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eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. Again it is eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. We'll take show. We'll take calls throughout the show, sprinkle them in with some of the other questions I have for these guys, and some questions we've already gotten on Twitter as well. How's everybody doing today? Great as everybody's on their phone or computer. No, no, I was just feel like I'm dealing with my kids right now. I just realized I looked down and I got like,

purple sleeves on and everything else. We'll make us up on Yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah, you know, I'm siner thinking and then I even were my purple converse. But it's all ls LSU. Really, I'm not going at all. I don't ask me who I'm gonna pick, but yeah, you yes to do on the radio, so I know exactly who you gotta. I did a podcast this morning. I kind of gave a reason why. But yeah, but get to that. No, we're good, We're good. We just a huge game, man, especially with what happened, you know,

last night and stuff like that. I think Green Bay got eliminated last night. I was kind of worried about them kind of climbing back into this thing. You know, all of a sudden you're battling with them as that you know, Oh, it's the fifth, sixth seven, it's six seventh seed. Oh wait, it's head to head, what you know that kind of stuff. I actually was thinking like about five o'clock when I've realized who was playing in the game, and I said, tomorrow morning, Brian's gonna say it.

Like I was still fifty fifty on that game. I was like, Brian's gonna say one of two things. He's gonna say, good job letting them back in there, letting that guy back in there. Now they're one two in a row and all that. If they win, if they lose, they're gonna be like, why didn't you play better like that? Why why couldn't the Cowboys have done what the Titans did? Or whatever? So one way or another, I kind of

wish the Cowboys were the Titans. I mean the way they play the Titans, they get they get guys banged up, they have half their guys, and they find ways to win. I mean I could I could pull for a team like way, say whatever Zeke and Pollard are doing fourteen thirteen, yea twenty seven carriers. Yeah, and that guy that guy, Yeah, he's gonger than both and faster than both. Yeah. That that guy is is the broad touchdown passes as we saw last night, he can really switch down passes us

last night. Yeah, kind of gave it, gave it my guy. That gave Alexander like, yeah, you're the little guy. He gave the little guy. He gave little guys signal to him. Yeah, he gave a couple. He had a couple of nice catches last night. So yeah, that team that seems gonna be that's gonna an interesting game there in December at a time of year you're gonna need need it. Yeah, that's gonna be in here and they're gonna need it too. Yeah. That's I'm saying. That's gonna be a really interesting and

I know this in that cold House stadium. That's what I'm saying is did we go to that one time? One time? And yeah, like I think Randall Cunningham didn't want to play that day, and and then and then I got lost. We're staying there at the gay Lord, greatest hotel ever, and it was like it's like being in an airport, Like I didn't know how to get

to the front door. I didn't mean I'm literally trying to meet people for go to dinner, Like where are you I I go, I don't know I'm sowhere in this hotel, just like I don't know, I don't know where I am. But but yeah, that that place, that stadium, it's cold, the fans are mean. I mean, what's gonna be called in Minnesota this week? Lucky Lucky? Thing is good outside? It will yeah, yeah, you mean in Tennessee or Minnesota. Man, sound was pretty good. It's so good

too because it's still open air. Yeah, it is open air. And they have you talk about you talk about the one job in life that just absolutely doesn't matter. It's the guy that does the PA announcing in the pres Minnesota that is over shadowed by all of the sounds. So so it's just like Dralvin Cook four yardcare you know, to the twenty six like, and you're gonna be trying to type that stuff in. You're not gonna hear it all you are. You just better find you better before

the game start. You better figure out where it is on the on the board, because that's where you're gonna have to look. This is the stadium where Derek's gonna pull out his phone, open up his little decibel app out how many disabels? Yeah, out of this last year and then he'll show me. He's like, look you see him. Last year. I was really surprised how and it's different minnesotaesan not having the season they are this year, but I was really surprised how many Cowboy fans there were

last year. I mean, there were a lot. Why is it? Why was that shocking? Though? Well, I think you get some carry over from what you saw in Green Bay getting over those Midwest fans. You kind of giving him a back to back taste your football time. Well, but easier to stay in Minneapolis than it is to stay in Green Bay. But this team, though, I mean they're eight and one, I mean they're they're having a great season, and they definitely you know, and they're that's that irritating

place to play in this that I saw. It was first time since like nineteen seventy six that a team that's eight and one or better with their starting quarterback is an home underdog underdog. Yeah, it's just I'll tell you what I've learned this that I've learned this, I've learned this about doing radio. Vegas is usually right on these things, right, and here I am. I'm gonna probably go against them, but they're right about a lot of things,

so they play the analytics game. Look, yeah, I'm coming off a week where the folks in Vegas said that my college team would win by seven, yeah, and we lost by ten. Yeah. So yeah, I'm not I'm not. You're not buying it, all right, I'm not buying right now. Yeah. Well, I'm coming off a team where Vegas, Vegas said that my team would lose by three and a half points to LSU and lost by three, lost by three. Yeah, I guess it happens. It does happen. This is just

