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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season seventeen, episode number ninety four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. We are lifting
Speaker 1: nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, it is a
Speaker 1: victory Monday Cowboys are heading to the playoffs. They get
Speaker 1: a big win on Saturday night versus Philadelphia Eagles, fifty
Speaker 1: one to twenty six. We're gonna talk all about that,
Speaker 1: and it starts a little talk on the playoffs here
Speaker 1: Later in the show, Nick, we'll start off with the
Speaker 1: ninety four. They can really only be one, right, Michael Myers? Sure,
Speaker 1: Michael Myers, let on, there's three? Is it? Yes? That's
Speaker 1: why they do it, and that's why they do it.
Speaker 1: I know, he's just my favorite. Which one? Yes, my favorite?
Speaker 1: Who's the third? Am I bad, oh yours, Hey, Randy's
Speaker 1: my guy? Guys, Well, I didn't know we were putting
Speaker 1: him there with d Weare and Hayley. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: he's got the number, but that ring of honor they
Speaker 1: end Gary put him there. He didn't. You gave him
Speaker 1: the number and he stuck by him. True, Okay, which
Speaker 1: is another reason why they gotta pay him. Because if
Speaker 1: you're gonna stick by him, who was one of you
Speaker 1: guys were making that point last week. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: stick by them all this time and then get to
Speaker 1: a point where now he's playing, well, don't let him
Speaker 1: go at this point exactly. Get the dividends off of
Speaker 1: all that invested time that you put into him. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this this win Cowboys win fifty one
Speaker 1: twenty six. I don't know, it was just from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game, you just saw that, especially offensively,
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team was clicking. Let's go through first and
Speaker 1: get some storylines. What's the big storyline takeaway from that
Speaker 1: game here on Monday morning? I mean a big, big,
Speaker 1: big picture storyline is that it worked out perfectly. I
Speaker 1: kind of like my eyebrows went up when you said
Speaker 1: they were clicking. They were don't get me wrong, they
Speaker 1: were playing the B team or the C team even
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the big pictures that Philly made
Speaker 1: it really clear what their priorities were going into that game.
Speaker 1: I mean, they left eleven starters on the COVID list
Speaker 1: and they pulled another ten healthy players. So not to
Speaker 1: take credit away from what the Cowboys did, like they
Speaker 1: wanted to go get some work, get some momentum going.
Speaker 1: They did all of that. Let's see how it translates.
Speaker 1: I thought they did a great job, you know, in
Speaker 1: the offense. I mean, it doesn't matter who you're playing against.
Speaker 1: I thought Dec threw the ball better. You can tell
Speaker 1: his throws were on point. That was early on in
Speaker 1: the game. They went and scored just every time they
Speaker 1: had to. And I think they had some fun. They
Speaker 1: had fun out there and they needed to do that.
Speaker 1: And you know, beating the little brother like that and
Speaker 1: beating him up. I guess I don't have a little brother,
Speaker 1: but if you had one, I guess that's what you
Speaker 1: knows what it feels like, because that's what they did
Speaker 1: to filling so and the roles have been flipped. But
Speaker 1: right now, that's the way, it is absolutely perfect game
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Everything they needed work to their advantage.
Speaker 1: They walked out with no really any major injuries or
Speaker 1: anything like that. That worked out. They played all the
Speaker 1: way into the third quarter with their starters, that worked out.
Speaker 1: They beat a team that, even though you could say
Speaker 1: it be her See team, that's what they needed because
Speaker 1: they needed to walk out of that game with the
Speaker 1: kind of confidence that they walked out of there. So
Speaker 1: I think it was great. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: start into the playoffs. And we'll see now we're all
Speaker 1: in this is it. It's happening, and we'll see how
Speaker 1: they played this week and again the better teams than
Speaker 1: the Eagles. That's oh sorry, but that's a really great point.
Speaker 1: And I guess my big takeaway is just it was
Speaker 1: a weekend full of people's decisions that maybe I didn't
Speaker 1: agree with working out, you know like that I don't
Speaker 1: I don't make the decisions. And that's why, like Cowboys
Speaker 1: decided to play everybody for as long as they needed to.
Speaker 1: They got out of it without anything really bad happening.
Speaker 1: They got the win, they get to feel good about themselves.
Speaker 1: I'm over here, like why are we playing this on
Speaker 1: a Saturday. Well, the Cowboys one, which put pressure on
Speaker 1: the other teams. Why are we flexing all these games
Speaker 1: to three thirty in the afternoon. That's why, Like yesterday
Speaker 1: was amazing. So like all the league's decisions worked out,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys decisions worked out, and I just have to
Speaker 1: eat crow. I guess records and made the first of
Speaker 1: the last time. Nope, records in milestones matter to the
Speaker 1: players and to the coaches doing it to the fans maybe,
Speaker 1: but they matter. Trust me. We were in the press box.
Speaker 1: We could see there was technology radio waves going back
Speaker 1: and forth on stats in the game. People down there
Speaker 1: wanted to know what the status where. Oh yeah, where
Speaker 1: Zeke was one thousand yards? Well, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: Dax's on the two yard line. He was never running
Speaker 1: the ball in until that record was there. And then
Speaker 1: the record gets there. Now we're handing the ball off
Speaker 1: to every running back that's even thought about being on
Speaker 1: this series. Now, just that like the sequence of like
Speaker 1: they threw it or maybe they handed it to Corey Clement,
Speaker 1: they threw it to Jeremy Sprinkle, then they threw it
Speaker 1: to Corey Clement. Then Jaquan Hardy gets in the game.
Speaker 1: There was definitely a moment in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: Smith Edo Smith, Me and Nick were just like, they're
Speaker 1: going for this record and I don't care what they say,
Speaker 1: Like they can downplay it all they want to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I would say this, I kind of agree with
Speaker 1: Amber on this. I think it was about rhythm. Like
Speaker 1: what we keep hearing from this offense is they haven't
Speaker 1: quite found they haven't found the rhythm here all the
Speaker 1: games where they weren't playing at their best, and so
Speaker 1: it didn't matter who they were playing. It doesn't really
Speaker 1: matter if you're playing the B B team, C team, whatever.
