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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number seventy five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of the Break Life Nest WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios at the Start, presented by Miller Lite, the
Speaker 1: only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And although a lot
Speaker 1: of us throughout the building thought the Cowboys would get
Speaker 1: a win this last weekend, I don't think anybody predicted
Speaker 1: the beatdown that we watched yesterday. Cowboys win over the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings forty to three. I'm not gonna say, probably
Speaker 1: their most dominating win in quite a long time, certainly
Speaker 1: this season, against what is or what many believed to
Speaker 1: be one of the better teams in the NFC. We'll
Speaker 1: break it all down for you here over the next
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. We might even get into a little
Speaker 1: bit of Giants talk. We got a short week this week,
Speaker 1: coming up with a Thanksgiving Day game against the Giants.
Speaker 1: So let's dive in. Let's go around the table. Let's
Speaker 1: start where we start on Monday's give me your big
Speaker 1: picture storyline, because there were lots of things that came
Speaker 1: out of this game. But what big picture six with
Speaker 1: you following this game? Nicholas start, Well, big picture, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are a team that can compete and make a
Speaker 1: run for a Super Bowl, as Jerry said, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's the big picture. That's where the bar has been raised. Now.
Speaker 1: The bar has been raised because they went out and
Speaker 1: I only know one way to say it. They played
Speaker 1: a perfect game. It was a perfect football game against
Speaker 1: a team that had the best record in the league
Speaker 1: at that time. They don't anymore, but they did, and
Speaker 1: it was a perfect game on the road. They just
Speaker 1: dominated in every facet And so now you know, to me,
Speaker 1: that's where it's like, Okay, well we've seen it then,
Speaker 1: we've seen it in Minnesota. Play like that where you
Speaker 1: can put it all together, you know that's they can go.
Speaker 1: And if they play like that, you can beat anybody.
Speaker 1: You can beat anybody any place. If you play like that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is how the Cowboys should
Speaker 1: be playing football every time this they step on a field.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very impressive. And it was very impressive
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. And I know
Speaker 1: we're gonna break it down and all that, but to
Speaker 1: think we were just recently, you know, talking about the
Speaker 1: wide receivers and all that, and then you see a
Speaker 1: game where you can use a guy like Tony Polter.
Speaker 1: He freaking balled out, balled out running the ball and
Speaker 1: catching the ball. So it's just very very impressive. And
Speaker 1: like Nick said, now you can't take a step backward.
Speaker 1: It's like you gotta keep it up. And maybe not
Speaker 1: every week scoring you know, forty points and all that
Speaker 1: and shutting the other team to just three points, but
Speaker 1: now you gotta you have to maintain it. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned super Bowl, and I was going to ask you
Speaker 1: there when you said big picture. We're talking big picture
Speaker 1: super Bowl big picture or if you want to go there. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: But I love it, love their energy and love the
Speaker 1: way they responded after a loss against Green Bay. They're
Speaker 1: capable of beating really good teams and losing the bad teams.
Speaker 1: That's that's you know. I mean you can you could
Speaker 1: say that the Green Bay game that should have been
Speaker 1: a win. You know that that's which. You know, teams
Speaker 1: that are gonna win championships find ways along the way
Speaker 1: to win those games. You know, whether you're however your
Speaker 1: competition is, and they're capable. They're capable, like we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, playing very well at a high level, making
Speaker 1: somebody one dimensional, putting pressure on them, you know, playing
Speaker 1: to their strengths, using the running back as a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You know, those are all the things that are capable
Speaker 1: of doing. You know, the week before they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: They lined up off sides, they held, they made mistakes,
Speaker 1: they gave up big plays in the running game, they
Speaker 1: gave up big pass plays. You know, they're capable. That
Speaker 1: That's what proved to me, if you want to know
Speaker 1: a big picture, that's that's the team that's what they
Speaker 1: should be, not the team that could play to the
Speaker 1: level of the team you know that that aren't very good,
Speaker 1: and so you know, yeah, I hope, I hope this
Speaker 1: is the start of more consistency with how this team
Speaker 1: needs to play every week in order to win a championship.
Speaker 1: That's the aspirations. You know, they're clearly capable of doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at this offense and I think you know
Speaker 1: you We'll talk about the defense in just a second.
Speaker 1: But offensively, they scored on their first seven possessions. It
Speaker 1: was score after score after score after score. What do
Speaker 1: you guys think was the key to their offense? Being
Speaker 1: able to move the ball so effortlessly down the field
Speaker 1: and doing it in a lot of different way. He's
Speaker 1: using a lot of different weapons. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the time to say it, but I
Speaker 1: will say it. I think lost in all of the
Speaker 1: you know, Pollard and Parsons and Maha and all that,
Speaker 1: I think Dak's coming back now, Like this is Dak.
Speaker 1: This type of game was what we've been asking for.
Speaker 1: Get off my back. You're not gonna sack me. You're
Speaker 1: not big enough to sack me. I'm gonna roll over here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run out. I'm gonna get it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say twelve thirteen yards just by making a play.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fly around over here. I'm gonna fake you here.
Speaker 1: I was faked on one play. I was like, why
Speaker 1: is Pollard not running? He's you know, it was because
Speaker 1: Dak had the ball, you know, Dad, and then and
Speaker 1: then then you throw twenty two out of twenty five,
Speaker 1: and that you could not throw the past to Pollard
Speaker 1: even better for that sixty eight yard I mean that
Speaker 1: was perfect. But he did he was back to him.
Speaker 1: I mean he ran the ball. I mean three for
Speaker 1: sixteen yards. That doesn't really do it justice. I don't
Speaker 1: think of what he was doing running the ball. So
Speaker 1: you throw it like that running, I think Dad, you know,
Speaker 1: and it all starts with Dak, But I think Dak
Speaker 1: was kind of back to vintage him again. Yeah. Another
Speaker 1: thing to help Dac, I think was that offensive line.
