WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Taking Command, Leonard is Interested 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.680 The following is the production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:14.440 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.040 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:16.560 Yes? 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.439 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:19.239 Absolutely? 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.360 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:21.720 Yeah? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:23.599 And so much for that. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:35.960 with mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Walker, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.479 It is Monday, November twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.120 Episode number seventy seven. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.000 The Break. We are alive from the SWBC Mortgage studios 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.360 at the Star and today we get to talk about 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.920 the Cowboys win on Thanksgiving Day versus the Washington Commanders. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.000 They win forty five to ten, a blowout, huge game 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.600 from the standpoint of just looking at the Cowboys adding 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.840 another win and trying to keep pace on the possibilities 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.399 that maybe they can pull closer to the Philadelphia Eagles 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.120 before that matchup a couple of weeks from now. But 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.720 we'll talk about what happened in this game. We'll also 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.840 have a little bit of talk on some stuff that's 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.039 happening around the NFC and a little update on Shaq Leonard. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.120 Cowboys seem to have a little interest there. So we'll 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.800 catch up figure out what we're hearing about. You guys 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.959 in the building, now, we got to figure it out. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:27.679 Get it done. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.000 You guys in the building, you had to figure it out. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.319 Did the rest of us outside the building can't help you? 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.039 The building? Here we go out? Yeah, all right, So. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.640 Let's talk about this game. Let's start first going around 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.560 on the table. Let's get some storylines of the game. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.720 Let's talk with you Patrick, what was your storyline of 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:42.119 this game? 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.800 I think for me, one of the biggest storylines is 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.320 just how prolific Dak Prescott continues to look. I mean, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.040 there is a lot of good to take away from 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.240 this game, but if you look at it from the 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.600 aspect of he didn't play a perfect game and still 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.240 had four touchdowns and over three hundred yards. I mean 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.480 if he example, if he connects with Ceede Lamb on 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.200 that deep route down the middle early in the game, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.880 that's one example of a throw that he definitely wants back. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.280 I mean, this might be a five plus touchdown game 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.160 four hundred yards. So it just goes to show that 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.280 the Cowboys, you know, can continue if they can continue 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.000 to be resilient and when things don't go their way, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.600 particularly on offense, if they can just you know, stick 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.760 with what's working for them, then they can absolutely continue 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.760 to be dominant. The play calling for Michael McCarthy, I 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.800 was just in love with it, the way he tortured 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.280 some of those mixed coverages, some of the zone looks 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.240 that he was getting. You know, talk about that touchdown 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.040 down the scene to Cavante Turpin. It put the defensive 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.679 back in another bind, something that we've seen happening here recently. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.359 Ferguson Schoolmaker touchdown. That was another example making the defensive 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.520 back half to choose, knowing that whichever one he chooses, it's. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.040 A touchdown either way. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.320 So as long as the protection continues to hold up 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.880 and they continue to be resilient and the play calling 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.000 continues to be what it is along with execution, I 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:00.239 love with this offense. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:00.359 Be. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:03.839 Offensive, creativity. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.240 I mean Patrick talks about it, but if you look 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.720 at what they were able to do, they're continually finding 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:13.520 ways to manipulate the defenses the past, to Ferguson, empty 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.560 set three wide receivers, you line up on the right side, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.240 you know, as Ferguson's going vertically. Then you know, turping 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.880 goes out and now you're moving people. The flip play 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.120 to Pollard on third and six, you know, in order 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.000 to get the ball to the edge, and how you 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.000 bring guys in motion to get the blocker out in front. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.480 The doubtle screen was a really creative play call at 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.119 the time. Kick lead peel Boem, it's a touchdown right 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.000 there with your blockers, you know, and then he mentioned 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.320 the turpin touchdown. You know, it's when you put people 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.560 in a situation where you run, you know, you get 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.240 trips formation three to one side, run two to the out, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.280 and they all they all vacate, and now you have 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.680 a speech. And the commanders did something. They gambled on 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.200 the play. They tried to run. They took their safety 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.240 curl and put him as a linebacker like he was 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.040 gonna blitz, and then they tried to drop him in coverage. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.200 And Dak saw it all the way. He's like, listen, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.280 if you're gonna play too deep and put that guy 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.680 on my slot player and make it like you're trying 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.800 to disguise it, I'm gonna make you pay for it. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.560 And that's what they did. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.440 You're starting to see a lot more creativity with this 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.560 offense when it comes to how they manipulate the play 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.240 in order to allow their receivers and their backs to 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:30.760 have success. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.120 To me, three things that kind of stood out were 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.080 one consistency that now and we've been talking about this 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.840 every week now, that is just becoming something that is 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:47.000 more consistent of this offense where you can see trends 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.599 of them doing it. You talk about you mentioned Dak 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:54.320 him being that quarterback consistently showing up from since that 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.680 game against the forty nine ers. 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:56.880 Everything took turn there. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.960 Then the running game, that's something we've been talking about 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.440 on the show as well and something I've had my 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.520 eyes on. And Tony Poller he ended up de night 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.960 with seventy nine yards, which is still it's pretty good. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.039 And then you add a sprinkle of Rincodal there he 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:21.640 only had like eleven yards, not much, but still the incorporation, yeah, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.880 having them Dak just a running game as a whole. 