such a hard place to play. It is it's a hard place to play, and they got a good team, and it's it and if you don't handle it, they can make you look really bad. That's exactly right, all right, So let's jump in. Let's talk a little bit about injuries. First. There are four guys that I want to get some updates on. Let's start first with TENK Lawrence. What are we hearing about him and his injury and his possibility of playing this week. I was told yesterday that he

should be fine. You know, now, where I think we're to the end of the kind of getting to the point of the season where Tank's really not interested in practicing a little bit, you know. He's like, yeah, I mean, you know, but that you know that the word I got on Tank was he should be fine. And then I always remember, like I heard that Sam Williams was fine and then he's inactive that Sunday, So you know, yeah,

I mean, take it. What is I don't think they would let him play with a fractured foot if that's what people are talking about right now, or fractures or problems with fractures or whatever. So but the quote was I have all intention of having him play. That was what McCarthy just said. Yeah, McCarthy's played the game all year long, where you know, I mean, he's getting to the point where some of the stuff that Mike says when it comes to injuries is not really that accurate.

I mean, and he's trying, and he's trying to do that, like he's that's that's the plan. So but he did say that, and like, that's what Tank said. But when you mentioned and I'm speaking about Tank, when he stands up there in front of the media, he mentions my foot, well actually both feet and then my foot, so it's like, whoa, Okay, that's a lot. Then you in that within that same sentence, you hear, but my intention is to play this week, and you're like, what, like, how how does that work?

And we know a lot of players play hurt, especially this part of the season, but damn that sucks. But you're trying to talk about the running defense. He's one of the best players. I think that's the one got You can't lose if you have problems with the run right now, that's how you head your bets. You know, that's what you do. You get two tackles for now, he's like, and delAG got two tackles and he's dealing

with like four injuries right now. But if he gets six tackles and two sacks and a forced fumble, then you're like, look the warrior, the tank is and he's doing all that. That's what happens. That's that's what you do. He's gonna play. I think he's gonna play. All right, let's move on. Give me a zeke. Like my kids over there looking at the phone, I'm sorry, kid complain. We got us no king news over there. We got phone callers and I'm trying to get all that coming in.

Zeke um I do feel like he's going to play. I mean, just why what he was saying yesterday, And you know, I thought it was interesting he said, this is a different injury. This is this is different than what he's had before. Uh, and not the same as last year, even though it kind of feels like it is because it's also knee and it's middle the same about the same time of year. But you know, we saw the injury from the press box. We saw the

tackle against the Lions. Yeah, now he did go back in the game, but you could just see and we're one way there by, you know, Saturn, and like we could see like that. That's just awkward looking and so but you know, he's he's tough, and I think it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see how they they get him and Pollard in there together. I think what you've seen out of Pollard the last two games suggest that, I don't know, if you do it the

same way. I think maybe Pollard gets a lot more carries than he has been and and maybe they manage it a little bit more. I'd like to see a flip in the in the number. Yeah, I think people are asking for the flip I'm okay with Zeke for three, Zeke for four, Zeke for four, zek for three, and then Pollard for eighteen. You know, I mean if I'm okay with that. But you know what, the one thing

they've learned this year is to get Pollard in there. Earlier, it used to be like we talked about the one series and if it went three and out, we wouldn't see him until the next second half. They figured out that this guy, legitimately, you can hand him the ball twenty something times and he's going to be just fine. Yeah, And I actually I don't necessarily need to see a flip. I think, let's be honest, they were running the ball all season with the formula that they had and he

was working well. So I think you can they win that game if, in my opinion, they win that game if if Elliott plays, Yeah, just because I felt like that they would go and take a different path for how to run the ball. Well, you did see a Dak take with three quarterback sneaks. Yeah, yeah, and he's probably only done that once or twice this year, maybe a couple more times than that, and played a lot.

I get that, But I mean, I just feel like those third and ones they were you know, even one of them was a long one, almost two, and they still got it with Dak So I feel like they weren't even giving paular To that opportunity. But I probably don't do that, Zeke's I told you early in the game, I was like, I want to see Malik Davis. I don't think he'd even played yet. I was like, well, I'm like, I want to see him because I think he fits this type of game. So I think he's

He's a good runner too. I like him. He'll be good next year when he's the guy. What do you get that one series where they used him a lot and he had some big, big what you're not wrong? I mean people are asking me about the same thing you just said. Kind of yeah, it's implied. Yeah, I mean that in draft a third round running back. Okay, there we go. You know that's how I can tell you this. I don't think that if you know, obviously, Paul It is a free agent. I don't think Paul

