Speaker 8: doesn't like the same guy, you know, and you could
Speaker 8: talk about last year when he was coming off the
Speaker 8: injury and stuff, and you know it didn't even look
Speaker 8: like the same guy out there blocking right now, you know,
Speaker 8: and for sure the right guard doesn't look like the
Speaker 8: same guy.
Speaker 10: Ye let me ask you a question. For all three
Speaker 10: of you.
Speaker 9: Let's say you're picking number seven, number eight, and I'm
Speaker 9: not throwing any guys out in particular. But let's say
Speaker 9: you've got a left tackle sitting there that you believe
Speaker 9: in could.
Speaker 10: Start Day one. Are you taking that guy?
Speaker 2: Sign me up.
Speaker 10: I think I'm taking that guy.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 6: I heard you talking last night on the post game show, Brian,
Speaker 6: and you were mentioning like at this point where Dallas is, yea,
Speaker 6: take the best player that's available, with time to pick
Speaker 6: wherever you are.
Speaker 2: And I agree with.
Speaker 8: That in a lot in the first round, yeah, in
Speaker 8: the first round, yes, the mitigate the bus.
Speaker 2: Yes, So you want to get the best player possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, My prayer.
Speaker 6: Is that that's a tackle because the way I look
Speaker 6: at this is I think that again, if I think
Speaker 6: offensive line is my biggest problem, then there are probably
Speaker 6: two things I'm looking at. Number One, I need to
Speaker 6: get a tackle, and then I'll figure out what I'm
Speaker 6: gonna do with Guy, and i'lligure out what I'm going
Speaker 6: to do with Steele, figure out what.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do with Smith.
Speaker 6: I also need to talk about my offensive line coach,
Speaker 6: because I think that's another big piece to this thing
Speaker 6: that that has changed. And so everything, like you said, Amber,
Speaker 6: what's changed, that's another thing that changed that's changed. You
Speaker 6: gotta look at that and say, were we better coached
Speaker 6: last year on the offensive line than we are this year?
Speaker 2: Was that a part of at.
Speaker 8: Least a part of the players that's adapting to the coach.
Speaker 8: Maybe not being better coach, but are the players adapting
Speaker 8: to the new coach?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: So there's I think both those things have to be examined,
Speaker 6: and you might come up with answer either way on both.
Speaker 6: But my point is you got to examined both the
Speaker 6: personnel and the coaching when.
Speaker 2: It comes to the offensive line. So yes, I take
Speaker 2: a left tackle if he's there.
Speaker 5: It's interesting, though, because do I see them making that
Speaker 5: kind of decision.
Speaker 11: I don't know. I don't think I do.
Speaker 5: Why not, because there they've shown over the years that
Speaker 5: they're gonna stick to their guy, like the whoever they
Speaker 5: dropped like but not high is that?
Speaker 6: But let me be clear, I'm not saying they're going
Speaker 6: to get rid of Guidon no Nona. They're gonna look
Speaker 6: at Guiden to say maybe maybe he should be a
Speaker 6: right tackle because that's what he was in college, and
Speaker 6: we know there's a problem right now. Right tackle you
Speaker 6: kind of solve two things with one. So I think
Speaker 6: they still stick with their guy. They just kind of
Speaker 6: flipping around.
Speaker 8: Cap savings and stuff like that too, you know when
Speaker 8: you started jesting like that, I that's interesting because I
Speaker 8: know that I've seen a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Have you.
Speaker 8: Have you looked at a couple of tackles or what, Yeah,
Speaker 8: is the LSU tackle your best tackle?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: No, No, I think the Texas kid is. But I
Speaker 9: think he's a guard.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of think that that's why too.
Speaker 8: I mean, I I love the kid as a player,
Speaker 8: but you know, and police folks, don't get me wrong, I.
Speaker 3: Know l s U.
