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Speaker 5: It is Monday, November thirteenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 5: episode number sixty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 5: The Break. We are live from the SWEC Mortgage studios
Speaker 5: at the Star. Today we talk about Cowboys big victory
Speaker 5: forty nine to seventeen over the listless Giants. That was
Speaker 5: a game that I guess we all expected that and
Speaker 5: you kind of were just hoping the Dallas wouldn't overlooked them.
Speaker 4: They certainly did not.
Speaker 5: Came out and gave their very very best effort and
Speaker 5: put them away fairly early, as we all expected they would.
Speaker 5: Let's start first with storylines of the game. Is there
Speaker 5: a storyline in this game other than total domination?
Speaker 2: Show?
Speaker 6: That's another show.
Speaker 2: That's next show.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that means you got to start off now.
Speaker 5: Feel kind of way about storyline, just record.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 6: Great win for sure, fun, definitely fun to watch. Is
Speaker 6: one of those non stressful games that you're watching, but
Speaker 6: at the same time as I gotta keep reminding myself
Speaker 6: it is the Giants, you know, one of those things
Speaker 6: like Okay, yeah, great, but let's let's keep it real,
Speaker 6: and it's just it's wonderful when you see the offense
Speaker 6: work that way with all of their receivers. It's great
Speaker 6: to see Dak playing the way that he's continuously playing
Speaker 6: week after week. I think his game, regardless of the opponent,
Speaker 6: I think he's brought. He's doing really, really good and
Speaker 6: there's no much hate you can give him in the
Speaker 6: last few weeks as far as the game that he's
Speaker 6: been presenting and just seeing players like Michael Gallup keep
Speaker 6: blowing out and playing the way that he is, Brandon
Speaker 6: Cooks just now getting a custom and acclimated and being
Speaker 6: now a true part of this offense, and as well
Speaker 6: as Michael Gallup. Kind of again, one of those things
Speaker 6: that you cannot dismiss Michael Gallup when he has bad
Speaker 6: games and all that, then he comes back and has
Speaker 6: one or two plays that you're like, Okay, Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: Michael Gallup and that's why he's here. So all you know,
Speaker 6: just great effort and everything that they did the offense,
Speaker 6: but I would love to see that carry over in
Speaker 6: games are against better teams.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's it's a laundry list of headlines that
Speaker 7: we can pull from this, and of course Cooks being
Speaker 7: one of the biggest ones. But I'm going to go
Speaker 7: right to the offensive line play. It was much improved yesterday.
Speaker 7: And yes it is against the Giants. It was against
Speaker 7: the Giants, but it's the same Giants front that had
Speaker 7: before he left the game with concussion. Kevon Thibodeau, Dexter
Speaker 7: Lawrence in the middle, and they only allowed five pressures
Speaker 7: on Dak Prescott, no sacks. Terrence Steele had a strong
Speaker 7: bounce back game. Was it perfect nor it was not.
Speaker 7: You could talk about the first offensive possession on that
Speaker 7: goal to go. He had one of two decisions to
Speaker 7: make on that final fourth and goal. He could have
Speaker 7: taken the rusher, the pass rusher, we could have taken
Speaker 7: the linebacker, and he went to the linebacker and that's
Speaker 7: why that run didn't get in. But outside of that,
Speaker 7: he played very well. You talk about Michael Gallup. For example,
Speaker 7: that forty plus yard touchdown passed on the right side
Speaker 7: to Michael Gallup. That does not happen if Steele doesn't
Speaker 7: drop his anchor and protect Dak pre Scott's front side.
Speaker 7: So that gave Dak the confidence to stand in there
Speaker 7: and make that throw. So for all of the rightful
Speaker 7: criticism that we've given the offensive line over the past
Speaker 7: several weeks, Terrence Steele as well, they had a very
Speaker 7: strong bounce back game and Dak did the rest.
Speaker 3: Brandon Cooks, Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 7: They just went crazy and then the fund got spread
Speaker 7: around from there with Jake Ferguson and Michael Gallup and
Speaker 7: Jalen Brooks as well. I mean, the undrafted rookie gets
Speaker 7: out there and he makes several catches for several plays.
Speaker 7: So another offensive explosion for the Cowboys. Difference being that
Speaker 7: this was not a game of inches. This was, like
Speaker 7: you said, Derek domination from minute.
Speaker 8: One smothered a rookie quarterback. You know that was they
Speaker 8: didn't really give him any opportunity.
Speaker 2: Even when you.
Speaker 8: Start getting sacks on three step drops and you know,
Speaker 8: plays like that, then you know you're doing a pretty
Speaker 8: good job. Felt like on the outside, the one big
Speaker 8: opportunity that the Giants had they ended the Cowboys were
Speaker 8: able to intercept the ball because Hyatt had gotten past
Speaker 8: he'd gotten passed Gilmore and he was past Hooker and
Speaker 8: it's just a great read. That's what you have with
Speaker 8: Deron Bland on the other side of the field, is
Speaker 8: you have a guy when his guy drives down inside
Speaker 8: and it's and now it's he just turns and he
Speaker 8: looks and he sees a guy streaking up the middle
Speaker 8: of the field and he's able to adjust and get
Speaker 8: over across from and make the play like he did.
Speaker 8: That just shows you got a very aware player and
Speaker 8: you got a defense that's locked in. They just did
Speaker 8: not give them anything running the football. They really didn't
Speaker 8: give them anything throwing the ball as well. They mixed
Speaker 8: up the way their pressures, the way they played their front.
Speaker 8: You know, Tank got the Micah Parsons sack where you
Speaker 8: line up over the center and then you know, so
Speaker 8: they were just moving guys around, trying some different looks
Speaker 8: and it worked out really really well for them. But
Speaker 8: you know, good job of not allowing them to get
Speaker 8: any kind of momentum. Yesterday in that football game on offense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think we can talk about this game
Speaker 5: without really starting with Dak Prescott, the way that he
Speaker 5: played yesterday and really the way played over the last
Speaker 5: three weeks. He's had Now the past three games, he's
Speaker 5: had three hundred and four yards, three hundred and seventy
Speaker 5: four yards, four hundred and four yards yesterday, he's had
Speaker 5: eleven passing touchdowns, two interceptions. Really has as and in
Speaker 5: my opinion, in these three games, has put this offense
Speaker 5: on his back because the running game has not really
Speaker 5: been there in the way that you would expect it to.
