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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton, Tuesday, November twenty first, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen,
Speaker 1: Episode number seventy nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: I really thought seventy nine was yesterday. No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: You want to go back and listen. This is the
Speaker 1: Chaz Green episode. I thought I thought about Chaz Green yesterday?
Speaker 1: You did said that. I don't think it was okay.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for you guys scoring at home, I mean
Speaker 1: with the notebook and stuff like that. Let us know,
Speaker 1: But I really think this eighty You think I do well?
Speaker 1: The seventy ninth or eightieth edition of the thirteent of
Speaker 1: The Break. You're happy now, Nick, Not really, because now
Speaker 1: the show is kind of derailed and it's my fault.
Speaker 1: But let's get it back. Driver that happens regularly, so
Speaker 1: you should be used to it by this. One of
Speaker 1: those things. It's not derails. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: where it just hits those little bumps and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I better move over. You know what. We just we
Speaker 1: just can't start this show the right way. No, we
Speaker 1: could at nine thirty. What time it's nine thirty. I
Speaker 1: think if I was doing it by myself as a
Speaker 1: one person show, or maybe if it was just me
Speaker 1: an Amber, I think we probably could. I think we
Speaker 1: could get off to a good start and we could
Speaker 1: have great conversation. Somehow, somehow, there's something to do here
Speaker 1: on this short week because of you two start again,
Speaker 1: Episode seventy nine. Oh I hate that voice. That's okay,
Speaker 1: I hate when you do that. All right, let's jump in.
Speaker 1: Let's we got a lot to talk about. We're gonna
Speaker 1: start with some talk on injuring one of the players,
Speaker 1: wow uh, and some of the players that that may
Speaker 1: or may not be able to play on Thursday. And
Speaker 1: then we're gonna start our talk about the Chargers. Dave's
Speaker 1: gonna give us a scoutter report, um Nick and Amber.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll chime in, maybe they won't we'll see never no,
Speaker 1: and then we'll we'll kind of dive into that. And
Speaker 1: I do want to spend a little time at some
Speaker 1: point today talking about where the Cowboys did. I know,
Speaker 1: normally we take a big picture look, so I do
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are relative to the other teams in the NFC, what
Speaker 1: their schedule looks like down the stretch. And I want
Speaker 1: to ask the question to be honest with you. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is a good time to do it. If I
Speaker 1: ask you, guys the question right now, just your good
Speaker 1: feel of whether you think the Cowboys can make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What would you say? Let's start with you, Dave out
Speaker 1: can can make it. I will make it. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: fill make the playoffs? Good feeling good? Feeling out out Amber,
Speaker 1: what do you say? Um, I mean, there's always hope,
Speaker 1: But I would say out Nick m I mean, certainly
Speaker 1: it looks like they're I mean, they are out there,
Speaker 1: and you look at the playoff picture. The only thing
Speaker 1: that gives me hope is their schedule, right their schedule
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch here, it looks like they definitely
Speaker 1: have winnable games. I mean, they should win some of
Speaker 1: these games. But um, well, let's just to win them all.
Speaker 1: That's problem, right, Let's just take the conversation we just
Speaker 1: had off the air to the air. Then, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's all the reason in the world. And I pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back. I said that last week you
Speaker 1: lost this game. That's not ideal. You can still achieve
Speaker 1: your goals. You basically, I think you have to win
Speaker 1: the next three. You have to win the next three.
Speaker 1: You probably have to win the next four. You gotta
Speaker 1: win the next six. You don't now you can get
Speaker 1: you can get in. I'm telling you ten and six
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys is not gonna be good enough. We'll
Speaker 1: see regardless. Okay, let's worry about that when we get there.
Speaker 1: I know you have to win these next three against
Speaker 1: three teams that are all below five hundred by multiple games.
Speaker 1: You have to otherwise it's not even a conversation station
Speaker 1: worth having. You probably need to beat the Raiders too,
Speaker 1: and then obviously you need to beat to see how Yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably do need to win them all. The problem
Speaker 1: is no, the problem is just and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: if they had if they had traded blows with Philly
Speaker 1: and come up just short, I'd have an easier time
Speaker 1: having this conversation. But they've looked like garbage for two
Speaker 1: straight weeks. And I know, you know you'll you'll probably
Speaker 1: get Tyrn Smith back in the lineup one of these days,
Speaker 1: and Dan Bailey will be back. But the margin of
Speaker 1: error is so slim. I mean, they lost games. They've
Speaker 1: lost several games with Tyrann Smith in the lineup. Let's
Speaker 1: not act and Zeke Elliott was there when Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: was in the lineup two for that matter, So let's
Speaker 1: not act like that's this cure all that's suddenly going
Speaker 1: to turn them back into a powerhouse. That they lost.
Speaker 1: They lost to the Eagles. They lost to the best
Speaker 1: human football right now. They lost to them. So but
Speaker 1: the point is is that here comes the Chargers at
Speaker 1: four and six. You should win. I mean, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about. I don't care they're playing well, but you
Speaker 1: should win the game on Thanksgiving. You should win. You definitely.
Speaker 1: Just I'm just do you think they're just hands down
Speaker 1: a better team. I mean, they're one game at being better.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I mean, if you're gonna do anything,
Speaker 1: but it needs to be now. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I guess you definitely could win. And if they don't win,
Speaker 1: they'll play it'll be because they played poorly. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying they could win. It's not like they could
Speaker 1: play this great game and all. If they play their
Speaker 1: best game, they should win. That's what you're saying. Yes,
Speaker 1: even their best game with what with their second stream
Speaker 1: guys because of injuries. I'll still think if they play
Speaker 1: their best game, they're same with the Redskins. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the same thing with the Redskins coming up in a
Speaker 1: week at the Giants. Same thing. Those two games are,
Speaker 1: like they could easily lose, they could easily win because
Speaker 1: of those division games, but there's no excuse of why
Speaker 1: they shouldn't win those games. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When you look at this and I still I still
Speaker 1: believe what I said last week. I believe losing that
Speaker 1: game to Philadelphia put you in a situation where it's
Speaker 1: it's not likely because what I think has to happen
Speaker 1: at this point, I think the Cowboys have to win
Speaker 1: out right now. You look at the NFC. You've got
Speaker 1: the Falcons, you've got the PA, you've got the Rams,
Speaker 1: and you've got the Saints, and you got the Vikings
Speaker 1: and Eagles. Those are all the six playoff teams, right,
Speaker 1: and then still above the Cowboys are the Lions, the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and the Packers. Now you can dismiss the Packers if
Speaker 1: you like. The one thing I will say about the Packers'
Speaker 1: schedule is they got a pretty light schedule. The rest
Speaker 1: of the way. I think they got Cleveland and there somewhere.
Speaker 1: I think they got Cincinnati and there somewhere. Like they
Speaker 1: play teams that even with them not being full strength,
Speaker 1: they can win some of those games. But he's but
Speaker 1: here's the more important part. The Cowboys will beat the
Speaker 1: Bucks in twenty fifty. The more important part is the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, who are sitting above you, at one game
Speaker 1: above you. They actually have a really easy schedule. They
Speaker 1: only have one team left with a winning record of
Speaker 1: their six that hurts, right, And then a lot of
Speaker 1: the teams in NFC South, they're gonna play each other.
Speaker 1: What you need is you need one of those, maybe
Speaker 1: two of those teams to completely fall off. What you
Speaker 1: don't want is them to beat each other up and
Speaker 1: you get a win here, win there, and they're dividing
Speaker 1: the wins, but they all stay above you. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, with all these teams that are sitting in
Speaker 1: front of you with manageable schedules down the stretch, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys really got to go undefeated in my opinion, because
Speaker 1: right now they're not winning any tie breaks among these
Speaker 1: teams when they when you look at their tie breaks,
Speaker 1: get the tiebreaks and you lay it out like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Atlanta's Atlanta looks like they're putting together a
Speaker 1: little role right Carolinas there. New Orleans is still looking great,
Speaker 1: which well, I think if you're a Cowboys fan, I
Speaker 1: think you're rooting for the teams that are leading their
Speaker 1: divisions to just win whin. I mean, you know you
Speaker 1: want the Saints going fourteen and two and dropping, you know,
Speaker 1: two losses on the Falcons and they played two games
Speaker 1: like they still have two games. Play what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. You don't want them to split
Speaker 1: those games, right, You want one of them to take
Speaker 1: control and beat the other one twice. You know, you're saying,
Speaker 1: all those fans that were cheering for Seattle to lose
Speaker 1: last night, they should have been cheering them for them
Speaker 1: to win. Yes, you want it. You wanted them to win,
Speaker 1: pushing Atlanta down. In my I think that's I don't.
