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Speaker 1: It is Monday, December twenty third, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number one oh five. Welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We are live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, we're talking about the Cowboys lost yesterday.
Speaker 1: They lose to the Eagle seventeen to nine, and man,
Speaker 1: do we have so many opinions, so many thoughts on
Speaker 1: this game. We got a lot to discuss. Let's jump
Speaker 1: right in, and because there were so many storylines, literally,
Speaker 1: there were a ton of storylines coming out of this game,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go around the table and initially start
Speaker 1: the conversation by giving each of you an opportunity to
Speaker 1: have somewhat of an opening statement just about what your
Speaker 1: general thoughts are of this team coming off of that
Speaker 1: loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia. We'll start with you, Nick,
Speaker 1: thank you, and before you say anything, take a deep
Speaker 1: breath and then go. Man. So many places as a start,
Speaker 1: they they're just they're just not They're obviously not a
Speaker 1: good team. I mean, we've seen that for a while,
Speaker 1: and they showed us last week that they can, you know,
Speaker 1: have a good moment, but you know when when it
Speaker 1: was really time, Like I've said all along, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna stick with the same theme, they don't. They're not clutch,
Speaker 1: and they're not clutching the plays, and they're not clutch
Speaker 1: in the in the moment to go and just take it.
Speaker 1: They've got the hats in the shirts in a box
Speaker 1: under the tables down there. Just go open the box,
Speaker 1: just go do what you gotta do. But they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't because they're really they're not a good team,
Speaker 1: and they're I don't think they're well coached. And their
Speaker 1: toughness was questioned and they lost. They're not they weren't
Speaker 1: tough yesterday. I don't think in both aspects of being tough.
Speaker 1: All right, eber Well, I don't really know where to start.
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that really bothers me
Speaker 1: is when we come in here in this show and
Speaker 1: talk about things throughout the season. Clearly, if we were
Speaker 1: talking about it, they should know about it, like they
Speaker 1: should be watching the same game and seeing the same things. So,
Speaker 1: for example, when it comes to Amari Cooper, and I
Speaker 1: know we'll get into depth about him and all that,
Speaker 1: but you know, we talked about him not being good
Speaker 1: on the road, and they should know that. Not that
Speaker 1: they should be preparing for a guy that's supposed to
Speaker 1: be your best white receiver, but you should be aware
Speaker 1: of things like that dacked shoulder. Okay, how do you
Speaker 1: create different plays to help in scenarios like this where
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper just doesn't show up in a game, so
Speaker 1: little things like that. It's amazing to see how they
Speaker 1: were able to run the ball last week and then
Speaker 1: this week it was just absolutely on present. And to me,
Speaker 1: it's all about preparation and how do you come up
Speaker 1: with different game plan and different things to do in
Speaker 1: different situations. I just don't get it. But it's all
Speaker 1: about coaching. Yes, the players have a lot to do
Speaker 1: with what happened yesterday, but at the same time, you
Speaker 1: as a coach, you know what you're dealing with, and
Speaker 1: she'd be prepared to attack it, Dave. This is only
Speaker 1: my seventh season covering the team, so my perspective is limited.
Speaker 1: But I've learned a lot about the Cowboys, you know,
Speaker 1: from before my time just working here. I feel like
Speaker 1: I have a good grasp on franchise history in general.
Speaker 1: And this is just the most disappointing Cowboys team in
Speaker 1: recent memory, and certainly among the most disappointing of all time. Um,
Speaker 1: this is this is what I keep going back to.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty seventeen, injuries and legal drama and suspensions
Speaker 1: got in the way. Twenty fifteen you lost your two
Speaker 1: best players. Basically for the year two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: guys were in and out of trouble and headlines and
Speaker 1: you know all you know, gun charges and legal drama.
Speaker 1: What was the drama with this team? Like what got
Speaker 1: in the way they couldn't play? Yeah, exactly, there's there's nothing.
Speaker 1: There was nothing hindering this team all year long, Like
Speaker 1: nobody was there. Like as far as the NFL teams go,
Speaker 1: like one little drama and they got rid of him Tacoma,
Speaker 1: then they Taco's your biggest drama. You're doing all right?
Speaker 1: And that was the one. Yeah, if Layton vander esh
Speaker 1: is your biggest injury. Look at the Philadelphia Eagles. I
Speaker 1: promise you they got lucky in terms of who was
Speaker 1: available for them this year, and none of it mattered.
Speaker 1: Like Tip I always say, like this team's success gets
Speaker 1: in its own way. There's nothing in their way this
Speaker 1: year other than they could not string together good football games.
Speaker 1: And I mean they have to take a hard look
Speaker 1: in the mirror because like there's no outside factor that
Speaker 1: got in their way. They just are a very talented
Speaker 1: football team that is bad and that's frustrating and disappointing.
Speaker 1: This I can't disagree more about that. They're not very talented.
Speaker 1: They're not very talented because they have four Pro bowlers
Speaker 1: that didn't and they're not Pro bowlers. I mean, Travis
Speaker 1: Frederick is not a Pro Bowler. He's going, but he's
Speaker 1: not a Pro Bowler. I mean, they're just not a
Speaker 1: talented team. They're not talented, and they're not tough. The
Speaker 1: one thing I will maybe they're not tough, and I
Speaker 1: can kind of agree with you on that. Where I
Speaker 1: would go different on the talented part is by and large,
Speaker 1: most of these guys were here last year when they
Speaker 1: had a pretty successful season by all accounts, right, So
Speaker 1: there was some talent involved in being able to do that.
Speaker 1: They're one year farther into it with more experience. So
Speaker 1: the expectation was what you saw last year from the
Speaker 1: talent level should have been a little bit better this year.