Speaker 5: And what we all expected was the running game and
Speaker 5: the defense were going to be the strengths of this team.
Speaker 5: Really over the last three weeks, what we've seen is
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott and his arm are the reason why they
Speaker 5: are playing such good football offensively. Where do you get
Speaker 5: how much credit do you give him for that? I know,
Speaker 5: obviously this was a Giants, but when you look at
Speaker 5: the last few games, credit are giving him for now
Speaker 5: taking the team and putting it on his back.
Speaker 8: Move the ball against Philadelphia? Yeah, you know, and again
Speaker 8: they didn't have a running game in the Philadelphia game.
Speaker 8: I think the Cowboy's doing a much better job of
Speaker 8: There was a time during the Jason Garrett administration where
Speaker 8: they wouldn't take advantage of bad teams, where they wouldn't
Speaker 8: take advantage if you had a weakness in your secondary,
Speaker 8: or you had a weakness on your offense of line,
Speaker 8: or you had a weakness. It seemed like that the
Speaker 8: Jason Garrett teams just would never like just say, Okay,
Speaker 8: you're not good at this, and we're going to hammer
Speaker 8: you on it.
Speaker 2: And I think where Dak has done a really good
Speaker 2: job is the fact, yeah, there was pressure.
Speaker 8: In the Philadelphia game last week, but their secondary got
Speaker 8: compromised in that game, and what do you do. He
Speaker 8: kept throwing the ball, throwing the ball, throwing the ball,
Speaker 8: and he was getting hit, but he was throwing the ball.
Speaker 8: And I think that's where we're at right now, is
Speaker 8: this Cowboys offense with McCarthy and Schottenheimer and the guys
Speaker 8: they've they will they were were, They're going to route
Speaker 8: combination of you.
Speaker 2: Now they're going to throw the ball down the field.
Speaker 8: If you're bad in certain spots, they're going to take
Speaker 8: advantage of it. And I think that's the great thing
Speaker 8: about it. Is That's, to me, is what football is
Speaker 8: all about. If you're not good enough and you know
Speaker 8: and you and you just keep running the same guys
Speaker 8: out there every snap, then you deserve to get punished
Speaker 8: for being for playing that way.
Speaker 2: And that's what the Cowboys have been doing offensively.
Speaker 7: I give a ton of credit to Deak obviously, and
Speaker 7: I love what Mike McCarthy's doing play called wise, but
Speaker 7: I don't think play calling was the issue for the
Speaker 7: majority of while the offense was struggling to win.
Speaker 3: It was struggling. It was execution, like we talked about.
Speaker 7: But if you go back to the Chargers game and
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott finally gone for dirty duck as I like
Speaker 7: to call him, using his legs, extending the play, trying
Speaker 7: to wield the offense to a victory like he did
Speaker 7: in Los Angeles, then of course you saw what he
Speaker 7: did with taking the next step with this offense with
Speaker 7: the Rams goes to Philadelphia. Yeah, you lose that game
Speaker 7: of innus, but moved the ball very well against the
Speaker 7: Philadelphia Eagles. Now the question, and you brought it up
Speaker 7: after the drubbing at the hands of the forty nine Ers,
Speaker 7: was can Dak Prescott handle man coverage. Okay, Well, now
Speaker 7: we are in yet another week in which he has
Speaker 7: surgically dissected man coverage. He had four hundred and four
Speaker 7: total yards against the against the Giants, two hundred of
Speaker 7: those yards and three of his four passing touchdowns against
Speaker 7: man coverage. So now that Dak Prescott and his playmakers
Speaker 7: they're getting the separation, they're making the plays, you're not
Speaker 7: seeing many drops here or there. That's going to make
Speaker 7: this offense that much more dangerous. Because they were already
Speaker 7: lethal against zone coverage. But if they're equally as lethal
Speaker 7: against man coverage, I mean, that's really a good look
Speaker 7: to opposing defense is going forward.
Speaker 2: Well, I I'll disagree with you.
Speaker 8: Is that Dak Prescott the first five weeks of the season,
Speaker 8: they had the lowest air yards of any them in
Speaker 8: the Colts with the two lowest air yard teams in
Speaker 8: the league. I mean him and Richardson the quarterback from
Speaker 8: something's changed, whether ceedee Lamb's go. Maybe after the San
Speaker 8: Francisco game, I know they didn't have the opportunity to practice,
Speaker 8: but somebody made an effort to say we need to
Speaker 8: play differently, we need to play differently.
Speaker 2: Offense because we don't.
Speaker 8: See you occasionally see like yesterday, maybe one or two slants.
Speaker 2: The first four or five weeks, it.
Speaker 8: Was slamp flat, slat flat, slat flat all day. The
Speaker 8: ball wasn't going down the field. And now you see routes.
Speaker 8: Whether yesterday was the first time that we saw with
Speaker 8: Cooks just run a straight vertical route, no safety help
Speaker 8: in the middle of the field, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: It's like boom, just take off.
Speaker 8: Dak lays it out there to pass the gallop down
Speaker 8: the field. I mean, the first four or five weeks
Speaker 8: of the season, this offense, somebody made a decision not
Speaker 8: to open thing, to open things up.
Speaker 2: For Dak pressway.
Speaker 5: Wait.
Speaker 7: Wait, so it's always saying that the Cowboys are attacking
Speaker 7: deep middle down the field.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying they're just attacking down the field.
Speaker 7: Though they are. Though that's my point. You're you're correct,
Speaker 7: but they're also but they're not.
Speaker 8: But but but you were, you were saying that to
Speaker 8: me offensively. There was something not right, whether it's play
Speaker 8: calling or scheme the first several weeks.
Speaker 7: But I agree with that because if you go back
Speaker 7: several episodes when we were talking about one of the
Speaker 7: Science Lab episodes was when I said the Cowboys need
Speaker 7: to attack deep middle and stop forcing teams to just
Speaker 7: allowing teams to attack only.