Speaker 1: They've done a really good job. They've they've proven that
Speaker 1: they can run block when they absolutely have to. And Minnesota,
Speaker 1: you know that Minnesota's got two legitimate pass rushers and
Speaker 1: they were able to hold up on the edges. That
Speaker 1: wasn't a problem. You know, they had a couple of
Speaker 1: times on some big plays, some throws made. Zeke stepped
Speaker 1: up on one on a blitz pickup that went for
Speaker 1: a big play. Polar got run over, but he stepped
Speaker 1: up and made a big blitz pickup. You know, this
Speaker 1: offensive line is starting to kind of figure some things out,
Speaker 1: and you know, all year long, it's it's and we
Speaker 1: got some questions at center and questions that left guard,
Speaker 1: and maybe some questions at right tackle. As a group,
Speaker 1: they're playing really really well right now and that and
Speaker 1: last night was a really good example of when they
Speaker 1: can get things going in the running game and then
Speaker 1: it helps so much as the passing game too. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you another thing that was big in this football game,
Speaker 1: and the reason why we talked about going to get
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham was to go get a guy that could
Speaker 1: snatch the football makee plays. He had receivers snatching the
Speaker 1: football yesterday and that game. That's the difference. When the
Speaker 1: slants are run, ball high, gallup, goes up, gets it inside,
Speaker 1: tough catch and all that. You had guys going to
Speaker 1: get the football yesterday, and that's that's gonna make a
Speaker 1: big difference going forward. You want to keep, you know,
Speaker 1: keep pressure on opponents, find ways to make tough catches
Speaker 1: in traffic and when you have to extend or you
Speaker 1: get coverage and maybe the ball is a little off,
Speaker 1: go get it. They did that yesterday. Offensive line wide
Speaker 1: receivers making plays in the outside I thought was really
Speaker 1: big in that game. Yeah, I have to go back
Speaker 1: and watch the game. There are a lot of things
Speaker 1: that I feel like I missed because by the time
Speaker 1: I was making a graphic and being done, I look up,
Speaker 1: They're already making another place. So I could hardly keep
Speaker 1: up with what was going on. They were playing so well.
Speaker 1: But to me, credit to Kellen Moore and what he did.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he They just played so much smarter.
Speaker 1: They played to their strength. I thought the combination between
Speaker 1: the passing game like Dak wouldn't have I don't think
Speaker 1: he would have played such a good game had he
Speaker 1: not been for the running game and how he was
Speaker 1: working as well. Credit to them figuring out how do
Speaker 1: you utilize Zeke and Tony Poller. I thought they did
Speaker 1: a really good job. There were a couple of plays
Speaker 1: where okay, the exception, but in general you could see
Speaker 1: this is when you need a guy like Zeke to
Speaker 1: come in. This is when you need a guy explosive,
Speaker 1: dynamic like Tony Pollard to carry the ball. So I
Speaker 1: just think they just played to their strength and played smarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you look at the numbers yesterday with Zeke and Pollo,
Speaker 1: Zeke had fifteen carriage for forty two yards two point
Speaker 1: eight average, two touchdowns, and I think the two touchdowns
Speaker 1: are key. Polo had fifteen carriage for eighty yards five
Speaker 1: point three average. And if you do what what Brian
Speaker 1: talks about, I call him zekerd the combination of the
Speaker 1: two and two. One. You had thirty carriage, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two yards and two touchdowns. Like that's what
Speaker 1: you want, is that two of them combined. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't have to you don't have to have one or
Speaker 1: the other. You got buck, and when you've got both,
Speaker 1: you can do what they did yesterday. And you could
Speaker 1: see the variety of what you can get out of.
Speaker 1: You can get a sixty eight yard touchdown pass where
Speaker 1: a guy runs a will route and just out runs
Speaker 1: a defender. You can also get that one yard power
Speaker 1: run to get you into It's gotta be this has
Speaker 1: gotta be over, like, yeah, I mean kill that. We
Speaker 1: gotta kill it because we just saw in one drive,
Speaker 1: we saw these are things that Zeke cannot do. He
Speaker 1: cannot do these plays. And then they get down to
Speaker 1: the two and we see these are things that Pollard
Speaker 1: can't do my favorite run and I pointed out to
Speaker 1: you was one. It wasn't It was in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: I think it was like a second or third and two,
Speaker 1: third and one, and Zeke is clearly stopped. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he just like just keeps the legs drive it and
Speaker 1: just pushes the whole thing two yards. They showed it
Speaker 1: from the aerial and you could see he was stopped
Speaker 1: and it was just like it just the whole pal starter.
Speaker 1: He went horizontal and then but his feet were still
Speaker 1: on the ground and it just he just launched himself four.
Speaker 1: That's what he does. And I think you're absolutely right
Speaker 1: about it. You know, they tried to score with Pollard
Speaker 1: on the goal line. They really legitimately tried. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know, and let's be honest though, I mean when
Speaker 1: you watch it and you guys go back and see it,
Speaker 1: you know they got I mean, Ferguson got just destroyed
Speaker 1: at the point of attack on the first time they
Speaker 1: handed him the ball and then you know, McEwan is
Speaker 1: trying to find a spot and he runs right in
Speaker 1: the back of Ferguson, so now it's all muddy and
Speaker 1: he can't get home. The second one, they don't block
Speaker 1: it really cleanly as well on the second one, but
Speaker 1: still he's like stopped. He can't pattern. Then they put
Speaker 1: Zeke in and here like he just you know, he's
Speaker 1: able to kind of find that gap and finish forward.