Speaker 1: The point is, you wanted to find a rhythm. So
Speaker 1: they're heading into the playoffs, you feel like you're just
Speaker 1: operating at a different level. And that's what I think
Speaker 1: they were able to get out of this game. I
Speaker 1: will see, I hope. So for their sake, we don't
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna work. I'm saying that was their goal.
Speaker 1: Their goal was to find none of them that you're right, well,
Speaker 1: that was their goal. We don't know if it worked, honestly,
Speaker 1: like I hope it did, because if you watch that
Speaker 1: RAMS game, that's a nasty front coming to at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium on Sunday afternoons, so I hope they found something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even more importantly, that run game we're gonna get.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it. That is not you didn't win
Speaker 1: anything great by having to face San Francisco. We watched
Speaker 1: that game, and like Nick and I were texting back
Speaker 1: and forth all afternoon just sort of trying to I mean,
Speaker 1: we had a funny exchange where like in the second
Speaker 1: quarter of that game, I texted Nick and Rob and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, so it's the Rams. Let's like,
Speaker 1: let's get that story ready. Sorry Cardinals. But Nick was
Speaker 1: like Jesus, like, or the Ram's gonna win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. And then an hour later I texted
Speaker 1: Nick and I was like, you think we should write
Speaker 1: a story about maybe needing to play the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: And like by the end of that game, I was
Speaker 1: just like, is it good that they're moving up? Or
Speaker 1: are we should we not be happy about that? That's
Speaker 1: kind of Twitter yesterday, Like if you're on Twitter, Twitter
Speaker 1: was all over the map yesterday because there were so
Speaker 1: many games where it was like you'd think one thing
Speaker 1: and then a little bit later it's like, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: hold the presses. I don't know what's happening here. Everything's
Speaker 1: changing right right. You know. Somebody tweeted at us too,
Speaker 1: that said, everyone keeps talking about not playing Green Bay.
Speaker 1: You know, now, you don't play Green Bay in the
Speaker 1: second round. If you get to the second round, you
Speaker 1: just have to go play Tom Brady probably who's never
Speaker 1: beaten you. You've never beaten you know, so either way,
Speaker 1: like you gotta stop this nasty run. Have you ever
Speaker 1: beat Aaron Rodgers? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that beat him a
Speaker 1: couple of times. They've beaten him a couple of times. Not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you like this, in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I'd much rather go to Tampa Bay. Yeah, didn't go
Speaker 1: to Green Well, this is no doubt. That's what I
Speaker 1: said on the radio this morning too, was it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where you play. You know this for the first
Speaker 1: two if you get to two games, you know that
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be in cold weather. You're just not.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be at home or you're gonna be in Tampa.
Speaker 1: So Das had good games at home. He had a
Speaker 1: really good game in Tampa as well. When you can
Speaker 1: throw the ball, the weather is not a factor. It
Speaker 1: was not a factor against Philly. Wasn't windy like as
Speaker 1: I as I it was kind of funny though, as
Speaker 1: I let you guys know, it wasn't so good. Good
Speaker 1: job meteorol. Just Derek over here. It was the weather Apple.
Speaker 1: It still wasn't pleasant outside. I'm sure it looked like
Speaker 1: it was kind of cold. You can tell by look
Speaker 1: on people's faces. All right, Um, here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a little thing real quick. What's funny.
Speaker 1: It's like you guys keep talking about the opponent O
Speaker 1: good things, not Green Bay or whatever. But in reality,
Speaker 1: it's like any team is gonna be a struggle, like
Speaker 1: but the Cows. These are the kinds of teams that
Speaker 1: they have struggled with in the regular season this year.
Speaker 1: So regardless of who it is, and I get it,
Speaker 1: some things are better than the other, but either way,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a problem. There are no cupcakes in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This looks a lot like Inver though, which
Speaker 1: is scary because then it's just that a really strong
Speaker 1: running game. You don't even know who the running backs are.
Speaker 1: They're just good because they run the ball well. Their quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think he's that great, but you
Speaker 1: know he can manage the game and he can he
Speaker 1: can get it going. Yeah, and so this I don't
Speaker 1: know if Denver is a good example because that was
Speaker 1: so embarrassing, But you're right. I mean, it's a game
Speaker 1: like that where it's just it's now it's a different
Speaker 1: type of game. You thought it was gonna be more,
Speaker 1: you know, fast paced whatever lust. Now it's some more
Speaker 1: of a fistfight. So the tow Boys have showed they
Speaker 1: could win both ways. So this they're gonna be tested though.
Speaker 1: And as we know who've been around AT and T Stadium,
Speaker 1: when San Francisco comes to town, they are gonna be
Speaker 1: some fans there. I would assume I'm interested somebody. I
Speaker 1: did a radio hit last night and they were asking
Speaker 1: me like, yeah, his AT and T really that good
Speaker 1: of a home field? And I was like, look, your
Speaker 1: criticisms in the regular season are valid, Like we've seen
Speaker 1: that that plays out. But I've covered three playoff game?
Speaker 1: Is it three? I've been I've covered the playoffs at AT
Speaker 1: AT and T and it's different. It's different, But this
Speaker 1: is San Franciscos a lot. This is a different. Favorite
Speaker 1: time they're here. They tendis you up at games, but
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, tickets are harder to come by, I
Speaker 1: would assume. But we're gonna find out. We're gonna like that. Well,
Speaker 1: you know day our marketing department has decided to put
Speaker 1: you know, a certain color on this game. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out real quick. We'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: It's gonna if you're if, you will be a white out.
Speaker 1: So always fans where you're white. But yeah, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: at forty nine, fans are gonna be whearing the white jerseys.
Speaker 1: Rams were would easily see that that Rams were playing
Speaker 1: for the West. Yesterday and so far was red. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a while the game that everybody like that.