Speaker 8: I was just commenting about the fact that you said,
Speaker 8: it's not it wasn't a play calling issue. That's what
Speaker 8: I'm like to me, it was a play calling issue
Speaker 8: when when they got to when they got to after
Speaker 8: the San Francisco game, they decided that we've got to
Speaker 8: we've got to play more open here.
Speaker 7: But in the Chargers game, the Rams game will not
Speaker 7: necessarily Eaguals game because we saw a couple of deep middles,
Speaker 7: but in the Chargers in the Rams game, they still
Speaker 7: were not attacking deep middle.
Speaker 8: We're seeing that now versus the ball. The ball there
Speaker 8: was more passes going down the field. The last four
Speaker 8: or five weeks, we've seen more passes down the field.
Speaker 8: I'd say the first four games of the season we
Speaker 8: didn't see that.
Speaker 5: Right If you remember, going back to the early part
Speaker 5: of the season, we actually did those breakdowns using the
Speaker 5: next gen stats, and we were showing they were basically
Speaker 5: it was all underneath stuff. It was all in it.
Speaker 5: But and I agree with both of you to some
Speaker 5: degree because Brian. I think the way I look at
Speaker 5: it is I think what happened was I think these
Speaker 5: things are always in the offense. I think that at
Speaker 5: some point they said, you know, we're not doing our quarterback.
Speaker 5: I think I think when they went into the season,
Speaker 5: they said, we're going to ease into this new offense
Speaker 5: and we're going to give Dak time to kind of
Speaker 5: get acclimated to it. I think at some point they said,
Speaker 5: screw that, let's just go, like, let's just go, let's
Speaker 5: just open it up and let's see what happens. And
Speaker 5: I think when they opened it up, they realized, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: we got this. Like the quarterback knows what he's doing,
Speaker 5: he can make these throws, the receivers can get open,
Speaker 5: you can make things happen, especially if you're going to
Speaker 5: utilize the skills of a CD Lamb and not just
Speaker 5: kind of whenever go to the open man, like you're
Speaker 5: literally going to get the ball to him and make
Speaker 5: an effort to get the ball to him, even in
Speaker 5: situations where he may look like he's covered, like in
Speaker 5: the instance yesterday he makes the one hand catch, he's
Speaker 5: clearly covered on that play. You throw the ball where
Speaker 5: he can make a play, he makes a play. I
Speaker 5: think that's what's happened as a season going on, is
Speaker 5: that more people, all of them, have gotten comfortable with
Speaker 5: this offense to the point where the coaches are also comfortable.
Speaker 5: And Mike even talked about it after the game yesterday.
Speaker 5: He was like, we have gotten better as coaches as
Speaker 5: the season is going on of knowing what we should
Speaker 5: be calling, when we should be calling, and trusting these
Speaker 5: guys and make it.
Speaker 2: See. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: I think it was after the San Francisco game where
Speaker 8: they sat down and they said, we've got to do
Speaker 8: something differently here. You know, we can't sit here and
Speaker 8: just expect to keep throwing the ball underneath, you know.
Speaker 8: And they have a quarterback that and he's shown that
Speaker 8: the last four weeks that he's capable if you open
Speaker 8: things up for him and you're not and you're not
Speaker 8: worried about interceptions and you're not worried about you know,
Speaker 8: he's he's going to be accurate and make throws. I
Speaker 8: mean he's punishing You're right, I mean he punishes people zone.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 8: It hasn't mattered. But his eyes are down the field
Speaker 8: and the balls down the field more.
Speaker 7: That's that's where I think we have a small divide,
Speaker 7: a divide none the less, but a small divide. The
Speaker 7: reason I say it's not as much play calling in
Speaker 7: which is why I said a lot of credit to
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott, because if you go back and you look
Speaker 7: at San Francisco and pre San Francisco, those routes were
Speaker 7: down the field, they were opened down the middle, they
Speaker 7: were opened deep. You saw Jake Ferguson deep down the middle.
Speaker 7: Open ball wouldn't go to him, ceedee lamb down the middle,
Speaker 7: deep ball wouldn't go to him. The question was would
Speaker 7: Dak become comfortable with pulling that trigger again? And now
Speaker 7: he's become comfortable with pulling that trigger.
Speaker 2: There's a reason for a veteran quarterback not to be
Speaker 2: not to pull the trigger.
Speaker 8: I mean, I agree with that the guy was out
Speaker 8: yesterday for the Giants didn't pull the trigger on three
Speaker 8: strap drop.
Speaker 7: I agree, there is no there was no reason for
Speaker 7: him to not pull the trigger outside of PTSD from
Speaker 7: most of his interceptions coming deep middle or.
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy and the coach is saying, don't we're gonna
Speaker 8: underneath and could.
Speaker 5: It also be a partially that as Dak was getting
Speaker 5: acclimated to this offense, maybe he wasn't making it that
Speaker 5: far into the Maybe he was. He was getting to that,
Speaker 5: he was getting to the quick and easy throw, and
Speaker 5: he was making the quick and easy throw.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: There was so much thought about also go to the
Speaker 7: offensive line flux at that time.
Speaker 2: There was so much thought about getting the ball out
Speaker 2: of his hand. Yeah, there was. I mean it was
Speaker 2: it was a nauseum they talked about that, you know.
Speaker 8: And so to me, this this offense now is better,
Speaker 8: whether it's stuff that they went back and they're trying
Speaker 8: to you actually do see combinations of routes that get
Speaker 8: guys open.
Speaker 2: You know, you see.
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott they run too, They run two slants as
Speaker 8: a pick and he throws the ball to the right guy.
Speaker 8: You know, you're starting to see things that I didn't
Speaker 8: see in the first three or four weeks of the season,
Speaker 8: the way that they're operating right now.
Speaker 5: And frankly, they still have a lot of quick passes
Speaker 5: in this offense, Like this is still a rhythm offense.