Speaker 1: You know. That's the thing. That's that's why having these
Speaker 1: backs the way they are. When you get in third
Speaker 1: and one and you get down on the goal line
Speaker 1: and you hand them the ball, you've got to keep
Speaker 1: drives going. You can't get stopped. And you're right, Nick,
Speaker 1: there's things that that Zeke can no longer do. They
Speaker 1: can't do the stuff we're all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: check and they run, they run the wheel, you know,
Speaker 1: because they realized that they've got a matchup against a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Dak was looking at He's like, okay, I got my guy,
Speaker 1: and they got the safety comer. And great job by
Speaker 1: Schultz running a route to get the you know, to
Speaker 1: get Smith out of the way when Smith and Peterson,
Speaker 1: he gets them both out of the way and that's
Speaker 1: up the sidelines. And that's the stuff that you don't
Speaker 1: get to see with Zeke. You know, when you see
Speaker 1: a one on one matchup, Okay, that linebacker is not
Speaker 1: going to cover my guy. He's not and they did
Speaker 1: a great job of doing that. Romo pointed this out
Speaker 1: in the in the in the broadcast afterwards, is that
Speaker 1: the best part of that play was the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And I think he pointed to Zach Martin specifically, but
Speaker 1: because to get him out in the wheel route that
Speaker 1: takes a little bit of time, you know, And so
Speaker 1: that was great. And then you mentioned Schultz on that
Speaker 1: play running down the field, which was impressive. But I
Speaker 1: couldn't get over the fact on the first touchdown past
Speaker 1: the Pollard. I mean, Schultz is not just walls off yea,
Speaker 1: but he I mean he checked him off thirty He
Speaker 1: sat him on the bench. Yeah, he was like, you're
Speaker 1: with the cheerleaders. Yeah, like you're hanging out over here. No,
Speaker 1: it was you know that That's the thing. I think
Speaker 1: that when you look at Schultz overall, you know, he
Speaker 1: gets a lot of criticism and flack for the way
Speaker 1: he blocks. I think these young guys have helped him
Speaker 1: along the way, you know, develop a little bit more. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just can't be a liability as a block or
Speaker 1: he's done it much better. He was really good yesterday
Speaker 1: in that game. Yeah, all right, let's move on. Let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the defense. You look at yesterday,
Speaker 1: the fact they held him to three points. Again, Nick,
Speaker 1: going back to your perfect game scenario. The offense scores forty,
Speaker 1: the defense as into three. They had seven sacks, and
Speaker 1: you're not even done. Yeah, I'm not even done because
Speaker 1: you got you gotta do the third level the special teams.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well we'll get to that. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it was made it perfect. Yeah, we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: But but looking at the defense again, seven sacks and
Speaker 1: a lot of that. Once they got to the second
Speaker 1: half and they had this this lead, devil was really insurmountable.
Speaker 1: Then it was like, all right, now they get to
Speaker 1: do what they always what. Parsons didn't want to come
Speaker 1: off the field. Yeah, you like, this is sounding to
Speaker 1: sack up some numbers, you know. And the problem, by
Speaker 1: the way to that ablem, somebody's got to get they
Speaker 1: won't take his helmet away. That kid he wants to play.
Speaker 1: I love that about him. Well he realizes he realizes like, okay,
Speaker 1: now I get to rush the pastor I don't have
Speaker 1: to play the run. I don't have guys diving in
Speaker 1: my leg I've earned the right at that point, because
Speaker 1: that's what they kept talking about last week. Earned the
Speaker 1: right to pass rush once you're able to get a
Speaker 1: lead and once you put a team in a situation
Speaker 1: where they can't run the ball. They had that yesterday.
Speaker 1: But I will I do have this question for you
Speaker 1: because I say something real quick sure about the defense.
Speaker 1: I think you learned a big picture thing yesterday that
Speaker 1: you can travel diggs no matter what you can't. You
Speaker 1: can travel digs no matter what you mean. Let's not
Speaker 1: act like anymore it's like, well, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they really want to do this. No, if
Speaker 1: the other team has a star player, you can function
Speaker 1: by traveling digs and everybody else will adjust. That defense
Speaker 1: did a great job in the secondary of playing for
Speaker 1: each other. They really did. And we always talk about, well,
Speaker 1: assignments were bad here. They didn't twist tier, they got
Speaker 1: a step here, they got to fill there. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at the first the very first play when
Speaker 1: you talk about the secondary, they're gonna try and run
Speaker 1: the very first pass that Minnesota throws. They're running pick
Speaker 1: routes and they're dragging feeling across the field. Jay run.
Speaker 1: Curse is standing right there, and what happens. What is
Speaker 1: that quarterback sees that He's like, I can't throw that.
Speaker 1: He's expecting that thing to be clear across nobody there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw the ball. They cover for each other,
Speaker 1: and then now it's now it turns into moving pocket
Speaker 1: and now number eleven running from the backside. Good luck
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, So you had a secondary yesterday that
Speaker 1: really played for each other. They did, they led, and
Speaker 1: that number seven he traveled. He went with that guy.
Speaker 1: And you know, other than I could say there was
Speaker 1: one pass on the outside to Osborne that he could
Speaker 1: have that went on the out that he could have.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just a little bit better out. But
Speaker 1: that's that's nippicking right there. If you want to talk
Speaker 1: about it, you know, it's I've seen him make the play,
Speaker 1: come downhill, drive on the ball. But he traveled with
Speaker 1: that guy. So we you'd never ever, ever not The
Speaker 1: question should be if they have a great receiver and
Speaker 1: it takes taking him out of the game, that number
Speaker 1: seven can go walk with him and play with him
Speaker 1: anywhere in the field. I love that. Yep, that's right.
Speaker 1: Another thing that was that was really evident, and even
Speaker 1: on the Vikings drive for a field goal, But if
Speaker 1: you go back and watch it, they knocked the crap
Speaker 1: out of that team, Like even on the Cooks seventeen
Speaker 1: yard run that got a few more yards because it
Speaker 1: was a holding whatever. Donald Wilson just blasts them out
Speaker 1: of bounds and then another time tank and curse. I mean,
Speaker 1: they are flying around. They hit them hard like they
Speaker 1: were And Dad said it in his post a post game,
Speaker 1: he was like, I knew this was gonna be a
Speaker 1: problem because they were running around in practice whole week
Speaker 1: like that. They were pissed off, said it. I asked
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones before the game, you know, I said something
Speaker 1: about I've never been in the jungle, but I would
Speaker 1: imagine a pissed off Lions gotta be worse than anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, And that's what it felt like. The whole
Speaker 1: team was that way. They hit harder on the Vikings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at those numbers. I mean, it just was
Speaker 1: amazing what they were able to do against an offense
Speaker 1: that many thought were was one of the better offenses
Speaker 1: in the league, if not the best offense in league.
