WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Where Do We Start? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.960 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:15.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.120 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:23.280 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.120 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:32.839 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:39.240 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, November fourteenth, 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.360 twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number seventy. Welcome to 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.640 the latest edition of The Break. We are alive in 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.400 this WBC Morgan Studios at the Star, representer by Miller Lite, 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.080 the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And man, I'm 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.159 not used to this having a Monday where we come 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.720 in here and talk about a loss. We've gotten kind 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.000 of spoiled around here. But Cowboys do lose. Yesterday, they 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.279 lose on the road at the Green Bay Packers. They 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.039 lose thirty one twenty eight in overtime. And where I 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.520 want to start today is there were so many things 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.160 that happened in this game. But I'd like to go 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.160 around the table and I'd like each of you to 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.160 tell me what you think was the biggest reason why 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:20.080 they lost yesterday's game. Let's start with you, Brian. We 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.720 knew going into the game the run defense potentially could 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.080 be a problem. I kind of felt like that that's 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.120 what green Bay was committed to doing. I kind of 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:29.560 feel like at the point in time when I went 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.080 back and watched the All twenty two, felt like that 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.200 they had a chance to end this game, win this 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.360 game with everything that happened to it. On the fourth 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.440 and seven play, you know that green Bay converted that 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.640 they got Watson scored a touchdown on right there, you 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.920 get a stop on fourth and seven. The game's over 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.720 balls right there basically at midfield, and you get a 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.880 shot to just run that thing out. You've got green 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.480 Bay probably demoralized a little bit having to come back 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.480 on the field. But yeah, the run defense was going 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.520 to be a problem. And but that's the when you 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.600 look at you look at like key plays in the game. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.960 You could talk about the fourth down play that Dallas had. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.360 But if somehow, some way you make a play, you know, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.120 Michael Parsons on the twist stunt gets a little wide 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.840 and then all of a sudden, it gives Rogers the 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.600 opportunity to step up and make that throw. You know, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.880 Michael Parsons makes that play a lot of times. You 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.240 know it's a sack, it's a turnover, it's the game's 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.359 over at that right there. For all the things that 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.639 happened to you, good and bad in that football game, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.080 you make one play on fourth and seven, You're gonna 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.920 win that football game. And I think that's a little 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.040 bit disappointing for something. If you said, give me one 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.959 thing other than Cowboy run defense that kind of affected 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:43.080 this game. Amber, Yeah, the run defense was definitely an issue, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.520 and it was you can clearly see that from yesterday's game. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.960 But like Ryan said, it's hard to pinpoint something specific 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.000 when you look at the game overall. And last week 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.600 on Friday and even Thursday, I was talking about one 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.679 of my biggest concerns going into this game, where penalties 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.880 and how that could have my thought of it affecting 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.920 the Cowboys in a bad way, and it absolutely did. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.320 Despite all the mistakes that were made on the offensive 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.440 side of the balls, the things, you know, the two interceptions, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.880 certain plays that you're like, why are they calling display 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.200 right now? Despite all that, they were able to come 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.920 back make it a game. And then you go into overtime, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.280 and I'm sure we're going to discuss those penalties, but damn, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.639 it's like, why does they have to come down to that. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.600 I mean, you were able to tie the game against 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.520 Aaron Rodgers comes back, the defense kind of bends in 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.200 the fourth quarter, which was crazy to see the way 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.520 that they were able to just run over all over 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.960 the defense. But I would say it's just mistakes on offense, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.440 just not playing a clean game, some of the decision making, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.960 maybe Dad getting a little too comfortable and making some 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.880 of those throws that he shouldn't have made, and it 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.560 just all came down to that. You could have started 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.040 the game being ten seven and he didn't go that way. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.480 But I mean, there's no way to really predict what 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.080 could have happened at that point on if they had 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.120 kind of protected the ball better to start the game. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.640 Their quarterbacks better than yours by far, and that's the 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.000 difference in the game to me. So yeah, that's it. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.320 I mean, he made no mistakes and that made a 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.960 few mistakes, So that's the difference I think. I mean, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.440 he can't beat this guy. I mean, they beat him twice, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.000 but you know it's ten years ago and fifteen years 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.280 ago or something like that. I mean, he's way better 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.080 than you, and then that's that's the problem. And he's 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.000 not interested in playing a lot of games, but he 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.920 was interested in that one apparently. Yeah, that's what's frustrating. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.800 If I'm the Packers, I'm probably more frustrated than the Cowboys, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.320 because if you got it, then give it every damn game. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.919 You don't have it every game. Well, the difference I 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.920 think is that they didn't ask as much of it 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.279 him yesterday as they've typically asked of him. I think 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.279 he was very clear yesterday. They went into that game 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.160 saying he controlled the game. No, you know, he made 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.839 the throws when he needed to make the throws. But 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.120 guess what, he played a Cooper Rush kind of game. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.080 That's the interesting points about this. Like they were not 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.160 throwing the ball around the yard. They were run. They 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.080 went in the game their first I think it was 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.440 of the first fifteen plays they ran, twelve of them 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.400 were rushing. Like they went into the game saying, Aaron, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.680 we will call you when we need you right now. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.040 And I'm talking about Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Jones, and Dylan 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.840 We're gonna we're gonna give you guys the ball and 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.880 we're gonna let you run. It's it's it's funny. You've 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.719 played two of Hall of Fame quarterbacks this year in 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.920 Aaron Rodgers and then also Tom Brady, and neither one 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.800 of them really had to have a great game for 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.640 them to win by I mean, but to Nick's point, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.520 he's when Rogers had to make throws. He made throws. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.120 I mean, and and they and you know, and he 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.960 he starts off the game throwing the ball to to 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.560 Watson and Watson drops two and row and you're like going, Okay, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.440 we've seen we've seen this act before. But he just 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.760 kept throwing them the ball. And I think the Dallas 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.840 secondary got a little compromised with what was happening with 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.080 them with Bland and then you know, and also you 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.200 know them having to make a lot of changes though 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.640 in the secondary as well. I mean, it's just it 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.280 was tough. I mean, it's just it's I always say 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:26.120 it's about this team. It hates prosperity. It really hates prosperity. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.640 It hates when you give them something that they can 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.760 they can take advantage of and make a difference, and 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.200 when they hate it when you do that. They like 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.400 to make it as hard as possible to win these 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.480 football games. It's never easy with this bunch. You know, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.120 you get the turnover, I mean, tank with the brilliant 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.719 I mean, they get the sack and the sack fumble, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.200 and like to Ambar's point, then you throw a ball, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.240 you give it right back and they score on that, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.039 you know, instead of instead of you kicking a field 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.080 goal or you scoring a touchdown, they give it right 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.560 back and it's like, okay, you know, well, hey, by 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.440 the way, we're gonna have a couple of runs in here. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.000 You know, we're gonna make a good run. You're Oh, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.080 by the way, we're gonna get called for holding here. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.560 Oh another thing. We're gonna run for nine yards. But 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.160 we're not gonna line up on sides. You know, they 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.400 hate prosperity. They just hate it when you give them 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.480 something that's going to help them win the game. And 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.600 that's the thing that's really the most frustrating. I mean, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.120 the run defense stuff. We can get into all that 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.920 because of and I'll just give you an example on 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.880 the on the touchdown run, uh that that Aaron Jones 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.520 had where it just looked like it with a wide 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.920 open hole. They're running a twist stunt. They're running to twist. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.840 Bohannah goes out and it's supposed to be Fouler inside. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.960 Fouler doesn't go inside. They got they got the twist 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.000 on the opposite side. They're gonna run the twist to 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.240 the play side and they're gonna twist right into it. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.600 And what happens. Fowler doesn't run the twist, and now 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.600 it's a It's a huge gain for a touchdown. That's 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.160 the kind of things that happens to this football team 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.520 way way too often for them to be is as 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.680 good as they are with record, right, crazy thing. It's 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.200 like you're in Green Bay. You're going up against Aaron Rodgers. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.960 Yes it is Aaron Rodgers better than Dak Prescott, Yeah, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.120 sure he is. But you got you get to the 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:17.360 point where you got a fourteen point lead against them, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:21.880 that's going into the fourth quarter, and then still you 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.640 manage And I don't think this game much to your point, Derek, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.440 I don't think this game was necessarily won by Aaron 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.920 Rodgers and his arm. It was the running game where 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.640 they just completely ran through the whole Cowboys defense. But 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.960 it's just insane to see how the game started. It 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.040 was really slow, and then you get to that lead 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.360 like that, and then just completely they tied, the game 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:50.520 goes into overtime, then the crazy it happens. To Nick's point. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.720 To Nick's point, Rodgers was into this game. The fact 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.760 on third down, fourth down there and he's yelling. He's 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.520 yelling at this guy. And I know he yells the 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.960 coach every once in a while, but you could tell 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.520 he wanted to win this football game. You could tell 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.640 about the way that he was that he was playing 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.000 and you know, and he stuck with it. I mean, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.720 he made some really really good throws in this game 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.400 that they had they had to have, and you know 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.240 that that's the difference. You know, the recipe for your 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.920 quarterback throwing forty six times is never good, just never good. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.480 When it turns into that, it's just you know, it's 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.800 something bad, it's probably gonna happen. So how much blame 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.720 do we give Kellen Moore Because it's one of the 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.680 things that we talked about during that five game stretch 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.440 where rushes your quarterback and you go four and one 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.000 and everybody's saying, well, yeah, the reason why is because 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.360 they're managing the game. With Cooper Rush, he only has 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.079 to make a few plays a game, and they're running 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.720 the ball. They're running the ball effectively, and they should 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.800 do the same thing when Dak comes back. However, yesterday 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.560 said that was not a Cooper Rush kind of game. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.080 That was a game where we got our starter backs, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.600 so that means we're just going to air it out. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.520 There was never any reason for them to feel like 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.280 they got they should get away from the run. They 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.680 were running the ball effectively. How much blame do you 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.840 put on Kellen Moore? I put I put blame on 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.360 the fourth downplay, And honestly, I felt like at the 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.440 end when Mike McCarthy, he made me feel a little 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.880 bit better about it because I was thinking that maybe 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.000 McCarthy decided to go for it on fourth down and 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.680 Kellen didn't have a play ready, you know, but Mike 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.360 came out and said no. On second down. I told 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.079 him we're going. Obviously, trying to kick a field goal 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.319 that way was not good. Kicking off anything going that 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.400 direction was not good to be good enough. Though. The 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.440 problem I have is, though, what play you called if 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.320 if you're learning on third down that the officials are 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.679 not going to call pass interference or anything like that 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.520 on that third down play. I'm like, okay, I'm about 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.920 to throw a bunch pick route on you here, I 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.720 mean and pick. I'm about to run pick routes. And 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.760 if you're if you're going to swallow the whistle on this, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.160 I'm coming with a fourth down play or a play 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.400 that's gonna get me this first down where but you know, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.920 to run trips and then try and really, I mean, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.720 the shallow cross was not there, the ball the curl 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.680 inside wasn't there because Alexander, and then you kind of 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.720 throw the ball to Pollard in the flat. You know, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.880 give me a play where, give me your best two 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.680 point play to get a first down. Give me something 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.240 that make these officials like I say, run picks, get 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.320 guys open, kind of wheel it. Do whatever you have 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.160 to do. But for that call at that particular time 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.720 in the game, I'm like, going that play had nothing. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.920 That play had absolutely nothing. And I agree with you 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.199 about running the football. I do. I think putting Dak 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.480 in Harm's way at times is not very good. But 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.240 I also feel like though that have a really have 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.520 a good play ready on fourth down and I don't 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.440 think they did in this particular case. You look at 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.599 the numbers on DAC yesterday. He was twenty seven to 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.760 forty six to fifty nine percent completion rate not good, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.480 two hundred and sixty five yards, three touchdowns, two interceptions. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.559 That I think is key in this quarterback grading was 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.040 seventy eight point six. Nick. How much blame you put 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.320 on DAK for that loss? Not as much as I 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.320 put on Kellen More. I mean, that's that's the I mean, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.800 I don't the fourth down play. I agree that was bad, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.280 but it's third down. For me. It's third and three 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.760 with six twenty five to go. I mean, run the football. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.040 They are not stopping either one of those two backs. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.360 And I'm and I'm putting at the balls at the 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.400 thirty five yard line. You're not kicking it at the 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.360 thirty five. Would you kick it at the thirty two? Maybe? 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.440 And you might kick it, And you might kick it 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.400 at the thirty two with five minutes to play in 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.400 the game and overtime as opposed to six to twenty five, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.960 run it, run it, and and I don't think they 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:40.079 get stopped. And you know, but the you know, the 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.040 the officials, you hate you hate to blame officials, but 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.800 you just want to see it consistent. If you're gonna 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.559 call Connor William I'm sorry, Connor McGovern same thing, because 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.440 you want to think about the holding. You're gonna call 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.960 McGovern on that penalty in overtime. If you're calling that, okay, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.360 then then call it. If you're gonna just say and overtime, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.640 let him play, it's gotta be a it's got to 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.800 be like a blood bath before I call anything. That's 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.320 why I would do it. But they don't do it 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.360 that way. You're gonna call that, then you gotta call 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.400 it with CD getting getting Oh he got interfered with. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.040 He got interfered with. And that's clearly that's why. Again, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.200 that's why you know, and I think Nick's right, run 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.800 the ball, run the ball. You'd had success and not 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.600 stopping that. You're not stopping that, you know. And that's 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.280 the thing about it is that. But man, I mean, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.400 if at that fourth down play, it's like, fine, okay, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.199 you did, You're not gonna give us one. I'm about 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.880 to run a pick and I'm gonna see if you're 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.080 gonna call offensive pass interference here when I spring ceedee 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.839 lamb open for about twenty six yards here because I'm 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.360 gonna run. I am going to make you have to 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.720 make that call. You make that call. Now I'm losing 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.640 my absolute mind. But you know I lost it. I 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.720 just it. Yeah, But that's that's what happened with that. Well, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.960 the headsets broke. There's that just shows you how emotionless 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.520 game was for Mike McCarthy for shot. You know, I mean, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.040 and he and I don't. I think it was the 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.040 frustration when he talked to Brad Sham pregame. You know, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.880 we played on one O five three. The fan he 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.640 was he was a you know, it was a little 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.120 bit try go Brady. He just guarantee a win. You know, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.280 he was very much, very confident that his football team 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:15.600 was going to go out there and play well and 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.679 he was gonna get they were gonna vict That coaches 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.600 have confidence all the time, but Mike was very much 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.480 a after we get this win, you know, we're gonna 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.000 go back and we're gonna you know. And I was like, oh, okay, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.880 so yeah, I think this. I think this one meant 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.760 a lot to him. And the fact that they didn't 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.840 get it and they had some penalties on the back 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:34.720 end of this thing, I think made him even more 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.640 upset after the game. You can just if you listen 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.280 to the press conference of him speaking, the way he 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:45.040 was talking, even at one point his eyes were pretty shiny, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.720 you know, So there was a lot of emotion there 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.240 and you can absolutely see it. And going back to 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.200 some you mentioned Celee Lamb, you guys were talking about him, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.880 and it reminded me of that one play that they 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.480 have that they like put that play away. I don't 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.840 want to hear whatever option routes happen in the middle 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.720 of the field. You don't want to run anymore. Want 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:10.840 to hear miscommunication being the word used after a game again, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.720 like bringing Brough, Like what miscommunication? You practice this and 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.600 and and I'm reacting this way because this isn't the 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.920 first time we see this. So last week, Yeah, it 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.200 happened two weeks weeks ago, Yeah exactly. Yeah, you had 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.800 a week to fix it, and then it happens again. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.200 And then you use the word miscommunication, Well what the 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.400 are you? What are you doing in during practice and 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.240 there should not be a miscommunication. Well that's and that's 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.200 something to do with Dak's first interception. We we could 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.280 we could have sat out there and watched them practice 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.960 that play that they end with Schultz and CD getting 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.400 kind of real close there, and when they run to play, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.680 there's no congestion there. Everything is spaced right. Everything you 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.240 know it's and Dak makes that throw and it's like, okay, 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.920 you know next period, you know everything it's it's it's 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.440 a successful play. It scores every time in practice. Yeah, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.800 and then when you run it into game, you're like going, 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.360 wait a minute, the Titan gets a little short in 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.360 the route. The receiver didn't get far enough. Wait a minute, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.320 there's guys standing there. Like when you practice that play, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.000 it's a touchdown every single time. But that's also where 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.600 that's quarterback. But that's why he makes that throw. That's 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.720 why he makes that throw because every single time they 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.920 practice that, it's a touchdown in practice, right, But that's 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.440 also where he has to And maybe I don't understand 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.040 the quarterback position in the NFL. I will a lot 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.800 have never played NFL quarterback, but I would think that 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.720 he is watching his receivers to know, Oh, wow, his 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.960 short's coming up, his route is coming up a little show, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.120 Oh he got bumped there. Oh there's a ton of 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.640 congestion there. Maybe i't to go to a different receiver 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.960 or maybe think about tucking and running or getting rid 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.200 of the ball well one of those other options. See, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.280 but there was all that congestion there, there were receivers 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.120 that were not where they were supposed to be. I 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.880 still put it on the quarterback. You've got absolutely right, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.200 absolutely see and the and the previous play to that, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.880 they try and run a screen. They fake a screen 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.439 to the left, and it just goes to show you 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.159 how fed up things get for the Cowboys when it 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.520 comes to running. They got they got a chance on 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.879 the screenplay, but they got Davis in there running the 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.640 play and he gets all knocked around, and then Dak 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.120 has to run the ball. So you know, you never 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.760 know if that's if that's Pollard or is that Zeke? 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.359 Is it a clean you know, is it a clean throw? 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.240 And now we're not throwing an interception on the next play. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.920 You know, it's like, you know, you're thinking, oh, they 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.840 faked a screen. They get everybody to one side, but 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.439 then the back who doesn't play all the time gets 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.280 knocked around a little bit. So now Dak has to 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.200 eat it. And what happens. Then third down he's making 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.880 a force throw, you know, but you're you're not wrong 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.000 about that and seeing it how he needs to see it. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.720 All right, It's like our first break and we come back. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.359 We got to talk about the defense man. 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And the interesting 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.200 part is they ran almost double the amount of times 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.199 to day through the ball. They had thirty nine rushes 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.720 in the game twenty passes, twenty past attempts. So the 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.359 big question, why couldn't Dallas stop Aaron Jones and and 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:06.120 dealing cleats? Well, by the way, there is a conversation 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.240 we need to have about cleats, but we'll get to 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.840 that in a moment. Why couldn't they stop to run? They? 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.719 They they they're really struggling right now with their um. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.240 Dan's trying to do some things differently with He probably 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.119 doesn't feel like he could play toe to toe with 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:26.000 anybody right now and be okay, use as a run defense. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.080 So what happens is he gets into some slant fronts. 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.320 And when you get to slant fronts, you know, you're 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.840 taking a gamble, you're risking. You're saying, Okay, we're gonna 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:36.960 slant it to what we think is the strength of 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.560 the you know, and and Isaiah Standbeck said it, I 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.760 thought pretty well in the show before Us. Whereas if 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.280 you declare strength to the tight end and you slant 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.520 the front towards the tight end and then the ball 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.679 goes the other way, you're slanting away from that, and 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.480 now you're leaving yourself in a situation where you're outnumbered um, 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:59.200 they weren't particularly good. Again at the point of attack, 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.800 when I talk about guys getting blocked one on one, 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.280 Micah wasn't particularly good. And you know, folks, listen, I'm 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.680 Mike is a great player. He doesn't get hold every play. 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.280 Michael Parsons on times on some of the runs will 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.280 try and hero ball it and go backdoor. And you 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.720 can't play run back door. You've got to play run 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:22.199 front door. And I mean front door is as the 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:25.080 ball is coming towards you. You cannot try and go 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.520 behind the blocker and then go get the ball. The 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.000 backs won't allow you to do that. Now, maybe if 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.359 you're playing against Indiana or Northwestern or people like that 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.199 in the Big Ten, tied from the Lions, we chase down. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.800 You're not chasing that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Though, 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.640 there's there's some scheme issues that they're really struggling with 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.160 right now. And I mentioned about the touchdown run where 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.840 you run a twist front and I mean cross the 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:49.920 ends and the tackles, and you're trying to kind of 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:53.040 confuse blocking schemes. But if you don't get the twist 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:56.080 to the side of the of the play and then 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:00.480 it turns into Bohannah's wide, Fouler's wide. Now you have 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:04.320 this gaping hole which which Jones was able to run in, 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:06.879 and then they got the touchdown where he spends backwards 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.760 and dives in the end zone. You know, there's there's 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.560 times where two where you're in a situation where your 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.520 ends get hooked, your linebacker gets suck. They're doing a 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.399 great job. Teams are of getting their center up on 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.080 a linebacker, their guards up on a linebacker. They're getting 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.320 cracks from tight ends. You know, they're not winning near enough. 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:27.560 Mercedes Lewis, he's a big, big body tight end. He's 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.719 cracking down. You're not getting off that block. You're not 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.440 getting somebody over the top. You're having that soft corner. 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.400 We've talked about that a bunch. Kelvin Joseph was much 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:38.840 better trying to be a forced corner yesterday doing what 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:41.520 we've seen from Brown or even Diggs. You could go 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:45.159 back and watch they all twenty two and watch Diggs retreat, retreat, retreat, 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:47.480 to stay wide and then the ball go inside of him. 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:49.959 You know, you have to be willing to step up 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.239 and kind of force the run, and they're just not 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.400 getting that nearly enough, but the slant front's hurting them. 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:57.600 The fact that they don't get off blocks, and the 0:23:57.600 --> 0:23:59.800 fact that they're not playing the scheme right is far 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.240 What Dan's calling leads to a team getting over two 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:05.560 hundred yards Russian on you. Yeah, I mean this team 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:07.280 is I mean they gotta They're gonna have at the 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:09.720 end of the year, probably five guys with five or 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:12.160 six sacks. I mean, that's a lot. But the problem 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:14.240 is is they're built to have sacks. They're not built 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.040 to stop the run, right. I mean, what did Dorian's 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:19.800 Armstrong do yesterday? Half a tackle? I mean, Fowler had 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:22.280 a face mask, bastard, I don't think did a whole 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.119 lot did nothing? I don't. I mean what did I mean? 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:27.159 Sam Williams made a sack, but I mean like in 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.119 him and Parsons both they rushed the passer, but like 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:34.520 to Brian's point, they don't like I think teams are 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:36.480 gonna look at these guys and go, Okay, well he's 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.400 not very big, so we're gonna have to run at them. 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:40.320 And then if you keep running at them and it's 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.520 third and three, then you prevent Michael from being Michael. 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:47.240 It neutralizes him. Yeah, the fact that again he wasn't 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.679 great playing the run yesterday either. A little of a 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:54.119 frustrating game. But to Nick's point, basham armstrong. These guys 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.840 are not built to sit there and play toe to toast. 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.280 I mean, so they have to move in order to 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.080 but they can't get off the field because what happens 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:05.880 teams are like, listen, you're just too light. You're too 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:07.960 light up there. And if you're gonna you know, but 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:10.760 if you're gonna scheme and then try and slant, like 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:14.200 I said, slant it, but play it incorrectly, well we'll 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:16.480 take that chance. You know, we'll take a chance that 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:19.080 you're gonna Okay, fine, you're gonna slant to the strength, 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:21.639 we'll run the ball the other way. You're gonna you know, 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:23.199 you think now you're gonna play it back to the 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:25.160 weak side, Well we'll run it back to the strong 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:28.320 side because we've got numbers over there. So yeah, they've 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:31.639 they've got they've got some issues. Uh. You know, teams 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:33.439 are saying a little bit too that they play so 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:36.080 much nickel. You know, they they're a lighter, they play 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:39.000 a light front. I mean, not with numbers. They were 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:42.040 committed to stop in the run yesterday at eight eight 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:44.000 in the box. At times they just couldn't stop the run. 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:46.479 You know. The packers are like, fine, you're you can 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:48.679 put as many bodies as you want down there, But 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.800 if you're not, if the eighth body is nearer the 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:55.640 box is a digs, he's not gonna help you down there. 0:25:55.960 --> 0:25:58.040 You know, Brown, He's not gonna help you down there. 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.600 So that's an issue right out for them. That's a big, 0:26:01.640 --> 0:26:04.320 big issue that they they've got to I don't think 0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:07.680 there's any magical thing that's gonna you know, with Tank, 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.120 the way that Tank plays, I mean, Tank has a 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.640 feel for how to not let not get hooked. He's 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:16.080 got to feel for how to cross face a block 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:18.840 and get to the outside or stay there, or knife 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:21.440 down inside and go tackle the ball from the backside. 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:24.640 You don't have anybody else that's playing like that. Now, 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:27.680 Tank's not perfect all the time, because there's times where 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:29.840 he will gamble inside and then the ball will go 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:32.480 to the edge and now he's trapped trying to fight 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:35.520 a block. But they they've they've got a lot of 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:38.680 guys that are trying to play hero ball and run 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:41.680 defense and it ain't gonna work. That ain't gonna work. 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:43.680 You and I were talking a lot during the game, 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.679 from really from the beginning of the game on. It 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:48.800 looks like there's a game where Michael's gonna be playing 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:50.600 linebacker and you had a problem with that. What were 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.520 your thoughts on him being at linebacker versus defensive and 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:57.480 where he's been pretty much most of his career. But yeah, 0:26:57.480 --> 0:26:59.399 I have a problem with it. But but it sounds 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:02.080 like teams know what's going on to you can't. That's 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:04.040 not just the fix just to put him at defensive end, 0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:05.879 because it doesn't mean they're gonna throw it that it 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:08.800 is just gonna run the other way. So it's a 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:11.520 it's a cat and mouse game because he's playing middle 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:14.520 not middle linebacker. He's playing linebacker, and he's able to 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:16.760 get involved with with the action and you hope that 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:18.440 you make the tackles and it's third and long and 0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:20.119 then you can move them around. But if you just 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:23.359 put him an end, like they'll they'll figure that out too, 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:27.400 and they'll run to the other side or run run 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:29.359 the other side. That seems to be okay because I 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:31.480 trust more than any other defensive end on this team. 0:27:31.520 --> 0:27:34.560 I trust DeMarcus Lawrence to be able to to to 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:37.119 basically capture the edge. Yeah, Like that's one guy I 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:39.880 trust to be able to do that consistently. I don't 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:41.600 know if there's another one that I trust, not see 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:44.639 enough to play defensive end. Yeah, that's why Mica or 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:46.280 you would have played the defensive end in college and 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:48.399 he would have been drafted as an end. Where he 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.000 is is he's a linebacker that has the ability to 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:53.199 move on third and ten, third and eleven, what are 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:55.679 you gonna do? Run it? Cool, run it and we'll 0:27:55.720 --> 0:27:59.040 probably stop you. But he rushes and that's a huge problem. 