WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Dallas Concerns, Eagles Broken? 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.080 The following is the production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:14.800 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:16.400 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:16.960 Yes? 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:18.840 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:19.640 Absolutely? 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.599 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.000 Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.400 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:35.120 Right with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:36.360 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.120 It is Tuesday, December nineteenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.440 episode number ninety one. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.920 The Break. We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.240 At the start, we got Patrick and Brian and Amber 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.720 with us today. Thank you guys for holding it down yesterday. Today, though, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.400 we're going to kind of extend the conversation because my 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.560 guess is you guys tucked at nauseum about that game 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.720 on Sunday. But I want to take the conversation a 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.400 little different problem, a little different direction and really focus 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.240 in on three particular problems that showed themselves this last 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.680 game and really have been problems that the Cowboys have 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.960 had throughout the season when they've lost, and talk to 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.440 you guys about how big those problems are and how 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.240 maybe the Cowboys can go about fixing them. We've got 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.240 some player evaluations, I got a few player names. I 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.720 want to throw at you guys and see how you're 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.560 feeling about where they are in the season and how 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.960 where they are after this last game. And of course 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.240 we got to talk about the NFC. Man, that's getting 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.240 really really interesting Philadelphia and the Cowboys feel like it 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.440 feels almost like nobody really wants to just take it 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.120 and it's going to be interesting all the way down 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.520 the stretch. So we'll talk about that somewhere along the 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.960 line as well. Let's start first, though, with those problems 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.720 that I mentioned, And here's what I want to do. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.200 I'm going to throw out three different problems. And as 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.720 I throw out the problem, I need you guys to 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.200 tell me number one, how big is this problem for 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.200 the Cowboys? And number two, how you think they could 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.560 possibly go about solving it. Let's start first with the 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.440 rusty rushing defense. How big of a problem is the 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:03.840 rushing defense at this point? 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.720 Okay, so, for more often than not the season, the 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.160 Cowboys have been above sufficient and run defense. But when 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.120 they give up the goat, man, do they give up 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.160 the goat? There's no in between with them when they're 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.320 having a bad day. Look at Arizona for example, then 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.040 look back at the Buffalo Bills, look at Christian McCaffrey 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.320 and the forty nine ers. When the Cowboys going to 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.760 a game and they start struggling tackling the running back, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.840 it just turns out to be a long day for them. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.320 They had twelve misstackles against the Bills and James Cook 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.560 went absolutely off one and seventy nine yards on the 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.200 ground to twenty to twenty one from scrimmage. So for me, 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.440 it's not going to get any easier as you go 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.520 up against this Miami Dolphins team who has arguably more 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.720 talent in the backfield than what the Bills had with 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:55.280 James Cook. But it's especially with Hankins probably not playing 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:55.680 this week. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.000 Either. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.000 But if you can get back to tackling, just get 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.560 back to the fundamental of if you get your hands 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.200 on a guy, make sure that first man takes him 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.440 down and he doesn't get to that second and third level. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.960 If you can get back to that, then you will 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.520 cut down three quarters of those big gainers and then 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.000 you can give you your offense a chance and you 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.040 know you're passing a pass rushing chance as well. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:19.760 So for me, that's what it boils down to. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:20.919 I mean, they're going to have a hard time, like 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.320 I said, without Hankins, but tackle, because missing tackles, especially 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.480 on the road, you end up getting run through. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.160 I mean, it is a huge problem, I think, and 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.200 especially when you put out performances. When you keep putting 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.720 out performances like the one they just had against Buffalo, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.160 you're showing once again the recipe for success for other 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.880 teams to attack you and how to attack you. We 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.000 know that Miami and Detroit they have the talent to run. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.120 They are really good at running. So it is a 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.800 challenge that I don't. Don't ask me how because I 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.680 don't have the answer. I think I would be making 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:03.720 more money if I did and working somewhere else over the. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.120 But I don't have the answer. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.960 I just don't know how you fix it in such 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.480 a short amount of time, and in December, it's hard 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.000 to change things. That's very difficult to do. And one 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.240 big thing that will be huge is by the playoffs. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.599 Jonathan Hankins is supposed supposed to return by then, so 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.120 hopefully that it's something that will clearly help them to 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.599 have a body like him and a talent like him 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.120 back on the lineup. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.640 But I just I don't have an answer for you. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.039 Oh no, it's an easy fix. Oh yeah, there's an 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.799 easy fix here. It's your offense. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.560 Look what happens when this team scores forty points a game. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.080 Nobody runs the ball on you. Your best weapon against 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.040 the team that wants to run the ball on you 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:51.040 is your offense. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.960 Because you put people in a lot of hurt. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.919 It's hard to be down thirty points in a game 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.960 and sit there and run the football all day. Caroline 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.599 did it? Carolina had some success run the ball. We 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.760 forgot about Carolina. They ran the ball pretty well, and 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.560 you misstackles and you didn't fit and you know so 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.600 this is kind of an ongoing problem. Okay, to your 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.320 bad road losses before the buy, which you've now kind 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.920 of adapted your offense. This looked a lot better, but 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:22.919 you saw what happens when somebody shut your offense down, Buffalo. Okay, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:28.719 when you shut this cowboy offense down, it takes away 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:34.479 two things. It takes away Dallas's ability to rush the 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.839 passer because people are committed to just saying you know what, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.680 you're right now you're constructed in a way because of injury. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.240 You're having to find ways to play with players out 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.840 of place, and those guys are doing the best they can. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.160 Bell is doing the best he can to play down 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.240 in the box. Curse is doing the best he can 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.480 to play down in the box. All of a sudden, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.919 we've seen what Pennon pulled us to this team. Okay, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.920 when they have to deal with blockers on the move 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:03.120 right at. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.080 Them, it's tough. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.560 When you're two hundred and twenty one pounds and you're 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.120 taking on three hundred and twelve pound tackles all day, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.000 and guards and centers, it's not an easy task. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:13.440 This team got. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.840 This team lost its ability to defend the run when 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.719 Layton Vanderush went down, When overshown went out, that's when 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.320 this team, when they didn't get Shaq Lawson or she 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.640 was Shack Leonard, that's when this team's ability to you know, 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.480 we talk about Hankins all you want, but the ball. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.760 Was run on the edge. It was the edge. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.159 It was perimeter runs that killed you in that game 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.400 the other day. But the best defense or the best 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.159 way to stop this way of people running the ball 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.960 on you is continued to score on offense, and that's 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.600 what happened. Buffalo shut you down, and it took made 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.359 their job a lot easier when they were just committed 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.360 to like, okay, you're not going to stop the run 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.400 and you're not going to score, We could play right 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.440 with you. They were comfortable not throwing the ball at 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.360 all in that football game. You know why because Dallas 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.320 pass rushes the best in the league. You know, when 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.760 people get behind, they get a dose to that. Nobody 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.359 wants to deal with that in a game. Buffalo had 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.920 a great game plan and they executed it very well. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:16.400 The mistackles, yeah, the lack of size and ball positions, yeah, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.880 but your offense did nothing in that game. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.280 And I love the point about offense, and I'll even 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.440 add to that and just expanded a bit. It's just 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.760 about scoring, period. Go back and look at Week one, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.360 rainy environment in New York and the offense just couldn't 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.280 get going. But guess what, your defense put points on 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.040 the board. So to that point, it's just about however 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.080 you can be at offense and or defense, points have 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.960 to be put on the brinblet. Because de Brian's point, 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.280 playing from behind, that's going to give that other team 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.480 an opportunity to keep pushing at that run. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.040 Defense, you have to take that away from them. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:46.280 Yeah. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.240 See Seattle, it got into a shootout game and defense 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.160 was struggling their ass off to get a stop. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:52.320 But what did they do. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.120 Dallas's offense kept playing, kept playing, kept scoring, kept playing. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.520 What happened. You got three four down stops that that game. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.520 That's your fix, guys, that's your fix at your offense 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.400 because people fear your offense, they fear your pass rush, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.680 but they know that they can if they that they 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.080 take care of your offense, they're never going to see 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:13.800 your pass rush. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.480 Yeah, that's that's a good thinking outside the box a 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.000 little bit here, trying to find solutions because when you 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.360 go back to the beginning of the season, you were 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.240 surviving because of your defense. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.360 You were there hiding a little bit. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.600 Of all the issues that the offense was having because 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.920 of the defense. And then once the defense started getting 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.160 hurt players coming out. You mentioned all the guys that 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.120 were out and that they've struggled to that with that 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.880 and having to adjust. Now, that's when the offense started 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:49.880 getting their their stuff together and making it work. No, no, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.240 I'm a lady. But yeah, they're making it work. But now, when, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.960 like you said, when you see the offense not being 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.319 able to take care of business, then again, and the defense, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.160 it's clearly shown with teams are run heavy. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.880 What happened to, Yeah, the game and I and I 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.160 kind of put the I put the Arizona in San 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.200 Francisco game in another category before because that's before you 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.560 had the cross the hall meetings and fix the offense. Yeah, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.600 but you know what happened in those games. Offense didn't 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.000 do anything against Arizona. Offense didn't do anything against San Francisco. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.400 Offense didn't do anything against Buffalo. Those are your losses 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.560 right there. When this team, when this quarterback's playing at 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.880 a high level, which he has the majority of the season, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.040 you know they got they got shut down. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:34.559 The other day. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.600 It couldn't get open, You couldn't complete a pass. The 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.679 one thing Buffalo let him do is run the ball. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.040 They're like, cool, we're not giving up any big plays. Yeah, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.960 let Pollard run for six seven yards of crack were okay, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.680 but the game was in hand. They knew you couldn't 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.280 stop them, so I you know, that's that's the common 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.640 denominator here. To me, if the Cowboys are going to 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.120 have success, it's going to be on the offense because 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.240 the defense is wounded right now with the personnel that 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:03.360 they're having to play with. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.280 And that's no disrespect to the. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.800 Guys playing, but man, you were asking guys to play 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.400 in a in a situation that is it's tough. It's 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.560 tough to deal with three hundred and eighteen pound guys 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.800 coming at you all day when you're in the box 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.360 and you're trying to fight blocks and find the ball, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.559 and you got to back like cook that's able to 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.320 look it one way and then take it back all 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.360 the way the other way, and. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.920 You're gonna it's only gonna get worse. It's only gonna 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:30.600 get worse for that. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.600 Was there anything in what San Francisco, I'm sorry what 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.880 Buffalo did to them defensively that can be used in 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.280 the future this offense. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.320 Yeah, they what they did was and they we called 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.760 back in the day where we said clog and cover. Yeah, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.240 you know, and when you when you to me, there 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:53.720 was one play where it seemed like the first shot 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.920 to Cooks was a play where you actually saw another 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.520 route effect the same to get the ball down the field. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:02.520 They just missed the play. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.960 Other than that, it looked very much like offense weeks 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:06.720 one through five. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.520 Nope, it was the Cowboys. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.959 What the Cowboys did not with the Bills to. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.880 Me, to me the Bills. We talked about this. We 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.400 all on this panel believe in the metrics. We love 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.480 to study the numbers. Now we love to look at 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.560 this team was one of the worst in the league. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.479 When it came to separation, they. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:24.320 Were one of the worst. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.880 So what did they do to prevent separation? They played 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.760 zone coverage. They played five across two on the back. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.840 Seven guys there, Okay, now find space. Okay, Then next 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.840 time we're going to play four across three in the back. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.760 Find space. You know there was It was a time 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.520 where they threw the route, the one route they had 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.600 where they threw the corner route to seedy land along 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.719 the sidelines. There was a nice deck through it over 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.480 the top bone, big play like fifteen eighteen yards. On 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.960 that play, Tolbert's usually the guy running the clear out there. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.439 That place shouldn't have been That place shouldn't even have 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.600 been contested. But what happened. They didn't affect the safety. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.160 You know Tolbert didn't run the route far fast enough 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.839 to effect. We've seen routes. How about the route that 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.679 went to the middle of the field of ceed Lamb. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.679 They rotate to two deep, two guys in the hash. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.240 Dak reads it all the way. I'm gonna fit this thing. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.760 But you know why because that route by Cooks is 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.800 going to affect Poyer. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.760 The safety didn't affect him. He kept his eyes and 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.480 hips inside, didn't turn. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.640 How many times have we seen the safety turn the 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.440 wrong way and now the ball's right behind him thirty 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:33.079 seven yard game. We've seen that all year in this game. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.560 It didn't work. That didn't work, and so now that's 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.120 the challenge. Like, okay, were we on the screws running 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.439 routes in this game? You know, the Cowboys skill guys 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.240 do a great job of helping each other, a great 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.360 job of helping each other when when there's a route 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.640 that needs to be thrown, two guys are running a 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.680 route to get guys out of the way. We saw 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.439 a big play down in the Philadelphia game to Cooks 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.520 was that Lamb and Tolbert took four eagles with him 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.360 and it was one on one on the outside. I mean, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.240 that's that's when this team is really good. When the 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.760 route running is good and when the quarterback has that 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.120 ability to find that opening, he knows where you need 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.319 to go with the ball, but he also has to 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:15.240 have time to throw. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:15.440 The ball to. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.520 So you say they weren't affecting the safety, affecting the DETA. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:20.600 Is that a lot about the fact? 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:20.920 Was that? 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.959 Would you put it more on Buffalo through their film 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.560 study saying we're not we know what their tendencies are, 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.800 We're not going to fall for the eye can Was 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.000 that more of what happened, just that they weren't running 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:31.880 the right right route. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.160 I think I think there was a combination of I'm 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.480 not gonna say not running the right route. Yeah, I 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.880 don't think the routes that the Cowboys were running. The 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.079 combinations affected the Bills in a way Bills were Bills 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.960 were comfortable with playing. You know, like, Okay, just sit 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.600 in your zone, don't don't do anything stupid, don't go 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.480 chasing a guy from one zone to another. And then 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.599 Dallas is going to run a play behind it or 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:55.680 run a route behind that. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.000 Because that's what Dallas will do. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.079 They'll take you, they'll take you inside and all of 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.320 a sudden, you go chasing and you're playing zone and 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.760 all leaves an area in Dack's like, oh right there, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.720 but are you the ball that didn't happen in this game? 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.360 When we watch Dallas play with Dallas is really humming 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.720 their Their tape is fun to watch because you see 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:18.359 all the combinations, say that offense that we saw in Buffalo, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.320 very much like weeks one through five. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.120 And also to that point, for whatever reason, the pre 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.480 snat motion got turned down against the Bills. When you 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.720 look at the trend that the Cowboys have been on 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.000 the past several weeks, I mean they've been doing pre snatboy, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:38.280 they've really leaned into sixty and now forty percent. So 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.520 that goes to the prestat motion, goes to the ability 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.600 of you know, redirecting and getting guys thinking on defense. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.600 And that's why you've been so successful in getting guys 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.720 like Seeding Lamb on the heater that he was on 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.560 over the past several weeks, getting Dak Prescott going with 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.080 these these this offense, Jake Fergus and Brandon Cooks for example, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.920 some of these other guys, but in not doing the 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.320 pre snat motion makes the offense a little bit less 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.920 difficult to defend because whatever you're looking at more than 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.520 half the time against the Bills, whatever they were looking at, that's. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:09.880 What it was. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.080 Once the ball was snapped, you got to get these 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.320 guys moving around. And the Cowboys have shown that they 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.760 can be a dominant offense more often than not when 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.200 they use pre snap motion to a greater altitude than 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.120 what they were doing against the Bills. So for whatever reason, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.920 and you know, there's context around it when you start 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.680 talking about the situations and that situational football, but for 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.880 the most part, I'm kind of hard pressed to just 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.920 sit back and look at this and say, you know, 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.440 come to a determination as to why they chose to 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.440 turn down the pre stat motion, especially in the game. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.560 Well, it might have been because of the zone, because it's 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.160 such a zone heavy team that motion. Mike said this, 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.360 Mike said this before. I don't run motion just to 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.240 run motion. It has to have a purpose to it. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.120 And maybe he's getting so much zone that he's thinking like, well, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 if I motion this, and and I'm with you, Patrick, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.920 I'm with you about the motion stuff, but I'm also thinking, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.120 like maybe what McCarthy would say, I'm getting such a 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.680 zone heavy look, that motion is not going to affect 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.480 a team that's playing zone coverage ninety percent of the time. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:10.760 You know that. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.160 He's like, well, if I'm moving, what am I moving for? 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.920 You know, now, maybe you can move it in order 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.040 to get to your bunch formations and get four on 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.960 one side and attack and flood zones and stuff like that. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.240 But they made a determination that moving in this game 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.880 was not going to affect Buffalo because Buffalo was going 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.680 to sit there. How many plays did Buffalo make where 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.880 your receiver had to be a defensive back in that game? 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.920 That's that's the thing that that's what's disturbing to me that, like, man, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.080 that just wasn't That wasn't a good game for the 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.240 play caller. I don't think it was particularly good for 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.360 the quarterback, the receivers, anybody that was on the offensive 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.640 side of the ball, really the whole team. But to 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.440 your point, we started this whole conversation. In my opinion, 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.080 the best way to help this defense is be great 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.679 on offense, because you can't do enough right now making 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.080 teams one dimensional, where one dimensional turns into throwing the ball, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.280 that's your defensive strength. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.800 And I agree with you wholeheartedly. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.240 And it is amazing to see how far we can 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.280 come in such a short period of time. Because back 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.879 during training camp, I think we all agreed the defense 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:21.400 was the best thing this team done. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:26.000 The injuries have robbed completely changed Diggs being out. 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.080 Hook or not playing the other day. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.359 I mean, there's a lot of things that went into 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.040 that game the other day that that overshown. I mean, 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.960 I'm watching over shown play a game, the last game 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.720 of the year, and we're all watching the game. He's 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.199 played six plays, he's got three tackles. How do you 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.200 not tell me that doesn't translate into Okay, we got 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.159 an idea for this guy. Yeah, you know, all of 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.320 a sudden and now and then you lose, you know, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.360 and say what you want about Shackler, Say whatever you 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.000 want about that. That could have helped that something. Just 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.160 having a veteran that knows how to play a little right. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.760 He might not be able to cover worth of damn, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.200 but my god, the guy could play some run defense. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.159 All right, we're gonna take our first break when we 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:05.439 come back. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.320 We're gonna jump into these other problems to see if 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:08.760 we can give you some solutions as good as that. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.040 Yeah, I'm sorry, I move me much. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.400 This is das Cowboys that come radio. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.960 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.960 cheatah Savannah. Todd believed the big Cat repellent he bought 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.879 online was reliable. 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