Speaker 2: That's when we're talking about Banks at Texas at Banks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, and so to me, I just
Speaker 8: kind of like, I'm just kind of curious. But if
Speaker 8: people were they were going to play Banks. I mean,
Speaker 8: I think he's a guard myself. So, but he's damn good,
Speaker 8: you know, he really really is. So the best tackle
Speaker 8: in this draft might not be the best player on
Speaker 8: your board. You know, maybe Carter the linebacker or the
Speaker 8: end from Penn State something like that. I just, like
Speaker 8: I said, I am, I am interested if I'm picking
Speaker 8: in the top ten. I did do everything in my
Speaker 8: power to eliminate mistake, just eliminate you know, just figure out, okay,
Speaker 8: because you're going to have you're going to have the
Speaker 8: you know, the whole basically the whole field to pick from.
Speaker 8: It's a lot different drafting players at twenty six and
Speaker 8: twenty seven than it is drafting players at five or six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really really is.
Speaker 2: Throughout the draft, like yeah, throughout the draft.
Speaker 3: It's just it just the draft kind of like flows
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like well that guy, yeah, that guy, Yeah, here
Speaker 8: we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: You know, that's when you're picking at the bottom of
Speaker 8: that board that it's a little bit of a different
Speaker 8: challenge for you to have to do. We've seen teams
Speaker 8: like what the trait did. The trait traded up to
Speaker 8: you to get that corner. You know, they're like, damn,
Speaker 8: there's that guy, let's go. You know, they see a
Speaker 8: player an opportunity to go get. But when you're picking
Speaker 8: in the top eight, it's a little bit clearer to
Speaker 8: you who you need to go take.
Speaker 3: So hopefully for the Cowboys that works out that way.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll see what happens when the draft comes around,
Speaker 5: because again, it's one of those things that yes, you're
Speaker 5: looking for the best player available regardless of position.
Speaker 3: To get there in general from Colorado.
Speaker 5: But it's like, are you are you still like, let's say,
Speaker 5: because you you can look anywhere and be like, yeah,
Speaker 5: we need a guy there. But heading into like again
Speaker 5: we're getting into draft talk here, but do you mentally
Speaker 5: are you sticking to a certain position group bringing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Can I flip that question back, like is there any
Speaker 6: position that you say has to be off limits? I
Speaker 6: look at him like, there's no position where you tell
Speaker 6: me if I can upgrade. I don't think can be
Speaker 6: upgraded at this point or for strategic reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kicker, he did miss the forty yard.
Speaker 3: The plant foot got jacked. Yeah, it gets plant foot.
Speaker 3: It's funny and it's been him left.
Speaker 6: I lost Fantasy by one point one points last night,
Speaker 6: and I have Brandon So when they took that five
Speaker 6: point sixty seven yard field goal off the board, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that hurt man hurt more than one reason.
Speaker 2: That hurt really tough. And he missed the forty yard.
Speaker 2: Yeah that hurt me. I hurt real bad.
Speaker 9: I did a not to continue draft talk here, but
Speaker 9: I did a mock draft last night.
Speaker 10: It I'll circle it back.
Speaker 2: I'm probably doing mock drafts already.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I am, I am, yeah, I'm at that point.
Speaker 2: You're addicted your own story.
Speaker 10: I did it on my own just you're dick. It
Speaker 10: was the first time, the first one November.
Speaker 3: It's the first one.
Speaker 2: Where were you picking?
Speaker 3: Where were you picking?
Speaker 10: Nine?
Speaker 2: Overall?
Speaker 9: Okay, the first three picks that I made or tackle,
Speaker 9: defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: Guard tackle, defensive tack.
Speaker 3: Take the Michigan take Graham?
Speaker 9: No, no, Dion Walker fell to the second round, second round?
Speaker 3: Really good?
Speaker 6: Are we still talking about drafting Michigan players? Did you
Speaker 6: just say that?
Speaker 10: Let me just draft Michigan safety later on?
Speaker 2: Are we still doing this?
Speaker 13: So?
Speaker 3: Let me let me, let me tell you, Let me
Speaker 3: tell you what man, this Graham, this kid, We're going
Speaker 3: to continue draft talk.
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna say this, so please please.
Speaker 3: It's a different.
Speaker 8: Scheme, am I right, it's a different scheme.
Speaker 2: It's different than what it was.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Martin Dale, he used to be at the DC
Speaker 8: and for the Ravens and then for the Giants. Yeah,
Speaker 8: he's the defensive coordinator at Michigan. Their defensive players don't
Speaker 8: play like the harrorball regime play they played differently. They
Speaker 8: play up the field, they attack, they play sideline.
