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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October twenty of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number forty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. I got Isaiah Stanback,
Speaker 1: I got Jesse Holly, I got Amber Garcia with me.
Speaker 1: It is day two of our mix up here, and
Speaker 1: these guys, I think they learned a lot yesterday about
Speaker 1: what it takes to make a really quality football podcast.
Speaker 1: They I mean, I got a lot of tweets saying
Speaker 1: how much better you guys have gotten in one show.
Speaker 1: I think, by think by next week, we're gonna send
Speaker 1: you back to your shows. And I expect some everybody's
Speaker 1: I really do. That's called leadership. I'm just coaching you up.
Speaker 1: I'm just cluching you up. All right, we got we
Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about today. We're gonna continue
Speaker 1: our big picture look at this team. Yesterday we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about the offense. Today we're gonna focus in
Speaker 1: a little bit more on the defense, and we'll have
Speaker 1: some some topics too on the overall team um as
Speaker 1: well today. But today we gotta first start with some
Speaker 1: news that came out yesterday, not the greatest news. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I want to bring it up because
Speaker 1: I'm one that, like a lot of times when it
Speaker 1: starts getting into who got arrested in this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm like, if it, if it affects the team and
Speaker 1: what's happening on the field, then we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: If not, I really don't care to talk about it.
Speaker 1: But the reason why I want to talk about demonte
Speaker 1: CAZy being arrested for a DWI, it's more from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of you, two guys as former as fleets, both
Speaker 1: played here at the Cowboys. My question for you, because
Speaker 1: I think the general public, speaking for myself and probably
Speaker 1: a lot of fans out there, you probably are like, man,
Speaker 1: like you know that to some degree, in the position
Speaker 1: that you're in, you're probably a target to some degree,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be looked at it with you know,
Speaker 1: with a lot of great things in your life comes
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibility. So you accept that as being
Speaker 1: a professional athlete, you got a responsibility to live up
Speaker 1: to that. Do you guys talk about or did you
Speaker 1: guys talk about that kind of stuff in the locker room,
Speaker 1: especially heading into a bye week, did you talk about, like, man,
Speaker 1: let's stay out of trouble. Let's make sure we're not
Speaker 1: putting ourselves in situations where we can end up being
Speaker 1: a headline for the wrong reason. Yeah, I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a real brief conversation. I don't know about
Speaker 1: locker rooms that you've been in Jesse, but it was
Speaker 1: a real brief conversation. It was more so, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: protect the team, be smart, and that was it. And
Speaker 1: that was pretty much extended a conversation. That's all that
Speaker 1: needed to be said because you knew that you needed
Speaker 1: to take care of your business. Go enjoy the off
Speaker 1: week or you know, really just a couple of days
Speaker 1: off really during or bye week. It's not a full
Speaker 1: week off, but I go enjoy your a couple of
Speaker 1: days off, you know, have fun, but be smart, right,
Speaker 1: stay off your legs, don't don't kill your legs, and
Speaker 1: don't make bad decisions. And that's really it. There's no
Speaker 1: sit down and let's pow wow. Hey, now, what are
Speaker 1: you about to do? What am I about to do?
Speaker 1: Just protect the team? Be smart. I brought show and
Speaker 1: Tell today. Okay for this very reason. You didn't. We
Speaker 1: didn't plan this or we did anything like this. But
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you the very last thing out of
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's mouth at the end of the team meeting
Speaker 1: whenever they broke was hey, guys, enjoy yourselves, take care
Speaker 1: of one another, stay out of trouble. I know for
Speaker 1: a fact. I know for a fact, and I have
Speaker 1: a zero I have a below zero tolerance for DUIs
Speaker 1: or dwis or whatever you want to call them. And
Speaker 1: here's why this Cowboys football team, we are not. People
Speaker 1: on Twitter drive me insane with the oh, well, you
Speaker 1: know it's just a d WI. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: did we forget We're not too far removed from a
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Josh Britt, in a duy situation
Speaker 1: where someone was killed. And it's always just a DWI
Speaker 1: until it's not. And the reason why I have a
Speaker 1: blow zero tolerance for dwise, we live in the era
Speaker 1: now where there's left, there's uber right that those are
Speaker 1: easy fixes. You know Brian Wansley, You know Brian Wansley,
Speaker 1: you know I know Brian Wansman. Amazing human being. His
Speaker 1: phone is always on at any point in time of
Speaker 1: the day to call him if you need something. Every
Speaker 1: NFL team in the country has a ride service. Every
Speaker 1: NFL team has it. You call them, they come and
Speaker 1: pick you up. Because it used to be the thing. Well,
Speaker 1: well I didn't want to leave him one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dolls a car somewhere. I get it, I understand it.
Speaker 1: They have it to where now they bring another driver
Speaker 1: to bring your car home. Here is my my NFL
Speaker 1: players cards, right, there's three of them. Okay, on the
Speaker 1: back of everyone. This is my NFL player card. This
Speaker 1: is my NFL player card. This is my NFL player card.
Speaker 1: On the back of each one of these cards. What
Speaker 1: does that say though it's crossed out, it says DUI
Speaker 1: crossed out On every single one of these players cards.