Speaker 5: It's just that now, as you said, Brian, he knows
Speaker 5: when those opportunities are there, and he's looking down Phil
Speaker 5: and he's finding those when he knows that they're they
Speaker 5: and he's making that play yesterday to Ceede Lamb down
Speaker 5: the field where basically he had him running around, but
Speaker 5: CEEDI was kind of slowing down and waiting and he
Speaker 5: said go and Ceede immediately took off and he hits
Speaker 5: him downfield. Like those are the kind of things where
Speaker 5: I think that was all a dock engineered moment where
Speaker 5: he's like, Hey, that safety's already taken by that by by.
Speaker 4: Cooks who's coming across the field.
Speaker 5: You got opportunity downfield, go and I'm just gonna loft
Speaker 5: it up and you go get it.
Speaker 7: And another example of that would be in one of
Speaker 7: the handful of times where he was actually pressured and
Speaker 7: then hitting. I posted the clip on Twitter last night
Speaker 7: that big Gainer took Cooks over the middle that ends
Speaker 7: up on you know, over on the sideline. Deak stands
Speaker 7: in there, sees Dexter Lawrence coming and he just grown
Speaker 7: man throw. He puts that on a dot and it's
Speaker 7: a huge play. Now does he make that play earlier
Speaker 7: in the season first three or four weeks, probably not,
Speaker 7: which goes to what I was saying, I felt like
Speaker 7: he needed to be more comfortable and just trusting the
Speaker 7: playmaker would make the play. Standing there, make the throw
Speaker 7: because thankfully, yesterday the offensive line gave him protection quite
Speaker 7: a bit actually, and then the times they didn't, he
Speaker 7: still trusted that his playmaker would.
Speaker 3: Make the play. Hell that was that particular play. Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 7: Deck steps in the pocket, pocket breaks down, He's like,
Speaker 7: the hell with this. He runs out right and he's like,
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna throw to that open spot. Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 7: turns around, comes back and gets the ball. It's a
Speaker 7: big play. That's the kind of game that Dak Prescott
Speaker 7: in this offense can have when the trust is there
Speaker 7: and when Deck is willing to pull the trigger.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he was trying to throw that ball away. M
Speaker 8: Lamb just was able to get away from Holmes. That
Speaker 8: was a good play on his partner.
Speaker 6: What it took was CD getting pissed and getting mad
Speaker 6: on the sideline that one game, and after that they
Speaker 6: came back and since then they've been better offensively. And
Speaker 6: I don't know what kind of what happened there, but
Speaker 6: they make it work. They made it work, and everyone
Speaker 6: listening to this podcast. They know the full trajectory of
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott since the moment he got here. They know
Speaker 6: how much help he had from the O line seek
Speaker 6: everybody else. We also have seen the transition of players
Speaker 6: being gone and you getting new talent. You've seen the
Speaker 6: transition of changes in coaching staff. Also now the change
Speaker 6: in the scheme and everything. You've moved every single part possible,
Speaker 6: but your quarterback. So this is the moment where Okay,
Speaker 6: now it's all fully on Dak, and I think now
Speaker 6: he's fully shown what it looks like without even a
Speaker 6: running running game. He's not getting help from the run game.
Speaker 6: So he's taking on that. And that's what it's been
Speaker 6: impressive for me to see and what I've been hoping
Speaker 6: and wanting to see from him. And where finally we've
Speaker 6: gone like three weeks one is now consistent. It's becoming
Speaker 6: something consistent, him being able to just feel comfortable. You
Speaker 6: don't see him going back to last year or hesitating,
Speaker 6: second guessing, being cautious because of that previous injury. He's
Speaker 6: come boy again. He's using his legs, escaping and running
Speaker 6: whenever he can or sees needed and possible, and just
Speaker 6: feeling more comfortable with his receivers, just being everybody on
Speaker 6: the same page. So I think he's currently doing everything
Speaker 6: that everyone has been asking for him to do. Ask
Speaker 6: a quarterback, all.
Speaker 5: Right, we're gonna take our first break. We'll come back.
Speaker 5: We'll keep talking about this game. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 5: the receivers and the running game. What's going on with
Speaker 5: the running game. They had a good overall total production
Speaker 5: day from the standpoint of the numbers, but there still
Speaker 5: are some things that make you question. We're going to
Speaker 5: talk about that when we come back. Dallas Cowboys dot
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Speaker 5: We're talking the Cowboys win over the Giants forty nine
Speaker 5: to seventeen. They scored total of what is that, nine
Speaker 5: eighty nine points in two games and only allow seventeen.
Speaker 8: That's pretty I think Block would be pretty proud of
Speaker 8: that effort, to be honest with.
Speaker 5: You, and that's why this segment block that effort. I think,
Speaker 5: my god, Brian, well, I'm glad I got you here.
Speaker 2: With all right, let's let's pay bills.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's continue talking about this offense they do. Let's
Speaker 4: talk about the receivers.
Speaker 5: Yesterday we had two huge performances and I'll ask you
Speaker 5: guys this question. Check out these numbers so you had.
Speaker 5: On the one hand, Brandon Cooks goes nine catches for
Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy three yards on touchdown.
Speaker 4: By far his best production of the season.
Speaker 5: Ceedee Lamb goes eleven catches one hundred and fifty one
Speaker 5: yards a touchdown. He also has a rush for fourteen
Speaker 5: yard touchdown as well. He is the first player in
Speaker 5: NFL history history to have three back to back to
Speaker 5: back games for one hundred and fifty yards and ten
Speaker 5: plus catches, which was more impressive.
Speaker 6: To you this price keep growing up.
Speaker 5: It's right, I think the one that was like, it's
Speaker 5: like the price and right.
Speaker 2: Doing right on up right on the class.
Speaker 7: Today's press sint yesterday's press. Now it's always going to
Speaker 7: be obviously, what Cooks did impressive. Needless to say, uh
Speaker 7: he fell only fourteen yard shot, breaking his single season
Speaker 7: career high as far as most receiving yards in the game.
