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Dallas Cowboys. As we welcome you into the Star in Frisco and the s WBC studios alongside Isaiah stand Back, Patrick Nose Walker, We've got Chris Beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentleman. How are we doing today? Fantas terrific terrific Thursday? Yeah, it is. It's hard to make. I try and do like an alliteration before every show. Thursday is the one that I always cary, I have a I don't know, I have a tough time with it. Maybe I should just do like a like a touchdown Thursday.

We are safe. I can't really say thirsty Thursday, because I mean, unless it's Black Rifle Coffee, thirsty could do that. Why don't just just keep it simple, terrific Thursday. Yeah, something something of that nature, tantalizing, don't overthink it, don't overthink it, don't overthink it. Okay, I want I want over again. That was one of your favorite tiger milk. Tiger milk Thursdays. Yeah, Tiger milk Thursday. Maybe that's what

we'll do. And then, of course we've got to say it with your chest Friday coming up tomorrow, I'll have I'll have updated standings and everything for for everybody tomorrow, so that way we can head into the final weekend to the regular season and really do it in style. Speaking of uh, one of the final times we're doing something. We're getting down to the nitty gritty on this news

and notes thing we are we are. It's it's bittersweet because that means the season is we've only got like a yeah, we've only got like a month and a half left of that of the season. That is correct. That's why we're focusing on the teams like the Bills in the Chiefs wink wink, hint hint. News and Notes for Week eighteen against the Washington Commander is what would Rob do? WWRD I started foremost of the start off news and notes. Everyone continuing to keep Damar Hamling in

their prayers. There has been progress made, but he is still sedated. Not out of the woods by a long shot, but he has man can progress, So prayers are working. Keep that up from the Cowboys front, we spoke on it yesterday. Has been confirmed. It was confirmed shortly after the show wrapped on yesterday. James Washington was in fact waived. He is, as every veteran is after the trade deadline,

subject to waivers. If he does clear waivers, it's my understanding the Cowboys are not adverse to bringing him back to the practice squad, so we'll see if that happens. I was at three pm today, that's three pm today, and I was having a conversation with Nick Eatman yesterday wondering who might claim Washington playoff wise and not my bulls. I landed on the New York Giants, and not as a means of being petty against the Cowboys. I mean that would be the sprinkles on the ice cream for them.

But they need some wide receiver help, so I could see that happening, but hopefully it does not. But wherever James Washington Lands because he's such a good dude. Like we've said yesterday, I hope it works out well for him. Matt Farniyak, his twenty one day window was activated on yesterday. He was back at practice for the Cowboys. Keep in mind for those that may not know, twenty one days it's the time frame that the Cowboys have to either activate him to the fifty three man roster or revert

him back to IR, which would be season ending. But he is trending well for the Cow's offensive line depth backup center behind Tyler Biadish from the practice squad, Wanye Thomas, the safety, was moved to practice squad reserve injured reserve, so he's there with Alec Lenstrom with injury. Good news from the Cowboys legends front. We have three Cowboys legends who are up for possible induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We have Chuck Howley, who is a

senior who's possibly entering as a senior, DeMarcus Ware. This is de Ware's second attempt. We could all argue he should have been first ballot. But while we're arguing, where should have gotten in by now? Darren Woodson yea is a finalist. Darren Woodson, he should have been in a long time, the absolute goat safety is a finalist and hopefully this is the year that he does not get snubbed. Let the king in shout out to Woody. Woody is

just the man quick injury front. As far as the injury report yesterday, Cowboys only had two who did not participate Tyler Biadish, which was expected. He is expected to return for the playoffs, though Kelvin Joseph did not participate with a tooth issue. Toothache, however you want to describe it. We spent way too much time on Twitter talking about this man's mouth yesterday. Tony Pollard, he used the headline here. He was a full participant, not just back at practice

with the thought issue that they rested last week. Again noted, not limited. Full Okay, Tony Pollard is back and he's going to get those twelve or thirteen yards. That man's gonna get him a thousand yards this week. And then hopefully they sit them down and let Malik and Zeke do their thing, or Zeke Malik, let's put it in the right aspect. Washington commanders. I guess they're burning through