Speaker 1: It was eight years ago at this point. It was
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen season opener. They lost to the Niners. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Kaepernick was still their quarterback and it was
Speaker 1: like sixty percent red. It was worse yesterday. It's so
Speaker 1: far like it was even worse. That won't happen in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, though I trust the Cowboys fan base in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean, I think sometimes in a regular
Speaker 1: season and this is the part. You gotta remember in
Speaker 1: the regular season, a lot of times fans are thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, games I want to go to, games I
Speaker 1: want to go to where can I sell my tickets
Speaker 1: and maybe make back enough to cover most of my
Speaker 1: costs for the entire season, And those tend to be
Speaker 1: some of the games. It's not the division game, it's
Speaker 1: not a big time opponent. Let's say, if the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers aren't great that year. So yeah, that could
Speaker 1: be a part of the reason why. But I just
Speaker 1: know every time I've since i've been here, every time
Speaker 1: San Francisco comes to town, you see a lot of it.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of it. So, and they got
Speaker 1: a lot of fans. They're one of the teams in
Speaker 1: the league that have a lot of fans, and there
Speaker 1: is a traditional rivalry here between the Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Yeah, well, it'll have to happen this week.
Speaker 1: You know, it's stuff that's this week. I mean, you
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans are secondary market, I guess has it, So yes,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see what happens. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there will be some But either way, like Dave said,
Speaker 1: it's different, it's just different. There. I mean, we've all
Speaker 1: covered it, we've been there, and and that's another thing.
Speaker 1: I thought. It was an absolute perfect weekend for the
Speaker 1: cow Boys. Yeah, they're not gonna get all three wins.
Speaker 1: Carolina wasn't gonna beat Tampa, but they got two, and
Speaker 1: you had to have the Rams and that was the
Speaker 1: only one that had you had to have. And then
Speaker 1: we had heard all week it was gonna be Monday
Speaker 1: Night and it was gonna be a Monday night game.
Speaker 1: And the reason why it's not is because of those
Speaker 1: West Coast matchup. Because when they when they they could
Speaker 1: put those two teams in a good spot for them
Speaker 1: that they only they kick off at what's five o'clock
Speaker 1: Pacific time? Yeah, yeah, five, you know, but it's seven
Speaker 1: or whatever Monday night football, but it's favorable for them.
Speaker 1: So when they got that four or five matchup, that's
Speaker 1: that that's what moved it. And the Cowboys get three
Speaker 1: thirty on Nickelodeon. So if it had been if it
Speaker 1: had been Cowboys Cardinals, we'd probably be talking about a
Speaker 1: Monday night right right right? Yeah? But I mean three thirty.
Speaker 1: And the good thing there, that's your rhythm, that's what
Speaker 1: you do anyways, you do Sunday to Sunday. This is
Speaker 1: no nothing out of the ordinary. And this week I
Speaker 1: means you get an extra extra day because you played Saturday.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, it actually helps you a little bit
Speaker 1: having that shorter week lass week. Are we gonna take
Speaker 1: our first break when we come back and then to
Speaker 1: do a little that I call talk about it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you guys some things I saw in the game,
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Speaker 1: Life in s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Let's
Speaker 1: do some talk about it. I asked some some things
Speaker 1: that I noticed in the game that I'll throw out
Speaker 1: to you guys, and I'll let you guys talk about
Speaker 1: what you saw regarding these topics. Let's start first with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. He was twenty one of twenty seven for
Speaker 1: two hundred ninety five yards, five touchdown, zero interceptions, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one point eight, rating pretty much a
Speaker 1: perfect day for him. He did set a club single
Speaker 1: season record for the most touchdown passes with thirty seven,
Speaker 1: passing Tony Romo at thirty six. Talk about well, I
Speaker 1: thought it was. It was outstanding for Jimmy, for for Dak.
Speaker 1: He played an outstanding game. They wanted that record for him.
Speaker 1: Um he wanted, you know, he wanted to. You could
Speaker 1: tell they were down to yard line, they were they
Speaker 1: were trying to throw it in there. Uh, he did it,
Speaker 1: and you know he did it in sixteen games. Um.
Speaker 1: Romo played I believe sixteen games that year. He set
Speaker 1: out a half and at the end of the Washington
Speaker 1: game and guess what, so did Tony? I mean, so
Speaker 1: did day He said, how to half? You know, at
Speaker 1: the end of the season as well. Um, it's it's
Speaker 1: well deserved. What does it mean? I don't know. But
Speaker 1: there's a really great inside journalism like analogy here, because
Speaker 1: a lot of time, like kind of lazy reporters who
Speaker 1: maybe aren't doing their job right or just want the
Speaker 1: player to do their job, for him to just say,
Speaker 1: talk about how you played today? And you weren't there
Speaker 1: on Saturday. So that's what me and Nick are doing
Speaker 1: right now. I'm just like, hey, talk about this thing
Speaker 1: that I didn't see. Yeah, An, You're like, yeah, that's exactly,
Speaker 1: that's exactly. I was not there. Jerry Madelon doesn't like
Speaker 1: the talk, no, no no, but yess we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: The big thing, the big thing for me, and I
Speaker 1: want to be clear that this is in no way
Speaker 1: intended as shade um Cedric Wilson man that they got
Speaker 1: they have something they like. I thought that was the
Speaker 1: most impressive part about that game, about that performance for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dak was incredibly only through six shade because
Speaker 1: they look yeah, they look better and it go. They
Speaker 1: looked better and like some of his best completions were
Speaker 1: to Cedric the some of the concepts that they got
Speaker 1: him open on the out breakers. The was it was
Speaker 1: it a third down or it was it was it
Speaker 1: was a third down. On the first possession of the game,
Speaker 1: Cedric just ran like a ten and out and Dak
Speaker 1: just it was it was probably it was. It was
Speaker 1: his best throw of the night. It was just a
Speaker 1: really pretty throw and I get the way what I
Speaker 1: meant by I don't mean it by Shade is. I
Speaker 1: just can't help but think about the way this offense
Speaker 1: was moving when Cedric was in the lineup in the
Speaker 1: first half of the season, when Gallup got hurt, and
Speaker 1: just maybe something about the like he plays the slot
Speaker 1: and that opens Amari's and CDs rolls up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think you also have to mention that again, Philly
Speaker 1: wasn't playing anyone good, so that's probably part of it.