Speaker 1: Right up there were you could feel as the game
Speaker 1: wore on the anxiety of Kirk Cousins. You could feel it,
Speaker 1: you know. His it was the throw and duck throw
Speaker 1: and duck and moved throw, you know. I mean he
Speaker 1: was he knew that he was compromised, you know, even
Speaker 1: with Derissau in there. I mean the play that he
Speaker 1: got hurt on was a sack. I mean, he got
Speaker 1: driven right back into I mean it was a great
Speaker 1: job by Armstrong and just driving him and then there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of you know, problems there. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the great thing about this defense when they
Speaker 1: when they know that they can rush the passer, it
Speaker 1: makes a defense is a whole different defense the way
Speaker 1: they play. Yeah, and I'll throw this outjestra perspective. You
Speaker 1: talked about Digs traveling with Jefferson. Yesterday, Jefferson had three
Speaker 1: catches on five targets for thirty three yards. Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: didn't go back to look at his season, at every
Speaker 1: game from his season, I'm guessing that's going to be
Speaker 1: on the lower end of he hates playing the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Got five for fifty five. That's what he's got previous. No,
Speaker 1: that that's what he's got against the Cowboys for two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he hates. I mean, there's something about this book and
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. We should never never ever say that.
Speaker 1: Like listen, if you're going into a game and the
Speaker 1: other team has a star player, that should never be
Speaker 1: something that Dan Quinn doesn't automatically think about it. And
Speaker 1: you know what, and it's more than just that star players.
Speaker 1: There's not beeny. I mean, they've already faced i think
Speaker 1: the best receiving tandem in the league, like in Week
Speaker 1: two when it was Chase and then Higgins and Boyd
Speaker 1: and all that. So it's going to be really hard
Speaker 1: pressed to find a better receiver that you're gonna face
Speaker 1: with a complimentary two that that Minnesota has, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's the Philadelphia game on Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: will be the one where you have to deal with
Speaker 1: size and Smith and all that kind of you know,
Speaker 1: and depending on if the tight ends back you know
Speaker 1: that tight well he might be he might be Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's you know that that will be your next
Speaker 1: time where you're gonna have to say, Okay, is it
Speaker 1: going to be how do you match them up? You know?
Speaker 1: But like I said, there should never be a question.
Speaker 1: Now it shouldn't be like anbar at a press conference.
Speaker 1: Haven't asked a question about were you gonna travel with
Speaker 1: you know, well, you know traveling takes a lot. No,
Speaker 1: you proved you could travel with the best receiver in
Speaker 1: the National Football League and go find a way to
Speaker 1: do it. When you mentioned the tight ends yesterday, it
Speaker 1: was clear that Minnesota went into that game thinking Hockintson
Speaker 1: was going to be a target that they wanted to
Speaker 1: try to exploit. He had nine targets, only five receptions
Speaker 1: for thirty four yards. Cowboys did a really really good
Speaker 1: job on him. Yeah, different curse. Yeah, sometimes they were
Speaker 1: in zone. Sometimes they had a guy on him, like.
Speaker 1: They did it in different ways, but they were not
Speaker 1: allowed way to really get away. Curse got through. Well.
Speaker 1: Hawkinson dropped the ball in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was a drop. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: way that kur we've throw that pick and that's what
Speaker 1: they were trying to do, that was a pretty That
Speaker 1: was impressive play. I don't I'm not saying he made
Speaker 1: the difference in there because Hawkinson's a first round time.
Speaker 1: It could have been an easy throw. It could have
Speaker 1: been a lot easier throw if he doesn't travel'll get
Speaker 1: through the trash to get to the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone. Yeah, but yeah, I thought, I thought curse,
Speaker 1: And there was a couple times and and I didn't
Speaker 1: even see the place it was blitz. The blitz that
Speaker 1: he got the sack on. I mean, he's like, he's
Speaker 1: acting like he's in coverage, and it just goes to
Speaker 1: show you tank during max protection and it's the two
Speaker 1: tight ends end up taking tank. Both of them go
Speaker 1: for tank, and now he's got to free run it
Speaker 1: at Cousins. That's when you gotta do with his defense.
Speaker 1: If people are going to make mistakes blocking, you take
Speaker 1: advantage of that. Don't let them. Don't let them get
Speaker 1: away with a mistake there. And they made a big
Speaker 1: one on that one. We're gonna take our first break
Speaker 1: when we come back. I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that the Vikings didn't run the ball quite as
Speaker 1: much as I thought they should have. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that and how much that factored into the result that
Speaker 1: we saw yesterday. I will help when we come back.
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Speaker 1: because the defense, you look at their numbers overall, they
Speaker 1: played really well, obviously holding their opponent to the three points.
Speaker 1: When you start really digging into the game, Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: had eleven carriages for seventy two yards. He was averaging
Speaker 1: six point five on the ground. But Minnesota was throwing
Speaker 1: the ball way more than they were running. And I
Speaker 1: don't know that they were in a situation where opponents
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have faced so far have decided to
Speaker 1: keep running the ball rather than abandoning it. In the
Speaker 1: first half a loan, Minnesota ran in fifteen pass plays
Speaker 1: only nine runs. Do you think the Dallas run defense
Speaker 1: is better or do you think they just face an
Speaker 1: opponent that just loves to throw the ball and that
Speaker 1: played right into Dallas's hands. I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: I did question that if the Vikings were going to
Speaker 1: go into a game and go, like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna run the ball.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run the ball, because that's not the way
Speaker 1: they're built. I didn't think they were gonna they were
Speaker 1: gonna stick with that. I think they were gonna kind
Speaker 1: of do the we're eight and one, we do it
Speaker 1: our way. They can't stop whatever we may a facials
Speaker 1: opponent exactly. And it didn't. It didn't work out. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had eight for forty five in the first half,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was twenty three to three at
Speaker 1: that point, and so you know, they're not gonna they
Speaker 1: feel too good about their passing game down twenty to
Speaker 1: just run the ball that way. Yeah, it was surprising too,
Speaker 1: But if you're those folks that believe in analytics, they're
Speaker 1: the team that doesn't. They don't run a lot. That's
Speaker 1: their kind of their thing, and you wonder. I think
Speaker 1: the calb I think the Packers did it out of
Speaker 1: necessity because they felt like, you know, I think the
Speaker 1: Packers played the Cowboys smart, you know, I mean you learned.