Speaker 1: And so you're absolutely all talent means is do you
Speaker 1: have the ability or how good is your ability to
Speaker 1: be able to do your job? And I think that
Speaker 1: they are. There are a number of guys on this
Speaker 1: team that if you go player by player, position by position,
Speaker 1: and you're talking about them in context of players around
Speaker 1: the league that do their job, I think you could
Speaker 1: say a vast number of them are considered to be
Speaker 1: talented enough to be up there with the top ten
Speaker 1: guys at their position, top five guys at their position. Right,
Speaker 1: So from that standpoint, I'll give you a good example,
Speaker 1: and I think this will crystallize what you're saying. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to this guy, but Amari Cooper. I
Speaker 1: don't think any of us disagrees that MARII Cooper has talent.
Speaker 1: Then I start getting to the part where you talk
Speaker 1: about where does he have toughness? Does he have that
Speaker 1: mental thing that makes him just go for it like that.
Speaker 1: That's just he's all in. You know. That's the part
Speaker 1: where you have either you got a great point, like
Speaker 1: they just don't seem to have enough of those guys.
Speaker 1: And that's and I'm completely agree for the most part.
Speaker 1: And I think that's been the season long conversation, like
Speaker 1: they're not good, but I don't know how you can
Speaker 1: argue that they're not talented, Like Amari Cooper is a
Speaker 1: talented player, DeMarcus Lawrence is a talented players. Even if
Speaker 1: they haven't played up to their standard. There are so
Speaker 1: many teams that would want this offensive line. They did
Speaker 1: not play well, and you can chalk that up to
Speaker 1: toughness of the physical and mental variety. You can chalk
Speaker 1: that up to chemistry, because it sure doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: this team has any, which is weird because that's always
Speaker 1: been like a calling card of the Jason Garrett era.
Speaker 1: This doesn't feel like a cohesive team at all, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that's why they're seven and eight right now.
Speaker 1: But four thousand yard passer, a thousand yard rusher, two
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers, first time the Cowboys have had two
Speaker 1: wide receivers hit a thousand yards in a season since
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. That screams talent to me. It's
Speaker 1: just not translating to good football. Yep, that's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: Then talent is an overrated word. Then it's like stats,
Speaker 1: I mean all this time. That's why it's the ultimate
Speaker 1: team game, right. You can have the most talented team
Speaker 1: in the world and it's not going to always bail
Speaker 1: you out, especially in the NFL. And it's the same
Speaker 1: thing as the Cowboys right now being the number one
Speaker 1: offense in the league. We know if you've watched the games,
Speaker 1: they're not the number one, but but according to that statistic,
Speaker 1: yeah they are. And so that's where I think it's
Speaker 1: You're right, Talent doesn't really mean a lot at the
Speaker 1: end of the day if you can't assemble it in
Speaker 1: a way to where it actually works together. But game,
Speaker 1: that's what makes this so baffling and frustrating. I just
Speaker 1: I think they have the pieces to be a good
Speaker 1: football team. And it's not even that they're not good.
Speaker 1: They're actively bad. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Actively.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's a difference between not good
Speaker 1: and bad. They're bad. Let's let's go ahead. When talking,
Speaker 1: I mean these these pieces, these pieces to win and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. We need to talk about that and
Speaker 1: see how many of those pieces are really going to
Speaker 1: be back. Yeah, well, let's let's do this. That's not
Speaker 1: today's show. But let's go ahead and take our first break.
Speaker 1: That's probably not today's show. But I do think from
Speaker 1: the context of how they played yesterday, I do want
Speaker 1: to talk about some of these pieces. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the running back. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the wide receiver or a few of the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the quarterbatting. And then we
Speaker 1: got to get to what happened on the offensive line
Speaker 1: and what happened on the defense, because I think there
Speaker 1: were some interesting things that happened throughout this game that
Speaker 1: does make you question, you know, what's going to happen
Speaker 1: with the future of this team and with the future
Speaker 1: of some of these individual players. We'll do that when
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Speaker 1: the Break Welcome back. We're in the second segment of
Speaker 1: The Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star. By the way, it's Christmas time, so Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas to all of you listening to us and those
Speaker 1: of us in this studio. We really do appreciate all
Speaker 1: you guys that take your time every day to come
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Speaker 1: like this where it's been highly disappointing, we still appreciate
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Speaker 1: and uh and all of the above. All right, so
Speaker 1: let's get back to this talk. Um. I want to
Speaker 1: dive into some of the individual parts of this game,
Speaker 1: particularly from the player standpoint. Let's start first with the
Speaker 1: running back. Yesterday, Zeke gets thirteen carriages forty seven yards
Speaker 1: or three point six average. Coming off a game last
Speaker 1: week where you got two one hundred yard rushers and
Speaker 1: by the way, Polot this week got two carriages for
Speaker 1: zero yards, and let's throw in a fumble for good measure.
Speaker 1: But coming off a game like what they had last week,
Speaker 1: what was the difference this week? Because arguably they played
Speaker 1: a tougher defensive front. Last week, you could argue that
Speaker 1: they were at least as good as this defensive front,
Speaker 1: what was the difference? I think the Rams do what
Speaker 1: they do, and they that's the scheme that they play,
Speaker 1: and if you can get you a hat on a
Speaker 1: hat and run the ball and have some success, then
Speaker 1: it opens up everything else. I think the Eagles went
Speaker 1: into the game saying, you know what, that's not practicing
Speaker 1: all week. He hasn't, so let's make him beat us,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna load it up. And you know, and
Speaker 1: I still think you could run more than what you did,
Speaker 1: But I think that they made it more of an
Speaker 1: effort to try to stop the run and force the
Speaker 1: Cowboys because they know the Cowboys are going to do that,
Speaker 1: gonna just kind of take what they what they get,
Speaker 1: and then you know, whoever's on the field or regardless,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I like this matchup. I see Schultz
Speaker 1: out there. He's called two passes this year, but I
Speaker 1: like it and I'm gonna throw it to him, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They just do what they do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, the Eagles clearly made an effort
Speaker 1: and it's funny, like sounds dumb to say, but like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure the Cowboys played it
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Like there were plays to be made
Speaker 1: in the passing game. That was We talked about that
Speaker 1: last week. Like they're not a good secondary, they're banged up.