their PTO days before this season is over. They literally had one, two, three, four, or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve players who did not participate in practice, which basically means they didn't have a practice. Jonathan Allen, Montes Swit, Antonio Gibson, i'man Davis. The list goes on and knowing these are starters. So the Washington Commanders, I'm not saying they're mailing it in, but they didn't have practice yesterday

by all accounts. So that's news and notes hitting into this Tiger Milk Thursday. Very nice, very nice. Patrick, Let's go into I'm gonna go into Hall of Fame talk for a little bit, because three guys that are very much so deserving to be in, two of which that probably should have been in by now. And then Chuck Howley, you talk about not being able to tell the story of the NFL in order to be a Hall of Famer.

He's part of the story of the NFL. He was one of the only Super Bowl MVPs, the only Super Bowl MVP that was on the losing side because he had such a great performance and a losing effort in the Super Bowl against the Steelers. But he was phenomenal for years around the Cowboys in an absolute legend. But

let's talk about two of the modern era finalists. The Marcus Ware star with him should have gotten in last year's a first ballot guy was disappointed not to Cowboys and Broncos fans alike discipline and not to see him in there. What are your thoughts on d Ware, Isaiah and what he brought to the table as a defender. D Ub is one of the most dominant players that

I've played with. Obviously, when I came in here in oh seven, he was here still wrecking shop, Yeah, tearing things up, and he is a good dude and he's a one hell of a player at the same time, so I'm definitely on board with him obviously getting in there. You know, when you started talking about Hall of Fame, it gets real tricky in terms of who should go first, who should have been in you know, because you have

strong feelings. Yeah, the politics or a real thing, but also you know, you know, when you start thinking about guys like Wood, he's like, okay, yeah, d were, absolutely you should be in there. But Wood, he definitely should have been in there for a long time. Yeah, you know what I'm saying so like that's when the Hall of Fame stuff starts getting tricky. All these guys that we're talking about are definitely worthy of it and they

will definitely get their jacket. I look forward to seeing him when he has his opportunity to put that on. But you can't help but love d Were. I mean, not only was he a shock shock shop wrecker, but he did it with a million dollars smile. I mean, the guy's just a fantastic human being, much like Darren Woodson is. I mean, you can't find better players on the field who are also elite human beings off of the field. We're talking about Darren Woodson and DeMarcus wear

So yeah, get Woody should have been in. I'm going to pound this table until I break some knuckles. Pro Football Hall of Fame. Let the man in. And like

you said, both of those guys are fantastic. I was just thinking about I did an event probably not put three weeks ago and maybe three weeks ago with with Darren at the stadium and we kind of had a one on one panel interview and whatnot in front of a group of people, and I mean, the the amount of insight and emotion and passion that that guy has for not only the game of football, but for life

in general. Came from a rough upbringing and then just took advantage of every opportunity that he could, fought through a bunch of stuff, fought through some demons all the way through, and then came out on the other side as one of the best to ever put on a helmet with the star on the side of it. So Darren Woodson, I could not speak more highly of period.

I think he's a great dude. I think he's very much so worthy on the field of getting into the Hall of Fame, and he stands for everything that the game stands for as well off of the field. So very very excited to see him in the Senior Final or the modern day finalists to get his shot at going in. I wanted to see if you had a DeMarcus ware story, one that's appropriate for the air, which is good. I don't have one off you don't have one. Just we just had a lot of good laughs. I mean,

do you wears is a good dude? You know to your point, he you know, he's a he's a happy go lucky guy that just happens to be a let dog on the field as well. You know, he gets little knuckles and he does a little plane of the apes, you know, smash on the ground and and it's a rap, you know, and he goes back to laughing and smiling, you know, and then then he's backed out there and he's like, okay, let's go time. You know. He just he has one heck of a motor, one heck of

a drive. The way in which he approached the game was always awesome. I'm always I was a sponge in terms of, you know, just being around really great guys and seeing what they did well. He prepared well, he practiced well. M every everything about him, like you guys already mentioned it, on and off the field, is awesome. So he's a He is exactly what you wanted as

a role model for this game. You talk about his charity work, I mean that it's incomparable um and also just from a football aspect, he's still contributing to the game, to the sport and to this organization. Look at the work he does in the all season with Michael Parsons for example. Yeah, but Michael Parson has become a better pass Rusher, so just just all around phenomenal guy and