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.800 And then also the ability of seeing of them utilizing 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.479 multiple weapons. Now you're not solely relying on one on 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.359 City Lamb. Let's say you're not soly relying on City 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.640 Lamb or let's say a Brandon Cooks. Now you're seeing 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.680 them consistently using multiple weapons with the help of a 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.839 little bit of the running game added on top of 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:48.960 their Yeah, he hit. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.720 So many different weapons in that game, and it kind of, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.840 to me is just one of those things where I 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.359 just love the fact that, especially like the Turpid play 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.039 was the one that kind of showed me if you're 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.160 going to it, and you have to if you're an 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.520 opposing team, you have to pay attention to those guys 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.120 that are on the perimeter. You got to pay attention 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.720 to CD, gotta pay attention to Cooks. He's getting going, 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.920 got to pay attention to the tight end. If your 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.080 fourth cornerback or third cornerback or whatever is gonna have 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.440 to try to try to deal with with Turpin. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:16.880 Yah, good luck with that, right. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.359 There's not a lot of teams that have had that 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.240 level of depth, and that's where this offense can really go. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.599 They got a ton of offensive weapons and now they're 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:24.240 using all. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.400 Of the Turpin ran basically a forty yard dash on that play, yep, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.200 you know. And the way the way that he was 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.400 able to and and give Dak a lot of credit 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.600 because he saw it was too deep and he knows 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.000 if he's sending Turpin through the middle of that defense, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.520 you know, the commander's trying to cover it. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:40.560 Kind of a funny. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.600 Way there, but you know, that's that's what you do. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.040 You put pressure on these teams to have to deal 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.000 with you in that way. And and and Ambar's right, 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.120 it's just not CD. It's it's you know, you got 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.880 I think it's a second straight game where cooks led 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.200 the uh, the the group in reception, in yard and 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.560 stuff like that. So you know, good for the good 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.120 for them to continue to get things. I think that 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.040 this was a game too that Pollard, We're starting to 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.280 see it where maybe things are coming back to him. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.880 You know, we all like the next gen stuff, those 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.200 fifteen plus mile an hour runs and stuff. He had 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.600 several of them in this game. That explosiveness, the way 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.800 to get him to the edge, to around the corner 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.520 and stuff like that. It was all not the heavy 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.720 lifting in the middle, but it was more on the 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.680 outside in the edge, and they were really able to 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:28.560 take advantage of that. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.840 And also what you know, kind of going back to 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.680 what Brian was saying, when it comes to the creativity, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.080 the play calling. It's really getting fun as far as 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.680 even pre snap because you know, we talked about it 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.240 quite a bit as far as the Cowboys ramping up 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.280 their use of pre snap motion and how it directly 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.960 correlates over the past five six games with their offensive explosiveness. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.040 Obviously execution matters as well, but you look at what 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.640 they did against the Commanders, almost seventy percent of their 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.000 offensive snaps pre snap had some sort of motion involved. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.640 So the Cowboys have and Mike. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.200 McCarthy have completely leaned into it and to the point 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.880 where now they're right up there rivaling the likes of 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.520 like Kyle Shanahan and how often he runs pre snap motion. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.200 So if you love to see that from the Cowboys, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.360 and you should because it reveals where the mismatches might 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.040 be pre snap, then that's another reason that this Cowboys 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.520 offense should continue to be consistent in what they're doing. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.680 That had a third and six play where, if you remember, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:24.960 Lamb came back for the ball and ended up getting 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.920 fourteen yards in the play motion left to right. So 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.960 they're doing things to not allow people to bracket or 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.800 double covered Lamb. Yep, but they're also knowing Okay, on 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.040 third and six, we want to get into football. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:36.880 So let's get him on the move. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.400 He goes past the sticks, comes back for the ball, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.000 breaks a tackle like he seems to do all the time, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.720 and you get fourteen yards. You know they're just looking 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.760 to get a first down. That turns into a fourteen 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.520 yard play all started because they left right motion to 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:50.680 get him going up the field. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.480 And it's also when you're talking about guys like Ceedee Lamb, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.800 Brandon Cooks, Cavante Turpin, this motion helps them in their 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.559 skill set as well, because you're not asking them to 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.959 go from zero to have to beat the guy off 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.200 the press or whatever the case may be. They're already 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.160 in motion, they're already moving, legs are already moving. So 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.920 it's much easier to go from second gear to sixth 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.439 gear than from the first gear to six gears. So 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.360 when you add in that capacity as well, I mean 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.560 it's working and I believe it will continue to do. So. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.840 Yeah, I think one of the things that that fans 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.319 need to do is the need to give some credit 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.320 to Mike McCarthy because absolutely, for years, for real years, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.439 fans have been clamoring for scheming guys open, figuring out 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.680 ways to get guys open and not just relying on 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.760 we can beat you because our guys are better, right, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.880 And that's what you're seeing right now. You're seeing this 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:36.880 scheme and the scheme of what they're trying to do. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.000 You see the offense actually creating opportunities for guys to 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.000 get open, and then they're taking advantage of it. The 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.480 quarterbacks taking advantage of the receivers are taking advantage of it. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.760 And I think a lot of credit has to go 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.240 to Mike McCarthy, and that's not something that always happens 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:49.640 with fans. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.360 It's got to make it take the time to give 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:52.600 that credit to Mike and car No. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.280 That it's kind of starting to work out. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:01.080 No, no, that is finally clicking and it's working now now, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.720 you know. You take a seat back and you're like, Okay, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.360 I guess that was pretty quick. And the fact that 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.400 he was able to turn things around. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.160 You know, but they were not very good the first 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.240 five games, absolutely not, and. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.080 We're all questioning. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.320 But now you think of five games looking like okay, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.720 when you're making a change like that, big, that's fair. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.640 Five games should be kind of the grace of like Okay, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.000 it took this long to make I. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.600 Think we're at the point now we can say just 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.600 let Mike cook. Okay, let them cook. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.000 I got a bigger question for y'all looking at how 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.840 this this offense performed over the last two years. This 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.800 has been an offense that has always been in the 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.920 top of the league. They're consistently there when Kelvin Moore 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.599 was the offensive coordinator. Do you think this version of 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.800 the offense is better than the version last year in 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:50.320 the year before. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:51.400 Yes, I do. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:51.960 That's good. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:56.280 I do, and I do for the reason, maybe not 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.480 for the running game aspect of it. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.720 But what they're doing throw the football. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.720 And I think your quarterback plays better in this kind 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.960 of where you create opportunities for him. And I'm not 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.160 saying you have to scheme guys open all the time, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.920 because that two point play, he threw that thing through 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.720 a hole that you know that we've seen that ball 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.720 get intercepted before with Dak you know, And and I 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.920 honestly believe he wanted to throw the ball off the 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.320 pick to to Ferguson on the drag and he pulled 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.400 it back and and and give Lamb a lot of 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.960 credit for keep running, you know, keep running this route 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.280 because he found he found a hole. But man, if 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.440 you tell me that, I think the passing game is 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.160 better because of the way the combinations of the routes 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.000 are scheming guys open. But I think we're still trying 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.200 to kind of figure out that running game from the 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:45.600 from the old the old days. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.160 It took me a moment. I had to really assess, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.520 and I'm going to go with yes. Also, I think 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.839 that obviously the run game was better, you know, I 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.280 want to say back in the day, but over the 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.600 past couple of seasons. But when you look at when 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.000 you compare the passing attack, it's it's not even that 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.840 it's simply a three headed attack, which is what everyone 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:08.800 was kind of looking toward. Brandon Cooks, Michael Gallup, Cede Lamb, Well, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:14.440 it's really City Lamb, Brandon Cooks, Jake Ferguson, Jaylen Tobert, 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.000 Michael Gallup, Cavante Turpin, Jalen Brooks. I mean, you have 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.760 all these weapons, and then if Schoolmaker can start to 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.240 contribute as a receiver as well, you combine that with 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.800 what are we talking about, pre snap motion and creativity 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.920 and the play calling and misdirection and then what else 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.440 are we talking about? Dirty deck has arrived, he's using 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.120 his legs, he's extending plays, he's making it hard on 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.599 defensive backs with long coverage windows against highly skilled receivers. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.439 So in that capacity, in those capacities, absolutely, this is 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:42.439 a better offense. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.000 Well, the offensive lines making it easy on you too, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.640 right now, Finally, yeah, they really are. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.560 Which there was a time this season that we didn't 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:50.520 know if that would come around. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.000 No, there was a lot of big questions there about 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.400 you know, and to me, it's when your center plays 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.520 better and your right tackle plays better. This offensive lines 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:00.439 generally pretty good. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.000 And to that point, if you go back and you 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.559 look at the Cavante Turpin touchdown Terrence Steel Zach Martin, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.880 they gave Dak Prescott just enough time to read, do 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.360 the pump fake, to drag the dB to the right 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.920 to Cooks, and then release that ball to Cavante Turpin. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.000 If that protection breaks down, that touchdown doesn't happen. Maybe 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.080 he dumps it off to Ferguson on the right. Maybe 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.640 he dumps it off to poll on the lift and 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.320 the release and maybe you get the first down, but 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:25.280 you don't get that touchdown. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:26.880 Well, they had they had a deal. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.959 They had a deal too, And I believe it was 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.160 one of the plays where it was a third and eleven, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.880 just just remembering plays from the day and Cooks caught 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.360 the ball inside and he's running a route where Dak 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:44.479 flushes left and Tyron Smith just pins everybody to the inside. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.079 And Tyron Smith by pinning everybody there, that gets Prescott 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.240 to the edge and now he's able to set his 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.400 feet and make the throw. So here you are you 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.079 throw a ball for you know, for a third and 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.520 eleven play, it's been a twenty five yard game, you know, 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.080 because your quarterback's mobility, you were receiver smart enough. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.199 To find the hole in the zone. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.079 And then also the quarterback also sets his feet and 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.480 makes a really really nice throw and you get that 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.960 pin everybody pinned to the inside there on the on 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.320 the pass rush and Dak was a single time two 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:15.680 games in a row, now, right. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.480 I was going to say, the biggest difference, uh to 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.880 me between the two schemes and the changes is just 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.480 the way DAK is playing as a whole. Because even 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:29.920 with Kellen Moore, we saw creative plays, We saw them 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.160 filling up the stats sheets, you know, being the top 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.400 NFL offense. In the NFL, we saw them utilizing different 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.200 weapons as well, But now the way Dak is playing, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.640 to me, it just gives everything else like a whole sense, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:52.320 like a different sense of confidence and comfort level on 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.760 the field, Like you go out there and you can 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.920 trust him and not not that you couldn't trust him before, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.440 and he's always been a great leader, but there's just 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.720 something a whole like just different, and I get it, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.840 like the running game is still missing and you do 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.800 need to keep improving on that. And I like to 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.160 think it's more of the injuries that have happened and 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.440 maybe that's what's kind of messed up your running game 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.000 as a whole. But also, uh, it's just I just 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.280 see everything leading back to Dak and just being more 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.200 comfortable and using his legs and running and him just 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:30.640 having it really being able to connect with his receivers 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.280 so well, like knowing now where this player is going 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.160 to land and get there some of those long deep 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.080 passes down the field. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.840 I mean, he's shown a lot more of that happening 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:42.280 this year. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.520 They haven't turned the ball over to and that's really 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:45.160 really helps. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.000 I think Deck's channeling his girl, dead energy. 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Did she? 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:54.200 Was? 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:54.920 She go back home? 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:56.439 I don't think so. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.200 I thought there was a couple of reads before Missus. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.160 If mister Clause er, my guess is missus as well. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.760 Maybe they realized I can't read this read very well 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.239 and they'd start taking words out of it. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:07.479 That's I think what they did right now. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:08.479 I don't think that's what they did. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.800 Missus Claus was not there on Friday night, just letting 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.160 you know, okay, let her go home. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.679 Yeah, I don't know. It was part of it that 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.399 she was part of the original stuff. So I was 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:19.520 there though Santa. 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:19.840 Was there, all right? 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:20.240 All right? 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.000 Maybe she just got Santa set up and then she's like, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.160 I gotta other I got I gotta get out here. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:24.560 All right. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.680 Let's talk about the running game, Tony Pollout. This game 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.159 had thirteen carriages for seventy nine yards, a six point 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.440 one average, really good average, one touchdown, then had another 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.080 six receptions for twenty four yards. All in all for 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.320 fantasy players out there, really great fantasy day. But that 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.479 being said, is this what this offense really needs from 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.919 the running back position? I mean, these aren't Goudy numbers, 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.560 but these are numbers that maybe this is what the 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.119 offense needs. If you're throwing the ball as well as 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.199 the Cowboys are throwing the ball, maybe this is what 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:52.119 you need from the running back. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.040 So do you guys think I agree with it? 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.320 I mean, we mentioned several times on the podcast that 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.560 I specifically I know that I feel like the Cowboys 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.320 should continue to use the pass to set up the 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.840 run until further notice, you know, until a defense presents 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.679 itself that forces you to flip that, continue to use 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:11.159 the pass to set up the run. And doing that, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.240 all you need the run to do. The run offense 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.280 to be is effective enough to make the opposing defense respected. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.680 That's all you need it to be. You also need 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:20.600 your running backs. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.480 To be able to be receivers out of the backfield 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:23.840 as well. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:24.840 Tony Polter can do that. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.800 You saw Rico daldod he can do that with the 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.360 touchdown on the quick screen. You know that you can 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.440 get some flecks out of Hunter Lipkey if you were 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.280 to do that as well. So really all you need 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.240 is from your running backs. Three things. One, be excellent 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.520 in pass pro because again you're trying to set up 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.920 the run with the pass. Second, make sure that when 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.119 they are taking the handoffs that it's respectable games. Doesn't 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.080 have to be tearing off six seven yards a game, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.000 just respectable four and a half. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:53.000 That should do it. 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.119 And then the third thing is be an effective receiver 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.200 out of the backfield, and that'll keep opposing defenses from 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.280 adding guys to the box and if you you know, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.040 can add them to the box, and that just helps 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:02.880 you out from the run game. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.040 So one hand washes the other. 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:09.720 Yeah, I think if it's that type of performance, I'll. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:10.560 Take that every week. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.280 I mean, it works out perfectly and I'm okay with 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:19.879 that type of running game performance especially. Yes, absolutely, but 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:27.480 it does concern me. I'm trying to think, okay, one matchup, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.840 but I still don't feel like you can't solely rely 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.040 on or depend on the running game. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.080 That is still an. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.720 A non no. Like you know, we were talking about consistency. 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:44.840 I can feel like the Cowboys can consistently show up 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.920 with Dak Prescott in the passing game. The running game. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.560 That's a different story. You don't know, that's a gamble, 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.160 that's a whole gamble. You don't know if it's gonna 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.080 work out or not just yet. But the good thing 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.520 and the promising thing is that it's starting to trend 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:06.160 upwards and you're are to see improvement. But yeah, they 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.359 still need to get better. Don't get me wrong, and 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:12.000 I'll take that all day, but it's just something that 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.280 I don't think can be relied on. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.040 I don't know if they can kill a game, a 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:17.720 close game, if they had to, if they had to 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.399 get into a four minute offense and kill this game. 