Speaker 1: But they just looked really fluid, and it just makes
Speaker 1: me wonder, you know, I think Cedric Wilson maybe has
Speaker 1: something to do with that. I think one of the
Speaker 1: biggest things for me is that, you know, the Eagles
Speaker 1: going there, the offense starts moving. They almost intercepted a
Speaker 1: pass which ended up creating a big play for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and typically when things like that happened, the Cowboys tend
Speaker 1: to struggle a little bit if the offense is unable
Speaker 1: to score once they go back into the field. So
Speaker 1: I think that the biggest thing for me was that
Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily miss a beat that went out there
Speaker 1: and were never really falling behind or trailing behind. So
Speaker 1: that's when I see them struggle. The most when the
Speaker 1: opposing team scores, and then they feel like they start
Speaker 1: feeling some kind of pressure. I think Dak he seemed
Speaker 1: pretty confident and comfortable out there on the field, which
Speaker 1: is huge because one of the things that I've been
Speaker 1: saying this whole time is that to me, he struggled
Speaker 1: he's been struggling with something mentally when it comes to
Speaker 1: the game after he got back from that injury. So
Speaker 1: he seemed pretty confident and the way that he played
Speaker 1: is just gonna be a great start. Like I said
Speaker 1: earlier to this next week, let's jump to Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: He had eighteen carries for eighty seven yards, a four
Speaker 1: point at average, pretty good day for him. He did
Speaker 1: have a twenty six yard long run, which I thought
Speaker 1: was a really good run for him as well. Dak before,
Speaker 1: I mean I had it Zeke before, I thought he
Speaker 1: looked good. I thought he looked fresh. Yeah, twenty six
Speaker 1: yard run, he had some burst to him. I think
Speaker 1: my entire experience watching Zeke on Saturday night was Okay,
Speaker 1: that was really good. Go sit down. Okay, that looked nice.
Speaker 1: Please go sit dow and I like again it worked
Speaker 1: out for him, but especially in the second half, and
Speaker 1: I know he wanted a thousand yards, but I was
Speaker 1: just like, You're like you, you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get this guy off the field and get him some rest,
Speaker 1: and you're not taking it. And I mean, they finally
Speaker 1: did take him out, but I would have I would
Speaker 1: have sat him at halftime. And but again, I know
Speaker 1: the milestone's important, I get all that, but I thought
Speaker 1: he looked good all things considered. What's funny about a
Speaker 1: thousand yards season is when I first started working here,
Speaker 1: a thousand yard season was really good year, and then
Speaker 1: the middle of the year, a thousand yards season became
Speaker 1: h Now it's become a really good year again. It's
Speaker 1: the cycle of the way the league is. I saw
Speaker 1: a stat that this is the NFL. This is the
Speaker 1: fewest amount of one thousand yards of rushing seasons ever
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, only six. Dam that.
Speaker 1: That just goes to show that it is definitely a
Speaker 1: passing league. Talk about why that is, well, I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons. Number one, there's not many
Speaker 1: dual backs. I mean there's not many, you know, just
Speaker 1: one back systems, and the Cowboys don't have one. They
Speaker 1: got two two backs, So they got two guys that
Speaker 1: are sharing it. They're throwing the ball around a lot,
Speaker 1: very much turned into a passing league. And the durability
Speaker 1: of keeping these players healthy. We I mean, Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: is unbelievable and he's sitting in like nine fifteen. He's
Speaker 1: only played like half the year. It's just really hard
Speaker 1: to get it out. One of the few guys that
Speaker 1: actually runs is the primary runner for his team. Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry finished the regular season ninth within nine hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards. He played eight games. Yeah my god,
Speaker 1: I mean, and then well two thousand if he can
Speaker 1: stay healthy. But that's the thing about a running back
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell, who will see this weekend for San Francisco
Speaker 1: nine sixty three and only played eleven. They can run
Speaker 1: the ball man. You know, this reminds me, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this more this week as we get
Speaker 1: into it. But the more I start thinking about it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is reminding me more and more what
Speaker 1: he's doing in San Francisco, and I'm talking about Shanahan.
Speaker 1: It reminds me so much of what his dad did
Speaker 1: in Denver. You remember how they used to just plug
Speaker 1: in rent backs. They were talking about it on the
Speaker 1: show on the game broadcast last night. You know you
Speaker 1: gotta land us Gary and you know who had driven
Speaker 1: Mike Anderson. Yeah, they got all these guys. It just
Speaker 1: seemed like every year they'd run somebody in there. And
Speaker 1: if you played fantasy football, you just want to whoever
Speaker 1: was the back in Denver because you knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna get production. And it's way more. And there is
Speaker 1: another thing they mentioned, way more about the scheme there
Speaker 1: than it is about who's actually running the ball. And
Speaker 1: uh and and I think it's the same thing here.
Speaker 1: I think these running backs they can really hurt you.
Speaker 1: And it's not that they're great running backs, it's that
Speaker 1: they have a system that works. And as they said
Speaker 1: last night, if they have a running back that can
Speaker 1: actually find the hole consistently, he can work in that system. Man.
Speaker 1: I think that's what you're probably gonna see this weekend.
Speaker 1: They look they just look different when they run the ball,
Speaker 1: Like the way the way they scheme their blocks. They've
Speaker 1: got a true fullback that gets involved. Obviously they got
Speaker 1: Deebo doing his thing, but like at time when they
Speaker 1: just battened down the hatches, like we're gonna run the
Speaker 1: ball like they had like a fourteen or fifteen play
Speaker 1: drive yesterday where it felt like they ran the ball
Speaker 1: twelve of those fourteen plays and it actually maybe rapping.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball tunnel. They look like they're running
Speaker 1: the wing tea like they just they got tight ends
Speaker 1: pulling with guards and fullbacks out in space like it
Speaker 1: just it looks very unique compared to what the rest
Speaker 1: of the league is doing. And you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty impressed with Zeke right now because we've been talking
Speaker 1: about his injury since like week four is when I
Speaker 1: think he started getting hurt a little bit, and then
Speaker 1: weeks came by and when and then we were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe this is the time to sit him out so
Speaker 1: he can rest a little bit. He never did. He
Speaker 1: was always there out there on the field. So it's
Speaker 1: impressive to me that right now he's looking the way
Speaker 1: that he's looking because I see since the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: I would say he has a different kind of burst.