Speaker 3: The sideline.
Speaker 8: They're not extend and look and look and go find
Speaker 8: the ball. They're actually quick off the ball. They try
Speaker 8: and be disruptive. They get up the field. When you
Speaker 8: watch Michigan play, and they actually have a tight end too.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty good player.
Speaker 8: But that's but don't think of like, oh, don't look
Speaker 8: at the helmet and then think it's the same scheme.
Speaker 8: It's a different scene. It's a different scheme. When you
Speaker 8: watch this player this he gets off the football. You
Speaker 8: know he's a tackle. Yeah when you talk, yeah, three
Speaker 8: hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 9: The reason I bring it up is because I think
Speaker 9: the root of these problems with this team start in
Speaker 9: the trenches and the spine of your defense. Yeah, you
Speaker 9: got you gotta figure out that offensive line and if
Speaker 9: it's moving two guys off of it next year, move
Speaker 9: two guys off of contracts, be damned.
Speaker 10: I think.
Speaker 9: I think at this point you have to figure out
Speaker 9: what you have again for these remaining seven games, so
Speaker 9: you can know what you need in the draft come
Speaker 9: that time. And I think the safety position is very
Speaker 9: much in line with the spine of that defense as well.
Speaker 8: I totally agree with you on that it's a good
Speaker 8: one in Georgia, But I don't know if i'd take
Speaker 8: him at nine.
Speaker 10: I don't think I would either, maybe like seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our final break.
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Speaker 2: We're back in the final segment of the Draft show.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys joining us.
Speaker 10: Straight. I have to stay straight.
Speaker 2: Christmas right so excited, like this time of the year.
Speaker 2: He gets so excited too. I built.
Speaker 8: I'm kind of hoping that Derek sends us to Green
Speaker 8: Bay for the draft this year.
Speaker 6: Hey man, you know something I was telling you can
Speaker 6: take you guys behind the scene. Like literally we started
Speaker 6: talking about the other day. We were talking about, Okay,
Speaker 6: so what are we doing how we're covering this.
Speaker 2: Scene is heading into the off season, and.
Speaker 6: I'm like, if we're top I don't know, top seven
Speaker 6: to eight pick, you know, we we might need to
Speaker 6: be sending more people to senior ball, more people to combine,
Speaker 6: more people to the draft itself. Because there is there
Speaker 6: is some excitement when you bring the last time when
Speaker 6: we when they drafted Zeke.
Speaker 2: Like, there was a lot of excitement around that.
Speaker 6: You do need to spend a little extra time, a
Speaker 6: little extra resources covering it's not just.
Speaker 3: The first pick.
Speaker 8: It's you're picking in you know, your your top talking
Speaker 8: about totally rebuilding your team.
Speaker 3: We able to talk him into if we.
Speaker 8: Get the first overall pick, we get the first overall pick,
Speaker 8: we're going to We're going to Green Bay.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 9: I don't think I can go to Green Bay, but
Speaker 9: I would like you, you guys go to Green Bay.
Speaker 9: I would love to see you guys go to Green Bay.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that your employer is not letting you go
Speaker 6: to Good Bay.
Speaker 10: Not necessarily there.
Speaker 3: When the kid gets picked.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but then the draft, well we'll get him on
Speaker 9: the Draft show first, but then the media.
Speaker 3: It's Derek. We're giving us on a Jerry's plane coming back.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're good.
Speaker 3: We'll be right with the kid.
Speaker 2: My abilities.
Speaker 3: A long time. Wow, you've survived a lot.
Speaker 10: Yes, this is off the rails.
Speaker 2: I love it, way off the rails.
Speaker 19: All right.
Speaker 2: We did have a couple more things I wanted to
Speaker 2: get to in this final segment.