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:01.600 But he are getting it. They're not getting in third 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:03.320 and long. So once you guys are telling me, is 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.200 there's no solution for this this season, not right now, 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:10.520 not right man. The solution is if I don't think Dan, 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:13.240 like I said, wants to play anybody straight up. I 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:18.240 think he's worried about that. Uh. To me, it's it's 0:28:18.280 --> 0:28:21.160 tough because now you could play a guy like Gholston, 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:24.159 you know, at one end instead of see That's what 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:29.280 I'm saying to me, He's he's a poor man's he's 0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:33.520 a poor man's Uh. Tank to me because he does 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:35.800 not let you get to the outside. You know, he's 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:38.760 gonna play off blocks. He's gonna play strong at the 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:42.520 point of attack. That's the thing. Bar also might help 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:45.120 more with with that as well as a Bar because 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:46.800 I've heard you talk about Bar being in more of 0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:49.120 a pass rusher. That's obviously what he did in Minnesota. 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:51.040 Is he a guy though, that can play that edge 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:53.120 in that way to where he's stout enough to be 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:55.680 able to maintain the edge, He's He's man, It's a 0:28:55.720 --> 0:28:58.640 little fifty fifty for me. I'm just saying for me. 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:01.040 I'm not trying to speak for an anybody at this table. 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:05.320 You know, because I've seen him. I've seen him get hooked. 0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:09.000 I've seen him get trapped inside. You know, they have 0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:13.040 guys that overrun plays too. They have guys like Micah 0:29:13.040 --> 0:29:16.320 and Laton, and those guys will be flying to get 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:18.760 to the ball and the ball cuts back and then 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:21.280 it's you know, now they got blockers on those guys 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:23.400 and it's a it's a four and five yard game. 0:29:24.080 --> 0:29:30.880 So yeah, they you know, bash them, Armstrong, Fouler, those guys. 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:33.640 I mean, there's there's some issues up there playing the 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.200 run because of the fact that they just can't. They 0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:38.840 don't hold up well enough. You know, if they get 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:41.360 off blocks, yeah, that's fine, but they don't always get 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:43.720 off blocks. That's that's the biggest issue. That's the thing 0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:45.440 I keep trying to figure out in my head because 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:49.680 it seems so simple, but yet it's not. And when 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:51.600 you watch the games, I mean, all I can think 0:29:51.640 --> 0:29:55.320 of is these linebackers needing help. But then you don't 0:29:55.360 --> 0:29:58.320 have people to give them the kind of help they need. 0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:02.160 And at times, I mean, you should know what's coming, 0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:06.400 but sometimes I just feel like they get lost, as 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.200 if every time or when they're gonna run the opposing 0:30:09.240 --> 0:30:12.000 team is gonna run the ball, they don't really know 0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:14.440 how to track the ball or where to go. Like 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:18.480 they're always kind of fit. Yeah, and it's like, okay, 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:22.200 you know it's coming, especially when they keep doing it 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:25.120 at you so and I keep trying to think, how 0:30:25.200 --> 0:30:30.520 can you position these lines backer linebackers better and what 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.720 kind of help can you bring them? And I don't 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:37.120 have I don't have really an answer other than what 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:40.280 starts up front with the defensive line. Yeah, they they 0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:43.840 were in some situations where you know, with Bohannah see 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:47.760 everybody's talking about, well, why have Bohannah and why have Hankins. 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:50.680 It's not the inside part of the running game. It's 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:52.920 not that's not the problem. That's not the problem. It's 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:55.360 teams have figured out that they can work the ball 0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:57.640 to the edge. Do you saw how many times Derek 0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:01.120 brought it up the first place? Again, they throw sideways. Basically, 0:31:01.160 --> 0:31:03.480 they're just tossing the ball to Jones. Go run to 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.320 the edge, Go run to the edge. You know, they're 0:31:05.640 --> 0:31:08.000 trying to get it to the outside because you know, 0:31:08.120 --> 0:31:10.960 dealing with Hankins and dealing with Bohanna and guys like that, 0:31:10.960 --> 0:31:14.400 that's not easy. Those guys don't always get moved. You know, 0:31:14.680 --> 0:31:18.240 even you know Gallimore don't always get moved inside. It's 0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:21.160 what happens on the perimeter to you at the end 0:31:21.560 --> 0:31:24.480 and at the linebacker spot that really really hurts you. Now, 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:26.920 all right, we're gonna take our final break. We're gonna 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:28.880 come back. 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Final segment of the Break Life 0:33:59.120 --> 0:34:02.120 Nest WBC more Studios at the Star present by Milla 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:04.440 Like the Only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. I do 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.320 want to talk about this situation late in the game. 0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:10.359 This was an overtime Cowboys have We've talked about the 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:13.280 third and three and then the fourth and three. Cowboys 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.240 decided to go for it there on the fourth and three. 0:34:15.280 --> 0:34:18.360 There's been some talk of people's sucking, second guessing the 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:21.319 coaching coaching on that as to whether they should do 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:23.080 that or give it a shot there at fifty three 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:25.919 yards from the field goal. What were your thoughts? Wasn't 0:34:25.960 --> 0:34:28.680 gonna make it? Yeah, you guys were at the game. 0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:31.839 I just felt like anything going that direction kicking was 0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:35.080 not gonna be good. Okay, there's an invisible slip down there. Yeah, 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:41.520 just look it looked like kickoffs. Yeah, on a T kickoffs, 0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:44.160 it goes to the goal line when it's typically eight 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:47.120 nine yards back. So that's probably a ten yard difference 0:34:47.200 --> 0:34:50.160 right there. On a tea. This is on regular grass 0:34:50.360 --> 0:34:52.960 ten yards and you don't even have to imagine it. 