Speaker 1: He seems more energized, more powerful, He's able to move
Speaker 1: a little bit better right now, and that was all
Speaker 1: done without him actually resting. So congratulations to them. I
Speaker 1: don't know what exactly they've been doing with the training
Speaker 1: staff and all that. But it worked and I am
Speaker 1: glad that this is the type of Sea that's going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. All right, I want to go back
Speaker 1: to Cedric Wilson. You mentioned him. He was five. He
Speaker 1: had five five catches on six targets, four hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen yards and two touchdowns. My question for you guys
Speaker 1: is what are they missing by not having Gallop and
Speaker 1: replacing him with Wilson And is there anything This I
Speaker 1: think is the more important part. Is there anything you
Speaker 1: think they gain? Is there anything that Cedric Wilson does
Speaker 1: maybe better than Michael Gallop or do you think it's
Speaker 1: pretty much an even split one way or the other.
Speaker 1: I think there's things that they both do better than
Speaker 1: the other. I mean, to me, I think Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: is a little bit more versatile in his and where
Speaker 1: he lines up then that they play different positions. But
Speaker 1: I think that that he compliments the other two guys
Speaker 1: a little bit better because of just when they're When
Speaker 1: Gallup is one of the three, you just got like
Speaker 1: three really good receivers out there. I think Wilson is
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a slot I think he's
Speaker 1: he's just a lot more versatile. You can do some
Speaker 1: more trickery with him and all that. Gallup is just
Speaker 1: I think he's a he's an outstanding sideline catcher and
Speaker 1: you know, contested catcher. Um. But I mean, they're both
Speaker 1: great that they just feel it feels like it's just
Speaker 1: a better connection between DAK and Centricals. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: you brought this up because that's I don't I'm I
Speaker 1: don't think like they're better without Michael Gallup. That's silly.
Speaker 1: And I think Michael Gallup is the best contested ball
Speaker 1: catcher and the best deep ball catcher on this team.
Speaker 1: Like if they're on the opposing forty and they gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta take a shot at the end zone to
Speaker 1: win the game, I would want the ball targeted at
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop in a perfect world. But something which it
Speaker 1: sounds weird because yeah, Michael, Mike's a boundary guy, like
Speaker 1: he doesn't really play that he can, but they just
Speaker 1: don't ask him to play the slot. So you would
Speaker 1: think that you have Gallop and Cooper on the outside
Speaker 1: with Lamb in the slot. Like that's that that sounds
Speaker 1: very favorable to me, and they've looked good doing that.
Speaker 1: I mean, the offense was great against Tampa Bay when
Speaker 1: they were all healthy, but moving Cedric into the slot
Speaker 1: and having those other two guys kind of interchange around him,
Speaker 1: it just seems like it works. He has chemistry with Dak.
Speaker 1: The guy's made so many great plays this season, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what to attribute it to, but it
Speaker 1: just kind of looks fluid when he's in there. To
Speaker 1: me and make said the word connection Dave side chemistry,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what it is to me. I don't
Speaker 1: think that one player is necessarily better than the other.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're a professional dancer, you can dance
Speaker 1: with another professional dancer, but you're always gonna look better
Speaker 1: with your partner. So it's it's to me, that's what
Speaker 1: it is. Like they can both dance and all do
Speaker 1: and do it well, but for some reason, Dak can
Speaker 1: dance better with set. You know, like that analogy actually good,
Speaker 1: that's true. That is a good point, but it kind
Speaker 1: of messes up my point now. I was thinking about
Speaker 1: hal Cedric in the in the open field has really
Speaker 1: been good. He's probably the best on the team, and
Speaker 1: he was that one time when he was dancing with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush in Minnesota. Um, that was still working. But
Speaker 1: that pass over the middle, you know, if you remember
Speaker 1: the touchdown, he was weaving through and turning the safety around.
Speaker 1: He had a touchdown six years ago which was really
Speaker 1: like Week four against I think Carolina, when he caught
Speaker 1: a he caught like a slant over the middle and
Speaker 1: he did like that spin. Remember that. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: was like whoa that was this season? This season? God right,
Speaker 1: it feels And he had some plays in this last
Speaker 1: game where I mean he's really yardists after catch is
Speaker 1: you know, for a guy that weighs one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty six pounds, he does kind of you know, he's
Speaker 1: very fluid in the in the open field. He had
Speaker 1: a play thinking thinking of plays that feel like a
Speaker 1: lifetime ago he did. He had a play on a
Speaker 1: bubble screen against the Chargers, just you know, Dak just
Speaker 1: flashed it to him in the flat and he weaved.
Speaker 1: He weaved his way between about four guys. He picked
Speaker 1: up like eighteen But I just remember thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you'd cut that a different direction, you might be
Speaker 1: going to the house. But yeah, no, I'm agreeing with you.
Speaker 1: So if they were gonna give Michael Gallup an offer
Speaker 1: to stay, which was probably going to be something that
Speaker 1: they would would reject, just that over to Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 1: That's interesting though, because maybe the injury affects what Gallup
Speaker 1: is willing to sign for. And I would love to
Speaker 1: have Michael Gallop back, Like That's my point is I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to sit here and be like they're better
Speaker 1: without him. They should sign Cedric and not Gallop. I
Speaker 1: don't know about all that, but Cedric Wilson has had
Speaker 1: a really nice season. I don't even think of him
Speaker 1: as like, well, he's got to step up for this starter.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're just starter. Be like you're three
Speaker 1: A instead of four, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones, he said that they were not going to
Speaker 1: base their decision off Michael Gallup's injury. That's not really
Speaker 1: gonna be a factor. But I mean that is it
Speaker 1: is gonna be a factor. So that's another thing to
Speaker 1: look at, is injury wise. And I mean how many
Speaker 1: games he played total this year because he got that
Speaker 1: an injury the first Michael, Yes, he played the opener,
Speaker 1: and then he came back against Atlanta and got her.
