WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Governor’s Cup 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:15.720 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:16.280 Yes? 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.160 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:18.960 Absolutely? 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.319 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.080 It's time for The Break on. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:32.600 Dallas Cowboys dot Com on with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.360 Nick Harris, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.760 It is Thursday November fourteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.680 episode number sixty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.000 The Break. We are live from s WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.520 at the Star. We're presented by LGLG is the world's 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.920 number one o leed TV brand for eleven years in counting. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.880 See why at LG dot com forward slash o leedevo. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:56.280 How's everybody doing today? 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:56.760 Doing well? 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:57.120 Excellent? 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:58.600 Good, We're good. All right. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.440 We're gonna talk a little Cowboy versus Texans. Yesterday we 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.559 talked about the Texans offense versus the Cowboys defense. Today 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.880 we flipped that and we'll hit up the Texans defense 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.280 versus the Cowboys offense. We'll hopefully get to some questions 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.080 here in the second or third segment, So feel free 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.800 to give us a call eight eight eight eight five 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.840 five two two ninety seven, or you can us on Twitter. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.200 You can hit me on Twitter and send your questions 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.360 that way and we'll try to get some. I already 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.319 have a few that have lined up that I got 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.320 from from X that that we'll use. I actually wanted 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.000 to warm up today. I'm gonna do something a little 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.759 bit different because it's a Cowboys Texans week. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.520 I figured just to get us warmed up. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.600 I got three d game I've ever been a part of. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.160 Their first game ever. I know, me too, the worst 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.920 game ever, me too, and that we've I've been a 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.280 part of a lot of bad ones here. That was 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.880 the worst game I've ever been a part of absolutely ever. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.400 So go ahead, carry on right quick. That's my memory 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.160 of the Texans. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.200 Yeah, their first game as a as as a franchise, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:02.800 as a franchise. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.640 That makes us a really old Brian. We were both there. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:06.680 We were there that night. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.760 It wasn't good. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.359 It wasn't good. That's look. Here's what I got. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:14.679 I got. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.160 I got three different pairings. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.960 I got a person from Houston, and I got a 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.600 person from Dallas. And I want you guys to tell 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.360 me which one is better? All right, We're gonna start 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.799 with Earl Campbell versus Emmitt Smith. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:32.000 Oh God, oh Emmitt, Emmitt Emmitt. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.520 The only reason I thought about it is because I'm 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.320 in East Texas guy Earl campbells and East Texas guys. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:35.720 Uh. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.600 I put the bias aside Emma Smith all time leading Russia. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:42.560 Is there an arguments we made? 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.640 Look, I'm asking you the question. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.680 I'm thinking about this really hard because I have the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.880 utmost respect for both players. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.119 And it's a hard one. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.400 And I know what Earl Campbell did you know? And 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.440 I know it did and I know it's the all 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:57.280 time this. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.280 M it's a hard one. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:06.079 It is hard one. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:08.800 Give me Earl Campbell, Okay, all right? 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.160 Not for me. I mean I only know most on 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.920 Emmitt Smith. That's mainly who I know about. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.280 So I'll tell you google Earl Campbell. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.320 We gotta take a field trip to Tyler, Texas one day. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:22.360 Rose. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:23.600 It's really not fair for me. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.239 Obviously, I'm a Texas guy, and I grew up with 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.960 him being like probably my biggest sports title outside of 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.320 the guy I'm gonna name next. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:31.679 But it's it's hard. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:37.400 How's that he's over here with the hook, yeah up here? Okay? 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.520 You watching him play football? He played with some yeah 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.240 people did not want to. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.200 Tackle to John Tyler High School. My grandmother graduated with 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:46.880 Earl Campbell. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.440 Oh wow, all right, so next one, keem Olajuan or 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.760 Dirt novitzkye. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.040 The dream baby start? 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.200 Oh, Dirk really okay? 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.080 And I and I'll tell you what, man, because you 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.400 can go back with a key. I mean, that's that 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.360 goes back to you know, him being him Houston guy 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.600 the whole way through with school and all that too. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.560 You of h guy Lewis down there, I get no 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.200 dirt dirt Dirk, all right, you're a Dallas guy, right, yes, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.320 give me Dirk. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.920 Don't look at me. You're literally out of my boundaries 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.720 here about this zone. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.880 Because he's gonna say he's going to say a key. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.839 He said it. Keep you and I need to get 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.880 together on this. I need you to break the tie. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:40.560 This My my is what when did I start working here? 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:46.760 Twenty thirteen? Run right out of college? Yeah, I don't 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.039 know what you're what's that? But if it's not in 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.960 the last decade, don't I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.479 Well, actually, when I was coming up with these. I 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.160 was like, yeah, Amber's not gonna answer any of these 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:57.599 other than the last one. The last one you'll be 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.680 able to answer. All right, we got the last one. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:00.719 Beyonce or Post. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.479 I knew it was gonna be Beyonce. Yeah, I gotta 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:07.000 take Beyonce. What are we talking about, Posty Man. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:09.240 Post alone? 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:09.680 Yeah? 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:15.359 Yeah, Beyonce wo yeah, you know what. I respect Beyonce. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.840 She's beautiful, gorgeous. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.360 She's not a voice aboy. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.200 I mean I've only met one of them in person, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:29.360 and he was the most humble, down to earth guy. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.400 He's you just you know when it's very rare that 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.000 you meet somebody that just radiates a certain type of 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.120 energy and he he's just he was. I I loved 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.240 him immediately, so and you you've worked with him Derek before. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.160 He's just so nice and great guy. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.040 I fell on the side of Houston for most of these, 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.200 and I love Beyonce, but Post, like, post has been 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.040 so good to us, I could never be like, yeah, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.480 he's been really good to us and always has been 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.480 there when we all them like, hey, can you come 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:02.360 do some stuff for us? 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.000 So I would always have to go with this is 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.800 the one moment that I think Colina would want to 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:06.599 be on a podcast. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.960 Yeah, Beyonce, no doubt, and it would be fair. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.479 Outstanding. But like you say, post, he he really he 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:17.760 wears his fandom. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.520 You can see he wears Cowboys. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.239 Yeah, he wears his fandom. And you know it's important 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.960 to him too, you know, he like they tried, they've 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.240 He's been in some settings where he'll wears Cowboys stuff 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.120 and all that and they give him grief about it, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.960 and he's like, yeah, man, he'll walk off a set 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.400 you give him. You ain't gonna give me grief about 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:36.480 my team, you know. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.520 So I and also has a great voice. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:40.240 I was. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.280 I had the chance to go to Dak's event last year, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.880 his foundation that he held, and then he had posts 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.240 in their perform just a private performance. We weren't allowed 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.000 to take out our phones or anything, so I don't 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.960 have anything but my memory of it. And it was 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.960 just like him with the guitar on stage, just no 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.800 auto tune, know nothing. It was just so raw and beautiful. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.080 So he's just I love him. Yes, And he doesn't 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:10.200 smell bad by the way too. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.440 Yeah, there is there is a rumor that he smells bad. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:13.800 He doesn't. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.920 Yeah, you know, okay out of nowhere. But I remember 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:18.440 you saying. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.200 Something because it was always a question. I've had people 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.320 wondering when you look at him, and then I got 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.640 the chance to hug him. I forgot what game that was. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.040 Like he was smelling you, like the way he kind 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.040 of was like I didn't know who. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.760 Was Like just in case anyone was wondering. When I 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.760 got to have him, he did not smell bad. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.440 How okay, people that you deal with, you guys deal 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.960 with like that. And I have an experience from like 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.160 a famous person that recognizes you. How do you deal 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.200 with that? Did he recognize you? Did he know you? 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.880 Amber Garci when you introduce yourself? He did not. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.360 I feel like he literally treats because there's sometimes there's 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.160 these actors that, oh who is it? 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.280 It was, well, I know, okay. The Governor of New Jersey, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.840 Chris Christy, like I was sitting in my cubicle upstairs 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.720 one time watching tape and he walks by, like with 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.640 he's with security, he's going to see Jerry, and he 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.960 stops and he goes Brian brought us. Nice to see you, 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:22.320 And I was like, Governor, yeah, thanks appreciate you know 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.200 kind of waving that way. But then you know, there's 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.360 been others that have that, Like when you go to 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.199 training camp, like those actors that come around and stuff, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.319 they go, hey, man, I really like look on the 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:38.920 side all the time. I love your work, love your 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.720 breakdown and that stuff, and you're kind of like, oh, thanks, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.760 you know, appreciate there's you don't know, like these they're 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.240 famous people, but then they're kind of watching your work 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.240 to kind of learn about what's going on. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.920 With the team. They're normal people, right. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:52.280 Yeah. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.960 The more time I've been around famous people, the more 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.240 I realized famous people are just regular people. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.440 Jamie Fox, you know, Jamie Fox was one of those 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.480 You meet him and he's like, ah no man, Dallascowboys 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.400 dot com. And I'm like, yeah, nice to meet you. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:09.960 You know that kind of thing. I mean, it's really 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.839 kind of cool that way that people that have that 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:18.040 status but they know you're what work you do? You know, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.080 That's that's kind of a cool thing around here. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.840 Well post he's been on a lot of our works, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.200 so we've we've had opportunities to work with them, so 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.000 it's been really cool and I will always always be 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.280 a fan of his for just for that, because he's 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:30.960 such a helper to us. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.199 All Right, that was good warm up. Let's jump. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.800 You know one topic I wanted to hit before we 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.480 go to our first break. I was looking at and 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.520 I think this has been a topic that has really 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.880 been talked about quite a bit over the last few weeks. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.000 Dallas Cowboys and third quarters. Right now, they're being outscored 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.600 in the third quarters eighty two to twenty two, obviously 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.760 a huge discrepancy. What would you attribute that to? If 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.720 you had to look at one thing that you could say, 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.600 you know, I think this is it. And then I 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.680 obviously if anybody really knew what it was was, it'd 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.559 probably be somebody on that side of the building and 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.600 they would have figured it out by now. But if 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.480 you're just thinking about it, what would be the thing 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:08.920 that you would most attribute it to? 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.680 Coaching? They had the same issues last year in the 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:13.240 third quarter. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.120 It wasn't as big of a discrepancy, but they did 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.520 battle in the third quarter. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.920 For about the first twelve weeks of the season. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.480 In November December, they kind of figured it out, but 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.280 there were still some games like the Bills game comes 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.240 to mind. I think the Miami game was also an 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.280 instance where the third quarter got out of hand. But 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.400 this has been a problem for this coaching staff the 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.600 last couple of years. I think whenever you go in 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.439 at halftime and you come out with different adjustments, I 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.120 think they are getting out coached in that sense. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.800 I think a love it has to do the coaching 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.800 aspect of it. I think, especially this year. And you know, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.720 your defense got to stop coming out of the halftime. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.160 Last week, you needed one, they got a three and 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.360 out man. They have just not Dallas has not done 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.040 a very good job in what we call the middle 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.880 eight the last four minutes of the half and the 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.600 first four minutes of the second half. It just has not. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.040 They were a good middle eighteen a couple of years ago, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.280 but they it hasn't been that that the way. I 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.400 think a lot of things happened in the third. I 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.640 think your defense, especially this year's gotten really beat down. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.240 You know, the the you know, the the number of 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.600 plays and stuff, and the the runs and things that 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.200 they've had to deal with. I think they get just 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.480 really physical half. They get beat down, and they and 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.440 they and it's it's been a problem. And then the 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.520 offense is just inability to come out with any type 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.719 of anything to kind of keep a drive going to 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.840 you know, to get you know, get going. It seems like, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.640 you know, I always ask Christy Scales this question the 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.400 in the in the in the pregame show, I say, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.560 all right, Scoop, you're gonna take the ball, You're gonna 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.040 play defense to start. And she always used to say 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.440 right off the jump that, hey, I'm gonna play defense 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.680 then and now it's like she has to think because 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.160 she's like, I don't know, you know, because it it's 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.520 been so bad. You don't know if you know, do 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.240 you you want to try and win the middle eight 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.160 or do you want to try and get the ball 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.320 to you know, you're interested to start with the ball. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.199 But man, they just the inability to get anything going 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.840 offensively has been a huge problem. But I think your defense, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.200 especially this year, has gotten really really beat down because 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.640 the things they've had to deal with because the offensive 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.400 struggles in the first half of games and it's led 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.040 to some things happening in the third. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.120 Well. Yeah, I mean we've talked about it a lot 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.320 here with how different the first half is versus the 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.040 second half, and how it affects the defense, how I mean, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.000 they do everything they possibly can in the first half 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:47.079 for you to stay in the game, and they get tired. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.040 I mean, you get it's exhausting. I can only imagine. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:56.880 But I attribute all of it mainly to coaching, because again, 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.440 I've never been in a locker room at halftime, like 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.160 an NFL locker room and understand exactly what is said 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.760 and what kind of adjustments they try to implement. But 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.640 you've seen other teams be successful at it, so there's 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.280 something to it where you know it can happen and 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.280 you can come out looking completely different in the halftime 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.960 and the second half versus the first half. But I 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.319 don't have an answer other than whatever McCarthy's doing during 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.400 that period right there is clearly not working. So I 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:28.800 don't have an answer. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:29.120 Really. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.000 You know, Brian, you brought up something that I wonder 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.080 how much. I don't think it affects this necessarily, but 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.720 I do wonder how much it affects the Cowboys in games. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.480 Is deferring, and I, for the life of me, cannot 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.520 understand how any team doesn't differ. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.439 And the reason why I say that is because I'm 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:48.720 with you. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.079 There's only one opportunity you have other than to get 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.920 a turnover. There's only one opportunity you have in a 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.840 game to still a possession, and that is if you 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.599 defer to the second half. If it works out to 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.000 where you can end the half with the ball and 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.520 then you can get it by the beginning of the 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.120 second That is the only way in football to be 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.360 able to steal a possession other than through a turnover. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.840 And because possessions are so valuable, why would you not 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.920 give yourself the chance to steal a possession. That I 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.680 just I've never been able to understand that. And I've 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.560 heard coaches talk about like, you want to get a 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.200 fast start and all the things they mentioned when they 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.680 talk about it, But I'm just like, none of that 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.080 is more important than possibly stealing a possession. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.800 Is playing like this, Yeah, you want your defense just 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.440 to start the game and they give your offense in 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:37.120 the second half. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.160 We've talked about this a couple of times about how 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.880 this team has not started games well A and B. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.280 Whenever they get down by two scores, it's basically over. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.040 And I think it's more so a confidence thing that 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:51.120 they have. I think there was the game against Atlanta 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.920 where they received after the opening coin toss. I could 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.720 be completely off, but there was one and since the 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.720 bye week where they took the coin toss or they 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.640 took the ball off the coin toss. I think it's 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.720 a situation we're like, okay, we want to go score 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.160 points first, because we're getting points scored on us every 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.480 single time. So I think that's probably their thought process. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.520 But I'm completely with you, Derek. You have to have 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.440 both sides of the ball that can play well enough. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.240 It's where you can steal that possion coming out of 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:13.800 the second half. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:15.960 All right, let's let's go ahead and take our first 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.320 real quick. Actually, Nick sent me a text. Nick Eatman 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.120 sent me a text. He said, also to note this 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.880 is it. This is an interesting number of yards in 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.760 the third quarter. Nine to seventy one to four seventy five. Yeah, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.200 that's how how many more yards they're giving up. So 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.400 it's it's really a failure in two ways. It's a 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.760 failure offensively in that you're not being able to move 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:35.560 the ball, you're not. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.480 Being able to score points. And defensively yeacause we're not hi, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:39.720 we're tired. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.240 I'm on the defense. By way, we're tired. We're exhausted 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.560 by then it's like, give us a break, you know, 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.360 So I don't blame that. I don't get mad at 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.960 them anymore because it is what it is. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:51.760 Yeah, all right, we're gona take our first break. We 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:52.160 come back. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.320 We're going to jump into the Houston defense versus the 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:55.040 Cowboys offense. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.720 Will be back. 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All right, so I 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.480 started looking at this Houston defense. First thing that popped 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.200 out to me is that they are fourth in past defense. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.680 They're third interceptions. They take the ball away, particularly through interceptions. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:08.800 What makes their pass defense so good? 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.840 Pass rush, it's certainly part of it. I think it 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:12.800 starts with the pass. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.560 Rush in yeah, yeah, go ahead, I mean you got it. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.040 Yeah, I think it starts with the pass rush. I 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:21.240 think also Demico Ryans is a demon. He throws a 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.400 scheme out there, and that if you want to look 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.520 at a If you're a Cowboys fan and you heard 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.920 early in the season a lot about these players talking 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.040 about yeah, guys aren't doing their jobs or trying to 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.040 play hero ball, and you're a fan of you're trying 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.720 to understand, Okay, what does that not look like? Look 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.119 at the Houston Texans defense, because that's what everybody playing 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.440 together as a unit does look like. Everyone everyone plays 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.679 their job. I think specifically, you see it in the secondary. Specifically, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.080 they have assignments for every type of route anything pretty 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.760 much other than like the drag routes. They're okay with 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.640 allowing this stuff across the field. The field which could 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.400 work for this offense because I think with this kind 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.880 of West Coast scheme that Mike McCarthy tries to throw 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.159 out at times, it's it's very across the field, you know, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.160 left and right. Cooper Rush tried to do it too 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.680 much against the Eagles, so they could find some things 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.840 down there, but they bank on the fact that the 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.640 offense is eventually going to take a shot and when 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.439 they do, they're going to take advantage of you. And 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.280 you see it with If they go vertical route, then 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.399 they'll have a safety come over a guy like Jimmy Ward. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.680 If they have you know, a post over the middle, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.200 then they'll have a guy like a ciz Al Shayir 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.200 dropping coverage and be able to cut that off. They 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.040 are more than comfortable with allowing their corners to stay 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.200 one on one as well, But it starts with the 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.040 pass rush with will Anderson, and. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.760 Their secondary is outstanding. I mean, you know, we when 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.400 you when you look at where they where they're at, 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.080 and I mean they there we I mean the pass 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.560 rushes is just as good. But you know, when you 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.879 start to talk about with will Anderson and then also 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.760 with with Hunter, they'll play opposite sides that you know, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:49.760 they'll want to play right, will play left, and we'll 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.280 flip it around a little bit. They they love to play. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.720 They played nickel the whole game. You know, they played 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.000 nickel because they've got legitimate They've got a they've got 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.439 a safety in this Kalan b look and we watched 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:06.600 him at USC and he is a tall, thin, really 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.440 a corner that's playing safety and he leads their team 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:14.200 in interceptions and he's got really good vision for what's 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.680 going on and he kind of finds ways to fit 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.359 in coverage and stuff. But Stingley can cover really well, 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.440 Lasser can cover really well, and Petrie can cover really well. 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:27.760 They've got three guys and then all of a sudden, 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.119 they got a safety that's kind of a corner playing 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:34.320 free safety, so they literally have four corners on them 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:39.000 and Petrie. Petrie plays Nickel, but he's kind of like 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.800 a like he's a he's like a safety as well 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.000 in the fat in fact, how physical he is. So 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:49.399 to me, they they've got ability that the pass rush 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.480 and then the coverage aspect on the back end. They 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.480 just don't give you a lot of space. I mean, 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.879 you go back and look, and you go back and 0:21:57.920 --> 0:21:59.920 you check, you watch the tape, you look at metro 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:05.320 like teams are like fifty completion percentage against these guys. 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:10.280 They just don't give you. Now. They play, they play 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.800 at they play off, but they're really good at driving 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:16.879 and good at like when you know when they have 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.440 to carry and they can they can find this and 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.520 you talk about the underneath stuff that that's clearly gonna 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.800 be an issue for them, But when it goes to 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.960 down the field, you know, not being out of position, 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:30.639 this is this is one of the best defenses the 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:31.640 Cowboys gonna play. 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:33.920 I think, quick question, do you feel like it's an 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:35.880 issue that they allow the underneath or you think it's 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:36.960 something that they're okay. 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:38.639 With at they're okay with it because I feel like 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:39.639 that they're gonna tackle. 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:41.200 Yeah, I feel like they're gonna they're. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:42.680 Gonna, they're gonna let it go and then they're gonna 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:43.760 just rally to the ball. 