Speaker 1: If you're the Vikings and you're watching this game today,
Speaker 1: you're saying, why are we throwing the damn ball? I mean,
Speaker 1: the biggest problems they had during the game was them
Speaker 1: throwing the football. And the Packers, on the other hand, said,
Speaker 1: we probably can throw the ball, but we don't have
Speaker 1: these receivers that are worth a damn So the two
Speaker 1: backs are our strength. Let's just try. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how anybody would just let the Cowboys
Speaker 1: tea off and pass rush yet I really really don't.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to people in Minnesota up to this,
Speaker 1: leading up to this game, and they're like, we're that's
Speaker 1: like Nick says, we just we believe in keeping Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook fresh. And you know, there were times when Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer would run Dalvin Cook into the ground and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and it would just be carry after carry
Speaker 1: after carry. This is Kevin O'Connell. It's a different, different
Speaker 1: way he calls the game. But I don't know how
Speaker 1: you could sit there and say, let Dallas rush the
Speaker 1: passer on us and let's see if we can get
Speaker 1: away with it. And I they they clearly didn't respect
Speaker 1: Dallas's ability to do that. Yeah, I was surprised too
Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't run the ball a lot more.
Speaker 1: But the way that the game started. I mean, to me,
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons making that sack to begin to start the game, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that sets the tone that I think that
Speaker 1: was a huge play, and you just build off that
Speaker 1: energy with the whole defense, which makes me wonder, why
Speaker 1: don't you carry? But I don't care. I don't care
Speaker 1: trying to figure that out. The Cowboys played the way
Speaker 1: that they did, and going back to an earlier conversations
Speaker 1: that you guys were having about the defense as a whole,
Speaker 1: I was very curious to see how they were actually
Speaker 1: going to be able to channel that energy that was
Speaker 1: building up throughout the week. I mean, that was the
Speaker 1: first time that they really got embarrassed in national TV.
Speaker 1: You're everybody talking about them, so some finger pointing started
Speaker 1: to happen, and all that out where they're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to handle. So to see everybody doing their job.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the run defense as a whole
Speaker 1: is fully improved, just because we weren't able to actually
Speaker 1: see that happening with this opponent. But if I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll have to see with a different team that runs
Speaker 1: the ball a lot more. But just all in all,
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything that well, it's quick and the
Speaker 1: Giants everybody, well everybody know the Giants loss. So we'll
Speaker 1: see with what kind of energy they come to at
Speaker 1: and T Stadium and how they play as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that you go back to that the first
Speaker 1: drive of the game for the Vikings, not not the
Speaker 1: one that they got the fumble, but the second time
Speaker 1: they came out and they're down three to nothing. That
Speaker 1: right there just goes to show what they don't they
Speaker 1: don't do. They don't play this way. They come out
Speaker 1: throwing on first down and there's a and there's a
Speaker 1: past interference on Joseph and then they run for two
Speaker 1: and then they pass for a first down. So on
Speaker 1: first down, then they run for seventeen yards and so
Speaker 1: they're rolling here. What do they do on the next
Speaker 1: time they pass? Pass, pass, and they get a first down.
Speaker 1: Then Cook goes for eight to the sixth. They're running
Speaker 1: the ball with Cook. They got second and two from
Speaker 1: the sixth past the Hawkinson past the Hawkinson kick a
Speaker 1: field goal. That right there, I mean, that's like they're
Speaker 1: not watching tape. They're not watching what Aaron Rodgers did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ro It's been a bunch of buns. The Parsons
Speaker 1: sack fumble was a third and three and as you mentioned, Nick,
Speaker 1: the next opportunity, they get down third and two, and
Speaker 1: what do they do They throw the ball again, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's some teams which is like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: what we do. We don't we don't we're going to
Speaker 1: throw the ball. We don't think you can cover. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can watch the Cowboys and not think,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing defensively that would scare the hell
Speaker 1: out of you? Them rushing the passer. It ain't defending
Speaker 1: the run. I mean the running is something that you're
Speaker 1: kind of like, that's the biggest question mark about this defense.
Speaker 1: It ain't the pass rush. Minnesota and Kevin O'Connell just
Speaker 1: kind of said, you know what, hey, we don't think
Speaker 1: you can cover. Well, then again, it's like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't have to cover because your left tackle is giving
Speaker 1: up sacks, your left guard's given up sacks. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't have to We don't have to cover because
Speaker 1: of the pressure. Again, I hey, thank you Vikings for
Speaker 1: playing the way, you know, but the Cowboys offense put
Speaker 1: pressure on him to have to score though, too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was big. The Cowboys just kind of starting
Speaker 1: starting fast, starting right away. But to your point, like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you not watch film? Yeah, I think. I mean
Speaker 1: we've seen it happen with the Cowboys as well, where
Speaker 1: they go in and they just keep doing something and
Speaker 1: we all clearly see that it's not working. So in
Speaker 1: this case, it finally worked in the Cowboys advantage this time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Packers got down fourteen points and still were running
Speaker 1: the football. They're kind of like, okay, well, see the
Speaker 1: problem was Dallas's offense wasn't as good in that game.
Speaker 1: They didn't the Cowboys offense didn't make Green Bay pay
Speaker 1: like they made Minnesota's offense pay for their lack of
Speaker 1: getting things done. I got a kind of another big
Speaker 1: picture thing. I think it needs to be mentioned. And
Speaker 1: you know, Cowboys get a lot of criticism for not
Speaker 1: doing things in free agency or the way they handle things,
Speaker 1: don't make splashes. I think it's it's got to be
Speaker 1: pointed out that by not signing Randy Gregory and they
Speaker 1: tried to sign him, wanted to, Yeah, they wanted to
Speaker 1: So that's not acting like that was a decision. I mean,
Speaker 1: Randy made the decision to leave, and then they came
Speaker 1: after that and signed Dorn's, Armstrong and Fowler together, they
Speaker 1: have twelve sacks seven and five, and they're getting overshadowed
Speaker 1: because number eleven runs around and he's got ten and
Speaker 1: he's not gonna he's not gonna let them have more
Speaker 1: sacks than him. So that's that's just the thing. They
Speaker 1: have seven and five and you know, Randy's played five games,
Speaker 1: he's got two sacks, and he's banged up and whatever
Speaker 1: it is. And I'm not saying the same thing what
Speaker 1: happened had he been here because he didn't have Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons also rushing. I get that. But and they traded
Speaker 1: away the other rusher bunch up, so it's a little
Speaker 1: different scenario. But you gotta give the Cowboys credit for
Speaker 1: that and dan Quinn and all that, I mean, Fowler's
Speaker 1: haven't he looked at it and said, hey, we can
Speaker 1: make work with the with these guys. And Sam Williams
Speaker 1: is coming around too. I mean, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out ways to get him on this year. I mean
Speaker 1: dan Quinn did that last year. Too, So it's something
Speaker 1: he's he did it. He did it with Gregory like
Speaker 1: like I think that that he's to be mentioned. He
Speaker 1: did it with Gregory like Gregory hadn't ever had a
Speaker 1: season like that before, so he can do it with
Speaker 1: someone else. Yea. And even with that, what he have
Speaker 1: five sex last year I think he had he had
Speaker 1: six and again his career I is six, you know.