DeMarcus where as well as Darren Woodson. And to your point again, we can't speak highly enough of either of those guys, Um, but when it comes to Darren Woodson, you're starting to feel the Drew Pearson esk vibe around Darren Woodson when it comes to the Pro Football Hall of Fame where it's like, why is this taking so long? Yeah,

it wants to take him so long. So hopefully you know, Woody, if you're listening, hopefully this push between your fans and your resume and in the organization and just the league as a whole, Hopefully this is the year for you, because no one's more deserving. Hey, Biemer, you got to spend a lot of time with both of those guys, and I know you you know both d Ware and Darren Woodson quite well. Do you have any stories or any thoughts on on both those guys getting in and

having a shot to get in as a finalist? More from probably well both of them really, I've I've spent a lot of time with Yeah, I was, I was really close to Um where kind of early on in his career. UM we took a couple vacations together. Nothing I can say on that. We had one of those stories in Mexico I got. I got to hear him later though. Yeah, just funny stories. But I think my biggest thing about Darren Woodson is is when I came to the league. I started with the Cowboys in nineteen

ninety nine. It's my first year. I was an intern, you know, you know, fresh out college and and I mean this guy was back I mean ninety nine. He's huge, he's you know, captain, huge player. And the one thing you always remember I always remember about him is when he first met you, he asked your name and he never forgot it. Yeah, you know, it's not like hey, dude, what's up, what's up? Man? You know, like he was always like, what's up, Chris, and how you doing? You know,

That's how he is. He's very he's very very genuine. Um is such a great dude. Yeah yeah, really, well say yeah he does that now he does that to everybody. If he's interacted with you in the building, he knows him or outside of the building, he knows your Here's the question, is he going in as a Cowboy or Bronco? Where? Where? Uh? Cowboy and I don't even think it's close. I don't. I agree. I believe he built his Hall of Fame

career as a cowboy. He wanted to ring as a Bronchi, all right, he put the exclamation point when it in Denver, but without what he achieved in in Dallas. But in the NFL, you don't go in as as team. Yeah, it's not like it's not like Cooperstown where you have the hat to pick a hat. Yeah, so it'll have both on his on his plaque underneath that's a Hall of Fame. But yeah, most of the Arizona two years on there. That's why he retired as a cowboy. That's

why he can't make him return. Yeah he did one day. Contra, Yeah he did. All right, let's step aside. When we come back. What is the offensive line going to look like this week? Is there a possibility of maybe Matt farneyak filling in for Tyler Beiottish? And did we like the way that the coaching staff adjusted things when Beotis went down against Tennessee. We're gonna preview the Cowboys offense and the Washington Commanders deep fence right after this with

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Thursday night football last week against the Tennessee Titans. It's not as what we've fared initially is like a hammy or a thigh or an acl It's a high ankle sprain. He's out, possibly until or most likely until the playoffs, could be longer, who knows, depending on the severity of the high ankle sprain. However, they made an adjustment that I don't think everybody really anticipated, but it also made a lot of sense. Was Connor McGovern went from left

guard to center. Tyler Bottish or Tyler Smith rather slid from left tackle to left guard, and then Jason Peters was your left guard. They kept the right side the same and they just slid both McGovern and Tyler Smith down into the interior. Isaiah, when you looked at that move and what they were able to do after that move,

were you okay with it? And is that something that you can anticipate this Cowboys team doing Heading into Week eighteen against Washington, they're gonna be playing musical chairs again. You know. Coach Fieldman's back on the hot seat in terms of all eyes on him trying to figure out exactly what he's going to do with that front. The good news is he has options. You know, he's had, He has viable options. That's the main thing we've seen him have to deal with this in recent years. We