It's gonna get a nice contract. I don't think he's a huge contract guy. I don't think he's gonna get a nice contract. And they pay Zeke what they're on the hook to pay Zeke. So the Dad answers your question, they won't. They won't do that. I think they'll keep Zeke. I think they may just pay him lest get a tank deal where it's like we're paying you less. Yeah, doesn't it looks like it's a guarantee deal. It's really

a pay cut. So hopefully, you know, and we'll pay a lot of front and make you feel good about it. I'll tell you. Tony Pollard's contract is going to be a very interesting deal around the league, whatever whoever does, because he's still a fifth year running back and he's and he's he's, you know, not the biggest back in the world. So he's fifth year guy. What do you do with that? What do you what do you pay? I mean that that is not going to be He's

gonna end up at the Dolphins and have a great career. Oh, I'm sure he will. I mean, somebody will figure out how to take him like that guy down in Miami, or somebody will figure it out. I mean, I think I think they're just a little late to the a little late with him. Yeah. I don't think he'll be someone's number one though, But yeah, but they'll do. But they have to try to pay him like that. That's

that's what's tricky. I think they'll they'll somebody's gonna say, I want him to be like Swift and Detroit with the other back that I've got, which is still good. What do you pay for that? They'll pay him more than they'll pay him in Dallas. That's that's the thing. I agree. And that's not going to be premium running back money, I don't think. But that's the end point, Kate Will. In today's NFL, where most teams do a dual back system, are you gonna have to start paying

premium money for whoever's in that duel back? Now I'm starting to run the ball more than the league now, Yeah, we're starting. Running backs are starting to have a new life. You know, if everybody's gonna be real small up front, they're gonna figure out ways to you know, you can have I'll tell you what, it's going to save teams money running the football. You go ahead and pay the back because offensive line play, what I've learned is you can have five just guys that might be bad pass blockers,

but can find a way to run block. You know, and that's how teams are kind of moving the ball. And that's why you know, you're I know, kind of

way off the topic here, but offseason talking here. But that's what the Cowboys have to realize, is that there's not many teams in about a year or two that's gonna have Okay, we gotta I think they'll have a top ten quarterback in uh In Dak and then they'll have the highest paid corner in the league, the highest paid defensive player in the league, I would think, and then you know, you gotta deal with all these other

other high price contracts. So that's why you don't trade for Brandon Cooks because you got to have these picks. You gotta have that third or fourth round pick. You gotta hit on these guys and you got they have to be starters for you, and they have. They've done a good job with the draft. Tell me what we're looking at with Anthony Brown and Anthony Barr the Abs. I think both are okay, both are gonna play, I believe. I haven't heard any different. Brown hasn't been cleared yet,

but he will be. I think he will be. Here's a big sign for that they made him available to the to the media yesterday. They Anthony Brown. Yeah, if guys that have concussion, they have never been available to the media until they're really cleared to go already. No, I don't think he's been cleared for practice practice in full, but that will happen today. But the fact that he was talking to the media and that they had that,

that's a good sign he'll be there. And I think it's gonna take a lot to get Anthony barrd not to come back and play this game. Yeah, he didn't say it on the record, but after the game I heard him saying in the locker room he was fine. He's like, I could have gone again the game, but they just would let me. And obviously Brown, Yeah, And that's the way it should work. Once you have that that that symptom, once you have that any inkling that

that's the case, get him out of the game. Don't let him back in, even if they think they can come back and play. You know, it's funny how five days can make because at first, you know, he gives up a pass to a guy that I hadn't heard of um ever, and I was like, a far a touchdown and I don't even remember if you mentioned it in your I mean like you were mentioning him in the receivers. I'm sure you mentioned it. No, he's had he's had five touchdowns in two games, That's what I mean.

I was like, he gives up a touchdown, you're like probably seriously. And then now like the guys on him, you know, Andy Moss like type, you know numbers. So it's like, Okay, I don't feel so bad anymore. Like now he's like a fantasy stuff. He is a good player in North Dakota State. I mean when he's from Tampa. His dad was a dad was an NFL player second round pick, right, yeah, and you're kind of thinking like, well, how did this kid not end up at you know,

one of those SEC schools. How does he a Florida State or something like that. He kind of went through the cracks or he's a Tampa kid. So I'll say this, that touchdown he caught last night, it's impressive, Like he skied up for that one. So he's got some skill and then confident player right now, you know, coming out of small school maybe that's part of it. Just took him a little while to kind of get there. And

now looks like he started to figure it out. Small school that comes down here and wins the national championship every year, every freak. Those people up there in North Dakota are paying taxes down here now. They're here so much. They show up in their green and yellow. They know, they know that they know the area better than me, Like, can you tell me I go up to you tell me what eating? Yeah, there's this place over here you need to go to. You know, always out here at

the start. They love hanging out and f F or FCS is that with FCS? Yes, I always forget which one it is, B for bowls. FCS is the division one double A used to be. And they North Dakota State is like the power. They come down here every year FRISCO every year the championship here. All right, let's go and take our first We do a lot of kids coming through the day anymore. Yeah, they're looking at they're looking at you, like, stop talking about school when