Speaker 1: But I mean Dorian's armstrong, you know, And that's that's
Speaker 1: what a credit to them stopping the run because that's
Speaker 1: not his thing. He's not he's not going to stop
Speaker 1: the run and he's going to rush the passer and
Speaker 1: do his thing. When when they get to that point.
Speaker 1: Fowler too. They got a lot of guys that they
Speaker 1: like to rust the passer, but they they they they've
Speaker 1: stopped the run. First, as we said, they ate their vegetables.
Speaker 1: They were able to have dessert. If you don't do that,
Speaker 1: then you can't do all that stuff. And I just wonder,
Speaker 1: I want and I think we're gonna see it, and
Speaker 1: not even so much this week because this week is
Speaker 1: an interesting thing just because the giants like you have
Speaker 1: a different kind of running attack. You gotta deal with
Speaker 1: you gotta deal with just a beastly runner, and then
Speaker 1: you gotta deal with a quarterback that can run. But
Speaker 1: I'm even more interested in see what happens against a
Speaker 1: team like Indianapolis that has since they've made the coaching change,
Speaker 1: has kind of rediscovered its running game and now they're
Speaker 1: running the ball really well. That'll be an interesting test
Speaker 1: as well. I don't know if you guys got to
Speaker 1: see that game yesterday, because I was doing pregame show
Speaker 1: and it was up the Philadelphia, so I was keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on it. If Matt Ryan has continued to
Speaker 1: play the quarterback, I played ten in the box because
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be He looked like he was a time.
Speaker 1: He looked like he was a thousand years old yesterday
Speaker 1: playing quarterback. And but for the running game they got
Speaker 1: in that game, Yeah, I know that, you say. I
Speaker 1: guess I was watching him. I was thinking, how old
Speaker 1: is things? No, he it was like a thirty run
Speaker 1: week before they get a turnover. They get a turnover
Speaker 1: in the start the second half, they get a turnover
Speaker 1: on a sack strip and you know it hit hurts
Speaker 1: and the back balls on the ground. It's Indianapolis ball
Speaker 1: and they run three of the worst plays you can
Speaker 1: ever imagine to kick a field goal, and they missed
Speaker 1: a field goal along the way that cost them. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, just Saturday went for an opportunity and they
Speaker 1: didn't get the field goal. You know, Philadelphia was beat
Speaker 1: But but if you're if you're gonna play with that
Speaker 1: running game, great, fine, just put ten in the box
Speaker 1: because Matt Ryan is not gonna beat you throwing the phone.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna yeah, exactly. Pierce is not a bad
Speaker 1: player for them, But that's the whole issue. Though they
Speaker 1: can't they can't manufact Now, this is what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, this weekend. Real quick, you're short week.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Short game plans, small game
Speaker 1: plan kind of have, you know, can't work on a
Speaker 1: lot of things, can't even practice, Gonna have to walk
Speaker 1: through some things. This is gonna be about a little bit,
Speaker 1: I think of you know, the fact that you have
Speaker 1: some familiarity with both teams is a great thing. But
Speaker 1: the fact I think that you can't practice a lot
Speaker 1: and do a lot of crazy ass things that we
Speaker 1: generally see during the week. I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be about both teams trying to kind of run
Speaker 1: the football and the waggles the boots and things like
Speaker 1: that to kind of keep the game plan tight and small.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you got to be ready for them to
Speaker 1: run the football in this game. They they they're gonna
Speaker 1: look at your team and say, well, this is the
Speaker 1: only chance we have because if we make Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: have to deal with your pass rush again like you
Speaker 1: did the last time we played, we're gonna lose this
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Speaker 1: come back. We got to talk about a guy that
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Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage studios at the Star were sent about Miller Light,
Speaker 1: the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and it's almost
Speaker 1: a shame other than the fact that it was such
Speaker 1: a great game and so many guys played well, that
Speaker 1: we're into the third segment and haven't mentioned the name
Speaker 1: of Brett Maher. He did. He had I think a
Speaker 1: really monstrous game when you just think about what his
Speaker 1: role is on the team. Obviously, the kicker is still
Speaker 1: to kick for that fifty three yard field goal in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Yeah right, I'm just kidding that that kick
Speaker 1: was probably not gonna know. But but but you start
Speaker 1: thinking about what he's done. He's done some things this
Speaker 1: year that are abnormal for a kicker. Sure, and certainly
Speaker 1: when you look at East nineteen of twenty one, it's
Speaker 1: only missed two field goals. Both of them were fifty
Speaker 1: plus fifty nine. Both of them were fifty. But but
Speaker 1: what we also find out yesterday is that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he can't make it because he made sixty twice. And
Speaker 1: I think we have to talk about the second line
Speaker 1: he had to say it really was that might have
Speaker 1: been Yeah, I don't know what the league is saying
Speaker 1: or whatever. If that was a closer game, that would
Speaker 1: have been probably something that the pool reporters talks about.
Speaker 1: But that's embarrassing for what the NFL did. The end
Speaker 1: of what the NFL did is ridiculous, and they somebody
Speaker 1: should be held accountable for that. You have one job.