Speaker 1: I think that that game was a wash because somebody
Speaker 1: in the wild card hunts getting a win either way.
Speaker 1: Wah oh wow, wow, that's I was like Bill wallsh
Speaker 1: she died a long time ago. Yeah, okay, I got it.
Speaker 1: I got it. But if you want to if you
Speaker 1: want to look at it, if you want to look
Speaker 1: at the optimistic part of this, I think the thing
Speaker 1: to consider is of the next six games at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys half, think about this. Four of those games, the
Speaker 1: next four games, they don't play a game a team
Speaker 1: with a winning record, and they have a better record
Speaker 1: than all those teams. So you've got San Diego at
Speaker 1: four and six, you got Washington at four and six,
Speaker 1: you got New York the Giants at two and eight,
Speaker 1: and then you got Oakland at four and six. Then
Speaker 1: you get Zeke back, right hopefully you got guys healthy
Speaker 1: at that point, and you have to play the two
Speaker 1: tough teams you have to play now. Mind you you'll
Speaker 1: play Seattle. You'll get Zeke back, but you'll play Seattle,
Speaker 1: and Seattle right now is without Cam Chancellor, who's out
Speaker 1: for the season and Richard Sherman who's out for the season,
Speaker 1: that's a big Those are big hits for them. Then
Speaker 1: you play Philly to end the season. If Philly, as
Speaker 1: we think, has wrapped up the division by the end,
Speaker 1: they have nothing to play what, sorry, they'll have something
Speaker 1: to play for. I would imagine if they have wrapped
Speaker 1: up everything they can wrap up, they probably are not
Speaker 1: going to play their their starters in the entire game,
Speaker 1: right I just, I just don't think they're gonna have
Speaker 1: everything wrapped up. What do you think they're not? What
Speaker 1: do you think they'll still have to play for? They
Speaker 1: still got to lose those two games. You gotta factor that. Well.
Speaker 1: I'm just they're they're two games in front of the
Speaker 1: next best team in the in the league, right, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many more wins they need to lock
Speaker 1: up home field? Like two? Three or probably probably four more?
Speaker 1: On I just or out of sense? Do they play
Speaker 1: anybody and they play the Vikings? I don't think they do.
Speaker 1: Think are the Saints? They don't play the Vikings are
Speaker 1: the Saint They don't play anything. They do play somebody
Speaker 1: that's in that top six. I do remember seeing that,
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying even if they're a game up
Speaker 1: on someone, Let's say they're just one game up and
Speaker 1: they don't have the tiebreaker, I mean, they're they might
Speaker 1: have to play just so they could lock up the
Speaker 1: baby seed. So it's not just a given just because
Speaker 1: they're four games up in the division that they don't
Speaker 1: have anything to play for them because they don't need to.
Speaker 1: They don't want to be going to the Superdome for
Speaker 1: a playoff game, or you know, Minnesota. I guess it's
Speaker 1: a tough place to play either way, though, I think
Speaker 1: if you I guess the point I'm making is, if
Speaker 1: you want to be optimistic about this, there's a reason.
Speaker 1: There's a reason to be optimistic. There's enough here that says, okay,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys can get on a roll here, which,
Speaker 1: like you said at the beginning, Dave, there's nothing that
Speaker 1: you saw last week that suggests they can get on
Speaker 1: this kind of role, right, but they do. It looks
Speaker 1: like maybe they get some of these guys back this week.
Speaker 1: If they get some of them back, maybe that steadies
Speaker 1: the ship a little bit. And playing teams that are
Speaker 1: lesser than us, especially from the standpoint of their record,
Speaker 1: during these next four weeks while you without Zeke, maybe
Speaker 1: you could steady this thing and you can actually get
Speaker 1: some wins and get on a roll, get your guy back,
Speaker 1: and here you go. You know, the nice thing is
Speaker 1: it's a cliche and we roll our eyes at football players,
Speaker 1: but like, what other way is there to look at
Speaker 1: it than just one game at a time. You know,
Speaker 1: Anthony Hitchins last night in the locker room was like,
Speaker 1: we gotta go one and oh before we can worry
Speaker 1: about the rest of that. And it's a cliche for sure,
Speaker 1: but you know why even why would I waste my
Speaker 1: time amping myself up about whether they can go on
Speaker 1: this run? Like they got to play a game in
Speaker 1: two days, and if they lose it, then we can
Speaker 1: really probably start talking about not yeah exactly, we can
Speaker 1: worry about other stuff. So you know, play this one
Speaker 1: game they look good and they win and Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: comes back, and not if they look good, if they win,
Speaker 1: you're right, if they win. If they win, if they
Speaker 1: win and you Tyron Smith's back, he's feeling better, that's
Speaker 1: another week for Sean Lee to work on his hamstring.
Speaker 1: Not gonna look good and lose, Huh, They're not gonna
Speaker 1: look good. Yeah you don't. You don't look good and
Speaker 1: lose to a four and sixth. Right, but but but
Speaker 1: there's a way that you can look bad and still
Speaker 1: get a win. And right now I'm not style pointing
Speaker 1: anything to win but a win. I just my point
Speaker 1: being we can worry about win in five in a
Speaker 1: row if they can win this one. Like, let me
Speaker 1: see what they look like on a short week with
Speaker 1: all these injuries and all this stuff, and we'll revisit
Speaker 1: that as we get ready for the Redskins. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about these injuries. Yesterday, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: a walk through. But during their walkthrough, it made the
Speaker 1: injury report look great, like there was only one guy
Speaker 1: that miss practice. Everybody else was at least limited. You
Speaker 1: had Dan Bailey who was limited, maliek Collins, Anthony Hitchins
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence, Tyren Smith the only people that the
Speaker 1: only person that was out with Sean Lee and then
Speaker 1: you had full practice for Jeff Heath who missed last
Speaker 1: week with a concussion and Jeff Swain. So although it
Speaker 1: was just to walk through, is that significant that those
Speaker 1: guys were at least limited, particularly guys like Anthony Hitchins
Speaker 1: and Tyren Smith and Dan Bailey who those two have
Speaker 1: been out and then Hitchins had gotten hurt in the game.
Speaker 1: Well they what did they say on the email? It's
Speaker 1: an approximation because it's a walk through, not a real practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's significant, and you know, I don't I think by
Speaker 1: now we're all honest with ourselves that you know we're
Speaker 1: not always right. People listening to that know this. But
Speaker 1: we were on here yesterday morning saying like, no way
Speaker 1: Hitchins will be right. He looked horrible Sunday like he
Speaker 1: did not look good. I mean, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: play or he's gonna try damn hard. He's they're not
Speaker 1: ruling enough to do. Many football player are crazy. That's well.
Speaker 1: We saw him that that was that playoff game in
Speaker 1: Green Bay where he was just like he was. It
Speaker 1: looked like he was just it took everything yell in
Speaker 1: him to get out there, but he got out there
Speaker 1: to play. I mean, he said, the problem with his
Speaker 1: with his groin is it's small. It's so small that
Speaker 1: they all right, really the muscle. I was thinking, I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna go there, but go ahead, finish your It's
Speaker 1: not it's barely a strain. That's basically it. Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's not in any pain, but it's
Speaker 1: not and you're not dealing with the type of thing
Speaker 1: that Tyrn and Dan Bailey are dealing with. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna give it a go. Just a pain issues. What
Speaker 1: you're saying, it sounds like, I mean, typically you don't
Speaker 1: see guys go out there if there's risk of reaggravating it,
Speaker 1: at least a significant risk. So it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: gonna give it a go. Jerry Jones this morning ruled
Speaker 1: out Sean Lee. That's not good, but he did say
Speaker 1: that hitch, Bailey and um Tyron all have a chance
Speaker 1: to play in this game. So are you at all
Speaker 1: concerned or do you guys get concerned about the possibility
Speaker 1: that a guy like Hitchens, because he is a tough guy,
Speaker 1: will push himself to play but may not be as effective,
Speaker 1: in which case it's probably better for him not to play.
