WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Adjusting The Expectations? 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:18.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.600 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.960 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:32.320 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.599 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.560 It is Monday, September ninth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.160 number thirty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.960 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.320 and we got a lot of talk about this morning. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.000 Cowboys to get a big win to open the season. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.120 They win thirty five seventeen and probably well, at least 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.280 in my opinion, was one of the most dominating performances 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.920 I've seen from them in quite some time. We'll talk 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.360 about all that, We'll talk about Dak's performance, We'll talk 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.400 about this defense is performance throughout the course of the show. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.920 How's everybody feeling this morning? Great? Great, awesome? Already jump in, Yes, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.440 here we go. Let's start first a little blanket coverage. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.080 I have one statement for you. There will be a 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.520 blank you fill in the blank. We're gonna start today 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.720 with Nick. After dominating performance last night, I learned blank 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.680 about this team, Nick. I learned that the Cowboys are 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.720 a lot better than the Giants. That's really all I 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.720 That's just the Giants aren't very good and I think 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:38.240 the Cowboys are very good. I learned that this team 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.120 can make it to the super Bowl. That's what I like. Yes, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:46.240 I'm gonna go there. There, I am gonna go there. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.680 I know. Okay, I am fully aware Giants are great. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.680 Three days ago when you were like, I don't like 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.280 to get my expectations. This is what the Cowboys do 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.040 to me. But when they do to my feelings, they 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.200 gave me very larded against yourself, like three days ago. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.360 I know, but it's hard to control those emotions. And 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.240 it was just very very exciting to see what they 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.360 were able to do. Obviously, the things that Kellen Moore 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.720 was able to apply, and that only gives me hope 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.360 for the future. Even though it is the first game 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.040 and it is against the Giants, it's still got me 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.239 very excited. Dave, you learned what I learned. The Cowboys 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.040 can win the modern way. And what I mean by 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.880 that is I mean I'm not sorry I agree with 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.480 Nick to a point. I thought the Cowboys would win comfortably. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.600 I thought they were much better than Giants. They proved 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:39.240 my point, but we've never seen them so comfortably and 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:45.200 so efficiently and effortlessly win throwing the ball, you know, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.160 the run game was basically an afterthought. They had ninety yards, 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.880 which is that's fine by NFL standards. But I was 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.200 here on Friday saying, you know, the Cowboys sweet spot 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.920 is like two hundred and fifty passing yards and they 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.080 need to have one hundred and twenty hundred and fifty 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.239 rushing yards, like that's how the model goes. Didn't look 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.520 like that yesterday. The Giants loaded up to stop the run, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.080 and for the most part, they did, and it didn't 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.240 matter at all. And part of that is because they're bad. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.560 I don't think you can totally discount that. But four 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:17.240 hundred passing yards and most of it again looking easy. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.880 M that's something we're not used to, and it's even 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.600 if it is against a bad team, it's really encouraging 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.000 if the offense can continue to do that. Let's dive 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.160 into this passing game a little bit. You guys, kind 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.519 of do you want to answer that question too for me, Yeah, yeah, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.040 I think I'm guarding against being where you are because 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.480 but in all fairness, that is probably what a lot 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.720 of fans right now are dealing with this morning. Is 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.800 what they saw yesterday suggests tells their eyes and tells 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.880 their head. Hey man, this is different. This is not 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:50.880 what we've been used to seeing from this Cowboys team, 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.680 even in good years, you haven't been used to seeing them. Literally, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.560 think about that. They had six their six opening possessions, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.080 the first one stalled out and they had to punt. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.880 The next five they had touchdown, not field goals. They 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.200 had touchdowns, and they did it in different ways. Some 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.880 of them were long drives where they drove methodically down 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.200 the field and then scored in the red zone. There 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.280 were others where there was one that was a three 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.200 play drive where basically it was like pop pop pop, touchdown. Right. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.480 So they showed you so many different facets of this offense. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.000 It looked like, as Dave said, it looked like a 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.360 modern NFL offense, which has not been what the Cowboys 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.599 have been doing since Zeke Drive. And you know, looking 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:33.159 around New England, Baltimore, or Minnesota, Philadelphia, they're they're looking 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.840 at Super Bowl stuff too, So, I mean that's kind 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.280 of the way it is right now. But this was 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.560 a good football team we knew going in and they 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.800 looked better than that yesterday. So tell me how surprised 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.760 you were that the Cowboys went so pass heavy, especially 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.320 early in the game, when we've been used to watching 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.440 an offense that would establish the run. They would commit 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.560 it to the run, especially in the early parts of 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.320 the game yesterday. It seemed like they came out with 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.840 the intention they were going to throw the ball if 