WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Heavy Rayne, Rare Lamb and Archery 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:17.800 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.680 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.599 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.840 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.240 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:37.159 with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Walker, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.720 It is Monday, November thirteenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.600 episode number sixty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.640 The Break. We are live from the SWEC Mortgage studios 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.440 at the Star. Today we talk about Cowboys big victory 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.000 forty nine to seventeen over the listless Giants. That was 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.720 a game that I guess we all expected that and 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.720 you kind of were just hoping the Dallas wouldn't overlooked them. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.080 They certainly did not. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.960 Came out and gave their very very best effort and 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.360 put them away fairly early, as we all expected they would. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.360 Let's start first with storylines of the game. Is there 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.600 a storyline in this game other than total domination? 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:15.880 Show? 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:17.200 That's another show. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:18.320 That's next show. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.000 Sorry, that means you got to start off now. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.840 Feel kind of way about storyline, just record. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:26.479 Let's go. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.840 Great win for sure, fun, definitely fun to watch. Is 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.720 one of those non stressful games that you're watching, but 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.240 at the same time as I gotta keep reminding myself 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.199 it is the Giants, you know, one of those things 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.160 like Okay, yeah, great, but let's let's keep it real, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:51.960 and it's just it's wonderful when you see the offense 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.520 work that way with all of their receivers. It's great 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.720 to see Dak playing the way that he's continuously playing 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.560 week after week. I think his game, regardless of the opponent, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.359 I think he's brought. He's doing really, really good and 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.640 there's no much hate you can give him in the 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.119 last few weeks as far as the game that he's 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:21.240 been presenting and just seeing players like Michael Gallup keep 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.760 blowing out and playing the way that he is, Brandon 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.880 Cooks just now getting a custom and acclimated and being 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.560 now a true part of this offense, and as well 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.600 as Michael Gallup. Kind of again, one of those things 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.800 that you cannot dismiss Michael Gallup when he has bad 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.040 games and all that, then he comes back and has 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.480 one or two plays that you're like, Okay, Yeah, that's 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.720 Michael Gallup and that's why he's here. So all you know, 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.320 just great effort and everything that they did the offense, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.600 but I would love to see that carry over in 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.040 games are against better teams. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.920 I mean, there's it's a laundry list of headlines that 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.480 we can pull from this, and of course Cooks being 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.760 one of the biggest ones. But I'm going to go 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.200 right to the offensive line play. It was much improved yesterday. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.400 And yes it is against the Giants. It was against 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.440 the Giants, but it's the same Giants front that had 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.000 before he left the game with concussion. Kevon Thibodeau, Dexter 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.200 Lawrence in the middle, and they only allowed five pressures 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.799 on Dak Prescott, no sacks. Terrence Steele had a strong 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.600 bounce back game. Was it perfect nor it was not. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.520 You could talk about the first offensive possession on that 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.160 goal to go. He had one of two decisions to 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.560 make on that final fourth and goal. He could have 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.200 taken the rusher, the pass rusher, we could have taken 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.240 the linebacker, and he went to the linebacker and that's 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.880 why that run didn't get in. But outside of that, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.360 he played very well. You talk about Michael Gallup. For example, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.480 that forty plus yard touchdown passed on the right side 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.640 to Michael Gallup. That does not happen if Steele doesn't 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.000 drop his anchor and protect Dak pre Scott's front side. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.920 So that gave Dak the confidence to stand in there 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.280 and make that throw. So for all of the rightful 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.640 criticism that we've given the offensive line over the past 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.160 several weeks, Terrence Steele as well, they had a very 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.960 strong bounce back game and Dak did the rest. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:15.520 Brandon Cooks, Ceedee Lamb. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.119 They just went crazy and then the fund got spread 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.280 around from there with Jake Ferguson and Michael Gallup and 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.160 Jalen Brooks as well. I mean, the undrafted rookie gets 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.520 out there and he makes several catches for several plays. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.880 So another offensive explosion for the Cowboys. Difference being that 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.240 this was not a game of inches. This was, like 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.200 you said, Derek domination from minute. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.200 One smothered a rookie quarterback. You know that was they 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.039 didn't really give him any opportunity. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.200 Even when you. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.240 Start getting sacks on three step drops and you know, 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.039 plays like that, then you know you're doing a pretty 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.000 good job. Felt like on the outside, the one big 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.560 opportunity that the Giants had they ended the Cowboys were 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.119 able to intercept the ball because Hyatt had gotten past 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.640 he'd gotten passed Gilmore and he was past Hooker and 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.680 it's just a great read. That's what you have with 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.120 Deron Bland on the other side of the field, is 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.440 you have a guy when his guy drives down inside 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.000 and it's and now it's he just turns and he 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.599 looks and he sees a guy streaking up the middle 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.400 of the field and he's able to adjust and get 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.719 over across from and make the play like he did. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.080 That just shows you got a very aware player and 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.200 you got a defense that's locked in. They just did 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.240 not give them anything running the football. They really didn't 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.080 give them anything throwing the ball as well. They mixed 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.520 up the way their pressures, the way they played their front. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.680 You know, Tank got the Micah Parsons sack where you 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.719 line up over the center and then you know, so 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.839 they were just moving guys around, trying some different looks 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.719 and it worked out really really well for them. But 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.200 you know, good job of not allowing them to get 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.000 any kind of momentum. Yesterday in that football game on offense. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.800 Yeah, I don't think we can talk about this game 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.800 without really starting with Dak Prescott, the way that he 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.880 played yesterday and really the way played over the last 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.640 three weeks. He's had Now the past three games, he's 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.480 had three hundred and four yards, three hundred and seventy 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.480 four yards, four hundred and four yards yesterday, he's had 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:13.320 eleven passing touchdowns, two interceptions. Really has as and in 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.240 my opinion, in these three games, has put this offense 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.320 on his back because the running game has not really 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.560 been there in the way that you would expect it to. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.839 And what we all expected was the running game and 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.040 the defense were going to be the strengths of this team. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.360 Really over the last three weeks, what we've seen is 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.680 Dak Prescott and his arm are the reason why they 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.320 are playing such good football offensively. Where do you get 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:35.919 how much credit do you give him for that? I know, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.800 obviously this was a Giants, but when you look at 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.520 the last few games, credit are giving him for now 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.120 taking the team and putting it on his back. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.480 Move the ball against Philadelphia? Yeah, you know, and again 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.560 they didn't have a running game in the Philadelphia game. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.320 I think the Cowboy's doing a much better job of 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.360 There was a time during the Jason Garrett administration where 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.200 they wouldn't take advantage of bad teams, where they wouldn't 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.920 take advantage if you had a weakness in your secondary, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.440 or you had a weakness on your offense of line, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.520 or you had a weakness. It seemed like that the 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.960 Jason Garrett teams just would never like just say, Okay, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.400 you're not good at this, and we're going to hammer 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:09.880 you on it. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.360 And I think where Dak has done a really good 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.480 job is the fact, yeah, there was pressure. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.400 In the Philadelphia game last week, but their secondary got 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.360 compromised in that game, and what do you do. He 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.400 kept throwing the ball, throwing the ball, throwing the ball, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.640 and he was getting hit, but he was throwing the ball. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.800 And I think that's where we're at right now, is 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.160 this Cowboys offense with McCarthy and Schottenheimer and the guys 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.880 they've they will they were were, They're going to route 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:33.600 combination of you. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.440 Now they're going to throw the ball down the field. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.640 If you're bad in certain spots, they're going to take 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.760 advantage of it. And I think that's the great thing 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.560 about it. Is That's, to me, is what football is 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.520 all about. If you're not good enough and you know 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.280 and you and you just keep running the same guys 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.520 out there every snap, then you deserve to get punished 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.840 for being for playing that way. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.760 And that's what the Cowboys have been doing offensively. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.720 I give a ton of credit to Deak obviously, and 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.680 I love what Mike McCarthy's doing play called wise, but 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.680 I don't think play calling was the issue for the 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.880 majority of while the offense was struggling to win. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.120 It was struggling. It was execution, like we talked about. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.400 But if you go back to the Chargers game and 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.360 Dak Prescott finally gone for dirty duck as I like 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.880 to call him, using his legs, extending the play, trying 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.800 to wield the offense to a victory like he did 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.080 in Los Angeles, then of course you saw what he 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.440 did with taking the next step with this offense with 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.160 the Rams goes to Philadelphia. Yeah, you lose that game 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.560 of innus, but moved the ball very well against the 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.440 Philadelphia Eagles. Now the question, and you brought it up 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.360 after the drubbing at the hands of the forty nine Ers, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.240 was can Dak Prescott handle man coverage. Okay, Well, now 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.400 we are in yet another week in which he has 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.160 surgically dissected man coverage. He had four hundred and four 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.400 total yards against the against the Giants, two hundred of 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.079 those yards and three of his four passing touchdowns against 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.280 man coverage. So now that Dak Prescott and his playmakers 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.240 they're getting the separation, they're making the plays, you're not 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.240 seeing many drops here or there. That's going to make 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.080 this offense that much more dangerous. Because they were already 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.640 lethal against zone coverage. But if they're equally as lethal 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.400 against man coverage, I mean, that's really a good look 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:09.959 to opposing defense is going forward. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.480 Well, I I'll disagree with you. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.480 Is that Dak Prescott the first five weeks of the season, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.280 they had the lowest air yards of any them in 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.800 the Colts with the two lowest air yard teams in 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.040 the league. I mean him and Richardson the quarterback from 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.760 something's changed, whether ceedee Lamb's go. Maybe after the San 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.599 Francisco game, I know they didn't have the opportunity to practice, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.640 but somebody made an effort to say we need to 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.440 play differently, we need to play differently. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.520 Offense because we don't. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.520 See you occasionally see like yesterday, maybe one or two slants. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.160 The first four or five weeks, it. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.520 Was slamp flat, slat flat, slat flat all day. The 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.520 ball wasn't going down the field. And now you see routes. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.120 Whether yesterday was the first time that we saw with 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.320 Cooks just run a straight vertical route, no safety help 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.720 in the middle of the field, and all of a sudden. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:00.679 It's like boom, just take off. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.679 Dak lays it out there to pass the gallop down 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.000 the field. I mean, the first four or five weeks 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.080 of the season, this offense, somebody made a decision not 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.000 to open thing, to open things up. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:11.680 For Dak pressway. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:11.920 Wait. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.160 Wait, so it's always saying that the Cowboys are attacking 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:16.800 deep middle down the field. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.280 No, I'm saying they're just attacking down the field. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.600 Though they are. Though that's my point. You're you're correct, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.720 but they're also but they're not. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.840 But but but you were, you were saying that to 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.600 me offensively. There was something not right, whether it's play 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.480 calling or scheme the first several weeks. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.319 But I agree with that because if you go back 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.000 several episodes when we were talking about one of the 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.640 Science Lab episodes was when I said the Cowboys need 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.200 to attack deep middle and stop forcing teams to just 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:41.720 allowing teams to attack only. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.880 I was just commenting about the fact that you said, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.760 it's not it wasn't a play calling issue. That's what 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.200 I'm like to me, it was a play calling issue 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.240 when when they got to when they got to after 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.640 the San Francisco game, they decided that we've got to 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.120 we've got to play more open here. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.520 But in the Chargers game, the Rams game will not 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.760 necessarily Eaguals game because we saw a couple of deep middles, 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.600 but in the Chargers in the Rams game, they still 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:05.760 were not attacking deep middle. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.319 We're seeing that now versus the ball. The ball there 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.800 was more passes going down the field. The last four 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.560 or five weeks, we've seen more passes down the field. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.080 I'd say the first four games of the season we 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:17.360 didn't see that. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.000 Right If you remember, going back to the early part 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.920 of the season, we actually did those breakdowns using the 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.000 next gen stats, and we were showing they were basically 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.880 it was all underneath stuff. It was all in it. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.840 But and I agree with both of you to some 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.840 degree because Brian. I think the way I look at 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.959 it is I think what happened was I think these 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.520 things are always in the offense. I think that at 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.679 some point they said, you know, we're not doing our quarterback. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.280 I think I think when they went into the season, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.280 they said, we're going to ease into this new offense 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.240 and we're going to give Dak time to kind of 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.720 get acclimated to it. I think at some point they said, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.720 screw that, let's just go, like, let's just go, let's 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.200 just open it up and let's see what happens. And 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.600 I think when they opened it up, they realized, yeah, okay, 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.880 we got this. Like the quarterback knows what he's doing, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.520 he can make these throws, the receivers can get open, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.880 you can make things happen, especially if you're going to 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.080 utilize the skills of a CD Lamb and not just 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.480 kind of whenever go to the open man, like you're 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.560 literally going to get the ball to him and make 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.080 an effort to get the ball to him, even in 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.760 situations where he may look like he's covered, like in 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.640 the instance yesterday he makes the one hand catch, he's 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.880 clearly covered on that play. You throw the ball where 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.920 he can make a play, he makes a play. I 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.920 think that's what's happened as a season going on, is 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.640 that more people, all of them, have gotten comfortable with 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.440 this offense to the point where the coaches are also comfortable. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.400 And Mike even talked about it after the game yesterday. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.880 He was like, we have gotten better as coaches as 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.439 the season is going on of knowing what we should 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.640 be calling, when we should be calling, and trusting these 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:37.079 guys and make it. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:38.040 See. But that's what I'm saying. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.400 I think it was after the San Francisco game where 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.319 they sat down and they said, we've got to do 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.120 something differently here. You know, we can't sit here and 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.240 just expect to keep throwing the ball underneath, you know. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.680 And they have a quarterback that and he's shown that 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.959 the last four weeks that he's capable if you open 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.480 things up for him and you're not and you're not 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.560 worried about interceptions and you're not worried about you know, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.600 he's he's going to be accurate and make throws. I 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.920 mean he's punishing You're right, I mean he punishes people zone. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:06.120 Man. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.800 It hasn't mattered. But his eyes are down the field 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.440 and the balls down the field more. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.240 That's that's where I think we have a small divide, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:15.960 a divide none the less, but a small divide. The 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.000 reason I say it's not as much play calling in 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.480 which is why I said a lot of credit to 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.400 Dak Prescott, because if you go back and you look 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.800 at San Francisco and pre San Francisco, those routes were 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.720 down the field, they were opened down the middle, they 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.280 were opened deep. You saw Jake Ferguson deep down the middle. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.120 Open ball wouldn't go to him, ceedee lamb down the middle, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.560 deep ball wouldn't go to him. The question was would 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.760 Dak become comfortable with pulling that trigger again? And now 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.760 he's become comfortable with pulling that trigger. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.920 There's a reason for a veteran quarterback not to be 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:44.440 not to pull the trigger. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.320 I mean, I agree with that the guy was out 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.560 yesterday for the Giants didn't pull the trigger on three 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:49.200 strap drop. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.839 I agree, there is no there was no reason for 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.240 him to not pull the trigger outside of PTSD from 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.200 most of his interceptions coming deep middle or. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.120 Mike McCarthy and the coach is saying, don't we're gonna 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.079 underneath and could. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.520 It also be a partially that as Dak was getting 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.360 acclimated to this offense, maybe he wasn't making it that 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.760 far into the Maybe he was. He was getting to that, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.319 he was getting to the quick and easy throw, and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:12.600 he was making the quick and easy throw. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:13.080 I don't know. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.080 There was so much thought about also go to the 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:16.840 offensive line flux at that time. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.880 There was so much thought about getting the ball out 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.920 of his hand. Yeah, there was. I mean it was 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.640 it was a nauseum they talked about that, you know. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.440 And so to me, this this offense now is better, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.040 whether it's stuff that they went back and they're trying 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.640 to you actually do see combinations of routes that get 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:34.360 guys open. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:35.480 You know, you see. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.920 Dak Prescott they run too, They run two slants as 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.360 a pick and he throws the ball to the right guy. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.240 You know, you're starting to see things that I didn't 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.960 see in the first three or four weeks of the season, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.720 the way that they're operating right now. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.160 And frankly, they still have a lot of quick passes 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.920 in this offense, Like this is still a rhythm offense. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.320 It's just that now, as you said, Brian, he knows 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.880 when those opportunities are there, and he's looking down Phil 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.920 and he's finding those when he knows that they're they 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.360 and he's making that play yesterday to Ceede Lamb down 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.680 the field where basically he had him running around, but 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.040 CEEDI was kind of slowing down and waiting and he 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.280 said go and Ceede immediately took off and he hits 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.240 him downfield. Like those are the kind of things where 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.040 I think that was all a dock engineered moment where 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.680 he's like, Hey, that safety's already taken by that by by. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.080 Cooks who's coming across the field. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.200 You got opportunity downfield, go and I'm just gonna loft 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:24.080 it up and you go get it. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.000 And another example of that would be in one of 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.160 the handful of times where he was actually pressured and 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.360 then hitting. I posted the clip on Twitter last night 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.800 that big Gainer took Cooks over the middle that ends 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.360 up on you know, over on the sideline. Deak stands 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.800 in there, sees Dexter Lawrence coming and he just grown 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.080 man throw. He puts that on a dot and it's 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.280 a huge play. Now does he make that play earlier 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.320 in the season first three or four weeks, probably not, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.160 which goes to what I was saying, I felt like 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.680 he needed to be more comfortable and just trusting the 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.360 playmaker would make the play. Standing there, make the throw 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.080 because thankfully, yesterday the offensive line gave him protection quite 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.360 a bit actually, and then the times they didn't, he 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.720 still trusted that his playmaker would. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.520 Make the play. Hell that was that particular play. Ceedee Lamb. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.360 Deck steps in the pocket, pocket breaks down, He's like, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.440 the hell with this. He runs out right and he's like, 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.880 I'm just gonna throw to that open spot. Ceedee Lamb 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.840 turns around, comes back and gets the ball. It's a 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.200 big play. That's the kind of game that Dak Prescott 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.000 in this offense can have when the trust is there 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.560 and when Deck is willing to pull the trigger. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.960 Yeah, he was trying to throw that ball away. M 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.280 Lamb just was able to get away from Holmes. That 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:27.520 was a good play on his partner. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:32.480 What it took was CD getting pissed and getting mad 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.200 on the sideline that one game, and after that they 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.680 came back and since then they've been better offensively. And 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.280 I don't know what kind of what happened there, but 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.840 they make it work. They made it work, and everyone 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.520 listening to this podcast. They know the full trajectory of 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.400 Dak Prescott since the moment he got here. They know 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.160 how much help he had from the O line seek 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:02.120 everybody else. We also have seen the transition of players 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.760 being gone and you getting new talent. You've seen the 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:11.840 transition of changes in coaching staff. Also now the change 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.640 in the scheme and everything. You've moved every single part possible, 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.320 but your quarterback. So this is the moment where Okay, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.320 now it's all fully on Dak, and I think now 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.159 he's fully shown what it looks like without even a 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.040 running running game. He's not getting help from the run game. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.560 So he's taking on that. And that's what it's been 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.119 impressive for me to see and what I've been hoping 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.240 and wanting to see from him. And where finally we've 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.320 gone like three weeks one is now consistent. It's becoming 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:51.919 something consistent, him being able to just feel comfortable. You 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.440 don't see him going back to last year or hesitating, 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.600 second guessing, being cautious because of that previous injury. He's 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.639 come boy again. He's using his legs, escaping and running 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.879 whenever he can or sees needed and possible, and just 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.840 feeling more comfortable with his receivers, just being everybody on 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.040 the same page. So I think he's currently doing everything 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.800 that everyone has been asking for him to do. Ask 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:19.720 a quarterback, all. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.600