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Speaker 4: We are talking playoffs, folks.
Speaker 3: And normally I think a lot of people would be
Speaker 3: excited about that heading into the postseason.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 3: I was in Washington for this one, and it was
Speaker 3: a very deflated, very quiet locker room.
Speaker 4: Clarencehill and I were talking about it.
Speaker 3: Dak just seems stunned after Haley, I know you talked
Speaker 3: to at least one player in the locker room.
Speaker 4: What was sort of.
Speaker 3: Their reasoning for the epic collapse not on just one phase,
Speaker 3: but all three phases of the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they just went into this one kind
Speaker 6: of underestimating what that last game was going to look like.
Speaker 6: I think they really figured that their roster matched up
Speaker 6: better than Washington's roster, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: they were a little underprepared and as a result, they
Speaker 6: got smacked in the mouth really early and just never
Speaker 6: really found that rhythm. They never really found that bounce
Speaker 6: back period. But what I will say is I remember
Speaker 6: being in the locker room after the Jacksonville game, and
Speaker 6: I mean that loss probably hurt them more than any
Speaker 6: one of the season. You know, I think the Packers
Speaker 6: was very similar, but the Jacksonville one just felt like
Speaker 6: they were in a funk for a while, whereas today
Speaker 6: I felt like they were a lot more fresh, They
Speaker 6: were a lot more open to speaking. I know, I
Speaker 6: spent a lot of time talking to Jaron Curse you
Speaker 6: did as well. He had a lot of spring in
Speaker 6: his step, which is really important. I think he's become
Speaker 6: one of the big leaders on this team. So it
Speaker 6: was positive to know that they recognized that they didn't
Speaker 6: play their best ball. They identified why they hadn't played
Speaker 6: their best ball, and they're ready to put that in
Speaker 6: the past.
Speaker 4: And they feel really confident.
Speaker 6: I mean, jay Ron, even when I asked him, I said,
Speaker 6: where's your confidence level at after that game? And he goes,
Speaker 6: I'm thinking, I'm trying to think of a way that
Speaker 6: I can put this in the best way. I'm trying
Speaker 6: to think of the best number. But I can tell
Speaker 6: you it's.
Speaker 4: Over one hundred percent. So I mean, at the.
Speaker 6: Very least, they're feeling good.
Speaker 4: They're in a much better spirit.
Speaker 6: And again, as he pointed out, as we've pointed out,
Speaker 6: they haven't lost back to back games this season, so
Speaker 6: that gives me a little bit of confidence as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Haley, he said we didn't have a lot of
Speaker 3: time for woe is me, and that's true, And he
Speaker 3: also said that this is sort of an opportunity for
Speaker 3: everyone to reset, and I think all of us kind
Speaker 3: of do that, right, even we just did a lot
Speaker 3: of that, a lot of us at the new year.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really mean much that it turned from twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two to twenty twenty three, but sometimes you sort
Speaker 3: of need a mental reset to say today and moving
Speaker 3: forward is going to be different.
Speaker 4: So let's hope that's what the Cowboys do.
Speaker 3: But before we dive in, let's talk about the daunting
Speaker 3: task of overcoming and drawing a team like Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: That's why I thought trying to improve their seating was
Speaker 3: so important, because because I think it would have been
Speaker 3: better if they'd gone through the other bracket, right, because
Speaker 3: then you would have avoided going through Tom Brady. Tom
Speaker 3: Brady has seven to zero in his career against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: We've talked a lot about that this week leading up
Speaker 3: to the game. Most wins without a loss by any
Speaker 3: QB versus the Cowboys all time. Brady has never played
Speaker 3: the Cowboys in the postseason, but he's three to zero
Speaker 3: against Dak Prescott in his career. And this was another
Speaker 3: crazy little stat that we had earlier. Tom Brady since
Speaker 3: two thousand has eleven times more playoff appearances than the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: He has more playoff He has.
Speaker 3: As many playoff appearances thirty five as the Cowboys in
Speaker 3: their entire franchise history.
Speaker 4: So this is a guy that knows what the postseason
Speaker 4: looks like, how to win in the postseason.
Speaker 3: But you know we've been talking about this is a
Speaker 3: different Tom Brady this season. He's actually logging worst ever
Speaker 3: and a lot of statistical categories. I just still this
Speaker 3: is a guy I don't think you overestimate, underestimate. I
Speaker 3: think more importantly for the Cowboys, and I think they
Speaker 3: talked about this a little bit today, Mike McCarthy, this
Speaker 3: game is gonna come down to you. Less about trying
Speaker 3: to beat Tom Brady and more about not beating themselves.
Speaker 7: Yeah every week, yea, yeah, yeah, And I feel like
Speaker 7: they beat themselves with the same mistakes. You have the
Speaker 7: mental focus, the pre snap penalties, of course I bring
Speaker 7: that up, right, but you also have just it seems
Speaker 7: like the miscues and the miscommunication is something I always
Speaker 7: go back to. But it shows when they're all confused
Speaker 7: and schematically, nobody knows what's going on. Guys are missing
Speaker 7: their routes, nobody knows what they're doing. It's just so
Speaker 7: obvious when they are in their own heads and beating themselves.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, this is a what's interesting is
Speaker 7: is I started to deep dive into Tom Brady because
Speaker 7: specifically throughout this season, because it's very easy to get
Speaker 7: caught up in the historic tom Brady. Like you said, though, Jane,
Speaker 7: this is the first time he's going into the post
Speaker 7: season with a losing record in his career. So I
Speaker 7: got a little curious because all we keep hearing about
Speaker 7: is how this isn't the same Tom Brady. Well why
Speaker 7: is that? I started deep diving into all eighteen weeks
Speaker 7: of the season for the Bucks. The only trend I've
Speaker 7: noticed is this Bucks team will score in the second
Speaker 7: half of these games, so fourth quarter specific fourth quarter
Speaker 7: and the first time that they scored touchdown in the
Speaker 7: game in the second half. That was eight games, five
Speaker 7: of which that they won. They scored the first touchdown
Speaker 7: in seven games this season against any opponent, one being
Speaker 7: against the Cowboys, but they scored first four times that
Speaker 7: they won.
Speaker 8: So this is going to be a game of who
Speaker 8: can score first.
Speaker 7: And specifically, I'm not talking about kickers, because their kicker,
Speaker 7: he has had a season, he has been put to
Speaker 7: work time and time again. But I'm saying, you have
Speaker 7: to score touchdowns in this game. You have to be
Speaker 7: active in the red zone. You have to make sure
Speaker 7: that if you're the Cowboys and you get that possession
Speaker 7: first or whenever you get your first drive, you are
Speaker 7: scoring that touchdown, because that is going to start to
Speaker 7: help you slay that Tom Brady dragon early on.