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open to the public and begins at seven pm. For more information, visit the Star in Frisco dot com. Welcome back. Second segment of The Break. That was one of the Sorry sorry I should have let you finish at the Star Feel free go. I was gonna say that was one of my favorite pieces of content, the one y'all did um several It's been a while, but it was with Lyell dresses and he went to the stadium ly Elf on the shelf. That's what it was, wasn't it. I don't know if they did this elf, but they

said il li Elf was his character. Nice. That's pretty good. I guarantee you yeah, they haven't. No one's ever had that costume that day, you know, no one's ever like ordered that on Amazon. I need the three X please for the elf rint that one. I'm guessing I had to have to have to have that made for him, not rented forgot about that one. All right, let's get a phone call. We got a phone call from Rob actually first of all, second segment, but by second segment

brought to you by blockchain dot Com. Let's get to the phone lines. I got a call from Rob in Las Vegas. Rob, what up? Hey? Long time? No talk? Yeah? You doing? I'm good? Yeah? Never better get those wise guys in Vegas. No. You know, looking at this game, to me, Dak needs this game even more than the team he you know, he's hearing he can't beat good teams quarterbacks. And I think the recipe is simple. He just needs to throw less and run more. When he runs,

even like against Chicago, they just look so different. And I don't mean it's like he doesn't run anymore like he used to, but you have to force him. That designed run that they did buy the goal line, maybe from ten yards out in Chicago was great. I think they need to do more like that, especially in the red zone. And and I just think that's when he is really a top ten quarterback, is when you combine

his legs with his arm. If he's just going to stand in the pocket, I think we're just losing out on too much stuff, and I think he's just an average QB. So I just hope they they get it, you know, and they just see that, Hey, listen, we gotta get this guy. Run him. So get about the contract, forget about how much money, so get about the angle. And I just think if he does that, this team to be really really good. As thanks to call, I agree one, I do. I don't know. We've talked about it.

I just and I just I don't know what is it? I mean, that's one thing you just don't know, is it? Is it the Cowboys saying that is it? Dak's saying that he is. He just doesn't feel like he's got it. Is he not comfortable? But he has never been a guy that could stand in the pocket and make throws that like the other guys. That's not his game. That's why he was drafted where he was drafted sum But he was, you know, he was, he was. He's a

baller though, like like that's what he is. He just like he's a guy that flips over the top in Arizona for a touchdown or against Seattle where he just bust through people, and like that's him. He was a tank playing quarterback. I remember the game against Denver Week two, twenty seventeen. They lost by like twenty five points. Yeah, and at the end of the game, he throws a picks to to leave maybe or somebody was running a hundred yards and he's over there fighting through blockers at

the end and diving and all that. And I remember thinking like that, that's my quarterback right there, Like he's a football player playing quarterback, and right now I think he's a quarterback playing quarterback and he needs to be that football player again because that's what makes him who he is. And he's got to get that back. If not, then he's he's getting paid too much money, honestly, because he's not the same type of thrower. Like he's just not a thrower like the rest. He's got to be

in the game, feeling it and all that. I hope he gets it back. All right, let's get a had a couple of questions for you guys about the matchup Cowboys versus Vikings. First question at for you guys, if you have to make the decision, do you travel digs with Jefferson? Yes, most of the time, Yeah, most of it. He did a good job by the one in the radio this morning talking about that. Thank you. But but

I'm trying to think what I said. But you were saying that it's something you need to consider at Yeah, I mean just but what does that caveat? You say most of the time, when would you not just because once you get I think I don't think you do anything all of the time other than you know, play your quarterback or whatever. But like just because teams get a read on that, and then and Feeland's pretty I'm good on the other side. Sure, yeah, so yeah you got some Yeah, so I would I kind of trick

it up a little bit. But but for the most part, yeah, it's it's if you if you did last year. The Vikings are a team that they'll they'll run the ball, but it's not the most important thing to them. You know, they're really down on carries when when you talk start to talk about the numbers that they have during and one of the things that they struggle with is when you can get pressure on Cousins. But thirty eight percent of the time, guy hate when I do this, but

I'm gonna do it. Thirty eight percent of the time when he's under pressure, he throws the ball to Jefferson. You know, so if your game plan is to attack him by pass rush, then by all means, put your best guy on Jefferson. If thirty eight percent of the game of the time he's going to throw the ball in that guy's direction, I'm denying him every opportunity did to do it. And I think the guy that has

the best opportunity to deny the football is Diggs. You know, Diggs is Diggs is going to look at that number eighteen and he's not going to be scared. He goes, I've seen you at LSU, I've played against you before. I know who you are. I've seen you run routes, whereas the others are kind of like, man, this guy all I see is highlights every week and him like catching balls over the top of people and doing the giddy and all that stuff like that. You know, that's

all It's called gritty. What's it called gritty? Yeah, Okay, he's doing the gritty, you know, And so I mean that's all you ever see. So you get scared of that. You get scared, and I'm kind of like, I don't want to see him doing that, you know, And and me putting Diggs over on him if I lose the battle because it's digs covering him, so be it. I need to drop better corners. But man, I ain't going to see him do that little dance in the end zone.