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:45.920 So you're saying, this is another game of three four 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:47.240 yard passes, and. 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.280 It's it's gonna well, it's gonna be a problem because 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:54.119 too because I mentioned Will Anderson and I mentioned Hunter. 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.480 But they get they get like like Tim Settle the 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:01.159 defensive tackle, they get some pressure inside Mario Edwards, they 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.160 get some pressure inside on you, and you know that's 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.880 that's it. Teams have teams have had you talk about 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.160 running the football. They're kind of like a little bit 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:15.320 mid pack on that. But but but overall the pass coverage, 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.840 they want to get you in past. They want to 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:20.560 get you where you're having to throw the football because 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:22.720 they feel like that they can you know, they could 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.840 bring five, they could rush four. They know on the 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.879 back end that there there's their corners and their safeties 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:32.399 are gonna hold up and and it makes it it's 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:35.240 it's it's a great way to call defenses if you've 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.000 got that kind of group that you have that much 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:39.240 confidence in to to make place. 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:40.960 You mentioned Tim Settle. 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.000 He's a guy that over the last few weeks has 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.639 been playing really well for them. Uh where does he 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:48.040 typically line up and and how does that match up 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:49.240 with Dallas's guys? 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:50.000 Does he flip around. 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:52.400 Yeah, you're gonna flip around inside there. You know they're 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.960 gonna get What's gonna happen is I have a feeling, 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.320 and Nit correct me if I'm wrong on this. I 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:01.200 think that they're gonna hunt match up here. I think 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:03.280 I think they're gonna hunt matchups and I think they're 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.600 gonna hunt matchups with Hunter is what they're gonna do. Yeah, 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:10.639 And and depending on who's playing, is it a guide 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.440 in game? Is it a you know, is a Steel game? 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.280 We know Steel is gonna play, but we'll see how 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.080 the other things work out. But this team, like I say, 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.359 they they're gonna they're gonna play. They're gonna get nickel, 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.080 and they're gonna they're gonna try and choke the run. 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:27.320 And if they could choke the run, and they're gonna 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:30.760 make you throw the ball. And that's that's that's where 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:33.040 they come to play because they feel like they can 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:35.280 get guys home and they feel like that they can 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:36.199 cover on the back end. 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:38.800 You hadn't mentioned either yesterday or Tuesday that these guys 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.800 do a lot of stunts. Yeah, they stunt almost every play. 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:44.679 Yeah, yeah, I would I would love to see an 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:47.600 exten stat of how often they stunt, like stunt percentage, 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:48.959 it would have to be eight. 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:52.560 It's like everything that they do well, Cowboys struggle at. 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:54.680 Like it doesn't sound like when if we when if we. 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:57.080 Had this discussion on a on a you know, when 0:24:57.080 --> 0:25:00.000 we break down the opponent and it's like, okay, Dallas 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.800 could take advantage of this and then there, but their 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:06.200 opponent can do this, and it's really everything that Dallas 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:08.960 is poor at, you know. And and this is going 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:12.440 to be this is going this is just this could 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:16.240 be very reminisus. The game can remind me. That's what 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:18.520 I should say. I should stop trying to use big words. 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:21.719 But the thing that this has got a little bit 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:24.280 of a Detroit vibe to it for me, this game, 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:27.840 and I mean it in a way of inside pressure, 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:31.880 outside pressure and guys on the back end that can 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:34.520 cover a little bit. You know. That's and when you 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.760 have versatile like with Brian Branch and guys like that, 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:42.399 you you have versatile players that could play, you know, 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:45.600 and take away things from you. This is what's going 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:48.159 to be difficult about moving the ball against these I 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:50.800 think there's ways that Dallas can attack them on defense 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:54.159 when Dallas is playing defense. I think there's things I 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.399 think that if if the Texans really want to shut 0:25:57.440 --> 0:25:59.840 you down, they could probably do it. 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:03.399 They're a scenario if I just need one it can it? 0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:04.160 Can you give me. 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:09.240 One scenario of this is one crease in their defense. 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:12.000 This is one thing in their defense that they've been 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:14.720 a little shaky on that if Dallas can't exploit it, 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:16.840 this is how they could be successful. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.200 This offense has to be super patient because they're not 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:22.200 gonna get any big place. And I think I think 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:24.679 Cooper Rush is a patient quarterback that that's probably one 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:28.000 of the traits that has been talked about them on him. 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:30.000 It's maybe a little bit toatient. 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:33.760 Yeah, I think that could play into his strength. But yeah, 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:36.160 this is going to require a lot of patients, both 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:37.360 in the run game and in the pass game. 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:41.560 For the early downs. Nobody the Lions are the only 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:43.680 team in the league that blitch you more than these 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:46.720 dudes on third down? Okay, they don't want to go there? 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:48.640 You don't want to go there? Yeah? You know they 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:50.840 you know. It's it's kind of funny when you when 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:53.240 you look at certain teams and you're like, okay, when 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:54.640 are they going to come after you. Like I said, 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.400 these guys got naturally a good pass rush, but they'll 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:00.440 bring slots, they'll bring linebackers, they'll bring you, they'll bring 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:05.200 secondary pressure and stuff like that. Dallas has got to 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:09.320 somehow win on early downs. You can't. It can't be 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:12.560 second and nine, you know, and then all of a 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:14.600 sudden you're scrambling and then you know there's a three 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:18.720 yard pass and now it's third and six. No, I mean, 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:21.800 Dallas has got to it. They have got to stay 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.520 out of third downs against these guys. You know, if 0:27:24.560 --> 0:27:26.880 somehow you can, you know, you've got to make these 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:30.240 things where it's a second and three, play that way, 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.760 play second and two. It's gonna be really hard for 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:35.200 But these these guys, like say, they get you in 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:38.679 third down, they feel like they can get off the field. 