WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: How They Won 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:19.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.720 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.040 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:32.440 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.720 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.040 It is Monday, September twentieth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.360 episode number twenty four. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.040 The Break. We're life from the SWUBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.720 the Star and we get to rehash the very first 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.160 Cowboys win of the season. Cowboys win twenty seventeen to 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:01.000 the LA Chargers at a really great stadium and probably 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.760 even more up a great stadium for the Cowboys. When 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.440 you when you look at that stadium, Nick I was 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.479 mentioning to you, I thought it looked like an AT 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.760 and T Stadium two point zero because there were so 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.600 many things about it that reminded me of AT and 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.680 T stadium. But the other part that reminding me of 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.759 AT and T stadiums. There are a lot of Cowboys 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.679 fans there, a ton of Cowboys fans Theah. Yeah, there's 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.399 a reason Jerry Jones gets so excited about LA and 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.840 playing on the West Coast. He knows, he knows who's 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.760 out there. Yeah, I mean, there is no there's no 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.200 mistaking the fact that the Cowboys spend every summer in 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.480 California because that bills over time. That justs fans. Imagine 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.680 the behind the scenes conversations where here he's like, yeah, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.360 we need teams in LA. We need to showcase this place, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.360 and I'll dominate the venue every time we come. It's 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.120 gonna be awesome. Nick, you actually had an interesting point 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.920 you were making about the about the on the radio 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.560 this morning. You were making about the crowd. Well, I thought, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.000 you know, at first, I thought, man, they didn't NFL 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.320 didn't do them any favors, the Chargers by putting, you know, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.760 the how Boys for their first game with fans. But 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.520 you know, really, when you when you think about it, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.800 and I also kind of heard through the Grape Bunk, 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.440 you know, they don't didn't sell all their suits and 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.120 they had a heart. They're having a hard time. We 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.720 know that where they have a hard time with their 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.200 with their fan base, just generating fans. And by the way, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.400 they're battling another team team, a team that's been in 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.720 LA for you know, for years, back in the you know, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.880 back in the day, and so uh, you know it's like, well, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.920 maybe maybe they did it on purpose, you know, because 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.360 you think you can take this big global picture and 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.639 it's like a lot of blue, you know, silver, a 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.560 lot of light blue all that. But it's gonna look 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.320 it's gonna look blend in, it's gonna look great, it's 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.320 gonna full and all that. I mean, imagine if they 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.720 put the Chiefs in there for for you know, week 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.000 you know, week two, But yeah, why is all this 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:51.240 red in there? So um, it's just I just thought, well, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.400 maybe you know that that maybe they did that on purpose, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.080 you know, then to have a great venue there, and 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.200 it was it was a great atmosphere you're in there 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.040 listening to it. It was it was like a bowl game. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.919 To me. It was just fifty fifty, sixty forty, whatever 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.440 it is. I think the Cowboys had more fans really, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.880 and they were definitely louder if there wasn't. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.560 it was one of those games where you look at 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.680 it and as you're as you're watching the game, you 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.320 can't really get we couldn't get a real appreciation for 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.840 just how loud the crowd was, because obviously in the 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.079 press box it's a little walled off. But there were 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.240 moments that you could hear go let's go Cowboys, Let's 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.679 go Cowboys. And so it very much was a game 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.560 that felt like it was a little bit of a 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.880 home advantage for the Cowboys. Absolutely. I mean you should 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.080 have expected it. I did my writing from the hotel 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.040 bar last night. I met a guy. Yeah that's not 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:41.840 you do some writing, That's what I'm talking. Yeah. I 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.280 like the energy, you know, I like having people around. Um. Anyway, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.040 I met a shout out to Dallas from Baker's Field. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.800 He bought Dallas from Bakers. He bought season tickets. Oh no, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.000 just for that game. Charger season. Wait's Charger season. Wow, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.120 that's commitment. Rights hold off the rest of them and 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.840 made a nice profit and still got to go to 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.800 there you go. I was like, that's dedication and say, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.000 way to go, buddy. You're gonna get emails for the 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.400 rest of your life. That's okay. The Cowboys will be 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.440 back in eight years, you know, so uh yeah, no, 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.640 well maybe sooner now that they play more games. So 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.719 that and also, you know, that's a that's a really 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.039 good preseason game, you know, because I mean it's good 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.200 to go down to La from from Oxnard. But you 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.360 don't always want to play the Rams because you're gonna 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.920 sometimes play them in the regular season. But I mean 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.599 I could see them trying to play the Chargers in 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.039 preseason on that first game, you know, or Vegas or 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.520 you know, something like that. I feel like we're burying 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.400 the lead here. Let's talk about the game, all right, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.800 So let's do this. I want to start with this. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.239 I want you used to give me one big picture, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.240 uh story of the game. If you're gonna remember week 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.680 two of twenty twenty one, what is that memory point? 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.600 What is that one thing that you'll remember from this game? 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.880 I'll start with you day Two things that kind of 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.240 go hand in hand. One, I can't I've lost track 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.080 over the years of the number of times that I've 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.640 sat in the bowels of a stadium after the Cowboys 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.400 lost and they just they just shot themselves in the 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.000 foot too many times, like they shouldn't have lost this game, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.320 and they did, and it's their own fault. And that's 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.080 how the Chargers felt yesterday and they should. I mean, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.839 that's and it was. So it was bizarre, but in 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.039 a weird way encouraging that the Cowboys were. On the 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.640 other hand of that, it's like, you're not always going 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.040 to have a perfect game, you're not always going to 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.280 just outplay the opponent. But if you're more disciplined and cleaner, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.520 less penalties, don't have a little bit cleaner. Yeah, because 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.040 the Cowboys did not play like a great game, but 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.039 they were. They didn't have two touchdowns taken away because 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.919 of miscus at the snap, and that stuff matter, and 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.640 so it was surreal for the Cowboys to be the 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.640 quote unquote cleaner team that kind of snuck out with 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.240 a win. The same thing. We talk about complimentary football 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.000 to the point that I don't think we even know 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.120 what it means anymore. But this was that. This was 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.960 this was the team lifting itself up, because the formula 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.360 for Cowboy wins over the last three years has just 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.320 been if the offense is clicking and scoring points, they 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:06.840 can do enough to get by. It was the first 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.800 time I believe since the wildcard game win against Seattle 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.360 that they've won a game when they didn't score thirty points. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.520 They haven't been they haven't been able to do it. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.800 That's amazing. They haven't been able to do it. And 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.000 so for you know, it wasn't an amazing DAK game. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.159 The offense was not lighting up the scoreboard, special teams 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.680 was sloppy. A lot of it was sloppy. And they 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.080 managed to win a very like SEC type of score 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.120 twenty seventeen, not super high flying like maybe we thought, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.880 and they still eaked it out. And that's that's impressive 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.920 because that you gotta win those clunky games because they're 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.839 not You're not always going to have your best efforts. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.080 So that's important and it felt big to me. But 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.040 I thought, you know, we asked Dan Quinn to figure 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.880 it out, that's what we said to do. I mean, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.000 you know, you don't know who your pass rushers are. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.400 Both of them are are out, the both starters are out. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.120 Figure out how to how to get these guys involved 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.000 in in you know he did. Um, I'm not gonna 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.159 sit here and tell you after after basically complaining about 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.039 it for you know, in the first half and third 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.360 quarter that I thought it was a bad move. With Parsons, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.280 it's hard to come back now. Nick was killing me. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.760 I didn't like it, no, no, at all, and I thought, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.920 you know, I thought they were wasting Parsons. I thought 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.360 they were, and they did for the first half they did. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.560 I mean, he got nineteen passes and he rushed at 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.680 nineteen times and got two rushes. I thought they were 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.320 wasting him. He got better. They also realized, don't mess 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.560 with Rashawn Slater like that ain't happened, and come over 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.680 this side and also the side that that that Herbert 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.880 can see, and then you know he can't roll the 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.440 way he wants to roll. So Parsons did a nice 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.320 job of figuring it out. And you gotta give hey, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.960 I'm gonna give Jalen Smiths some credit. I thought he 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.840 played a really good game for for having to that's 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.480 not his thing to go cover the Austin Ekeler and 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.560 all that, and he did a pretty good job in 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.200 that game, led the team and tackles. I would have 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.840 flipped it my self. I would have rushed somebody else 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.640 and let Parsons be the guy. But I mean, there's 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.360 some people right now they're thinking that he's never going 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.520 to move back, and those people I think are solely mistaken. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.160 There's no way that he's gonna be playing defensive end 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.880 for this team long term. I don't think, Man, well, 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.200 and it's weird too because I don't even I don't 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.200 even think that he played defensive end, you know, like 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.480 he was a pass rush specialist, Like he didn't put 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.600 his hand in the dirt. He had some nice plays 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.160 against the run. Wait he did. There were there were 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.520 some times when he was literally lined up as a 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.080 hand in the dirt defensive and he was there too 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.679 as a pass rush specialist. It just it's not the 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.280 same as watching DeMarcus Lawrence through his thing, in my 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.480 opinion at least, like they were just like, all right, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.560 you know how you know enough moves to get yourself 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.360 through the game. You're super athletic. Just get out there 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.800 and get after him and run at him more. That's 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.320 what I was at question. That's my point is like 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.240 as amazing