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.159 you can. I mean I talked about this Friday, I 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.520 think or Thursday. If you can get the divas out 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.480 of the out of the huddle, if you can do that, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.320 then you really can say pick your poison. You can 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.440 really do that. And that's what happened. And next week 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.200 that won't happen. They'll have a safety back, they won't 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.360 let Jarwin and Cobb go right down the middle. And 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.080 what's going to happen. You'll see Zeke Gasham for six 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.800 and eight and ten. It's just going to be that 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.320 kind of game because whatever the defense gives you. That 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.200 it's a cliche, but that's exactly what they did. Whatever 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.240 they were giving them. They took it. Yeah, you might 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.040 not even need to worry about egos if the offense 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.680 keeps that because every single member of the offense had 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.280 a reason to be happy yesterday. I mean, Witton got 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.359 a touchdown, Cobb had the worst day of the starting 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.919 receivers and he had sixty nine yards in a touchdown. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.600 I mean, it's incredible, And obviously that's not going to 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.880 happen every week, but it's just really encouraging. It's like, 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.240 you know, the it's typically a younger crowd, the analytics 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.359 heavy crowd. Play action is everything, pre snap motion is everything. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.160 Don't run on first down, don't run on second down. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.760 I mean, they've just got that. They got to be 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.880 through the roof with what they saw from the way 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.760 Kellamore called this offense yesterday because that's exactly what it was. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.440 And the running game will never be an afterthought if 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.440 you're paying your running back ninety million dollars, but it 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.039 can be a compliment to a passing game, clearly, and 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.080 that's not what we've seen. Like through Zeke's career to 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.000 this point, the running game has been the engine, and 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.440 the passing game kind of operates off of that. That's 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.160 not what we saw yesterday. What I loved about the 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.880 first touchdown by Blake Jarwin is that it was a 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.440 play action that sucked in the you know, linebackers of safety. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.280 But it wasn't even Zeke. It was Pollard in the game, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.280 you know, and Pollard he just faked it there. And 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.760 that's another thing I love is that it doesn't have 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.039 to be my series, your series, just running both in 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.359 the in there and when one guy's tired, put the 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.200 other one in May. And maybe Zeke coming back from 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.280 a six week hold out helps because you feel less 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.240 pressure to have him in the game. You're just like, well, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.760 we're only giving you forty snaps, so you know, hopefully 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.520 they don't resort to that when Zeke is more ready 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.560 to play a full load. He had a play around 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.520 the corner and it was and think the third quarter, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.440 and there was one of the corners was there and 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.720 he kind of made the tackle. And I think everybody 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.280 in the press box right around said the same thing, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.520 like in about three weeks, he'll make that guy this 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.480 or running over or something. But his ten yard touchdown 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.640 run looked like old Zeke to me. We'll get to 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.800 some of that I want to go back a little bit. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.360 You guys mentioned Kelvin Moore. He's getting a ton of 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.720 credit last night and this morning for how this offense looked. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.680 There were a lot of things that you could notice 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.360 about it. I'm gonna point out three and I want 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.120 you to tell me which one you think was bigger 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.440 or if there's another thing you think was bigger. To me, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.320 it was pace, it was the pre snap movement, and 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.440 it was the play selection. Which one do you think 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:54.040 is was was a bigger had more was more responsible 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.280 for the improvement in the offense we saw yesterday relative 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.640 to last season. Let's start with you. I think it's 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.800 just a combination of everything. If you do one more 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.080 than the other, I think you wouldn't be You wouldn't 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.920 have been able to do what you did last night. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.840 You know, him being creative, him coming up with different 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.920 ways to involve everybody. That's where it comes down to. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.520 I think had this been the like last year and 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.640 we still had Scottland calling the place, I feel that 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.600 we would have seen, for example, Zeke getting the ball 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.720 more and being forced even though when he was taking 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.840 him a while to get going. I think we would 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.320 have seen forced plays, and last night it wasn't that way. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.959 He just made it all look so seeming less and 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.280 was smart about the play calling. And you can tell 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.199 by everything that the player said last night in regards 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.160 to him and his decision making, it was not a 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.360 completely new different book playbook. It was more of being 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.959 smart about it and knowing when to call what play. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.200 Dave Dak actually said, and he said this before, He's like, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.040 I don't think we ran a single play that hasn't 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.440 been in our offense for a while, to which I 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.240 responded and asked, yeah, but they didn't look like that, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.920 like you have changed. The play might be the same. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.640 The guys might be going in the same spot, but 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.520 they're starting out in different spots. It's obvious. And Dak 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.080 also he said, I think it's the timing of the 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.520 way Kellen's calling it. He's the quarterback. He just had 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.560 a perfect passer rating. I defer to him, but I 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.600 don't really buy it because Scotland hand coached in this 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.320 league for a long time, Like he just has no 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.800 feel for the timing and win to call that type 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.440 of stuff. Like, I think it's more about confusing the 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.520 defense and keeping them on their back. Foot. I mean, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.760 we were just watching Brian Baldinger's tape. They break down 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.040 before we came down here. You got Witten, Cobb and 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.080 Cooper lined out left and then they all flex across 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.280 the formation. The Giants linebackers are going every which way. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.439 But the way the play eventually went, I think that 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.120 stuff matters, and it might not change the meat of 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.319 the play, but it just makes it harder to defend 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.719 when you don't know where it's going. You know what's 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.600 a huge difference to me is when you have players 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.680 that respect your coach. I don't think they had respect 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.800 for Scotto and yeah, the normal respect, but as far 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.560 as respecting him and what in him knowing what he 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.200 was doing, I don't think it's the same way like 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.280 that with Kellen. They feel like Kellen is really really 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.680 smart about the the whole game, and when you're bought 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.600 in to somebody, you tend to do better. And he 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.199 has the support of that locker room for sure, big, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.080 big time. Yeah, I don't I forgot the three that 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.719 you mentioned. I said, pace, pre snap, movement, and play selection. Yeah, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.280 it's it's never pace because nobody ever has good pace 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.920 if they don't, if they don't execute and that, and 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:48.640 you could say, well, maybe that's great, thanks for that, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.320 no huddle, free and out, you know, but it was 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.640 nice to see them use some some different, you know, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.120 some stuff where they were They were that play which 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.880 I thought was a very big play in the game, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.040 when he caught over the middle short of the sticks 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.240 and fought and got it and got a first down, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.880 and maybe I was typing something in witness in the 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.800 end zone for I even knew what was happening. So yeah, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.360 they did move it quickly. I just think that the 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.280 pre snap movement I think did confuse the Giants a lot. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.360 But kind of going back to what they said, I 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.080 think this is the best receiving core they've had in 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.320 a long time. Because as good as Beasley wasn't doing 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.439 what he does and Daz doing what he does, they 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.840 can't do each other's job. Beasley has to be in 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.439 the slot, he can't be on the outside. Des really 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.600 couldn't be in the slot, and Gallup is just going 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.559 to be a better Terrence Williams and a lot of ways, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.000 I hope. So I think those three guys right there 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.720 are just way better because like you just said, David, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.520 they are Amber say they can go all over the 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.960 place three here, two here, and you can be interchangeable. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.680 And I think that's what's gonna be really tough to stop. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.719 I haven't had time to chart it. I would love 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.000 to if I get a chance. But the number of 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.320 different ways we saw guys line up last night, it 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.120 was striking if you even pay a baseline level of attention. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.160 And I'm not even talking about the wacky stuff like Ola, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.480 Wally and Zeke flexing out wide. I'm talking about Witten 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.280 being out in the slot, then flexing, flexing inline Cooper 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.640 as a tight slot and moving further out in the 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.560 slot and then moving out to the boundary. Like it's 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.640 little stuff, but when you I mean, it's so obvious 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.400 that we haven't seen it, because you're like, whoa wait, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.520 what's a model like Witten is out furthest wide of 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.920 everybody on the field, Like I've never seen that before. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.000 It just little stuff like that that can make a 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.640 big difference. Here's here's the thing too, that's going to 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.920 be interesting moving forward is you can't keep faking into 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.240 Tavon Austin without giving it to him. So and Witten 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.120 out wide and you have to throw it to him 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.640 out there, So I'm anxious to see do you say, hey, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.160 let's call the stuff that works, or do you say, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.040 we're going to have to these stuff we've been faking. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.240 Now we have to continue to do it. The good 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.160 thing was they showed a lot of it. They showed 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.280 Ola Wally down the field. They showed some of these 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.040 plays that we haven't seen that the Redskins haven't seen. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:02.959 So not trying to move ahead, but I'm just saying 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.360 that's all nice and good, but now you have to 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.840 kind of play off of that. And you guys mentioned 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.120 that all that movement can confuse a defense. I think 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.319 the other part that helps quite a bit is it 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.160 also can illuminate things for your quarterback. As you move 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.480 people around. You see how the defense reacts when a 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.960 guy goes, who goes with him, how do they adjust? 