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:41.600 And if Dallas is in a bunch of long yardage, 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:44.199 I guess you could say it for any team, but 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:47.760 especially this team because of how they can match you up. 0:27:47.840 --> 0:27:52.440 So if Dallas doesn't win on early downs, this ambar 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:55.840 On defense is going to get just really super tired 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:56.280 this game. 0:27:56.560 --> 0:28:00.200 Well I know, I blink and we're already on third downs. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:00.880 Yeah, so. 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:06.480 It happens so fast Alfas gets on the field, I 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:10.240 literally just blink third down on my own. 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:10.639 Great. 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:15.760 So I mean hopefully hopefully they stay patient. I think 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:19.960 that's the key right there. Patient, Yeah, because when you 0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:22.840 start hurting, I mean, they've made so many mistakes. I 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:26.600 think you just have to assng As you're a little 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:31.080 smarter and more patient. I think they could create some 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:34.000 positive plays offensively with Cooper Rush. 0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:37.760 There was a moment at the halftime break Bobby Belt 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:39.560 and I had gotten together, just like a couple of 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:41.800 things that stood up to us, and one of the 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.800 things that we both saw was the inefficiency on first 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:47.440 down and half against the Eagles. Specifically, I didn't take 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:49.440 the numbers in the second half because at that point, 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:50.600 you know whatever, But in. 0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:55.440 The first half that destroyed your will take exactly happened. 0:28:58.480 --> 0:28:59.160 In the first half. 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:02.360 They had fourteen plays on first down. Not fourteen first downs. 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:05.880 They had fourteen plays on first down. They have thirty 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:08.520 four total yards on those plays. It's two point four 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:12.280 yards per play and two turnovers. I factored that in 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:14.400 eleven of those yards came on one place, so it 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.680 was really thirteen plays for twenty three yards and aside 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:20.160 from that one eleven yard carried by Rico Dawdle, the 0:29:20.240 --> 0:29:22.440 lack of efficiency and getting ahead of the chains is 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.840 affecting this offense drastically. Yep, they have to be able 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:26.640 to get ahead of the chain. 0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:28.680 These guys will punish you. I do you have it's 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:31.840 similar numbers like that. It'll be ugly, it'll be bad. 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:35.080 Yeah, hey, you mentioned Mario, which it was it. Why 0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:36.560 weren't you hear when his dad was drafted? 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:36.640 Oh? 0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:37.479 You draft his dad? 0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:39.920 I was on here with I remember Mario his dad 0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:41.840 being on the Cowboys, and I would hear when he 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:42.720 got drafted as well. 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:44.800 But I was pretty sure you were part of that 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:45.400 crew that draft. 0:29:45.800 --> 0:29:48.800 Crazy. I mean, think about it. As matter of fact, 0:29:49.600 --> 0:29:52.800 Mario wasn't senior, wasn't out of the league very long, 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:56.120 right before his son was playing college football. 0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:58.720 Yeah. Yeah, all of a sudd it popped up and 0:29:58.720 --> 0:30:00.920 I was like, Mario's kid, sure enough. 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:01.160 Yeah. 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:02.840 It was kind of one of those things that you're 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:04.360 kind of like going, wait a minute, man, what do 0:30:04.360 --> 0:30:06.600 he happened when he was like eleven years old or 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:07.080 something like that. 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:10.240 Mario Mario Senior was a character. He was a he 0:30:10.280 --> 0:30:12.440 was a fun guy. Yeah, all right, let's take our final. 0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:14.240 T Y Hilton's kids going to Purdue next year. 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:19.320 It's like this thing moves fast. You really you look 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:20.960 around college football all the time. 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:23.520 I'm seeing now, oh yeah, that's I saw the other 0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:26.600 day a Ronde Gatston's kid playing college football. Like they're 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:28.920 just all these kids that are around college football now 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:30.960 that well, I watched their dads play football. 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:34.440 And then Harrison. I remember Marvin Harrison for the Colts. 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:36.680 I remember he I remember scouting him in like Syracuse, 0:30:36.720 --> 0:30:38.400 and then all of a sudden, I'm scouting his Sunday 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:40.640 Ohio State. Yeah, you know, just a lot of. 0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:42.920 Time moves baby. 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Stop laughing, Bright, I'm not I'm confident 0:33:43.600 --> 0:33:43.920 are you? 0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:45.080 I'm just thinking? 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:47.760 How confident are you that Cooper Rush? 0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:51.640 Cooper Rush can be better than what he showed against Philadelphia. 0:33:52.080 --> 0:33:54.120 He's got to be right, that's got to be rock bottom. 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:57.160 I would assume it was. It was an awful showing. 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:00.320 You talk about the shotgun snap dropping, the shotgun snap 0:34:00.360 --> 0:34:04.240 it leading to a Philadelphia score forty five yards total passing. 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:05.720 It's it will be better. 0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:07.480 Can I qualify that though I can get worse? 0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:09.600 Well, let me qualify that because I think we all 0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:12.160 have a certain impression of him from what happened when 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:14.800 he had to play those five games, whatever it was. 0:34:15.400 --> 0:34:17.480 But there were a lot of different factors involved. 0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:19.480 You had a much better defense, which, by the way, 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:22.799 the way the defense played the other night closer to 0:34:22.840 --> 0:34:25.720 what you had there, But it was a different offense, 0:34:25.760 --> 0:34:27.520 even it was a different play caller. There were a 0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:31.000 lot of different things that factored in. I guess what 0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:34.719 I'm trying to get to is without some of those things, 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:39.200 did we maybe overvalue him then? Did we maybe give 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:41.600 him a lot more credit? Sure, then maybe he was 0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:43.680 due and what we're seeing right now is closer to 0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:45.359 what he is. Or do you think he really what 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:48.120 you've seen and all the practices you've watched and everything. 0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:49.719 Do you think he's just better and that was just 0:34:49.760 --> 0:34:50.359 a bad day. 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:52.200 I mean, I look back at the Atlanta game and 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:54.080 I see a guy who was able to move the 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:56.960 offense toffdfield, and he did it in a He had 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:58.600 that team in a position that, if you know, the 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:01.080 ball bounced their on an on site kick, they would 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:02.920 have had a chance to win that game. So I 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:06.040 think it was more so a product of Philadelphia being 0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:08.200 able to prepare for Cooper Rush going into the week, 0:35:08.239 --> 0:35:10.000 having a guy like Kellen Moore in the building to 0:35:10.080 --> 0:35:12.799 do so, and then they just they went all out 0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:15.480 after him and he was not able to do anything. 