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:54.160 All I have to do is look at the one 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:58.840 Mason Crossby had and that was the last ever. Yeah, 0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:01.040 so it doesn't go that way. And you say before 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:02.400 the game, you made a good point. You say it 0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:06.000 before the game, he was booming its like no problem, 0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:10.000 which I said. I talked about it, you know, up 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:13.160 in the press box and I said, I think I 0:35:13.200 --> 0:35:17.680 would have taken the wind, but in overtime and overtime 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:19.319 and just take the win, and they get the ball 0:35:19.320 --> 0:35:21.239 to start it, and you gotta stop him. You gotta 0:35:21.239 --> 0:35:24.640 stop him from from scoring a touchdown. And they hadn't 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:26.840 done it yet, so it was risky. It was risky. 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:28.640 But if you could stop them and they have to 0:35:28.640 --> 0:35:30.680 pun into that and then next thing you know, you're 0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:32.880 in fifteen twenty yards from kicking a field going winning it, 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:39.960 so that if they lose, will be talking to the 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:42.799 coach that doesn't deferge or start the game because he 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:44.279 wants to take the ball and go out and make 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:46.879 a statement. He's not doing that, like you're not. You're 0:35:46.920 --> 0:35:49.040 not taking the wind, and you're not you're not doing 0:35:49.080 --> 0:35:51.319 that by the way they have to change overtime rules. 0:35:51.320 --> 0:35:55.000 It is ridiculous. Overtime rules are absolutely a joke, and 0:35:55.040 --> 0:35:57.360 they gotta they gotta say, it's almost like playing soccer 0:35:57.400 --> 0:35:59.560 for ninety minutes and then going to it de penalty kicks. 0:35:59.760 --> 0:36:03.560 It's a different game. It's a completely different condensed ten minutes. 0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:05.719 The point you're making it just for the benefit of 0:36:05.760 --> 0:36:07.880 those out there. Basically, you got different rules right now 0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:10.960 in the regular seasons versus the post. True, that's stupid 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:13.759 and another's you know, and I hope Stephen wasn't on 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:15.520 that voted for that, But I mean, I think it's stupid. 0:36:15.560 --> 0:36:19.960 I mean, to change a rule for the playoffs and 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:22.880 for the regular season, go go go find out in 0:36:22.880 --> 0:36:25.600 week seventeen, a week eighteen, how many playoff games are 0:36:25.640 --> 0:36:28.440 actually happening. And then you know, worth the end and 0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:30.920 tie all that kind of stuff, which that would have 0:36:30.960 --> 0:36:32.960 been the worst. I mean, I think I would have 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:35.080 felt worse with the tie. Yeah, but the point is 0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:37.560 both teams would get the ball. Yeah, and it's just 0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:41.120 a different it's reponsive touchdown. Yeah, I don't know, they 0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:43.880 played fifteen minutes and didn't score. I mean, I just 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:45.719 I think it's a different I just don't like the 0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:47.160 way the game is. But it feels like they have 0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:51.160 to change the way the game is played. But college rules, 0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:55.399 to be quite honest with you, when when college changed 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:58.799 to their format where I sat there for seven overtimes 0:36:58.800 --> 0:37:00.919 at A and M and L. Now, the more I've 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:03.279 watched it, the more I kind of like it. And 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:05.320 I like it maybe more than the way the NFL 0:37:05.400 --> 0:37:07.840 does it because there is some intrigue to it, and 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:10.680 it always is based upon you get a shot. I 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:12.640 get a shot, and let's just battle it out until 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:14.680 somebody falls, you know, And I kind of like that. 0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:16.360 You know what, It'll be changed, though they'll have to 0:37:16.400 --> 0:37:18.560 do something. It will not the NFL has to change, 0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:22.080 but it definitely changes fantasy football if you did that. 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:24.840 And I'm not saying no doubt, I'm not saying the 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:27.800 Competition Committee worries about that, but they do worry about ratings. 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:30.680 I mean, and there's your red zone channel. Yeah, fantasy 0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:34.279 football is that would try everything ratings. Yeah, but they 0:37:34.280 --> 0:37:37.520 think you could change the rules on your overtime points 0:37:37.560 --> 0:37:40.440 and whatever it is. Yeah, all right, let's move on 0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:42.839 to the next thing I want to talk about. Did 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:45.560 you think they should kick it. No, no, I just 0:37:45.840 --> 0:37:48.040 I was thinking about it about every I thought everybody 0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:50.720 said it. I'm sorry, No, no, I'm I'm totally okay 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:53.680 with I could say I my play call would have 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:55.839 been in that hindsight, I just saw it. But when 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:58.120 I saw it afterwards, I said, that play didn't give 0:37:58.120 --> 0:38:00.160 you a chance to get the first down. That's that 0:38:00.200 --> 0:38:03.640 bothers me is that the one Tyler Smith's got beat 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:06.279 pretty bad. Him and both both the left guard and 0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:08.480 left tackle both got beat on that play. I wasn't 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:12.759 good overtime for Connor. Nope. And can we know this 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:15.440 is stupid and I think people would also get annoyed 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:19.040 by this. But if you're going back to the penalties, 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:22.920 if you're doing that, let's have you know overtime already. 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:25.880 Shouldn't there be like why don't they come down to 0:38:26.040 --> 0:38:29.839 one person's decision? Like shouldn't it be able to some 0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:33.799 kind of review happen here? I know this is a 0:38:33.800 --> 0:38:38.120 little ridiculous, but when you I mean it's it decides 0:38:38.200 --> 0:38:42.200 the game. Ultimately, you changed the game by these decisions. 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:45.360 And when you hear even with what happened with Jalen Toilber, 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:48.920 when you hear him saying I checked with the official 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:52.000 and she didn't. He didn't, he didn't. No, No, he 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.480 was lined up. I mean literally, I'm in the studio 0:38:54.680 --> 0:39:00.440 was wondering that. I'm I'm yelling, yeah, I'm like back up, 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:03.680 back up, back up, and I'm yelling in Zack's like 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:05.839 what he goes he's off sides, he's off and then 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:08.560 he looks back and they got him for motion because 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.160 he's turning around looking at the official trying to talk. 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:16.520 He did scoop back, but the ball was snapped. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, 0:39:16.520 --> 0:39:20.279 that's what they call five. You know. The interesting part 0:39:20.320 --> 0:39:22.520 was they actually called something different than the signal they 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:27.239 did this. But say to me, he was moving when 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:30.240 the ball was snapped and it was a legal procedure. 0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:33.120 That's what I thought. But he immediately And the only 0:39:33.160 --> 0:39:35.920 reason I noticed is because the black line to scrimmat, 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:38.160 they have a line like glind to gain and then 0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:40.399 where the ball is on the there's a black line 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:44.080 on TV. He is past the black line. I'm going 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:46.440 he's off sides. You know, not that it, you know, 0:39:46.520 --> 0:39:48.719 but you just look at the way he was aligned 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:51.080 and he never and I'm thinking he was going to 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:54.560 adjust back. He never did. He just stood there and 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.359 I'm like, he had this. This is why people ask, well, 0:39:57.560 --> 0:40:00.520 why doesn't Jalen Tilber play ken? We you go, can 0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:03.320 we get James Washington in the game? I mean, Siah, 0:40:03.360 --> 0:40:05.400 can we get James Washington like on the field to 0:40:05.520 --> 0:40:08.680 least start because right now, I mean he's doing just 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:11.200 a little bit less. Well, you know, names we got 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:14.319 Thanksgiving coming up, and we have to work out the 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:17.200 schedule of his return, and we got to be careful 0:40:17.360 --> 0:40:19.960 put him out there. This is ridiculous. He's been ready 0:40:20.160 --> 0:40:22.919 for four weeks. He's got he's got just as many 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:26.080 catches as Jalen Tilbert does. And the special team stuff though, 0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:29.920 that's a bones fossil that just yeah, you know, you're 0:40:29.960 --> 0:40:32.920 not wrong, you're not wrong. But but what happens is 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:36.680 bones walk Yeah, Bones walks down there and says, oh, 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:39.440 this is what we need to do and all that. Honestly, 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:41.680 that's the greatest game I've ever seen anybody play on 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:44.640 special teams. Gifford, Yeah, he had a game less five 0:40:44.880 --> 0:40:49.640 tack games. Yeah, I mean that's the fourth. I mean, 0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:52.320 you could rank fourth on the defense with five tackles. 