WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Season Recap 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.000 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:18.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.640 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.960 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.320 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:38.639 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.199 It is Tuesday, January eleventh, twenty twenty two, Season seventeen, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.400 episode number ninety five. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.040 The Break. We're life nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.599 with Nick and Dave joining me. Um, Nick, let's get 0:00:53.640 --> 0:01:00.240 started with a ninety five. I'm gonna go with Chad Hennings. Yes, 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.600 I'm sure there's a better one than that. I was 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.960 about to say, you don't seem very convinced that that's 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.800 the number of person you really want to talk about. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.039 Colston Weatherington maybe wow, Yeah, he was a Dallas Desperado guy. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:12.920 That man. That may not have been right first. Was 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.399 it the same number with the Desperadoes. I don't think so. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.720 He might have been ninety five for them. For those 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.840 who don't know, the Dallas Desperadoes are that ages us. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.160 This was when Jerry actually owned an arena football team 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.480 and Nick used to do the Playboy play No, you 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.120 did the color color for the for the Dallas Dallas 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.880 desperto anybody do that. It's fun. It's fun, right, Yeah, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:34.800 kind of except for the fact that, like you know, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.440 in the season was over, this season, you're like, here, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:44.280 we're going into the Yeah, I'm gonna, I mean, not 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.880 to first world problems, not to complain about this great 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:48.960 job that we have, but I think I would cry, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.840 Like I probably have friends like is it New Orleans 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.600 that does that or it's it's I mean that is 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.400 that's a thing. But like the New Orleans Saints dot 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.640 com beat people like they do work for the Pels. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.639 But I don't think they just become Pelicans beat writers 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.600 when the season's over. You know, I think that they 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.320 have they might. I don't know. I know, you know, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.760 the Seahawks employees do a lot of stuff with the Sounders. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.520 There are a lot of situations like that around sports, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.040 where you just put another hat on when your season 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.080 ends and go back to work. I'm very grateful that 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:21.880 I don't, because I mean, I feel like the stuff 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.880 we do with the draft and all that feels like 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.400 a full time job. Like the thought of everything we've 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.639 been doing since mid July. Yeah, and it's mid January 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.440 and you just go right back into doing another season. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.720 That the thought of that makes me want to cry. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.480 David Irving's a ninety five. That's who I was going 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.840 to bring up. Okay, good, I'm gonna admit this to 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.480 you for the first time publicly. I built the site 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.120 for the Desperadoes, and I would help with putting the 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:54.440 content up. Never once attended a game ever for the 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:59.639 Dallas Desperados, really, not even one. The games are fun, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.000 even one. Some teammate you are. I know, I would 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.960 have been the same way. I just I had no 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.520 desire to one. Though I had no desire. I mean, 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.360 they can in the playoffs, and I know, but after 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.440 we finished the Cowboys season, I was like, just like 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.840 I'd be like, Okay, I'm good, I can rest for 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.760 a bit. Didn't know you felt that way. Didn't know 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.040 you felt that that was the reason. So when we 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.240 were like, you know, Rob and I were over there like, yeah, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.160 I got this. We got the any firebirds coming in 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.359 to night for oh, I'd post the stories now. Back 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.720 then I was posting stories, so Nick would send the 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.440 story and I'd put it up. But we overcovered that 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.760 I was. I never went to a game. I consider 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.080 I consider myself a football junkie. Like, if it's on, 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.320 I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch maction on Tuesday Night. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.640 I'm gonna watch Thursday night football, no matter how bad 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.520 the matchup is. I could never get into arena. The 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.000 New Orleans had Voodoo when I was growing up, Like 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.880 they had a team. I had no desire to go. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.080 I had no desire to watch it. You know. It 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.200 was one of those things where like I always thought 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.960 it was kind of like six Flags, like taking the 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.160 family to six Flags. Okay, you're not gonna take the 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.920 family like two weeks in a row, three weeks, you're 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.640 gonna go and ride the rides and maybe you can 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.560 go later on or whatever. It doesn't matter. Who they play, 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.920 doesn't matter. Oh, Chicago Fires coming in, thank whatever, just 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.520 the crush, Chicago Crush. Sorry, yeah, Bean was there too, Yeah, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.920 Bean was there. Yeah, as you can see, Bean was there. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:27.800 Yeah yeah, yeah, who's the fire that's Chicago's NMLS team. No, none, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.039 the Firebirds were Indiandiana. Yeah. I just think the big 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.320 team was the Philadelphia's Soul. That was the game, Dallas 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.520 versus Philadelphia. Big games. They would put it on Monday 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.480 Night Football. One time. We wasn't the owner of Philadelphia Soul. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:45.039 J Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I think and I know, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.280 like doing what are we doing? Sorry? Right it is? 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:54.000 Let's go okay, good Colston, we got it. Happens when 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.320 you start the show with Colston Weatherman. All right, here 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:57.880 we goes. Here's what we didn't do today. We're gonna 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.960 do a season wrap since it's the end of the 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.560 regular season and we're heading into the playoffs. I got 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.280 a lot of questions I got lined up for you 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.760 guys and what not that you're rap? I thought we 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.680 were rapping. Would you like to bet? I bet Dave 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.920 can throw some I listened, can run of you guys? 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.600 Give me like a freestyle? No? No, just no, I 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.120 think I've said this before. I am painfully white, like 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.720 I enjoy to enjoy listening. Yeah, you're not a No. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.920 I would never look so white if I did that. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.120 I mean it would be terrible. I bet Dave could 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.520 actually do a pretty good job. But we're not doing it. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.560 If he thought about it, he could. Probably. That's the thing. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.760 If you gave me the afternoon, maybe if you think 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.200 about it, then it's worse, right, because then you're trying, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.479 and yeah, it wouldn't be good for you. All right. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.120 So back on the topic, here we're gonna go. Here's 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.960 what we're gonna do. I got questions lined up for 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.080 you guys, and the important the intent of this is 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.080 to give people kind of an insight as to what 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.680 you guys think of this team finishing the regular season 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.040 heading into the postseason. And where I want to start 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.840 is this is an open ended question. Most of these 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.640 are going to have answers that are you know, you 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.240 can choose an answer. This is an open end. And 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.240 let's assume for a second you've got somebody that hasn't 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.039 really watched much of the Cowboys this year and they're like, oh, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.280 Dave Nick, tell me a little bit about this Cowboys 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.680 team going into the playoffs, Like what do they do well? 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.440 What do they not do so well? How would you 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.440 summarize this team? Let's start with you, Dave from I 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:21.240 think I would summarize this Cowboys team as being a 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.520 fascinating like Boomer bust potential. Like if you've never watched 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.680 a down of the Cowboys, I would be like, this 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.240 is one of the most talented rosters in the entire playoffs. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.000 They got everything going, and if they hit their stride, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.200 they're one of two or three teams that you should 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.479 legitimately consider a Super Bowl contender. They also have the 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.880 potential to not rise to those expectations at all, Like 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.839 they could flame out in the first round. That wouldn't 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.960 surprise me, and that's that's kind of the fun of it. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.839 I think both of those things are in play, which 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.880 is terrifying as a fan, but for a neutral observer, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.120 you're like, you should watch this because it could be 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.920 really really sing or really really not great, depending on 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.039 what team shows up. I think I think you're right. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.640 I mean, I think this team is full of good players. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.600 They probably have the most good players in the league. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.960 They don't they don't have a ton of great players, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.400 and that was Evan. I don't think so. I mean, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.440 I think great players make the Pro Bowl. I think 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.120 good players are Pro Bowl alternates, and I think that's 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.600 kind of what what happened here. In a Pro Bowl 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.080 is a little bit tricky because you got a lot 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.840 of guys in the NFC. You might have made it 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.960 if you were in another league, whatever. But I just 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.360 think they have a lot of good players. When you 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.920 have good players and they're playing well together, boy you 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.320 can beat anybody. But the reason the difference between good 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.840 and great is that you're not always there. And I 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.520 think that Look at the offense, I mean, look at 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.200 I mean, Dak has had a good year. You know, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.240 he's had a good I don't think Dak has been great. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.960 There's been some games he's been great. There's been games 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.440 he's not been. I think he's been He's had a 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.120 good year. How many great players you say this team has, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:08:00.400 um um four. I think that's the four you'd think. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.280 I think. I think Michael Parsons is great. Yeah, I 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.280 really do think he's like he's phenomenal. And I think 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.640 Zach Martin is as well. And if you have to 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:11.720 now I don't want to get ahead. They gotta beat 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.400 the forty nine ers. I would just if you do 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.560 have to play Tampa Bay again, or get to play 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.680 Tampa Bay again. Those two players didn't play in the game, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.280 and I know Michael put was there that this isn't 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.840 the Mica that's going to be playing in that game. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.000 So I think those two guys are great. Who else? 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.040 I guess that depends on That's I hate saying that. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.920 It's probably depends on what's your definition of great, Like 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.720 I think always playing at a high level every game, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.280 just just you can always count on. The way I 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:41.720 look at is are they one of the best in 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.960 the league. That's what I That's how I look at great. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.240 Are they considered one of the best in the league 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.800 at their position? If that's so, those are two different 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.120 things for me. Like I think Dak fits that category. Okay, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.600 I don't think Dak fits what Nick said, at least 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.160 not this season. Same thing goes for um Tie and 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:05.680 Smith probably. Um maybe I'll throw digs in there. I'll 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.320 throw digs in your category. Yeah, I think because we 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.880 went over it like last week, Like the supposed like 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.480 awful games, there haven't been that many of them. He's 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.200 been reliable basically every year to either take a guy 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.360 away or get you the ball back. I don't think 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:20.840 he's won the best in the league. No, No, that's 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:25.080 what I'm saying. He fits Nicks and yours. OK. Yeah, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.840 so I would I would probably I would say four, Okay, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.959 I would say four. I think Diggs is at a 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.760 minus three in touchdowns this year. I think I think 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.640 if you want to give him five, that he's given up, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.320 that he's taken two away too. That's a minus three 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.680 with the eleven picks. That's not bad. That's not bad 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.480 at all. That's really good. The reason why I asked 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.680 that question was because you were kind of comparing that 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.040 to other teams, and I look around the other teams 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.960 that are in the playoffs. I think you'd be hard 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.800 pressed to find a team that has more than four 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.599 great players. Right. Kansas City City is up there, But 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.440 Kansas City, I think it's very top heavy. And then 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.800 they office they have to kind of you know, it's hard. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.640 It's hard to pay these guys that kind of money. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.280 Can't pay my homes and Kelsey and all these guys, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.240 you know, so it's hard to The NFL is not 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.040 designed for you to have a bunch of Honestly, I 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.880 think Kansas City might be just like Dallas. I think 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.520 they might have four great players. Like I don't think 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.160 four is a lot of great players, Like that's that's 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.400 a big number. Yeah, Yeah, they just have it. They 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.440 just have it a more high profile position. Yeah, and 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.360 they may and they may not have the same number 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.920 of good players as Dallas, like yeah, earlier Dallas probably 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.640 has more good players. But I think I guess the 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.079 point I'm making is when you look at their roster, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.199 I think they've got as many great players as any 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.000 team in the playoffs. Maybe not the greatest because you 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.160 don't say dek Is is Rogers, but they got some 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.120 great players, and they got enough great players to be 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.440 able to be competitive. That's going back to my point. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.559 Like on paper, I think they're one of the three 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.240 or four best teams in the entire tournament, maybe even 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.000 one of the best two or three. Yeah, but paper 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.920 it hasn't translated. It has not translated to the field 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.480 just as often as it has over the second half 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.120 of the season. And I think again, like going, that's 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.600 why it seems like there's a little bit of angst 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:10.280 among fans right now and media just because, um, what 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.000 they looked like in September and October was like a 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.559 just a world eating juggernaut, and we know they can 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:22.400 do that, they have not done it consistently since before Halloween. Yeah, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.400 all right, let's go into the next Jeff something. This 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.000 game is gonna be so much fun. I can't wait. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.880 I cannot wait. Yeah, I never wanted a game to 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.280 hurry up and get here so fast for for multiple reasons. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.320 Just get us to the game. What are you implying? Yeah, um, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.319 just get to the game. I don't want to miss 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.440 the game. I mean, our world changes every twenty four hours. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:48.040 Oh yeah, call you things chant right now. Everything's kind 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.840 of good. So just again we're biased because we're so 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.040 close to it. But I really do think this is 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.079 the sexiest game in the entire wild Card block, like 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.120 apps yeah sink, yes, more than more than New England, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.480 Buffalo Nickelodeon if you're not, which is ironic because they 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.880 put the worst game on Nickelodeon last year. It was 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.720 Bears Saints. It was trash. Uh yeah, and even Rams 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.400 Rams and Cardinals. I mean I think these division matchups 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:20.920 those are Rams Cards is up there? Buffalo, New England 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.280 doesn't do a whole lot for me. For you, Yeah, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.320 I well, I just I And I'm sorry to them. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.320 I just if you got a rookie quarterback, I just 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.960 don't take you seriously, not in the playoffs. I just 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.480 don't and you can even you can say that about 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.880 this team in twenty sixteen, like in retrospect, maybe their 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:42.080 ceiling was limited by Dak being so young. Um so 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.839 I think it is between star power you taught. I 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.559 mean for nine ers, just because they're ten and seven, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.839 don't sleep on like arguably the best tight end in 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.200 the game. What Deebo Samuel has done this year is wild. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.480 Nick Bosa absolutely one of the best edge rushers in 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.920 the game. UM, Fred Warner pretty good. He gets lost 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.960 in the shuffle. I'm not saying he's like the best, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.520 but he's he's a very good player. They got they 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.959 got plenty of talent. Brandon iu K had a great season, Like, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.520 they got plenty of talent their own, and then you 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:15.760 throw in the stuff for us, like amazing uniform combination, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.600 Like just two of the most iconic uniforms the history 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.959 in the playoffs, iconic brands, everybody who's been like everybody 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.480 grew up with Madden, and some are all doing Cowboys 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.200 forty nine ers games. Like I honestly I said this 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.040 on Sunday. I think maybe that was on purpose. They 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.400 were like, let's put Cowboys forty nine ers in the 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.240 three thirty slot. That's just that's just supposed to be. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.320 I just I think this is this is a dream 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.120 matchup in terms of just juice. Yeah, I can't wait 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.120 to see it. Um, let's me want to the next question, 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.880 this is the This team is the first team in 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.200 the history of the NFL to do these things in combination. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.640 Four thousand plus passing yards with Dak, one thousand plus 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.960 rushing yards with Zeke, one thousand plus receiving yards with CD, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.240 ten plus sacks with Parsons, and ten plus interceptions with Diggs. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.760 My question for you guys is which is the greatest 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:11.120 of these accomplishments. The greatest is the eleven interceptions. I 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.200 think it's just the thing that doesn't happen very often. Um, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.440 that's that'd be my answer to that. I haven't I 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.760 have an answer of why I think that happened this year. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.400 But go ahead, Dave, what what is the greatest accomplishment 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.240 out of that group? I don't disagree with you at all, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.400 but just in the interest of being different, I just can't. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.800 You can't undersell what Micah did. Ten plus sacks is 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.480 a rookie is amazing anyway, Like rookie edge rushers don't 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.640 do that very often, and then you consider that he 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.600 isn't an edge rusher, Like they threw him into that 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.440 basically out of necessity, and he took it and ran 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.320 with it. I mean, so that's and that's maybe they 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.840 obviously thought that he could do that, but for him 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:55.200 to translate so easily and so quickly, that's amazing. Yeah, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.520 the fact that that you know, that's that and that's 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.520 that's that came out. And I think Dave and I 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.320 were in the pres box and we're kind of like 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.320 it was a little i mean like it's it's it's 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.760 a it's fine. It's just one of those things. I'm 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.800 fine that they're all even numbers, you know, when you 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.600 start getting into these wonky stats, just that you're trying 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.120 the more, the more, the more things you list, and 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.280 it's incredible. And I think it speaks to the Cowboys 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.080 having a very star studded, maybe even top heavy roster, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:23.760 Like they've got a lot of guys who are capable 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.680 of doing stuff like that. But the longer the list goes, 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.840 the more my eyes start to glaze over, where it's 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.840 just like they're the first team to score fifty points 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.880 on a Saturday night in Philly when it was below 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.160 thirty degree. I'm just like, okay, like you're right, but 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.680 how much should I really care? And the most interesting 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.880 thing about that is if you I wonder, I don't 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.560 know this, but I wonder if you take out the 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.320 ten plus interceptions, how many teams have done the other four? 