Speaker 3: So you're saying ten to three and outs in a
Speaker 3: game is not with the Cowboys or Amy tom Brady.
Speaker 5: Please, no, no, you you brought up the point about them. Well,
Speaker 5: I've really been looking, like to you, I've been looking
Speaker 5: at their offense and just how different it was. It
Speaker 5: is from even at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 4: But really, when.
Speaker 5: They can play at the Cowboys because they run, they
Speaker 5: could run the ball. Their offensive line, just like the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: has taken a lot of hits, and I know they
Speaker 5: possibly are going to be getting some guys back here soon,
Speaker 5: but it's really their inability to take to run the
Speaker 5: ball puts a lot of pressure on their offense to
Speaker 5: have to pass. So coming into this game, I really
Speaker 5: feel like that's that's what they're gonna intend to do.
Speaker 5: And even so, even what they're passing, they're gonna try
Speaker 5: to do intermediate stuff. They're trying to get the ball
Speaker 5: out of his hand quickly because throwing down field is
Speaker 5: just not the most conducive because you don't want him
Speaker 5: getting lit up, so him don't like that.
Speaker 4: So uh, that's that's.
Speaker 5: Really what is different to me with this offense specifically
Speaker 5: now from the last time you played them, is that
Speaker 5: they ran the ball very easily for the most part,
Speaker 5: and you couldn't.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I mean that sounded terrible, didn't it, Barnacles, Yeah,
Speaker 4: not like this is very dramatic.
Speaker 5: Oh no, it was a bit to be dramatic, but no,
Speaker 5: you couldn't run the ball, well, you didn't run the
Speaker 5: ball because Ezekiel Elliot ran the ball fairly decently last night.
Speaker 5: I watched it last night and I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: and then it was just passing the ball, passing the ball,
Speaker 5: and then their linebackers told you they knew the plays
Speaker 5: that you could tell that all defense knew what was
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 4: I talked about this on our show earlier.
Speaker 3: To your point about the run game, they want to
Speaker 3: establish the run. They want to be a run first game,
Speaker 3: but they want to be able to run efficiently.
Speaker 4: And when you start seeing them move away.
Speaker 3: From the run game, it's because they're not being able
Speaker 3: to do it efficiently, and they're not being able to
Speaker 3: do it efficiently lately because of some of the offensive
Speaker 3: line shifts. And you know, sometimes we're watching the game,
Speaker 3: we're not really looking closely at chech, why things are collapse,
Speaker 3: why the pocket's collapsing, why the run game's not getting going,
Speaker 3: And as was it explained to me, not having Tyler
Speaker 3: Beyotdish there really is a problem because it's not just
Speaker 3: Tyler Beyotdish. When you've got to pull Tyler Beyodish out
Speaker 3: of the game, you're putting Connor McGovern in a position
Speaker 3: that he doesn't play that much. Then you're moving Chase
Speaker 3: Peter's to a position that he's barely played the season,
Speaker 3: and then you're asking your rookie to kick out, you know,
Speaker 3: kick inside rather to left guard, while Peters goes to
Speaker 3: left tackle. And so three different guys that are typically
Speaker 3: not on that line. It's their fourth offensive line combination
Speaker 3: this season. It creates a problem for communication. And then
Speaker 3: what they're noticing across the line is these last minute
Speaker 3: defensive line shifts. So they're showing you a look like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna rush through the B gap or the A gap,
Speaker 3: and then they're quickly changing it, and that offensive line
Speaker 3: in the runners can't adjust in time. And apparently that's
Speaker 3: been a problem a lot this season with some of
Speaker 3: the injuries. But I was told Tampa is particularly good
Speaker 3: at doing a defensive line shift at the last second.
Speaker 3: And then the linebackers for Washington were running right at
Speaker 3: the run back the running backs. I was told, the
Speaker 3: problem when you're dealing with Tampa Bay is these guys
Speaker 3: are really physical.
Speaker 4: They're really aggressive.
Speaker 3: So if you are aggressive as a running back, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get beat on some swim they'll swim move on you.
Speaker 4: And so that they're saying.
Speaker 3: You know, the message to the running backs this week
Speaker 3: is be patient, have a good base underneath you, anchor
Speaker 3: make sure it's all about the fundamentals. And I think
Speaker 3: all of us kind of think it's kind of a
Speaker 3: throwaway when they talk about it, simplify, get back to
Speaker 3: the fundamentals. But when they've lost games like the Packers game,
Speaker 3: we've talked about their response, remember it was after that
Speaker 3: we just got to get back to the fundamentals and
Speaker 3: then they laugh bad, right, yeah, And so it's a
Speaker 3: possibility to do it here because for the reasons we've
Speaker 3: talked about, Tom Brady is a bit of a boogeyman
Speaker 3: as it relates to the Cowboys, but he's also doing
Speaker 3: things he's never done before this season, things that have
Speaker 3: been uncharacteristic of him. And we were even kicking around
Speaker 3: on media mash, this might be one of the worst
Speaker 3: teams that Tom Brady oh has fielded.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and especially when you're talking in terms of
Speaker 7: the O line and the struggles they've faced this season,
Speaker 7: because what's interesting enough is this is going to be
Speaker 7: a game of.
Speaker 8: O line against O line.
Speaker 7: Really when you look at it specifically in that center position,
Speaker 7: because the Bucks are also struggling with their center and.
Speaker 8: What does that lead back to?
Speaker 7: That leads back to the miscommunication that you've seen even
Speaker 7: on the Cowboys the Balls, if you want to relate
Speaker 7: anything to that. Tyler Biaddish was great with the communication
Speaker 7: and that factor alone, taking that away that showed in
Speaker 7: the Washington game. But the Bucks are dealing with the
Speaker 7: same thing. I mean, Robert Hainsey also had an injury
Speaker 7: that uh, Todd Bowles is being very mischievous about, and
Speaker 7: that also brought up the question for Ryan Jensen, is
Speaker 7: he coming back? There's been a lot of speculation. What's
Speaker 7: gonna happen with that? Can he come off of IR?
Speaker 7: He has to do by the end of the week.
Speaker 7: So you're either going to be facing Ryan Jensen, who
Speaker 7: is coming out of this IR situation being expected to
Speaker 7: take all of these snaps in a full workload, or
Speaker 7: you're gonna be facing a third string center for the Bucks,
Speaker 7: which they don't really have other options. So to me,
Speaker 7: when I look at this whole game, it's going to
Speaker 7: come down to O line and O line specifically, which
Speaker 7: center can communicate.
