WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Another Mix Bag 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.000 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:16.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.600 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.919 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.280 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:36.599 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.960 It is Tuesday, January fourth, twenty twenty two, Season seventeen, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.479 Episode number ninety. Welcome to the latest edition of The 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.959 Break Life INSBBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. David Nick 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.560 here with me ambers out today Nicholas Star with a 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:56.720 ninety What you got the best you got? Yeah, they 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.200 didn't have a lot of ninety. They didn't have a 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.600 lot of nineties in like in the eighties and seventies. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:08.919 They really didn't start doing ninety too late. About Jay Ratliffe, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.560 it was ninety. I like that. It's a pretty good player, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.760 scariest player. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jay Ratliffe. I don't know 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.760 what y'all were talking about upstairs. I guess it was 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.640 on the air from the previous show about fight about 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.479 a grizzly bear and a gorilla idea. What they were talking. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.880 I don't know either. But Jay Ratliffe I put him 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.080 in there, and I mean like he had one scariest 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.800 players I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, and he kind of 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.880 helps if you're playing defensive tackle, like I kind of 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.280 want you to be scary, right, I don't. I don't 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:41.480 think Jay Ratliffe was the most scariest ninety though. Who was. Yeah, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.959 I'm agreeing with you. Yeah, that didn't take long. I 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.760 didn't cover him. Hey, Ratliffe scared the hell out of me. Yeah. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.160 Lonzo Spellman was big. It was big. You remember the 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.840 time in the on the airplane, Nick, Yeah, that was funny. Yeah, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.240 Lonzo Spellman and Chris and I are we both saw this. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.120 We were sitting in the back back in the days. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:08.040 We were sitting very back. Spellman literally with didn't He 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.240 was sitting down in his seat and he on the 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.920 plane and he opened the door. But I mean he 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.240 opened like the what's it called the cabin overhead had been. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.800 He opened it sitting down and closed it. Now he 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.400 turned out his bag, went through his bag, put it 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.920 back in and closed it without getting out. Never got up. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.160 So everybody out there listening, like, get catch a mental 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.200 image of this. You're sitting in your seat. Someone reaches 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.959 up to the overhead, opened it. You know, the little 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.480 thing you pull up. Opening it is the easiest part. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.200 Then grab your bag, pull it down without it dropping 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.200 on your head, look through it, put it back up closed. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:52.200 The overhead met that guy pretty good. Not only is 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.880 he big, Like that tells you how long his arms were. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.480 He was in the top percentile in his combat. I'm 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.880 guessing he was in the window seat. OK, that would 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.280 have been a whole different level. I was a spellman boy. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.120 He had some crazy and you know, it's sad because 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.680 he went through some some things and he was it 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.000 was he was and maybe he still is and you know, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.320 he just there were some incidents there. It was tough 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.079 for him. Um and the cowboy. I mean there was 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.520 times where they couldn't get him off the field. One 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.639 time he would not sub remember, you know, and he's 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.760 the recubon tells the story like they were like, good, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.799 go go in there for for Zoe. And he goes 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.560 in there and he's like, I'm not coming out. So 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.600 then he runs out and the coaches are yelling at him. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.840 He's like, what do you want me to do? Right? 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.480 Why don't y'all go get him off the field? How 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.560 about that? There was the time where the trainers went 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.800 into the locker room in Tampa Bay. Where's he's not? 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.560 He's on in the pregame warm ups? Where is he? 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.160 They go in there and he's sitting in his locker 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.160 with his jersey on backwards. His jersey's on backwards, and 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.360 he's sitting in his locker, and they're like, I don't 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.120 know how to help this guy. That's tough man. Yeah 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.640 he was. He was a good football player for Trump. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.240 Yet some things he was having to work with and 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:07.000 deal with. But about I said, tank and yesterday eighty nine, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.080 I was gonna go with Randy Williams Randall Williams. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.400 I do remember Randy Williams. What was three point how 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:18.400 many second point? Five seconds? Five seconds? Her touchdown? Eagles 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.120 went on sidekick, Williams got it, rand it in for 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.040 a touchdown. I just think the clock operator was eating 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.960 a hot dog, wasn't wasn't ready for it? And but 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.880 either way, now correct me here because you have a 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.920 better memory. Obviously. Um. The reason why that was really 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.880 interesting was wasn't it the year before when the Eagles 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.599 started the game with a an on side kick and 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.040 they got it. And then the next year they tried 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.440 it again. He recovers it and runs it back. Is 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.240 that what happened? No, but that's explains your story is better. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.920 But it was three years later, three years later, two 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.680 thousand the Pickle Juice game to start the season, they 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.840 went on sidekick, they got it. They beat the Cowboys 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.400 forty one seventeen whatever. Terrible games, one hundred, probably the 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.720 worst game in my time. Covering the two thousand and 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.960 three they tried it again on site kick to start 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.080 the game and Randall Williams got it and ran it 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:07.920 in for a touchdown. And it goes three years later, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.000 three years later, same thing. Exactly, we've already established, same thing. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.040 You're now your perception of time is skew. I just 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.800 put it all together, like, put it all together. They've 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.279 you been here? What? Four years? Five? Yeah? Exactly? I 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.240 have the memories. I just don't know where they all fit. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.680 Do you think Dave's been here? How many seasons is 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.240 this for a day? If I had to guess seven, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.760 it's not awful. Where are you nine? How many of 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.200 you think Amber has been here? Oh? God, twenty five. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:41.760 Oh wow, it's just that on or Ollam listening. No, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.839 I would I would guess right around the same time 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.479 as a little bit lessan you probably like seven seven, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.760 three years after me. I think it's about six. Yeah, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:55.840 that makes sense. Well, Rob Ever Riveting Radio Radio. They 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.920 love it, Dave. Every time we do it and you 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.520 say that people on Twitter comeback. I can say, we 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.160 like these old stories for some people. For every person 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.080 that does that, there's somebody in their car right now 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.520 that's just screaming at us to shut up. Cowpoys. Play 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.200 the Eagles this week. They're gonna play with some of 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.760 their guys. That's what they're saying. I'm not sure if 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.040 they really really believe that, but they say right now 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.239 that they're gonna play these guys, and they may treat 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.640 this game like the third preseason game. All right, in 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.839 and out, let's go. So let's get into that that 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.920 was on the rundown, but it's farther down. But we'll 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.520 go ahead and jump into it now since you did it. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.520 All right, So, Mike McCarthy says yesterday, we need to 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.599 stay in a rhythm. This is our first time in 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.000 the playoffs together. We want to go in there as 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.880 strong as possible with momentum and play style. My question 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.200 for you guys is do you think it's important to 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.760 use the Philly game to build momentum into the playoffs, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.920 because I don't think they really have any right now. No, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.919 I don't know where was the momentum on Sunday. I 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.840 get it, but I'm asking you the question. No, I 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.920 had four game winning streak with the best win they've 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.359 had all year against Washington, and then you wouldn't have 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.280 known any of that when they played the game. That's 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.080 my big thing. I like, I don't want to say 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.280 that you're wrong. That stuff all sounds great, but they 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.800 just showed me that it doesn't really account for all 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.280 that much. At the end of the day, when you kick, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.559 when you kick the ball off, especially if you're playing 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.360 a good team, and say what you will. The Eagles 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.280 have turned it around impressively this year. Honestly, I think 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:20.880 a lot of that's who they've played in the second 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.000 half of the season. But even if they're great, they're 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.320 not gonna be playing anybody. They've got twelve guys on 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.400 the COVID list and they're on a short week, and 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.640 they know that they're gonna have to get ready to 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.240 play a good team in the playoffs. Not just to 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.080 