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.760 That's the unique right, Like you said, you just don't 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.800 get ten plus interceptions in a season very often. That's what. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.680 Should you take that one out? How many other teams 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.720 have done those things? I bet the dig I bet 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.040 the dig stat is doing a lot of lifting there 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.600 because a lot of teams have done the other stuff. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.680 Like basically every team that makes a Super Bowl run 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.760 is going to have a good quarterback, a good receiver, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.280 a guy who gets to the quarterback, like all of 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.000 that a thousand yards, not a crazy number four running back. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.800 So that's like the rest of that stuff is very 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.160 easy to do. That the rams right there, and then 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.360 you know they probably have a guy with Sachs. They 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.240 just Todd Light didn't get ten picks. I was we've 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.240 I mean, they're I don't know, off the top of 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.280 my head. I know Xavi and Howard had ten last year, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.400 but like, there can't be more than twenty ten interception 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.080 guys in recent history. I mean, there just haven't been 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.680 that many. Um what I what I think that the 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.080 stat also shows is just that, you know, we say, well, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.520 what is this team's identity? We've been asking that, we're 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.440 trying to figure it out. I don't know if they 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.640 have one really something that they lean on all the time. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.240 Their offense has been good some games, some games it's not. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.120 Some games the defense gets turnovers and wins games, some 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.960 games they don't. But they can they can do at all. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.160 They have won in a lot of different ways. So 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.640 that kind of shows me that they can be versatile 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.560 and maybe that is their identity, is that they're a 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.399 multiple team. Like they're a team that can do a 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.399 lot of different things and do a lot of different 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.919 things pretty well. Put it all together. Exactly can you 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.480 do it? Now? Can you do it against superior competition? 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.920 That becomes the real question. I bet I don't know. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.399 I would love to. I would love it to hear 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.320 an honest answer from everybody from all the other thirteen 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:26.680 teams about what their expectations truly are, Like Bengals and Raiders, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.760 you're probably just happy to be here, considering like who 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.680 you are and what you think. So yeah, I think 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:34.960 for the Bengals to be I mean, and that they've 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.679 been great, Joe Burrow has been so awesome, but like 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.480 for them to be in the playoffs in year two 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.040 of his career, they haven't fixed the offensive line and 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.200 all that stuff. They're probably just pumped, like hell yeah, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.920 like we're ahead of schedule. The Raiders firing their coach, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.040 losing their first round pick in the middle of the seat, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.800 like they're probably just happy to be here. Patriots probably 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.920 just happy to be asking are you asking the players? No? No, no, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.360 I'm asking every player, especially when that's why a little 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:01.840 bit like I don't think they all expect they're gonna 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.879 win the Super talking about the fans and the media 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:12.080 around each team. So I like Chiefs, Bills, Packers for sure, Buccaneers, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.000 it's like we're gonna get to the Super Bowl or else. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:16.680 This is a failed effort, you know what I mean. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.080 And so the reason I say all this is I 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.360 just think the Cowboys are interesting. I think that's the expectation, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.879 but I just at the same time, I'm like, they 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.200 could lose this game to San Francisco. Or they could 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.480 also get hot and play like what we've seen and 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.800 just to kick everybody's ass on their way to the 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.440 super Bowl. Like both of those things seem equally possible 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.040 to me, which is also the very frustrating thing. Yeah, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.399 an observer or a fan is you want them to 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.640 play up to their potential, and they don't always quite 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.920 get there. That's the part that's hard to swallow sometimes. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.439 Are we're gonna take our first break, we come back. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.000 We got lots more questions. We're gonna throw it. These 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:51.280 guys will do that when we come right back. This 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.680 is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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