Speaker 8: More and health the offense as a whole.
Speaker 3: All Right, well, let's go ahead and take our first
Speaker 3: break when we come back. We talked a little bit
Speaker 3: of some of the offensive line woes. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: some of the defensive challenges because in the last five
Speaker 3: games we are not seeing pressure upfront. And what you
Speaker 3: need to do with Tom Brady is make sure that
Speaker 3: he's feeling pressure in the pocket.
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Speaker 3: All right, guys, well we were sort of giving nobody
Speaker 3: wants to hear excuses.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of teams that are in the postseason that
Speaker 3: have had to overcome a number of injuries to their
Speaker 3: starters and certain players, and they've done so admirably. The
Speaker 3: Cowboys have had a number of injuries this season, specifically
Speaker 3: to key starting positions, and look at them. They're still
Speaker 3: twelve and five heading into the playoffs to face Tom
Speaker 3: Brady and hopefully survive in advance. But as much as
Speaker 3: we talked about the offensive line and some of their
Speaker 3: struggles defensively, we've seen a lot of rotating on the
Speaker 3: defensive line, particularly the interior defensive lineman. And as has
Speaker 3: explained to me, I said, why aren't we seeing more
Speaker 3: pressure on the quarterback lately? And I was told they're
Speaker 3: not cohesively rushing as a unit. And some of that
Speaker 3: is because of some of this interior line changes. Some
Speaker 3: of that is on the one hand, you're finding out
Speaker 3: who you've got and what they've got before you get
Speaker 3: into the playoffs. Okay, so dan Quinn's doing a little
Speaker 3: bit of a sample size there right. The other issue
Speaker 3: is you've had injuries, right, But as I was described
Speaker 3: to me, is when you've got these two interior defensive
Speaker 3: linemen pushing the unit and you're not rushing as a
Speaker 3: unit cohesively. You should be getting three to five steps.
Speaker 3: That's what these guys should be doing. And what you're
Speaker 3: doing is you are collapsing the pocket around the quarterback,
Speaker 3: getting pressure to them instead of giving them time. And
Speaker 3: so that's why in recent weeks we've seen Josh Dobbs
Speaker 3: and Sam Howe looks so good. Is they got a
Speaker 3: lot of time back there in the pocket. In the
Speaker 3: last five games, the Cowboys are giving up ten more
Speaker 3: points a game, and I think they they're averaging two
Speaker 3: point eight less sacks, and so I think that when
Speaker 3: you've got a guy like Tom Brady, this is the
Speaker 3: week you need the pass rush to step up. This
Speaker 3: is a guy who is going to hurt you with
Speaker 3: his arm, and so I just thought that that was
Speaker 3: really really interesting. We talked about the fact that Jonathan
Speaker 3: Hankins is going to come back. That's going to be huge.
Speaker 3: I think specifically when you consider you've got Leonard Fournette,
Speaker 3: who Leonard Fournette has not had a huge season.
Speaker 6: But when he's had moments, he's had moments had taken
Speaker 6: advantage correct.
Speaker 3: And I think it's also key that you're getting Layton
Speaker 3: vandresh back right and so they have been missing key pieces.
Speaker 3: And we'll get in the cornerback position to hear in
Speaker 3: a little bit. But when we're just talking about that
Speaker 3: sort of front seven, that's been one of the areas
Speaker 3: of concern. I used to know, you look at a
Speaker 3: lot of the tape, what are you seeing when you
Speaker 3: look at that defensive front and some of the struggles
Speaker 3: that they've had in recent weeks.
Speaker 5: Now you mentioned it, you hit on the head. We
Speaker 5: talked about it earlier this week. With the rotations sometimes
Speaker 5: you have with Dank trying to figure out what he
Speaker 5: has and what he doesn't have. He's been playing guys,
Speaker 5: some of the gentlemen you see playing DT. Some of
Speaker 5: them are better pass rushing, some of them are better
Speaker 5: you know, actually too gapping or whatever. And you so
Speaker 5: when he's doing these mixes and stuff, you have some
Speaker 5: guys doing things that they're not accustomed to doing or
Speaker 5: doing well. So with the injuries, you have to have
Speaker 5: guys fill in also too. You have to think about
Speaker 5: the amount of reps that guys are getting that they
Speaker 5: typically maybe wouldn't have beginning before. So I'm looking at
Speaker 5: obviously with them getting healthier, them having more flexibility there.
Speaker 5: But Mike McCarthy mentioned just how important Layton vander Rush
Speaker 5: is to this defense and he said something that totally
Speaker 5: I totally forgot about is that he is the green dot.
Speaker 4: And when he put in that put that in perspective
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 5: I thought about the fact he was like Malie Cooker
Speaker 5: and Jay Ron cursive had to, you know, take the
Speaker 5: green dot and when you look at even what's going
Speaker 5: on with the secondary, the idea of Layton being able
Speaker 5: to come in and man the front seven and the
Speaker 5: secondary being able to just be quarterbacked kind of as
Speaker 5: a unit again and not having a word those guys
Speaker 5: having to worry about what's going down in the box.
Speaker 5: I feel like that could also you know, you know,
Speaker 5: I guess pivot the conversation from how the defense is
Speaker 5: going to be defending the run and.
Speaker 3: Stuff, because it's tricky when you've got guys in the
Speaker 3: secondary that are having to come up front, set your
Speaker 3: defense and then run.
Speaker 4: Eric Weddle used to do it a lot for the Ravens.
Speaker 3: I remember talking to him about that they don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of guys doing that for a reason, and
Speaker 3: jay Ron Curst did a great job of it. But
Speaker 3: I think Mike McCarthy talked about, you know, Layton van
Speaker 3: Rush had a great season. I remember when they were
Speaker 3: sort of playing with Jaylen Smith wearing the green dot
Speaker 3: and then they would send it back to Layton Vandrush.