Speaker 1: Or do you think the coaches would shut that down.
Speaker 1: I think you'll you'll see, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: plays here and there, and they'll see if he can't
Speaker 1: if he's gonna hurt himself or hurt the team. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll pull him out of there, and it's not I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a situation where you're gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: a linebacker or that should be playing, right. You know.
Speaker 1: It's one thing, and I remember it happened into Bill
Speaker 1: Parcels one time. This offensive tackle said he could go,
Speaker 1: he could go go, and then pregame he said, I'm out.
Speaker 1: My back hurts, and then you know, they didn't have
Speaker 1: anybody else after that. So, yeah, that can hurt you,
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're gonna be They're gonna say
Speaker 1: you sure you can go, Hitch, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: sit March Lillard down and then you know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would play. I would bet everybody. Everybody's up, Lea's up
Speaker 1: for this game from the linebacker standpoint, all right. M
Speaker 1: One other thing I wanted to make get an update
Speaker 1: on Bailey. It sounded like he actually did some warm
Speaker 1: ups and before this last game, and how did that
Speaker 1: go for him? Well, I talked to him a little
Speaker 1: bit in a pregame and he said I mentioned it,
Speaker 1: and he goes, you guys saw that. He's like, man,
Speaker 1: I forget people are still in the building. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: like before the yeah, like everyone's up there watching, you know.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, well, because it went pretty went
Speaker 1: pretty good, and he's like, we'll see about this week.
Speaker 1: And I don't feel I mean, he said it went fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't get the sense that if he needs
Speaker 1: to be able to come back and also kick off,
Speaker 1: I think kicking off is it would probably be harder
Speaker 1: than just the field goals. And so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a situation where how does he kick off and how
Speaker 1: does he feel doing that? Do we think that there's
Speaker 1: a possibility he could be back and ready to kick
Speaker 1: field goals and they keep nu Gin up as well
Speaker 1: to kick off. I bet it's tough when you're inactive
Speaker 1: to keep two kickers active. Yeah, that's true. I mean
Speaker 1: it sounded good when I first thought the same thing,
Speaker 1: and I was like, we're having a hard time just
Speaker 1: getting to seven and this week might be even more tough.
Speaker 1: But if you get guys like Tyrn Smith back and
Speaker 1: you get Hitchens playing, now you got now you're the
Speaker 1: number of guys that have to be an active for
Speaker 1: injuries decreases, So you got some tough decisions and make
Speaker 1: Plus you want to protect yourself. If those guys can't
Speaker 1: make it through the full game, right, I mean, Nugent
Speaker 1: spend seven of nine field goals. I don't sit another
Speaker 1: running back. It's fine, they did it last week. Just
Speaker 1: sit Keith Smith or Rod Smith or no, you can't
Speaker 1: say another one. Yeah, just go with Morris. But McFadden,
Speaker 1: it's definitely gotta sit. Like no, he's got no goot,
Speaker 1: He's gotta sit. Definitely. It sucks. All right, let's ull
Speaker 1: tell you what. Let's do this. Let's check our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Dave's gonna give us a scouting
Speaker 1: report on the charger's offense. This is an interesting butch.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that. We come right back. This is
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Speaker 1: We're about to talk about the Cowboys and the Chargers.
Speaker 1: They play on Thanksgiving data this year. Three five kickoff.
Speaker 1: It's all right, I think it's three thirty five kickoff,
Speaker 1: So it makes you guys. Check that out. Dave, give
Speaker 1: us a scouting report on this Charger offense. Well, I
Speaker 1: just gave you one off the air. I know, I
Speaker 1: wanted to warm you up and I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure you're going to give the people good stuff. So
Speaker 1: I was like, it's going to be good stuff, so go.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are interesting to me just because they're like
Speaker 1: in that in between where you know, they have this
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame caliber quarterback who's nearing the end of
Speaker 1: his career. He makes them relevant because he's so good
Speaker 1: and like the rest of this, it's like they're just
Speaker 1: throwing up stuff to try to help him out, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're trying to you know, like Dirk Navitski, you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to make them competitive for his last few
Speaker 1: years in the league. Like they drafted, for instance, they'd
Speaker 1: spent a lot of resources on the offensive line because
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers has gotten killed over the years. So they
Speaker 1: drafted Forrest lamp who actually tours ACL and training camp,
Speaker 1: which I wonder how much better they'd be because he
Speaker 1: got he got all of these comparis since Zach Martin
Speaker 1: coming out like he was this badass tackle from Western
Speaker 1: Kentucky and they were going to move him to guard
Speaker 1: and he was going to be a pro bowler immediately
Speaker 1: hasn't played this year. They also drafted Dan Feeney, who's
Speaker 1: a third round pick who's playing. I mean, he's starting
Speaker 1: and playing well for them as a rookie, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: got Russell Okoom from Denver after he was like oh there.
Speaker 1: So they pieced together this line to help Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: in the same vein. You know what, Philip Rivers is
Speaker 1: like thirty eight years old. Thirty seven years old. I'm
Speaker 1: like that, like everybody else on his offense is like
Speaker 1: twenty three. Like, they just drafted Melvin Gordon in the
Speaker 1: first round. This is his third season. They drafted Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen in twenty thirteen, this is his fifth season. They
Speaker 1: drafted Knick's guy Hunter Henry out of Arkansas, and I
Speaker 1: think this is his third season as a Knicks guy
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry. Is he on your fantasy team? No, I'm asking,
Speaker 1: Like you said, four names, there is that one person
Speaker 1: or two people? Nick Eatman, ark Guy. Okay, I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: that's okay. You can't trust people with two first names. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't. Uh so, Yeah, but he went to Arkansas.
Speaker 1: That's the only point he's got it. It's funny because
Speaker 1: like Antonio Gate, like Antonio Gate, like he's going to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. He's the guy you probably think
Speaker 1: about when you think of the Chargers like Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: is supplanted him, like they used Antonio Gates in twelve
Speaker 1: personnel and not much else. He's got one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty yards. Interesting scenario though, Hall of Fame to be
Speaker 1: tight end and then they drafted another guy and he
Speaker 1: actually plays in Gates is probably okay with him. I
Speaker 1: wonder how Gates feels about that. I mean, Hunter becoming
Speaker 1: close to retirement, right, I mean yeah, I mean maybe
Speaker 1: this year. My Gates has been in the league longer
Speaker 1: than has he longed. Yeah, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: that long, but I know it seems like he's been
Speaker 1: in the league forever. I want to say he was
Speaker 1: in the two thousand and one NCAA tournament, I know that.
Speaker 1: I want to say he came in two two thousand
Speaker 1: and two NCAA tournament. Maybe they got here, they came
Speaker 1: in at the same time. Probably, Yeah, but seems like
Speaker 1: he's been around longer. But yeah, it's just me, he's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, so regardless they drafted they drafted Mike Williams
Speaker 1: in the first round from Adda Clemson. So many Mike Williams.
Speaker 1: I know. Then he's been injured, which one he hasn't
Speaker 1: had a ton of opportunities, so it's like they're piecing
Speaker 1: this thing together, you know, like the you know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys started with their offensive line and like built everything
Speaker 1: behind that and then they added the running back. There's
Speaker 1: it's hard to find the method here. Like I just
Speaker 1: they're just like we gotta help Philip, just well year
Speaker 1: by year, bringing things that we can use to help Philip.