Speaker 1: You're sitting up there, you're watching the game. In the
Speaker 1: final two minutes, I mean, I think the Vikings players
Speaker 1: were saying no incomplete, So it should just be alerting,
Speaker 1: alerting you. Right, then, let's look at this play. Is
Speaker 1: his feed in bounds? Did he catch it? Just look
Speaker 1: at the play. The Cowboys gave you a timeout. I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure why they called it. I think the
Speaker 1: play clock was rolling down. They called the timeout. They
Speaker 1: give you more time to look at it, and then
Speaker 1: you go and you freeze the kicker right when he's
Speaker 1: about to kick it. If the coach does it, it's
Speaker 1: one thing. If the league does it, that is excusable.
Speaker 1: And another thing about that is like, you don't have
Speaker 1: to stop it because you're sure. You have to stop
Speaker 1: it because there's a question. Right. So, so the people
Speaker 1: in New York or whoever was reviewed doing this to
Speaker 1: make the decision, hey we're gonna check this out. Oh
Speaker 1: you need it was a little bit of suspicion to think, hey,
Speaker 1: this this might be one that we need to review
Speaker 1: you stop play, right, So the fact that they had
Speaker 1: all that time to say, yeah, this might be one
Speaker 1: we want to look at, that's the weird part to me,
Speaker 1: what happens. And someone on Twitter asked me this too.
Speaker 1: It's like it's all about perspective. Would you have been
Speaker 1: mad if he missed the field goal? And if he
Speaker 1: missed the field goal then he got a chance to
Speaker 1: kick another one? And I responded, I bet you if
Speaker 1: he missed that field goal, they would have walked into
Speaker 1: the locker room. They wouldn't have done anything. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: have said we're not even looking at this, we're going
Speaker 1: in because the kick had already happened. Yeah, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about it was. It took fifteen seconds for jim Nance
Speaker 1: and Romo to finally say wait, wait, hold on, man,
Speaker 1: hold on, like this is not going you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? If he just missed the kick poorly or
Speaker 1: missed you know, I bet you they go into the
Speaker 1: locker room and say, we're not even looking. And did
Speaker 1: they have anything that showed any of the rests actually
Speaker 1: waving it off before it actually was kicked. No, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything on I didn't see to see.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is and I don't know how
Speaker 1: you even challenge it because his hands when he caught
Speaker 1: the ball. When you see the final, his hands are
Speaker 1: under a cupped under the ball. They're cupped, you know.
Speaker 1: And so they're saying, well, maybe the feel you know,
Speaker 1: maybe gene stair stores like, well, the you might have
Speaker 1: used the ground. No, his hands were cupped under the ball.
Speaker 1: That's that's how you know it's a catch. That's what
Speaker 1: you look for when you know you're making these decisions.
Speaker 1: But yeah, to to to not buzz down quick enough
Speaker 1: with all that was going on, I mean that that's
Speaker 1: that's inexcusable. I mean if and if you lost a
Speaker 1: game because of something like that happened, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that would be the NFL. Now now you're starting to
Speaker 1: talk about the fixes in Yeah, now you're now you're questioning, Okay,
Speaker 1: why do we have all this technology? What are the
Speaker 1: you know, what is why is the the buzzers not
Speaker 1: going off? What official responsible for that? What was the
Speaker 1: sideline official doing that's responsible for reviews? You know, there's
Speaker 1: all these questions that you now have. But you know,
Speaker 1: Maher getting back to him, and I'll focus on him
Speaker 1: let's give if you want to give front office credit.
Speaker 1: How many times and you guys don't have to do it,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. How many times have we seen the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and certain players to say, no, Garabay is going
Speaker 1: to be fine. We love Garabay, We loved him in college.
Speaker 1: We think he's the next Tucker from you know, we
Speaker 1: think he's this, we think he's that. He's he's better
Speaker 1: than you know, the kicker that the Chargers have, Dicker.
Speaker 1: They're better than him. You know that they there's so
Speaker 1: many times where they would just let this thing roll
Speaker 1: and they evaluated, they really did evaluate that Garabay and
Speaker 1: hire a lot who they weren't good enough. They weren't
Speaker 1: good enough. And because we've seen plenty of times, they
Speaker 1: just no, no, it's okay, he'll he'll work his way through.
Speaker 1: He'll work his way through. This kid that they they got.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they're fortunate did it worked out.
Speaker 1: He wasn't terrible for the Saints. He wasn't terrible. But
Speaker 1: see people have the memory of him missing extra points.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the long field goals that were that were
Speaker 1: ever questioned. It was like, well, from forty to forty nine, right,
Speaker 1: what was happening there? You know, what was happening on
Speaker 1: the thirty white? WHOA what was that all about? So,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody was pretty you know, like, oh, let's
Speaker 1: wait and see. But let's be honest. This whole Special
Speaker 1: Teams thing has been money the whole year. The returner's
Speaker 1: been money, the punter's been money, the kicker's been money.
Speaker 1: They've done a great job with this crew. They have
Speaker 1: legitimate weapons with all three of those guys that can
Speaker 1: that can switch a game or flip a game your
Speaker 1: direction to look, I mean, y'all, do not want to
Speaker 1: know what's going through my head right now? I absolutely
Speaker 1: want to know what's going through your mind right now.
Speaker 1: The fact that you said that, I'm like, I definitely
Speaker 1: want to hear what was going on in your mind
Speaker 1: right well. You know, I'm just sitting here and things
Speaker 1: started coming up in my head, different thoughts, and you
Speaker 1: know you talk about that, Brian, just the talent and
Speaker 1: and I've mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. How
Speaker 1: something that's impressive to me is this coaching staff being
Speaker 1: able to make those decisions and me kind of moving
Speaker 1: past the mentality the Jason Garret mentality of when he
Speaker 1: was still here, and I know that not every decision
Speaker 1: comes down fully to the coordinator, but I was just thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm like, huh, I've been pretty good about like everything,
Speaker 1: Like I trust them in the types of decisions they're making.