Speaker 1: It says d UI crossed out. There's a number that
Speaker 1: you can call on these cards that'll have someone come
Speaker 1: pick you up for free. No questions, ask, no no,
Speaker 1: no no distance, no matter what that will come and
Speaker 1: pick you up and bring you home. The NFL Players
Speaker 1: Association has it, Every NFL team has it. Every person
Speaker 1: on the every NFL team has a Brian Wansley. Pick
Speaker 1: up the damn phone, pick up the phone and make
Speaker 1: the phone call. But too far, too often we have
Speaker 1: these superhuman thoughts in our feelings that you know what,
Speaker 1: I can make it, and you know what, nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten sometimes you make it home. But what
Speaker 1: happens that one time you don't make it? And now
Speaker 1: someone's life, not only yours, but someone else's life can
Speaker 1: be impacted. And that's where I have a below zero
Speaker 1: tolerance for dwis because you have every not only do
Speaker 1: you make a god awful amount of money you're gonna
Speaker 1: do an old school yellow cab, but you have every
Speaker 1: opportunity in the world to get home safely. When it
Speaker 1: comes to this type of situation, I'm sorry. I have
Speaker 1: zero tolerance for any body in general, but especially professional
Speaker 1: athletes who get d wis. It is a necessary, it
Speaker 1: is completely avoidable. In anyone who just says, oh, it's
Speaker 1: just a d WI, it ain't that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: Shut up, shut up, because until you have been impacted
Speaker 1: by someone in your family or you being impacted by
Speaker 1: a drunk driver. Shut up. And for professional athletes, it
Speaker 1: is far too easy to get home safely or plan
Speaker 1: ahead or plan ahead, and for you not to do
Speaker 1: so is reckless. It is careless, it is selfish, It
Speaker 1: is unacceptable. And I have zero, below zero tolerance for
Speaker 1: anyone who gets you d d Wis and I had
Speaker 1: to go search for these because I wanted people to
Speaker 1: understand how easy it is make a phone call. You
Speaker 1: ain't gotta leave your car nothing, ye, And I am,
Speaker 1: by the way, I appreciate that and that that that's
Speaker 1: a good word right there. But I think in addition
Speaker 1: to that, I think the message here is whether you're
Speaker 1: a professional athlete or not, this is a serious thing,
Speaker 1: absolutely like, this is a serious thing that not only,
Speaker 1: as you said, not only can impact your life, it
Speaker 1: can impact your family's life and other people that you
Speaker 1: don't even know. And so I think the message that
Speaker 1: has to come from this is everyone should look at
Speaker 1: this as a cautionary tale. If you didn't, if you
Speaker 1: didn't get the message back when that happened with Josh Brent,
Speaker 1: then then you should, you know, you should just be
Speaker 1: paying attention like this is something that affects a lot
Speaker 1: of people. So the message here is, don't take the chance.
Speaker 1: Don't take the chance. Just go ahead if you feel
Speaker 1: like you've had a drink or two, Like I know
Speaker 1: for me and my wife, but we've gotten a point
Speaker 1: now we're like, if we're gonna have a drink or two,
Speaker 1: we're ubering. We're just ubering. It's not even a question.
Speaker 1: We're just ubering. And it's not even it's not even
Speaker 1: a thought, it's not even a second thought. It's just
Speaker 1: what we do. Because and I will I will say this,
Speaker 1: that's also about perspective and wisdom that you get sometimes
Speaker 1: from age. The older we've gotten, the more we realize,
Speaker 1: and this is a this isn't worth the chance because
Speaker 1: by the way, you could probably have two drinks and
Speaker 1: still be fine. For me, I'm just like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna take the chance the chance, right, So I think
Speaker 1: the message here for everybody is don't do that. If
Speaker 1: you if you're gonna have drinks, just playing ahead, as
Speaker 1: Isaiah says, and just and be prepared for that so
Speaker 1: you can do the right thing. And just getting a
Speaker 1: ride home, all right. So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move on. We're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about this Cowboys team. Got some big picture questions, questions
Speaker 1: we're gonna hit here. I want to start first with
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, and particularly I want
Speaker 1: to start with Michael Parsons, who coming into the year.
Speaker 1: I think we all after weeks one, two three, we
Speaker 1: were like, man, this dude is freaking amazing. And I
Speaker 1: think over the last few weeks, not that he hasn't
Speaker 1: been still playing at a high level, but some of
Speaker 1: that talk has kind of come back. My question becomes
Speaker 1: to you, guys, is where do you think he has
Speaker 1: a greater impact at linebacker or defensive end? Linebacker, linebacker
Speaker 1: all day long? The reason being, yes, people like to
Speaker 1: see the flash, people like to see the first round
Speaker 1: or get shown off right because he's a nice little
Speaker 1: little little, nice little ornament that's all nice and brand
Speaker 1: new and shiny. But the reality is when he's at
Speaker 1: even though he's effective, he's effective anywhere you can put
Speaker 1: the man at cornerback, he's gonna be effective. Even though
Speaker 1: he's effective at the defensive in position. What happened to
Speaker 1: a snap count? All right? He went with thirty eight snaps.
Speaker 1: I think thirty five thirty eight snaps. I think for
Speaker 1: those two games he was playing primarily defensive end, Right,
Speaker 1: But what happened when he goes a linebacker sixty five snaps? Right,
Speaker 1: So you're taking somebody's ability. Yeah, they can impact the
Speaker 1: game maybe two maybe three out of those thirty five
Speaker 1: snaps right when he's playing defensive end, But you're also
Speaker 1: subjecting him to getting chipped. What happened in the last
Speaker 1: time he played DN, he got his ribs hit. Right.
Speaker 1: He ain't been at that defense end position too much
Speaker 1: since then, Right, So you're you're you're putting him up.
Speaker 1: You're putting him in a position where they know where
Speaker 1: he's at, we can get to you. Right, you're playing Dan,
Speaker 1: You're going against one of our heaviest, more's, most biggest
Speaker 1: athletic guys on the team. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I can send a running back out to take a
Speaker 1: shot on your ribs on the way out. Right, So
Speaker 1: you're that's one thing that you do when you put
Speaker 1: him at defensive end, when you put him at linebacker,
Speaker 1: not only do you increase his snap counts by him
Speaker 1: being on the field more, he can affect the game more.