Speaker 3: But Layton does seem to have a really good handle
Speaker 3: on this group. I think jay Ron Curst did a
Speaker 3: great job. But I think it allows the flexibility. Because
Speaker 3: I was asking Mike McCarthy, I wasn't looking at it
Speaker 3: from that viewpoint. I was thinking it was just freeing
Speaker 3: up Micah Parsons to be able to have a little
Speaker 3: bit more freedom and flexibility to play him on the
Speaker 3: ball or off the ball. I didn't even think about
Speaker 3: how it allows some flexibility and you know, allowing guys
Speaker 3: like Jay Ron Curse and Malie Cooker focus on their
Speaker 3: assignment as versus getting the guys set yep.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, and just even with Malik just having you know,
Speaker 5: obviously with the cornerback two stuff, I know, just him
Speaker 5: being able to help out there and not have to
Speaker 5: worry about helping out in the box. But also to
Speaker 5: the cornerbacks, these young quarterbacks, to Ron bland nishearn Wright,
Speaker 5: those guys coming up and tackling and run support, I
Speaker 5: think is going to continue to help you. Especially with
Speaker 5: Hankins coming back and that size being there. It's going
Speaker 5: to allow your linebackers to be free and your DB's
Speaker 5: to be free and really try to contain these edges,
Speaker 5: which is what they got to do in this game
Speaker 5: because Leonard tore them up last time.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it'll be nice just to get that
Speaker 6: sense of normalcy back. I think that's really what's been
Speaker 6: missing over the last five weeks. You mentioned the offensive
Speaker 6: line being in four different combinations so far this season.
Speaker 6: I think that speaks to the defensive side of the
Speaker 6: ball as well. You've had to make a lot of adjustments.
Speaker 6: And I've said this for weeks now, you never know
Speaker 6: what you have until it's gone.
Speaker 4: Yep. And now how much do you appreciate some of
Speaker 4: these guys.
Speaker 6: Leyton Vandrest highly be honish like these any.
Speaker 4: Around yeah, tern still yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I think just from a mental standpoint with these players,
Speaker 6: I think you know the schematics, the details of.
Speaker 4: It, they've had it.
Speaker 6: It's just been difficult because they've been moving around, jumping
Speaker 6: from place to place, trying to adjust or maintain if
Speaker 6: you will. So I think not only do you get
Speaker 6: your leader back in Layton Vanderesh, but you just get
Speaker 6: that sense of normalcy, that comfortability back, and then you
Speaker 6: can kind of get you know, the question of well
Speaker 6: this is this defense still elite? Now you kind of
Speaker 6: see when it was elite, why it was, and now
Speaker 6: you get that back and you get an opportunity. I
Speaker 6: think you mix in the motivation factor of last year's
Speaker 6: playoff that they talk about but not so much talk about.
Speaker 6: You know, you get the motivation of starting the season
Speaker 6: with the Bucks and now they get to start the
Speaker 6: playoffs with the Bucks. I think there's just a lot
Speaker 6: of factors that go in that help from a confidence
Speaker 6: standpoint as well.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and that confidence is going to be more
Speaker 7: than important because you were just talking about Adisha. I'm
Speaker 7: giggling as I'm reading my notes because I swear sometimes
Speaker 7: we have the same exact things. Leonard Fournette Week one
Speaker 7: against the Cowboys, that was his best game, his only
Speaker 7: one hundred yard rushing game of the season. And you know,
Speaker 7: it's interesting when you see kind of how this Cowboys
Speaker 7: defense has to operate. They just have to go back
Speaker 7: to the basics. And you just said that, Jaden sounds easy, right,
Speaker 7: But you have to collapse that pocket, get in Tom
Speaker 7: Brady's face because you've seen time and time again when
Speaker 7: he has that pressure on him, that's when he is,
Speaker 7: you know, kind of on Tom.
Speaker 8: Brady like that.
Speaker 4: You get very frustrated.
Speaker 7: You've seen it more this season than I think you've
Speaker 7: ever seen in his career, and that's what people need
Speaker 7: to play on. That's what the Cowboys need to play on,
Speaker 7: is get him frustrated.
Speaker 8: And get in his face early.
Speaker 7: And what I really like to credit de Marcus Lawrence
Speaker 7: for is he puts his hands up and bats the
Speaker 7: ball down, and putting your hand in his face is
Speaker 7: going to be so important because the more you can
Speaker 7: do to mentally distract him and physically get in there,
Speaker 7: that is your key to starting early.
Speaker 8: Score.
Speaker 7: First, get in Tom Brady's face and again, yes, rush
Speaker 7: the edges, but also you have to collapse the pocket
Speaker 7: at all points.
Speaker 8: And you got a key in on that center position.
Speaker 7: You have to key in on that because right now,
Speaker 7: either way, yeah, I mean, I'm not saying Ryan Jensen's not.
Speaker 8: A great player. He is.
Speaker 7: I will absolutely give him that credit. But when he's
Speaker 7: coming off fresh and we've seen how Mike McCarthy handles
Speaker 7: a ramp but phase, there's a reason for that because
Speaker 7: expecting a player to come in and play all of
Speaker 7: these snaps all at once, you're not going to see
Speaker 7: the same player that you saw pre injury. So again,
Speaker 7: play on the weaknesses and the defense that d line
Speaker 7: needs to do their job. Get in the trenches, be physical,
Speaker 7: be quick because Tom Brady is going to try to
Speaker 7: expose that cornerback to situation very quickly.
Speaker 3: That's where I was going with this. I feel for
Speaker 3: dan Quinn because I feel like he's throwing. There was
Speaker 3: a I had to laugh. It was a meme on
Speaker 3: the internet and it was a brick wall and it
Speaker 3: was just throwing you know what at the wall to
Speaker 3: see if anything would stick.
Speaker 4: And that's what's felt like the cornerback position.
Speaker 3: I mean, so many people trash Anthony Brown, and so
Speaker 3: many people trashed Jordan Lewis. I got to put my
Speaker 3: hand up. There were times that I was critical of
Speaker 3: their play. I think what was key is they were
Speaker 3: so good about the eye discipline. Right, we've talked about
Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks. I think that's still what
Speaker 3: some of these young guys are struggling with. I caught
Speaker 3: up with in Sean Wright. He says he feels like
Speaker 3: he's playing better, and he is. But I think the
Speaker 3: addition of Xavier Roads, which I got to get right.
Speaker 3: I keep saying Xavier Woods, who was here in twenty
Speaker 3: seven days. Yeah, but Xavier Roads, you know, Jerry Jones
Speaker 3: alluded to it. I want to fight through the fan
Speaker 3: that we were going to see more of him. He
Speaker 3: got sort of acclimated over the weekend. They didn't have
Speaker 3: a real practice today, so they'll see more tomorrow. But you,
Speaker 3: as Sean said, not just similar from seeing t Y
Speaker 3: Hilton in the wide receiver's room and Jason Peters on
Speaker 3: the offensive line, Anthony Barr, you know with even some
Speaker 3: of the linebackers.
Speaker 4: Having a guy like Xavier Woods.
Speaker 3: You remember it was like all roads closed when he
Speaker 3: played for the Vikings. He just talked about his handle
Speaker 3: of the defense, his ability to talk to them.
