WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Needing Style Points? 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:20.239 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.960 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.280 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.560 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.959 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.600 Welcome back, guys, Cowboys are three. I note three, I not. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:51.200 We're celebrating here, you know, after a victory against the Dolphins, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.520 a game that we didn't necessarily expect to be flowing 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.200 the way it did. Did it collect the show? Yeah? 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.800 We were lying about to see our pants this morning. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:03.480 And at one point in the game. I guess you 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.520 might say the same thing about the Cowboys. But they 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:11.039 got it all together and anybody the Cowboys. The Cowboys 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.440 had a meeting too. They were running late to the game. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.360 It took them a little bit too. We're just gonna 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.240 hit play and then what's going on? But like I'm 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.760 telling you, thirty seconds ago, neither one of these two, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.720 Derek or Amber seconds ago come flying in. As you 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.440 hear the open going a little flustered, Amber takes over. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.240 It's kind of like Yeah, it's kind of like what 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.920 happened in the quarter Cowboys were like, oh, well we're 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.640 playing playing a football game. Here we go. Let's go 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.959 Cowboys for you know it that they're gonna have a 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.800 great show. Cowboys do get the big win yesterday, thirty 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.560 one to six. Did the score, I don't know. The 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.640 score maybe tells the story I think more than anything else, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.440 it's kind of a story of two halfs. The first 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.400 half probably wasn't the Cowboys best football. And if you 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.120 talk to the players after the game, they even talk 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.920 about some moments where, um, I think maybe they made 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.040 some decisions the quarterback in particular, made some decisions that 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.520 maybe they would have made if they were playing let's 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.680 say the Saints next week. But all that, all Cowboys 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.440 do come out with a big win, and they moved 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.040 to three and oz and looking really good in their division, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.920 where the Eagles lose yesterday, and so the next closest 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.560 team is one and two. Let's start first with Dak. Obviously, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.720 Dak is the engine I think that makes this that 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.640 has been making this thing go over the last couple 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.200 of weeks. He was nineteen to thirty two, fifty nine 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.040 percent completion percentage two hundred and forty six yards, two touchdowns, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.560 an interception, and also a rush touchdown. Talk to me 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.959 just overall about what you thought of his performance, because 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.200 I think there are a lot of different facets to that. Yeah, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.560 I mean, just like we've seen in the first two 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.079 games that he didn't play as great early on. He's 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.600 having a hard time i think, coming out of the 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.639 gate in the first half and playing his best football. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.600 But for whatever the reason, at a halftime, the third quarter, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.160 he's really you can't say anything other than perfect, because 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.560 that's what it's quarterback rating has been. In the third 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.960 quarter this season, he's been outstanding, and you know, he 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.040 kind of figures it out and he definitely did it 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.040 against the Dolphins, and so it wasn't his best game, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.560 but it was a very good game, especially in the 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.639 second half. Yeah, it's interesting. Like I guess my main 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.240 impression of this is I can't kill him too much 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.800 because they woke up and they I mean, this game 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.320 was never really in doubt after halftime. But we gave 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.120 Jason Garrett so much praise for the way he keeps 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.360 these guys focused, and they didn't look focused when this 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.240 game started. None of them did to your point, like, no, 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.480 Dak has never played a perfect game in his life, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.920 and he's thrown plenty of interceptions, but he just it 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.560 was an uncharacteristic performance on his part, which he even 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.320 admitted to after the game, saying, like I was being greedy, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.760 I was looking for kill shots, just doing uncharacteristic things. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.600 Like I said on Twitter, I thought they were playing 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.600 the game like a ten year old plays matten like 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.440 they were just like they were like, these guys are 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:49.840 not as good as us, and we're gonna try to 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.800 win the game on every play, like every play should 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.920 be a sixty yard touchdown. And that's how Dak approached it. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.120 In the beginning looked sloppy. You know, not to take 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.120 any credit away from the Dolphins, but you compare the 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.520 defense's first half to the second half, it certainly looked 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.520 like they were trying a lot harder. Well, I mean, 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.720 they just looked flat, Like two hundred yards by the 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.240 Dolphins at halftime sixty five I think after I mean, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.640 that's such a gigantic discrepancy that, like I said, whether 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.640 you want to call it lack of focus, being flat, 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.080 or maybe they just weren't expecting the Dolphins to try 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.240 that hard. I don't know what the actual truth is, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.520 but that's what it looked like. And they snapped out 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.600 of it real quick after halftime and played the way 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.800 they were supposed to. You know, I know that one 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.400 matters is at the end of the game what you 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.279 do and when you come off with a win. But 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.680 I'll be honest, I am concerned Dak. We've seen it 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.200 