Speaker 1: They give up a lot of yards and points outside.
Speaker 1: And the plays were there, weren't they. I Mean, Gallop
Speaker 1: drops a long ball, Dak overshoots Tavon on a long ball,
Speaker 1: Cooper drops, Cooper drops one, Gallop drops in a crossing route,
Speaker 1: that Wit drops a wide open pass. How about Um,
Speaker 1: I know I'm forgetting a big one. Oh the it
Speaker 1: was like a comeback. Dak clearly overshot Cooper, but Cooper
Speaker 1: like the most half assed effort you've ever seen to
Speaker 1: go up and get it one. Yeah, the player, the
Speaker 1: plays were there to be made. Dak was bad, and
Speaker 1: so were literally all of the receivers and tight ends
Speaker 1: for that matter. Throw them in there too. So I
Speaker 1: like you can sit here and say, like, well, Zeke
Speaker 1: is the ninety million dollars back, like feed him, feed him,
Speaker 1: which I appreciate that they're not just going to bash
Speaker 1: their head into a brick wall if they don't have to,
Speaker 1: but make a play, make a play in the passing game.
Speaker 1: And like, I know Dak's shoulder probably hurt, and I
Speaker 1: know Amari's got nineteen different ailments at this point in
Speaker 1: the season, but neither one of them. Cooper wasn't even
Speaker 1: on the injury report on Friday, and Dak was designated
Speaker 1: as like there was no doubt. He's a full go.
Speaker 1: He's fine, and so I have to take him at
Speaker 1: his word, and I expect you to play better than
Speaker 1: that if you are worth the payday that you're heading for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he actually is. He in my opinion, played like he practiced,
Speaker 1: which he didn't practice, and you could tell in the
Speaker 1: game that he wasn't sharp. He went twenty five or
Speaker 1: forty f or fifty seven percent completion, two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five yards, zero touchdown, zero interceptions, is seventy four
Speaker 1: point five rating. At this point, are you looking at
Speaker 1: Dak differently from the standpoint of the contract than you
Speaker 1: did is say, even four or five weeks ago. Yes,
Speaker 1: in what way? He's not worth the money he's so
Speaker 1: what do you do? I'd pay him in the money
Speaker 1: of fift top fifteen, top fifteen to twenty quarterback because
Speaker 1: that's what he's been. You know, you can you can
Speaker 1: say all you want to about the yards. Yards don't
Speaker 1: mean anything. I mean he's about he could break Tony
Speaker 1: Romo's franchise record of forty nine hundred yards and they
Speaker 1: went eight and eighth that year. In twenty twelve, Winston's
Speaker 1: got yards quarterback rating, I think he's like twelve thirteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's right in there, and then the record is seven
Speaker 1: and eight. So he hasn't done anything to make me
Speaker 1: think that he is in the elite status of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And so, but quarterbacks get paid. I mean, they still
Speaker 1: get paid. So I think whatever Stafford Derek Carr's money,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, I think that's where needs to
Speaker 1: be you pay a member. I just I don't know
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's so difficult for me to make
Speaker 1: a full evaluation of him, just because I have a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about the coaching and it makes me wonder,
Speaker 1: really with the better could he be better with a
Speaker 1: better coach, if he is trained better and put in
Speaker 1: better situations in the game. I just don't quite know,
Speaker 1: And it's frustrating because this is his fourth year here
Speaker 1: and I feel like I still don't really know where
Speaker 1: Dad could get to because he's been under the same coaching.
Speaker 1: We saw some improvement with John Kinnett coming in here,
Speaker 1: and to me, he has improved tremendously this year, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't been enough so that it's a difficult one
Speaker 1: for me. Am I willing to offer him a long
Speaker 1: term deal. I think as of right now, I would
Speaker 1: want to put him under the franchise tag for a
Speaker 1: year and see how that goes with a different coach.
Speaker 1: You agree, Dave, It's tough because honestly, I feel like
Speaker 1: the whole body of work is worth him being the
Speaker 1: quarterback of this team in the long term. Like I
Speaker 1: don't buy like he's not bad. He's not bad. Quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's good, but it's totally fair, like he hasn't lifted
Speaker 1: this team, like he has not played like a quarterback
Speaker 1: who can overcome all of all of the problems surrounding him,
Speaker 1: much like Carson Wentz did yesterday. And like Wins, he's
Speaker 1: not the diaper. Yes, Wins wasn't even amazing yesterday. He
Speaker 1: just made the plays that were available to right. But
Speaker 1: sometimes that's what it takes. And you know you mentioned Romo.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of fitting in a way. It's like, guys,
Speaker 1: let dack down yesterday, like a lot of guys did,
Speaker 1: but does anybody care. Nobody cares make the plays like
Speaker 1: pick your team up, win the game, and they're probably
Speaker 1: not going to make the playoffs now because he wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough and it's not just his fault, but again,
Speaker 1: nobody cares. He's the quarterback, and so I think the
Speaker 1: full body of work is worth a payday. But fast
Speaker 1: forward to a month and we're back at the negotiating
Speaker 1: table and it's like, well, Dak wants to be paid
Speaker 1: here and the Cowboys are here. It's hard for me
Speaker 1: to say, well, the Cowboys should just meet his demands,
Speaker 1: Like where is his proof that he's worth playing hardball
Speaker 1: where he's like I want thirty seven or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that's what I want. Like why should the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: to capitulate to that? Like where's the proof that that's
Speaker 1: worth it? But I also hate the idea of like
Speaker 1: a franchise tags. I hate that. Everything you said I
Speaker 1: agreed with about his development and all that, and maybe
Speaker 1: a new coach and all that, but I don't know
Speaker 1: about the franchise tag because I think I gotta I
Speaker 1: think I gotta give that to MARII. The only reason
Speaker 1: I have to give that to him is because he
Speaker 1: is my first round pick from last year. So if
Speaker 1: you if you start losing first round picks, they already
Speaker 1: lost one in the Taco, they're gonna feel They're gonna
Speaker 1: start to feel it here, you know, So you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose that. And I think I would try with maybe
Speaker 1: with the coaches, to have one more year and all that,
Speaker 1: but like, because as of right now, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: it's just because of last night. I mean I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need to seriously think about not having Cooper.