Speaker 1: So I mean different injuries less than less than half
Speaker 1: the season, like yeah, five, five or six, I don't
Speaker 1: know the number, but yeah, it's just it doesn't help him.
Speaker 1: It allows the Cowboys to see a preview of what
Speaker 1: it could be without him. He actually he started eight games.
Speaker 1: That seems high. But yeah, all right, we're gonna stack
Speaker 1: our final break. When we come back, we're gonna jump
Speaker 1: to the defense. I got some questions for you guys
Speaker 1: on defense, and we also got to talk about the kicker.
Speaker 1: We'll do that when we come right back to Dallas
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Speaker 1: At the start, let's talk some defense and some special teams.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with the Dallas defense. They allowed one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine rush yards in this game against
Speaker 1: Philadelphia four point five average. Here's the kicker. Ninety four
Speaker 1: of that came in the first half, and that was
Speaker 1: when the game was still I guess somewhat in doubt.
Speaker 1: That being said, I concerned to you about this run game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, this run defense very and I
Speaker 1: mean nothing to do with the Eagles game, just just
Speaker 1: in general. Well, we asked this question last week, and
Speaker 1: no one seemed to be I asked this question last week,
Speaker 1: nobody seemed to be too concerned about the run defense
Speaker 1: at that No, I mean, and I don't think you're
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just throw that game out the window,
Speaker 1: because that's not how the Eagles run the ball. Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't have, you know, I mean, Cowboys have three really
Speaker 1: key pieces that did not play in that game, including
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. They don't have their guy or their best
Speaker 1: if they don't have their short down corner, they don't
Speaker 1: have their leading tackler and jay Ron Curse, and then
Speaker 1: they don't have the rookie of the year. And Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: you know, who's not gonna win defensive a Player of
Speaker 1: the Year, but he's gonna win a Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: And that's fine. So I think that, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that they'll be They'll be as good as they
Speaker 1: can be. They're still going to have problems with the
Speaker 1: team that really does like to run the ball. But
Speaker 1: if they can stop it early and they couldn't put
Speaker 1: third and eight, third and nine situations, then I think
Speaker 1: it'll be a fun match up to see what digs
Speaker 1: against Deebo. I think he'll probably follow him around a lot.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how that how that shakes out.
Speaker 1: I did. I said last week that I wasn't super
Speaker 1: concerned about it, but for everything missing on the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: the Eagles didn't play Landon Dickerson, they didn't play their
Speaker 1: starting right guard, they didn't play Lane Johnson. They didn't
Speaker 1: play Jalen Hurtz, who having a running quarterback is a
Speaker 1: big part of being successful at running. Didn't play Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: didn't play Jordan Howard. So that was the B team offense.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell, rookie out of Memphis, fifth round pick, just
Speaker 1: gashed him. And I know they didn't have guys, but
Speaker 1: it's discon asserting and even still the thing. If they
Speaker 1: were playing the Rams, I'd be like, yeah, whatever, they
Speaker 1: didn't play anybody, But they're playing a team in San
Speaker 1: Francisco that not only can run the ball, they are
Speaker 1: determined to do it. They got back into a game
Speaker 1: that they were trailing by three possessions by running the ball.
Speaker 1: Second half starts, they're down seventeen to three. Quote Brian
Speaker 1: brought us here, we go gonna ram it right up
Speaker 1: your rear. They just marched down the field on it.
Speaker 1: So my point is, that's like my thing football one
Speaker 1: oh one is like build a lead and take the
Speaker 1: run game out of it. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: can do that against San Francisco, and so that's definitely disconcerting.
Speaker 1: I'm still feeling the same as last week pretty much.
Speaker 1: Think I would be freaking out and probably crying on
Speaker 1: my couch. Mica Parsons is unable to play for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: So if that was my not that I needed any
Speaker 1: more proof of what Micah Parson means. But that was
Speaker 1: like another revelation of like, oh my god, Like the
Speaker 1: amount of impact that he creates on that feel in general,
Speaker 1: in the defense overall, it's unbelievable. So I'm good as
Speaker 1: long as Mica is back on the field. It is
Speaker 1: a very good point Nick and I were talking about
Speaker 1: in the press box, and Dig's not being there was
Speaker 1: part of it, but I was just like, there's a
Speaker 1: lot less fun without Micah, Like it's not as fun
Speaker 1: watching this defense when he's not out there flying around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the most exciting defensive player that since I've been here,
Speaker 1: and the only player that I've ever like looked for
Speaker 1: every snap. Like I in the press box, I'm not
Speaker 1: even the quarterback that's about to get hit by him.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just where is he? Where's he lining
Speaker 1: it up? This time? He's something fun? Yeah, and uh
Speaker 1: and then of course, you know when he's not out there,
Speaker 1: then I go crazy in the press box, get pissed off.
Speaker 1: Happened in Week two against the Chargers. That's why I
Speaker 1: wanted the Chargers to win, because you know, at least
Speaker 1: they could be a playoff team, because in my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think it's the most important victory of the season
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. That game was the game where we
Speaker 1: found out a lot about a lot of things. We
Speaker 1: found out that Terrence Steele can block, He's a pretty
Speaker 1: good player. We found out Michael Parsons can watch to
Speaker 1: the pastor so did Herbert. We found out if we
Speaker 1: needed at the Cowboy fan base in LA still as
Speaker 1: strong as ever, and we found out you know, they're
Speaker 1: not going to go in two there they sput this thing.
Speaker 1: They go one and one, and they needed that win
Speaker 1: after that first loss of the season. We thought it
Speaker 1: was good against Tampa, but they didn't win. They gotta win.
Speaker 1: I thought that game really changed everything and it led
Speaker 1: to a big winning stry. I actually asked Dan about
Speaker 1: that last week. I was like, yep, ye, sorry, Daniel,
Speaker 1: don't know what Dan. It would be Dan Quinn the Cowboys. Rather,
Speaker 1: I was like, you think it's fair, Well, you think
Speaker 1: it's fair to say that, like and not to paint
Speaker 1: it as a good thing when you lose your guys,
Speaker 1: but like you were forced to move Mica to end.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's fair to say that that changed
Speaker 1: the trajectory of his season? Like maybe you don't just
Speaker 1: throw him a rookie into the deep end? And he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's absolutely fair because it's like we
Speaker 1: asked him to do it on short notice, he responded,
Speaker 1: And now you've got a better idea of what he's
Speaker 1: capable of. You feel more confident. You just learned. You
Speaker 1: learned so much new stuff about him because of that.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you that I think that game
Speaker 1: launched the Micah Parsons that we saw this season. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he would have had the same season
Speaker 1: if DeMarcus hadn't broke. I'll say this real quick too.