know that he's capable of doing it. So I don't think there's any question marks in terms of whether or not it could be pulled off. It's just some now a matter of wait and see. You know what the line ups gonna look like. You know, we've talked about this before. Tyler Biad has got hurt. We're trying to figure out where it's gonna be. Who was that Smith tie run. He's gonna be Tim, who's gonna be like, we're all all the tie train trying to figure out what was gonna go on. So just add another one

to it is add another tie into the into the mix. So, uh, you know, going back and watching the last game, you know, Farniak he actually had a pretty um engaged role in this in the game against Washington last time, but he was just mainly playing fullback. So I think that you will probably see him based upon Coach's comments yesterday in his press conference, I can imagine that he'll be in there um is snapping the ball a few times, if

not the whole time. Yeah, I think that's it's very possible that they handled this similarly to how they did with Toronto Smith and not using the full twenty one

day window. It sounds to me as if Varniyak has progressed to the point where there is a good chance that he could be on the field so this Sunday against the Washington Commanders, so the way the Cowboy If so, then the way the Cowboys played that injury and managed the roster numbers wise, so that if they were to lose someone like Tyler Biadis to be able to look at Fanniyak and say, okay, you've been looking good. You ready for this, and him to be physically ready. That

would be just masterclass roster management from the Cowboys. So if Faraniyak is there, obviously you're still gonna have to put him on a rep count because you gotta ramp him up. You're not going to throw him in there for one hundred percent of the snaps considering how much time he's missed the season with that injury, because a lot of people thought his injury was going to be season ending. So here he is just ahead of the playoffs, likely returning, and if that happens, then you just shift

Connor McGovern and Tyler Smith back to the left. Connor McGovern goes back to left guard, Tyler Smith goes to left tackle, Jason Peters falls back to swing tackle duties. And obviously we know the right side of the line is already set with Zach Martin and Toron Smith. But you're still, as his point, you're going to have to play some kind of musical chairs because, like I said,

you're going to have to ramp Forni Yak up. If he's available, So in those times when you pull him, you're going to see the same rotation you saw on the back end of the Titans game when Beotist went down. Yeah, gosh, you look back at and it's a dangerous for it to have to do this against Yeah, let's I mean, let's take a look back to early twenty twenty one. So right at the beginning of twenty twenty one, six guys were in the conversation of being on that offensive line.

Five of those six guys are either no longer on the team or playing in a different spot now. The only guy that's been the same has been Zach Martin. Everybody else is either playing in a completely different spot or they're no longer on the team. And the six guys included Lyle Collins, who's gone and Connor Williams gone. Five of the six guys who started this season as well, that we're in that station or four of the six

guys are playing different positions at the moment. And that's everybody except for Zach Martin and then Jason Peters, who wasn't even on the roster at the start of the season, but he was expected to come in and be your swing tackles, so that's kind of what he's doing now. Is the offensive line the biggest question mark on this offense heading into the playoffs because your wide receivers at least you're getting Ceedee Lamb getting off and running, and

he's been phenomenal lately. But you're getting some production sprinkled in there from the other guys. You're getting some sprinkled production from your tight ends. Is it offensive line that's the biggest worry or is there no? Okay, no? And I think I know where you're headed with this. Yeah, you know exactly where I'm going with this. It's the person who's been throwing the ball to the other team.

If we have enough offensive linement, regardless of what position they decided to be playing that particular day, we have the guys that can do it. And I have all of the commnence in the boat of compidence in the world and Philpin's ability to put together a productive offensive line. And when you said hot seed earlier, you didn't mean no, no, not not in a bad way. I'm just seeing I meaning all eyes on him. He's in a glass bowl again,

right like everybody is all eyes around him. Is magnified what he decides to do because he's done this for literally for two or straight years, shuffling guys around on the offensive line, and that's not easy to do. He just has more guys to do it with this time around, So you should feel more confident in his ability to put together something that's actually productive this year. So that should not be your point of concern. It needs to be on the turnovers. We cannot We've talked about the