Speaker 1: He can also rush, he can drive back in coverage,
Speaker 1: he could play guys man man of running backs out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. So he can do a lot of things,
Speaker 1: multiple facet from the middle of the field that he
Speaker 1: can't do from the dfenc end position. And just even
Speaker 1: if you just looked at it, just basically off a
Speaker 1: snap counts, you want you're one of your most dominant
Speaker 1: guys to be on the field as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree with everything that he has said.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I would add, aside from him
Speaker 1: playing defensive end, I think that absolutely limits him and
Speaker 1: what he can do on the field. Like everything he
Speaker 1: just said, but also looking at position wise, that's an
Speaker 1: area where last year when I would watch film and
Speaker 1: you know Dayalen is no longer here and all that,
Speaker 1: but that was an area that the Cowboys were struggling
Speaker 1: at linebacker. And I know Layton Vanderah he has skills
Speaker 1: and everything, but sometimes he misses and so he needs
Speaker 1: to help. So the Cowboys do need a player with
Speaker 1: his set of skills to be right there at linebacker
Speaker 1: and do everything that he had. It just it's so
Speaker 1: impressive to me honestly. And he's very freshing to see
Speaker 1: a player like that come in right off the bat
Speaker 1: and show even when training camp, I mean rookie minicamp
Speaker 1: and all that was starting, I was still here and
Speaker 1: watching all that, everything that he was showing. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: where can I have a player position that he can
Speaker 1: do the best that he can and use every single
Speaker 1: talent that he has. So for sure, linebacker, defensive end,
Speaker 1: like he said, you can mix it in and he
Speaker 1: can still rush and be effective, but he doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be stuck at a single position. Yeah, a linebacker,
Speaker 1: he becomes any racer for this football team. He's able
Speaker 1: to do so many different things in the In the
Speaker 1: way that this league is evolving, you have running backs
Speaker 1: to a more versatile now. Right For every Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: that you have to worry about in the league, you
Speaker 1: have more of the Dalvin Cook type or the Gibson
Speaker 1: types or the Kamara types that that this league has
Speaker 1: evolved too. And Micah, he gives you the ability, like
Speaker 1: Isaiah was saying, to play coverage. He gives you the
Speaker 1: ability to uh play in between um uh you know,
Speaker 1: behind the behind the tackles and guards at the linebacker
Speaker 1: spot play tight end. So the versatility uh that he
Speaker 1: has at linebacker, you don't have that at at defensive end.
Speaker 1: And this Cowboys team. And when you go back and
Speaker 1: you watch the film earlier in the year when he
Speaker 1: had most of his success, he was playing backup offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He was playing against backup offensive lineman. So when he
Speaker 1: was rushing, he was playing against the number two guys,
Speaker 1: which when against the Chargers, they put him against the
Speaker 1: number one and they said was like, yeah, hey them go.
Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, your more experienced
Speaker 1: offensive tackles have seen all of the moves he hasn't
Speaker 1: developed and he had so all he has a speed
Speaker 1: power And if for experience offen tackles says speeding power, please,
Speaker 1: thank you. Come on, I'll take that all day. But
Speaker 1: I don't have to deal with speed, power, spin, shift,
Speaker 1: hands and all that out of stuff. And I think
Speaker 1: a linebacker his versatility just shines more and it gives
Speaker 1: you just a plethora of thing that you can do
Speaker 1: with him there, and he becomes ultimately your racer in
Speaker 1: the middle of the football field. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our first break when we come back we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a little about free agent signings. I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about Demonte Casey, Jyron, curse Keyan O'Neill,
Speaker 1: who's been the best free agent signing on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball for the Cowboys so far this season.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We'll come right back. This is
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Speaker 1: to the break Welcome back to second segment of the
Speaker 1: Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we're talking some Cowboys football here with you, guys, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the free agent signings. There were three specific
Speaker 1: defensive free agent signings that I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you guys can throw in another
Speaker 1: name if you think there's another name that should fit
Speaker 1: on this list. But what I wanted to find out
Speaker 1: is who do you think was the best free agent
Speaker 1: signing on the defensive side of the ball? Kzy Um
Speaker 1: Curse or Neil dan Quinn wasn't on the list. But
Speaker 1: none of those guys are here. Dan Quinn's not here
Speaker 1: right good like he is and by the way, he
Speaker 1: makes them look probably better than they would look otherwise.
Speaker 1: You got those three guys combined for a million dollars.
Speaker 1: Like think about that. Like we have been clamoring and
Speaker 1: begging and pleading for better safety play for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: since Ken Hamlin. Ye back when I was here. We
Speaker 1: were here two thousand and seven and eight shot um
Speaker 1: and dan Quinn comes in and he finds three guys,
Speaker 1: brings him in, fits him into the scheme that he wants,
Speaker 1: and they're thriving. And when you look at it, you're saying,
Speaker 1: we did all of this for a million dollars. Like that,
Speaker 1: that is the equivalent of value when you could get
Speaker 1: players to play at this productive level at that less
Speaker 1: of a price. That is bargain shopping at its best.
Speaker 1: That is thrift shopping. You going to the thrift store
Speaker 1: and you found something of value that no one else
Speaker 1: thought would be of value. And so yeah, and so
Speaker 1: for me to add the name to the list to
Speaker 1: it's dan Quinn, It's dan Quinn because we have been
Speaker 1: looking for something of this type of caliber and not
Speaker 1: only did we found one, we found three guys that
Speaker 1: now we're looking at saying, you know, well, how do
Speaker 1: we play them all? Look at this rotation we got.
Speaker 1: We got these guys all playing at a at a
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're all playing at Pro Bowl level,
Speaker 1: but we don't worry as much about the back end
Speaker 1: of this football team as we had in the past,
Speaker 1: And for me, the culprit behind that is dan Quinn
Speaker 1: coming in, seeing the vision, seeing those guys believing to
Speaker 1: get trusting it, bringing them in, giving them instruction and
Speaker 1: it worked, it flourishing and burd isaiah'na, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: y'all get give me a players. But I'm that's the
Speaker 1: right answer to the right It probably the easiest answer.
Speaker 1: Don't think I'll give me a play. No, I'm going
Speaker 1: I'm going with curse. I'm going with curse Um. Not
Speaker 1: only because he's been on the field the most really
Speaker 1: between him and Casey, but I feel like he's had
Speaker 1: the greatest impact. I feel like the position that he
Speaker 1: plays in the responsibility that he has to cover some
Speaker 1: of the biggest, most athletic guys on the field, and
Speaker 1: he's pretty much taking them out. We haven't had any
Speaker 1: tight ends go ham on us this year at all. Um.