Not not not on my watch today. Um gritty right, gritty? Yeah, yeah, he looks giddy when you do it. Chance could get you to do the gritty Brian, No, because you gotta. I think you could do this part right. Don't you put your off your hands? Why do you do that? What is that? What's the symbol? At? Okay? Okay? And then they were doing it back in La. They're doing a shoe That was always shoe or it became a thing that the NFL or any other guys are doing. They would do he was, but now they fake like

a hamstring injury. Now a new one is they kind of do it and then they fake an injury and then they start doing it again. Yeah. So, I mean I've seen him do that. He gets in the end zone. I don't want to see him fake in the hands an industry and an injury. I'm sure right, Oh yeah I could fake. But then I could do that too, because every once while he'll do it and then he'll

throw the eyes. That's gonna be an owner that has like you know, like gonna have like a panic attack or you know whatever, because he sees like their star player down there with a fake injury, Like what what you fake? You fake? You fake? He got He did it last week in Buffalo and he got bumped by a lineman. O'Neill bumped him, and then he got mad

at O'Neil, like, bro, I didn't finish. I was doing my fake injury and then I was going into it and he and O'Neil's like, ah, you know what, I've always had this this thought, like I'm just curious on I'm covering with seven. I'm sorry on a Saturday night in the hotel room, you know, working on are they moving the bed like to the side and clearing out

some space and like really working on this? And you know, okay, you got you twelve, come over here and we're gonna you be the bowling ball and I'm gonna throw you down and you know I'm gonna hog tie. You know, you get down the five score you know you're not scoring, Okay, well if you score, you know, I mean like there's and then there's probably some great, great things that happened mentioned like some of the receivers we had back in

the day. What if like ken Yon Rambo and Reggie Swinton, we're talking about something you're not gonna score, you know, like you got and then were these great pointers that are these great players that have these dances that never came. All right, go back to the collar that rob from Vegas. What's a number that you'd like to see dak rushing yards? Like what let's say what would be a good number for a game? Forty five is exactly where I was going. How many games as you had? Forty five? Three? So

can we go a little how about thirty? That go too high? Yeah? I have a little bit the thirty. Let's go with let's go with thirty two? Yeo, thirty two. Okay, he's got, he's got, he's got. He's got sixteen games there, all right, he's thirteen and three when he gets that that, you know, thirteen and three, he's three and at forty five number, so yeah, that that's good. But he's not and he's six and fourteen. If he throws for more forty passes a game, is that what it is? I think?

So six six to fifteen, six and fourteen. I love this website. How many passes yard forty four more than forty passes more forty forty past six temps. Yeah, it's twenty. Uh see a lot of els there. Yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six win yeah, six and fourteen. Yeah, I mean you know, I actually do it, like seriously like that. That's frustrating too, because that's that was six and thirteen before that game.

It's and yeah, but well, let me throw this question there because it's actually a question that Art Wila just sit in. Actually, he says, Kellen's consistent failure to commit to the run is maddening. At what point does McCarthy sit him down and tell them to stick to the run or else, because I do think as the head coach, Yeah, at some point, and by the way, he got him to buy in while the backup quarterback was in there. For some reason last week that message didn't get sent before.

It wasn't They didn't think it was as important. And and to me, I look at it and say, it's still that is how you win football games this season with this team. What do you guys think of kind of where the blame really lies? Here, Well, it lies with the head coach. I mean, because if it's on your watch, so you've got to do it, and you've got to figure it out. And you know you're you're

over here talking about everything. You're talking about cleats and and and you know what time you're going to get here and there and all these things about it. But it all it's with you, I mean you as the head coach. And he's got he's got to be the guy to do that um and pull back the reins. If if you don't understand, Brian, You've said it for that every year I've been on the show with you,

you say it all the time. As a head coach, you've got to know your team and you got to know that Terrence Steele and Tyler Smith and Tyler Biadish and probably Zack Martin, they're better run blockers than they are pass blockers. And the runners are better than the receivers. Right now, they got better backs and they have receivers even winzeks out so and and and Dak's a better game manager than he is a guy that's going to throw it around the yard. And it's better to run

in that and that kind of conditions than throw. So how the heck do you get into situations where I don't know? You got an MVP, You got an MVP and the two time MVP that that figured it out and he only threw it twenty times? Yeah, well did he or did his offensive coordinator say this is what we're going to do, or his head coach this is well, well he's been fired, if you know, tell him. I think Green Bay. I think Green Bay season. Even though their season I think is over now, their season was

on the line. I was talking to their guys about They're like, we're not capable of running the ball. We're not capable running Monday morning, who were the first calls I got were, hey, man, I don't know. I'm like, watch the damn film. Yeah, Dallas has trouble defending the run. You guys got two legitimate backs. I mean, why would you not run the ball? And they go, well, you

know we got a quarterback. I'm like, well call you know, that's why that's how you win games right there, and because you take it damage and Rockers figured it out too. It's like, I know a way where we can run the ball and I could throw it to you sideways where I could still get the passing yards and the completion percentage for it, and it's still considered a pass.