yesterday way. You can't keep turning the ball over. You just can't do it, especially going to the playoffs. The teams that you're gonna be playing are just happened to be the best teams in the league. Right You're playing professional athletes who are the best in the world. You're playing really really good teams collectively, and now you're gonna be playing the best teams in the league. Right, So you can't give teams more opportunities. We talked about that

as well, so that has to be sure. I'm not concerned. I am concerning about the offensive line in regards to the running game against this particular defensive front, because this defensive front is complete dogs and they dominated against us last time. We played them, and they dominate pretty much most of the teams that they play because they have Alan, they have dog on, sweat pain pain. Oh and by the way, they got that other cat back now who

just having to be our first chase young. So they have their whole ensemble, their whole Avenger squad is right there sitting there waiting for you. So this is not the week that you want to be shuffling things around, but you are capable of handling it. It's just gonna be interesting to see how well they play together, because we know that the officer line works in continuity, right like you have to be hip to hip, you gotta

be engaged, be on the same page, work together. And these guys that are gonna be playing together, particularly this week, have not done so. And that's that's my main thing. It's this continuity. But the good news is is that the Cowboys do expect Tyler Beads to be back on

the field at the start of the playoffs. And you know, I know everyone's saying with high ankle spraining, high kles praying, I get it, but not all high ankle sprains are the same, similar in severity, and to the Cowboys point, it's not the first one that he suffered, so that does, in fact make it a little bit easier to know how to come back from it, played through it sooner.

So I would say I have a concern about the offensive line from a continuity standpoint for Week eighteen only as long as Tyler Biadis is back in the mix for Super Wild Car weekend, assuming the Cowboys don't get a buy because they still have a shot at it, but because I think they're offensive line that they've mostly played with for twenty twenty two, save to Ron Smith coming back later in the season and going to right tackle after the loss of Terran Steel, for the most part,

they'll be fine there, more than fine there for the playoffs Week eighteen, though you're going against a stable of horses. You've shifted guys over to the right. Conor mcgoverned. You know he's taken some reps at center, but last season he took some reps at center, and there were a couple of arrant snaps and a couple issues there. And you're gonna try to work Farniyak in if Farniyak is able to be at debated and put into this game.

So you got some question marks there as far as who's going to play where and continuity was and this isn't the defensive line that you want to have to do that against. But if you're asking me, am I worried about it for the playoffs? No, I'm not worried about it for the playoffs. And this is the first time that Dak has seen this Washington front this year. Of course, Cooper Rush played against them the first time around.

In the games that Dak has played this season, there have only been two out of the eleven where he has not thrown an interception, two out of the eleven that he has not done that with And you really look at the last when it's a six games two one two, two one two. Those are the last six games, two interceptions, one interceptions two again and then two one

two again. Those are the last six. So this is the question everybody's got to answer because it's the biggest problem on that offense, even with an offensive line that's playing musical chairs in front of you. How do you fix it? Where do you go? Where do you start? You talked about decision making on Tuesday. Where do you roll from there? Is it just decision making? Yours? Or more to it, a lot of his decision making. Some

of it is yeah, decision making an execution. I honestly, and obviously you know, I watch a good amount of film. I think that a large part of Dack's issues with the turnovers in terms of the interceptions this year are in part to lack of identification, either either the lack of identification of coverage or the disregard of the coverage and continue to try to force the ball where it shouldn't go. It's one of those two. We've seen tip balls, we've seen drop balls, We've seen some of those things

that happen with every quarterback. Kay, those you don't hold against him, But some of these other ones. When I watched the film, I'm like, either he didn't acknowledge, he didn't identify and acknowledge what that defense was doing, or he just said, I understand what they're doing, and I have so much finance and my abilities and so much confident in my guy's abilities that they're gonna make the play anyway. Either way, it turns out bad, so he's

gonna have to go back and make some adjustments. Otherwise you're gonna continue to see these these issues compound, and if those issues compound in the playoffs, we're gonna be sitting here next year wrapping it up. So we'll go back to one one show a week. My thought is this,