as he was, like, he is not this 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.720 like well rounded defensive end. He's going to hold up 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.720 the way that somebody like DeMarcus Lawrence would Eckler and 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.160 the way that they play on offense. I think, I mean, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.520 that's that's what figuring it out is. It's like we 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.920 can do this against the Chargers, maybe not against other 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.360 teams because they're gonna, you know, be played more power 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.560 football at him, but they they figured it out, and 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.920 you know, I thought, I thought that series was changed 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.800 the whole game when he when he got that quote sack, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.800 which if I'm a Charger fanom absolutely livid and pissed 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.360 off about that call because that that call lost the 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.040 game for him. The keeping Herbert upright, saying that his 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.760 momentum stopped and they called a sack. I thought that 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.880 was a terrible call, and it worked for the Cowboys 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.600 because I don't they don't do that to other people. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.920 They don't do that to to Mahomes, they don't do 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.880 that to Lamar Jackson. They don't do that to Dak 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.960 You know, let Herbert be an athlete and he's up 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.040 there fending him off and throws it that it's an 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.240 incomplete pass and they don't have the in the grass rule. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.439 Now I thought that rule, but they can't believe that call. Yeah, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.720 I don't disagree with you, but I will say it's nice. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.480 It's nice that the way they go, they go out 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.320 of their way to protect the quarterback, and it's nice 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.720 to see it. Benefit of defense once, because they make 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.880 it so hard to do your job as a defender, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.680 especially getting after the quarterback. Well, and you know my complaint. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.640 I've complained about it for years. In no other place 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.320 in football or in life can you hit anyone in 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.720 the face and it be okay unless you have a 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:22.920 ball in your hand. If you have a ball in 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.640 your hand and Michael Parsons comes up and you can 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.920 hit him in the faith, no big deal, that's fine. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.400 So he was doing that and all that, So it 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.640 was kind of like, well, that's the Colvin. The point 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.920 I was gonna make before we got into the semantics 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.440 of what he was doing is I don't know how 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:41.000 you don't want that available to you at least some 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.360 of the time from here on out, because and I 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.520 hear you, Jalen Smith's not closing on Justin Herbert like that. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.560 That's one of the most amazing things I've seen on 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.080 a football field. You're right about memory the way like 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.520 he was twelve yards away from Herbert and in the 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.720 blink of an eye, you know you're right he was on. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.560 I can't say enough about how incredible I thought that was, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.960 Like we say, shot out of a cannon. All the time, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.760 it was maybe more impressive than that. And I'm so, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.920 I'm just like, if he can do that against an 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.720 athlete like Herbert, he could really come in handy against 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.200 a less mobile quarter, right. But what my point was, 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.600 in the first half, there was a lot of just 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:20.760 going up there and you know, there was a lot 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.440 of family reunion hugging. Style was just like hey, especially, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.160 and that's it. And I'm not I'm not blind. I 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.360 could do this. He ain't. He ain't Von Miller and 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.320 I you know, Storm Norton was what we thought Terrence 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.160 Steele might be in this game. I mean, he was 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.960 pushed around. He's gonna have nightmares about Mica for weeks 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.240 um and it's Lane Johnson next week. Have a feeling 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.920 it'll be a little bit of a different story. So yeah, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.000 I'm not. He ain't Lawrence Taylor yet, Randy, You'll be back. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.679 The way I look at all that is, Look, this 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.560 is a guy that that found out on Thursday. What 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.240 right he say press come Thursday? He founds out in 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.160 his second NFL start, he is actually going to be 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.880 playing a different position. And I think when you put 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.600 it in that context, like I think he played extremely 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.560 well at that position. Now here's the thing. The reason 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.160 why I say it's ludicrous to think he's going to 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.800 be a defensive end is because kind of what you 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.840 were saying, Dave, I look at a guy like that, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.840 and I say, Okay, if he's got that ability to 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.000 do that on a thursday's notice and already have seen 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.439 what he can do a linebacker, I want him to 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.120 be doing a lot of different things in the game. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.440 I want defenses to not know where he's coming from. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.240 So this play, yeah, he might line up with his 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.080 hand in the dirt and rushed as a defensive end. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.600 The next play, he might be in the middle and 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.559 come up the middle. Next play, he might be back 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.520 covering in past coverage. Like we know, we've seen him 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.959 do all those things between training camp and now we've 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.160 seen him do all those things. I'd rather have him 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.840 just be a guy that runs around the field and 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.600 I can use him however I choose to use him. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.240 Want to give him play he is, he said at 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.160 a training camp, he's the queen in a chess set. Yeah, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.920 you can go everywhere and do everything and that. Yeah, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.920 I'm with you, and I firmly believe for as impressive 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.520 and athletic as he is. I think that would be 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.319 a miss match against a better offensive tack. I mean, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.320 Slater stonewalled him, and so I don't think you want 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.160 to waste him doing that all sixty snacks snaps of 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.640 a game. But it's nice to know it's there. Yeah, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.599 it's very nice to know it's right. All right. So 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.200 here's what I want to do. I'm gonna We're actually 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.120 gonna take our first break real quick. But when we 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.400 come back, I'm actually gonna go through all the things 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.440 that we talked about on Friday, to the storylines that 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.079 we talked about, and I want to see how they 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.719 turned out. 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Head to AT and T 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.480 Stadium on Sunday, September twenty six to experience the first 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.920 Riley Day of the season, presented by seat Geek. Getting 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.760 ready to cheer on the Cowboys with tours of ATNT Stadium, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.840 autographs from the Cowboys cheerleaders, Dallas Cowboys alumni. To get giveaways, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.240 games inflatables, and more. Check out the brand new Milar 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.800 Lighthouse and get excited for kickoff on Monday. Visit at 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.360 and T stam dot com for tickets and more information. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.400 Welcome back into the second segment of the break Life 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.680 in the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. We're talking 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.160 about the Cowboys win over the Los Angeles Charges. They 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.720 win twenty to seventeen in Week two of the NFL season, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.520 is now pull them into a tie in first place 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.080 in the division. It's very early to be saying that, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.080 but the Eagles after their loss are now one and one. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.960 Washington football team after their wins now one and one, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.080 and then obviously the Giants pulling up the rear at 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.280 oh and two. We'll talk more about that big picture 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.760 stuff tomorrow, but here's what we're gonna do for now. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.920 We're going to talk about the storylines. On Friday. If 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.880 you remember, we went through a whole list of storylines 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.240 on the offense, defense, and special teams what we thought 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.680 would be the things that would actually define what happened 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.080 in this game, and so I wanted to go back 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.280 and revisit those things and see how a lot of 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.480 them turned out. Let's start first on the offensive side 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.840 of the ball. We talked about Lyle being replaced by 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.280 Terren Steele and he'd be facing Joey Bosa. And the 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.880 question I have for you guys it was is Dak 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.640 good enough that this doesn't affect their ability to move 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:10.960 the ball. So I want to talk about both things. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.119 I want to talk about first, Dak Prescott. He was 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.760 twenty three of twenty seven for twenty and thirty seven yards, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.840 two sacks, one interception, and eighty seven point eight rating. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.600 How did Dak play? In your opinion? There was a 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.640 game manager. Again, that's nothing bad. I mean bus driver 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.960 type player for this game. And please don't don't go 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.040 at me on that that. I think that's a great thing. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.399 Tom Brady is a bus driver and he drives the 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.080 hell out of it and he's doing doing it forever. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.520 He manages the game. There's nothing wrong with that. That's 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.040 exactly what he did. He had one bad throw he'd 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.120 like to take back, but I thought for the most part, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.880 when it got down to nutcutting time, he's gonna do it. 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.280 If you needed a thirty six shared field goal, he 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.320 wouldn't have done it. If you needed forty six. Fifty 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.440 six he got in the fifty six, but he did 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.679 what he had to do. I thought. I thought he 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.080 played a really good smart game. Again, one interception, for 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.560 the most part, could have a touchdown if he were 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.080 to saw him already down the left sideline instead threw 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.840 it the jar when they scored. Anyways, I thought he 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:13.119 played great. I can't believe how similar this game was 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.120 to the season opener against the Rams last year, who 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.720 were coached on defense by Brandon Staley. I don't think 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:23.600 that's a coincidence. Same score, and I pulled up dacks 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.280 different fans. Yeah, I mean it was. It was much 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.520 more fun. I'm sure Nick actually showed me the sweet 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.960 where he sat last year by himself watching that game 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:36.480 with I can't imagine how weird that. Yeah, I feel 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.040 for you. But I pulled up his passing chart. It's 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.440 the same, Like there were a few more throws behind 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.920 the line of scrimmage, but it's just a scatter shot 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.320 of twelve to eighteen yard plays. He threw it. He 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.919 threw it further than twenty yards twice in both games. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.800 He got intercepted this year, not last year. The one 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.920 big shot he took was out of necessity to Michael 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.120 Gallup last year. It's the way Brandon Staley wants to play. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.679 They were in too high all day. Brandon Staley's whole 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.920 mode of business is I'm gonna play back and dare 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.320 you to be patient because I don't. You're an alpha 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.480 and I don't trust that you will do it. You're 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.919 going to gonna get impatient and do something stupid, and 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.680 that's how we're gonna get you. And it was even 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.879 better with the Rams because they had Aaron Donald and 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.760 you can stop the run even when you're not committing to. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.399 It didn't work for the Chargers yesterday. I think that 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.959