Speaker 4: I think it helps, and I think that's It's a
Speaker 4: young team, and I.
Speaker 3: Think that's that's been great for them because I've covered
Speaker 3: teams where it was one of the oldest locker rooms
Speaker 3: in the league. But I think in some rooms they've
Speaker 3: been missing sort of that veteran presence, and so I
Speaker 3: love that they've been able to get some of these
Speaker 3: guys off the street to come in and help fortify
Speaker 3: that area. So I think you're going to see Xavier
Speaker 3: Woods play a lot, especially because he's got postseason experience.
Speaker 6: JK told me today that he was teammates with Rhodes
Speaker 6: up in Minnesota, and I said, what do you know
Speaker 6: about him?
Speaker 4: Like, how good is he going to do?
Speaker 6: Because we saw trayvon Mullins audition and maybe we need
Speaker 6: to look at some other auditions. And that's my favorite
Speaker 6: thing about jay Ron is like I can call to
Speaker 6: him keep it straight. He's in keep it straight with me.
Speaker 6: And I said, you know, obviously like he's new, he's
Speaker 6: still learning, but like, how do you feel about him
Speaker 6: coming in? He said, that's my boy, Like I have
Speaker 6: no doubt that he's going to come in and make
Speaker 6: an immediate impact. And so again it just goes back
Speaker 6: to that confidence standpoint that you have. I think when
Speaker 6: you have a young team, it's tricky because this is
Speaker 6: the first time that a lot of these guys are
Speaker 6: doing these things. You know, this will be the first
Speaker 6: time some of these young guys have played in the postseason.
Speaker 6: This is the first time that they played, really played
Speaker 6: against a Tom Brady, against a Bucks team that's been
Speaker 6: successful in the playoffs since twenty twenty when Tom Brady
Speaker 6: joined the team. And so you may not see, you know,
Speaker 6: all of the snaps go to rhads in this game,
Speaker 6: but you at least can feel confident knowing that you're
Speaker 6: getting a guy in here who's been there before who
Speaker 6: can come in and provide some relief when Nashan Wright
Speaker 6: maybe is it has missed or or kind of like
Speaker 6: we talked about yesterday, there's that confidence level of you know,
Speaker 6: like if he's not gonna settle in correctly or whatever
Speaker 6: it is. Now you have Exavier roads a guy that
Speaker 6: not only the coaching staff feels comfortable about, but the
Speaker 6: guys on the field also feel good having him come into.
Speaker 7: And what I like about having that veteran presence is
Speaker 7: the ability to diagnose things quickly, because I think that's
Speaker 7: been a very big issue for the defense as a whole,
Speaker 7: and that showed when Layton was gone specifically with that
Speaker 7: safety position who that was rough. But I think having
Speaker 7: Exavier helps diagnose things quicker and again gives those younger
Speaker 7: guys like Nashon Wright the ability to work with somebody
Speaker 7: who can help them accelerate that skill set a little
Speaker 7: bit more too, because that's so important as being able
Speaker 7: to read things quickly and diagnose it and act on it,
Speaker 7: and you know, not take that side step puts you
Speaker 7: off for one second, and then the play's gone, so
Speaker 7: I think that'll help a lot too.
Speaker 3: Well, we're going to take our second and final break here,
Speaker 3: but we come back. Ladies, I want to ask you
Speaker 3: this what concerns you more? As we start talking about
Speaker 3: the coaching carousel? You know, it was obviously black Monday
Speaker 3: and a lot of positions to fill this offseason in
Speaker 3: the NFL, both dan Quinn Kellen Moore getting opportunities to
Speaker 3: go interview for head coaching jobs. Who concerned you more
Speaker 3: the loss of Dan Quinn or Kellen Moore? Fans will
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Speaker 3: All right ahead of the break, I pose the question
Speaker 3: to you, ladies, what concerns you more as we start
Speaker 3: talking about coaches getting opportunities to go and interview for
Speaker 3: head coaching positions, which I believe is January.
Speaker 4: When is it right after the playoffs? Is when they
Speaker 4: can start having these conversations.
Speaker 3: So when you look at Dan Quinn, Kellen Moore, dan Quinn,
Speaker 3: obviously we're to have interest. I think what once again
Speaker 3: with the Broncos. I think maybe they should have probably
Speaker 3: hired him last time instead of Nathaniel Hackett, although I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people thought maybe Hackett could get
Speaker 3: Rogers there. You've also got Kellen Moore, that's it's been
Speaker 3: asked to go talk in Carolina? Who concerned you the
Speaker 3: most next season. This is just a hypothetical. What concerns
Speaker 3: you the most the loss of Dan Quinn or the
Speaker 3: loss of Kellen Moore?
Speaker 4: Who wants to go first?
Speaker 6: I think Dan, and I think Dan not just from
Speaker 6: what he does on the field when it comes to
Speaker 6: I mean we joked about it earlier with like just
Speaker 6: throwing everything including the kitchen seek to get the job done.
Speaker 6: But when you think about how coaches can impact players,
Speaker 6: I think if you were to go into that locker
Speaker 6: room and you were to pull the defense and you
Speaker 6: were to ask them that question, they would tell you
Speaker 6: how much Dan means to them. I've been talking about
Speaker 6: JK all day because I spent a good chunk of
Speaker 6: my time talking to him, But.
Speaker 4: That's one of the many players available by Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: one thing that he said today.
Speaker 6: They you know, he was asked that like if you
Speaker 6: if Dan were to leave, what would that mean to you?
Speaker 6: And he literally said, when I'm done playing, when this
Speaker 6: is all said and done, dan Quinn is going to
Speaker 6: be a guy who I remember, who I can attest
Speaker 6: my career too. And to me, that speaks louder than
Speaker 6: anything Dan has done on the field, because you know,
Speaker 6: and they say it all the time, like coaches don't
Speaker 6: do this for the money. They don't do this for
Speaker 6: you know, the impact on the field.
Speaker 4: It's building leaders off the field.
Speaker 6: I think that's one of the Cowboys six that Mike
Speaker 6: McCarthy always talks about. And I just think that the
Speaker 6: reason why this defense has been so successful, why it's
Speaker 6: been so resilient this year, is because of the impact
Speaker 6: and the leadership that he provides. Not to say that
Speaker 6: Kellen doesn't provide that same leadership, but unfortunately, I think
Speaker 6: Kellen has a tendency to be very coaches speak very
Speaker 6: to the point, very just this guy don't know how
Speaker 6: well he is connecting with his players in the way
Speaker 6: that Dan Quinn connects with his players. And I think
Speaker 6: that's why people are so interested in him being a
Speaker 6: head coach, because he can provide. Even when he was
Speaker 6: with the Falcons, he was providing that as well.