and we we touched on it yesterday. Um, what percentage of Dak's interceptions are accountable to Dak and what percentage of the interceptions are accountable to the receivers the targets, And just going off of memory, I figured it was around forty percent. We confirmed it was around thirty five thirty five. There's five of the fourteen and I went back and charted it, and there was one that's kind of a gray area, but I think it was a bad read back. Fair enough, let's say we delete those

five as far as accountable to Dack. That leaves him with nine nine picks. That's still still an issue. That's still an issue, and it needs to be cleaned up. But it does put it in perspective to say, if you take away five of those interceptions, now look at it from the context of each one of those interceptions and what it did momentum wise at the particular part of that respective game. Were the Cowboys in a position

to put that particular team away. But then the ball goes off of Hendershot's hands, or the ball goes off of Noah Brown's hands on a you know, overtime drive, and you're moving against their defense, and it ends the game right then and there. So all interceptions aren't equal. And I say that to say, of those five interceptions, several of them helped either dictate the game or keep the game way closer than the needs of So delete

those and the Cowboys have the number one seed. And even if they have the number one seed at this moment as we're talking about it, let's say that still leaves Dak with nine interceptions that are one hundred percent accountable to him, we would still be sitting here saying you should clean that up. So I agree with that you should still clean that up. But I think it's it's a perspective thing. You can't continue to give the

ball away regardless of who is accountable for. It doesn't matter if if Ceede Lamb didn't carry, didn't go across the face of the safety because you trusted him to do so he didn't do. So that's a miscommunication between QB and wide receiver one. Okay, right, but it can't happen in the playoffs, is what we're saying. So keep perspective, keep the context. Five of the fourteen belonged to his targets,

but that still leaves nine belonging to Dak. So his targets need to be more focused and keyed in and making sure that you get the ball in your hands. And of course you're you're planning to catch the ball. That's always the plan. But if for whatever reason, that goes awry in the millisecond that it hits you, don't tip it up, tip drills, turning the interceptions like get get the ball to the ground right, better yet better still, get it in your hands, get it, yeah, get it

to the receiver and then hands. But I think I love I love what Ceedee Lamb said in this regard a couple of weeks ago. He said, obviously, plan number one is to get the ball in your hands, to grab the ball, to catch the ball. That's why he's throwing the ball to you in the first place, in the instant. In the instance that it doesn't happen or it comes off of your hands or bobbles or whatever and you just can't reel it in, don't juggle it and keep it in the air, because that's what defensive

backs are thirsty four. So that's all I'm saying. Job number one is to catch the ball. But if whatever reason that goes awry, don't put the church some money in the air. And going going back to to Dak though here is but nine are still accountable to day. Nine are accountable to Dak. And honestly, if it were nine interceptions, you would be you would be okay through an eighteen game season, right, feel good? That's where I was going. Yeah, this is through eleven games that we're

talking about this level of interceptions there. I mean, this is, for instance, set through seventeen games. Last year, the interception leaders were Trevor Lawrence and Matthew Stafford with seventeen through seventeen games, so that's one per game. Dak is throwing fourteen and eleven games accountable to him through eleven games, so nearly one per game. I'm a big believer in the touchdown to interception ratio because it shows you what you're able to do. Last year, Dak was off the

charts thirty seven and ten. Are you kidding me? That's outstanding? One of the best in the league. The league leaders in touchdowns, Let's say Matthew staffordtique still through seventeen interceptions, so one per game. Justin Herbert he threw thirty eight touchdowns, fifteen interceptions, thirty six for Josh Allen touchdowns fifteen interceptions. Some of the guys that are comparatable though to what Dak is doing this year, Taylor Heineke twenty interceptions, I mean,

twenty touchdowns, fifteen interceptions. Derek Carr twenty three touchdowns, fourteen interceptions through seventeen games. Again, these are full game, full seasons, and Dak has played in eleven games. Ryan Tannehill twenty one touchdowns, fourteen interceptions, which is almost exactly the touchdown the interception ratio that Dak has right now. Mac jonesy

two touchdowns, thirteen interceptions. Those are four guys that I just name that are either in a quarterback competition or will not be quarterable, or are not quarterbacking at all in their respective team. And I'm not saying bench Dak Prescott, that is not what I'm saying you're speaking. I'm saying that statistically lines up with what has been happening there.