Speaker 1: For example, we talked about the Kickers specifically, we knew
Speaker 1: the issues, the issues that were there. They eventually decided
Speaker 1: to make a move, they did it, and it shown
Speaker 1: to be the right move. But taking it even further,
Speaker 1: you can apply the same thing with dan Quinn what
Speaker 1: he's doing on defense, and I'm thinking, Okay, I trust
Speaker 1: what they're seeing in everything. But then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: what's an area that I'm still like kind of raising
Speaker 1: my eyebrows or just you know, wondering well wide receiver,
Speaker 1: which is a position we've been talking about. Then that
Speaker 1: leads me to Kellen Moore, which then this is just
Speaker 1: how my brain is working. Then that leads me to well,
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, he was with Jason Garrett and he still
Speaker 1: got a lot of you know, from all of that.
Speaker 1: So I'm you know, it's it's just I'm going down
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole of I'm not saying Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: a problem and he needs to get out of here
Speaker 1: or anything. But I just wish that that same mentality
Speaker 1: of what we've seen so far on special teams and defense.
Speaker 1: And maybe they are and maybe they'll be surprising us
Speaker 1: at some point. But if there's still one area on
Speaker 1: the team that I'm still wanting to see a change
Speaker 1: in or something extraordinary happening would be wide receiver. But anyways,
Speaker 1: we're talking about kickers specifically, and I think he's been amazing.
Speaker 1: He's been surprising me. Definitely didn't think he would be
Speaker 1: playing the way that he is when they signed him back.
Speaker 1: You know, you look on Twitter and even because you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we already you were already here, you were let go
Speaker 1: or whatever for a reason, why are you bringing back
Speaker 1: the same guy that you already had. But he's refreshed
Speaker 1: and he's been doing an amazing job so far. You
Speaker 1: know what thing I will say is, if you want
Speaker 1: to talk about the offense, they have made one big
Speaker 1: significant change in my opinion, that is very in my opinion,
Speaker 1: not Garrett like, and that is playing Pollard n Zeke
Speaker 1: playing Pollard enze We saw it for so many years
Speaker 1: where they were like serious three you talked about, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you put him in for serious three. If things don't
Speaker 1: go well, you don't see him till the second half.
Speaker 1: They have incorporated him into the offensive game plan now
Speaker 1: and we saw it yesterday with Zeke back where he
Speaker 1: is a focal point of this offense. And that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean Zeke doesn't get curious and they don't use Zeke
Speaker 1: in the ways that you can use him best. But
Speaker 1: now he is a weapon. And if you're going to
Speaker 1: play the Cowboys, you better be prepared for Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: and all that he can do. And showing that wheel
Speaker 1: route yesterday just adds one more component where defenses have
Speaker 1: to be aware of what he's doing. Well said, but
Speaker 1: he's also running the ball at the middle. No, none
Speaker 1: of that works if you don't show that he can
Speaker 1: be running back and run the ball up the middle.
Speaker 1: Not all the time because that's not his forte. But
Speaker 1: you can't do all the other stuff if he doesn't
Speaker 1: play that kind of stuff. So that both of it
Speaker 1: is is if we go back and count how many
Speaker 1: games has Zeke and Tony had the same amount of carries? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they both had fifteen in this game. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I don't think there's many games you
Speaker 1: could say it got close. It's been close, but I
Speaker 1: think this was one of the first ones that we've
Speaker 1: had where they both got the same amount of carries.
Speaker 1: And I want to mention real quick about you. We
Speaker 1: talked about the special teams. Turpin is becoming a really,
Speaker 1: really good all around returner. And I'm not just talking
Speaker 1: about a guy in space. A lot of guys can
Speaker 1: do that. I'm talking about we saw it in the
Speaker 1: press box. Really short kick, and that's because they're stared
Speaker 1: at him. Really short kick. He flies up there, it
Speaker 1: gets everyone out of the wayfair catch and makes that catch,
Speaker 1: doesn't let it bounce where it could hit a player,
Speaker 1: hit Joseph or somebody right go up there and catch
Speaker 1: the ball. And he does that. He's the surehanded guy.
Speaker 1: Well he did drop it. He did drop that one.
Speaker 1: I guess he got it. He got it back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really put that on your legend. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with with what he's done. He's become a really all
Speaker 1: around returner. That is a weapon that that teams are
Speaker 1: scared off. To your point, they tried to set him
Speaker 1: up on that play. The Paul that CD caught on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, the Terrence Williams toe tap looking play. They
Speaker 1: you know, they pull the center and get him in space.
Speaker 1: They're running, They're running Turpin on a go on the outside.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and launch that thing down the sideline.
Speaker 1: Turpins in the game, Yeah, he just went he went vertical,
Speaker 1: and what happened is you had to tight end underneath
Speaker 1: and then CD a little further up the field. But
Speaker 1: then they tried to run Turpin and set it up
Speaker 1: to where they can get launch a launch point from
Speaker 1: Dak all the way down the field on the Schultz
Speaker 1: incomplete in the end zone. The first drive of the game,
Speaker 1: they held his arm one arm, that's why. But also
Speaker 1: they also Turpin was flying around on the right side.
Speaker 1: I don't I couldn't tell exactly what the safety was,
Speaker 1: but I'd like to have seen him just throw it there.
Speaker 1: And then it has been one on one in space
Speaker 1: and I'll take a take Turpin on whoever's out there
Speaker 1: with him one on one to the end zone. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing how much better he how
Speaker 1: much more he improves next year, because right now I
Speaker 1: still think his game is he's just like a little
Speaker 1: too anxious and too like come down, you know, there's
Speaker 1: some chaos, and the way he's coming off a second season,
Speaker 1: like that's also what people find. Yeah yeah, he had
Speaker 1: like twenty games in a yeah yeah, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: But it's just he's like it. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to necessarily use the level, the maturity word or anything,
Speaker 1: but just what comes with experience, the calmness that comes
Speaker 1: with experience, because at the same time that anxiousness is
Speaker 1: as part of his game and what you like about
Speaker 1: him and what creates his amount of speed. But he's
Speaker 1: just he's so good and he just needs to kind
Speaker 1: of polish a little more and then he'll be a
Speaker 1: freaking amazing special teams player for you. All right, appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys, join us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll start
Speaker 1: getting into Cowboys versus Giants for you Giants offense and
Speaker 1: defense tomorrow since we got a compact week, so we'll
Speaker 1: have both and we'll get you guys some perspective on
Speaker 1: what you expect to see this Thursday. Till then for
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