Speaker 8: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think when people think of Kellen Moore, for instance,
Speaker 3: a Carolina team, I think they're hoping they can find
Speaker 3: a Kevin O'Connell or a.
Speaker 4: Sean McVay or one of those guys.
Speaker 3: But I'm with you when I when I listened to
Speaker 3: the guys talk about Kellen Moore. It's with a lot
Speaker 3: of respect, there's a lot of love for him, and
Speaker 3: but that love stems from him being a guy that
Speaker 3: was in the room with them, right, Like, don't forget
Speaker 3: that Dak's first year, these two were in the quarterbacks
Speaker 3: room together and so and so.
Speaker 4: Zeke speaks of him highly in that way too.
Speaker 3: But what stood out to me was last year in OTAs,
Speaker 3: right when dan Quinn had gotten here, unprompted, the way
Speaker 3: these players would talk about dan Quinn. And obviously it
Speaker 3: was like night and day from Mike Nolan to d Q.
Speaker 3: But even today I caught up with to your point,
Speaker 3: Stephan Diggs, Stephan Diggs, Trayvon Diggs man, I'm having a
Speaker 3: day Trayvon Diggs and jay Ron Curse And what jay
Speaker 3: Ron Kurse said, piggybacking off what you said, he said
Speaker 3: he's brought a brotherhood to this locker room.
Speaker 4: And I said, is he a hugger? Is he a
Speaker 4: text or? He said he's both.
Speaker 3: And so that's the sort of stuff I think that
Speaker 3: really resonates with a lot of guys. But more importantly,
Speaker 3: as says, the way he believes in me. People can
Speaker 3: say they believe in you, but he goes but then
Speaker 3: he shows that to me, And I think that's huge,
Speaker 3: right because when I think of and I'll talk to
Speaker 3: both of you ladies, I didn't play sports in high school.
Speaker 4: I mean I played on the B team in golf.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: If my Peter Litt teacher qualifies as a motivating coach.
Speaker 3: But when you look at your coaches over the years, Haley,
Speaker 3: what was the coach that stood out to you and why?
Speaker 6: I think the coach that stood out to me most.
Speaker 4: Let me think I.
Speaker 6: Would probably have to say one of my assistant coaches
Speaker 6: at North Texas, Daniel Dobson, only because I was a
Speaker 6: grad transfer there. I feel like when you're a grad transfer,
Speaker 6: it's different because you're so much older and you know,
Speaker 6: you're just kind of there because you have eligibility left, usually.
Speaker 4: Especially in a sport like soccer.
Speaker 6: But Daniel really made me feel like a part of
Speaker 6: the team, like instantly, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 6: think he believed in me because You and T for
Speaker 6: those of you who don't know, like the soccer program
Speaker 6: at You and T is the best program at the school,
Speaker 6: and that's not even me saying that because I played
Speaker 6: on it. John Headlin has been there for thirty years
Speaker 6: and has yet to have a losing season. I think
Speaker 6: he's up to like nineteen or twenty conference championships in
Speaker 6: three different conferences.
Speaker 4: So it's a combetive program.
Speaker 6: And you know, like you don't just get playing time
Speaker 6: just because you're older. So from the very beginning, like
Speaker 6: he was very adamant about, you know, letting me know,
Speaker 6: like keep working like you're new, like just keep getting
Speaker 6: your minutes and then eventually work my way into the lineup.
Speaker 6: And even still he was very helpful in that regard.
Speaker 6: But I think that's why I have that attachment to
Speaker 6: dan Quinn in that relationship, because it does make a difference.
Speaker 6: You know, it does matter because you know, you're sure
Speaker 6: you're coaching football players, but they're people too, And we
Speaker 6: always say that on this like people and when you
Speaker 6: can tap into that people mentality, it makes such a difference.
Speaker 6: And that's the way you latch on because now you know,
Speaker 6: if I have a relationship with you, now I have
Speaker 6: an interest in you helping me because I can understand
Speaker 6: that you care about what I want to do and
Speaker 6: how I want to grow and what I want to be,
Speaker 6: and I can recognize that you want to help me
Speaker 6: get there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think when I look in that aspect too,
Speaker 7: I had a high school dance coach, Nate Nicole Gomez,
Speaker 7: and interestingly enough, her husband is a He works for
Speaker 7: the RAMS and in some way he's one of the
Speaker 7: RAMS coaches. But you know, talking about the people aspect
Speaker 7: of it, it's also it has nothing to do with
Speaker 7: the sport at some point, it's there are the times
Speaker 7: I remember with Nicole or times I was crying and
Speaker 7: having a bad day and.
Speaker 8: She knew without even me having to say a word.
Speaker 7: It was you know me on that level because you
Speaker 7: care to know me on that level, and that pushed
Speaker 7: me on days I didn't want to be a practice
Speaker 7: or days I didn't want to go and push myself
Speaker 7: to the fullest, to be like, Okay, well I have
Speaker 7: to do it for Nicole at least if there was
Speaker 7: nothing else to fall back on, it was I need
Speaker 7: to do it for that person. And so I think
Speaker 7: when you look at the relationship that dan Quinn has
Speaker 7: compared to Kellen Moore, with these guys, it's more of
Speaker 7: a family aspect and instead of the the you're my
Speaker 7: friend kind of situation. It's more of a I see
Speaker 7: dan Quinn as an uncle more than you know Kellen
Speaker 7: Moore's who's like a brother, which is is a weird comparison.
Speaker 4: Not about analogy, but it's it's.
Speaker 7: You have a different respect in that matter. So when
Speaker 7: I think of, you know, my uncle, I'll talk to
Speaker 7: him very differently than I talked to my brother. And
Speaker 7: it's I feel like that is kind of the comparison
Speaker 7: you have with them. And I think for dan Quinn,
Speaker 7: not only you know last year you saw the success
Speaker 7: he had with the defense and at the end of
Speaker 7: the season it was, oh, can he mirror that?
Speaker 8: Can he can he do that again?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And he did even better this season.
Speaker 7: There was better numbers than there was you know, his
Speaker 7: his first year. And I think something too that's very
Speaker 7: imperative to remember as far as the defense is, they're
Speaker 7: very young. This is a young defense that's very impressionable.
Speaker 7: So having dan Quinn here for the long haul and
Speaker 7: you know, moving forward is you get that dan Quinn
Speaker 7: stay mp on it. Kellen Moore's offense and the offense
Speaker 7: right now it's an older offense. You don't you have
Speaker 7: a couple of young guys. But for the most part,
Speaker 7: those guys are set and what they're set, and they're
Speaker 7: gonna play like they play already. That defense is very
Speaker 7: multiple and very shiftable right now. So that's what kind
Speaker 7: of worries me about losing dan Quinn.