Speaker 1: Let me, let's table that for just a second, because
Speaker 1: I want to finish the conversation Dak and I, because
Speaker 1: that's it is, it is playing. And I will say this,
Speaker 1: I actually agree with Amber from the standpoint in the
Speaker 1: franchise tag because the amount of money that you have
Speaker 1: to commit to a quarterback, I actually would want to
Speaker 1: see one more year and I'd like to see one
Speaker 1: more year with a different voice in his head, right,
Speaker 1: with a different game plan, with a different with different schemes,
Speaker 1: see if maybe you can get him. Because because I
Speaker 1: do agree, there have been some things we've seen this
Speaker 1: year that suggests he is a better quarterback than he
Speaker 1: was last year, and then he was a better quarterback
Speaker 1: than he was the year before. Like every year, I
Speaker 1: think he's gotten a bit better than he was before.
Speaker 1: I would love to see one more year before I
Speaker 1: have to commit big money to him, commit big money
Speaker 1: to him. Right, So I do want to have that
Speaker 1: conversation on the wide receiver, and you're right, the two
Speaker 1: do kind of they kind of intermingle. But I kind
Speaker 1: of like the idea of getting another year to be
Speaker 1: able to see a little bit more about Dak before
Speaker 1: I make a big book. What kind of year are
Speaker 1: you getting? And I say this because how many second
Speaker 1: half comebacks has he had this year? Zero? He has
Speaker 1: not brought his team back, and lord knows he's had
Speaker 1: chances to bring them back. So Klutch put it on
Speaker 1: da like everybody else. But he's been that before. Though,
Speaker 1: he's been that before. So that's why I say year
Speaker 1: that before. But what But how many press conferences did
Speaker 1: he have this year where he talked about contract especially
Speaker 1: early on in the year. Almost every one you want
Speaker 1: to do this again? Do we want to do this again?
Speaker 1: Where now he's making twenty eight million a year on
Speaker 1: the tag or whatever it is, and he's playing every
Speaker 1: throw is playing for this payday. If you if we
Speaker 1: think that all this stuff is like, yeah, he's got it,
Speaker 1: let's give him a new coach and all that, then
Speaker 1: pay pay him. He didn't deserve top five money, but
Speaker 1: he's he can be up there and and get it
Speaker 1: out of the way. But you're saying that like like
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a choice. I don't know that he's
Speaker 1: signing a deal. This got him, you know, paid like
Speaker 1: a thirteen fourteen ter back. Maybe he should go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: He can't do that. No, you can't, app can't lose
Speaker 1: him right now. He can't do that. Right, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna show stalemate, right, Yeah, but he's gonna show up
Speaker 1: at some place and be like, where's the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: alightement Oh you got one? Oh you've made a Pro Bowl?
Speaker 1: But now you're thirty eight? Okay, who's my back? But
Speaker 1: the point but that's a great point. But the point is,
Speaker 1: though he still does, he still has to at some point,
Speaker 1: they gotta if they're gonna low ball, and there I
Speaker 1: shouldn't even say lowball. If they're gonna keep him around
Speaker 1: that thirteen fifteen range, they still got to give that
Speaker 1: offered him, and he's got to decide if he says
Speaker 1: I don't want it, they're not gonna just let him walk.
Speaker 1: So they gotta franchise him at that point. And that's
Speaker 1: why I think that ends up being an option. I
Speaker 1: don't say this to sound and passive aggressive. I legitimately
Speaker 1: mean that. Somebody said this to me last night on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I actually I want to know
Speaker 1: this guy was like, don't resign Dak and let Cooper walk.
Speaker 1: And I was like, in all sincerity, what's your long
Speaker 1: term vision for this team if you're doing both of
Speaker 1: those things? Because even if you're franchising Dak. You need
Speaker 1: to be thinking about drafting his replacement. Maybe not in
Speaker 1: the first round, but like you got to be building.
Speaker 1: I despise the idea of tagging Dak doing nothing at quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, well, maybe this year will be different,
Speaker 1: and then next year is very similar, and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: we wasted a year of his career. We still have
Speaker 1: to pay him this contract or let him walk, and
Speaker 1: we haven't done anything about the future. So I think
Speaker 1: I'm with Nick, And that's kind of my point is
Speaker 1: I'm not convincing. I'm not trying to convince you. You You
Speaker 1: have to be in love with what Dak has done,
Speaker 1: but you might as well sign him. And again, like
Speaker 1: nothing has changed in the sense of like Mahomes is
Speaker 1: still coming, some of these other young quarterbacks are still coming.
Speaker 1: Like he'll be a bargain quickly, and maybe you just
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on it and get it out of
Speaker 1: the way, rather than keep spinning your wheels saying like, well,
Speaker 1: we're not going to commit to him, but we're not
Speaker 1: going to do anything about the future of the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: But the part that gives me pause on that though,
Speaker 1: is I've seen some improvement. But I've also seen this.
Speaker 1: To me, it seems like a trend this year where
Speaker 1: they've been more than a few games where he's just,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, just off. And so it becomes a
Speaker 1: question of do I think that he can ever get
Speaker 1: to a point where his accuracy is good enough to
Speaker 1: where it's worth paying him, where he can be my guy,
Speaker 1: where he can be my Russell Wilson, where I say,
Speaker 1: and I can let all these other guys kind of
Speaker 1: walk and I can fill in the pieces because my
Speaker 1: quarter quarterback is good enough to be that diaper that
Speaker 1: Nick talks about. I don't know that right, So to me,
Speaker 1: give me another year to maybe see that, because if
Speaker 1: you don't see it by next year, the likelihood of
Speaker 1: him becoming that at some point is probably relatively small.