Speaker 7: But we're talking about NFL history and NFL history being
Speaker 7: made is always going to be the more impressive of
Speaker 7: compared against anything. So seeing the the heater that Ceedee
Speaker 7: Lamb is on, and I like what Dak Prescott said
Speaker 7: yesterday in the press conference. He said he's not going
Speaker 7: to describe what Ceede Lamb is doing as being on
Speaker 7: a heater. He feels this is this is what Ceedee
Speaker 7: Lamb looks like.
Speaker 3: And I like that. I like it a lot.
Speaker 7: So So when it comes to that, I mean, something
Speaker 7: clicked after the San Francisco game, and Ceede Lamb has
Speaker 7: been playing out of his mind through these past several games.
Speaker 7: He yeah, he had. He has been the best receiver
Speaker 7: in the NFL in the best several games so especially
Speaker 7: when you look at how story the NFL is, when
Speaker 7: you look at how storied the Cowboys are as a
Speaker 7: franchise as far as wide receivers that have come through
Speaker 7: here to see him achieve that, and we still have
Speaker 7: several more games to go in this regular season for
Speaker 7: him to do it again, and he's about to go
Speaker 7: against a Panthers team, who if the Cowboys don't play
Speaker 7: down a competition, he might have another shot at it.
Speaker 7: So yeah, Ceede Lamb, he made in the field history.
Speaker 7: That's going to take the crown for me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, then you're gonna need other guys to step up
Speaker 8: to because not everybody is going to be the New
Speaker 8: York Giants out there playing in the secondary. I mean,
Speaker 8: teams are going to try and figure out And Ceedy
Speaker 8: even said it after the game that he's facing his
Speaker 8: share of double teams, and he's right about that.
Speaker 2: He's doing a great job.
Speaker 8: I think the most impressive thing about these wide receivers
Speaker 8: is how well they compliment each other and help each
Speaker 8: other when it comes to route running, and and you're
Speaker 8: seeing that a lot better. You know, we mentioned the
Speaker 8: crossing route that he had when he had a twenty
Speaker 8: five yard game.
Speaker 2: And when you watch the play, it's really two clear
Speaker 2: out routes.
Speaker 8: Gallop and Lamb get up the field, and then McLeod
Speaker 8: is playing man coverage and he can't stay with he
Speaker 8: can't stay with Cooks because you got the clearouts which
Speaker 8: clears the area. Now you've got to a cross or
Speaker 8: coming all the way and the Dak. We all know
Speaker 8: when Dak runs to his left or moves to his
Speaker 8: left and he could square his shoulders, he could throw a.
Speaker 2: Really good ball.
Speaker 8: And so you know, that's the thing that I've really
Speaker 8: am impressed by that. It's just like, you know, you
Speaker 8: got others as like Lamb is having this incredible run here,
Speaker 8: but what he's doing, he's running a clear out. Gallop
Speaker 8: running a clear out, you know, taking their guys, not
Speaker 8: being lazy, getting.
Speaker 2: Up the field, doing what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 8: Patrick talked about a little bit of offense with some
Speaker 8: execution and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That's what you got to have.
Speaker 8: You know, if you're going to be successful with these
Speaker 8: huge chunk plays, it's usually somebody else doing some dirty
Speaker 8: work to get the other the ball. And that's what
Speaker 8: the Cowboys did yesterday with their receivers.
Speaker 4: You know real quick and before you before you throw
Speaker 4: that in.
Speaker 5: I also want to say it was a similar thing
Speaker 5: on that playoff talking lout earlier where Lamb goes downfield
Speaker 5: and Dak tells him keep going. I mean it was
Speaker 5: Cooks that came across on the crossing the route. He
Speaker 5: occupies that safety, so the safety can't go deep with CD.
Speaker 4: He's got to take a choice.
Speaker 5: And it was one of the things we talked about
Speaker 5: after the San Francisco game where I was like, they
Speaker 5: weren't doing enough in my opinion in the offensive scheme
Speaker 5: of forcing defenders to have to make a decision, force
Speaker 5: a safety into situation where he said, I got to
Speaker 5: take one of these two guys, and somebody's going to
Speaker 5: be open. Somebody's going to have an opportunity. And I thought,
Speaker 5: that's what we saw yesterday. We saw a number of
Speaker 5: times where safeties were having to make a choice, and
Speaker 5: whatever choice they made, cowboys took advantage of the other.
Speaker 6: I'm glad Jerry got to convince him to wear number
Speaker 6: eighty eight jersey because he I mean, he fits right
Speaker 6: in he he's been he just looks so natural and
Speaker 6: comfortable and a lot of times I'm watching and there
Speaker 6: are many many plays that I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 6: catch it, not because I don't I think anything less
Speaker 6: of him, but because you know, you just think, oh no,
Speaker 6: he had his double team like you mentioned, and then
Speaker 6: he catches it, and my damn.
Speaker 3: The catch was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 5: It was amazing, right, yeah, m That's why I only
Speaker 5: had one.
Speaker 8: Obviously, the catch he made and I think you guys
Speaker 8: remember this one. He he pivots inside and then he
Speaker 8: goes horizontal, and usually they try and scoop that ball
Speaker 8: he caught or he put his hands and went over
Speaker 8: the top of it, and that just shows you right
Speaker 8: there how locked in he is that he could lay
Speaker 8: horizontally and the ball and be going away.
Speaker 2: And turn around and catch the long hand. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, the one.
Speaker 8: Handed catch was great, but it was almost like he
Speaker 8: was a soccer goal trying to stop all but the
Speaker 8: way he was able to put. The only chance he
Speaker 8: had was to turn his hands over, and he did,
Speaker 8: I mean that quickly. He made the adjustment and caught
Speaker 8: the football. Is one of the best catches I've seen
Speaker 8: in a long time by receiver having to adjust and
Speaker 8: go back and try and get a football.
Speaker 7: And Brian, you talking about a guy being in the zone,
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott when he tried to throw the ball out
Speaker 7: of the back of the end zone.
Speaker 3: Here's Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2: I don't know where he came from.
Speaker 7: Here, Ceedee Lamb coming out of nowhere, nearly making another
Speaker 7: spectacular one hand to grab with the defender draped all
Speaker 7: over him. So it's Ceedee Lamb is in one of
Speaker 7: those zones wherein if the ball is anywhere near him,
Speaker 7: you just have to assume. Now he's going to figure
Speaker 7: out a way to get that ball.