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.439 I don't know if they can do that right now 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.600 because they play so many blowout games. I do know 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.200 on third and six they can get fourteen yards if 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.439 it's blocked well and the runner explodes the way he 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.119 did on the edge. They're running some toss stuff that 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.080 they seem to be playing perimeter football, which I think 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:39.200 is really really good. 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:40.800 I like that. 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.199 I'm with Amber. I'll take the one hundred yards a 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.600 game for sure, but I'm not sure I can hang 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.680 my hat on finishing a game if I had to, 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:52.959 if it was closed and you got the ball and 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.600 we got to get three first downs and this thing's over. 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.520 I don't know if they can do that right now 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:00.600 with the way the running game is currently is. 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:02.399 Yeah, I agree with you on that, And I also 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:04.359 think the other challenge will be what happens when you 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:06.040 get into a game where you can't throw, And what 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.280 I mean by that is the weather doesn't allow you 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:10.399 to throw. We know that game's coming up here in 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:12.639 December where they're gonna have to travel to Buffalo. I 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:14.320 don't know how many people saw this sweek in out 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:17.480 watching that Kansas I think it was the Kansas State, Kansas. 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:17.960 State and Iowa State. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.879 Yeah, and the whole field is white and snow is 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.320 just like you can't really even see everything completely. 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:25.000 And I was. 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:28.200 Thinking December and Buffalo, that looks like that could be 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.280 a possibility. And you get into a game like that, 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.720 you got to run the ball. There is no throwing 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:34.840 the ball downfield like the Cowboys are doing right now 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:36.159 in those kind of conditions, by and. 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:38.200 Large, So if you get in one of those games, 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:39.040 can you run the ball. 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:41.400 Yeah, that's the thing. I think in Buffalo, you worry 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.200 about the cold, but you worry about the wind. 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:43.560 Yeah. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:45.840 That's another one that's going to affect a passing game 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:48.480 quite a bit there. And you know, I give Josh 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:51.160 Allen a lot of credit yesterday that the conditions in 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.840 Philadelphia were. Yeah, it's pretty awful, and he was throwing 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:56.359 the ball around pretty well. But he's used to that. 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:59.920 He played at Wyoming, you know, he Buffalo's his home now. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.400 You know, these quarterbacks, they adapt. But yeah, it does 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:06.239 affect your ability to move the ball when you have 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:08.879 to deal with elements, and mainly to me, throwing the 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:10.159 ball as always been wind. 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:12.080 That's the one that kind of gets you. 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:14.399 Yeah, and that's one you definitely can face when you 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:15.119 get up to Buffalo. 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:16.800 Cacember, Yeah, no doubt about it. 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:20.440 All right, let's talk about the offensive line. Yesterday, Dak 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.080 was not sucked sacked at all. He only got he 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:27.320 only got hit twice. Yeah, sorry, yeah Thursday, Sorry, I'm 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:29.920 away off. And then Paula obviously we talked about the 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.000 day that he had talk to me, specifically about the 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:36.840 interior offensive lineman Tyler Smith, Tyler and Zach Martin. How 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.480 did they do against those two, those two big defensive tack. 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:41.680 That was a big win because I believe you only 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.320 got one pressure off the pass rushers that you had, 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:48.159 so going into that game, I know on on on 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:50.440 one O five three the fan on the pregame show 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:52.399 that we do one of the things. I felt like 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:54.680 if the Cowboys were going to have success on offense, 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:59.360 it was going to be on Martin, Beattish and Smith 0:24:59.640 --> 0:25:02.120 to be able to hold up against the inside too. 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:05.000 I wasn't so concerned about what was going on on 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:08.720 the edges with this Commander's defense. It was inside, but 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:12.359 the amount of dropbacks you had and the lack of 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:14.920 pressure there, the hits and all that, I think they 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:17.960 did a really really nice job of holding up inside. 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:20.760 You just worry about those two guys pushing the pocket 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:24.120 and affecting it, and Dak had no problem at all, 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:25.600 even there were a couple of times where he got 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:29.760 to step up and throw balls. So helmet stickers for 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:32.160 those three guys. For the way they played against those 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:33.840 two commanders tackles. 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.560 Yeah, it's one of the best, you know, interior tandems 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:38.879 in the entire NFL. And you could put them up 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:42.800 against anyone and they'll probably have a phenomenal day. So 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:46.919 to see how well Tyler Biadish played and Tyler Smith 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:49.560 continues to just play lights out. And we talked about 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:51.480 Zach marr and in a couple of cracks in the armor. 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:54.919 But the Army looked pretty good on Thanksgiving against some 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:57.960 of the best and strongest interior defensive linemen in the 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:01.560 entire league. So like Brynce helmestickers to those guys, because 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.680 Dak Prescott really had some time in that pocket as 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:06.800 far as the interior, which then forced the issue to 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.840 the edges. Uh, and that you know, the commanders don't 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:11.720 have the horses at the edges anyhow, they don't have chance, 0:26:11.800 --> 0:26:14.400 you know the Montes switch. So winning on that interior 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:16.199 basically set the Cowboys up for success. 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:19.160 There was really only one negative play Pollard had got 0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:21.439 trapped behind the line for a loss. But man, that 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:24.520 made beyondish my man Mark. We interviewed Zach Martin to 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:26.840 down the radio. I think he left his I think 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:29.280 he left his buddy Tyler Biodish out on the island 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:31.960 on that one. It was a real wide technique there 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:34.080 and Alan was able to get it and Zach's like 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:37.119 I'm going around him, and poor Beiondish is like like 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:39.840 he's trying, but you know he uh, Alan got. 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:41.840 In the backfield and it was it was yeah, it 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:42.320 was that was. 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.840 It was really one of the only negative plays that 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:47.560 you saw that those guys made against against you. 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:51.160 Well, we had a plenty of discussions wondering how long 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:55.040 it would take for this online to start being in 0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:56.000 sync and on. 