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and now take sole possession of first place in the terrible NFC East.
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And according to our analytics, they have close to a 60% chance toe walk away division champions.
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So now let's sit back and take a look at the division in its entirety.
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And the biggest issue the Dallas Cowboys have had has been turnovers.
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They keep turning the football over.
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But Rob Ninkovich said that he knows what Bill Belichick would do to solve that problem immediately.
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Rob, the floor is yours.
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So Bill Belichick, after one fumble, would have walked over to the training staff, grabbed a pair of scissors and walked over to Zeke and cut off his sleeves.
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Because if you hold the football in your arm, if you hold the ball like this and you have a sleeve on, you know how easy it is to knock that out, you have no grip right here.
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If you're running back or receiver, you don't wear sleeves that Zatz like just you know that Rule number one don't wear sleeves because ball security is your number one rule.
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As a running back, secure the football.
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The fate of the team is in your hands Bill Belichick would have before he went even out on that field would have said, Take off those sleeves.
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What are you doing?
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After the first bumble, he would have walked over and cut him off.
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After the second, I was yelling at the television, take his sleeves off, take his sleeves off.
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If I was a defender going to get the running back, if it was cold outside and had sleeves on, take the ball off him.
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Punch you strip it out.
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You can't hold onto the ball with sleeves.
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What do you think our say?
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No, that's exactly right.
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That's the first thing I said when I was asked.
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This question on my first call for the Monday's show was, Why is he wearing sleeves on so many different teams?
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The running backs aren't allowed to wear sleeves.
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The running backs or anyone that carries the ball can't wear seeds because Rob's exactly right.
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You can punch the ball out, the ball slips.
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It's easier to pull and tug on it and forced fumbles.
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What I was really expecting Rob to say was after the first fumble he was going to cut the sleeves off.
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Then, after the second one, he'd cut his arms off like that's the type of build better ships, stories E was expecting because you know what?
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When Mike McCarthy put Pollard in, that was like cutting off Ezekiel Elliott's arms.
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That was saying you, you know what?
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You can't do this anymore.
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But what this team is experiencing is that same thing that new addition was experiencing when they fired Bobby Brown.
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Bobby Brown is gone.
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Your charismatic leader is gone.
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Can Johnny Gill step up and do the job?
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Ken Bell would build the vote, do what they need to do.
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And the backup singers weren't doing what they need to do on Monday.
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And the leader of that group is Ezekiel Elliott.
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So if he's fumbling and he's now taking accountability for it, you got to come out and play better this week, and that better be without sleeves underneath your shoulder pads.
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Speaking of taking accountability, Bart Scott, I've not had you here this entire weekend.
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It's been a lot of talk about the anonymous sources and the Cowboys locker room, and their defense has been so bad.
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I'm just curious to hear what your thoughts have been on that I mean, whenever we would have these situation in Baltimore, the anonymous sources, we would call that I smell diesel fuel because that means that somebody is back in the bus over somebody else.
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And in this case, it was Mike McCarthy and it was Mike Nolan.
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And I think, Listen, that's cowardice, right?
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First of all, if you have something to say and I think it was a lot of coded language when you heard Mike McCarthy said, Come talk to me and talk to me as a man because we're grown up now.
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This isn't this isn't high school.
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This is in college.
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This is professional football and men have conversations, tough conversations with each other.
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I don't care if it's my culture.
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Not if I had an issue of what was going on with Mike Nolan or what was going on with what we're running.
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Listen, it was really easy to be a front running a front runner when you know Dak Prescott was putting up 500 yards.
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But now that you know the office he could coach, then, right?
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Listen, every time you have a new coach, and I'm sure when Tomlin came in, you know Ryan had to deal with as well.
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I had it with hardball.
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You're always gonna hit a tough spot, right?
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But you know, adversity doesn't define character, it reveals it.
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And this cowboy's revealed what type of character they have.
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They have a lot of front running cowardice football players, and they listen.
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They're not smart, right?
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So you talk about Mike Nolan.
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I've been around Mike Nolan, and one thing I know about Mike Nolan is he's always prepared, overly prepared.
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He's the defense coordinator responsible for turning the Ravens into a 34 defense, so he has to answer to the test.
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But he doesn't have enough players with football acumen to be able to take what he's teaching and be able to apply it on the football field.
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We may have to come back to that one because I have other things I need to get to, but that is a very I could see the look on our seas face.
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That is an interesting thought.
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