Their teams aren't as good as what Dak is working with right now, Dak is still able to win despite some of these turnovers in the regular season that will not continue into the playoffs. I agree. And the good news is he can correct all this. Yeah, he absolutely can. He's good enough to correct. It's the most easily fixable item. Yeah, it are the interceptions between the receivers in the in

the quarterback, it's the most easily corrected. Receivers catch the ball when it's thrown to you, Dak, make sure you're making better decisions in tight windows and things like that. It's the most easily correctable. And in fantastic stat with the with his numbers last year, and that kind of prompted me to kind of glance and see what's this

touchdown percentage? And for those that don't know, and this is via Pro Football Reference, the touchdown percentage is percentage of touchdowns throwing when attempting to pass with a minimum of fourteen attempts. Dak Prescott's stellar season last year thirty seven touchdowns to only ten interceptions. Yes, he has twenty two touchdowns to fourteen interceptions in his eleven games played, but he's matching his touchdown percentage career high from last

year at six point two. It's literally the same. So what's the interception, Well, the interception percentages, it's a lot higher. I'm not no, I'm not saying that to discount what you're saying. Sure, I'm saying that to say it's it's to show you just how much more interesting this conversation is, because it's not a different Dak Prescott. No, it's not. It's just the luck. It's just not it balls not bouncing his favor like we disagree, and seeking the fumbles,

and I don't think it's all luck. Though there are a lot of interceptions he's given away, and to say nine and to counter in eleven games, it's a lot through ten all of last year. But even even on the five that we're trying to say that are disregarded because the receiver vers bobbled it or didn't care. Just saying what I'm saying, like, there's elements of those that he has to take responsibility of as well as a quarterback.

You can take Dak out the picture. Even when the ball hits the receiver's hands, it doesn't mean that your job was done right just simply because you got it. There, there's velocity, there's location, there's there's scenarios, whether you know whether or not somebody was on them or whether or not there there's there's a defender coming at them. Like, there's a whole lot of different other elements that the quarterback has to take a responsibility for it that we

would have to go back and analyze. Let's take let's take the Peyton Hinder shot one for example. That was right in his chest. How's that on? However, that's not that's it was see, but that was it was on, it was on his back shoulder. It wasn't a perfect throw. Yeah, absolutely, it was definitely not a perfect throw. We do we need to quote Michael. I don't even what did Michael say. What did he say? Quote his days from Troy in playing with Troy Aikman. He said, it's not Troy's job

to throw me open. His Troy's job to get the ball in a catchable radius, and it's my job to catch the ball. Absolutely. I don't disagree with that, but the reality is, Okay, ask it's the NFL. You throw people open. It's a saying and it's cliche for a reason. Brett farve. You to throw the ball and get the ball to people, right, But he's a break fingers too, So at a certain point you have to be you

have to throw a catchable ball, right. So I mean, I mean, I mean, there's a lot of So that's why I don't just look at stats, right, they don't tell the whole picture. But at the same time, Dak is not making the same decisions he was making last year. And I think that he showed a kink in his armor because now teams are starting to really disguise their coverages. And the reason why he threw an interception last week one of the two interceptions second because they did an

invert cover two. He didn't either again, he either didn't recognize what it was or he just had that much faith in Dalton show us that he was going to get open one or the two. Either way, it's resulting in bad things for the Cowboys. Has to get there. There are interceptions in that tally of nine that we're talking about nine and eleven games that are just inexcusable. Josh Swift pick six, yeah bad. A lot of them that were that were in crucial points in the game.