Speaker 1: But like they're fine, I think mostly because Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: is such a good quarterback. But like you were telling
Speaker 1: me off the air, like they're they're not really special
Speaker 1: at anything. I mean, they're fifteenth overall. They're thirteenth in passing,
Speaker 1: so even with Philip Rivers, like they're not just chunking
Speaker 1: it away on people two hundred and forty seven yards
Speaker 1: a game. Melvin Gordon, he's having a decent career. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's lived up to the hype of
Speaker 1: being as drafted as high as he was, that he
Speaker 1: was the second guy taken after Gurley. I think he
Speaker 1: went eighteenth ninety four rushing yards per game. They're twenty
Speaker 1: fifth in the league and fifteenth in scoring offense, so
Speaker 1: and that's twenty two point one points per game. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound bad, but they remind me a
Speaker 1: little bit of the Falcons in the sense that, like
Speaker 1: they have a lot of talent, but they haven't the
Speaker 1: results don't bear that out and all the I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Atlanta beat the Cowboys by twenty points the other day,
Speaker 1: but the offense like didn't blow me away in that game, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't just wipe him off the field
Speaker 1: by any stretch. So there's the pieces there to be dangerous,
Speaker 1: especially when you have a guy like Philip Rivers. But
Speaker 1: when we were arguing about this off the air, like,
Speaker 1: I don't see anything here that just really takes my
Speaker 1: breath away in terms of like things you can't handle.
Speaker 1: Like Keenan Allen is a very good receiver. I think
Speaker 1: I would argue that he's the worst number one receiver
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have faced in the last little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about I totally drew a blanket Jones,
Speaker 1: think about Yeah, you think about Julio Jones, You think
Speaker 1: about al Sean Jeffrey, You think about the three or
Speaker 1: four guys that Washington has Crowder dockson the tight ends
Speaker 1: and over there zach Ertz for Philly. I mean Hunter.
Speaker 1: Henry's good, but he's not on that level. He's not
Speaker 1: on the Travis Kelsey level. There's not a guy here
Speaker 1: with speed like Tyree Hill. There's just not a guy
Speaker 1: that I just scares me where I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they just absolutely can't deal with this guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know Keenan Allen's good, but I just I don't
Speaker 1: know that he's on that freakish level. He's got seven
Speaker 1: hundred yards and five touchdowns this season. So is there
Speaker 1: a receiver on the Cowboys have seven hundred yards? No, right,
Speaker 1: I'm asking, I don't know, No, No, it's I don't
Speaker 1: know what. I don't know what does has but it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be that. I think he's at five hundred, but
Speaker 1: not a whole lot more than that. So in lieu
Speaker 1: of all that, and with the fact that we know
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's not going to play, the thing that scares
Speaker 1: me is their running backs. Because Melvin Gordon is a
Speaker 1: good player. I know, I just said their twenty fifth
Speaker 1: in the league and rushing offense, but I mean that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter when we've seen the Cowboys perform the way
Speaker 1: they have against some of these running games without Shawn Lee.
Speaker 1: And the other one is this kid, Austin Eckler, who
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been paying attention to the Chargers,
Speaker 1: but he is having a breakout year. As like there,
Speaker 1: you know, he's their new darren Sproles. He's he catches
Speaker 1: it out of the backfield, they get a runner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh absolutely, he's that type of third down guy he had.
Speaker 1: I think he's got something like two hundred receiving yards
Speaker 1: and three receiving touchdowns, all three of which I believe
Speaker 1: came in the last two games. So yeah, and if
Speaker 1: Sean Lee was playing this game, it probably wouldn't bother
Speaker 1: me a whole lot. But he won't be there. We
Speaker 1: know that right now. And so that that's what I'm watching.
Speaker 1: Between Gordon running the ball and what Brandon Oliver and
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler can do as receivers, that worries me a lot.
Speaker 1: So you said that there's nothing really special about them,
Speaker 1: talk to me about what they did last week, because
Speaker 1: obviously last week they scored a ton of points. Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen had a phenomenal day with twelve catches, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine yards, two touchdowns. What did they do
Speaker 1: last week? That you saw that made them so prolific offensively,
Speaker 1: I can answer that without even looking at the game.
Speaker 1: I was, well, six turnovers right, well for a field.
Speaker 1: In the interest of full disclosure, thank you short week.
Speaker 1: The all twenty two of Bill's Chargers is not up yet.
Speaker 1: I had to watch old games of them because it
Speaker 1: usually takes them like a day to turn that around.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the all twenty two of that game,
Speaker 1: but I think they were plus six and turnover differential,
Speaker 1: which in the NFL helps. In the n like two
Speaker 1: of them were touchdowns. I mean, so at the risk
Speaker 1: of you know, I mean just at the risk of
Speaker 1: just like explaining away something that of that magnitude. But
Speaker 1: in the NFL, if you were plus five or six
Speaker 1: and turnover, almost throw that game out because that's like
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen and we win like that too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when it does happen, the other team loses by thirty
Speaker 1: or forty points. So I look at I mean, I
Speaker 1: look at that mainly is taking advantage of a young
Speaker 1: quarterback playing horribly in its first start. And then obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I think once you get behind the ball
Speaker 1: like that, once a team gets behind by two or
Speaker 1: three scores, then your offense is just kind of doing
Speaker 1: whatever it wants. So when you match up against this
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense and what the Cowboys defense does well front
Speaker 1: for what they do not so well at times, tackling
Speaker 1: from the linebacker position, maybe some of the play in
Speaker 1: the secondary. What do you think they're matchup issues either
Speaker 1: good or bad for the Cowboys? Well, I think I
Speaker 1: think the passing game matchups are favorable. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean like it's one of those things where now
Speaker 1: I regret saying it because I'm not trying to say
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's not a good receiver. But I do think
Speaker 1: there's less here that you have to worry about than
Speaker 1: in other matchups. I mean they're other. You know, they
Speaker 1: have Tyroll Williams, who they got as an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1: I think they would probably prefer that Mike Williams is
Speaker 1: their number two, but he's just not on that level
Speaker 1: yet where he's ready for that type of snap count.
Speaker 1: And then and then you have Travis Benjamin who in
Speaker 1: the games I watched, he's their lucky whitehead, Like I
Speaker 1: think that guy or a fast guy. He's like they
Speaker 1: only run into rounds with him, Like that's like the
Speaker 1: only thing that he does. And he's fast, so he
Speaker 1: gets yards on him, which that's something to watch for.
Speaker 1: But he's not like this true receiver that's running all
Speaker 1: these routes. And like I said, Hunter Henry is a
Speaker 1: good player, but we've seen them have success against Ertz
Speaker 1: and Kelsey. I think between Byron Jones and now that
Speaker 1: Cheeto Woozier is healthy, I think you can probably keep
Speaker 1: that down a little bit. Like I said, the thing
Speaker 1: that worries me is Melvin Gordon running and then all
Speaker 1: three of these running backs catch passes. They ran a
Speaker 1: lot of screens against that Jaguars defense, which has been
Speaker 1: so good against the run this year since they got
Speaker 1: Marcel Darius in that trade. They're just aggressive. Like I
Speaker 1: think Gordon probably caught six screens in that game. Like
Speaker 1: I said, this kid Eckler goes out why like he's
Speaker 1: Danny Woodhead Absolutely he or Darren Sprowles when Darren Sprowles
Speaker 1: was there, which was a decade ago, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: But all of that stuff worries me when you consider
Speaker 1: that Shaun Lee won't be there and Anthony Hitchins won't
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent. I mean, yeah, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time keeping those guys down. The
Speaker 1: one thing that I think stood at the most to
Speaker 1: me when I looked at this offense was they don't
Speaker 1: get sacked very much, Philip Rivers and it doesn't get
Speaker 1: sacked very much. They're third in sacks allowed in the
Speaker 1: NFL with only giving up twelve. That's a pretty good number,
Speaker 1: and that when you look at the matchup, that's something
Speaker 1: that Cowboys typically do well, but may not that may
Speaker 1: be neutralized a bit because you're playing a team and
Speaker 1: a quarterback that tends to not take very many sacks.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I don't think of their offensive line
Speaker 1: certainly isn't bad, but they're not like these road graders,
Speaker 1: you know, like they're not just unbelievable. And Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: is not Tony Romo in his right, you know, but
Speaker 1: like he gets away from pressure, like he just kind
Speaker 1: of shuffles around back there and moves up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He's he's I mean, he's been doing it long enough
Speaker 1: that he just knows how the pocket works. He knows
Speaker 1: how to get away from stuff. But like he doesn't
Speaker 1: look amazing doing it, like he eli, Yeah, I mean good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Eli doesn't take a lot of sex. Yeah, Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: looks like an old man like and I mean, you
Speaker 1: know in NFL terms, like he just looks like he
Speaker 1: looks like a guy who's been playing football for a
Speaker 1: long time. But he knows the little tricks of the
Speaker 1: trade to help him get out of situations without having
Speaker 1: to be Russell Wilson. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: some questions. You guys give us a call numbers two
Speaker 1: one four eight seven two twenty one O two again
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Speaker 1: You can also hit us on Twitter at Cowboys Break.