Speaker 4: This is Oklahoma Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 3: They said.
Speaker 5: I was like, man, this dude is what he was
Speaker 5: in college. He's going to be remarkable and he's reaching
Speaker 5: that plateau. Now he's one of those guys he get
Speaker 5: the ball in his hands. You find a way to
Speaker 5: get the ball in his hands, because he makes things
Speaker 5: happen when he gets the ball in his hands. All right,
Speaker 5: let's talk about the running game. This is an area
Speaker 5: where the Cowboys. You know what, Actually, we're going to
Speaker 5: take a little break because I know this conversation is
Speaker 5: probably gonna last a bit long. We going to take
Speaker 5: our final break we'll come back. Let's talk about the
Speaker 5: rushing game, talk about week Oldodle and Tony Polltt.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about the running game yesterday got ric O'Donnell
Speaker 5: twelve carries for seventy nine yards a six point six
Speaker 5: average and a touchdown. Tony Pollard fifteen carries fifty five
Speaker 5: yards a three point seven average. I guess my first
Speaker 5: question is is there something that you've discerned from what
Speaker 5: you've seen, whether you're watching the game live or watching
Speaker 5: it back on tape, that gives you an indication why
Speaker 5: Dwell is so much more successful in this game, particularly
Speaker 5: running the ball, than then Tony.
Speaker 6: Pollard was just go ahead, just go ahead. No, No,
Speaker 6: you've been analyzing this play that you want to talk
Speaker 6: about on the show.
Speaker 5: The host lobs it up and then lets everybody else
Speaker 5: take a chance.
Speaker 8: So this is like the old show Perry Mason, there
Speaker 8: was a lawyer Perry Mason never asked a question he
Speaker 8: didn't know the answer to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Derek knows the answer to this question.
Speaker 5: Honestly, a good host should never should never not know
Speaker 5: the answer to the question.
Speaker 2: He can come back.
Speaker 8: What do you think the differences between Pollard and uh
Speaker 8: and Dwell right now?
Speaker 2: Running the ball?
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna give you my opinion, since you asked.
Speaker 5: I saw several plays in the game where I thought
Speaker 5: I thought there were there were situations where he had opportunities,
Speaker 5: there were holes there. I don't think he saw them.
Speaker 5: I don't know that he saw them in time. I
Speaker 5: do think it doesn't mean that the blocking was perfect,
Speaker 5: because I don't think the blocking was necessarily perfect on
Speaker 5: all of these, but I do think there were opportunities
Speaker 5: there on the on the table. And what I'm seeing
Speaker 5: that's different, in my opinion is I think donnad is
Speaker 5: seeing the feeld really well, and when he sees that crease,
Speaker 5: he's through it and there is no second guessing, there
Speaker 5: is no I think there are two plays in particular
Speaker 5: that pointed that out for me. For Pollard, there was
Speaker 5: one play near the end of the first quarter where
Speaker 5: I think he was kind of going to his right
Speaker 5: pressing yeah, and there was a hole to his left,
Speaker 5: but he saw it a little too late and and
Speaker 5: he actually eventually tried to get back to the hole.
Speaker 5: He ended up getting three yards, but I think if
Speaker 5: he'd done that a step or two earlier, he has
Speaker 5: a lot of green grass. I mean, everything was blocked
Speaker 5: up on that play pretty well. I think he would
Speaker 5: have had a big play. And also on the play,
Speaker 5: Patrick and I were talking about it in the break
Speaker 5: on the play there on the goal line that you
Speaker 5: mentioned where you thought that maybe Steele should have held
Speaker 5: that block a little longer. I actually personally think that
Speaker 5: that play was designed like that where still was to
Speaker 5: get to the second level and the running back just
Speaker 5: need to hit the hole. And is you if you
Speaker 5: go and watch it, Yeah, he hesitated there. Pollard got
Speaker 5: the ball, he got to the hole and he kind
Speaker 5: of took a step and just pause for a second
Speaker 5: and then went And I think if he wouldn't have paused,
Speaker 5: if you would have just hit the hole, I don't
Speaker 5: think that that defensive end would have had an opportunity
Speaker 5: to crash down hard enough to get to him, and
Speaker 5: he probably gets into the end zone.
Speaker 4: Was only a few. It was only a few.
Speaker 5: But that's also the thing when you're talking about the
Speaker 5: difference between the backs. Right, you have a few plays
Speaker 5: in a game where everything gets blocked up perfectly right,
Speaker 5: you know, and if you don't take advantage of those,
Speaker 5: then you're going to have a very pedestrian type day.
Speaker 8: I think there's a lot of things on Tony Pollard's
Speaker 8: plate right now. And I think it and I say
Speaker 8: it in a way of you know, he he understands
Speaker 8: that he was a franchise tag player, and he's maybe
Speaker 8: he's pressing a little bit on some things.
Speaker 2: And is he patient enough for some of the.
Speaker 8: You know, is he patient enough? Is he is he
Speaker 8: pressing the hole too quick? And there's really stuff that
Speaker 8: it's opening up to the left or to the right,
Speaker 8: and he's just not He's just so anxious about I
Speaker 8: got to get up, I got to get through.
Speaker 2: I gotta you know, and backs do that.
Speaker 8: They get to the point where and the blocking hasn't
Speaker 8: been great a lot of these snaps. I mean, he
Speaker 8: he you know, heavy box. You know, they don't block
Speaker 8: the eighth guy who makes the tackle.
Speaker 2: The eighth guy.
Speaker 8: You know, there was a time where Tony Pollard would
Speaker 8: make the first guy miss and then he would be
Speaker 8: into this, you know, it was, you know, Zekiel Elliot
Speaker 8: averaging like four yards of carry last year, Tony Pollard
Speaker 8: averaging five point five. And he's like, everybody's like, damn,
Speaker 8: can't you see it. One guy's quicker, one guy's making
Speaker 8: it happen. One you know, every that was the that
Speaker 8: And now here we are and now we're looking at
Speaker 8: Dowdell and the example of the example of like the
Speaker 8: flip play that went for twenty one yards.