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:56.920 The same page. 0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:01.679 It was about four games, uh, which is about ride 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:04.520 with a lot of what you guys were saying and 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:09.080 Nate was saying on his show. But they just seem 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:12.399 like they're in sync now they're they're not. Everybody seems 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:14.600 to be on the same page and knows what the 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:18.119 other one is doing, so it's not the whole And 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.359 also not getting beat one on one, which happened a 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:23.359 whole lot in the last several. 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:28.240 Weeks Philadelphia with the right tackle was kind of a. 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.160 They have several games where you could see just one 0:27:31.200 --> 0:27:33.919 on one battles of guys just getting beat which is 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.720 not common. It's very uncommon for these guys. They have 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:41.000 experience and they're big, tough guys that know what they're doing. 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:43.520 But something was off either way. The point is they're 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:46.720 in sync now and everybody is holding up their own 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:48.119 job and doing their own thing. 0:27:48.200 --> 0:27:50.560 They're gonna need these guys to play now now now 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:53.320 starts Thursday. The run where you're gonna have to You're 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:55.880 gonna have to be really good upfront if they're going 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:58.200 to if they're going to compete for the division title, 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:00.919 it's going to have to be with those guys the 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:02.080 way that they play. 0:28:02.520 --> 0:28:04.040 All right, let's take our final break. 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:05.560 When we come back, we're gonna flip over to the 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:08.560 defensive side of the ball. 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It is the final segment of the Break. 0:30:41.760 --> 0:30:44.320 We are alive from this s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:46.320 the Star and now we got to talk about the defense. 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:48.520 And I'm kind of remiss that we've gotten to the 0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:50.320 third segment and having mentioned. 0:30:50.000 --> 0:30:52.040 Deron Bland because he deserves his own segment. 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:52.600 There you go. 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:56.400 This man has broken the NFL record for the number 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:57.320 of pick six is in. 0:30:57.280 --> 0:30:58.680 A season now with five. 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:02.240 In my opinion, he should be I don't care what 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:03.640 else apples the rest of the year. He should be 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:05.840 Defensive Player of the Year. But that's neither here nor there. 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:08.000 Talk to me first about Dron Bland and what he's 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:10.480 meant to this team so far, this to this point 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:11.000 of the season. 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.960 Wow, I mean, that's that sums it up for me 0:31:15.040 --> 0:31:18.640 thus far. When you look at this is a second 0:31:18.680 --> 0:31:21.480 year guy who flew out of the gates as a 0:31:21.560 --> 0:31:24.240 rookie led the team in interceptions with five, but that 0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:27.800 was at Nickel. Come into this season, he's at Nickel again. 0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:31.040 You lose Trayvon Diggs. He immediately gets bounced to the outside. 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:35.200 Question is can he even remotely fill the shoes of 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:39.240 Trayvon Diggs, who's a record setting cornerback in his own right, 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:44.080 and here he is five picks six is later. That 0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:50.120 question has been answered just magnificently. So he's playing fantastic football. 0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:53.720 He's your resident ballhawk. You have a lot of ballhawks, 0:31:53.760 --> 0:31:56.240 but he is the He is him when it comes 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:58.400 to the hawk and the ball. But what's even more 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:02.040 insane is it's not the interceptions. It's the fact that 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:04.840 he keeps finding the end zone. After he gets the 0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:08.760 interception that picks six against the Commanders. He looked like 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:11.400 a punk returner after he got that interception, the way 0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:14.400 he set up Sam Howe with the angles and forced 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:17.240 him to turn the wrong way and then forced two 0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:21.040 wide receivers to collide into each other. Allah Mike Vick 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:24.200 in Minnesota in the playoffs. I mean, I can't. 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:25.080 I don't have enough. 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:28.560 Adjectives to describe how great the Cowboys need to feel 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:32.400 about the Ron Bland. And there's still several games enough 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:34.960 to play in this regular season. So might we get six? 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:37.760 Might we get seven? It's insane. It's insane what he's doing. 0:32:37.800 --> 0:32:39.800 So I hope everyone's enjoying this in real time because 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:42.080 you're going to look back on this years and years 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:44.600 from now and realize that you're probably never see anything 0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:45.240 like this again. 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:48.920 Yeah, well, I'm sitting on a couch my teeth falling off, 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:52.400 and I'll be like, oh, yes to my little grandkids, Yes, 0:32:52.480 --> 0:32:54.720 I was a press box. 0:32:57.440 --> 0:32:59.000 And the interesting thing about the press box, you know, 0:32:59.040 --> 0:33:01.520 there's no cheering in the box, but when I tell 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:03.640 you the press box kind of exploded a little bit like, 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:05.280 oh my god, I can't believe he caught it, and 0:33:05.280 --> 0:33:07.560 then like is he gonna take oh, and then people 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:08.800 are just like losing their minds. 0:33:08.880 --> 0:33:09.200 It was. 0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:11.000 It was actually a really cool moment because you're not 0:33:11.040 --> 0:33:13.520 supposed to cheer in the press box, but everybody was 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:14.800 just amazed by what was happening. 0:33:14.960 --> 0:33:20.040 No, no, it was absolutely amazing to just live that 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:26.600 moment and live his experience, like enjoyed that through his 0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:29.520 eyes and like his presence, Like you feel like you're 0:33:29.560 --> 0:33:31.680 living it with him, even though you had nothing to 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:33.840 do with it. But even when we were out there 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:37.680 waiting outside the locker room, you could hear how loud 0:33:37.920 --> 0:33:41.440 the locker room got and them cheering, So that that 0:33:41.640 --> 0:33:44.240 is the coolest part of it all. It's just seeing 0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:48.760 your teammates, how they react to it, how they celebrate you, 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:52.880 and such a big win and such a cool thing 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:55.320 and he's you know, he's like having to do all 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:59.240 these interviews after the game and all kind of nervous, 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:03.920 don't know what's say. But now his gloves and what 0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:06.280 else was sent to the hall shoes, his shoes. 0:34:06.320 --> 0:34:08.360 He's clean. So that's really cool. 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:10.040 And one of the things that pick and now his 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:11.480 stuff is sitting in the Hall of Fame. 0:34:11.520 --> 0:34:15.320 It's insane. It's insane. And I told him you wanted 0:34:15.320 --> 0:34:16.359 to be remember and. 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:19.480 Now you will be. Yeah. 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:24.520 So it's awesome to see great things happen to great people. 0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:26.600 And he's he's such a humble, nice guy. 0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:28.960 If he doesn't pick that ball off, he had a 0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:31.160 rough day. Yeah, he really did. 0:34:31.400 --> 0:34:36.320 He let's get to yeah, no, seriously, you know, Samuel, 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:39.000 Samuel ran him, ran him around a little bit. 0:34:39.040 --> 0:34:40.040 It was a battle out there. 