0:35:16.480 --> 0:35:18.600 You know, I think back to training camp specifically this 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:20.600 year and being you know, when there was a question 0:35:20.680 --> 0:35:23.920 about if a QB two battle was ongoing. You pay 0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:25.879 a lot more attention to Cooper Rush and Trey Lance 0:35:25.920 --> 0:35:27.919 and whenever they make mistakes, whenever they do things right, 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:31.080 and compared to last training camp, I feel like Cooper 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:34.200 Rush maybe took a step down, but very clear still 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:36.839 to QB two in that sense, but he was making 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:38.560 a little bit more mistakes this year than we got 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:41.080 used to seeing him whenever he was starting back in 0:35:41.120 --> 0:35:44.360 those five six games and whenever he was in the 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:47.000 preseason last year. And then also I think it's really 0:35:47.000 --> 0:35:49.400 important to note that this team went all in with 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:52.000 Trey Lance in the preseason. Yeah, and they didn't give 0:35:52.000 --> 0:35:54.320 Cooper Rush any time really at all during the preseason. 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:55.719 It was that first game where he had a couple 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.400 of series and then we didn't see Cooper Rush. You know, 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:01.200 how much is that just being super rusty and not 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:02.920 being on a field and over a year. You know, 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:05.160 we're talking about sixteen months at this point, so I 0:36:05.640 --> 0:36:07.480 wonder how much that is factored in. And you know, 0:36:07.520 --> 0:36:09.600 you asked Cooper. He won't give you any of those excuses. 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:10.920 He said, I got to play better. But I think 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:13.400 in the back of his mind even he has to 0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:15.600 think about, Okay, if I had had those three games 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:17.719 to play in the preseason, how much more would I 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:18.719 be able to catch up the speed? 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:22.680 Right now, I think this one's not going to fall 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:25.759 on the quarterbacks. This one's going to fall on the 0:36:25.840 --> 0:36:29.520 offensive line and the receivers. You know, if they're going 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:33.680 to have you know, Cooper Rush and Trey Lance are 0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:36.440 who they are. Yeah, but you're going to have to 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:39.080 find a way to win on the outside, you know. 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.760 There we talked about, there's a lot of they play 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:44.719 with a lot of cushion here, but you've got to 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:47.480 be ready for You've got to be ready for the secondary. 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:49.640 I mean they're good. I mean, you put put Trey 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:51.960 Lance out there, You're liable to have four interceptions in 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.479 this game, you know, if you really are if if 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:57.319 that's the case, so it's going to be about how 0:36:57.440 --> 0:36:59.799 well are they can they win on the outside, can 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:01.839 find a way to win on the outside. If they 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:05.080 do find a way to win, can they block the front? 0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:08.000 Can they block Will Anderson? Can they block Settle? Can 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:10.640 they block Hunter? Can they block these guys? Can they 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:13.759 block these linebackers? That's another thing that they're gonna have 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.520 to deal with. I think the quarterback play will be important. 0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:21.520 But what's going on around, you know, Houston. If they 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:24.400 completely shut you down at wide receiver, it doesn't matter 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:28.120 what Cooper Rush or Trey Lance do. It doesn't matter, 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:32.800 you know. But they they they they're gonna the Tolbert 0:37:32.840 --> 0:37:36.160 and Lamb and these guys are turping. They're gonna they're 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:38.520 gonna need to win, you know. I mean, they're probably 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:41.520 not gonna win every play, but they're gonna need to win. 0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:45.239 And if but if they don't, this this, like I said, 0:37:45.320 --> 0:37:47.520 this's got a kind of a Detroit vibe to me 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:50.520 a little bit. With the pressure and then the guy's 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:53.160 covering on the back end. That that's that's that's what 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:54.280 needs to happen. 0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:56.640 I think, Well, yeah, and this is no attack to 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:59.040 Cooper Rush because I think he's been such a good 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:01.760 backup quarterback and we've seen it before in the past 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:04.280 where he's been able to win games for this team. 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:07.879 But he's a backup quarterback for a reason, Like he's 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:11.879 not necessarily meant to be the savior and come in 0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:15.400 and just put everything on his shoulder. You know, he 0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:18.040 needs the type of that type of help around. He 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:22.120 needs the receivers to be getting open, creating separation, hitting 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:27.480 their marks, and everyone just kind of working seamless. Seem seamlessly, yeah, 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:28.439 seems Yeah. 0:38:28.480 --> 0:38:30.360 He needs to be accurate though too. If they do 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:33.760 get open, you know, they can't. This is we always 0:38:33.760 --> 0:38:36.440 talk about this. The margin of error for this team 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:40.440 is zero. They can't they can't afford when they when 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:43.360 they have a guy open, they can't afford a mispass. 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:47.160 They can't afford to drop, they can't afford you know, 0:38:47.440 --> 0:38:50.480 a penalty when they get a big play. You know, 0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:53.120 there's you can say about a lot of teams, but 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:57.000 especially this team on offense. They are really challenged in 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:58.160 a lot of areas right now. 0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:01.120 But see, one of the things that was really positive 0:39:01.560 --> 0:39:05.839 when Dak went out that season, Kellen Moore knew how 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:09.560 to adjust to his quarterback. He started playing into what 0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:13.480 Cooper rush strengths were and adjusting to his game. He 0:39:13.560 --> 0:39:17.320 was a lot more comfortable with those second team guys, 0:39:17.880 --> 0:39:21.880 the backup receivers he had, he's had, he had been 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:24.840 practicing with them all the time, and the connection was 0:39:24.880 --> 0:39:27.000 better there than it was with a lot of the 0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:30.800 starters at the time. So I think that's where it's lacking. 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:33.080 And something that I didn't feel like I saw last 0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:36.360 week was Mike McCarthy kind of adjusting to what Cooper 0:39:36.440 --> 0:39:40.560 Rush is and just changing the play calling a little 0:39:40.560 --> 0:39:43.799 bit to work better on his favor. So I think 0:39:44.160 --> 0:39:48.160 it's a combination of everybody. You need to be able 0:39:48.200 --> 0:39:51.440 to do a lot more adjusting to cater to Cooper Rush. 0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:54.359 Yeah, I know it's impossible, I shouldn't say impossible, but 0:39:54.520 --> 0:39:57.919 highly unlikely to just change your offense in the middle 0:39:57.960 --> 0:40:01.200 of the season due to a quarterback going down. But 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:03.160 if it were up to me, I think I would 0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:06.960 really lean into using Trey Lance and doing a lot 0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:09.239 of read option, and especially against. 0:40:08.960 --> 0:40:11.360 A defense like this, Well, I know it's it's a 0:40:11.400 --> 0:40:11.920 hard thing to do. 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:13.440 It's a very hard thing to do and got to 0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:14.279 be able to do it though. 