Speaker 4: I was just looking at that place and you're kind.
Speaker 8: Of sitting there thinking maybe Tyron Smith might have messed up,
Speaker 8: because what happened. Everybody's stepping to their left, but Tyron
Speaker 8: Smith and you're going, whoa did they just get away
Speaker 8: with one with with with Ojilari coming up the field,
Speaker 8: and then you got Dowbell makes him miss, And now
Speaker 8: you've got a twenty one yard game because you've got
Speaker 8: beaddish up, you've got steel up, you got all these
Speaker 8: guys running interference.
Speaker 2: But Tyron Smith kind of you don't know if he
Speaker 2: did he go the wrong way? Did he did he
Speaker 2: was he supposed to get that guy, but but.
Speaker 5: Hewn to the second level and made the block on
Speaker 5: the second level.
Speaker 4: But he he sho probably gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could tell he in the huddle.
Speaker 8: It's like it's like Beaddish hits him like oh, kind
Speaker 8: of like oh, hey, you're supposed to be you know,
Speaker 8: they run into each other and it kind of works out.
Speaker 2: But that's been the difference.
Speaker 8: Like with Rico, it's kind of like he's been able
Speaker 8: to make guys miss and then when he gets hit,
Speaker 8: he's kind of spinning for extra yards and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So it looks different.
Speaker 8: But man, there's times where Pollard he does need to
Speaker 8: see it better, but there's also times where it is
Speaker 8: blocked by nobody. Yeah, and he's and he's and he's
Speaker 8: suffered because of that.
Speaker 7: For me, it's it goes back to what we keep
Speaker 7: talking about. I mean, as this season rolls along, I mean,
Speaker 7: the RB one Throne comes with a lot of heavy lift,
Speaker 7: a lot of dirty work, and it just it beats
Speaker 7: up on a guy. And so you're likely not going
Speaker 7: to see the twenty twenty two or twenty twenty one
Speaker 7: version of POVT in twenty three. I think that's just
Speaker 7: not going to happen. But what's promising for POVT is
Speaker 7: when you look at the first half, he kind of
Speaker 7: struggled to get you know, the one yard here, two
Speaker 7: yard here, but then he had a twelve yard carry
Speaker 7: and the third quarter had a fourteen yard care so
Speaker 7: I saw flashes of that explosiveness again. So it's in
Speaker 7: there difference being Rico. He comes in, he's fresh legs,
Speaker 7: and he's playing loose. He's playing loose football. So it
Speaker 7: kind of goes to what Brian is talking about. There's
Speaker 7: a mentality of it as well. Where Tony is the
Speaker 7: franchise he's on a franchise tag. He's trying to do
Speaker 7: his best to play for a multi year contract, and
Speaker 7: maybe he's pressing a bit and maybe he's overthinking it.
Speaker 7: Not so coincidentally, though Rico is on a contract, you're
Speaker 7: also quite as it's skept I mean, he's only on
Speaker 7: a one year reup right, so he's playing to stay
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 3: But it's not the same.
Speaker 7: There are levels to this, right when you're the franchise
Speaker 7: tag and you're going for franchise money. Rico is just
Speaker 7: trying to stick around me. He's like, you know, I'm
Speaker 7: just going to play football. I've been waiting for this opportunity.
Speaker 7: It's his first opportunity, right, so he's fresher when he
Speaker 7: comes into games. He's playing more loosely mentally, and his
Speaker 7: vision has just been slightly better than Tony Pollard. Like
Speaker 7: we're talking about, there's situations where you would like to
Speaker 7: see Tony Pollard feel this and hit that. Well, Rico
Speaker 7: comes in and theoretically in that same play he sees
Speaker 7: that and he hits that. So that's why he's able
Speaker 7: to rattle off and average what six point six yards
Speaker 7: per carry yesterday is. So, I mean, it's a great
Speaker 7: thing to see that the Cowboys rushing attack took a
Speaker 7: step forward yesterday. That gives you hope for what it
Speaker 7: could be going forward. But don't press it. Just continue
Speaker 7: to let it organically come, especially when you got guys
Speaker 7: like Ceedee Lamb going crazy and now Brandon Cooks is.
Speaker 3: Involved as well. I mean, let the passing attack be
Speaker 3: the passing attack.
Speaker 7: And then I think this is a perfect situation where
Speaker 7: in the Jason Garrett administration, as Brian likes to call out,
Speaker 7: I love that he calls it that. In the Jason
Speaker 7: Garrett administration and the Scott Lennehan you know era, it
Speaker 7: was established a run to set up the pass.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: Now, uh, big mic is is out there establishing the
Speaker 7: past to set up the run and if that's what's working,
Speaker 7: and it clearly is by all means continuing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think not everyone is meant to handle x
Speaker 6: amount of work, like an extra load of things, and
Speaker 6: it takes away from from your focus and what your
Speaker 6: best at. As an example, Uh and correct me if
Speaker 6: I'm wrong my.
Speaker 3: Memory it was too easy.
Speaker 4: I was I wasn't going to get too easy yourself?
Speaker 14: Correct how far back?
Speaker 6: At some other points, but remember when when Mike was
Speaker 6: the one wearing the communication what is it called dot
Speaker 6: green dot, and you could see his game being affected
Speaker 6: by it, and then that changed and they took that
Speaker 6: away from him. Uh So where I'm trying to get at.
Speaker 6: Sometimes when you add something else that you have to
Speaker 6: do mentally, it messes you up where you don't you're
Speaker 6: not as you don't have the same amount of concentration,
Speaker 6: and now that takes away from from what you're you're
Speaker 6: good at it, and maybe that maybe I'm.
Speaker 2: Just there's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of there's a lot of pressure on
Speaker 8: him because they got rid of Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 2: They moved on from Ezekiel.
Speaker 8: Now you say you're the guy, and now he's feeling
Speaker 8: the pressure of.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the year to prove it and everybody in
Speaker 2: the world talking about the lack of a Cowboys running game.