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:41.000 You know. 0:34:41.120 --> 0:34:43.759 He was targeted eleven times. He gave up eight receptions 0:34:43.800 --> 0:34:46.719 overall for one hundred and twenty yards. You know, that's 0:34:46.800 --> 0:34:48.520 that's that those are the things you live with when 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:50.960 you play in the National Football League. You you're going 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:54.040 to come across some receivers that we've talked about this 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:56.439 in the in the the build up to the game, 0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:59.399 felt like that you know mclauren and really didn't talk 0:34:59.400 --> 0:35:02.160 about Sam whole helld a lot. But if you're a 0:35:02.200 --> 0:35:04.319 Commander's fan, you got to kind of be proud about 0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:06.000 the way that he played in this game, you know, 0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:08.759 because yeah, he was you know, and that's the first 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:10.799 receiver that the Cowboys had given up that had one 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:13.120 hundred yards, so uh, you know, and you have a 0:35:13.160 --> 0:35:15.240 three hundred yard passer on the dot and one hundred 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:18.880 yard receiver on the dot. Yeah, and so it was 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:21.359 a it was a rough game for him that way. 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:24.640 Anytime you have a corner that has ten tackles in 0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:27.919 a game, that usually means they're going after a guy. 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:29.960 And they felt like that they can double move him, 0:35:30.120 --> 0:35:32.120 they felt like and a lot of teams are doing 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:36.080 this now because of how aggressive he plays, you know, 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:40.160 and how he's able to position himself to get these interceptions. Uh, 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:44.840 it's incredible the ball skills he has. But you know, uh, 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:49.120 I'm surprised. I thought that more people would attack Gilmore 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:52.279 on the other side. It really hasn't come out that way. 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.759 It's it's been more about now Gilmour on the other 0:35:54.760 --> 0:35:57.680 side against Terry McLaurin. He was McLaren caught one ball, 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:00.320 six targets, you know, and when when you're dealing with 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:05.080 that way, so overall other than Samuel, but they made 0:36:05.280 --> 0:36:09.279 a point to get Samuel over on Bland in this game, 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:12.440 and he's gonna have to be He's gonna have to 0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:14.839 be ready for that because people feel like that they 0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:17.880 can move him now with that aggressiveness he placed with. 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:21.680 Well, I'll just ask you this question, Brian, if are 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:25.520 you okay with the idea of giving up ten doings, 0:36:25.560 --> 0:36:27.560 say twelve catches for one hundred and twenty yards or whatever, 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.960 for one hundred and twenty yards, giving up that not 0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:33.160 giving up a touchdown those he didn't get beat deep, 0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:36.160 and still having the ability to get those pick sixes. 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:37.000 Are you okay with that? 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:39.759 Because for that kind of cornerback, the picks is going 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:42.520 to take those chances. That means sometimes he's probably gonna 0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:44.440 get beat a little bit. And that definitely means if 0:36:44.480 --> 0:36:45.799 he's gonna have to come up and make the tackle 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:47.520 and it looks like he was making those tackles, it 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:49.440 wasn't like he was getting beat deep, didn't look like 0:36:49.480 --> 0:36:51.120 he was giving up a lot of big plays. No, 0:36:51.280 --> 0:36:53.120 he would just have to rally and tackle. Would you 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:54.040 be willing to give that up? 0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:57.480 The pick sixes are worth four sacks if you want 0:36:57.480 --> 0:36:59.840 to play metrics games with that. If you look at 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:02.880 with the percentage of a what it picks six means 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:06.600 to as opposed to what a sack means, that's like 0:37:06.680 --> 0:37:08.280 getting four wow sacks. 0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:08.960 That's crazy. 0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:11.520 So no, I you know, I'm just pointing out that. 0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:14.439 You know, this kid's an incredible player. Don't get me wrong. 0:37:14.520 --> 0:37:17.239 I'm just saying though he had a rough day, you know, 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:20.080 when it comes to I'll take the pick sixes all day. 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:23.360 I'll take the way he come. Now, eight receptions for 0:37:23.360 --> 0:37:25.239 one hundred and twenty yards. If one of those is 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:27.359 a touchdown or two of those is a touchdown, maybe 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:30.000 we're talking a different game. But you know, I just 0:37:30.360 --> 0:37:34.400 you have to be able to he is. Teams are not. 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:38.719 Even though he's had so much success. This team did 0:37:38.719 --> 0:37:41.759 not shy away from him, and I wonder if other 0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:44.520 teams are seeing the same thing. That's the only thing 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.520 I'm pointing out here. I'm not trying to discount the 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.720 player at all, because he's a hell of a football player. 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:53.120 He's I was more worried about losing a really great 0:37:53.160 --> 0:37:56.680 slot player than I was. To me him playing for 0:37:56.760 --> 0:37:59.520 Diggs was never going to be a question who was 0:37:59.520 --> 0:38:01.440 going to be in the slot. That was my question 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:05.200 right there. So he's got to be ready that these 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:08.040 teams are going to they're going to work on him, 0:38:08.200 --> 0:38:10.520 you know, and and and he's he'll make them pay, 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:13.239 but he but he needs to be ready for that. 0:38:13.360 --> 0:38:15.640 When you look at a Curtis Samuel, I think of 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:18.560 him as a very skilled guy that knows how to 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.480 get open, can work in the slot. Some what are 0:38:21.520 --> 0:38:23.440 the kind of guys do the Cowboys face that that 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:25.880 maybe teams say because you said they made a concerted 0:38:25.880 --> 0:38:28.200 effort to make sure they put got him on the land. 0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:30.880 I think of a guy like Devonte Smith. But what 0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:32.719 would be another guy that maybe the Cowboys have to 0:38:32.719 --> 0:38:34.120 play that you look at and you're like, that's the 0:38:34.200 --> 0:38:35.799 kind of player you'd have to be aware of if 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:37.080 they're going to do those kinds of things. 0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:40.600 Maybe he'll yeah, you know, he'll or waddle. All those 0:38:40.640 --> 0:38:43.440 guys that can really really run, Yeah, you know, it's 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:47.319 because what happens is their speed. Their speed will make 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:49.880 you nervous, you know, their ability if you if all 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:52.160 of a sudden, they fake like they're breaking in on 0:38:52.200 --> 0:38:54.759 an indcut and you have to chase that down and 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:57.960 Land can chase. But you know, we're talking about about 0:38:58.000 --> 0:38:59.480 some guys with some elite speed. 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:01.560 So if you know, the whole. 0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:04.799 Thing about selling routes is you know, Samuel did a 0:39:04.800 --> 0:39:08.000 really good job of selling his routes and and you know, 0:39:08.080 --> 0:39:11.640 and and it it forced forced Bland to have to 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:13.879 kind of got putting some bad situations there. 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:15.440 But you're gonna play some teams. 0:39:15.480 --> 0:39:19.080 I mean, what about a buffalo with with Diggs, you know, 0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:22.200 and that crew, and then and then there's the Gabe Davis. 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:25.360 Is it gave Davis is a you know, there's guys 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.640 that can make plays there. They're they're going to face 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.399 some wide receivers down the stretch here that I think 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:32.360 that they're they're all going to have to be on 0:39:32.400 --> 0:39:33.440 their A games. 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:36.640 All right, real quick before we end the show, Patrick, 0:39:36.680 --> 0:39:38.400 what do we know right now about Shack Leonard? 