WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Run/Pass Balance? 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.720 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:19.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.600 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.960 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:39.639 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.479 Is Wednesday, September fifteenth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, Episode 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.440 number twenty one. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.000 live in the SWBC Mortgage studios. At the start, we 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.960 got a lot we're gonna get into today. We're gonna 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.280 talk a little bit about some topics that came up 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.920 earlier in the week when the Cowboys coordinators, offensive, defensive, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.240 special teams had their press conference. There were a few 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.800 topics that I thought were interesting they will dissect. We'll 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.360 also get into a little talk on the Chargers offense 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.840 versus the Cowboys defense. We got Bucky Brooks joining us 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.319 in the second segment. He'll answer some questions and uh 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.520 and give us some scouting review on the team the 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.039 Cowboys will face on Sunday. Uh and and we'll maybe 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.880 get to some questions. We'll see how it goes. I 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.440 don't know how much Dave and Nick want to talk today, 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.880 but if they don't talk as much, then we'll maybe 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.560 get to some questions. We'll see. I take offense to that, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.920 But why do you take offense? It's not a bad thing. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.080 I like the fact you guys talk. That's good. That's 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.000 why people tune in. All right, whatever, Okay, all right, okay, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.679 all right, let's go. Come on, let's go. All right, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.880 let's talk today coordinator press conferences. Let's start first, Dave, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.960 you had an interesting question for uh for for um 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.160 the offensive for the offensive coordinator um. You asked him 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.560 about the disparity run versus past. What was his answer 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.640 and what did you think of it? It's and I 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.480 don't think it's a controversy, but it's just it's something 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.200 that's kind of rankled me here over the last week 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:10.280 because you see differing opinions about the way that the 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.760 Cowboys played that. But essentially, I asked Kellen, you know 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.680 they famously threw fifty eight times and ran whatever it 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.560 was like, fourteen or fifteen, and Kellen even said they 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.200 checked out of half of their run calls from the game, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.919 and I just asked him, you know, it's it's so 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:31.440 easy to put it into boxes of like throwing verse running, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.079 like Zeke hast to hit this magic number, or we didn't, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.919 we weren't balanced enough. And I was like, you don't 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:38.880 look at it that way, do you. It's a much 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:44.040 more collective approach. And he went into this whole spiel 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.440 about He's like, yeah, I mean, I don't care what 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.919 it says on the stat sheet. I mean, we threw 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.280 a quote unquote pass to Tony Pollard that traveled four 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.079 inches out of Dak's hands, and that counts as a pass, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.240 but he picked up nine yards on it, and we 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.360 talked about it. We've talked about it a few times. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.239 You know, they few They threw at least three or 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.360 four smoke screens in that game, just getting the ball out, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.880 and it counts as a pass, but it's effectively a run. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.880 And I love that approach. I love the fact that 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.520 Kellen moore and it's one game. It's a small sample size. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.280 But that's what worries me, honestly, is that Zeke is 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.800 a ninety million dollar player, and you worry that the 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.959 team would feel pressure to feed him because of who 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.720 he is, and that was not the case on Thursday night, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.040 and I think that's a wonderful thing. And I, like 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.440 I said, it kind of rankles me when people are like, well, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.440 Zekes go to good as torches. You gotta no, you 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.960 do it. It's smart attack the defense in the way 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.400 that presents the best opportunity for success. And I've thought 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.560 about this over the last week is it reminds maybe 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.480 my least favorite game in the time that I've covered 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.320 this team is the twenty nineteen Vikings game. Pissed me 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.520 off so much because they kept running into that defense 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.080 on first and second and long and putting themselves in 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.600 situations and Dad kept bailing them out, only for them 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:05.720 to go back to the run at the end of 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.400 the game and it costs them in the game. It 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.160 was awful coaching, and so it was really encouraging to 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.640 see them do the opposite. I've been talking for five 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.520 minutes now, but it's something that I clearly feel passionately 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.320 about the It's interesting you mentioned that DAK changed a 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.400 lot of those plays. Nick. I think you said at 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.120 twelve of the past plays that it will call pass plays. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.200 DAK checked at the line of scrimmage, just playing Devil's advocate, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.680 because I personally believe, hey, do what's best when you 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.320 get to line scrimmage. If you need to check them 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:34.960 and you check them all to passes, if that's a 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.000 better look, go for it. But being Devil's advocate here, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.040 do you think that could become problematic as the season 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.719 goes on if your offensive coordinators really wanting to establish 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.560 a run and sometimes you're running into situations where you 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.440 know you may not get a lot, but you do 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.840 need to keep balance. Do you in those instances think 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.600 that could be a little problem Yeah. I mean, and 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.840 I do think it's problematic. I think that's just being 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.240 Devil's advocate. I think that it is. I like the 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.960 fact that you're not just going to run into a 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.839 brick wall if it's not there. If it's not there, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.920 you're just doing it for the sake of running it 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.840 to try to, you know, keep them honest. And I 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.720 don't know if I agree with that, but I do 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:17.000 think that you know, certain plays, those those design screens, 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.000 bubble screens and all that that are really just trying 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.320 to to you know, move the chains in a different 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.800 way and spread them out. They don't work as well 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.760 down by the goal line. So I do think that 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.000 you have to establish that you have to run because 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.080 or you're just gonna kick field goals. And they did, 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.760 and they and they didn't win that way, this way 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.320 of Dak of carrying the team and throwing in all 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.200 these yards. I mean they're two and four. They're two 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.640 and four the last six games that Dak has started. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.080 He keeps them in a game, but it has to 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.719 start flipping the other way, and it hasn't yet. But 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.839 I think he's amazing. I think he's playing out of 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.840 his mind. But I think they need a little bit 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.520 more balanced, and especially when it gets down to the 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.320 goal line, they're gonna have to figure out wheys to score. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.960 And if it's just him throwing to a Marii Cooper, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.400 if they can figure that out, then they'll figure it out. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.000 But I mean, they gotta figure out ways to score. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.839 I think running the ball will help them do that. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.080 When you say balance, what do you mean? I think 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:15.240 balance as far as is run, not not just run past, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.719 not just the amount of runs, but is where you 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.640 where do you utilize your yards in the middle of 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.400 the field. I mean, you have to like keep them 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.040 off offset a little bit because you can keep throwing 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.480 it to the wide sides and all that, but it 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.400 gets tightened up down there. I mean, eventually you're gonna 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.680 have to You're gonna have to work the middle, and 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.120 I think they will. I think this is an anomaly game. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.840 I think in a lot of ways, you're not gonna 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.520 face a quarterback like that. You're not gonna face a 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.520 defense like that. So I want to see more. I 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.440 said this on the radio. I want to see more 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.240 games because Tampa was so unique to what I think 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.000 they're going to see most of the year. But didn't 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.240 they do that? If I'm if I'm remembering as correctly, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.840 you guys have much much better photographic memories of points 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.400 and games. But it seemed like they were in the 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.880 red zone this last game. And I thought on first 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.880 down they ran Zeke, and then on second down Dak 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.400 ran the ball. Is that accurate? And then they and 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.680 I don't even know if they got an end zone 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.080 on that drive, but it did seem like they ran 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.640 so both with Dak and with Zeke in the red zone. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.240 It still didn't necessarily mean that they got in the 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.920 end zone every time they were in the red zone, right, Yeah, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.040 I mean they got in the red zone is it 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.600 three times and scored one. They scored one out of four, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.040 one touchdown out of four. I'm looking at it. Thank 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.520 you for the compliment. My memory is not that amazing, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.800 but I mean much better at that than I. They 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.720 threw three straight times on the missed field goal by Zerline. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.880 They did try. No, actually they went um. They threw 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.880 three straight times on the right after the quick change 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.200 turnover by Treyvon Diggs. Yeah, then, which I thought that 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.320 was the one that was like you probably ought to 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.000 do a little bit off the different goal. I don't 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.560 disagree with that. And then they did try to run 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.920 on the long drive at the beginning of the third 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.920 quarter and the obviously and some of that's execution, honestly, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.080 like they did, they did try it, and that's um. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.960 You know somebody, I think somebody asked us about that 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:10.720 earlier this week and I was like, that was a 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.240 great play call. You can get Jarwin's got a block. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.680 Seke's got to do something better. I mean, it is 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.840 what it is like. You can do everything, you can 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.160 make every right decision up until the snap, and it 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.400 still won't work. If you don't do what you need 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.560 to do. You know. What's what's amazing kind of from 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.920 an ironic standpoint, where we were a month ago, you know, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.480 out in California and worried about this and that when 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.600 it comes to deck, it's just if somebody would have 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.560 been like, oh, don't worry about the ankle. You know, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.839 he'll run through it four times and and he'll run 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.080 an option on the gold line. They're fine. The shoulder, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.960 he'll throw a fifty eight passes against the bucks and 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.880 he'll be fine. You know, don't worry about it. He's 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.600 gonna be okay. That's what he said. That what he said, basically, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.720 that's what he said, and I think everybody else in 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.920 the country was trying to, i mean, paying a different 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.320 stories say this all the time that like next year, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.480 we're not gonna fall for this. We're not gonna fall 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.040 for the bawn on the tailpipe. You know, we're not. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.760 We're not We're not gonna do that. Like like if 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.600 they say that they're hurt, it's probably not a big deal. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.400 But it's training camp. And then we do it. We 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.760 fall for it because if we gotta, you know, we're 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.560 gonna write about this and that, but like next year, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.520 when a guy gets pulled out for one little thing, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.319 like we're gonna be like, ah, it's probably not nothing. Well, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:22.960 but then you go back two years ago, you just 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:28.120 got it that with with case by case basis. Yeah, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.040 it just you just never know. But I will say this, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.480 I won't make a habit of doubting Z. I mean 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.319 Dak when he says something when it comes to that, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.000 because what we've seen is when he says I'm good, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.080 he's gonna be out there and and I will I 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.720 will follow that. I guess at this point, can I 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.160 just kind of throw this out there. I mean, I 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.400 said this, I'm talking about the last two seasons. We've 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.160 got one game, we've got five that Dak played and 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.800 they and I said, you know they're they're two and four. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.000 I'm not I'm not blaming Dak. I'm saying this, this 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.960 style of play, it doesn't necessarily is not conducive to wins, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.720 because both of those two wins were last second place. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.000 But I think there are teams in the NFL that 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.439 have used that kind of formula and have one. Right, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.439 Bucks played the same style of game and one they 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.640 ran the ball fourteen times for three and a half 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.080 yard Brady through fifty times. I mean, it does work. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.320 The question becomes, as it worked for this team, do 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.000 you have the other pieces in place? Is the defense 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.760 good enough? Is the is the kicking game good like? 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.680 Those are the things. I don't know if it's necessarily 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.440 Dak in the style of using Dak to just throw 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.200 the ball a lot. If that's you know, yeah, and 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:36.640 there's a lot of games that come down to the 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.400 last play, last field goal. I mean that that's that's 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.600 that's going to happen. All I'm saying is is when 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.800 we've seen this shift of what's the best thing they do, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.800 and right now the best thing that they're doing is 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.520 is kind of leaning on the deck. It's been great 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.040 and it's if you have Dak in your fantasy team, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.680 you're loving it. But it doesn't necessarily mean that they're 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.440 winning games yet, and that that that could be for 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.000 a lot of different things. That's it's it's funny. It's 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.560 that Thursday night was a truer showing of what they 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.360 can do in my opinion, because again, and I know 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.840 Dak played five games, but it was such it was 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.200 so weird. I mean, getting down minus three in turnover 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.920 to differential, like probably three out of the five times 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.480 they played. That's not normal, but that's not normal by 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.480 any teams standards, and that is you know, going back 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.120 to the fact that they're not going to have Lyelle. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.000 I have faith in Dak to make this work because 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.480 of how much he's grown as a quarterback, but having 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.360 an iffy offensive tackle opens you up a little bit 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:43.199 for turnovers. I mean, Cleveland's a great Terrence Steele gave 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.360 up a sack in that Browns game that I believe 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.920 Dak fumbled it right, Yeah, changed, Yeah, it changed the 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.400 course of it. It really where it started to kind 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.720 of get away from him. And that's I don't worry 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.600 about Dak having time or making throws and that type 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.640 of stuff. I think he can keep things going. But 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.640 that does give me pause because it was the turnover 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.680 problems that really it was that that sank them more 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.319 than the way that they were calling their offense last year. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.120 So they, you know, credit Kellen Moore in the offense 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.120 is sorry, this is what we've got. We know what 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.720 we've got here in the interior, we know what they've got. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.439 We're gonna We're gonna do these things on the outside. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:21.840 Is it. Is it gonna be as tough in the 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:27.760 middle at San Diego? I'm sorry, dang it, it's over Wednesday. Wednesday, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:33.280 dang it, Chargers defense, and uh no, it's probably not 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.520 going to be a stout in the middle, and you're 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.320 gonna get an all pro guard back in there with 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.040 Zach Martin. So I think they can. They can maybe 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.959 run the ball a little bit more, be a little 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.360 bit more balanced in the play calling of of where 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.160 they distribute the ball. I'll be surprised if it's that 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.080 skewed again this week. Yeah, But but you know, games 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.400 take a life of their own, and that's that's that 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.200 game did that, Like you said, the Bucks played that way, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.440 you know, back and forth, and it was just an 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.079 entertaining game it was, which I agree with you. It's 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.720 funny though, because again going back to when Dak was healthy, 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.360 like of the game's Dak has played in the McCarthy era, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.679 I think somebody every week, somebody gets up there and 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.439 they're like, yeah, it's a weird game. I'm like, when 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.679 are you gonna play a normal game? Right when a 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.000 quote unquote yeah, Like, when are you gonna play a 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.840 game that's not weird, Like they all sort of follow 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.440 a bizarre script when you really boil it, like the 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.040 Rams game Week one maybe even no, no, no, no, no no, no, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.240 you can't call that one not weird, because it was 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.880 the strangest thing I've ever heard of a football game 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.000 other than maybe a junior high game, where you just 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.480 just because nobody was there, nobody like CD caught like 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.000 a thirty yard pass and no one't even you just 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.120 hear CD lamb on the catch, like, oh yeah, it 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.680 was so that one was weird. Atlanta, I mean, top 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.760 five weird all time. You know, Cleveland that was pretty weird, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.320 Top five weird all times. Seattle was a Seattle was 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.920 weird too. Tony Pollard put him behind the you know, 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.680 he put him in the hole with the safety pay 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.800 the Diggs play. Yeah, Tyler Lockett had a thirty burger 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.720 and fantasy by the second quarter in game. You know, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.000 the whole reding was weird. I mean the whole season really, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.559 but yeah, those those games, particularly twenty twenty was kind 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.800 of weird, just a g little weird, a little different. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.200 All right, we're gonna take our first break. Go ahead, Dave, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.120 you guess him, No, I just now, I mean, we're 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.960 still weird, but just we're just normal weird. I guess 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.640 I don't know. 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Before 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.280 we get to that, though, I'd love for you just 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.960 to give me kind of a quick review of your 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:32.359 thoughts on the Cowboys versus Buccaneers really interesting because the 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.160 Cowboys say much better than I anticipated in the game. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.000 It wasn't a pretty game for them, but I thought 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.960 they adapted and adjusted the hand of the energy I've 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.440 dealing with the defending champions about Dak Prescott was very 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.639 impressive getting the ball out of his hand um. I 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.920 think the football world got a chance to see why 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.959 some have touted him as a top five play at 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.720 the position. I think he showed all of that and 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.000 that was the really impressive part. Vicho Elliott won't get 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.760 enough credit for the job that he did and passed 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.200 the section, but for those who take shots to him 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.800 for the lack of run game production, I think his 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.399 value as that pass protector really showed up. And the 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.200 defensively they took the ball of the head four turnovers 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.719 and so it was a winnable game. I think they 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.200 are rude the job that Blake Joeward did down to 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:18.879 the goal line on the option player that should have 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.520 been a touchdown. But I think there's things to build on. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.040 But they don't have to step up a play because 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.920 the team they got coming on deck, it's a really 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.120 good team. All right, Let's move on to that team. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.040 The Chargers tell me, as we like to start, what 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.280 does their offense do best and what is their greatest weakness? 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.119 For one, this is a well coached football team for 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.199 a young guy. Brandon Staley has a clear vision for 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.679 how he wants the team to play. They do a 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.760 really good job of avoiding the self inflicted team that 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.800 hurt teams, and then they got a lot of talent offensively. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.280 I would say the best thing that they do is 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.800 that combination of Keenan Allen and Justin Herbert is real. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.119 Keiman Allen is I mean look and he going all 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:04.960 the way back. He's kind of like an N one 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.520 mixtape street ball artist on the perimeter. He is going 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.960 to be a problem on the outside in terms of 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.960 his rout running ability and his ability to create separation. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.480 And then Justin Herbert just plays the game at a 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.320 maturity level that it kinds beyond his years. And so 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.040 this is one where the Cowboys coverage and pass rush 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.440 has to step up because this is a passing team, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.159 not a running team. What does he I know we 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.800 look at dynamic running backs, but you know, Austin Eckler, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.679 he's a guy that kind of does so many different things, 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.120 Like how can he hurt Now? I know he wasn't 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.520 one hundred percent healthy this last game, but how does 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.600 he really kind of hurt teams with his ability to 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.720 kind of do so many different things? You know. And 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.280 I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna be friends like he 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.040 he's okay, you know what I'm saying. Like, I don't 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.960 think he's great. I don't think he causes like sleepless night. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.280 I think he's the beneficiary of playing with telling the 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:02.240 troop around him and his his production is more of 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.200