Speaker 6: We didn't get a chance to hit a lot of
Speaker 6: different topics so well, some of them later, But I
Speaker 6: did want to talk a little bit about a couple
Speaker 6: of the coaching decisions. Sure, and and I kind of
Speaker 6: teed it up a little bit in my thoughts on
Speaker 6: the fourth and two. I would love to hear your
Speaker 6: thoughts on, first of all, the decision to go forward
Speaker 6: on fourth and two. Well, first the decision to allow
Speaker 6: the penalty to take points off the board after you
Speaker 6: already hit the sixty four yard field goal. Then second
Speaker 6: to get to a fourth and make it Yeah, well
Speaker 6: it was that old Deacon Jones kind.
Speaker 3: Of Deacon Jones. Poor Steele was like, boom right, he
Speaker 3: got he got a club.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But then also it was and then the next decision
Speaker 6: fourth and to the decision to go forward and not
Speaker 6: take the field goal, and then obviously the play call
Speaker 6: and how it all ended up.
Speaker 2: So let's go across to say, what do you guys
Speaker 2: think about that whole sequence?
Speaker 9: I in the in the moment, shout out to Lawrence Stowe.
Speaker 9: He works with me out at the fours Artillery, and
Speaker 9: we were talking about it in the moment, specifically the
Speaker 9: fourth down and two. It's like, I'm taking the points here,
Speaker 9: and he asked a very good question. He was like,
Speaker 9: but do you think your offense is going to get
Speaker 9: back down here?
Speaker 3: That's that's the question you have to ask yourself.
Speaker 10: That's a good point.
Speaker 9: I was like, I still stuck with my original conclusion
Speaker 9: that they probably should have taken the points because it
Speaker 9: down to a one possession game. You can figure it
Speaker 9: out from there, maybe you find another big play. But
Speaker 9: he made a great point in being like, do you
Speaker 9: think your offense gets back down here?
Speaker 10: I'm like, oh, probably not. So I don't hate the
Speaker 10: decision to go for it. I really don't. I hate
Speaker 10: the play call because you.
Speaker 9: Roll Cooper rush out right, you cut off half the field,
Speaker 9: and then you muddy everything up on the right side
Speaker 9: of the field, and then you're going for a guy
Speaker 9: who just got signed to the team last week, and
Speaker 9: he didn't.
Speaker 10: There was a miscommunication there.
Speaker 9: There had to be, because a rush threw it completely
Speaker 9: out of the way of Mingo, so much so that
Speaker 9: it almost ended up in CD's hands on the back
Speaker 9: of the end zone. I just I hated the play caff,
Speaker 9: but I didn't hate the decision necessarily. I would have
Speaker 9: been cool with either decision.
Speaker 8: I like your colleague and what he said, you have
Speaker 8: to question whether they were going to get back down there.
Speaker 8: I would have made it a one score game myself,
Speaker 8: but I would have also in my back of my mind.
Speaker 8: I'm sicking. You maybe have to take the chance here,
Speaker 8: you know, you maybe have to try and get some
Speaker 8: momentum here. I don't like the play call at all.
Speaker 8: If you look at the tape, they Houston had three
Speaker 8: guys ever in two no chance, and then you know
Speaker 8: what happens is Rush can't set his feet. I mean
Speaker 8: he's moving, he's looking on the outside, outside, outside the
Speaker 8: whole time. And then Mingo comes on the break and
Speaker 8: he's he's open. But Skoomaker's gonna get called for holding.
Speaker 8: He tackles, he tackles Hunter, they call that.
Speaker 3: That was going to be. So what's gonna happen is that.
Speaker 8: You know if you even if you maybe the decision
Speaker 8: was if you score, it's going to be holding.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be backed up. Now you kick the extra
Speaker 3: or you kick the field goal.
Speaker 8: That's maybe that if you could have just scored, that
Speaker 8: could have maybe made the decision because you are going
Speaker 8: to get called for holding on the play. But I
Speaker 8: don't like the play call. I understand the decision because
Speaker 8: the offense just it it doesn't flow the way it
Speaker 8: needs to flow, and you don't know if you're going
Speaker 8: to have another chance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I absolutely hated the play call, but thus far
Speaker 5: as the decision is one of those things that either way,
Speaker 5: what had you kicked it for the field goal or
Speaker 5: did what you did, whichever one, you can still be
Speaker 5: criticized for it because when you look at it, I mean,
Speaker 5: what's two yards? Right? You feel like you can get that.