Speaker 1: That's primarily because of him. The reason why this big
Speaker 1: nickel personnel has come about because of him, Um, and
Speaker 1: I think the versatility that he gives us to be
Speaker 1: able to not only cover in the box, but also
Speaker 1: be able to cover from the top down has been
Speaker 1: huge it's been huge. He's a large human being, right,
Speaker 1: they don't make him like that. He's only handful of
Speaker 1: dudes that are made that size. Right. You started hearing
Speaker 1: they've owner Sean Taylor, you know, just recently you got
Speaker 1: Cam Chancellor and you got you know, Curse. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys are six four two twenty plus. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not that many of them. So the athleticism that
Speaker 1: he provides with the freaking physical attributes he has is amazing,
Speaker 1: and it just provides a lot of options for dan
Speaker 1: Quinn and his whole defense. Well, I mean, he's the
Speaker 1: guy that has the most debts right now out of
Speaker 1: the players. But and I know you want a player,
Speaker 1: but I haven't been. I mean I've been watching the games,
Speaker 1: but not in like full on details how I usually do.
Speaker 1: So it's it's hard to answer. But going back to sorry,
Speaker 1: they're going back to dan Quinn. The thing that's impressive
Speaker 1: to me is that these guys, this free agent guy,
Speaker 1: they weren't anyone that was that. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, wow, yes, the Cowboys got this guy to
Speaker 1: play safety. It wasn't anything like that. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: these guys have some experience. All right, well, bring him in,
Speaker 1: can't hurt, but man, we still need to address that position.
Speaker 1: Let's wait until the draft. Than it wasn't so it
Speaker 1: wasn't like something that we were for sure comfortable with.
Speaker 1: So to me, that's the impressive part having and we've
Speaker 1: seen it even last year, having so many new players,
Speaker 1: it takes a while to get them playing well together,
Speaker 1: the chemistry put in the defense. We know very well
Speaker 1: how they struggled last year and they're so much confusion
Speaker 1: and everything, and even though these were veteran guys, it
Speaker 1: was still something that you know, the fact that they're
Speaker 1: playing that the way the way they are playing and
Speaker 1: not just in that area of the field, but also
Speaker 1: also a cornerback. And then you talked about the defensive line,
Speaker 1: which yes, they can be doing more, but it's just
Speaker 1: as a whole everything that dan Quinn has been able
Speaker 1: to do with everyone and the fact that we're not
Speaker 1: like saying, man, the safety position is absolutely killing us
Speaker 1: right now. It's it's just very impressive and there's no
Speaker 1: one really stands out to me, so they're kind of
Speaker 1: all kind of right there, but the fact that it's working,
Speaker 1: it's it's what's great, right now, All right, well, what's
Speaker 1: the next question. How can Dallas best improve its interior
Speaker 1: run defense? And I'll give you two options. You guys
Speaker 1: feel free to throw in something else if you think
Speaker 1: there's a better answer here. But I said at the
Speaker 1: return of gallimourn Hill that could be one thing that
Speaker 1: could help. The other one was better played by the linebackers,
Speaker 1: because I do think in this last game, specifically, especially
Speaker 1: early in the game, I saw a number of times
Speaker 1: where the holes that were created the linebackers just it
Speaker 1: was what we saw all last year from the linebackers. Basically,
Speaker 1: you take a false step and then you're out of position,
Speaker 1: you can't get off a block hole, and there you go,
Speaker 1: and then and then the run turns into something where
Speaker 1: the running back is now on your safety before you
Speaker 1: know it. So I do think that there's probably a
Speaker 1: little chance that the linebackers could play better here and
Speaker 1: help your run defense. What do you guys think it's
Speaker 1: the best way to improve the interior run defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: guys just have to play better. I mean, really, it's
Speaker 1: not I don't think it's necessarily a scheme thing. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what linebacker you got, you can put trigging
Speaker 1: bray Ray back there and anybody else. Bart's got anybody
Speaker 1: else you want to put it in the middle. If
Speaker 1: the offensive linemen get up to the second level, it's
Speaker 1: a wrap. Yeah. They're just bigger, larger, stronger humans. Right,
Speaker 1: It's just what it is. It's kind of like the
Speaker 1: Big Brother company just grabbing you, throwing you somewhere. You
Speaker 1: can't do anything about it, no matter how much you're
Speaker 1: getting paid. But the interior defensive linemen just have to
Speaker 1: continue to play better. And obviously what do you do there? Though?
Speaker 1: Because right now defensive tackle, we knew going into the
Speaker 1: seasoned defensive tackles an area that they probably could use
Speaker 1: some improvement. Um, I think they've had some play, Carlos Watkins,
Speaker 1: I think is played pretty well. Yea, all things considered,
Speaker 1: And you know, Bohan's a young guy, he's a big guy.
Speaker 1: But what do you think, just from a standpoint of
Speaker 1: the defensive tackles and their play, where can they be
Speaker 1: better there? I mean leverage? Right? Um? Leverage playing you know,
Speaker 1: playing half a man, trying not to get let these
Speaker 1: guys reach you. Um, that's I guess, you know, playing
Speaker 1: playing your gaps. But we don't know the schemes that
Speaker 1: they're playing, right, so I'm up speaking just in general terms. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know what their assignments are, but just trying
Speaker 1: to be more stout right and just trying not to
Speaker 1: get moved off the ball. There's a lot of different
Speaker 1: techniques those guys can can utilize to not get moved
Speaker 1: back to the second level. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we're missing our big boys. That's that's the
Speaker 1: real We're missing our big boys upfront. Our heavy hitters
Speaker 1: are not there right now. We have explosive guys, we
Speaker 1: have guys that can get some penetration, but when they
Speaker 1: actually want to come off to these other teams want
Speaker 1: to come off the ball and set their mind on
Speaker 1: running at us as a struggle. When you play teams
Speaker 1: like like like New England, you know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a struggle. When we play teams like like Minnesota, you know,
Speaker 1: as you look forward to the schedule, then you got
Speaker 1: the Broncos and Falcons. There's some teams that we're not
Speaker 1: going to worry about that being a predominant part of
Speaker 1: their game. But when you have teams that are built
Speaker 1: like the Patriots, Yeah, until you get your your your
Speaker 1: your your meat upfront, it's gonna be a struggle. Well, Jesse,
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this question. Can you fix that problem?
Speaker 1: Because even the guys you're asking that you're going to
Speaker 1: be expecting to return, they're not your big traditional one techniques,
Speaker 1: Like you don't have one of those. Are you going
Speaker 1: to improve this without having to go outside the organization?