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:42.160 Uh He's scheduled to be in the facility here this week, 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:46.040 early this week obviously, if not tomorrow, which is correctly 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:51.680 tomorrow's Tuesday, Okay, I feel the uh per multiple reports 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:53.719 it will be tomorrow but I'm hearing it'll be no 0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:56.640 later than Wednesday. Obviously, the Cowboys have a game on Thursday, 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:59.799 so it won't be then. But Cowboys have a lot 0:39:59.840 --> 0:40:03.520 of interest in him. Initially, they were doing due diligence 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:05.680 on the medical aspect of it, trying to do some 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:08.760 digging seeing what they could come up with their Obviously 0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:11.000 they're at the point where they are satisfied with that 0:40:11.080 --> 0:40:14.120 portion of it, so they invited him to come on down. 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:17.360 And obviously the interest is mutual because yesterday he was 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:19.360 at the coach game. So he's catching a flight for 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:22.160 Indianapolis to come sit down and talk with Jerry, Stephen 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:26.600 McLay in the front office, McCarthy, probably some former teammates 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:30.239 Stefan Gilmore, Brandon Cook. So those relationships exist here as well. 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:34.000 And the Cowboys they as long as those talks bear fruit. 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:36.400 I mean, they really do want him, and they are 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:38.920 also up against the reality that there are other teams 0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:41.440 that want him as well, one particularly being in your 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:44.680 division who just went ten to one, who might have 0:40:44.800 --> 0:40:45.120 lost that. 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:49.160 Cunningham the second line back correct due to injury, so. 0:40:50.200 --> 0:40:51.239 He's scheduled to be here. 0:40:51.400 --> 0:40:56.880 Cowboys want him to stick around so fingers crossed because Brian, myself, 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.879 Derek and Ambar, we all want shaqu Lynn hay Shack. 0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:03.040 If you're listening, yeah, when you get here, stay here. 0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:05.719 Yeah, that's how you come on through it. 0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:06.000 Yeah. 0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:09.640 I think the one thing you always have to appreciate 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:11.840 about the way that Jerry Steven will. 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:14.319 Like those guys. They recruit very very well. Yep. 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:16.759 And usually when they get somebody in the building out 0:41:16.760 --> 0:41:19.839 in PACIFICA, the agents usually kind of work things out. 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:23.960 So hopefully that'll be the case. You mentioned Philadelphia. 0:41:24.080 --> 0:41:26.600 I know it was that Josiah Anderson said that Philly 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.680 wasn't interested. I had people in Philly tell me they 0:41:29.680 --> 0:41:33.719 were interested, So you know, hey, everybody's getting information nowadays. 0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:37.080 But yeah, the injuries to the Eagles is something that 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:38.719 is now have a little bit of a concern to them. 0:41:38.719 --> 0:41:41.680 At the linebacker spot. You clearly saw that late in 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:44.200 the game that Buffalo was able to run the ball 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:47.759 inside and they just weren't good enough to defend the run. 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:49.799 I don't think they want to get into the playoffs 0:41:50.239 --> 0:41:53.319 with a leaky defense when it comes to running the ball. 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:56.319 They have those two big inside tackles and they got 0:41:56.360 --> 0:41:59.319 Fletcher Cox. It's even nicked up right now too, so 0:41:59.360 --> 0:42:01.200 they might be a little bit of a bad spot 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:02.560 there with the injuries. 0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:04.320 When you start thinking about it, really there, their secondary 0:42:04.320 --> 0:42:06.120 is probably the weakest part of that defense. Now if 0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:08.239 you add linebacker to that, now you got some real 0:42:08.280 --> 0:42:09.280 problems on that defense. 0:42:09.320 --> 0:42:11.160 So I agree with you. I think they would probably 0:42:11.160 --> 0:42:11.799 be in the mix. 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:14.800 But what I do love is you put Jerry in 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:17.960 a situation where he's got your sell. Hey man, I'll 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:20.239 put him up against almost anybody when he's got to sell. 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:22.279 They have. 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:24.640 They have the fire power to get this deal done. 0:42:24.680 --> 0:42:28.320 They have the the personal connections gil Moore and cooks 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:31.480 uh than Gus Bradley. And when you know you have that, 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.560 you have the beauty of the facility as far as 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:37.360 wooing the player. You have the offense that's come alive. 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:39.520 You have City which I think the City City as 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:43.319 well met magnificent. It's not a hard sale. And on 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:45.160 top of that, you also have the cap space to 0:42:45.160 --> 0:42:45.680 get this done. 0:42:45.680 --> 0:42:46.600 Are killing Dallas? 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:50.880 No, she said, it's not a hard I got. 0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:53.200 I got you're trying to say, Dallas. 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:58.520 When you look at team and yeah, there's some they're 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:01.759 in the hut crap about the covers and all, but 0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:03.960 the reality is that, I mean, you just walking this 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:06.279 place and it's amazing just. 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:08.800 Walking around the locker room and meet with the players 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:11.040 and the coaches, and it's like you said, it's not 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:13.040 a hard sale, and the Cowboys have the cap space 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:14.560 to get it done because it's not like they're trying 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:16.479 to sign the guy to it, you know, a four year, 0:43:17.520 --> 0:43:20.480 you know, market setting deal. I mean, you're trying to 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.080 get him for the rest of the season. So you 0:43:22.160 --> 0:43:24.480 got the money, you got the power, you got the 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:26.040 the influence, Just get her done. 0:43:26.600 --> 0:43:28.160 I think I think this is one of those moves 0:43:28.200 --> 0:43:30.560 that I think could really pay dividends for the Cowboys. 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:32.840 I think they can really use this player. And I 0:43:32.840 --> 0:43:35.000 think as time goes on, they will see how much 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:36.080 they could use this player. 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:38.840 Elace that overshown yet. 0:43:38.680 --> 0:43:43.319 Have they No, they haven't. And that's honestly the guys. 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:45.640 Yeah, the guys that they have here have been doing 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.440 it job. This guy was not a linebacker, but all 0:43:48.560 --> 0:43:50.640 was not a linebacker when the season started, and he 0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:52.879 has done an admirable job. But as you get closer 0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:54.719 to the playoffs, and we talked about you get into 0:43:54.719 --> 0:43:56.680 that weather where you have to run the ball. Guess 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.399 what there maybe if you're in that kind of weather, 0:43:58.440 --> 0:43:59.920 that means the other team has to run the ball too. 0:44:00.320 --> 0:44:03.040 And we haven't faced that kind of just pounding, relentless, 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:07.160 rushing attack to see whether Bell can really hold up. 0:44:07.400 --> 0:44:09.480 Something happens, Scott forbid, you. 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:11.799 Still need if nothing else, you need, you. 0:44:11.800 --> 0:44:13.680 Have nobody else really to take care of that. 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:16.680 And also also, if nothing else, you keep him out 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:18.200 of Philadelphia by keeping him here. 0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:20.719 No doubt about it, that may be the most important here. 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:20.920 It is. 0:44:21.040 --> 0:44:22.880 All right, We appreciate you, guys, Jones. So we're back tomorrow. 0:44:22.960 --> 0:44:25.560 We're gonna start breaking down Cowboys versus Seahawks. 0:44:25.600 --> 0:44:26.480 That happens. It's Thursday. 0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:29.040 Till then for Patrick Walker, Brian brought Us and Amber Garcia. 0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:30.960 I am Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:33.320 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:44:33.920 --> 0:44:36.920 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:44:37.040 --> 0:44:38.920 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.