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:55.440 He did it all on Special teams. Plus he recovered 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:57.719 a fumble which basically landed in his lap and he 0:40:57.800 --> 0:40:59.680 was there for that on that forced fumble with with 0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:02.640 good and I mean seriously, he could have been an 0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:04.960 NFC Special Teams Player of the Week if they win 0:41:05.040 --> 0:41:06.919 that game. Yeah, and he still could have. I guess, 0:41:07.000 --> 0:41:10.480 but man, I don't think I've ever seen five titles 0:41:10.520 --> 0:41:12.799 in a game. How much do you guys think that that? Uh? 0:41:14.120 --> 0:41:16.319 I guess. The slipping that was happening last night, you 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:18.799 had Duran Duran Bland. He slipped there, and in a 0:41:18.840 --> 0:41:21.400 situation where he was in coverage, you had Turp and 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:23.080 seem like he was slipping all nights. Seemed like he 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:27.080 was just on skates throughout the night. But the interesting 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:31.520 part was coach talked about it all last week. They 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:33.640 were they were making sure that the players knew you 0:41:33.760 --> 0:41:36.280 gotta check out. I told you, I saw this white board, 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:41.120 big white boar written at the game, make sure you 0:41:41.280 --> 0:41:45.439 test your cleats on the field. This was all pre game, 0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:49.160 So there's no reason why there should be a cleats talk. 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.560 This is absolutely why, or one of the reasons why 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:55.520 you should have had a bit of an advantage going 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.080 into that game last night because you had a coach who, 0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:01.239 because of experience, could tell you things that maybe you 0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:03.279 wouldn't get from another coach. They hadn't coached there for 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:05.640 as many years as he had, and it sounds like 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:08.960 he was coaching his team the right way. For whatever reason, 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:11.480 it still ended up being a problem. How much of 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:13.840 a problem was I mean, it was a couple of 0:42:13.880 --> 0:42:17.040 times definitely happened. And Here's what I don't know, because 0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:19.040 I don't watch a lot of their games. I mean, 0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:22.640 I mean, maybe you do have the right cleats, but 0:42:23.080 --> 0:42:25.840 does that necessarily mean that you you you never slip. 0:42:26.360 --> 0:42:29.040 I mean, I don't know. I mean, I again, I 0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:30.600 don't know. I don't I don't think if you have 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:35.239 everyone wears these these thick, you know, long cleats that 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:38.920 nobody ever slips and falls. I mean it's really ironic though, 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:41.319 the way, I mean, Theron Bland comes in the game 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:43.719 and that's basically how they win the game because he 0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:48.560 falls and Lezard finally caught a pass, and you know, 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:51.520 that's it. That's the think he had changed this also, 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:53.480 I mean to that point, because I was wondering the 0:42:53.520 --> 0:42:55.839 same thing, I'm like, hmm, I wonder, does my son 0:42:56.000 --> 0:43:00.520 slip more when he has the slip on socks. Not really, 0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:04.520 he slips less. But when you watch the Green Bay 0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:07.520 Packers the way they were playing, like you didn't see 0:43:07.600 --> 0:43:10.600 that happen. I don't, I don't remember, I don't recall. 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:14.319 That's important that it happened to the Cowboys. So that's 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.440 where he kind of leads you to wonder, Okay, what 0:43:16.719 --> 0:43:18.680 what the heck was the problem here? Because you know 0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:23.680 how to shoose shoes were a problem. They didn't. I mean, okay, 0:43:23.760 --> 0:43:26.920 some players do list, but some players are so comfortable 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:29.920 with their gear, like for a hundred years, for one 0:43:29.960 --> 0:43:33.160 hundred years, Jason Witton would never change his helmet, you know, 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:35.560 he never. I mean some players that they play in 0:43:35.640 --> 0:43:37.880 shoes and they're comfortable with their shoes, and they're like, 0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:40.279 I'll be fine with these shoes. They think I'm gonna 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:42.680 be fine until they're out there on a third down 0:43:42.760 --> 0:43:45.439 critical play and they go sliding around and then there's 0:43:45.440 --> 0:43:48.840 a big catch. It ends the game. You know, that's 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:51.680 that's you know, sometimes you just get so wrapped in 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:54.759 like I'll be fine, I'll be fine, And I have 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:56.479 a film They had a couple of guys that said, 0:43:56.560 --> 0:43:59.040 I'll be fine and probably just think when it comes 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:01.800 to equipment and our part of the equipment, it shouldn't 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:03.920 be up to the player, it should be up to 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.520 the team. Well, but I do think I do think 0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:08.839 part of that has to be kind of to Brian's point, 0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:11.879 what the player feels comfortable in, because you still want 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:14.160 them to feel comfortable enough to be able to maneuver 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:16.440 and do the things that they do and not be 0:44:17.040 --> 0:44:20.359 self conscious about the equipment. Right. So, and there are 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:22.720 different guys. You see it all the time. Different guys 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:26.320 wear different sized pads, different sized you know, kneepads and 0:44:26.640 --> 0:44:28.959 all this stuff, like it's all about how their bodies feel. 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:30.920 So I do think you want to have that be 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:33.320 still a part of it. But I get your point. 0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:35.600 The coach made it clear, guys has something to be 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:37.439 aware of, and that's what you do as a coach. 0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:40.120 Be aware, be aware, be aware. That was my experience. 0:44:40.120 --> 0:44:44.480 Whatever reason, some were not as aware and it may 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:47.000 have cost them. Yeah, all right, appreciate you guys. Jones. 0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:49.640 We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna figure out a little 0:44:49.640 --> 0:44:51.319 bit of a big picture on what's happening here. Now 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:53.480 Cowboys fall to third in the division, and now you 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:57.040 start wondering about what's happening with the wildcard spots because 0:44:57.080 --> 0:44:59.719 some of these teams that maybe you kind of thought 0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:02.319 would be dead are now creeping back into this thing. 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:04.320 We'll talk about that tomorrow. Till then, for Nick Eatman, 0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:07.040 Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This is 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:10.880 The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Rigo. This 0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:13.799 has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:15.799 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.