Speaker 1: By the way doing that like who knows what's on
Speaker 1: the street at this point, But can you really improve
Speaker 1: that because you're not gonna get much bigger. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's the that's the difficult part. And you know, to
Speaker 1: use a term that that my guy, big Nate Newton
Speaker 1: always uses is big greasies. And you want you want
Speaker 1: to get big greasies in that middle, not necessarily to
Speaker 1: be game changing playmakers, just to eat up blocks. I
Speaker 1: just need you to commit two guys to me every
Speaker 1: single time, or have to have that second guy stay
Speaker 1: on me a little bit longer before he passes me
Speaker 1: off to go to the second level to get to
Speaker 1: the linebacker. Because when you talk about football being a
Speaker 1: game of inches, it is literally a game of inches.
Speaker 1: A linebacker, you take one false step the wrong way,
Speaker 1: that guard's up on you and now he has an
Speaker 1: angle or if you're not getting him off from just
Speaker 1: like we say you're not, you're not getting off of them,
Speaker 1: like yeah, he is. He is paid to grab you
Speaker 1: and moll you and like a pit pit yeah and
Speaker 1: yeah and it and the same thing when it comes
Speaker 1: to the big guys up front is if I have
Speaker 1: to make that guard stay on me just a tad
Speaker 1: bit longer. Now my linebacker has read his keys and
Speaker 1: is attacking. And if I'm attacking and you're still engaged,
Speaker 1: I win. And and some I mean, some of the
Speaker 1: greatest linebackers of our time had what great defensive big
Speaker 1: big And that's that's the only thing. And and and
Speaker 1: what you can hope for is when you get a
Speaker 1: guy's like Neville Gallimore company back, is that your rotation
Speaker 1: becomes better. Guys become fresher, stay fresher longer throughout the game,
Speaker 1: and you have more wins than you do losses up front.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing you can do at this point in time.
Speaker 1: Never got them more. Ain't getting twenty more pounds in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season, right Carter's Walkers ain't getting
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty more pounds in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: Some people maintaining you maintain. Yeah, you're trying to hold
Speaker 1: on or whatever weight that you have right now to
Speaker 1: maintain throughout the throughout this year. So it's it's given
Speaker 1: what you got and hope for the It's really hope
Speaker 1: for the best. It's given what you got and hope
Speaker 1: for the best. And hopefully you don't run into many
Speaker 1: teams like New England like that, and and the and
Speaker 1: the and the reality of it is you aren't. That's
Speaker 1: the reality of it. You are. Are they that much
Speaker 1: different from a personnel stand point or was it more scheme? Yes,
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint, it's both. I think he's having to skin
Speaker 1: the scheme for sure. I mean that's every coach, right.
Speaker 1: But when you look at somehow how these teams are built.
Speaker 1: Let's look at our schedule coming up here. We got
Speaker 1: the Vikings. They're going to run and crap out the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we better are they, because that's that's one thing
Speaker 1: I heard about New England. I'm not sure, but supposedly
Speaker 1: their offensive line was bigger. Yes, And so are you
Speaker 1: gonna face that similar type of big offensive line against
Speaker 1: Minnesota against other teams down and so I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1: It's it's all about it. So to your point, right,
Speaker 1: it's a scheme as well. Bro scheme not only just
Speaker 1: translates just from what the coach is saying to facilitate
Speaker 1: on the field. It goes back to the weight room, right,
Speaker 1: How how is your team built? Right? When I when
Speaker 1: I was when I was here in Dallas, we lifted right,
Speaker 1: but we lifted for explosion. When I went to New England,
Speaker 1: you know, we lifted like it was offseason, like big
Speaker 1: boy heavyweight, throughout the whole season. Why because that's how
Speaker 1: that's the type of team we wanted to have. We
Speaker 1: wanted to wear you down. When I went to Seattle,
Speaker 1: guess what it was all about, moving lightweight and moving
Speaker 1: it fast, right, just being fast, being fast. So that
Speaker 1: the scheme right, and how they want their team to
Speaker 1: the identity of their team, That's how everything's gonna translate.
Speaker 1: That's how your dietitian's gonna make your food, That's how
Speaker 1: your weight room's gonna do. All it goes. It goes
Speaker 1: all the way back to that in terms of how
Speaker 1: they want to approach this thing. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: games where you face teams that are built to have
Speaker 1: the advantage against you, and you got to find ways
Speaker 1: to make plays. Um, you know. But as we look forward,
Speaker 1: we're not going to worry about that. How we are
Speaker 1: in terms of speed and being an explosive, that's going
Speaker 1: to work to our advantage. But the majority of our
Speaker 1: opponents we have remaining on our schedule, Yeah, they must
Speaker 1: be on that fast thinking out program because I am
Speaker 1: most of these guys, like, I never really see them
Speaker 1: putting on weight, like usually they start, yeah, muscle wise,
Speaker 1: they'll start building muscle, but then trimming down. Like even
Speaker 1: with Tristan Hill, you know, he came in, you could
Speaker 1: see him a little weight and then he starts trimming down.
Speaker 1: So that's something I never even thought about. But I
Speaker 1: have noticed physically, you know, physical wise, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this year especially, we talked about this on the break.
Speaker 1: This year especially, you saw a lot of guys coming
Speaker 1: back a lot leaner than they've been before. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if that was what Harold Nash was trying
Speaker 1: to do with this team or those guys just specifically
Speaker 1: we're working with our own trainers to do it, but
Speaker 1: you definitely saw a difference in guys like Zeke and
Speaker 1: Dak like they came back much leaner than they've been
Speaker 1: in the past. It wasn't the big bulky, it was
Speaker 1: the league fast, very explosive, is what it looked like
Speaker 1: they were trying to achieve. And what most coaches will
Speaker 1: tell you as you begin to age in this league,
Speaker 1: you want to get light, right, you want to shed
Speaker 1: some of those pounds because it's a lot of harder
Speaker 1: to do that than trust me. I know, I trust
Speaker 1: me where we fight, we fight the battle every day. Um.