Speaker 5: But that's where I'm gonna go back to knowing your team,
Speaker 5: Like based on the history and everything that you've seen
Speaker 5: so far this season. I love that you have some
Speaker 5: kind of confidence in yourself here. But if you're the
Speaker 5: type of guy that look at statistics and you rely
Speaker 5: on all these numbers and trends and analytics, yeah you
Speaker 5: should have known. Somebody should have study in your ear.
Speaker 5: Hey buddy, we don't do well in these situations, so
Speaker 5: let's just kick it, kick for the field goal that
Speaker 5: you most likely will get the three points there. So
Speaker 5: it's just again I fall back into the whole thing
Speaker 5: of like knowing your team. You should know your team
Speaker 5: better or you should know that in that situation, it's
Speaker 5: most likely not gonna work out, and it will obviously,
Speaker 5: didn't I.
Speaker 8: Think, to be honest, that's what he's done all along,
Speaker 8: hasn't he that kicked so many field goals this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he he really doesn't trust, but then
Speaker 3: he trusts, Yeah, exactly, and then then you call that play.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But to me, that's just not the best. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's there's other ways to I think to attack that.
Speaker 3: It's just running, you know, putting Cooper Rush.
Speaker 8: On the move probably not a great idea, you know,
Speaker 8: as Nick says, Cluttering an area and trying to kind
Speaker 8: of sort that out.
Speaker 3: Probably not a good idea, you know.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's just to me, it's you're down there,
Speaker 8: maybe you go, what's your best two point play? What's
Speaker 8: the play if you're gonna throw the ball? Throw the
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh game. When he touchdown, play mesh mesh that thing
Speaker 8: and just and then hit, you know, try and give
Speaker 8: Cooper Rush the whole field to look at and not
Speaker 8: an eight yard little box, yep with extra defenders down
Speaker 8: in there.
Speaker 6: I just I look at it and I say, this
Speaker 6: is a team that, going into the game was compromised
Speaker 6: due to injury. And when you have a team like
Speaker 6: that and you're playing up against the team that that
Speaker 6: on paper looks to be much more talented because they
Speaker 6: don't have the level of injuries.
Speaker 2: That you do, and they got back a big player,
Speaker 2: So you're looking at it from that standpoint.
Speaker 6: My thought is you want to give your team as
Speaker 6: much reason to believe we still got a chance as
Speaker 6: possible for as long as possible, and you keep stringing
Speaker 6: that little game and hope that you get to the
Speaker 6: fourth quarter and it's like, here's our moment where we
Speaker 6: just go all in because we've kept ourselves in the game.
Speaker 6: He basically, in my opinion, made a decision that if,
Speaker 6: by the way, if you weren't compromised, if you had
Speaker 6: your quarterback back there and and everything's been flowing, your offense,
Speaker 6: is your offense fourth and two at the eight yard line,
Speaker 6: go for it, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's but that's not the situation. The situation, in my opinion.
Speaker 6: Dictating, you give yourself the three points and you say, okay, guys,
Speaker 6: that's a win. We got down to the eighth, we
Speaker 6: end up with three points, that's a win. Where within
Speaker 6: a score, let's keep playing football. And they were playing
Speaker 6: up to that point, they were playing equal football with
Speaker 6: them like they were playing football. So that's my thing
Speaker 6: is it's about again, would you guys say no, your
Speaker 6: personnel know the situation. I just think that was a
Speaker 6: bad call based upon the people that he had available
Speaker 6: to him in that game and where they were mentally.
Speaker 6: I'm a big believer in the idea of momentum, and
Speaker 6: not because momentum is some magical thing. I think it
Speaker 6: actually is about the chemicals in your brain. When good things,
Speaker 6: positive things happen, your brain responds a certain way. When
Speaker 6: negative things happen, your brain when you.
Speaker 5: See the finish I mean, I'm not a runner, but
Speaker 5: you are. When you see the finish one, you're like,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, yeah, you start running faster.
Speaker 6: A lot of a lot of it, you talk about running.
Speaker 6: A lot of the ability to do long distance running
Speaker 6: is about the mental.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get.