Speaker 1: It probably created a certain amount of confidence for him too,
Speaker 1: not just in Dan, but also I'm sure Mica came
Speaker 1: out of that game feeling like, huh, okay, I can
Speaker 1: do that too. Okay, I can do this NFL thing right.
Speaker 1: You know what else happened in that game too, is
Speaker 1: they also we also find out that when he really,
Speaker 1: really really have to make the kick, Zora Line can
Speaker 1: make the kick. Wow, what a segue? Are we going
Speaker 1: to go there? Go there? You said we were going to?
Speaker 1: Would I wasn't gonna go there right then? But let's
Speaker 1: go there. Let's just go there, Zerline. This is another
Speaker 1: extra point. They did not take Day's advice and just
Speaker 1: sit him for the game. And he goes out and
Speaker 1: he does what I think all of us were hoping
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do. We were hoping it's like the offense,
Speaker 1: he would find his rhythm and everything. Would you go
Speaker 1: into the playoffs feeling better about him? He found his rhythm. True,
Speaker 1: he didn't exactly get what he's done for two years.
Speaker 1: I looked this up. He's an eighty seven percent on
Speaker 1: his extra points last year, this year, eighty seven percent
Speaker 1: on extra points. He goes out and kicks seven extra points,
Speaker 1: he makes six of them, which is eighty six percent.
Speaker 1: That's what he is. He's an eighty six eighty seven
Speaker 1: percent extra point kicker. That's what he did. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. Man. He did. He did. He's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do. I know you're you're right. There is
Speaker 1: nothing he's going to do. I thought, I thought about
Speaker 1: you after the game, and I thought we we talked
Speaker 1: about you and and the zeroline thing in the press pot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the you know, by late third quarter, we're just like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is we don't have to just be following this
Speaker 1: as closed. So we were just sitting over there talking
Speaker 1: trash about you and your kicker, your kicker thoughts. But
Speaker 1: but there's something that I thought of, what what you
Speaker 1: want to happen? And what cowboy fans, not just you,
Speaker 1: cow boy fans want to happen, is they they want
Speaker 1: to feel good about it. Buck He said it too.
Speaker 1: I really want to be able to see a field
Speaker 1: goal and feel he's gonna make this kick. I don't
Speaker 1: want to have to worry about extra point point kick
Speaker 1: is one thing, like the extra point. I want to
Speaker 1: feel like I can go to a restaurroom during an
Speaker 1: extra You will not be able to do that. I know.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if they cut a guy, they bring
Speaker 1: another guy in, like it's you're not gonna feel better
Speaker 1: about it, so that part of the game is over,
Speaker 1: Like want might as well take a guy who has
Speaker 1: done it. He corrects himself for the most part, he
Speaker 1: went out and made all those kicks and all that
Speaker 1: he's it is what it is like, it's not going
Speaker 1: to be better. Let me ask you this though, if
Speaker 1: if it's possible, because I think this might be it
Speaker 1: that it's just a mental thing with extra points, because
Speaker 1: it's not he can't kick an extra point, he just
Speaker 1: is missing them. Is it worth maybe going and getting
Speaker 1: a guy off the street and keeping both of them
Speaker 1: and you're on your roster and using one for extra
Speaker 1: points in one and for the cakes And again I'm
Speaker 1: not I am not no, I wasn't really can now
Speaker 1: you can never do it before, but now you can
Speaker 1: with the way you could just elevate a guy. Is
Speaker 1: it worth doing? I don't know, I guess, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're not going to That's I know,
Speaker 1: that's a bummer of a way to approach this, but
Speaker 1: I just what's the point they're not gonna do that?
Speaker 1: And also, I a weird part of me this is
Speaker 1: backward logic maybe, but like better the devil I know
Speaker 1: than the one I don't like. Let me, I know,
Speaker 1: I kind of know what to expect from Zerline, Like
Speaker 1: he's gonna he'll miss and then he'll make the next
Speaker 1: few in a row and I'm not gonna feel good
Speaker 1: about it, but you know, he'll hit the important ones.
Speaker 1: Whereas like some new guy who I've never seen kick,
Speaker 1: and now, well we won't see a new guy kick
Speaker 1: unless it's in a playoff game, which is absolutely terrifying
Speaker 1: for me. I get that I would rather like, I'd
Speaker 1: rather the guy that I don't trust that I've been
Speaker 1: watching for two years than some new guy that's never
Speaker 1: kicked in a Cowboy game. Ever that I don't like
Speaker 1: the sound of that at all. Right, all right, for
Speaker 1: the kicking export over here. No, it's just it is
Speaker 1: what it is. You guys said it already. I don't
Speaker 1: bring it in a guy. It's like, Okay, how much
Speaker 1: confident confidence do you have any guy that is just
Speaker 1: brand new in here? Also, how is he building that
Speaker 1: connection to me? Like kicking Sin's pretty easy, but in reality,
Speaker 1: you got to connect with the placeholder who's holding the
Speaker 1: ball and all that. So that's already there, that's already
Speaker 1: established with who they got here with, sirline. But it
Speaker 1: just like I said a few weeks ago, have your
Speaker 1: offense score enough points, don't rely on your kickers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. That's what it comes down to
Speaker 1: at this point. I think play well enough to give
Speaker 1: him a lot of opportunities because if you go five
Speaker 1: of six on extra points, I'm okay, so you scored
Speaker 1: north of thirty points, that's pretty good chances with that here.