Like you talked about earlier. Not all interceptions are weighed the same, but I would say I would do that seven of the nine that have been thrown by Dak that have been on him have been in really tough situations, right, really tough situation and you have to you have to pull the trigger at times. And this is why I don't have a I have a problem with like the Josh Sweat interception, and I have a problem with Dak's second interception against the Titans and not necessarily seeing the

coverage there. But there are also times where he'll throw the interception and you look at he read the coverage and he was really trying to frozen rope that thing in there, and you're just like, okay, well, you can't have it both ways. Because when Cooper Rush was quarterbacking, right, there were times where I wanted Cooper Rush to pull that trigger, like I see it, that small window it

was there. You should have pulled it, but you didn't because you're the backup quarterback and you don't want to be that guy, right, right. So, but when you have QB one in there, you're paying him to be able to take those risks and you trust that the reward will be much more bountiful over the course of a season than the risk and the penalties will be. And

that continues to be the case for Dak Prescott. But that's not that doesn't make the second part of this argument untrue, which is the level of play in the playoffs is much higher, the margin of error is much smaller. You can't turn the ball over the Josh Swint interception that could lose you a game in the playoffs, no doubt. But we I don't want to, for lack of a better way to put it, I don't want to neuter

Dak when it comes to run the office. There are certain things you need to be river boat on when you see it. If you feel it's there and it's the right receiver, and it's the right receiver, and it's the right receiver, hint, you fire that thing in there. If it's not quote unquote the right receiver. Second guess it, take the first down, or if you if you if the pressure is there, to take the sack, live to

fight another day. That's just don't do too much like the interception where he was trying to target shots when he should have probably either just ran for two yards or taken the sack and live to fight another day. Those can't have We were nobody in here is saying that that Dak needs to be with your term neoter. We don't. We don't need that happening. I want Dak to have that high risk, high reward mentality. But in the past, his high reward has come with a low risks,

and that hasn't happened this year. It's been more even as opposed to what we've seen in the past. That's why he's been one of the best in the league. He's had the stats, he's had the rewards, but he hasn't turned the football over. If you're gonna win in the playoffs, you need Dad to be at one hundred percent point. Well, let's let's hit it on the other side of the break because we're already running really long.

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was a great point. Do you think that with the departure of Amari Cooper and prior to t Y Hilton getting in and you know you had Ceedee Lamb that was starting to ramp up when Deck returned or a couple of games after Deck return do you think Deck because the nine interceptions he's accountable for, do you think that's a product of him forcing the ball? Yes, trying to do more than he necessarily has. Yes, yes, Why it's just it's apparent he's forcing the ball out of

the fourteen interceptions t row Ball. Yeah, the fourteen interceptions, there's easily at least especially in the first part of the season, when he easily five interceptions that should have taken place easily that were like you could have been more interceptions, could have been a higher Oh my god, I mean I'm talking about like how did he not catch that interceptions? Right? So, yes, he's forcing the ball. He admitted it so people could come at me all

they want to. He admitted it. What did he say early on, I'm overly I'm a little I might be overly confident, he said it. I'm not creating this is this Dack's words, all right. So he has to just has to pull back on that. Just stop. It's not necessary for you to win games. I think you're making those throws. That's not necessary for the Dallas Cowboys to win ball game. So if it's not necessary, then don't do it as frequently, because the more frequently you do it,

the greater chance of it happening. Is you know what I'm saying. There's no different than somebody riding a motorcycle. The more you ride a motorcycle, the greater chances you increase of getting into an accident. Pull back, what do you think laying he was playing hero ball? Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, And I don't think that's changed, necessarily changed. I think he continues to play hero ball a little bit. He's good enough to do that. Yes, he is very good. He is a great quarterback in

this league right now. He is one of the top. But when he makes decisions that are putting his team into situations where it's putting your defense against the wall, and you're putting your receivers in a tough situation, and you're trying to overestimate the talent that you have arm wise to fit it into a whole twenty yards down the field or in the middle of the field, when there's multiple guys that you're going to have to weave

through to get it there. That's the type of decision making Dak Prescott has not done in the past and he's doing this year. That's where there's a difference because the numbers show it all the way through. The film shows it all the way through. This dude is talented. This dude is good enough to take you to the Promised Land. However, he can't do it all by himself. He's got to allow his team around him to find a way to get the job done. Because that's what happens.

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