Speaker 1: Let's get a question first from Twitter? What do you have? Amber? Well?
Speaker 1: Can I speak before the Can I throw in my
Speaker 1: own call? I thought you guys didn't have one. I'm sorry. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say and do my homework, like I
Speaker 1: knew Dave was gonna have a great details scouting report.
Speaker 1: But this team, it doesn't matter. Honestly, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't care about the Chargers. I don't. I haven't been
Speaker 1: following up with what they're doing. They're not not impressive
Speaker 1: to me. But aside from that, I just don't think, honestly,
Speaker 1: it matters whoever the Cowboys are facing at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about themselves, what they're doing, the guys
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have available, Are they gonna make those changes,
Speaker 1: those adjustments after halftime. I don't think the their defensive
Speaker 1: line is gonna struggle this week. I think they'll play
Speaker 1: better than what they did last weekend. David Irving, I
Speaker 1: would assume they wouldn't really limit him like we saw
Speaker 1: last game. He I think they're gonna connect and do
Speaker 1: a better job even if they're not getting sacked. I
Speaker 1: think they'll be able to put some pressure. But all
Speaker 1: in all, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who they're facing, honestly. Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast studio, Jason Garrett. We're really happy
Speaker 1: to have you here, nameless faceless opponents. Hey, Control, you're saying,
Speaker 1: it's all about what we can can do, I mean,
Speaker 1: get themselves fixed and then they'll be fine. It's not
Speaker 1: a bad point. I mean, it's really not a bad
Speaker 1: way to look at this when you when you think
Speaker 1: about the teams that they're gonna play, because again, these
Speaker 1: are not teams that are great. So if you do
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. If you take care of
Speaker 1: your own business, you should be able to win them.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of these teams. I think that's a
Speaker 1: logical fallacy because this team isn't great either, Like you
Speaker 1: tend to think about understood, understood, but but all these things,
Speaker 1: And you could probably say the same thing for the Charges,
Speaker 1: Like I'm sure the Chargers look at and say, if
Speaker 1: we just fix this, this and this, the Chargers, we
Speaker 1: can win any one of these games. Right they've lost,
Speaker 1: I mean they've lost sixty what sixty one did to
Speaker 1: sixteen the last two weeks, Like we can beat these guys.
Speaker 1: They don't have it half their good players, right, that's
Speaker 1: and that's I mean maybe they get tired and and
Speaker 1: Bailey and Hitchings back on the but like they're not
Speaker 1: going to be fixed, Like they're not because the players
Speaker 1: are gonna be fixed with the teams. That team's not
Speaker 1: gonna be fixed. It's not gonna be the ideal version
Speaker 1: of what you want. I mean, they don't have Zeke,
Speaker 1: they don't have lead. They're not gonna be fixed. They're
Speaker 1: just gonna be trying to patch this thing together. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and I doubt they're gonna have another game like they
Speaker 1: did this past weekend talking about the Chargers, but as
Speaker 1: far as turnovers, you look at the way that Dak
Speaker 1: is throwing and not really connecting with the receivers. If
Speaker 1: whether it's on him or on the receivers, it's still
Speaker 1: a big issue right there, and we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1: But whatever the nihilistic Amber over here, something nothing matters.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say about that, though, Amber is
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to see a scenario where the
Speaker 1: offense fixes its problems on a short week exactly. So
Speaker 1: I think if they're gonna win this game, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna be because they get better as
Speaker 1: much as it's going to be that the things that
Speaker 1: they've been doing well they can to do well, and
Speaker 1: they do, and those things just continue. Like the running game,
Speaker 1: if the Running game can be a little bit better
Speaker 1: than it was last game, because it was, as Day
Speaker 1: said yesterday, it was okay, right, If it can be
Speaker 1: a little bit better, if the defense can actually hold
Speaker 1: for a full game, which you're thinking against an offense
Speaker 1: like this, maybe they can't hold a full game and
Speaker 1: actually hold them a lot closer than what they did
Speaker 1: with Philadelphia and maybe replicate what they did in the
Speaker 1: first half against Philadelphia through most of the game against
Speaker 1: San Diego. I think that's how they have to win.
Speaker 1: I don't think offensively they're going to score a ton
Speaker 1: of points because that's just not what we've seen in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. And I don't think there's anything
Speaker 1: that's going to change that right now on a short week.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, we've seen them do certain
Speaker 1: things that do work and then they don't do it again.
Speaker 1: So that's the thing. It's like, Okay, are you gonna
Speaker 1: take this time, this little amount of time that you
Speaker 1: have available to actually look at go back and see
Speaker 1: what has been working and try to do more of
Speaker 1: those things instead of That's the one thing I don't get, like,
Speaker 1: if you see something working, why don't you keep trying
Speaker 1: to do that instead of switching it up? And and
Speaker 1: then when you need them to switch it up, they
Speaker 1: don't switch it up, so we'll see it's like they're
Speaker 1: just guessing wrong. Sometimes coaches do that. They overthink themselves,
Speaker 1: like we're running this, they know we're gonna do this,
Speaker 1: They're they're onto us, they know we're gonna run this.
Speaker 1: They know that, we know that they know, instead of
Speaker 1: making them actually stop it before you stop it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. All right, let's take our Let's take our
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Speaker 1: Let's take a call from Floyd in Virginia. Floyd, what up?
Speaker 1: Hey guys, Hey hey by Derek, Chapter seventy six. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You what I'm sorry? Alpha, Chapter seventy six. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: Doc Brow all right, Um, the reason we're having this
Speaker 1: bad love streak is it's all Dave's fault. David has
Speaker 1: been wrong, he said. Nobody watches the show. See him
Speaker 1: in the hoodie, he said, nobody. He said he was
Speaker 1: wrong with Vic and Zeke didn't show up. But seriously, guys,
Speaker 1: this is you think it's the defense or the offense
Speaker 1: that's really our problem. Because on offense, we won't leave
Speaker 1: the system. We won't go George Rouse today, we won't
Speaker 1: run wide. But on defense, our safety are always late.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones is always chasing. Jeff Heath, the fastest man
Speaker 1: on the team, is always there step late. What is it?
Speaker 1: Offensive defense? All right? Appreciate the cough. It's I always
Speaker 1: lean toward offense, and like, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: times I can say it for whatever. Obviously you want
Speaker 1: the defense to be better, but they are what they are,
Speaker 1: and they're not a unit that's going to win you games.
Speaker 1: That about expectations, like, yeah, absolutely, expectation going to season
Speaker 1: was offense has to carry you because that's the best
Speaker 1: expectation is that your offense is a machine full of
Speaker 1: Pro bowlers and your defense is not. So yeah, um
Speaker 1: well that's I mean, that's always have a defense with
Speaker 1: a philosophy of ben but don't break. And then it's
Speaker 1: what's going to happen your Your safeties are going to
Speaker 1: be a step slower up to the to the stop
Speaker 1: the run because they're playing in you know, Fort Worth.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're not going to give up a
Speaker 1: deep ball back there. So sometimes they do, but it's rare.
Speaker 1: I mean for the most part they're playing back there.
Speaker 1: Then when the line but I think it's more of
Speaker 1: a situation of miss and Shawn Lee and those linebackers
Speaker 1: not being there. And now you're you're asking where your
Speaker 1: safeties are, but the safeties are making sure that you're
Speaker 1: not getting beat deep. So I mean, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not saying the safety play has been good. It hasn't.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you have to give up something, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys make sure they don't give up big plays.