Speaker 8: That's a good point.
Speaker 5: Another thing about dan Quinn, I remember when they first
Speaker 5: hired him, I was on it. I was immediately like yes,
Speaker 5: because I understood like what he when he when he
Speaker 5: got hired, what he.
Speaker 4: Was capable of.
Speaker 5: But I also noticed that there's connection through these locker rooms,
Speaker 5: Like through the locker room, like George Edwards he brought
Speaker 5: in I'm sure he had a part in bringing in
Speaker 5: j Ron Curse and even some of the guys that
Speaker 5: were drafted here, there's ties.
Speaker 3: To all the Viking guys. Think about it, Anthony bar
Speaker 3: and Savior Roads.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But even like even with some of the conversations
Speaker 5: with the draft, there's some guys that were like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I met him in high school, like on this roster
Speaker 5: right now, that knew him even before this time here.
Speaker 5: So when guys either and you're come play for you
Speaker 5: and really are like I want to come play in
Speaker 5: that program. We also too, we've seen him kind of
Speaker 5: in some ways revamp some guy's careers, you know, like said,
Speaker 5: we ragged on Anthony Brown all that time, but I
Speaker 5: mean I felt like his play improved just because of
Speaker 5: the level of coaching and the staff that they brought in,
Speaker 5: you know, behind him. But in regard to the question,
Speaker 5: I had a droll sergeant, my first drill sergeant.
Speaker 4: Her name was Droll sarn poland she's from Miami.
Speaker 5: She was no joke. And one thing that I see
Speaker 5: in dan Quinn that I saw in her was that
Speaker 5: she was not afraid to get out there and do
Speaker 5: it with you, and sometimes she would do it better
Speaker 5: than you. And I was a really big into pet
Speaker 5: physically fit and stuff.
Speaker 4: But she was fit.
Speaker 5: She was a purple heart, and she would outrun us.
Speaker 5: She would outdo everything with us. And when I would
Speaker 5: see her doing that, I wanted to compete. I wanted
Speaker 5: to compete. And that's something that this locker room is
Speaker 5: thrived off of.
Speaker 4: Bull in the ring and his Nie.
Speaker 5: Putting on helmet just to show people, show the players
Speaker 5: how you're going to be getting chipped. Those are the
Speaker 5: when you're superior or whoever is okay. With getting dirty
Speaker 5: with you and getting out there and showing you how
Speaker 5: it was done, you automatically gain a different respect for them.
Speaker 5: And that's something she did with me, and it made me,
Speaker 5: I felt, I know, it made me a better soldier
Speaker 5: because I wanted to be better than even what she was,
Speaker 5: and she expected that.
Speaker 3: He tried to make Mike McCarthy better in the off season, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he said he had put on some weight because of
Speaker 3: the stress that comes to the job.
Speaker 4: He had him in the boxing, you know, boxing and
Speaker 4: the off season. I'm with you, ladies, and where I
Speaker 4: find myself.
Speaker 3: And this is not to discredit what Kellen Moore has
Speaker 3: done here as an OC, because I mean, one of
Speaker 3: the top scoring offenses in the league the last few years, right,
Speaker 3: But I find myself wondering when I look at Dan
Speaker 3: Quinn and again no disrespect to Georgia Edwards or Joe Witt,
Speaker 3: who could be guys. I don't see them going outside,
Speaker 3: But I do wonder if Dan would take any of
Speaker 3: his guys with him going somewhere else. But if if
Speaker 3: George was here or if it was Joe Witt, and
Speaker 3: I would submit. I don't know Joe as well as
Speaker 3: I know the reputation of George Edwards. It was Harrison
Speaker 3: Smith who when I asked him at Pro Bowl a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago when dan Quinn George Edwards was
Speaker 3: coming here, he was like, oh my gosh, they're getting
Speaker 3: a great like. The adoration for George Edwards was off
Speaker 3: the chart. And even when Mike Nolan was struggling with
Speaker 3: that locker room Mike McCarthy's first year, it was rumored
Speaker 3: that George was going to get promoted because the guys
Speaker 3: really sort of looked to him. But I find myself
Speaker 3: wondering if these guys are going to be as motivated
Speaker 3: with a George Edwards or a Joe as we've.
Speaker 4: Seen with the dan Quinn.
Speaker 3: And so when I start looking at that, and then
Speaker 3: I think to myself, Okay, well who would they bring
Speaker 3: in for OC. I mean, there's guys that you can
Speaker 3: bring in from OC. And by the way, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 3: can also call place. I mean he didn't Green Bay.
Speaker 3: He said he didn't do it here because he found
Speaker 3: that it was better over the years to delegate, right.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what that dynamic would look like,
Speaker 3: but I do know that Jerry at least is worried
Speaker 3: enough about it that we all know. While that no
Speaker 3: one got a hold of the contract, there was something
Speaker 3: done for dan Quinn to make him stay here in
Speaker 3: Dallas so that he wouldn't go to the Broncos last season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has a I mean you saw his input
Speaker 5: on the draft. You saw like what he's what he's capable.
Speaker 5: I feel like these last couple of drafts especially have
Speaker 5: been you know, successful, and he.
Speaker 4: Just has a plan like that.
Speaker 5: That that was what was really dope about him too,
Speaker 5: is like when he first got hired.
Speaker 4: I remember him coming in.
Speaker 5: I could be mistaken, but Ota rookie Minicamp one hundred attendants.
Speaker 5: If I'm not mistaken, it was you could see just
Speaker 5: that we.
Speaker 4: Typically see that's track around here in Dallas.
Speaker 3: But I think more importantly it's the guys he's gotten
Speaker 3: off the street to come and play for Dallas. I mean,
Speaker 3: think how important guys like Malie Hooker, Jay Ron Curse
Speaker 3: have been. I mean even Tac McKinley. A lot of
Speaker 3: these guys came here because of dan Quinn.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and also, I mean you have to have a
Speaker 7: certain presence to you, and there's just some people in
Speaker 7: this world that they walk in a room and they
Speaker 7: have a presence and you feel it and you can
Speaker 7: see it. Dan Quinn doesn't demand presence. He's not the
Speaker 7: kind of guy that's look at me, do what I say.
Speaker 7: He walks in and hey, guys, how are you doing?
Speaker 7: Before any press conference, that's the first thing he asks,
Speaker 7: even just reporters, how are you doing?
Speaker 8: How are you feeling?