Speaker 2: Could you feel that.
Speaker 5: Do you think that this should be especially watching what
Speaker 5: happened yesterday, do you think this should They should make
Speaker 5: it more of a I don't know if it has
Speaker 5: to be fifty to fifty split, but more give me
Speaker 5: more Doubtle and maybe you'll get better out of out
Speaker 5: of Pollard if you're Because we talked about this last
Speaker 5: year a lot from the standpoint of a two BAC
Speaker 5: system versus you know, just having one guy who's the
Speaker 5: predominant guy. I wonder if it should be the same
Speaker 5: thing this year, just with different names. Now it's Doubtle
Speaker 5: and Pollard as opposed to Zeke and Pollard last year.
Speaker 8: I think they need to work on the perimeter run
Speaker 8: game more. I mean because to me, inside run seems
Speaker 8: to be the problems that they're having.
Speaker 2: Especially with Pollard.
Speaker 8: You saw yesterday the toss, the things that the things
Speaker 8: where they can get the ball to flip.
Speaker 2: You know, if they could get.
Speaker 8: Doubt Old going downhill, he's a hard guy to deal with.
Speaker 8: That's gonna be a four or five yard play. We'll
Speaker 8: see with Pollard. But Pollard looks more comfortable to me
Speaker 8: trying to navigate the edge than he does navigate guys inside.
Speaker 8: So I would I would try and focus more on
Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden you get good at
Speaker 8: the perimeter game. Then now defenses naturally will stretch, and
Speaker 8: when they stretch, then then your inside, your inside zone
Speaker 8: stuff and things like that that you want to do
Speaker 8: start to become a little bit better.
Speaker 7: I mean, I agree that if you theoretically, if you
Speaker 7: play Reco a bit more than obviously you're unless it's
Speaker 7: two back set, you're playing Tony a bit less.
Speaker 4: Which which it did a little bit yesterday, right, I.
Speaker 7: Was want to say, because the splits were almost even
Speaker 7: yesterday as far as the handoffs concern. But it also
Speaker 7: goes to what contextually, what type of plays are attached
Speaker 7: to those reps for each individual player. So, for example,
Speaker 7: if you're Tony Pollard and the majority of your twelve
Speaker 7: to fifteen touches are going to be the dirty runs
Speaker 7: up the middle, that's going to wear on you much
Speaker 7: more than if Rico's twelve to fifteen touches tend to
Speaker 7: be off of the edge and getting him into space,
Speaker 7: so that has to be looked at as well. I
Speaker 7: think that's definitely a conversation to be had, but it's
Speaker 7: it's more of a robust conversation than just simply saying, Okay,
Speaker 7: let's do a fifteen to fifteen split or twenty to
Speaker 7: twenty split, twelve twelve, what types of plays? I would
Speaker 7: say mix those up as well, because Tony has shown
Speaker 7: over the course of his career that he can be
Speaker 7: explosive in space as well. So maybe it's saying, well, Rico,
Speaker 7: do more of these dirty work runs and you know,
Speaker 7: we'll share that load that way and kind of spread
Speaker 7: the screen.
Speaker 8: Bobby and I were doing a podcast this one. I
Speaker 8: think Bobby said this and I forgot to look it up.
Speaker 8: I'm trusting him. He said that Pollard was lined up
Speaker 8: as a wide receiver twelve times yesterday, twelve.
Speaker 4: Wow. I thought it was a few, only few times.
Speaker 8: But no, that's what Bobby, Bobby, do you have the position?
Speaker 8: It should I should know better than to trust anything.
Speaker 8: Bobby belts, Tom Bobby, but boy, but yeah, but there
Speaker 8: was some Bobby said, there was the twelve times, and
Speaker 8: the snaps there were opportunities twelve and I felt that
Speaker 8: was a lot too.
Speaker 5: But now he might also be talking about because there
Speaker 5: were an.
Speaker 2: Emotions, emotions.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of times they.
Speaker 5: Ran empty yesterday exactly, so Paula was only running back
Speaker 5: on the field, but he was out. He was lined
Speaker 5: up out wide. So if he's talking about that, that
Speaker 5: makes it.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna blame him if I'm wrong about it, because
Speaker 8: I think Bobby was. But there were several times at
Speaker 8: least I know where he was lined up when they
Speaker 8: went empty or they put him out there, yeah, and
Speaker 8: out in the out.
Speaker 2: In the flat.
Speaker 7: That's something we'll probably have to go back and chart
Speaker 7: on the film because I hear what Bobby saying.
Speaker 3: Bobby is, I love him to death. He's really good.
Speaker 7: As wrong could be though, because you know, based on
Speaker 7: what our next Gen friends was saying, Rico lined out
Speaker 7: White only one snap.
Speaker 4: Not Rico. He said, I thought you said Tony.
Speaker 3: Tony, Tony, go back and get Tony.
Speaker 5: Yeah talk, which again I do think that's possible. Chart
Speaker 5: the games as they're going on, and I think Tony
Speaker 5: was lined up why they went empty a lot yesterday
Speaker 5: which I was a little bit surprised at, but it's
Speaker 5: starting to become a regular part of their offense now,
Speaker 5: so it didn't surprise me if he was out there
Speaker 5: twelve times.
Speaker 7: Okay, so there you go, Bobby right, seven times seven seven.
Speaker 2: Times he probably said seven, and I just added it
Speaker 2: up because I'm an idiot, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: Seven times, so that you know, Jerry Jones talked about
Speaker 8: that on one oh five three the Fan that maybe
Speaker 8: you were going to see something different formationally, scheme wise
Speaker 8: with Pollard and that was the little nuggety three.
Speaker 2: So seven times they threw him outside there.
Speaker 4: So all right, we appreciate you guys, Jonas.
Speaker 5: That's a rap.
Speaker 4: We we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We'll talk a little bit more big picture around the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: around the.
Speaker 4: NFC East and even the NFC.
Speaker 5: This thing is interesting, getting more and more interesting by
Speaker 5: the league in Minnesota. Minnesota Roling, all right, we're going
Speaker 5: to talk about that tomorrow. Till then for Patrick Walker,
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