Speaker 1: When that happens, your safeties are going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit late to get up there. If your linebackers
Speaker 1: and defensive line are not making the plays at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, how much better do you think the
Speaker 1: defense would be if Barry Church was still here, like
Speaker 1: he was a real I think we had an argument
Speaker 1: in the spring where I I mean, he's a really
Speaker 1: good player. He's not a great player. He's like as
Speaker 1: good as you can be without being Pro Bowl caliber,
Speaker 1: which I mean, how much of a difference does that
Speaker 1: guy make on this defense? Well, everybody would slide down
Speaker 1: one spot, which I think makes a difference. Right, If
Speaker 1: Jeff heat is out there for only you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many less snaps, but let's assume thirty
Speaker 1: less snaps. Like it, that's just his snaps in half.
Speaker 1: We know that Jeff Fith is in position and makes
Speaker 1: plays when he gets limited opportunities. He can give up
Speaker 1: some too, but he'll make a few plays for you,
Speaker 1: So you put him out there a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: like JJ Wilcox. His final year here was his best
Speaker 1: year here. He was not a guy that was out
Speaker 1: there every play. He was a guy that was out
Speaker 1: there in limited opportunities. But he made a few plays,
Speaker 1: and I think that's kind of the same thing with Jeffeet.
Speaker 1: I'd rather see Jeff eithan that kind of role, and
Speaker 1: so from that standpoint, I think it makes a big difference.
Speaker 1: On top of the fact that I think, you know
Speaker 1: they they I think they could use a little more
Speaker 1: veteran leadership in that unit, and I think Church could
Speaker 1: have provided that. I think there now, for the money,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys for not signing him, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he was worth that amount of money
Speaker 1: for this team. He's the guy, either him or car
Speaker 1: would be the guy that I would have liked to
Speaker 1: keep the most, and he was the most expensive. So like,
Speaker 1: I don't look at that as this missed opportunity. It's
Speaker 1: just like you can't afford to pay that was doable
Speaker 1: to keep far with the price that problem he got
Speaker 1: up there, it was doable problem. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was doable to do to keep To keep Church,
Speaker 1: I think their run defense would be better with it,
Speaker 1: Like with the amount of games that Sean Lee has missed.
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be great, but I think
Speaker 1: it would be better. It's a good point. Barry was
Speaker 1: still here too, But that's hindsight. That's like a question
Speaker 1: from Twitter. With the run game looking serviceable and Tyran
Speaker 1: potentially coming back, what can these offense do to improve
Speaker 1: the passing game? Why would you, guys? Possibly you want
Speaker 1: to see. What's really interesting to me is they asked
Speaker 1: Garrett about that, and you know, like it's a frustrating
Speaker 1: thing to figure out because i mean, even watching the tape,
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, like does the receiver open? Is Dak
Speaker 1: not seeing that? Like it's hard to even look at
Speaker 1: all twenty two and be like, why exactly isn't this working?
Speaker 1: Like it's not as obvious as like he's just running
Speaker 1: down the middle of the field wide open. Like it's
Speaker 1: not that EASi, they aren't wide open, guys. He's just amazing. Oh,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, like that has happened at points
Speaker 1: during the season, but it's just it's not that obvious
Speaker 1: when you're sitting down to like watch these games. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we asked Garrett about this last night, and like his
Speaker 1: entire answer was just about protection, was about Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: not being in there. And I know Tyron Smith is great,
Speaker 1: but considering all the things that went wrong, in the
Speaker 1: passing game, from drop passes to bad accuracy to bad
Speaker 1: decision making. For Garrett to basically spend forty seconds saying
Speaker 1: that much of it as attributable to Tyron Smith was
Speaker 1: really interesting to me. Was that also maybe because what
Speaker 1: they think they saw was a quarterback who had been
Speaker 1: brutalized so much the week before that last week he
Speaker 1: was feeling and seeing things that maybe weren't there when
Speaker 1: it comes to the pass rush. Not only that, but
Speaker 1: I think, and you know, I don't think it's mean
Speaker 1: or harsh to say this, Like Dak's a second year quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's not at the point where he's gonna make his
Speaker 1: reads that quickly, like he needs that extra half second
Speaker 1: to full second that Tyron Smith gives him. And if
Speaker 1: you want to get into that barred room debate about oh,
Speaker 1: he's not elite, like, no, he's not elite. He's a
Speaker 1: second year player. Like it's not it's not wrong or
Speaker 1: insulting to Dak. Press got to say that he needs
Speaker 1: that supporting cast to be at his best in his
Speaker 1: second year. Yeah, and he hasn't had it. And you know,
Speaker 1: again to draw that comparison to Russell Wilson, I think
Speaker 1: that's really fair. Russell would so good. Well. He needed that.
Speaker 1: He needed that when he was young. He needed marsha
Speaker 1: On Lynch and they had a much better offensive line
Speaker 1: at their defense was killer, like the defense shut people down,
Speaker 1: so he just had to knock them out. In year
Speaker 1: six or seven, however long he's been in the league,
Speaker 1: he's out there doing that crap like he's unbelievable to watch.
Speaker 1: And you know the fact that Dak needs that right
Speaker 1: now at the age of twenty four doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: he can't become a quarterback on that level later, but
Speaker 1: he needs that right now. I do think that this
Speaker 1: team needs to throw the ball down the field a
Speaker 1: lot more, even if it's not the high percentage play.
Speaker 1: I think that they need to scheme plays for Bryce,
Speaker 1: Terrence Dez whoever get get him down the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, not just one of those when the play
Speaker 1: breaks down, throw it down the field. I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: get it protected, stand up, and then let Terrence go
Speaker 1: streaking down forty five yards down the field. Because what
Speaker 1: that'll do, even if you don't make it, what that'll do,
Speaker 1: it'll just push the safeties back and it will open
Speaker 1: up the middle for the plays they want to throw
Speaker 1: Daz underneath, but they never show that they're gonna throw
Speaker 1: a deep ever. I mean, everybody else in the league
Speaker 1: is testing these corners for the Cowboys a couple of times,
Speaker 1: a few times during the game. They never do it.
Speaker 1: I know Bryce can go deep. You know Terrence can
Speaker 1: go deep. So I don't know why they don't do that.
Speaker 1: It opens up more things in my opinion for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Is it selective memory on my part?
Speaker 1: And I know, I mean, I know what you're going
Speaker 1: to say, because you want them to get this fast receiver,
Speaker 1: But like, these guys don't throw the ball outside the numbers.
Speaker 1: Like that's not a thing that the Cowboys have been
Speaker 1: doing with any real regularity this season, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you saw they tried the fifty fifty balls to days
Speaker 1: in the early going and it hasn't been working, and
Speaker 1: it just seemed like they don't do it. But do
Speaker 1: we changed that term? But you know, because to me,
Speaker 1: flipping a coin is fifty fifty. Like pulling a card
Speaker 1: rud or black, that's fifty fifty. But the fifty fifty
Speaker 1: ball to dead like, that's no longer fifty fifty he
Speaker 1: doesn't get get seventy twenty five seventy five. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: he's not going he's not getting the ball fifty percent
Speaker 1: of the time. Yeah, it used to be seventy thirty
Speaker 1: in his favorite right. But I'll ask answer your question
Speaker 1: with a question. Do they do anything in the pasting
Speaker 1: game with regularity? Like there is no It seems like
Speaker 1: to me there's no consistency because I'll say, yeah, two
Speaker 1: games ago they had that deep pass to Bryce that
Speaker 1: was outside the numbers, But they don't do that consistently. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: they think you would think that maybe that dig route
Speaker 1: to Todays or slant route to days would be consistent.
Speaker 1: But it's not like they'll do it one game and
Speaker 1: then another game. They don't do it as much. For
Speaker 1: Amber was just saying what they the Cowboys do things,
Speaker 1: and then I'll know and go back to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't think they have any consistency in their past.
Speaker 1: I think they've only played, to my memory, maybe two
Speaker 1: games where their passing game actually looked consistent. Hasn't wasn't
Speaker 1: Kansas City. It looks it looked pretty good against Kansas City.
Speaker 1: It looked pretty good against Green Bay um, there's somebody
Speaker 1: else in there, well, definitely not Washington. And I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying looks good or looks bad. I'm saying more
Speaker 1: that they do something consistently, like they say this we
Speaker 1: know we can do, Like there is nothing like that
Speaker 1: I would have this office other than the running game.