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.960 It tells you a lot about man versus his own 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.959 and what the defense is doing. So not only does 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.280 it confuse a defense, at the same time, it clarifies 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.640 for the quarterback. And so now you have those two 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.760 things playing against each other makes it. It makes it 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.240 so much easier. I think that's a lot of the 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.440 reason why Dak was so decisive yesterday. He was getting 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:36.760 the ball out and he was getting into the place 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.240 where it needed to be, and he's putting it on 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.840 point and it was accurate. So that all to me 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.120 is about that that pre snap motion. No, you go ahead, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.959 remember that sack that that you know was knocked to 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.560 the ground on No, it wasn't. There was no pass 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.719 rushing from the Giants, which honestly we talked about last week, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.240 and that's that is really a function of the Giants 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.480 more than the Cowboys. But I'm just saying, you can 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.240 find open guys, especially when you're just standing up there, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.520 and he did have all day. The weird part about 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.000 this all was that his first five or six passes 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.680 were not good. To say that he's gonna have a 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:15.360 perfect passer rating, You're like, he's settled in. I heard 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.319 you and Derek talking about it last night, Like, I mean, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.640 his first throw of the game was a completion, but 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.840 Amari Cooper had to jump out of the socks to 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.520 get it. Yeah, he's just I mean, I know, I 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.320 guess people get tired of hearing it, but he's just 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.600 kind of like that, Like he's not a great practice player. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.400 He kind of needs to find a groove. But when 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.800 he does, look out but the fun. And this sounds 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.160 like a backhanded compliment, and I don't mean it to, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.640 but the really encouraging thing for me. You know, when 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.920 we argue about what Dak deserves to make and all that, 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.760 it's like, well, he hasn't grown into this. You know, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.600 he's not making these crazy throws through the eye of 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.040 a needle and doing all this crazy stuff. What we 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.640 saw last night is that he doesn't necessarily need to. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.960 And he did make some really great throws. The touchdown 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.200 to Cooper was amazing. The long pass to Gallop down 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.600 the sideline he had a he had it wasn't even 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.840 a go route the post to Gallop. It was near 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.680 the Cowboys end zone like he threaded it through three defenders. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.520 So he did make some great throws, but thanks to 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.960 the play action and confusing the defense, the vast majority 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.080 of the balls he had to throw were easy. And 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.520 that's okay because it's it's efficient and it works. But 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.680 one to Jarwin was not a good pass. It was 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.560 an arable pass. But and I swear to I want 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.280 to ask Dac about this if I can get a chance. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.680 I swear to God, he double clutched. Because he did. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.000 He and I have to imagine he was like, there's 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.520 no way he's actually that open, like I'm missing something. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.120 And then he's like, nope, he is there. You go. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.120 And Joe and double caught it too, like he caught 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:43.760 it kind of it kind of moved a little bit 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.600 and he caught it again. The easiest players are the 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.560 hardest to make. That's what they always say. All right, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.760 let's take our first break. When we come back, I 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.560 do want to talk a little bit about the running game. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.440 Zeke had a decent day, Pollard had a maybe not 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.560 so decent day. Let's talk about a little bit about 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.160 that when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.440 dot Com Radio. While a player could look good on paper, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.680 it's when he's out on the field that you really 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.800 find out what he's made of. 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Let's move on to 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.240 the running backs. In this game, Zeke Elliott had a 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.040 thirteen carriage fifty three yards a four point one average 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.760 in a touchdown polar thirteen runs for twenty four yards 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.560 a one point eight average, no touchdowns with limited snaps 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.160 for Zeke was Do you think that was more about 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.040 easing him back into playing football or do you think 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.159 it was just the way the game flowed. They were 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.280 seeing such success with the running game and they just 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.440 decided me, I'm sorry, the passing game, and they decided 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.240 to stick with it, and that ended up being the 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.240 reason why they really didn't run the ball, particularly with Zeke, 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.240 as much as they would normally. Yeah, I mean, I 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.439 do think that Zeke just having him out there, I 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.920 thought it was big. But when you're throwing at four 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.040 hundred and five yards and completing everything, I mean, that's 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:09.919 that's what the Giants were giving you, and that's what 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.080 you're going to take. But I don't know if the 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:16.520 Cowboys win the game as comfortable without Zeke. I'm not 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.680 even sure they win the game really, Okay, I really don't. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.160 I mean, I think that's why it was so important 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.560 to get him back there. Just having his presence there 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.560 forces the Giants to play that way. Don't think they 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.520 played the same way with Pollard, could be completely different game. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.560 They couldn't stop Barkley very well, and it forced the 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.479 Giants to get out of what they wanted to do 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.840 and get Barkley eleven carries. So I don't know. I 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.439 mean that sounds weird because they blew him out, but 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.040 I just think having him back there is so important 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:47.000 and play actions with him are different than anyone else. 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.560 How does Zeke look to you, guys? Just the plays 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.639