WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What Went Wrong vs. ATL? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.280 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.600 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.960 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:25.720 Wait were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.440 and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, November thirteenth, two thou seventeen, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.560 season thirteen, episode number seventy four. Welcome to another edition 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.879 of The Break. I am Derek Eagleton, and then we 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.200 are alive from the s WBC Mortgage Studios and we're 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.319 talking about the Cowboys lost yesterday. Cowboys have a it's 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.200 their second really really bad loss of the season where 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.960 they just got dominated. I can't I don't think it 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.320 was a domination from start to finish, but certainly by 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.160 the time you got into the second half, it certainly 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.800 felt like it became a dominating performance by the Atlanta Falcons. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.200 We'll get into all the different things that went right 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.679 and wrong for them, but Cowboys lose twenty seven seven, 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.760 and I think we have to at least start the 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.560 conversation with Adrian Claiborne, who had what I guess if 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.640 he makes the Pro Bowl, this will be the day 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.760 that he actually made the Pro Bowl. He now has 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.959 eight sacks on the season, wins his game with two, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.560 and yesterday get six sacks, which is one from the 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.480 record in a game, which is seven held by Derrek Thomas. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.600 Only been four men in the history of the NFL 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.360 since they've tracked sack numbers that would go back to 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.080 nineteen eighty two that have had six or more sacks 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.240 in a game. I guess let's start there. Tell me 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.080 what are your opinions went wrong? How did how did 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.080 you end up in a situation where it was allowed 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.240 to get to the point where one guy was able 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.200 to get and we're not talking about a premier pass rusher. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.720 One guy was able to get six sacks in one game. Well, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.880 I mean it starts with Tyrn Smith being out and 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.560 your backup is I mean, it's a huge drop off, obviously, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.720 I mean clearly, and Chaz Green wasn't ready for the 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.280 challenge and the Cowboys weren't ready to help him, you know, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.280 I mean, the guy, like you said, Derek, he's not 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.200 a great pass rusher. He didn't even show great pass 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.359 rushing moves. It was very elementary to just kind of 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.120 get around him like that. So I thought it was 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.640 one of the worst performances you've ever seen at a 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.920 one player before. And he had a lot of chances. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.960 He had all week. He knew this was happening, and 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.440 they didn't help him either, and they didn't adjust. And 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.680 you know, I mean, as I wrote in my column before, 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.000 we hear people asking about who's got the NFL record, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.240 that they should have made some kind of change there, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.160 and why take Byron Bell in there in the middle 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.840 of the fourth quarter. I mean, it was bad in 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.120 the second quarter. He could have if Dak wasn't strong 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.840 and athletic, he could have been sacked twelve times and 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.480 probably heard at some point, yeah you might, yeah, yeah. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.080 I keep going back to something Jerry Jones said after 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.360 the game, which he brought it up four times within 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.200 the first five minutes that he talked to the media 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.760 when the game was over. You kept bringing up the 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.040 wide nine nine and he stopped himself. But you know, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.080 Frodian slips and all those types of things. He said 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.200 something to the effect of it really surprised us, and 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.600 then he was like, well, I don't want to say surprised, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.799 but we had a hard time dealing with the wide nine, which, okay, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.160 so I'm not football X is no guru. But if 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.880 you don't know, you know there's techniques on the line. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.280 You know, you hear about the one tech and the 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.600 three technique all the time. That's close end by the center. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.000 Nine is about as far out on the line as 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.000 you can play. It's basically you put your guy way 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.080 outside the outside shoulder of the tackle and try to 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.600 give him as much free space as possible to get 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.440 it to get a rush. WHI you're essentially trying to 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.240 do is you're trying to play a four to three 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.160 with three four principles, right, You're trying to have those 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.200 three guys kind of in the middle and then one 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.960 guy that's outflexed out really wide that can just go 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:52.720 around the edge. Well, if we want to make the 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.840 Cowboys sound really bad, it's a technique that you use 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.480 for guys that are limited in their repertoire to try 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.880 to get him ahead of steam and get them an 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.520 angle around the tackle, like if you only have one 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.400 pass rush move. Actually, you know, watching watching the tape 