Speaker 1: But what are you, like, what are you gonna learn?
Speaker 1: Because I assume you can't predict anything to a certainty,
Speaker 1: But like the cast of characters is going to be similar,
Speaker 1: like I would maybe maybe not, I would assume Amaria
Speaker 1: will be here, Seeks not going anywhere, or like the
Speaker 1: offensive line will still be here. So it's still gonna
Speaker 1: question about whether Cobb will be here and gall will
Speaker 1: still be here. But Gallup's a good piece. Right, So
Speaker 1: maybe Cobb isn't here, Maybe you replace that with a
Speaker 1: young guy that you draft who is a more dynamic
Speaker 1: player in the slot that can catch more frequently. But
Speaker 1: right is a good piece for being the number two receiver. Right.
Speaker 1: But you know, but Ma's gonna be your next year.
Speaker 1: You just said he was your first round pick. Lass.
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta bring him back. You got it
Speaker 1: only as a franchise thing. I'm not paying him because
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You can change out your receiver, change
Speaker 1: out your quarterback, change everything out. It doesn't matter, none
Speaker 1: of the new coach, nothing matters if you don't have
Speaker 1: it inside you on fourth and eight to say, hell no,
Speaker 1: I'm on the field, not like okay, I'm out. Somebody else,
Speaker 1: come in. I just ran a go route. Now I'm tired.
Speaker 1: It's fourth and eight. The game, slash season is on
Speaker 1: the line. You can't tell me Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin
Speaker 1: and Chris Carter in those guys ever did that. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's crap. That is absolute crap. And him and Cob
Speaker 1: both and Jason Garrett should have called a time out,
Speaker 1: should have called it time out and put it. Let's
Speaker 1: bring it back to the micro because we really haven't
Speaker 1: gotten into what a cluster that fourth quarter was. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly I'm gonna We're gonna take a break when
Speaker 1: we come back. I want to talk about that, but
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that in the context of
Speaker 1: this whole team, because they're not the only two to
Speaker 1: do that. No. Last week we saw the exact same
Speaker 1: thing happened to the defensive line. This has been something
Speaker 1: that's been going on with this team for a while.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break, We're gonna come back, We're
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is the final segment of The Break
Speaker 1: Laugh in s WBC Mortar Studios at the Star, we
Speaker 1: were talking about the Cowboys loss seventeen to nine Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: At this point, they are no longer in control of
Speaker 1: their own destiny. The Eagles win this weekend. The Eagles
Speaker 1: represent the nfcast in the playoffs. If they lose and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys should win, then the Cowboys came back into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We'll see how that goes. But all all
Speaker 1: that being said, like everything was righting from them, is
Speaker 1: Nick said in the first segment of the show, and
Speaker 1: they just basically didn't go get it. Find me a
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan who isn't related to a coacher player who
Speaker 1: wants them to make it. At this point, that's the
Speaker 1: overwhelming reaction that I'm getting from fans is they're just like,
Speaker 1: let it be over. Well, fast forward to Sunday and
Speaker 1: then find me one that isn't I think. I think
Speaker 1: that's done. Honestly, I really do. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: If I mean obviously don't think, then then they're not
Speaker 1: a real real die hard fan, because I think the
Speaker 1: die hard fans would want your team to make it
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. They sure not after this year? Where
Speaker 1: were you going with it? They sure as heck don't
Speaker 1: want the Eagles to do it? Right, you know, differ
Speaker 1: nothing else, just not the Eagles. That doesn't think that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that they think that the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: go far in the playoffs. It's just and if you
Speaker 1: were there last night and saw what I saw, like,
Speaker 1: you just don't like the Eagles, Like, it's just you
Speaker 1: just don't. You just don't like the Eagle. So if
Speaker 1: for nothing other, for no other reason, then the Eagles
Speaker 1: go sit at home and then you just kind of
Speaker 1: go in and what happens in the player world, Bratt
Speaker 1: little kid that's sitting there that doesn't like his toys
Speaker 1: and all that until the other little kid comes over
Speaker 1: and you know, and then he starts playing with him.
Speaker 1: It's like wh whoa, whoa, whoa, those are my toys?
Speaker 1: No link, yeah that's mine. So yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want this at all. Then the Eagle, the
Speaker 1: Eagles are going in the playoffs. They're like, nah, if
Speaker 1: that like, we're in. So let's go back to that
Speaker 1: conversation we were having just before the break. We were
Speaker 1: talking about Amari Cooper, Um, you get to fourth down
Speaker 1: Cowboys season on the brink, fourth and eighth, fourth and eighth,
Speaker 1: both Cooper and cob both on the sideline. Um. I
Speaker 1: mentioned before the break last week it was late and
Speaker 1: I think it is last week. They were late in
Speaker 1: the game, and uh, the defense was on the field
Speaker 1: and Michael Bennett they called a time out, right, and
Speaker 1: uh and Schogar game and Michael Bennett is on the field.
Speaker 1: But you got Tank off the field, you got Quinn
Speaker 1: off the field, and Bennett is literally saying, no, y'all
Speaker 1: need to get onto the field because this is a
Speaker 1: critical down. And just all of that just makes me thinking.
Speaker 1: And they asked Jason Garrett about it last night and
Speaker 1: the postgame presser, and he was like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: that was just the rotation. You know, we we rotate
Speaker 1: those guys because you know, we got so much going
Speaker 1: on a lot of plays we're running so rotting those guys,
Speaker 1: and he just happened that they were off the field.
Speaker 1: My problem with that is just that I feel like
Speaker 1: the player does have some saying that. I also think
Speaker 1: the coaches are being a little too. I don't know
Speaker 1: if naive is the right word, but to think that
Speaker 1: we could just send Ventral Bryant, Ventrel Brian, whatever his
Speaker 1: name is, onto the field instead of Amari Cooper when
Speaker 1: it's fourth and eight to keep the season going, like
Speaker 1: to me, just something about that, because if not, then
Speaker 1: go ahead and pay Briant the money, right, why do
Speaker 1: you need to pay Cooper? You know, right? I mean,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't. The whole thing doesn't make sense. Next
Speaker 1: man up. You know, Jason's got a lot of saying.
