WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Spicier than Sauce, DPOY Talk 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:14.720 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:16.320 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:16.880 Yes? 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:18.720 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:19.520 Absolutely? 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.680 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:22.160 Yeah? 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:23.880 And so much for that. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.320 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:34.280 Were on with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.240 and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.000 It is Monday, November twentieth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.720 episode number seventy four. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.000 The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.960 At the start today we talk about Cowboys versus Panthers. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.800 Cowboys get the win on the road thirty three to ten, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.000 bring their record to seven and three. We'll break down 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.800 for you what we think went right and wrong for 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.560 the Cowboys. There were a few things that are worth 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.920 talking about that weren't great for the Cowboys yesterday, but 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.119 all things being considered, another very very quality win on 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.959 the road against a lesser opponent. Let's start first the 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:13.880 storylines of the game. Let's go around the table. What 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.080 do we have, Patrick lestar. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.040 You when are we going to start putting deron? Blan 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.720 in this Defensive Player of the Year conversation, He's there. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.760 It needs to be. It needs to happen today, if 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.680 not last week. I mean, four pick sixes tied the record. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.319 He's won away from breaking the single season record for 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.679 most pick sixes in the year, and there's still seven 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.920 regular season games to play. He's been lights out both 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.640 with the like we talked about the flashy categories interceptions, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.560 pick sixes, but also with the quiet categories with like 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.720 negative target EPA. Leads the league in it right now, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.320 second lowest in the history of mgs, only to guess 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.720 who Stefan Gilmore twenty nineteen, which was the DPO t 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.200 y year for Gilmore. Hint hints, So Deron Bland. We 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.800 had the conversation about if he's the second most important 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.880 guy on this Cowboys defense, and we said yes, and 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.640 he goes out and he just continues to prove us right. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.360 So for me, that's the biggest takeaway. There are others, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.760 and I know we'll talk about it offensive line, run game, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.680 Tony Pollock, but Dron Bland. When you look at the 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.880 front runners and obviously on favorites to win Defensive Player 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.000 of the Year, all of them are pass rushers, and 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.480 that's because no defensive back is doing anything near what 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.040 dron Bland is doing, which is that much more of 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.200 an argument to put him in the conversation. So I 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.280 don't know that he wins because of who he's up against, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.919 the big hitters, TJ. Watt, names like that, Miles Garrett, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.960 nick Bosa. But start giving this man his roses. He's 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.800 earning them. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:42.280 Mine would be do not ingest anything weird prior to. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.639 Don't try anything, Do not try anything different or weird. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.720 What we did on the show Friday, that's probably not 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.200 a good idea of going into a game. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.040 Probably not, probably not. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:59.639 But Michael Parsons, he basically tried some energy drink that 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.880 everybody else was trying or they've had before. This was 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.200 his first time having it. He had a scoop of 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.880 it and then didn't go down well. His stomach was 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.440 bubbling or something. It was hurting, so yeah, the heart 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.880 to heart. But then he ended up throwing up twice, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.640 I believe on the sideline or somewhere on the field, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.120 and after that he started feeling better. But he said, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.560 going into the first throw up, yeah. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.800 You can rally sometimes. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:30.720 Nice. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.040 You never heard that you never saw the movie. Am 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:36.120 I drawing a blake on the movie? It was a 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:40.800 football movie? No, no, no, it sounds like something that 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.400 will be from the program. No it was. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.720 It was one of the one of those older football movies. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.520 But you can see the face of the guy, Billy 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.200 Bob was his name. You can rally ahead. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.760 No, it was after that it was gosh, why am 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.880 I drawing somebody on? Somebody on Twitter is gonna but yeah, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.920 go ahead, puking row. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:01.760 So he did. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.680 He puked, and then he rallied up and went into 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.800 that game and had the most sacks he's had this 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:15.800 season Varsity Varsity Blues, two point five sacks. And yes, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.240 he was saying when he started the game, his heart 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.320 was absolutely racing. So you know that if you've never 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.599 had energy drink, that can happen to you or caffeine. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.320 Was your heart racing when you had that caffeine shot. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.640 I didn't feel good for a little bit. That coffee, Yeah, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:31.160 that coffee. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.080 That was your first coffee in your life, right. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.400 Ever, first coffee ever. And I walked out of here 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.080 and I'm like, I'm never doing this again. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.560 Well, he ended up having a great day yesterday and 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.039 but really I wanted to point out and I don't 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.400 want to mention two things. But my thing was, you 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.040 know I've been talking about all week or last week, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.719 was the running game and seeing Tony Pollor show some 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.279 signs of improvement. You saw him getting into that end zone. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.960 How hard was that run? That was really really good 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.359 And he averaged five point one yards per carry, so 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.320 that was or not per carry? 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.560 Yes, yes, per carry. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.400 Per carry, still waking up, but yeah, five for and 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.560 watch which was I believe I haven't. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.120 Some pre working No there it is. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.280 You do know one glass amber today. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.279 No, But anyways, it was great seeing some improvement there 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.200 and the way he was playing. And he said after 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.520 the game, he was basically saying he kind of just 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.680 starting to feel a lot more comfortable just in the 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.680 offense and some of the things they're doing right now. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.480 Yeah, he did run the ball with other than that 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.839 negative ten yards they had on that wildcat formation, it 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.359 was a positive day for him. The receivers did a 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.880 really nice job of blocking form down field too when 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.280 they got him on the edge, and you know, guys 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.039 were able to the line in the stuff that the 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.479 crack tosses, the pinn and polls, all those things that 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.600 they do pretty well. They showed it yesterday. I want 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.719 to say that they I think when you watch them 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.159 play on defense, there was a lot of unselfish play 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.400 on that defensive line to get guys home on some sacks. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.600 You know, guys, they knew that they could attack Bozeman 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.520 the center and he was going to have problems, and 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.520 so you have you know, you had guys that were 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.760 willing to drive down inside hard defensive tackles get loopers home. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:24.920 There were a couple of times where they knocked Bozeman 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.760 so far inside on the on the pick that they 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.719 were right there like Tank was for sacks, Armstrong, Lawrence, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.120 all those guys had a really did a really nice 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.920 job of helping each other get pressure on this defensive line. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.920 They had a couple of sacks with these flat ran 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.159 passes of all of the guards. So give dan Quinn 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.880 credit again for setting things up inside to get guys home. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.640 Give credit to the defensive line for working with each 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.080 other and making it work, and then give some guys 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.640 some credit for individual one on one pressures that they 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.960 were able to get in that game. It really did 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.600 rattle that quarterback quite a bit. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.440 All right, let's dive into some specific players and how 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.599 they performed. Dak Prescott yesterday twenty five eight sixty eight 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.080 percent completion rate, one hundred and eighty nine yards, two 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.920 touchdowns for a thirty three point score. Didn't really have 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.240 huge numbers, like he didn't put it up the weeks before, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.120 but certainly was efficient in what he needed to do. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.080 How did you assess Dak's play yesterday? 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.640 I liked it didn't turn the ball over. There were 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.360 a couple of plays, a couple of throws that he'd 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.760 like back. There's one in particular in the end zone 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.200 that could have been an interception, but it wasn't, so 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.520 it's not. But for the most part, he didn't try 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.080 to do too much. And we talked about this going 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.400 into the game. This Panther's defense, their secondary particularly, they're 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.360 pretty good. You know, they were sixth rank in the 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.960 NFL for a reason, and as a unit they can 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.840 really make things challenging for you. So Dak Prescott, he 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.160 didn't press. Some of those throws were great. He dissected 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.720 their man coverage and absolutely killed their zone coverage. One 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.800 in particular, if you look at the play to Jake Ferguson, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.080 and then also kudos to Mike McCarthy because some of 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.000 the play calls he dialed up, not the Wildcats, because 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.440 let's put those away please. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.960 We'll talk about I think we'll talk about that that. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.080 If you look at the Schoolmaker play, for example, the 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.720 Schoolmaker touchdown, you motion Jake Ferguson over to the tight 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.200 right side of Schoolmaker and then he does a soft 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.600 wheel and then school goes up the deep scene. Well, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.880 then that confuses the coverage because no matter which one 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.400 they choose, if you look at that play on film, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.280 it's a touchdown either way. But Dak Prescott reads exactly 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.320 where and he doesn't hesitate. There's no pump fake that 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.280 it's spam there. It is so efficient, timely and had 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.040 control of it the offense the entirety of the game, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.640 even to when the offense kind of stalled on some 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.800 of those three and out series, you never felt like 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.800 Dak Prescott in the offense was out of the game. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.360 Kind of felt like though this was one of those 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.960 games of surprise, how many contested balls they had to 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.640 try and catch in this game, and so it was 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.839 a little bit tougher for Patrick has mentioned some of 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.480 the combination routes. They tried to get Lamb up the 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.600 sideline one time, which would have been a pretty nice play. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.400 They're doing something I love when they do this with 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.000 when they take Lamb or any of the receivers and 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.599 they put them in motion and it gives them a 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:05.280 running start. They don't let these corners or safeties have 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.480 an ability to play and when they're static or just 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.160 in one spot, so by them running, it gives them 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.080 an opportunity to get going up the field. Though, you know, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.360 they I love the combinations of those routes. But I 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.760 got to give Carolina a little bit credit for playing 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.600 the way they did in the secondary. You know, the 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.240 way they were able to knock down balls. There was 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.760 a couple of different times these officials, this Clay Martin group, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.040 they were the least penalizing group of all the officials 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.160 in the league. Or a couple of times are felt 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.079 like that Hill had receivers hooked and then he was 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.480 able to play offhand knocking the ball, but they didn't 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.880 call it, so okay, you keep playing that way. So 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.720 it was a challenging day that way. But their ability 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.160 to run the football, their ability to make some third 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.320 down plays when they really needed to make some third 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.160 down plays or what really helped them offensively in this game. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.440 It wasn't huge numbered by any means, but I think 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.480 Carolina's secondary had a little to do with that. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.760 Yeah, I thought he had a very clean game blowing 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.760 didn't blow up the stats or anything like that. But again, 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.280 another week of him showing that he can be consistent 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.640 and just keep doing what he needs to do. So 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.040 that has been what five weeks now, where he's just 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:15.960 been week. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.360 To week, just been ever since ever since. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:24.800 Yeah, so that's impressive and dark Hater's been very quiet 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.959 right now the past few weeks. So anyways, he done 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.720 a great job. We also learned that he can line 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:34.240 up a receiver. Uh, that play didn't lead to absolutely anything. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.720 Zero gain, but what's interesting to see. I would have 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.600 liked to see what exactly how. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.480 It would have looked if it would have gone through, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.680 but it didn't work out. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.839 Yeah, I noticed Brian's same thing you noticed, and I'd 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.800 mentioned it to Nick during the game. Like, there were 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.160 a lot of plays yesterday where there was no separation 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.560 and it's to me it was about the cornerbacks, the 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.280 defensive backs for that team. They are not a good team, 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.959 but that part of their team is really good. I 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.959 don't know that I've seen a team that the Cowboys 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.320 have played these this year that was that tight on 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.800 these receivers in man covers, and what the Cowboys had 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.960 to do in a lot of situations was they'd have 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.480 to run these route combinations. It was one deeper pass 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:13.880 they got I don't remember how many yards. It was 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.240 a scissor route combination where basically they won one receiver, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.760 the receiver's crossed the one receiver took a defensive back 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.800 and kind of bumped into him and it was kind 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.480 of a rub route and got somebody open. Then when 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.280 they did that against man covers, they were able to 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.400 get some success. But just manning up and going against 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.680 those guys, that was a tough, tough day. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.800 I think San Francisco was probably a team that remember 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.520 how much man coverage in that game, so that there 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.800 was a lot of contested catches in that game. And 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.080 I kind of felt like watching that game yesterday that 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.200 CD might have got banged up a little bit, you 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.400 know in that game early in that game, the route 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.280 that he caught it, when you go back and watch it, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.960 he catches the drag underneath for about ten yards and 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.360 he avoids the he avoids the linebacker in the middle 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.320 of the field and he kind of gets knocked off 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.640 balance and then turns it up the field. And it 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.640 was the same play that they dump Turping. So Turpin 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.560 like knees him in the back as he's laying on 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.520 the ground. But I think there might be something with 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.560 something he was dealing with in that game yesterday because 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.240 it kind of awkwardly got knocked off balance and maybe 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.439 something with his left knee that he's dealing with. Need 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.040 to check with that a little bit if he's completely healthy. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.840 But it was a little bit of a struggle for 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:26.880 those guys yesterday. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.679 Yeah, kind of amazing then, and when I when I 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.720 looked back at the score and the and then the 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.319 stat sheet that they didn't have as much offensive production 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.559 but scored thirty three points. I know one of them 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.720 was a pick six, but still that's still a healthy score. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:44.360 You know, when really helped you with the undisciplined, the roughing. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.560 The rough Yeah, the roughing, you know, I mean you 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.680 get yeah, you get the horse collar, you get the roughing. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.760 You know, you kick out a bound kick out of 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.920 bounce back, gets hitting the head, you know. I mean, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.920 there's all kinds of things that they were dealing with yesterday. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.560 And I just feel like and it kind of buried itself out. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.600 Will We talked about though they were one and eight 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.800 coming into this game, that record didn't feel like it 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.040 matched when you talk about the secondary, how good they are, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.200 and then you look at what Tuber Hubbard was able 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:10.840 to do, when Miles Sanders was able to, you know, 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.600 get some chunk plays as well, which was the guy 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.640 I wanted to focus on last this coming week. But 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.240 the run game, I mean, Carolina, they fought hard. Their 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:23.680 biggest mistake was well, number one penalties. Right that particular drive, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.320 you got two unsportsman like penalties rough, you know, and 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.040 then it's a touchdown, but undisciplined. But also they could 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.440 not protect Bryce, which we knew going in, and then 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.000 Bryce did exactly what we said he'd do, which was 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.120 he didn't want to escape the pocket. He sat in 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.760 the collapsing pocket time and again and just became a 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.720 tackling dummy and that basically killed them. So but the 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.079 secondary played well, the running backs played well, but by 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.600 the time the Cowboys started pulling away. You can't run 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.000 the ball anymore. You have to be one dimensional. Plays 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:52.880 right into their ends. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.880 Yeah, I think the biggest thing that they did maybe 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.680 coming out of the second half was even tried to 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.960 throw the ball on the on our halftime show, I 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.120 Carolina to me was going to lose that game. I 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.800 just felt like they were going to lose that game. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.400 But I also felt like that they could have kept 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.960 it close to the entire game. I know, in my 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:14.160 notes and I typed out these my words, you know, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.360 and I used to describe Carolina's big plays running the football. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:27.600 I used late, driven, sealed, angle, hooked, washed, hesitation, guesses, missed, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.280 and pancaked. Those are all bad words when you're playing 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.400 run defense and through and I just went through and 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.400 there was some positive run plays, some positive run defense. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.240 But you give up a game of thirteen, again of seven, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.720 a gain of fifteen, again of nine, a gain of fourteen, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.920 a gain of five, you know, again, another gain of fourteen, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.880 another gain of eight. It's not very good run defense, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.280 right now, you know. And I think that Carolina, you know, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.680 in that game, I don't think they were gonna win. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.800 None of us thought they were gonna win. But they 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.320 probably could have kept that game and control and maybe 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.280 giving their quarterback a little bit of a chance if 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.080 they would have continued on trying to run that football. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:12.200 Well right before the Cowboys scoring, or when the Cowboys 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.240 before oh my god, I can't even speak right before 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.200 they score, going into the halftime. Going into halftime, I 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.360 was kind of raising my eyebrows a little bit. I'm like, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.400 by this time I thought we would be having Cooper 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.560 rush in and taking over. You know, it just didn't 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.440 feel like the Cowboys completely dominated them, and at times 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.560 it made me wonder, I'm in. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.320 This does not feel like they're. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.760 One and eight, like like you're playing a team. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:39.760 With that kind of record. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.240 They were doing some things and it was making me wonder, Okay, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.360 are there Cowboys doing that thing that they tend to 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.400 do sometimes where they just level up with their opponent 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:54.600 they play at their opponent's level, or are the Panthers 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.240 really doing some things that they're just doing well in 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:58.960 this game? 0:15:59.080 --> 0:15:59.720 And I couldn't. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.640 You know, obviously that changed after the halftime and the 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.280 Cowboys took over that game and everything, but it just 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:06.960 it was makeing. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.480 I couldn't really make of it. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.680 And remember This was while we were still dealing with 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.160 Jimmy Johnson News and us having to upload things on 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.200 the website, and you're kind of looking up and down 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.160 and trying to keep up with the game, and it's 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.920 just one of those like what what is going on here? 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:22.280 Right? 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.760 But you know, I think that this is this is 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.480 what I always worry about for the Cowboys when they're 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.800 playing a lesser opponent, especially a lesser offense, is will 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.720 they be coming aamored with going after the quarterback and 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.520 they will forget to play sound run defense because defense 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.640 run defense, to me, is all about discipline. It's about 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.520 every person on that defense understanding where they should fit 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.120 and consistently being in that spot right. And if you 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.520 don't do that, if you take a little side step, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.280 or if you try to go around someone because you're 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.880 trying to get to the passer, it throws everything off 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.560 and all it takes is one person doing it and 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.000 you get gashed in the running game. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.920 And it was we talked about it last week. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.800 That's something that we're a little concerned about, knowing you 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.160 going against a team like this, and I think yesterday 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.080 we saw a little bit of that where just they 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.399 were undisciplined. They didn't play the style of run defense 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.040 that they had been playing against some of the better 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:11.800 teams they faced. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.800 I didn't feel like that there were two things that 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.600 they didn't handle very well. Was Carolina's run game overall. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.840 And then and then Adam Thielen. I didn't feel like 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.199 they had a really good answer for him. And and 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.080 you know it's it's you know, Adam Feeling's going to 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.560 make plays, you know, but man, it could have turned 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.560 into and I think that greg Olsen said it very 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.360 well just watching the broadcast. He's like, you know, when 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.480 Carolina had that drive where they scored, you know, their touchdown, 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.240 that's where greg Olsen said, this is what Carolina needs 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.840 to do. They need to do the waggles, the boots. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.479 They need to get the ball to Feeling, and they 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.600 need to run the ball. They don't need to think 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.639 about anything else right now. They need to try and 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.160 help their quarterback. And you know, unfortunately you played against 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.080 the quarterback, as Patrick said, it wasn't interested in running. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.640 The one time he did run, he did some ridiculous 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.840 fake thing with the ball comes flying out of his hand, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.240 you know, and now you get a turnover, right there, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.560 but you know that was that was That was a 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.000 tough game for on a couple of different levels. But 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.840 again having to deal with the run. It kind of 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.760 reminded you when you're not disciplined, when you jump gaps, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.640 when you try and run around blockers, when you don't 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.000 play square, you know you're gonna get dashed. And there 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.560 are gonna be some better teams down the road that 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.119 they're gonna probably try and run the ball on you. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.639 And speaking to the discipline aspect of it, one of 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.080 the main things Mike McCarthy talked about going into this game. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.359 The Cowboys are two and three on the road. He said, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.120 you got to get the penalties reeled in. You got 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.359 to get them real in. That I think was the 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.480 sixth Panther Strive is how I didn't have it noted here. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.360 You start off you fourth and two, right, Well, first 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.600 of all, you get the penalty. It's holding on the punt. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.320 They said it was on Carolina. They changed it to 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.440 the Cowboys. That put the Carolina on a thirty yard line. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.800