But you know you mentioned a little earlier, Brian, you were talking about the Vikings and you were saying, like they just they don't they don't commit to the run themselves, like they love their passing games. Well they do. I wonder if this is the week what they do like green based as and even though they may not do a moment times they look at this team and say, oh, this is just too easy, maybe not too easy, not

too and they're going to commit. Very frustrating is and most of us we have we have been we've watched the game from the sideline and we've watched the game from the press box, so we have very very different views from the game at times birdeye's view and just aside. So it is hard to coach a game when you're just watching a sideline like from here and trying to figure out and we know he has his headset, he

communicates with other people. So it comes down to me like it is hard to know exactly everything that like what it looks like from that point of view, So what are you getting that? Because I feel like us on the press box, we're usually like, why are they doing that? Why do they keep doing this? Or why do they keep doing that? Why aren't they not trying

this instead? Like it seems very simple to the people that are watching from maybe TV or up there up high as opposed to what he's like, what they're actually emotions. Emotions on the sideline play a big part of that of how play calling people always say this. They say. Play callers always say I want to be able to look into the quarterback and sit with him and talk with him, or I want to sit Dan Quinn's like

the opposite. Dan's like your approach, Dan. Dan wants to see, Okay, this is how they're attacking me, and I can get a full and then you don't get distracted. You don't get distracted by being on the sideline, by the emotions we have. Tom Brady take the path and humming into the bench and you're sitting down going, I don't think

he's too happy with me right now. You know, maybe I should think, yeah, maybe we should do something differently here where if you're upstairs you could like kind of take your headphones off and and not pay attention to what's going on kind of regroup, you know. I think that's to me. If I was a play call i'd want to be upstairs. I'd want to be able to see substitutions and things like that. I mean, they're talking

to you and all that. But the emotion of the bench affects play callers, I think in a negative way in times. I really really do. I would like to just see a change in that. And I don't know what you do. I mean, what take tell I'm more up there because it is important too to be able to have that face to face communication during the game. So it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you see things more clearly from up there, and you get a better idea of what's worth what's not versus

what you're seeing from the sideline. Yeah, you can see the full field. I mean that's what we all know. Being up there in the press box. You can see the full field. You can see every player on the field at one moment. When you're on the sideline, you can only see what's there. You can't see what's on the other side necessarily as clearly. Well too, that's substitution patterns too, Like you can like from the play car.

You can look down as your guys are coming on, you see who they're sending on, so you know immediately what they're in down on the field. You don't always get that that vantage point of knowing unless somebody upstairs is telling you they got nickelon. They got nickelon, and you're now you're having to adjust where before. If you're upstairs, you can see what they're how they're substitute. You know, we have thirty seven coaches, so I mean, I'm sure

there's there's enough. You win three Super Bowls with like twelve, I think, yeah, total or eight something like. It's some crazy number. I tell you. What's amazing, though, is that I don't I think NBA's got more coaches than the call than pro football. Now, they got a lot. I mean he's going to mask, well, well they have two. They have two rows of coaches. I'm talking about in the background BA and the NBA has got more than pro football. I mean, I mean it's about it's about equal.

For the number of players you have, Yeah, you have weight, they don't. They have like twelve on their roster they do, and they have a they have a front bench in a back bench they've got and everybody has a job, Like one guy's job is to just yell out every time the shot clock is down to like eight and and that's like when the ball goes across, you know, it's a twenty four second, So you know, if you're ever lucky and a clock coach, Yeah, I could do that.

I could do that. I could. You guys need to get the joes see five four, Okay, Nick is set in those before. Yeah, what you need to do is you said it once and that's what I remember all the time, and I remember yeah. And also the sit on the floor of an NBA game. It really really is cool. That's that's pretty awesome. It's pretty cool. And I at one time Dirk and Luca but right there, and it was it was the only year that they played together, and it was just like, and this is

is pretty It was pretty cool. One time I did it. The Rockets were there and it was when Hardened Westbrook and all those guys are kind of down there the boat ratio. No, it's kind of fun to just to be there literally be in their huddle and like watch the coach breakdown a play and say, that's what we're gonna do experience coach, Yeah, did you try to do that? No, you try to coach it off on that. I don't know bad enough coaches to figure it out who's in the game and who's not. We are going to take