takes him. Like Dave said, it takes him a little 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.320 bit to get going, and we've seen that in past 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.520 games in previous years. These first two games of the 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.280 season is taking him a little bit, but then he'll 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.479 pick it up pretty quickly. Now I'm concerned once you 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.479 move into other teams that are better, if you keep 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.120 having slow starts, I mean, that can come and bite 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.120 you in the butt. We've seen it last year at 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.960 times where they've had a slow start. Then in the 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.840 second half later he comes back in he's killing and 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.520 moving the ball down the field and making plays, but 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.280 under pressure and sometimes it might be a little too 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.720 late for that for the light to come on. And 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.680 I'm not saying this is something to freak out about. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.320 You know, it's very exciting to have the team that 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.120 the Colways have at the moment, but it is something 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.000 to be concerned of one about once you start facing 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.280 better teams. Yeah, the one thing I'll say about that, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.240 I actually think that I don't know if I don't 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.200 know if I think he's just off to two really 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.520 slow starts, because yesterday, I mean, they did score on 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.400 their first two possessions, then it seemed like it kind 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.920 of went a lent to a little bit of a 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.560 lull for the rest of the first half, and then 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.320 obviously the third quarter picks up again. So it wasn't 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.400 like it was, in my opinion, wasn't like it was 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.760 the first two games where they didn't score the first 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.680 possession in one game. I think it was like the 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.800 first three possession yet a pretty ugly start, right, But 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.280 but so I don't think it was that necessarily. I 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.279 just think overall, and I kind of agree with you, Dave, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.880 that it seemed like they were just a little bit flat. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.880 It just seemed like there wasn't there wasn't the sense 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.960 of urgency. They were doing things that were uncharacteristic for them. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.120 I mean, I think Cheeto had a pretty tough several 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.559 plays in that game, especially early on that just didn't 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.960 seem to be characteristic for him. I think what they 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.120 did was is I mean, I think they were told 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.200 all week, you know, let's don't let's come out strong, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.479 let's come out fast, and I think they did. I 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.559 mean the defense did a nice drib early, the offense 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.159 did a nice drop. They went down the field and 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.080 scored twice. But I think then's like, oh, yeah, this 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.400 is what everyone's talked about. This is gonna be terrible. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.640 And then they did hit that lull and they had 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.400 to kind of wake up and say, you know, it 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.000 wasn't for that fumble right for the half. You know, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.760 the Dolphin's probably gonna have a lead at the half. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.560 If DeVante Parker catches a very wide open I think 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.640 it was a slant route. It was definitely going across 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.479 the middle. I mean, he walks into the end zone 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.159 if he catches that pass, and they're down thirteen to 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.360 ten and a half for sure. But you can't beat 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.720 him up too bad because the story I think of 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.400 that game is at the running game was was really phenomenal, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.560 and you look across the board. The first time the 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.760 Cowboys have had two hundred yard rushers since nineteen ninety 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.920 eight and then in Zeke had one hundred twenty five 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.000 yards on nineteen carries. Polette had thirteen carries for one 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.360 hundred and three yards and also a touchdown. You know 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.000 both started that game in ninety eight. The quarterback Chris, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:36.160 I know who's facing Garrett? Did he? Yep? Nice, nice 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.760 little nugget, right. Yeah, Well, now you got me worried 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.840 because I'm I think he started that game. I mean, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.680 did you know you're backing in the game. But now 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.240 I'm wondering if he started. I think that was the 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.400 year the Eightman had a broken collar bone early in 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.520 the season and they went to Washington and beat them. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.840 In Warren and Emmett Smith both had one hundred yards. Yeah, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.120 it's it's hard for me to get a firm grasp 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.680 on how I feel about that game, because I mean, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.760 what I think I said thirty eight ten, you said 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.200 thirty seven seven? Would you say, Derek thirty four sixty 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.920 four six? And or would you say, I mean, all 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.760 you're missing is the same. Basically we were all in 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.600 the ballpark, Yeah, like we were. I mean, it played 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.320 out pretty close to what we thought at the end 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.480 of the day, and it's a sixty minute games. I mean, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.880 if they don't look great at halftime, there's a whole 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.000 nother half to play at the same time. You know, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.600 it wasn't the effortless dominance that you probably would have 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.920 preferred to see. Maybe it was naive to think it 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.480 would have been, because it is still the NFL. But 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.280 isn't this way they accomplished the end result? Right? And 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.720 isn't this what we probably should have thought an NFL 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.640 game would be like, even it gets a bad team. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.160 Because here's the deal, Nick, you talk about it all 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.880 the time. You beat teams on Wednesday and Thursday, right, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.320 these kinds of teams, these kind of teams are also 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.520 going to probably start off the game playing really really hard. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.520 They're gonna give you their best shot, they're gonna try, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.720 they're gonna pull everything out like that. That's why they 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.120 go for the on side kick. They're trying everything, they're 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.520 gonna throw everything at you. It's when they get to 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.960 the second half and they realize, man, all that stuff 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.040 that we did and none of it worked, and we're 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.120 still down, and then you score on them in the 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.920 first possession, and then it's like, well, here we go. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.640 And then that's when you start just taking it from them, right, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.000 and then it becomes that easier game as you go. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.280 But in the first half music you should expect these 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.320 are all professionals. They're probably all going to come out 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.559 giving you their very best, and it's not until a 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.480 little later sometimes when these kind of games take that 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.079 feel like that was the case for the Cowboys. I'm sorry, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.920 I think, Yes, the Cowboys came out and they were trying, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.800 but not hard enough. First it just wasn't working. I 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.040 talk about the other team, I'm talking about the other okay, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.800 just in general. Then with the Cowboys, a lot of 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.720 those things were on themselves, like they were the ones 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.080 making those mistakes. Yes, there were certain plays where the 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.360 Dolphins we're doing things that I'm like, oh, okay, I 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.920 know y'all. Y'all were doing those kinds of things, all right, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.400 But if if we're gonna nitpick it and that I mean, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.640 like I said, like they got to the end result 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.640 like it played out. Take the totality of the game. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.720 It out pretty similar to what we thought. But two 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.760 hundred and seven yards of offense in the first half. Like, again, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.600 you're nitpicking here, but that's my column was actually I 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.240 guess centered on in this room. I usually write it 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.240 for other fans, but I mean I kind of said, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.800 let's don't start judging ugly blowouts here. You know, they 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:25.880 blew them out like they happened favorites. I mean, it's 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.360 only happened when thirty five times happened twice this weekend. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.960 It's hard to do. And they covered no we're nitpicking, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.960 but like that first half performance by the defense is 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.760 at least a little bit troubling in my opinion, Like 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.839 just you take the you take it all in stride. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.400 I mean, this is an offense that I think was 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.920 averaging one hundred and ninety two yards per game over 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.719 the first two games, and they got that by halftime. Um, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.360 and they were giving us some big chunks of yards too. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.319 I mean, it wasn't like they would just dinking and 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.120 dunking down the field like they had. They hit them 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.040 for some big plays. I just can't call a couple 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.760 of field goals troubling. I can't not yet, not a 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.839 couple of field goals. We just said, like they should 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.640 have scored a touchdown. They might have had a touchdown, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.120 depending on how you feel about that contested ball between 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.720 Cheeto and m Preston Williams really thought that was a catch. Honestly, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.400 for the record, I think people that think that are 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.880 that's a touchdown are crazy, Like if des Brian didn't 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.640 catch it at lambeau Field, how is that a catch? 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.640 And he might have had a rough first half. That's 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.240 an amazing play by Cheeto Wougier that kind of got 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.400 brushed aside because he struggled early on. He made a 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.800 great play on that ball. Yeah, the question I asked 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.240 in the press box is how long are we doing 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.000 this before we I mean, would we have to give 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.480 the ball to the ref? I mean, I just he 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.000 caught caught it. There's two or three steps. I mean 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.080 the rule is pretty simple. If you're going to the ground, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.720 you got a main maintained possession through the fall, right right? 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.320 Isn't that the rule? Okay? But like how long I 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:53.800 mean do you run and then all of a sudden 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.000 you hit rowdy and the end zone and you fumble? 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.960 Like what is he was catching the ball and going 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.960 to the ground. The point if you're catching the ball 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.080 and you're going to the ground, then you have to 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.520 maintain possession. I would have said, but well, whatever I 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.679 don't if the ball, the ball comes out of your 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.760 hands before you know before what before? Yeah, I know 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.839 it's it's tough. I don't think it was before you 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.560 get home, Nick, But the ball comes out of hand 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.960 before you get home. You lost the ball like I 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.920 spiked it, I guess. And I'm gonna talk out of 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.640 both sides of my mouth here because I know it's 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.720 the NFL. I know everybody gets paid. But like, they 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.920 effortlessly dominated them in the second half. They went oh 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.319 of seven on third down. They had sixty five yards 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.000 of offense. They sacked Rosen three times. Where was any 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.199 of that in the first half. Like they didn't get 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.600 home on the pass rush, they gave up chunk plays 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.520 to the receivers. They weren't terrible against the run, but 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.920 I mean the Dolphins they went three of eight on 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.319 third down, so they were I mean a little less 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.319 than fifty percent. That's pretty good for a bad team. Like, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.240 it wasn't a good performance, And I know you can't. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.520 You can't expect to just be effortlessly dominant for sixty 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.480 minutes against damn near anybody. But I thought they could 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:02.959 have played a lot better. I think they do. Think 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.160 some of that happens though as a function of the game, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.880 when you start putting the other team in a position 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.120 where they have to pass, yeah, then it creates a 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.440 lot of opportunity for your defense to know, Okay, they're 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.320 not going to be running the ball here, let's just 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.120 go get them, and then you can get more of 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.000 those sacks. You can cover a little bit better because 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.920 you know they're passing. There is no doubt that there's 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.280 a run or pass right because so I think that 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.000 helps a little bit as a game keeps going on. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.160 And Cowboys did get a lot of their big plays defensively, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.480 they came a little later in the game when they 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.040 had a bigger lead. Let me ask you this though, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.719 and I don't know what the answer would be, but 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.600 like the actual game went like this. The Cowboys were 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.559 up twenty one to nothing at the half, and then 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.200 in the second half they scored a little bit, gave 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.439 up some of them, ended up ten to six, and 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.280 the second half they win thirty one six. Are we 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.800 talking about a different game at all? I mean, like, 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.280 are we as worried about that about what they did 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.880 in the second half? Yeah? And that's I mean, I 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.400 which is similar to the first being careful too. When 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.760 we stay worried, I don't think any of us is like, yeah, 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.800 I don't think any of us is like, oh my god, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.160 this teams like I'm this team's not going anywhere. It 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.040 is a relative thing. It's like if you're trying to 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.240 find something that's that's that's even a bit troublesome about 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.480 this team, then you'll nitpick a little bit and say, well, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.400 maybe the defense just isn't playing at the expectation level 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:16.839 that we had for them, that they were going to 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.480 be shutting people out. Right, they're fourth in the league 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.880 and scoring defense. They're giving up two touchdowns like they're fine. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.160 And not only that, So fourteen point seven points per 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.320 game would have won you a lot of games last 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.840 year when you were only scoring twenty two. You're scoring 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.680 thirty two right now, So they're fine. I mean it's early, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.800 they haven't played a good team yet. I'm not worried. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.920 But if we're you know, this is a whole hour 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.920 long show dedicated to just the Cowboys Dolphins game. We 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.240 gotta have something to talk about the season. Three straight 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.120 thirty points. I don't even know what one two thousand 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.720 and seven, I looked it up last night. Seven and 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.440 then I don't remember who they beat Week four. They 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.680 want they started five and zero grams and then the 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.560 next game was the Bills and that was twenty four. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.960 That was at the Romo game. That was the high 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.760 Romo's best, worst game of his career. Six turnover. You know, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.440 we got a question on that game. On that game, Yeah, 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.480 let's do it. Um, I asked you yesterday. I was like, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.480 what's the cutoff line to pull a quarterback? How many picks? 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.240 Usually because I was thinking about the Arkansas game or 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.640 the guy just through five? Um, but um, it's not 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.440 a big deal. But yeah, when yeah, when you when 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.360 do you cut that a? Three? Four? But that game, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.800 like Romo, I think three is where you have the conversation. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.200 But you might have the conversation to say, man, this guy, 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.400 we're just gonna keep rolling with him because either we 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.720 don't have a better option, yeah, or how many do 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.360 you come out? In flag football? Before they took them out? 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.680 I wasn't. I just thought it was let's take our 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.600 first wasn't My problem had other problems, but that one 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.160 really wasn't. Injury All right, let's take our first break. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.720 When we come back. I didn't want to ask you 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.960 guys the question around the running game. 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Thirty one to says Cowboys moving three and oh, 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.240 let's talk about the running game. As I mentioned earlier, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.280 Zeke and Pollard both had great days, both over one 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.880 hundred yards. Yesterday. It looked like or and I didn't 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.080 look like it was a split of about sixty forty. 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.600 Zeke had about sixty percent of the carries, Pollard had 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.000 about forty percent of the carries. They both had three 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.680 passing targets. That being said, is that the kind of 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.960 division you'd like to see this thing? Because it does 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.520 seem a bit high for Pollard and a bit low 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.920 for Zeke. This is the third game. You would think 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.600 he's kind of in rhythm at this point and in 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.280 shape enough to be carrying a heavier load. Do you 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.000 think that this is an intentional thing where the Cowboys 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.120 are really kind of keep them closer to that division. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.680 I think it was an intentional thing where the game 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.320 thirteen to two, first half thirteen to two, and I'm 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.119 sorry to cut you off a bit, but that's what 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.520 that's what you know. The second half was totally different, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.760 I mean, because it was all all going to be Pollard. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.080