Speaker 1: Some of them are, okay, next man up is dumb.
Speaker 1: It's dumb. It's dumb, and it's a lie. It's a lie.
Speaker 1: It's not next man up. You can't do that. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. If you did that, then rotate your quarterback,
Speaker 1: which might have been a good idea the way he
Speaker 1: was throwing some passes. I'm just saying, you don't do that.
Speaker 1: So it's not it's not the next man up. It's
Speaker 1: not and it needs you need to call a time out.
Speaker 1: And Dave and I talked about this before. If you're
Speaker 1: not calling your timeout and you're saving him, you're telling
Speaker 1: everyone that you're gonna fail because we need these because
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get this, so we're gonna fail. Why
Speaker 1: don't you just call time out and tell your offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: who was called a very bad game to that point,
Speaker 1: to figure out what the best play is and the
Speaker 1: best guys on the field, Get them all some gatorade
Speaker 1: and let them go and run a route where we
Speaker 1: can do and if they don't, if it doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: then it doesn't happen this season. Right here. Make a play,
Speaker 1: Make a play, Make a freaking play. Yeah, that's just
Speaker 1: I put that on the coach. But I hate that
Speaker 1: you have to put it on the coach too. I
Speaker 1: put it on the coach. You know. It's like it's
Speaker 1: more blamed. Look, it's more the coaches that made the
Speaker 1: decision that they were going to rotate that and not say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a critical situation. I need you back in,
Speaker 1: or the player that's willing to come off the field
Speaker 1: when the rotation says they should come off the field,
Speaker 1: even though it's a big moment. Maybe the players are
Speaker 1: checked out by this point. I mean, yeah, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like, you know, I have mixed opinion,
Speaker 1: because yes, I do agree that Cooper should have been
Speaker 1: on the field at that specific time, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, it makes me wonder. I'm like, Okay, he
Speaker 1: only caught four passes out of twelve. Clearly he wasn't
Speaker 1: having a good day. They're needing to get someone out
Speaker 1: there who can catch a ball, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just again, I'm not saying I agree, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, I can kind of understand why you maybe
Speaker 1: want to switch it up somehow. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Bryant is a better player than Cooper, obviously, but since
Speaker 1: he wasn't having a good game at all, I mean,
Speaker 1: why not try something else. That's what you try, though,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, in the third quarter, in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: do or die, I'm giving the guy that I'm considering
Speaker 1: paying a ton of money every opportunity to save me
Speaker 1: from myself, Like, this game has not been good for you,
Speaker 1: this game has not been good for our team. I
Speaker 1: want to give my best players the opportunity to make
Speaker 1: a play to win this ball game. It's hard. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get it's hard to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of these things, like in season when everybody's still kind
Speaker 1: of rowing in the same direction. But it just feels
Speaker 1: like there's an accountability issue on this team, and like
Speaker 1: that's a perfect encapsulation of it. Is like we just
Speaker 1: talked about it. They're on the twenty three yard line,
Speaker 1: Amari runs a go. He comes out. He walked right
Speaker 1: past us. We're down there to shoot our postgame videos.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was tired, like he wasn't rushing to
Speaker 1: get oxygen on the sideline. He just kind of goes
Speaker 1: to the sideline. And I can imagine the conversation where
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's like, where's nineteen. They're like, oh, he came out,
Speaker 1: And then Garrett's probably like rolling his eyes, like Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll put get Tavon out there. Fine, whatever, We'll do
Speaker 1: what we gotta do. And it's like player checks himself out,
Speaker 1: which is bad, but coaches don't call him on it.
Speaker 1: But which is all He checked himself out? Or was
Speaker 1: that what he was told? This is our rotation after
Speaker 1: next number of plays. If come, yeah, we put our
Speaker 1: other guys. I don't care how bad of a game
Speaker 1: he played, Like, shouldn't your best players be on the
Speaker 1: field in do or die time? That's and that's the point.
Speaker 1: But it sounded like from what Garrett was saying after
Speaker 1: the game, that was just their normal operation when they
Speaker 1: get into that part of game, they're rotating their guys,
Speaker 1: and it was his time to be off. The feel
Speaker 1: I don't buy that crap. I don't something that you
Speaker 1: just say, Yeah, that's just something that he just said
Speaker 1: it in a nice way to put it out. Oh
Speaker 1: maybe that's he didn't like calling out and Mary Cooper
Speaker 1: and he just said, Oh, that's just how we rotate
Speaker 1: our guys. That's kind of That's kind of My point
Speaker 1: is like right now, it's hard to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of that because you're gonna get company line. You
Speaker 1: can still make the playoffs. But but but Maria didn't give
Speaker 1: the company line. Mari said, I'm coaches pulled me out
Speaker 1: of the game, and he's asked, were you tired? No,
Speaker 1: I'm talking I'm talking about coaches and front office and
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff. I think it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be like next week, but it could be at the
Speaker 1: owner's meetings or the combine. But like we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: stuff in the coming months about, you know, not everybody
Speaker 1: was bought in. There was conflicting messages like the you know,
Speaker 1: some guys they know who they are, weren't really given
Speaker 1: it there all, and like that. I'm always not trying
Speaker 1: to finger point at anybody in particular, but can't you
Speaker 1: just kind of feel that that's the case. He said
Speaker 1: in the locker room Amari Cooper, I forgot what he
Speaker 1: said exactly, but he was talking about, Oh, I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe we should have run this type of play.
Speaker 1: What was he said? He said, based off the go
Speaker 1: ball was the route to run tonight. They didn't take advantage,
Speaker 1: he says, they didn't take advantage of how they could
Speaker 1: have taken advantage of that secondary the routes that they
Speaker 1: were running with, routes that those those defensive backs can
Speaker 1: cover pretty well. He said, the deep ball was the ball.