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back home again. You know, every every year, like when I first started working for the Cowboy, like my mom would she'd be like worried about you, and she'd be like you didn't get any Thanksgiving dinners, like they trust man, they do it, And I'm like, they do it great, and then she says better than Mine's like oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Yesterday yesterday when I got home, I'm talking to my mom and she's asking me, you know, trying to plan out,

like when can we have meal for thanksgaming. She's like, oh, and I said, well, the game is at three twenty five, so I'll you know, I have to be there, so lunch and dinner. Basically, that kind of ruins that and she always gets mad. She's like, I'm not gonna say the word, but these cowboys, they don't care. All family time. They've always because holidays, I'll always altered by the cowboys. So she always brings it up, like I just need to move it to Friday. That's what we do. We

just do that. I say, it's every year. I love it. I love that we work that game. I just like, I think it's my favorite holiday. I just love being a part of the tradition, you know, because I mean it's everybody's tradition. That's what they do all with And they'll tell you too. Every year at three o'clock we eat, you know, and that's good. But somebody's gonna play the game. You know, we watch NBA on Christmas Day. Well somebody and some families affected somebody. Yeah and so yeah, yeah,

and it's it's a challenge. Did you get used to it? Yeah? Yeah, what we do. I mean we've built we've built our family tradition around that now. So our our family goes to the stadium on game day on Thanksgiving. It's the only day of the year my family goes to the game, but they go on Thanksgiving because that's just what we do because sometimes we do. Probably watching Buffalo Chargers, it doesn't matter. Oh well, we realized that back when they

were the Redskins. That was that was not a pleasant No, Colpe McCoy. Was that ALP McCoy game? All that was RG three might RG three game? Yeah, back in twenty twelve. Yeah, that was a good But you know, let's not overlook date and one vikings here. I mean, we do have a game before we get the things. He's kind of moving on, all right, tell you what, let's let's get Let's get a couple more questions. We got a phone call. We'll take a phone call real quick. From Ray and

fort Worth Ray, what you got um? A couple of things. I think Deck is too much of the blame here. I mean he's more than the game manager. As fans, we watched the game, but we don't really watch the game because when he threw that interception, if one intercepts, can't remember why but CD. But it's on the receivers too, because it's CD. The defender just lets CD Lamb go

by because he just staring at Deck. If CD Lamb puts his goes across the defender's face with his body, then that guy never has a chance to come up and intercept the ball. But it's always Dak's fault, even though the offense had a fourteen point lead. Secondly, I like what Micah Parson said. I love it. We need more of it. We don't need to run him on the edge all the time, because that's to me if I'm if I'm a defensive coach, great send him on

the edge. Great take him out the middle. You want to see how bad our run defense will be, how bad it will be the in The guy's a complete player. He can cover, he com blits, and he a lot of times running the sideline and sidelines. He's saved I've seen in two years, I've seen him saved, saved the defense from making even bigger mistakes. Now, you're right, Dak needs to probably run more. With guys like Zadarius Smith coming off, I mean especially, you know, I think that's

gonna be a big player. He does need she uses legs more. I don't know. Maybe he's not completely healthy. I don't know, but I've seen in the past. I can't remember with one season he was just he had so many running touchdowns and he will be fine. I think fans need to back the hell off and really watch what you're seeing it. So why get watch the tape? All right? It just means all appreciate it. Appreciate it. Nax actually brings up a question that we got on Twitter.

I think as well. Um, I'm trying to find it right here. Um, oh yeah, what would you guys, what would you guys do with biker this week? Obviously last week they played about linebacker primarily, and the thought was you were facing a team you thought was gonna run the ball. That was a way of maybe using him a little bit more. Nick, you think it took him out of the game. A little bit more. What would you do with him in a game like this, Well, the first things first, I mean, I gotta I gotta

stop the run. I gotta play a defense. Where where's he best If you're trying to stop the run, Well, he's not gonna be on the defensive end. He's gonna have to be a linebacker. I think I think he's gotta play linebacker. I think that that's what the focus has to be. Stop the run, get to that third down situation. Then you can figure out what you're gonna do different guys, and he can move around, move to

the outside and all that. But um, I just think I think that it's a They're gonna have to figure it and figure that out. But but it starts with stop the run first, and if that's good and that that's what's scary, And that's what Brian's talking about, is that when you play a defense to stop the run, it's gonna leave you exposed to the receivers in the passing game. So this is gonna be this is definitely gonna be a tough matchup. But you gotta hope pride

factors in here at some point. I play him opposite I would play him opposite of Tank, just because, and then I would think about playing I would think about

playing Digs. If you travel Digs, put Digs on to the side of where somebody that can play the run, that plays it well, if it means him playing left corner where Tank is over there, or you know, put him on a side, because if you put you put Digs on the side where you have like armstrong and bash him in those guys, then all of a sudden you get hooked owner, you don't get linebacker inside and then you don't get outside Phil. So if you have somebody at the edge that could play the run, I

would do that. I would put Parsons opposite If you're going to play him on the edge, play him opposite Tank and let him run the ball. Now he's had some problems when they've run the ball at him, but most likely teams are right handed, so you'll get the ball to go away from. So that would be Parsons chasing the ball, and I think that's where you're at where Tank can hold up. But I would put strength

in front of Digs. So you know, if you put week with week with week, then you're gonna probably give up the edge more. But if you put him to the side where maybe you have some of your stronger run defenders, then you won't expose him too much to have to be a forced player as they're going to need him in this game. I'm just here, I mean for this game. Linebacker would be for me, But I'm curious to see what happens with hurt the Marcus Lawrence.