Speaker 7: And it's just this automatic respect you get from even
Speaker 7: talking to him one time. I mean, I always go
Speaker 7: back to this late in Vandresh interview that I saw
Speaker 7: during training camp where he was talking about somebody asked him,
Speaker 7: you know, how did you know Dan was the guy?
Speaker 8: He said, I talked to him for fifteen minutes and
Speaker 8: I knew.
Speaker 7: And sometimes people just have that presence to them, and
Speaker 7: dan Quinn is one of those guys that just has
Speaker 7: that factor.
Speaker 3: All right, So final question, and we've got three minutes
Speaker 3: to cover this, where we wrap this one up when
Speaker 3: we look at this game ahead on Monday, what area
Speaker 3: is most concerning to you.
Speaker 4: When it comes to beating Tampa and advancing?
Speaker 8: Why did you look it?
Speaker 5: I don't know, it just it stressed me out a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked a little bit about this yesterday. I
Speaker 6: don't know if it's so much of a concer for me,
Speaker 6: it's a question mark. I asked Mike McCarthy this today
Speaker 6: where Michael Gallup has been and so I'm very interested
Speaker 6: to see just how the wide receiver room kind of
Speaker 6: figures itself out a little bit. I mean, I think
Speaker 6: CD we've talked about how he's been finding his groove.
Speaker 4: I think that's great.
Speaker 6: I think t Y Hilton coming in has been beneficial.
Speaker 6: But Michael Gallup's targets over the week, in relation to
Speaker 6: his receptions and what he's been able to accomplish on
Speaker 6: the field, has just been like pis poor to be blank,
Speaker 6: And so I'm interested to see, you know, how they
Speaker 6: work him in. Mike told us today, Yeah, he's a
Speaker 6: super important part of our lineup. He's a super important
Speaker 6: part of our offense, and so I'm curious to see
Speaker 6: how they address that and if it really is important.
Speaker 4: I was saying this on media Mash.
Speaker 3: If you don't follow Brian Baldinger who works at my network,
Speaker 3: Baldy's breakdowns, he did.
Speaker 4: We've been talking about.
Speaker 3: Dax's interceptions this season, right and you know, chemistry with
Speaker 3: his receivers. But there was some concerning stuff on tape
Speaker 3: against Washington. Now they've got a really dynamic front seven,
Speaker 3: great defense. We talked about that heading into the game,
Speaker 3: but Michael Gallop's ability to get open was concerning at times.
Speaker 3: And also Dak seeing guys that are open and moving
Speaker 3: away from them and either taking a sack or throwing
Speaker 3: the ball away was concerning. So that's interesting. I'm still
Speaker 3: for me, it's the cornerback position. Yeah, I just I
Speaker 3: think Tom Brady is going to exploit that all day long,
Speaker 3: and so I think that's an area that I think
Speaker 3: is very, very concerning.
Speaker 4: And if I.
Speaker 3: Might add, special teams, you don't want to start the
Speaker 3: game off with one of those muff punts like you did,
Speaker 3: because what I felt like was the Cowboys it's sort
Speaker 3: of you you knock them in the mouth early. They
Speaker 3: were struggling to get past some of the adversity of
Speaker 3: that on the road. At least we've seen them come
Speaker 3: back from it at home, but on the road on grass,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: It was also twice in a row.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was also coming like there's there's coming
Speaker 5: back from stuff, and then it's like, come on, you know,
Speaker 5: like that's that's something different. But I guess Mike's I'm
Speaker 5: not even to say concern to stress me out.
Speaker 4: What I'm looking.
Speaker 5: For in this game is the offensive line play just
Speaker 5: because it's just it's just pivotal to what you do.
Speaker 5: Is you want to be able to run the ball well,
Speaker 5: and I think that's just gonna make the difference in
Speaker 5: this game, as it does all the time when your
Speaker 5: quarterback is forced to pass the ball a whole bunch
Speaker 5: because you can't do anything on first and second down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for me, it's it's I think, yeah, again, not
Speaker 7: the most concerning, but something I want to see be
Speaker 7: more productive during this game is a better way to
Speaker 7: put it, is what they do on first and second down,
Speaker 7: and you you segue that's so good for me. I
Speaker 7: swear we talk way too much outside of this that's
Speaker 7: we're on the same length, but first and second down plays,
Speaker 7: I don't want to see any more short runs by Zeke.
Speaker 8: I'm just it's.
Speaker 7: The predictability factor. I need the play calling for this
Speaker 7: game to be less predictable and go back to what works,
Speaker 7: because again, first down those yeah, for a second, and
Speaker 7: you know, that's what happens every single time.
Speaker 4: And I talk I have talked to people about that.
Speaker 3: You know, they in order for the running backs to
Speaker 3: have an efficient game, you want to get them going early.
Speaker 3: So that's why you sort of feed them early and
Speaker 3: get them into a rhythm. The problem is when that
Speaker 3: offensive line start creating some of those holes for you
Speaker 3: and you're sort of running up against a wall, that's
Speaker 3: when they move away from it. And then that's where
Speaker 3: you're also getting Dack into some trouble where he's.
Speaker 4: Throwing some of those picks.
Speaker 3: So everything is it's like the hip bones connected to
Speaker 3: the neebo and all of those things.
Speaker 4: So I mean, you're not wrong on that.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be I'll be interested to see the game
Speaker 3: that Kellen calls, and I'm going to be really interested
Speaker 3: to see how Dan calls the defensive side of the
Speaker 3: ball against Tom Brady. I will be headed to Tampa
Speaker 3: on Saturday for a four day run. Very disappointed that
Speaker 3: the weather is ridiculous. Iguanas are going to be falling
Speaker 3: from the trees this weekend.
Speaker 4: Careful wait what Saturday?
Speaker 3: Saturday a high of fifty four a low of thirty
Speaker 3: six game time is gonna it's gonna be great football
Speaker 3: weather on Monday seventy three of a high, low of
Speaker 3: fifty but on Sunday game day morning high of sixty three,
Speaker 3: low forty three.
Speaker 4: If you see me wearing a winter jacket and down
Speaker 4: a brown brown that see me.
Speaker 3: Wearing a puffer jacket on Sunday, mind your business as
Speaker 3: it is cold in Tampa. Let's hope that this is
Speaker 3: a cold game for Dak Prescott, that he shuts down
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Bucks. So I guess what I want
Speaker 3: to say there is it's a hot game for him,
Speaker 3: But yes, but a cold, cold win for him. Hopefully
Speaker 3: we're talking about that on Monday. But you guys still
Speaker 3: have another show tomorrow. Looking forward to tuning into that one.
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