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.040 of the Falcons last week. I noticed that Tack McKinley 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.880 played wide a lot because he's a rookie and they 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.960 probably want to do everything they can do to help 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:20.200 get him. Maybe they should, Derek Well based on this game, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.719 So really, my whole thing is okay. Jerry Jones caught 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.800 himself and said it didn't surprise us, but it sure 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.040 as hell looked like it surprised him. What's that That 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.880 should have been a mumble time sorry, look like so 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.000 far as from Derek Um because they, I mean, they 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.520 just didn't have an answer for it. And far be 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.599 it for me to suggest a bunch of highly paid 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.159 coaches weren't ready for that or couldn't come up with 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.000 a way to limit that as the game went on. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.320 But I didn't see any evidence that they did. And 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.200 you know, I don't know, it ain't it ain't like 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.000 it was rocket science what was happening. And honestly, you know, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.560 they did ship them a little bit, like they did 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.799 some things, and it just it just didn't do anything. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.040 And it's it's it's perplexing. I mean, like, you know, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.719 I wouldn't have been surprised if Chad's Green gave up 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.360 a sack or two like I said, I thought he'd 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.120 be decent. I thought he'd be duct tape, which would 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.800 say he's clearly not gonna be Tyrn Smith. But he 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.120 can get through a game. I mean, I mean, anybody 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.440 could have played that badly. It's it's baffling how ill 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.080 prepared they look to handle what Atlanta threw at him. Yeah. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.800 I went back and watched the game, and I was 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.520 specifically looking at Chads Green the entire game, just to 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.400 see how much the Cowboys were helping him and how 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.719 how Clayborne was really getting there. And really what I 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.240 found out was that they helped him. They helped him 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.240 a little bit. They were probably I think Brian. Brian 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.720 went back and charged the whole thing. So I'm sure 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.680 they'll talk about that on Talking Cowboys. I want to 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.960 say he told me it was like about eight times 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.680 in the in the game between the really in the 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.160 second half, mostly they gave him a chip or something 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.920 to help him out. The problem was the sacks didn't 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.719 come on those plays. The sacks came on the plays 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.800 when they did not help him. And so it got 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.760 to a point. And my question to Brian was, does 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.039 it ever get to a point in a game where 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.760 you just say, hey, I don't I know it might 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.640 affect our offense, but you gotta chip him every play, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.480 Like literally, you're gonna have to give this guy help 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.040 every single play, especially on plays where you're talking about 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.840 long down and distance. You're on second and long, third 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.960 and long. You know you're gonna have to give this 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.479 guy help because otherwise you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.080 You know that he is beating this guy regularly, and 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.240 the Cowboys didn't seem willing to commit to that that 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.159 level of help throughout the game. And that's the part 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.159 that's a little bit baffling to me, especially once you 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.800 get to the third quarter and it seems like it's 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.760 just it's rolling and you really need these plays you 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.159 have to throw the ball. You're gonna point in the 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.800 game where you have to throw the ball and you 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.600 just can't stop him. Yeah, I mean, and that I 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.599 guess that's the debate, is you know you want to 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.840 just change everything up and give him help on every 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.920 single play. You can call it stubbornness, I mean, and 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.760 the Cowboys coaches have a tendency toward being stubborn in 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.000 my opinion, But I mean, I just I haven't seen 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.760 anything like that in the NFL. You know, I went 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.279 back and looked like that's the stuff you see in college. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.440 I mean, in his senior year a Mississippi State, Dak 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.520 was getting sacked six, seven, nine, ten times per game. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.080 Alabama SACTI nine times the last time he played them. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.360 In the NFL, though, where everybody's supposedly good, you know, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.000 I don't think anybody expected Chaz Green to play like 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.120 Tyrn Smith. But there's a significant difference between playing like 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.400 a backup and allowing six sacks in a game. And 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.000 you know, you can play a lot of blame on 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:31.800 Chaz Green, but when it gets to that point, you 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.040 should be blaming coaching too, in my opinion, when you 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.600 get to a point where an NFL team has eight 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.440 sacks in a game, So amber, do you have any 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.760 confidence at this point if Tyren Smith has to miss 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.200 more games, multiple games, one more game even, do you 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.560 have any confidence that Roland Chaz Green out there there 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.760 will be a different result than what we saw yesterday. No, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.840 I mean I didn't have much confidence going into this 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.800 first game without Tyren Smith. And again, I, like Dave said, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.640 I don't think anyone really expected Chas to be that bad. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.280 I didn't expect him to be as bad as he was. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.880 But now I think that everyone should really be concerned, 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.840 and even the coaching staff. They need to figure something 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.200 out because even putting Byron Bell in there that didn't help. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:20.080 He wasn't any better. So they're gonna have to help 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.560 him out somehow, because who else are they going to 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.080 bring in? There's nobody else really well. And that's you know, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.800 and I get it. It's a frustrating loss, and that's 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.080 the type of things people say after a frustrating loss. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.800 But you know, there's no shortage of people that want 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.840 to cut Chaz Green. And I'm just like, I mean, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.480 and that's he shouldn't play again. I mean, you wouldn't. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.439 I wouldn't ever start What are the other options? I 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.400 would never start him again. I would never start him again. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.400 Adrian Clayborne. You don't think it gets worse than that? 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.560 Who's Adrian Clayborne? I mean there's Drop Lan, Yeah, exactly. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.880 I mean he was a first round pick, cut by 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.280 the Inn't that the guy cut by the Bucks? And 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.160 he was cut. He just didn't had multiple seasons with 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.640 zero sacks though, no, no, he's not. I mean, he 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.679 is a journeyman, there's no doubt about. Remember that playoff 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.960 game against the Vikings where they let the guy named 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.679 Ray Edwards get four sacks in the game, and you're like, man, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.120 this is what this was. But Ray Edwards was a 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.120 light years ahead of this guy, right, I don't know. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.200 I don't know. I think Ray Evers is a decent 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.120 pass run runny. This guy's had six sacks in a 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.440 season once. Yeah, so he had, So he's got that now. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.200 But like Jeremy Mincy having a six sack game, that's 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.079 what it is. Which okay, but don't I don't want 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:34.480 to get too off I don't want to get too 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.080 off topic. Really you talk about I mean, you know, 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.120 Emmit Cleary and Dan Skipper are playing games and John 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.319 Wetzel's playing games for NFL teams right now. I mean, okay, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.000 you don't want to start Jazz Green again. You want 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.840 to cut him? Like is there a better option or 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.560 is that just mad knee jerk reaction, because that's what 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.160 it strikes me as. It strikes me as like I'm 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.600 pissed off because that sucked, and I just want to 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.960 do something, even though odds are, it's probably not gonna 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.839 work in favor of the Cowboys, and so you can 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.280 cut him if you want to. I don't think it 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.240 makes a whole ton of sense. Well, I would never 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.400 play him at tackle again. I mean, if he wants 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.200 to play a guard, I think maybe that might be 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.640 a better spot for him, even though he said he 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.920 was more comfortable at tackle. I mean, fact is, once 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.440 you're into this part of the season, the ability to 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.559 be able to go out and find somebody who's going 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.480 to be better than he is right now, it's probably 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.880 pretty small. I a guess, just based upon the fact 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.800 that the people that are on the street at this 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.400 point are not good players, or they wouldn't be on 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.040 the street right. Not to quote my own column, but 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.720 I said this, if you're gonna buy a brand new 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.280 sports car and then you're just gonna drop the insurance 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.880 just because you don't care what happens to it, I 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.640 mean that's what you're doing. This is you have a 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.280 brand new sports car playing quarterback. He is your franchise, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.640 and this is the left side, the blind side that's 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.760 supposed to protect him. He doesn't know where it's coming. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.520 And if you're not gonna you should never put that 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.160 guy out there again because you're you're risking injury to 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.240 him and you know, anybody else that that's it back there. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.440 Do you think that maybe this was a function of 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.160 again as Jerry talked about this, this wide nine concept, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.640 and maybe this is what would caused him a lot 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.120 of problems because maybe he wasn't prepared for that. Maybe 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.560 he hasn't seen that enough in order to be prepared 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.040 for that, and then you go into next week and 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.199 maybe it changes. The problem with that is a wide 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.480 nine sounds really good. You should run the ball all 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.520 day long on that because all he's doing is creating 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.120 this huge lane and they didn't have the back I mean, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.280 that wouldn't they wouldn't be doing a lot of wide 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.480 nine if Zeke was back there or somebody that could 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.439 hit the whole quick and with some power. And that 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.559 that's kind of your either or like this is this 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.800 was a problem or was it? You know, was this 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.199 the problem was the cause of the effect? Not only that, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:44.880 but going back to what I was trying to say, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.720 like it sounds all high tech and x's and knows, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.679 but like why nine is It's not like oh my god, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.079 like it's this crazy thing that nobody ever does, like 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.440 if they were that woefully unprepared for it. That's true. No, no, no, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.559 And here's here's what I'm saying, Like, if you if 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.679 you listen to what Chad said after the game, he 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.880 said that the problem was his technique and when you're 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.120 playing against a guy in a wide nine, you have 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.760 to be able to get back quick and his technique 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.640 was horrible and so he looked like he was in 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.040 quicksand right. So that's my point is it's not that 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.800 this concept is so brand new and just you know, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.679 outside the box. It's that against that, and maybe it's 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.400 because he hasn't practiced against that enough against that his technique, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.080 I mean, the flaws in his technique were really shown 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.280 and that's the problem. So my question is do you 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.880 not think that because there have been games, let's be honest, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.560 there have been games where Chad's green is played and 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.199 we will left the game saying not bad. Yesterday was 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.439 not one of those days, right, So do you think 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.040 that maybe again, it was that his technique was really 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.040 bad and it was shown yesterday because of what he 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.200 was facing, and you give him a chance to adapt 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.280 to that and it's better than what you're gonna try 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.600 to go out and find on the street at this point, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.319 I guess is what I'm saying. I feel like a 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.280 freaking idiot saying this because I watched everything that you 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:01.199 watched yesterday. But I've seen Chad's Green play well in games, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:06.079 real games and preseason games and practices. Again, not great. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.880 I'm not trying to call the guy a pro bowler, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.760 but better than that, I've seen him doing enough times 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.640 to where like I said that, I mean that is, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.600 that's just such a failure on a level that I 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.160 can't even comprehend based on what I know him to be. That. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.400 I mean, I straight up, I don't believe anybody's that 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.680 bad of a player, you know, like Emmet Cleary wouldn't 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.720 have given up that many sacks in that game. It's 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.280 it's baffling to me. But I don't know that. I 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.480 don't know that cutting him is the right answer. I 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.040 certainly there's things you gotta do if he's got to 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.720 play again, whether that's you know, I saw a funny 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.000 suggestion from our friend Jeff Kavanaugh this morning. He's like, 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.240 if Tiring can't play this week, I'm I'm throwing Zach 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.280 Martin on the left side and figure it out. See 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.720 how he does. I was like, you know, that's not 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.400 the dumbest thing you've ever said, got it? Like? Never? Yeah, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.880 to protect your your investment. I mean maybe that's your answer. Well, 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.520 I mean, you know, as Romo used to always say, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.040 but to the right tackle, don't hold because I can 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.360 see him. I could see it coming somehow. He could 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.480 see the left tackle too, but he was like, I 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.720 could see it coming. Maybe. And I'm not saying he's 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.520 he's great, but he's a lot better than Chads Green. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.400 But I mean, why not switch lyle over there? That 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.200 that might be a I mean that's something you would 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.240 think about as well. But I think if you look 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.800 at this week, the week that's coming up, that'll be 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.760 the reason why the guy you gotta play is probably 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.560 the reason why Zack Martin would never be moved from 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.520 where he is. You gotta face, oh, welieve him where 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.200 he is. I think I think I think you'll be 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.720 all right. I think the problem I have more than 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.560 anything is compete. That's what Jason Garrett always says. Boy. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.720 And you could throw out every T shirt this week 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.200 and there was something you know that it was mainly hot, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.120 but there was a lot of T shirts out there. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.400 But compete, it's what he always says. And Chas Green 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.200 didn't compete. I mean, you're getting here butt kicked all 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.800 day long. At some point point, get mad and like 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.840 not the guy on his ass because he's still Adrian Clayborne. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.280 Like it's still and less Lawrence Taylor got in that uniform. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.520 That's still who it was. So when a couple of 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.120 battles and just's that was the issue I had. It 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.360 was just never like when are you gonna get mad 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.480 about this? Because, like you said, they didn't blow them 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.320 out from the start. It was just a slow death. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.120 But as it went it was like they can't do anything. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.720 And truth be told, I mean they really got shut 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.320 out other than a defensive interception, you know, and then 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.600 the short field and a score. They didn't move the 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.360 ball and score one point. Well, let's let's extend this 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.840 conversation a little bit because we've talked about the problem 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.160 they had at left tackle. But if you look at 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.760 the running game, the Russian game had some issues yesterday 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.760 and I don't know if you guys put it on 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.680 the offensive line you put it on the running back, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.960 a combination of both, but you end up with Alfred 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.240 Morris who had eleven carriages for fifty three yards or 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.720 four point eight average. Really, most of that came in 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.000 the second half when they finally got a drive there. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.240 I think it was about midway through the third quarter 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.520 where they actually started picking up some yards. But before that, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.600 especially on first downs, they were getting literally nothing. Um, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.360 what do you think of the running game? And really 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.600 that being kind of the culprit behind the offense again, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.520 as you said, Nick, not being able to move really 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.240 at all. Um, I mean, I'll start, but yeah, the 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:19.120 Alfred Morris uh rod Smith mcfadd I mean, and I 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.480 mean they didn't they couldn't do anything. Like you said, 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.560 that was a little bit surprising because you still got 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.200 the same guys up front. Um, you know, in the 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.200 in the interior, you would you would like to think 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.720 you could kind of push the pole, especially when they're 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.040 playing such a wide front there on defense, there should 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.360 have been some some running lanes there. Um. You know, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.080 obviously there's a huge drop from the left tackle to 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.880 the backup. There's a big drop between the running back 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.760 and we see that all the time. You know that Morris, 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.520 and I thought he would do a little bit better 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.840 than that. I certainly thought rod Smith would do better 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.480 than that. And and you know, we can talk about 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.600 my thoughts on McFadden later when we get everyone kind 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.600 of shares their opinions. But yeah, I was I was 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.600 surprised that they couldn't do more with that. I hear 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.040 what you're saying, and you I mean, You're right. It 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.719 didn't look great, especially what I'm trying to pull up. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.879 You know. Yeah, at halftime, Alfred Morris had six carries 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.040 for eight yards and Rod Smith had one carry for 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.440 zero yards. So I think there's something to be said 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.120 for that. They certainly didn't have the success that they've 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.959 been used to, especially on early downs. But I'm reluctant 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.280 to even judge the running game honestly because of the tackle. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.160 Yeah well, I mean they were so behind the chain. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.399 Your offense was completely one dimension because of your inability 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.080 to protect the pass. And yeah, okay, yeah, I get it. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.760 They weren't. The running backs were not successful. Dak had 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.880 thirty five yards at half and forty two for the game. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.960 They ran for one hundred yards as a team. It's 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:44.679 probably not the way they wanted to do it. A 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.399 lot of that was scrambles. They still picked up the 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.160 rushing yards they needed to move the chains and score 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.800 given that their only touchdown was a rushing one by Dak, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.960 so in a weird I feel like the running game 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.879 could have been there if the pass game had any 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.199 semblance of anything. And it's from the very word go. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.920 Even on the short possession that led to the touchdown, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.440 Dak had no time whatsoever. I think he was sacked 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.080 on second down on their first possession that really maybe 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.080 their longest drive of the day. He was sacked on 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.359 second down and then hit by Clayborne forcing an incompletion 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.879 on third down, and they punted. Did they not to 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.600 in that first possession of the game. Yea, yeah, yeah, 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.640 first possession, yes, and again so even even before things 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.479 got out of control, I just never felt like the 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.560 passing game was where they needed it to be in 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.800 the sense that Dak had time to find his receivers 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.800 hit the open man. He and Jason Garrett both said 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:42.680 he needed to get the ball out quicker. I don't 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.359 really buy that because he had Adrian Clayborne on his 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:49.480 back every third time he got the ball, so like 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.560 I said, I'm I'm reluctant to judge the rest of 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.840 the offense because the pass protection was that bad that 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.399 I just I think the Falcons just teed off on 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.720