Speaker 1: But but also your body doesn't recovers faster. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you want to have that. You don't want to
Speaker 1: have to carry those extra pounds. And again, look at
Speaker 1: the way this league is going, Um, you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: need more explosion. You're gonna need more versatility, more athleticism.
Speaker 1: It's it's not the nineties Cowboys where Nates three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty pounds because he's going up against another guy
Speaker 1: who's three hundred twenty pounds and it's just just mauling
Speaker 1: big group type things. It is speed, more speed, and
Speaker 1: more speed. Like when you look at the combine numbers
Speaker 1: we used to we used to be like he ran
Speaker 1: a four three, Yeah, what what what now It's like, dudes, Now,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, Michael Partson ran a four
Speaker 1: three at two hundred and forty some pounds, fifty some
Speaker 1: pounds like I'm in at three hundred pounds of running
Speaker 1: five four seven four eight, You're like, wait what that
Speaker 1: was unheard of fifteen years ago. Now it's almost a norm.
Speaker 1: And so the only way that you can you can
Speaker 1: keep up with that kind of speed. Have you run
Speaker 1: a four four? Just go, just go. It's in the
Speaker 1: corner like like I remember throwing up and it was
Speaker 1: like that was like the number. Oh you gotta run
Speaker 1: a full four like that was the pinnacle of speed.
Speaker 1: Now it was like you run a full four as
Speaker 1: a receiver, it's like okay, like that ain't nothing special,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, that that dude average who's forty pounds heavery
Speaker 1: than you, Yeah he runs he runs a four to
Speaker 1: five nine Like you know, a four four nine. You'd
Speaker 1: be like, dang, I'm two fifteen, you know, two eighty five.
Speaker 1: But doesn't even get tricky once you start mixing that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm intally of being faster and lighter with inexperience and
Speaker 1: younger guys, you know, when they come in. I feel
Speaker 1: that it's it's a tough balance there because they don't
Speaker 1: have the experience, not necessarily the full on technique that
Speaker 1: they need that maybe having that extra weight kind of balance,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think there's also a
Speaker 1: difference between weight and strength. Like I don't want to
Speaker 1: confuse weight and strength, because I do think what happens
Speaker 1: and you see it all the time with guys going
Speaker 1: from their first year to the second year, Like you
Speaker 1: can see the difference, and they grow into their bodies
Speaker 1: and you could, yeah, you could tell that it's starting
Speaker 1: to get to that point where they're stronger. They might
Speaker 1: be lean, but they're very, very strong. And I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of the difference here is not necessarily weight,
Speaker 1: but but strength. No, I mean, that's that's a huge
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. I can give you
Speaker 1: guys an example when I've finishing up my career. I
Speaker 1: went to Jacksonville as a tight end and it was
Speaker 1: Mercedes Lewis and myself. No one asked me why how
Speaker 1: I got to tight end, but I was that's kind
Speaker 1: of like the Hernandez era, right when it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the two hundred forty two forty five pound tight end
Speaker 1: that could run and create mismatches against guys like Curse.
Speaker 1: So that was Mercedes. Lewis was the underlying guy. I
Speaker 1: was kind of the wing back. He's one of the
Speaker 1: league's best blocking tight end even probably to this day.
Speaker 1: Still he's amazing. You're still team He's ridiculous, right, But
Speaker 1: he knew leverage, he knew how to use his length
Speaker 1: and all those all his limbs to create movement. I
Speaker 1: was strong. I was stronger than he was in the
Speaker 1: weight room, right, And he would get frustrated with me
Speaker 1: because when I got on the field, I couldn't block
Speaker 1: these big dudes. While I was two hundred forty pounds,
Speaker 1: these are three hundred pounds, right. So I was strong, right,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have enough none, enough junk in the
Speaker 1: truth right, So to that point, you could be a
Speaker 1: strong man, you're stronger. I've seen you go ahead though
Speaker 1: I can't because I'm strong and weight room strong. But
Speaker 1: these boys are these are grown human beings, grown man
Speaker 1: strength right and there, and so to your point, right,
Speaker 1: it can be a disadvantage. But when your whole entire
Speaker 1: program is built off of it, and then you have
Speaker 1: these offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators, you know, special team's corners
Speaker 1: come in and put you in position to be successful
Speaker 1: based upon your skill sets. Now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that becomes an advantage. Now if they ask these guys
Speaker 1: to come in and play something and be something that
Speaker 1: they're not. Right. Two hundred and forty pound guy trying
Speaker 1: to go up there against two hundred and eighty five pounds,
Speaker 1: that's not that's just not. That's not gonna work. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna work. So we start talking about why it
Speaker 1: was New England so successful on the ground, Well, they're
Speaker 1: big upfront, and then oh, by the way, then they
Speaker 1: have they have four tight ends that are active every game.
Speaker 1: Then there they put three of them out there, and
Speaker 1: there's two of the best tight ends that happened to
Speaker 1: be in the league as of last year. And that's
Speaker 1: they're getting paid forty million, fifty million dollars for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why they were able to move us off the
Speaker 1: ball because they had two hundred and sixty pounds coming
Speaker 1: up and moving two hundred and thirty two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty pounds off the line. So that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's how this league works. It's all about mismatches. I
Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. Every team's not built the same, every
Speaker 1: team's not built the same. That's why we needed to
Speaker 1: get up on New England because they can't catch up
Speaker 1: right once they're up right. The reason why we didn't
Speaker 1: want the game to be closest because if it is close,
Speaker 1: and guess what New England could play New England ball
Speaker 1: right now? They can just run you down down the
Speaker 1: fieldgate chunky, Okay, who's gonna be chunky? Heavy player here?
Speaker 1: And then we got the strong, which job one. So
Speaker 1: you create that balance, you hit that will to play right,
Speaker 1: Let's go sometime. Can you give us some chucky? All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break. We're gonna come back
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna ask these guys a question. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask him, what's the biggest problem that you think would
Speaker 1: most concerned. You're going down on the stretch and here
Speaker 1: are the options I'm gonna give coaching decisions kicker run
Speaker 1: defense or red zone offense. We'll talk about that. We'll
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Speaker 1: the Break Welcome back to the final segment of The
Speaker 1: Break Life from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Here's my question for you guys, and I'm hopeful that
Speaker 1: this question is going to bring a very thoughtful answer
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of things here that I think
Speaker 1: people are talking about as potential gotchas as you go
Speaker 1: down the stretch. The question is what is the biggest
Speaker 1: problem that concerns you? In this second segment of the season,
Speaker 1: we heart coach talking about it. They broke it into
Speaker 1: three segments. You got six, six and then five games.