Speaker 1: Say something, you know, I mean, say something. Stop playing
Speaker 1: chess all day in the locker room and get up
Speaker 1: and talk to sound j Law and figure out the
Speaker 1: right play. Like I think when she said something about
Speaker 1: checked out, I think he's checked out. Any of those
Speaker 1: guys that were checked out need to be out. They
Speaker 1: need to be out. I mean, I mean, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: head coach. You're taking a lot of the starters out
Speaker 1: because a lot of them to dynamite this thing, take
Speaker 1: out the whole team out. Wow, So we're gonna go
Speaker 1: from all the way from starting seas where we thought
Speaker 1: to just like blow the whole thing up. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think we're there. I know
Speaker 1: everybody's probably I want my wide receiver to I don't
Speaker 1: care what. There's not a coach out there that's like,
Speaker 1: you're out. You're out. You ran seventeen yards a year out,
Speaker 1: this is the play of the season, but you're out.
Speaker 1: I think I think Jarwin can do what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do or Witten can do No. No. In fact
Speaker 1: that they went to twelfth personnel, I mean that that
Speaker 1: in itself was like, why why would you do that
Speaker 1: in this situation? Jason said, it was the look they
Speaker 1: wanted all they that's all they have though, is sure,
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, But who else? Vintel Bryant, that's I have
Speaker 1: any other receivers? Right? So, but but you saying both
Speaker 1: Cobb and Cooper just pull themselves out. They walked to
Speaker 1: the sideline like you would do in the second quarter
Speaker 1: because they're a little wind But it's different. But I
Speaker 1: get that. I'm saying though, I think that, and it
Speaker 1: sounds maybe I'm getting this wrong, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: you guys are putting less of this on the fact
Speaker 1: that the coaches. This is kind of the way that
Speaker 1: they do things. This is their operation. Yes, it should
Speaker 1: have been different, And I'm the first one to say,
Speaker 1: if you're ja Jason Witten, there's no way we saw
Speaker 1: him for fifteen years that we saw How many times
Speaker 1: did we see Martellis runner on the field and he
Speaker 1: ran right back off the field because Jason was like happening. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so my point is, so my point is that
Speaker 1: those guys definitely if they if they understood the gravity
Speaker 1: of the situation, they could have stayed in the game.
Speaker 1: And they especially Mark, he could have stayed in the game.
Speaker 1: My point, though, is I still have to give some
Speaker 1: culpability to the coaches because it sounds like this was
Speaker 1: their normal operation. I honestly, I don't think much of
Speaker 1: this coaching staff. I think I've made that abundantly clear
Speaker 1: over time. But I've seen the Cowboys drive to tie
Speaker 1: and win like a lot of games, and I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, but I can't remember a time where they
Speaker 1: were driving in a situation like that fourth quarter down eight.
Speaker 1: Ventel Bryant and Tavon Austin were their wide receivers. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even just Coop, it was both of those guys.
Speaker 1: And I some Eagles fans were yelling at me because
Speaker 1: I tweeted it. I was like, that's who's in the
Speaker 1: game when you're driving to save your season, and they
Speaker 1: were like, big whoop the Eagles. You know, we've got
Speaker 1: all these injuries, like you just got to deal with.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not the point, because there aren't any injuries, right.
Speaker 1: That is who they are willingly putting on the field
Speaker 1: with the season on the line. And to me, it
Speaker 1: almost makes me want to exonerate the coaches because, like,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're that dumb to do that because
Speaker 1: we've never seen him do that before. But your starters
Speaker 1: are always in the game when that game was on
Speaker 1: the position. Well, that's not actually true because I know
Speaker 1: for many years, Nick, you and I have talked about
Speaker 1: this for many years, there would be those kinds of
Speaker 1: situations and DeMarcus where it would be standing on the
Speaker 1: sideline like rotating their normal rotation. It's like, why is
Speaker 1: DeMarcus not on the field. I know, like this has
Speaker 1: been happening throughout Garrett's career. It's two minute it's two
Speaker 1: minute drill, and you want your guys to be fresh.
Speaker 1: I guess I get that. But Fintel Bryant has one
Speaker 1: catch this year. I agree, No, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: buy it. And it is a touchdown. I mean there's plenty,
Speaker 1: it's precedence, it's saying it's fifty fifty. But I just
Speaker 1: there is there is a disconnect within this team between
Speaker 1: like the messaging and the what you know what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say, like, there is a disconnect. It's mainly
Speaker 1: I think it's been on defense this year, but it
Speaker 1: bled over into the offense last night, at least from
Speaker 1: my outsider's perspective. And I just think in the coming
Speaker 1: weeks and months, you're going to hear people kind of
Speaker 1: be willing to get our detail about it. I think
Speaker 1: last night, if you listen closely to Tank after the game,
Speaker 1: Amar after the game, Zeke after the game, I think
Speaker 1: they all said little things that make your thoughts start
Speaker 1: to question how they're viewing. Is because DeMarcus. One thing
Speaker 1: DeMarcus said that stuck out to me, he was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know they were. He was asking about why there
Speaker 1: wasn't enough pass rush. He was like, you just gotta
Speaker 1: go watch the film. You'll see there's a lot of
Speaker 1: balls coming out real quick. And my first thought was,
Speaker 1: if you're if the issue is that the balls coming
Speaker 1: out real quick, then is there not something that's happening
Speaker 1: on the back end where the ball is able to
Speaker 1: come out real quick? And Nick, you and I talked
Speaker 1: about this, the cushion that they give these receivers, both
Speaker 1: from the linebacker sandboy, from the safety standpoint, even from
Speaker 1: the corners. At times it is third and five and
Speaker 1: they are off the ball seven yards, right. It's like,
Speaker 1: I do believe that maybe maybe you're starting to hear
Speaker 1: some of that from the players, like hey, there's some
Speaker 1: schematic things that we're doing that are not helping our
Speaker 1: pass rush. Right, That's when I heard when he said that.