Speaker 1: I running game is what they do. I would argue
Speaker 1: that they can consistently find Daz on the slant slash
Speaker 1: post dad. I mean, like, I'm just playing, Well, it's
Speaker 1: funny because Das is good for six catches and sixty
Speaker 1: yards like all every week. It's just it's not enough
Speaker 1: and it's not what we've gotten used to seeing, and
Speaker 1: it's not coming in the red zone. And there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of plays that where he's breaking tackles action
Speaker 1: turn it into more like they'll like Dack will find
Speaker 1: Das on a slant twice a game. It's just but
Speaker 1: it just hasn't It hasn't been enough to lead to
Speaker 1: more or better results. He's not you know, obviously he's
Speaker 1: not Terrell Owens, but you know, to is the type
Speaker 1: of guy that would catch it over the middle like
Speaker 1: that and just he would just break through tackles. He
Speaker 1: was really good after the catch and Dez. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen that out of Dez. He's lately or the last
Speaker 1: couple of years really just just really breaking tackles and
Speaker 1: just you know, because we say that like I'll want
Speaker 1: des back there in the open field for the punt return,
Speaker 1: but you know, they're giving him some plays in the
Speaker 1: open field here and on the offense, and he's not
Speaker 1: really taking advantage. It broke my heart that he couldn't
Speaker 1: get away from Derby on that like that he's been
Speaker 1: he's been so good at it. He scored, he's scored it,
Speaker 1: Lee and I watched all his touchdowns a couple of
Speaker 1: summers ago. He scored at least five on that play
Speaker 1: of his. You know, fifty six career touchdowns, five or
Speaker 1: six of them have been on just that bubble screens
Speaker 1: set a corner. And Zack's got to get that ball
Speaker 1: up too though, Yeah, for sure, because there are a
Speaker 1: lot of plays where the ball's down low, it's it's
Speaker 1: they're catchable balls. But he could make it a lot
Speaker 1: easier on his receiver, no doubt about it. You wonder.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got two guys that are smurfs out there,
Speaker 1: you know, that he's got to throw are you Are
Speaker 1: you trying to say he's now accustomed to just throwing
Speaker 1: low because he's got a little Well, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: behalf of smurfs everywhere, I don't appreciate that. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of guys on the team that
Speaker 1: you can't throw it high, you know, And there was
Speaker 1: one to Beasley. I've seen YouTube videos of him dunking
Speaker 1: so he can get up in the air. Okay, the
Speaker 1: one where he didn't jump. Beasley can jump at all.
Speaker 1: But like that ball was like that was one of
Speaker 1: the worst throws of Dak's night. Like that was a
Speaker 1: past to Beasley. There we go. That was you didn't
Speaker 1: think so Beasley was just like, I'm not going for
Speaker 1: that that. I thought it was high. It was high,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't think he had a shot at that ball.
Speaker 1: I like that would like that would have been a
Speaker 1: dunk of all dunks. That would have been like a
Speaker 1: shock thunder dunk if he had gotten up there, and
Speaker 1: I know he was. There are several didn't land in
Speaker 1: the suits. I mean, you're making it sound like it
Speaker 1: was like I would I think you should go watch that.
Speaker 1: It was several feet above it. It was pretty high. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get some effort, jump for it. You just want to
Speaker 1: can jump for it just for the sake of jumping
Speaker 1: for it. Get your van Halen on this guy's he
Speaker 1: needs to stay off of Twitter. Yeah he's getting He's
Speaker 1: just getting bad over there for him. Okay, here's a
Speaker 1: comment from Twitter. Cowboys got rid of Clayborn because he
Speaker 1: couldn't stay healthy. Maybe they need to do the same
Speaker 1: with Shawn Lee. Thoughts on that crazy comment. That's a
Speaker 1: I love the fans, but that's a dumb question and
Speaker 1: it's a dumb comparison because that's not why they got
Speaker 1: rid of Clayborn. It's not because he wasn't staying healthy.
Speaker 1: It's because he wasn't very good. He wasn't very good.
Speaker 1: When he was healthy, he was okay, and he was
Speaker 1: a high draft pick that you thought maybe he's gonna
Speaker 1: turn it around, and his injuries hurt his consistency, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing at all world level, and when he
Speaker 1: wasn't in the game, you didn't see a huge difference.
Speaker 1: Sean Lee, unfortunately for the Cowboys, is just he plays
Speaker 1: so great when he's out there and when he's not.
Speaker 1: He has missed more than any so it's really tough
Speaker 1: to say we're gonna let you go because they need
Speaker 1: him so bad. On top of well, just think of
Speaker 1: the numbers. Morris Claiborne was on his rookie deal. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys didn't pick up his fifth year option, probably because
Speaker 1: of his injury options. They let him walk away at
Speaker 1: no cost to them when his rookie deal was over.
Speaker 1: Shaan Lee is signed through I want to say at
Speaker 1: least two, if not three, more seasons, and to cut
Speaker 1: him would be to hurt your salary cap and you'd
Speaker 1: wind up paying him. You'd wind up paying the best
Speaker 1: player on your defense not to play for you. And
Speaker 1: as frustrating as it might be for him to get
Speaker 1: hurt often, I'd still rather have him on the payroll
Speaker 1: and available to play when he's healthy than pay him
Speaker 1: not to play. Here I need to look at these
Speaker 1: numbers again, but I think adding in this season and
Speaker 1: how much he's missed already this season. Since he got
Speaker 1: that in contract three years ago, it was like five
Speaker 1: years it was before the twenty thirteen season, he's probably
Speaker 1: lost a total of about four million dollars because of
Speaker 1: the way they structured it. They structured it too. If
Speaker 1: you're healthy, you're gonna make this. If you're not healthy
Speaker 1: and you miss games, you're gonna get this. And it's
Speaker 1: not going to be a great deal. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be an elite linebacker deal. He's lost or combined
Speaker 1: about four million dollars if not more, because he has missed.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys protected themselves within this type of situation.
Speaker 1: None of and for the record, none of that's to
Speaker 1: say like you have to stick your head in the
Speaker 1: sand about the situation. Like even with with Sean Lee
Speaker 1: and Jalen Smith under contract for the foreseeable future, I
Speaker 1: still think linebacker is a huge need for this team
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. It's absolutely something whether you resign Anthony
Speaker 1: Hitchens or get another linebacker in here or draft somebody,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely something you have to do to ensure yourself
Speaker 1: against the future. But you're just creating problems for yourself
Speaker 1: from a talent standpoint and a money standpoint by trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of Shan Lee. Like it just doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. Yep. Let's get a call from a horse
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Horse, what up? Stay? What's up? Guys? Hey?
Speaker 1: I wanted to take you to test Nick on a
Speaker 1: couple of things that you said last couple of days
Speaker 1: and actually last week too. Like you know, Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: has been an okay, he's been a feeling he's not
Speaker 1: a good cornerback. He said that last week that he
Speaker 1: was good. Derek asked you about that. He has given
Speaker 1: up more than half of the touchdowns that have been
Speaker 1: thrown to receivers. He's been the culprit, he's been the
Speaker 1: person that they've picked on. And that's not a good
Speaker 1: cornerback to me. Somebody who gives up half the touchdowns. Second,
Speaker 1: you know, he said Jack was not as good as Witch,
Speaker 1: and I think Derek was correct. They have switched their roles.
Speaker 1: They lost Lane Johnson last year and you can see
Speaker 1: a difference in how they played versus how they played
Speaker 1: this year. And I know they lost Teeters this year,
Speaker 1: but they also learn from that and there tackle got
Speaker 1: better so that when they did lose a perennial Pro
Speaker 1: bowler that they were able to adjust. The Cowboys haven't
Speaker 1: needed to adjust anybody except Free, who has always been mediocre.