be clear the expectations, the majority of them probably will 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.160 come back if they're symptom. If they're having symptoms, number one, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.600 if those symptoms are lessening by Friday, they can be 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.640 back to play on Saturday because of the interpose new protocol, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.920 that's the protocol if they're lesson Basically, basically, here's how 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.880 the protocol goes. You have five days where you have 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.880 to be quarantined, but if your symptoms have lessened, then 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.400 you can go back and you can play as long 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.920 as you're not have like fever. But if you're if 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.560 you if you are basically the way they said it was, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.000 if your your symptoms aren't lessening. So for example, um, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.560 if you've got a cough and your cough is better 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.200 on Friday than it was on Thursday, in you're okay 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.080 to go back and play. Okay, So if you had 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.560 explosive diarrhea and now it's just diarrhea, it's a symptom 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.880 of COVID. I think it is. Yeah, I think it 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.880 is that What is going I don't know where, I 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.920 don't know. I just think I just think that it's 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.520 so weird about lessening. It's lessening. Well, do you have 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.040 a st throat kind of all right, you're in, you're in, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.720 You're good. That goes back to my even whatever the 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.360 protocols are, though, like if let your Cox still feels 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.839 kind of sick on Friday, even if he feels well 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.680 enough to play, how many snaps are you gonna make 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.679 him play? Like what you're gonna put him through that? 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.960 In a game that really does Philly has less to 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.199 play for than Dallas does. They're already in. They can't hang, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.079 they can't get higher than six. They're gonna they're gonna 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.920 go play a division champion in the warm weather city, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.559 like they're either going to be in Tampa, La or Arizona. 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.720 That so like it's not even like you can avoid 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.360 a cold weather situation outside Dallas. Or can they play 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.120 I don't they can't play Dallas. I thought that was 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.800 the Philly if Dallas gets up to the to the 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.080 third or you're right, it's okay, No, there are two 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.400 scenarios where I think it's it's a long shot. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.920 okay again another indoor stadium, like they're just you're playing 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.520 a good team indoors or in warm weather, like, they 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.120 just don't have a lot to play for. And so 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.000 even if some of these guys come back from covin, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.400 I sure, absolutely sure, Which goes back to my point that, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.560 like I mean, I don't want to sit everybody. You 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.880 can't sit everybody anyway. You only have forty eight. That's 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.840 and I love I love Mike McCarthy's transparency. They're just 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.000 sort of breaking it down for maybe people that don't 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.000 think about it that minutely. You only have forty eight players. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.439 If you just sit eleven starters, then you're just decimating 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.160 the rest of the game in terms of like who's 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.520 got to do special teams, who's got to play snaps? 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.680 Unless you put twelve players on COVID. Sure, oh I 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:10.040 thought about five people up. I'm just saying you could 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.160 definitely do that. You throw all your practice squad guys 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.040 up to play this game, and then so this is 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 a week, Well, maybe you do your test on Thursday. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.400 I'm just saying, I'm saying maybe that the eagle because 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.600 because you get COVID replacements for all of When I 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.960 saw the announcement, that flashed through my brain, like I'm not. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.680 I'm not going to accuse them of doing that, but 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.880 I was, like a lot of veteran you know, Rodney 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.400 McCloud's on the list, Fletcher Cox is on the list. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.520 You never know, you never know, you never know. But 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.280 I don't know. I just the offense needs to play 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.280 some snaps. I get that you definitely don't want them 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.360 just absolutely taking the week off. But I have a 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.880 hard time buying this momentum thing. When they had all 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.920 the momentum in the world on their side going into 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.120 Sunday and they looked as disjointed as they ever have. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.720 I thought about this this morning. The NFL schedule makers 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.760 keep doing this and it's not working. So you know, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.760 every year we look at the schedule and we see 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.439 this last game of the year at Philly or whatever. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.960 You're like, well, this game could be I can remember 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.679 three now in the last ten years, and they haven't 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.120 meant anything, and it's been bad football every time, and 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.800 this one's gonna be the fourth. I mean, remember when 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.960 Stephen McGee had to play and they had wrapped up 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.400 and the Cowboys won that game. And then and then 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.839 in twenty and sixteen, Mark Sanchez played and Romo played 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.240 and everyone sat and it boosted the Eagles to the 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.760 Super Bowl for the next year. That's what they say. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.840 Seventeen is one of the worst sketball games I've ever 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.120 watched in my life. And it's and anytime the Cowboys 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.760 are shutting out a team through three quarters and you 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.160 start Todd Archer looked over and starts flipping through like 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.440 once a last time I had to shut out. It's 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.720 like six nothing over the Eagles in two thou seventeen 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.439 six nothing Bryce Butler's count. Bryce Butler scored that touchdown 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.360 like pretty late, right like it was late in the game, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.600 bad game, and Dan Bailey missed the extra point if 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.320 I remember correctly, that's why it was six. Yeah, Bryce 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.800 didn't score until the it was early fourth, but so 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.640 we didn't get our first heard first score until the 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.680 fourth quarter. Bailey misses the extra point. Wow, it wasn't 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.199 ninety nine yard drive. I don't remember that. I don't either, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.160 But they they were, they were the good team. They 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.520 had already wrapped everything up, and so here we are 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.040 both teams kind of wrapped things up. That That game 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.040 was the epitome of Jason Garrett saying I'll be damned 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.160 if I'm going eight and eight, I'm not doing it. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.040 Because they finished nine and seven, they were out of 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.160 the playoffs, they had lost the Seattle the week before, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.839 and Jason, Jason Garrett was like, you're not putting another 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.839 eight and eight on my resume? Screw you guy. Yet 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.400 not until not until eight years later. Yeah, all right, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.920 let's let's go ahead. Oh, actually, we'll know the question 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.800 for you guys on that now. Knowing that and Jerry 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.160 said it, Stephen said it, Mike has said it. They 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.719 all expect they're going to play, they say play to win, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.959 all that kind of stuff, but we all know that 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.480 in this kind of scenario, there still might be situations 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.480 where you look at certain players and you like, you know, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.320 they need a week to not play because of injuries 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.480 that they're trying to nurse. Who are some of those guys? 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.160 Who are some of the guys you could still if 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.720 they're still saying that they're playing to win, that you 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.560 could see them say, hey, this is a week that 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.280 we really do need to sit this guy. I would 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.360 love to sit both of the running backs. I don't 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.120 know if that's going to happen, especially if Dak's gonna play, Like, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.719 do you send Corey Clement and maybe Edo Smith out 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.280 there to protect Dak Prescott. I don't know, but I 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.679 at the Flemino's Eagles. Yeah, good point. At the very least, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.480 I would like to see a limited role for Zeke 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.679 and Tony Pollard, like just get them off their feed, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.640 give them a week to get right. Tyrant Smith is 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.720 another one, going back to the COVID thing. No idea 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.560 how severe his symptoms are, but maybe give Kean O'Neill 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.600 a week to just not be out there running around 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.920 short of breath or whatever might be bothering him. Are 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.240 we sure about Keian O'Neill even being available? No, I 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.080 don't know what the new rules are with with players 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.400 that are vaccinated or unvaccinated or whatever. Well, for unvacced 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.480 it's the same, right, so, well I thought it was. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.839 Is it not five? Is it even for unvaccinated? Yeah, 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.880 because Carson Wentz played, Yeah, I think it's five for 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.200 all players. I think for all players it's five. And 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.560 then it's a matter of what are your symptoms, like 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.760 do you have still have symptoms or the symptoms symptoms lessening? 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.360 Like it's that kind of stuff that's the equation. Now, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.920 so there's I would assume he has a possibility of 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.440 being back unless he's like really experiencing some some really 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.320 tough symptoms, I would assume he has a possibility to 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.320 be back. DeMarcus Lawrence, Like, again, that's a one not 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.520 somebody that you're just gonna take out of the game. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.440 But not all of these guys. I want everybody to play. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.080 I just don't see the benefit of playing like seventy five. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.560 Do you think in twenty eighteen when they went up 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.760 to New York in a game that they'd already wrapped 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.720 things up and Zeke didn't play, but but Dad did, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.960 And that was one of those games where you know, 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.680 they rallied to win thirty six thirty five, and there 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.640 was a lot of people that think that that helped 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.160 them the next week, at least for Dak. Yeah, and 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.400 winning that game against Seattle that that was one where 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.920 I think momentum maybe did help because they been Dak 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.640 drove down and they wanted the great game. Yeah, one 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.200 of the best throws of his career. Basically, I get it. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.520 I like I said, I don't think it's silly. I 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.920 guess I just make light of it because you didn't 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.600 see it in practice at all the last two weeks. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.120 The momentum didn't help them giving them a chance to 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.280 play and game plan against an opponent. Again, this is 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.840 a team that's going on the playoffs. You can't just 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.040 completely write the Eagles off as a bad opponent. I get, Yeah, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.400 there's value in that, and that's why I do think 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.080 they should play. Isn't momentum too, It's not just a 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.720 result because obviously you look at a game where you 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.480 score fifty six points and you're like, man, that was 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.920 that must have been a really great game. But there 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.160 was still some of the same lingering things that we've 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.680 seen from this offense that weren't quite right that have persisted, right, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.920 So it is momentum more maybe figuring out how to 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.040 get some of those things going. How do you get 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.000 more rhythm in your offense? How do you get more 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.920 can you sustain drives without killing yourselves with penalties? Like, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.080 maybe that's more of the momentum that you're looking for 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.440 that you can get maybe out of this game that 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.280 you hadn't gotten in the last I don't know how 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.160 many weeks. How about the benefit of giving your workhorse 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.680 running backs who were beat up eight days to not 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.880 get pounded. I mean that that could factor into that stuff. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:34.000 I think if I could fix anything with this Cowboys 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.720 offense right now, it would be the running game, just 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.240 to get it to a level of competency where you 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.640 feel like you can average north of four yards a 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.400 carry and flirt with one twenty one thirty, maybe even 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.320 one fifty yards on the day. I mean that again, Like, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.200 I hate to take credit away from Dak because I 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.480 do think he is good enough to carry it. But 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.480 you don't want him to, you know what I mean? Yeah, sorry, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.640 go ahead, No, you don't want them to. Like this 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.600 team is at its best when they are when it's 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.920 pick your poison, when it's fine clog our throwing lanes. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.600 We're gonna run for five and a half yards to 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.879 carry on you stack the box, We're gonna throw it 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.800 all over the field. They haven't had that on a 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.520 consistent basis since the bye week. All right, let's take 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.520 our first break when we come back. I don't want 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.000 to talk a little bit about that. I actually want 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.199 to dive a little bit deeper into that which you 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.480 think has been the biggest problem for this offense. 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Back to the 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:39.080 break All right, Cowboys Nation, head to the pro shop, 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.720 step up your game for the playoffs or some classics 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.159 like jerseys, t shirts, hats, plus exclusive collections and unique 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.000 accessories when you visit your local Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.080 or log on the shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.240 a fanatics experience. Welcome back. It is the second segment 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.640 of the Break Life NESTUBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.800 Let's talk a little bit about the offense. I want 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.479 to dive into the running game. Passing game is two 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:04.080 different parts. We've talked a lot about DAK and the 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:08.440 struggles of their passing game. DAK, the receivers, the offensive 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.520 line keeping people off DAK, all that stuff, right. I 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.840 noticed something interesting though, when I started looking at the 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.280 rushing totals for the Cowboys this year against what I 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.159 think we all agree and you can correct me if 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.720