Speaker 1: But I think those those kinds of statements that were
Speaker 1: helping happening throughout the locker room last night. That point
Speaker 1: too a little more than that's than than just what
Speaker 1: you see on the same I mean, and if you
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. I mean, the only reason
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had a chance to stay in the game
Speaker 1: was because of Doug Peterson. Yeah, he's got a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Trophy. Congratulations. He coached a terrible game yesterday. He
Speaker 1: was terrible. That is true. He's almost really bad. I mean,
Speaker 1: Cowboys still couldn't take it, take advantage of it. But
Speaker 1: I mean he did some really bonehead type decisions about
Speaker 1: the fifty five yard field that was one of it.
Speaker 1: Third and one and fourth and one, and they're they're
Speaker 1: down there, they're driving and then then they'll all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they just started throwing the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: but they I don't know. Nobody wanted to run on
Speaker 1: third and one yesterday. I mean, well, Cowboys wanted to
Speaker 1: run on third and one. They just wanted to pitch
Speaker 1: it to Tony Pollo. Have I guess the play for
Speaker 1: Zeke we're on set on the Actually this is when
Speaker 1: when Zeke called out of the out of the game
Speaker 1: after he had a play and then the fallow I
Speaker 1: think it was a following play when came in on
Speaker 1: third and one, yeah, I'm sorry. Pollard came in on
Speaker 1: second and two and got one yard and third and
Speaker 1: one he got the pitch. Okay, I thought we had it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we were all talking about Zeke because we're
Speaker 1: talking about whether Zeke pulled himself out at a time
Speaker 1: when you need him in the game. It's third, you know,
Speaker 1: second and two, whatever it was you're driving, you need
Speaker 1: him to be in the game. Um, and you said
Speaker 1: that there was it looked like he kind of got
Speaker 1: banged up a little bit and that's why he called out.
Speaker 1: But either way, it just seems like to me, there's
Speaker 1: not enough. I think the word you guys use early
Speaker 1: was accountability. You know, it just seems like everybody's not
Speaker 1: on the same page, and everybody certainly doesn't have the
Speaker 1: same level of urgency that you should have had in
Speaker 1: a game like that where the division is on the line,
Speaker 1: you have every opportunity to just take control of it,
Speaker 1: win the division, and take yourselves in the playoffs. Cowboys
Speaker 1: just were not able to do it. You're gonna well
Speaker 1: it's equivalent at this point. But like you know, people
Speaker 1: dogging Tony Pollard for the fumble, which, like I mean,
Speaker 1: don't fumble in that situation. But that play called hasn't
Speaker 1: worked all year. And it was also like the first
Speaker 1: significant moment of Tony Pollard's game two hours into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's it's beyond frustrating that as well as he
Speaker 1: played last week and as well as he's played at
Speaker 1: times this year, that it took Zeke getting hurt. I
Speaker 1: mean he said he took a blow to the helmet.
Speaker 1: It took him getting hurt in a crucial situation. And
Speaker 1: they were like, okay, let's run this bizarre play as
Speaker 1: our first look at Tony Pollard tonight. There's the play there.
Speaker 1: It was, it went there, It wasn't. It's it just
Speaker 1: all around f like coaching playing Christmas is gonna go
Speaker 1: come up? Kai for Bath played really well, that's what
Speaker 1: I was shown. Really well Kai for Bath had and
Speaker 1: he went three or three which goals? I get Dak
Speaker 1: checked to this play at the line is this thought,
Speaker 1: Oh no, that wasn't the option my bed un. That's
Speaker 1: one Zeke goes, somebody lands on and that's fine. So
Speaker 1: he didn't take himself out because he didn't want to
Speaker 1: want the ball on third and one. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: got hurt yeah, don't. That's how people saw it they
Speaker 1: I mean, how many how many third and fourth and
Speaker 1: shorts have they run that option play? I know they
Speaker 1: did it against the Jets and it failed. I know
Speaker 1: they've done it two or three other times. Why are
Speaker 1: you still trying to make that happen in this moment
Speaker 1: with a guy who hadn't touched the ball yet all night.
Speaker 1: But you open up a whole head cannon worms when
Speaker 1: you start talking about the play call, because you go
Speaker 1: back doing the Rams game and there was a ton
Speaker 1: more creativity and what they were doing, the stuff they
Speaker 1: were doing with Tavon and moving him into the backfield,
Speaker 1: like there was just a whole different level of creativity
Speaker 1: in that game than this game. You talk about this game,
Speaker 1: there was none of that, no Jets sweep, nothing that
Speaker 1: was out of the ordinary. It was all the same
Speaker 1: stuff that you'd normally do. Which to go back to
Speaker 1: Cooper's comment about not running the go ball like they
Speaker 1: coached conservatively on the road, it's been a trend all year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be the reason when they played conservative. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about it. I think Dak is afraid to throw
Speaker 1: the ball sometimes down down the field and those you know,
Speaker 1: tight tight coverage. I mean I think when it when
Speaker 1: it really comes down to it, I think he likes
Speaker 1: to throw it deep and out of bounds. And you
Speaker 1: know those plays they're not high percentage, but they're also
Speaker 1: low percentage interceptions, so you know, you throw it out
Speaker 1: there like that. I don't think he There was too
Speaker 1: many times last night where I think he was throwing
Speaker 1: it deep and just to try to you know, like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's either my guy or nothing. But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Like poor at all. I'm telling you, by the time
Speaker 1: we get to the weekend, I've already got it. I've
Speaker 1: already got some some fan just texted me listening to
Speaker 1: the shows like we want to win. No, absolutely, like
Speaker 1: this is they're just mad right now, and I get it.
Speaker 1: But come Sunday they're gonna be hoping, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: you know what say Quan. That kid's gonna have the
Speaker 1: right jersey on the market is gonna be like, that's
Speaker 1: the right jersey son like because the market they're gonna
Speaker 1: hope that the Giants win the game and hope that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys the Redskins and get into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: getting the playoffs, whatever happened. Then you move on. All right,
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