Speaker 1: But you know, we got somebody better in Collins. But
Speaker 1: we've never had to adjust to losing the Tyrone Smith,
Speaker 1: who is really arguably one of the best tackles in
Speaker 1: the entire NFL. So it's kind of hard to sell
Speaker 1: that spot. So I wouldn't say that DAK, I mean,
Speaker 1: because you know, you wouldn't say that Phil Simms was
Speaker 1: better than four Ekman when they lost those two games
Speaker 1: when Emmet Smith sat out, you know, so you can't
Speaker 1: say that Dak is not as good as wins. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say that at all. But I do want to
Speaker 1: know one thing. Can Charles Tapper come back? Because I'm
Speaker 1: really tired of seeing Taco out there? Just give me
Speaker 1: one tackle a game he has him and Tapper and
Speaker 1: Tacco have the same amount of sacks, and Taco has
Speaker 1: five more tackles than he does, and that's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about Charles Tapper in a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of dismissed him within the uh within like
Speaker 1: I mean, like just in terms of the rules, like
Speaker 1: you could bring him back, But I just I don't
Speaker 1: think I thought he was out for that's his injury.
Speaker 1: His injuries just he no like he could come back
Speaker 1: if he were healthy, but he won't be healthy in
Speaker 1: time like I don't. He's done in his eight weeks
Speaker 1: in the IRN. He's been on ir long enough that
Speaker 1: he could come back. He got just not ready to
Speaker 1: come back. All right, let me let me address this
Speaker 1: since I've been taken to task. Uh Anthony Brown, Um,
Speaker 1: I think that he If I said he is good,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean he there's been times where he
Speaker 1: has been pretty good. Um, but you know, I thought
Speaker 1: he was good against Kansas City for sure, against against
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill, I thought he had a really nice game there.
Speaker 1: He's a he's the fastest cornerback that you've got on
Speaker 1: the team. Uh. Do they need to upgrade from him? Sure,
Speaker 1: if he was your fourth corner, that would be great. Um.
Speaker 1: Now that he's your third corner and that's not that's
Speaker 1: not you know where he probably needs to be. But
Speaker 1: I think for his development where they drafted him, the
Speaker 1: skill set that he has, about his speed, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's good enough to be on the team. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that you're you're set because you have Anthony Brown. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean if you didn't watch the game Sunday, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I mean, wins is better than Dak. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you can really say. If you want to say
Speaker 1: that all this stuff about who was missing, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But I'm just talking about from the skill set right now,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is a better quarterback than Dak. He was
Speaker 1: better in the draft. That's why one guy's taken in
Speaker 1: the fourth round, one guy's taken second. Overall. It's just
Speaker 1: that's just the way that that it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't I love Dak. I think Dad's a really great,
Speaker 1: great quarterback, and I don't think I would even trade
Speaker 1: for him for for Wins. I'm just saying it's pretty
Speaker 1: obvious that I think Wins is better. And yes, he's
Speaker 1: got he's got he's got some weapons around him, but
Speaker 1: I mean Dad, I mean Dak has weapons. I mean
Speaker 1: Dad has some players here. These these wide receivers are
Speaker 1: supposed to be good. He doesn't make the throws that
Speaker 1: Wins does. Winz has a better thrower, and from a
Speaker 1: mobility standpoint, it's not that much of a difference. Dak
Speaker 1: is probably a more mobile player, but it's not that
Speaker 1: much of a difference. As their pocket presence and their
Speaker 1: arm strength and I mean their accuracy throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: To me, that's not a knock on. I mean, Dak
Speaker 1: Okay Wentz is one of the best young quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Like, that was a great pick for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be there for a long time. Simson Aikman
Speaker 1: like like really, like that's a real comparison that they
Speaker 1: never were on the same sentence ever. Ever, Sims and
Speaker 1: Aikman not even not even comparable. I think the point
Speaker 1: of what he was saying with that, though, is that
Speaker 1: when Emmett was out, the fact that they didn't win
Speaker 1: while Emmett was out, you can't make the claim. You
Speaker 1: can't Dingan. I said in a week two, I said
Speaker 1: in a week two and they got beat by twenty
Speaker 1: five points. I said it. I said, Dak Prescott, that's
Speaker 1: my guy. Like this guy, he could play for me
Speaker 1: a day. And they got beat. They didn't play well.
Speaker 1: Zeke was there sort of in that game against Denver.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, but I said it, like even with
Speaker 1: a loss. I'm not talking about wins and losses. I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about what they did. I thought Dak showed
Speaker 1: you a lot that game, and I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have a great quarterback for years to come. And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't trade him for anybody in the division anywhere anything.
Speaker 1: I think that that's great. So all I'm saying is
Speaker 1: is that Carson Wentz at this point is a more
Speaker 1: developed quarterback. And if that's not the case, thirty two
Speaker 1: teams aren't gonna let him go for four full rounds
Speaker 1: while this guy went number two overall. I mean, of
Speaker 1: course he's more polished right now, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that he can't give you some things. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you surround him with better players, I mean, it'll
Speaker 1: be a great battle for years to come. But I mean,
Speaker 1: wouldn't we all agree wins is a little bit further
Speaker 1: along the deck, think for different reasons, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know if the draft at this point, draft doesn't matter
Speaker 1: to me, because you get that wrong all the time.
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks get drafted at the top of the draft and
Speaker 1: aren't very good. But I will say that just the
Speaker 1: way they're performing this season, you look at some of
Speaker 1: the throws that Wentz makes you look at you look
Speaker 1: at how he's able to escape pressure and create the
Speaker 1: situation where teams are even like when they get to him,
Speaker 1: they're still not getting him down. I think from that
Speaker 1: standpoint he went based upon that. To me right now,
Speaker 1: is playing better than Dak. I still don't know if
Speaker 1: I say one is definitively better than the other. I
Speaker 1: just think he's playing better this year. He's having a
Speaker 1: phenomenal year. He's probably gonna be League MVP if he
Speaker 1: keeps this up. That's how good of a season he's having. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit of selective memory going
Speaker 1: on there, Like DA Dak has had those moments this
Speaker 1: season as well, Like go back to and their games
Speaker 1: as consistently as wins. Probably not. And that's my point.
Speaker 1: And and Dak has fallen out of the MVP rate,
Speaker 1: like you know, that was an argument you could have
Speaker 1: made a month ago. You can't make it anymore, especially
Speaker 1: after these last two games that Dak was an MVP candidate.
Speaker 1: I think like he was trending toward being there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially if they had weathered this Oh yeah, if they
Speaker 1: had weathered this storm better obviously, Yeah, I said a
Speaker 1: month ago. Yeah, but he was. He was, absolutely he
Speaker 1: was playing. His numbers were right there with Dak or
Speaker 1: with wins when they were done beat in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: They really were. After that three game win, stry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got and it hasn't happened. It's been a rough
Speaker 1: month for the entire offense Dak as well. Honestly, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I want to throw this point out real quick about Wins,
Speaker 1: Like you all these weapons that these guys have around him.
Speaker 1: These are these are guys that nobody really wanted. I
Speaker 1: mean not, I mean they've kind of are somewhat cast offs.
Speaker 1: I mean Tory Smith wasn't a guy that was doing
Speaker 1: a lot of great things, and Nelson Aguilar was almost
Speaker 1: a bust. And you know in Alshan Jeffrey, they get
Speaker 1: moved on from him from Chicago. So I'm just saying
Speaker 1: he is making these guys play at a better level
Speaker 1: than they were playing before. But I think it's also
Speaker 1: a matter of how they've been cast. Like a guy
Speaker 1: like Tory Smith, when he's asked to come in and
Speaker 1: be a third receiver versus being a number one receiver
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, maybe you get a lot more out of
Speaker 1: him playing that role than being the number one guy. Right,
Speaker 1: this whole thing is really boring to me because it's
Speaker 1: like you're trying to ask me, like how the movie's
Speaker 1: gonna end after ten minutes, Like what like, it's way
Speaker 1: too early to try to have the type of blanket
Speaker 1: conversations like it's fun for fans. I think it's boring
Speaker 1: and lazy to try to dictate this argument after a
Speaker 1: season and a half, like sense, give me some time,
Speaker 1: all right, give them some time. We appreciate you joining us, guys.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. Tomorrow, we'll get you ready for
Speaker 1: the game. We'll talk about the Chargers defense, and we'll
Speaker 1: also give you our predictions for the game. Till then.
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