Speaker 1: In this second segment, would it be coaching decisions, would
Speaker 1: it be the kicker, Would it be run defense? Or
Speaker 1: would it be red zone offense? Can I throw another
Speaker 1: one in there? Sure? Absolutely, I think I might. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I said this are on a talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: But my concern is that when our guys come back,
Speaker 1: our guys gallup more Law, the injured guys, right, d Law,
Speaker 1: gallop right, all these got our guys, right, the guys
Speaker 1: that we expect to go out there and make big
Speaker 1: plays for us. Do our current guys that are out
Speaker 1: there doing well for us, do they do they back down?
Speaker 1: Do they go into the corner? Because we've all seen
Speaker 1: those guys right when you're when you're considered to be
Speaker 1: when you're number two when they call you up the
Speaker 1: number one and number one's out for a while. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, let's rock, right, let's go. I'm me again, right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it from college, or to do from
Speaker 1: earlier in my career. Let's ball, right, and the cats
Speaker 1: out there trying me, and then they become ballers again, right,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, you know, to your point, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that these guys get playing. I know
Speaker 1: these guys can ball, they just have been subjected to
Speaker 1: being a second tier guy. What happens when they're when
Speaker 1: the dogs come back, when the number ones come back
Speaker 1: and they get their thrown back. I've seen it two ways.
Speaker 1: I've seen it where guys that remain competitive and they
Speaker 1: pushed their starters and they make them create a rotation
Speaker 1: like we're talking about. Or I've seen guys kind of
Speaker 1: back down to kind of what you expected him to
Speaker 1: be in the first place, which is kind of just ah,
Speaker 1: he he's inconsistent, right, What players would concern you most
Speaker 1: because immediately when I started thinking about that, I'm like
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, they've already been in rotations
Speaker 1: even before those guys out, So it doesn't necessarily I
Speaker 1: don't think it would have. Like think about a Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 1: This shouldn't affect him much because he's been used to
Speaker 1: playing in a position where he's rotating osa defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: They put, they rotate, Like, what are the positions or
Speaker 1: players that you would be more for. I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: cornerback Kelvin Joseph hasn't touched the field. Yeah right, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about I'm thinking about cornerback position. I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: Enough Brown and Jay Lou What are they gonna do? Right?
Speaker 1: A Brown got himself a pick so far, but you know,
Speaker 1: is he gonna is he gonna be a starter still,
Speaker 1: Joseph's not ready though, I'm just I'm just saying. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying. I mean, I haven't talked to you about that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is Joseph Ray. I don't think I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's ready either, But I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: make those decisions up there either. You know, they took
Speaker 1: they took him pretty high, so he gonna play. He
Speaker 1: gonna so it does matter is he is he gonna
Speaker 1: replace those those five million dollar guys. They're both getting
Speaker 1: pay five Millie. You know so, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: question that you that you have to ask. You know,
Speaker 1: what happens there? What happens that the D line position happens?
Speaker 1: D line has a heck of a rotation going right now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you bring Hell back, you bring
Speaker 1: Gallimore back, you bring d Law back. Those are three
Speaker 1: bona fide starters. What happens to that rotation? Now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're different. I think we're different. Where in
Speaker 1: past times it would have been oh yeah, he comes back,
Speaker 1: he has to play, or we drafted him high, he
Speaker 1: has to play. I think we're different. I think this
Speaker 1: coaching staff, specifically on defense, I think we're different. I
Speaker 1: think it's you know what, Son, Yes, we drafted you high,
Speaker 1: but right now we roll them and maybe we'll get you,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll fit you in there, you know, but you
Speaker 1: haven't done anything that says you deserve that position. And
Speaker 1: I get your draft at us and maybe, well we'll
Speaker 1: attack this full goal next year and OTAs and mini
Speaker 1: camps and so on. The so fourth, I think in
Speaker 1: years past we would have been subjected to up. We
Speaker 1: drafted him eye, we gotta play him, no matter what.
Speaker 1: I personally just feel like it's different. And I think
Speaker 1: that so you think, do you think the culture in
Speaker 1: the in the front office has changed as well. I
Speaker 1: think that the guys who are putting these players on
Speaker 1: the field, the coaches and such, have earned enough say
Speaker 1: so with the way that things have gone this year,
Speaker 1: for whether it be one of the Joneses or someone
Speaker 1: that he'll go just trust me on this one, like
Speaker 1: like let let like I know that we drafted him
Speaker 1: in the second round and I get it, and he'll
Speaker 1: he'll be fine, and we'll get him right and we'll
Speaker 1: get him to a position where he's playing at a
Speaker 1: very high level. This is not feed but we're not
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, like you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll we'll work our way back in there,
Speaker 1: and we're working in there. We'll find spots for him
Speaker 1: to get him some confidence, to get him some playing time.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this is just a different set
Speaker 1: of circumstances and a different set of dudes who are
Speaker 1: who are called the shots, and you know, I hope
Speaker 1: they have that power and on the and on the
Speaker 1: same the same respect, I think I think dan Quinn
Speaker 1: has done a great job with and can have and
Speaker 1: you know this, I said, there are certain coaches who
Speaker 1: can come to you and have that man to man
Speaker 1: conversation and you respect those guys like I've always respected coaches.
Speaker 1: Just told me straight off, like don't don't we're too
Speaker 1: old fall that well, you know, just keep chipping away.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Dan Quinn is that kind of
Speaker 1: a guy. He's a Jersey dude. I'm a Jersey dude
Speaker 1: like we are. We are straight up dudes. And I
Speaker 1: think he has the conversation when you come in and say, listen, son,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Okay, you're a part of this football team,
Speaker 1: but right now we're going this and here's why we
Speaker 1: still want you to be engaged, you know. And once
Speaker 1: you have that real conversation man to man, I think
Speaker 1: many men accept that better and you'll get the same productivity.