Speaker 6: You're gonna get to several points as you're running that
Speaker 6: race where your mind is going to say, you know,
Speaker 6: I don't know I can do this. I don't know
Speaker 6: if I your ability to be able to say this
Speaker 6: is good, I feel good and convince yourself I feel
Speaker 6: good even though you don't feel good. That's how you
Speaker 6: get through it, and that's how you actually exceed at it. Right,
Speaker 6: And it's no different with any other sport thing. The
Speaker 6: mental is a big part of it. So the moment
Speaker 6: you have something like that, when you've met you drive
Speaker 6: all the way down the field, you get to the
Speaker 6: eight yard line, and then you say we're going forward
Speaker 6: on fourth down.
Speaker 2: And then you come away from that empty handed. The
Speaker 2: mental of that starts to creep in. Man, I don't
Speaker 2: know if we're gonna be able to do this, And.
Speaker 6: When that starts to happen, it changes how you play it.
Speaker 6: Shange and by the way, the flip side happens, Houston says,
Speaker 6: they had all this opportunity, they got all the way
Speaker 6: down here, when we stopped them, they got nothing out
Speaker 6: of it. So I just I think in that situation
Speaker 6: the mental is just as important. And I think he
Speaker 6: didn't do himself. He didn't do his team any favors
Speaker 6: by going forward in that situation. And I think you
Speaker 6: could have got the same kind of positive moments out
Speaker 6: of that by just kicking.
Speaker 3: The field goal.
Speaker 9: That was the first of three things that happened in
Speaker 9: a five minute sequence. In my eyes, it was the
Speaker 9: last two minutes of the third quarter, first three minutes
Speaker 9: of the fourth quarter. It's three things in that sequence
Speaker 9: that wrote them off from there. So it's twenty to ten.
Speaker 9: When that happened, you could have cut it to one score.
Speaker 9: Let's say that they score, that's seven points you leave
Speaker 9: off the board. Houston gets the ball back, they drive
Speaker 9: down the field a little bit. They get to a
Speaker 9: third and one on their own thirty four yard line.
Speaker 9: And if y'all are all twenty two nerds, please go
Speaker 9: back and look at this play the fourteen forty one
Speaker 9: left in the fourth quarter. Yeah, it's a it's a
Speaker 9: third and one. It's a throw right to Tank Dell
Speaker 9: and C. J. Stroud throws at probably two yards behind.
Speaker 9: If you have Deron Bland, Yeah, that's not only a pick,
Speaker 9: that's a pick six. That's that is a pick six.
Speaker 9: But no discredit to Josh Butler. Josh Butler played well,
Speaker 9: especially being his first career start. But Deron Bland is
Speaker 9: looking back at that ball, he's taking it to the house.
Speaker 9: That's that's another seven points. And then on the ensuing
Speaker 9: Dallas drive is when the tyler got in, disaster happens,
Speaker 9: and that gives Houston seven. So that's a twenty one
Speaker 9: point swing man on a row on Mike McCarthy almost
Speaker 9: ripped them a new one in the press conference. I
Speaker 9: can only imagine what he actually said to him. But
Speaker 9: if you do go back on film and watch that
Speaker 9: Butler play, he walks off the sideline and Al Harris
Speaker 9: goes immediately to him. And I don't want to assume
Speaker 9: what people are saying on the sidelines because you can
Speaker 9: get muddy, but I can almost.
Speaker 10: Guarantee what he was saying in that situation. Look back
Speaker 10: at the ball.
Speaker 8: Well, it's funny because, like you say, the route Dell
Speaker 8: ran out. I mean, he's clear, but the ball was
Speaker 8: so poorly thrown. They gave Butler a chance to spin
Speaker 8: and get back to it, but the ball hitt him.
Speaker 10: I mean you never got back at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's right. If Blane catches it, that's going that's
Speaker 3: going the other way. That's such a poorly thrown pass. Yeah,
Speaker 3: on a third and one play to an open receiver.
Speaker 3: Yeah too.
Speaker 6: All right, I appreciate you guys. You want to We'll
Speaker 6: be back tomorrow. We'll do a little more deeper dive
Speaker 6: into some of these things. I think there were some
Speaker 6: topics that came up from yesterday's game that are worth
Speaker 6: talking at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about that. We'll be back tomorrow. Till then,
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