And you know, right now it's looking like he's gonna play the game and all that, and he this is nothing new to him really, He's played through injuries before. But if his level of play drops down a little, you know, now I'm looking at the line completely different to where, Okay, would micaut be needed to add some something in there, some pressure from his play, but as a defensive end instead. You know, I also got to remember too, you know, DeMarcus is one of the more

veteran players on this team. He knows what this week looks like more than anybody, and so you know, I think, yes, you put him on there. He's banged up, he's got some issues, but he's he's looking ahead. He knows that he's got to be somewhat healthy this week. Got to play the game, then we got a short week. You know, he's gonna from right now in six days, there's gonna be two football games being played. So he gets that because his body has felt it. So I think that's

where some of it is. I think he's doing more maintenance on him himself and maybe understanding understanding that he's dealing with some stuff. And let's let's you know, because this team, I don't know what they lead the league in practice injuries. I don't know what's going on, but I mean there's things that like, oh well this flared up on Thursday's practice or something like that. So whatever they're doing Thursday, you know, that's probably a decent day

to to not practice. But all right, we're gonna get our predictions. See what you guys think is gonna happen in is his game? Nicholas start with us. If if the if the Bills had just gotten the snap and moved forward and not lost that game in the at the very end of there and one, then I think it's a completely different game. I think you gotta hung an even hungry or Vikings team. Um they're figuring out how to win, but uh, it just that's not the way the league works, it cycles back through and it's

time for a loss. So I think they're gonna lose the game. I do. I think that at eight and one, I don't think they're as good as their record in Minnesota gonna lose. Nono's gonna lose the game. I don't think there as good as their record. And I think that they they're playing these clothes games and the league isn't designed for you to keep winning these type of games. I think the Cowboys, um I think. I think the offense is actually look at what's happening in the last

few games and Dacks come back. They're starting to figure it out. They lost last week twenty eight points on the road, forty two the week before. UM So I think they win thirty one thirty. I think it's gonna be a fun, high scoring game. I think they win. I figure out a way to win. I think the Vikings figure out a way to lose this one thirty one m I think I think the Cowboys win. They have a chance to win if and I think, to me, the key for this game is just start fast, like

going there and play some football. Don't allow yourself to get fall behind or start a slow half of the game. You need to start fast right off the bat, so DAC needs to go in there and start just moving the chains. They can. They need to run the ball, like we keep talking about. But I think to me, that's the key. Just don't wait till the sec can have of the game for you to get your crap together, and by that time usually then stop being too late.

So that's what happens, and I've seen it happen too many times. And I do think usually they play a very close game, so they can win if the offense scores. So I think maybe they win by a field goal. I don't know, I don't really know. They maybe twenty three, twenty one, something like that. But by a field Now, that's not even a field goal right there, I don't even Yeah, there you go, twenty four twenty one, right

Minnesota wins this game. And because what happens is they force turnovers, and when you lose, you turn over the ball. Whether it's Philadelphia, whether it's the Green Bay, They're going to force you to make turnovers. You're playing in a really hostile environmental, very loud crowd. It's gonna be communication. The Cowboys have proven they've had problems with communication. Whether it's run defense, whether it's the receivers, quarterback, they've had problems.

You know. To me, this is I don't like the matchup because I feel like though that there's too many things. This is a really good group of receivers and they found ways to make plays. This team doesn't get down when they're down. They find ways to win. And I think there's something too that whether it's luck, magic, whatever you want to call it, they found it. And so I think Dallas loses this game. I think it's gonna

be twenty eight, twenty four. I just feel like that the Vikings just they're gonna they're gonna run their offense, and their offense is tough to stop. And again, communication problems on defense or on offense, for you could lead to turnovers. That's what the Vikings do. So I see them getting this home victory. Yeah, I actually think I agree with Nick. I think it's gonna be a high scoring game. I think that there's gonna be I think

both teams will run the ball really well. I do think that both teams will have some big plays in the passing game, although the passing game won't be the story of the game. Game will be the both teams ran the ball well in my opinion, but I think it'll be a high scoring game. But they all be a lot of big plays. And I think the Cowboys end up winning on the road because I do believe they are the better team between these two teams. I think Cowboys win a close game thirty four thirty one

on the road in Minnesota. All right, appreciate you guys, join us. We'll be back Monday. Let's you know what when right and wrong, get you guys ready on a quick short week for Thanksgiving. Until then for Nick even Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleson. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.