Speaker 1: And Quinn will tell you like, hey, this doesn't mean
Speaker 1: stop competing, This doesn't mean we can't we can't use you,
Speaker 1: we don't need you, probably saying your expectations. Right, Hey,
Speaker 1: go out there every single day, every single practice and
Speaker 1: worked like you want to be the starter, or worked
Speaker 1: like you were before this guy, you know, came back
Speaker 1: from injury, and I think when you do that, you
Speaker 1: get guys to respect you more, and you get guys
Speaker 1: to go out there and give you a great How
Speaker 1: do you go about practice though, during the week when
Speaker 1: a guy like that comes back, for example, a veteran
Speaker 1: guy gets back ken, do you give them half the reps?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it from the standpoint of Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: Like he's trying to come back in and Jayron Curse
Speaker 1: has been playing his button. So what happens in that situation?
Speaker 1: What happens for Donovan? What happens for jay Ron? Like
Speaker 1: that's the question, right, Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've never really been in those conversations, but I don't
Speaker 1: and we only get to see a portion of practice,
Speaker 1: so I don't really know how they go about distributing
Speaker 1: in a scenario like is where these guys on the
Speaker 1: field are playing well and now you got these other
Speaker 1: veteran guys that you have been expecting them to be
Speaker 1: the starters come back in. I don't know how most
Speaker 1: teams is not this competitive, So it's this difficult when
Speaker 1: it's this competitive. When it's this competitive is very differently deep,
Speaker 1: Like this is a deep team. Relative to other teams
Speaker 1: in there. And it's a good problem, it's a great
Speaker 1: problem to have. And again, you you divvy those reps
Speaker 1: up and practice, you're saying, you know, you can say, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, listen, jay Ron, when we go team seven
Speaker 1: on seven, you're in uh uh de Wilson, when we
Speaker 1: go you know this team period, you're in. And then
Speaker 1: now you just kind of gauge it throughout the week
Speaker 1: about giving both of these guys reps and and this
Speaker 1: is what they pay the coaches the big bucks for this.
Speaker 1: This is this is a good problem to have, but
Speaker 1: this is your problem to figure out, and it's not
Speaker 1: always going to be an easy situation. And then it
Speaker 1: comes down to at the end of the day, what
Speaker 1: do you feel most comfortable with? Because when you're when
Speaker 1: you have to go to a game and coach, the
Speaker 1: last thing you want to go into a game doing
Speaker 1: is having uncertainty, because if you have uncertainty, there's no
Speaker 1: way you're calling a definitive football game. So most coaches,
Speaker 1: once they get to that threshold of Thursday is Friday,
Speaker 1: most definitely Saturday, here's what we're doing. I'm going here
Speaker 1: until something changes, and then next week we'll try it again,
Speaker 1: and then when I get to that Friday, that Thursday
Speaker 1: is Friday, most definitely Saturday. We're going here because my
Speaker 1: team and I need to know as a coach how
Speaker 1: I'm going to call this football game when we go
Speaker 1: out there and injuries happen and things happen, and to
Speaker 1: Isaiah's point, matchups, they may come a time when you're saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, Donovan is a much better fit for
Speaker 1: this matchup or this scheme that we're going this week
Speaker 1: than jay Ron. Jay Ron is a much better fit
Speaker 1: because we're playing a taller tight end, or they may
Speaker 1: have whatever it may be. So to have those options
Speaker 1: is a great thing. But that's why they played the
Speaker 1: coach the big bucks. Yeah, I can tell you I'm
Speaker 1: looking at these these snap as we're talking about matchups.
Speaker 1: J Ron week one sixty two percent of the snaps
Speaker 1: Week two ninety seven percent, per week four ninety seven percent,
Speaker 1: and then one hundred percent for five and six. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he probably by the way he's making the most of
Speaker 1: those reps. He is balling out. And to answer your
Speaker 1: question that you previously stated, it's a red zone, it's
Speaker 1: red zone because that has not only been one. You
Speaker 1: need to score in this league, and I've kind of
Speaker 1: almost unless there's an injury to Dak Prescott that prolongs
Speaker 1: him from coming back on the football field. I pretty
Speaker 1: much summed up this regular season, We're gonna win a division.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in this division said that we're not going
Speaker 1: to sweep this division. It maybe lose one game, we're
Speaker 1: gonna win a division. I start looking at playoffs. You
Speaker 1: play Arizona, Arizona, you better score touchdowns. You play Green Bay,
Speaker 1: You're better score touchdowns. You play Tampa, you're better score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You know, you play anybody in the NFC. Ye the
Speaker 1: best school touchdowns in the playoffs. And one of the
Speaker 1: problem that the Cowboys has had years and years and
Speaker 1: years and years has been red zone offense. So I
Speaker 1: think that's always going to be a concern for me.
Speaker 1: They were doing better earlier this year with the red
Speaker 1: zone situation. They kind of fell back a little bit
Speaker 1: with that. And say what you want about the calls
Speaker 1: in the red zone, whatever, you know, but that is
Speaker 1: going to be so important. We cannot we cannot kick
Speaker 1: field goals when you're talking about playing the really good
Speaker 1: football teams you'll get away within the regular season, get away.
Speaker 1: You'll get away when to get the Giants in Washington
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia and you know teams like that. You ain't
Speaker 1: getting away with that. Against Tampa back, you ain't getting
Speaker 1: away with that. Against the Ramp, you ain't getting away again.
Speaker 1: You know, even even sometimes against you know, a team
Speaker 1: like New Orleans. You never know what. You never know
Speaker 1: what jamis you might get. You might get bove touchdowns, right, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: you never know, right, you might get eating w Jamis.
Speaker 1: You might get twelve, you might get twelve new Kirk Cousins. Right,
Speaker 1: you might not get nighttime Kirk Cousins. You might get
Speaker 1: twelve new Kirk Cousins. So always getting in the red
Speaker 1: zone and being able to come away with touchdowns rather
Speaker 1: than field goals. All right, folks, that's a rap, real quick.
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