Speaker 1: The only thing is that I think going into the
Speaker 1: playoffs where you're gonna be playing much better or opponents,
Speaker 1: then you know, as soon as you miss an extra point,
Speaker 1: it changes the strategy of the game. Yes, now it
Speaker 1: calls into question who's going to go for two? And
Speaker 1: when are they going to go for two? And how
Speaker 1: not just your team, the other team as well, And
Speaker 1: so I think the strategy changes when you have those
Speaker 1: kinds of missus. And that's the part that's disconcerting is
Speaker 1: you start tinkering with that and you find yourself in
Speaker 1: games that are just kind of you know, you're having
Speaker 1: to do things you wouldn't normally do, or your opponent
Speaker 1: starts doing things they wouldn't normally do just to kind
Speaker 1: of play that point game. Right. Well, I can't recall
Speaker 1: other than one time, and I don't even remember what
Speaker 1: game that was, but I can't recall where they haven't
Speaker 1: felt confident enough to where it changed their game plan
Speaker 1: as far as what they're doing. What do you mean
Speaker 1: what the couple is everything that you mentioned like are okay,
Speaker 1: are you going for or you know, are you kicking
Speaker 1: or whatever? I feel like that has that affected their
Speaker 1: game plan? Well? I think I think it. There have
Speaker 1: been games where, yeah, obviously, when you start trying to
Speaker 1: figure out okay, okay, now that we're at six versus seven,
Speaker 1: Now you the other team those case, say, scores two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: when do you go for two? At what point do
Speaker 1: you go for do you get to do it the
Speaker 1: next time you get a touchdown? Do you go for
Speaker 1: two at that point? Do you hold until later? Now
Speaker 1: you start having those kind of questions, and then the
Speaker 1: other team they're also playing that point game two now
Speaker 1: because they're like, is this a time where maybe we
Speaker 1: try to get up by ten, so do we go
Speaker 1: for two? Right? So I think it just changes the
Speaker 1: strategy for everybody when you start getting misses of an
Speaker 1: extra point. I got it, but I guess I wondered
Speaker 1: it wrong. But what I'm wondering is has there really
Speaker 1: been a time the season this year where you feel
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys decision were based on maybe them not
Speaker 1: feeling confident enough in their kicker. No, I don't know
Speaker 1: that's what I was trying. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think they've run from their kicker, Like, if that's what
Speaker 1: you're asking, Like, I don't think there their situations we're like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go for it on fourth down just because
Speaker 1: we don't trust our kicker. Here's been a good example
Speaker 1: of that in the first game of the season against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. I think he missed an extra point and
Speaker 1: as a field goal. Yeah, it was a very very
Speaker 1: bad start to the season. At the end of the game,
Speaker 1: they were very conservative and waiting for him or you know,
Speaker 1: setting up a forty eight yarder to take the lead.
Speaker 1: They were kind of playing for the field goal there,
Speaker 1: and so even though you know he had been kind
Speaker 1: of a train wreck throughout that game, so that if
Speaker 1: you're going to run from him, you would have done
Speaker 1: it in that one. But you're you're not. And Nick
Speaker 1: made the best point of all. You're just you're not
Speaker 1: going to feel good about this. You're just not based
Speaker 1: on the body of work this season. But and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm kind of going off the dome here, but how
Speaker 1: many opportunities at like must have field goals has Zerline
Speaker 1: had this year? Tampa Bay Uh, New England tied it
Speaker 1: with like twenty seconds left sentence overtime Raiders, which I mean,
Speaker 1: they lost that game, but it is when he's Chargers.
Speaker 1: Chargers is the big one. When he's had an opportunity
Speaker 1: at like a must have end of game fuel goal,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's made them all except for New England.
Speaker 1: He missed before that. Yeah, he missed because he wanted
Speaker 1: Digs to get an interception on the next play and
Speaker 1: that set up the interception. Said he said it up
Speaker 1: and going back, I didn't missed that one, but he
Speaker 1: missed it. But they got the ball back and then
Speaker 1: presented he needed to make a kick with twenty seconds
Speaker 1: left to sendence overtime, and he did and it was
Speaker 1: even forty forty nine yards. So that's how I would
Speaker 1: consulet myself. It's just like when he's had to make
Speaker 1: him he's been pretty reliable. And that was kind of
Speaker 1: the point of the question I was asking earlier, can
Speaker 1: you get somebody in here to kick extra points? Because
Speaker 1: he can make those kicks. He can make those forty
Speaker 1: fifty yard kicks when he needs them in games, like,
Speaker 1: he's pretty consistent at doing that and doing that pretty well.
Speaker 1: It's the extra points for whatever reason, and that's why
Speaker 1: I think it's a mental thing. Like at this point,
Speaker 1: it is a mental thing for him, those extra points.
Speaker 1: It just really is. It's the whole job is mental
Speaker 1: because every kicker in the league can kick from fifty
Speaker 1: yards out that you're that's why they're here. But you
Speaker 1: have to be really, really good at it. It has
Speaker 1: to be a mental thing because they all have a
Speaker 1: very similar physical skill set, Like they can all kick
Speaker 1: the crap out of the ball. Yeah, we almost and
Speaker 1: we got one points. I want to say one more
Speaker 1: thing about special teams. You know, John Fossil has been outstanding.
Speaker 1: I mean the special teams has been really really good
Speaker 1: this year when you think about not just the block
Speaker 1: punts and things. They had a kickoff return for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't had one fake. He hasn't They haven't
Speaker 1: faked the ball at all. And yet just the fakes
Speaker 1: he did last year, look what it led to. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys set a franchise record in net average, which means
Speaker 1: when everyone's worried about his fakes, so they're not really
Speaker 1: worried about I mean, they're not gonna just rush. They
Speaker 1: don't worry about a return. You just punt the ball.
Speaker 1: It's a fair catch. And it's to the point of
Speaker 1: a Cowboys record that there's a method to it. I
Speaker 1: say it all the time, and when we're seeing it,
Speaker 1: they are really good on special teams because he throws
Speaker 1: that fake out there and everyone's worried about it to
Speaker 1: the point where they're setting records for field position. So
Speaker 1: I think kudos to them and what they've done. Yes,
Speaker 1: the field extra point field goals have been in shaky,
Speaker 1: but special teams have been really really good this year.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. All Right, we appreciate you, guys,
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