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.319 Yeah, I hear what you're saying, and I think that 0:40:16.719 --> 0:40:20.040 especially when I hear when I hear this defense that 0:40:20.080 --> 0:40:22.360 they're going to play this weekend and all the challenges 0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:25.120 they present to you, one thing that can always throw 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:27.200 a defense like that, I don't care how good they are, 0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:29.759 is to see something for the first time. And what 0:40:29.800 --> 0:40:31.680 I mean by that is if you haven't put it 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:35.319 on film, then they're not expecting it from you, and 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:37.319 so them having to defend it means they have to 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:38.960 defend it on the fly. They have to figure it 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:41.000 out on the fly because they're not preparing for that 0:40:41.360 --> 0:40:44.640 all week. And I think when you're outmatched, as it 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:46.719 seems like they may be this week, this would be 0:40:46.760 --> 0:40:48.719 a great time for them to roll out something like 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:51.680 that and just choose a ton of read option with 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:54.279 this quarterback that has all this ability with leg with 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:57.520 his legs, and not play into what they really want 0:40:57.560 --> 0:40:58.960 you to do, which is they want you to throw 0:40:58.960 --> 0:40:59.200 the ball. 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:01.400 They want to get they want those interceptions. 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:01.640 Right. 0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:03.640 I think that would be how I would look at 0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:05.440 this game, But again, that's a challenging thing to do. 0:41:05.480 --> 0:41:05.960 I don't want to. 0:41:06.040 --> 0:41:07.760 I don't want to make it seem like it's just simple. 0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:09.440 You can just go and just change your whole offense 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:12.759 in a week. But I do think if it were me, 0:41:12.840 --> 0:41:15.320 I would be like, at this point in the season 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:17.600 where you are, he'd be worth a shot for me. 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:19.000 You know I agree? 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:21.480 All right, real quick, before we end the show, I 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:23.520 did have one more question for you guys. What are 0:41:23.520 --> 0:41:26.200 some ideas some ways that maybe the Cowboys can look 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:28.560 at getting Ced more involved When you have the challenges 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:32.040 you have right now at wide, at quarterback, he is 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:33.160 your best offensive player. 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:34.680 How can you get him more involved in the. 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:38.080 Game quick, short routes, I think, especially against this defense, 0:41:38.120 --> 0:41:40.319 you know, there's opportunities for the drags like we said, 0:41:40.400 --> 0:41:43.959 and the crossers. I think, you know, short quick routes 0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:46.320 will get him in the mix and allow him to 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:49.880 use his run for catchability. There were multiple times in 0:41:49.920 --> 0:41:51.440 that Eagles game. I think I mentioned earlier in the 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:53.320 week he had a hell of a game against the Eagles, 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:56.400 but Kooper rushes couldn't find him find There was multiple 0:41:56.400 --> 0:41:59.040 times where he got opened downfield. And there was one 0:41:59.080 --> 0:42:02.239 place specifically I think was the uh the fumble from 0:42:02.360 --> 0:42:07.880 ferguson correct Cooper rush mist a wide open CD Lamb 0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:09.680 on that play that probably would have gone for six 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:11.440 and you kind of just see CD walk to the 0:42:11.480 --> 0:42:13.520 sideline after the fumble and just like you know, like 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:15.480 it's it's one of those. So you got to keep 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:17.960 CD engaged a and I think you do that with short, 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:21.239 quick routes. I think he's approaching an NFL record of 0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:24.799 four or more receptions to start a career, or four 0:42:24.880 --> 0:42:27.359 more consecutive games with four and more receptions. I think 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:29.160 he only needs one more to match Michael Thomas for 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:31.359 the NFL records. Something to keep an eye on there. 0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:33.719 Yeah, I think if they're gonna give you cushion, you're 0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:36.920 you're right about the quick stuff, you know, but some 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.120 routes need to be down the field though, too. You know, 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.680 you need to find a way to And I would say, okay, 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:43.799 if they're gonna play a ton of man coverage, get 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:46.239 in a bunch of bunch of formations and scatter and 0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:48.839 pick and do stuff like that. But if they're gonna 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:50.960 give you cushion, you know, take advantage of that. Get 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:52.759 the ball out quick, let it let it you know, 0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:55.440 let it fly. Hey, gain is six on first down 0:42:55.600 --> 0:42:57.600 is not a bad play. Gain is seven on first 0:42:57.640 --> 0:42:59.960 down not a bad play. But they're gonna need to 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:02.360 they're gonna need several of those. Just can't get behind 0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:04.719 the change. But I can say if they were playing 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:07.040 a ton of man coverage, that would be my adjustment. 0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.960 Would get in a bunch of formations, scatter that stuff, 0:43:10.120 --> 0:43:13.880 run picks for him, make these texts, and defensive backs 0:43:13.920 --> 0:43:17.239 have to run through trash. But you know, we'll see 0:43:17.239 --> 0:43:19.279 how it plays. I just feel like it's going to 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:21.880 be Lamb will probably be able to get open and 0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:24.719 do what he needs to do. I worry about the others' 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:28.400 that's what? And and can Cooper Rush know when he 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:32.120 needs to go to Lamb and not the others in 0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:32.960 this football game? 0:43:33.120 --> 0:43:35.840 I think, Yeah, it's more being on the same page. 0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:39.439 And hopefully an extra week of this in preparation will 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:43.440 help towards that. And again, also, it's gonna be nighttime. 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:44.239 It's a night game. 0:43:44.560 --> 0:43:45.439 There's no sun. 0:43:46.160 --> 0:43:46.799 What about the moon? 0:43:48.280 --> 0:43:49.759 The moon is not gonna blind you. 0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:50.919 Ceedee Lamb. 0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:53.279 He has recorded at least four receptions and forty two 0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:56.160 consecutive games, the second longest such streaking NFL history. Only 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:58.680 Michael Thomas with forty three games, has a longer streak, 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:00.799 so he can match that streak this week. 0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:03.000 Four catches for twenty eight yards. 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:04.160 That's kind of how it was last week. 0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:06.240 Six catches for twenty eight years. 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:06.560 All iright. 0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:07.480 Appreciate you guys doing us. 0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:09.760 We'll be back on tomorrow and we'll give you a breakdown, 0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:13.200 the final breakdown of Cowboys versus Texans that will happen 0:44:13.320 --> 0:44:14.440 Monday night till then. 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:15.839 For your care, I. 0:44:15.800 --> 0:44:17.839 Will not be here, but these guys will hold it down. 0:44:17.880 --> 0:44:19.600 I'm sure Am will have a great game for you 0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:22.520 guys and yet anytime. But I'll be back with you 0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:24.319 guys on Tuesday. We won't have any shows on Monday 0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:26.200 because it's game day, but we'll be back on Tuesday. 0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:28.440 We'll tell you what all went right and wrong on Tuesday. 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:28.920 Till then. 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:30.879 For Nick Harris, Brian brought us an Amber Garcia. I'm 0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:33.040 Derek Eaglean. This has been The Break live on Dallas 0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:34.320 Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:44:35.160 --> 0:44:38.160 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:44:38.280 --> 0:44:41.240 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.