WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Questioning the NFC Beast? 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.600 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:15.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.800 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.920 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.800 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.479 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us a 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:39.000 bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, November fifteenth, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.360 twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number seventy one. Welcome 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.239 to the latest edition of The Break. We're life from 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.599 this WBC Mortage Studios. At the start, we're presented by 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.200 millerlike the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Nick's out today, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.519 but I got the rest of the crew with me. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.960 Brian brought us Amber Garcia, and today is a big 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.240 picture day. We'll take a look around some different topics 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.240 around the Cowboys, give you guys some perspective. Brian's got 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.640 a game for us that we have for you guys. Yeah, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.480 we will get to here and maybe the second maniment 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.279 before we do that, though, I wanted to start today's 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.400 show talking a little bit about what happened last night 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.759 in the National Football League. I'll say this for myself, 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.199 watching Philadelphia lose made me feel just a tad bit 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.840 better about what happened the night before, because I kind 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.960 of assumed in my mind the NFC East was lost. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.480 What's gone? All right? Yeah, well once Green once you 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.959 lost the Green Bay, I'm like, okay, this must be done. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.720 And then last night you see a little crack in 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.040 the armor. And now Phillies too, still just two games 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.160 ahead of you. You still have a game against them, 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.800 and what you start seeing is CNFC East is gonna 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.000 be tough, not just for the Cowboys but for every team, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.520 including Philadelphia. My question for you guys is did anything 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.320 change in your minds regarding those two teams that played 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.120 last night or just the NFC East in general after 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.680 you watch last night's game. Well, that was one of 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.200 my questions that I had for you guys. Today, we 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.120 got it. Yeah, we can answer this one. And because 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.760 one of the questions I had for you guys was 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.480 should the Cowboys be worried about teams figuring it out 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.520 for the playoff race? And I had Tampa Bay, Green Bay, Washington, 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:19.239 San Francisco. You know, should the Cowboys be worried about they? 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.160 And we start to talk about the big picture of 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.200 things that all of a sudden, you know, maybe there's 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.359 some things you're dealing with and other teams are kind 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.639 of like you know, Tampa Bay wins at Germany. UH. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.200 San Francisco finds a way to win a game without 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.560 Jimmy Garoppolo throwing a touchdown pass Green Bay. Is that 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.919 a mirage what they did in their game? You know, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.520 I know last night the Commanders. I know one thing 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.840 about the Commanders. They won't let you run the ball. Nope, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.680 they will not let you run the football. They are 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.919 and one of the one of the worst rushing days 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.880 you had as a Cowboy team this year was against 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.560 the Commanders. And that's with Pollard and Zeke playing in 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.600 that football game. So that kind of shows you if 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.160 you know, they figure things out with quarterback wise there, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.840 I think that you know that, you know, Carson Wentz 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.040 is due back. He don't know why you would play 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.959 Carson Wentz. If you're the Commanders, you know, just keep 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.120 keep going with you know you're winning. You're five and 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.880 five with this guy. Just keep going. The Giants they 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.360 look better coached, they're committed team, They win close games. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.160 You know, the Eagles last night showed me a little 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.200 bit of like that certain personnel that they don't have, 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.240 whether that's Jordan Davis, guys like that. Oh, maybe you 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.920 can run the ball on them, you know, maybe you 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.040 can find a way. The Texans ran the ball on 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.280 them very very well. Yeah. So I think that everybody 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.600 in this division kind of has their wartz. I think 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.040 they all have their like hmm, if we could overcome 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.520 this will be okay. But can we or is this 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.120 the fatal flaw that's going to knock us out of 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:04.560 the division race or the playoffs. Yeah, and you know, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.400 the Eagles have been playing really good, but they had 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:10.600 it come and I didn't think it was going to 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.440 happen last night against the Commanders, but it did. So 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.520 that was good. But you know, we talked about when 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.120 we were about to face the Eagles. Brian brought up 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.000 the whole point of how they perform in the second half. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.280 And I think that has been a trend that they 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.760 kept up with. It's just they just don't perform as 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.040 well in the second half for whatever the reason. And 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.680 the thing is, we're getting to that point where, yes, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.360 teams are starting to figure out other teams and that 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.760 goes back to us the Cowboys, And that's my biggest 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.360 concern is now on defense, what the Cowboys are doing 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.400 against the run, what they're not doing. Let's just say 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.800 what they're not being able to do against the run, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.280 and just having that as a demonstration that other teams 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.920 came use to look back at yesterday, Well, no, yesterday 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.280 Sunday's game, look back at Sunday's game. See what the 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.760 Green Bay Packers were doing, and I'll take that and 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.720 kind of apply that when they face the Cowboys and 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.880 that that's gonna be a problem. That doesn't you know. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.000 Listening to then Quinn talked to the media yesterday. His 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.920 response usually I love everything that comes out of his mouth, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.159 but his response, they didn't necessarily give me a lot of, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.240 you know, hope or excitement or like thought that this 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.520 could be fixed rather soon or like quickly. It was 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.720 just like, yeah, we know we got the right kind 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.960 of guys. They can do it, but they just haven't 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.720 done it just yet. So I don't have much help 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.000 in that, and I am concerning that whole aspect of 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.760 what the run defense is. But back to your point, Derek, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.080 I think we definitely are at a point where okay, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.640 now football is gonna get real good. Now it's gonna 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:55.279 be a really competitive season. And the Giants, Ryan, you 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.000 mentioned them, and it's crazy because it's not just catching 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.080 up to the Eagles and beating them. It's all so 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.680 the Giants And now I mean you got the Commanders. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.479 I don't think they'll rise to the top competitive as well. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.720 The hope you have that you can figure it out 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.200 is really what happened with the Commanders last night and 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.520 what happened to him several weeks ago when they played 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.679 the Eagles before, they gave up nine sacks. The first 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.760 time they played last night, they gave up three. They 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.320 figured out that, like, oh okay, now this is how 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.000 we pass protect. Maybe it is the quarterback. Maybe it's 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.599 the running game having Robinson back. Maybe it is Terry 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.880 mclara and those guys Dots and on the outside over there. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.960 You know, maybe maybe all those things. But that gives 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.160 you hope if you're the if you're a team that's 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.560 looking like we couldn't pass protect the first time we 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.760 played these guys, and to really only give up three sacks, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.920 I think that's you know, that's pretty That shows you 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.680 that they kind of figured a little something out there 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.960 about playing the playing the Eagles. Yeah, I'll throw this out. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.599 I heard last week Jimmy Johnson was giving an interview 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.120 and he's had something really interesting that I think, for 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.480 me was validated last night. What he said was, if 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.640 you notice how Philadelphia goes to your point, Brian, how 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.040 Philadelphia kind of plays well in the first half and 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.800 then it seems like they run into this brick wall. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.960 He said that offense is so unique in what it does. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.200 It has been what his thought is, it's been taking 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.480 teams that first half to kind of figure out after 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.280 watching it, after playing against it, to kind of figure out, Okay, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.840 here's what they're doing, here's what we need to stop. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.440 And once that happens and the second half, teams have 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.560 played a lot better against him, he said, He'll be 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.880 The interesting part is what happens when teams get a 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.160 chance to play him a second time. Yeah, that's what 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.120 we saw last night, phil I mean, Washington got a 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.080 chance to play them for a second time and they 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.840 didn't look near as lethal as they looked the first time. 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.320 That's the part where he was like, I don't know 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.600 if I'm buying into this Philadelphia team because they have 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.160 a gimmicky type of offense. And when team when you 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:56.920 have a gimmicky type of offense, it can work for 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.000 you for a while. At some point teams catch up 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.360 and that's what we'll have to watch over these next 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.640 several weeks. And as you say at Amber, maybe the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.160 same thing can be said about the Cowboys defense as well, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.880 like it kind of is all predicated on their ability 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.600 to get to the quarterback. Well, if you take that 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.600 part out of the game, does that now kill you 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.400 because you can't stop the run? Now is when football 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.760 gets really really interesting, as you mentioned. So here's the 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.880 question for you guys. If you have to look at 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.480 every team in the NFC East and basically rate them 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.960 from worst matchup for the Cowboys to easiest matchup for 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.559 the Cowboys, how would you rate them? That's a great question. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.480 I think Philadelphia is the most difficult because of all 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.240 the weapons they do have. I think tactically defensively, the 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.480 Commanders give you a lot of problems because they can 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.520 cover and they can create turnovers, so that would be 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.679 a problem. And then I think the Giants would be 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:55.080 third because they've somehow figured out how to win Layton 0:08:55.160 --> 0:09:00.320 games if it's close, so I would go Philly Commanders 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.120 Giants is what I would is how I would rank them. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.520 But I think they all they all have something that 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.760 very unique because of like say, personnel with the Eagles, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.880 the defense with the Commanders, and then that ability to 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.240 finish off games with the Giants. I would like to 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.520 give you something different, but I absolutely agree with that. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:27.120 And I think although the Cowboys, I do believe that 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.319 they can be Philadelphia next time we face them on 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.480 what is it, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.840 I think they can definitely beat them, but they will 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.840 they can give you the most issue just because of 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.319 what we talked about in the past, the combination between 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.760 the running game and their quarterback and their quarterback being 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.280 a mobile guy that can get out of the pocket 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.720 and run, and that clearly is the part of the 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:57.040 game where this defense struggles the most and when you 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.199 don't have and we'll see how the offense it's performing 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.320 from this point on forward if they do this side 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.599 too out a wide receiver or whatever happens at the 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:11.840 receiver position. But right now, you have to make sure 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.040 in all of those games you're offense is being able 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.760 to score points and not get back into that like 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.320 hitting that wall where you're just not really moving the 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.520 chains and now you're taking a step back rather than forward. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.800 Which I thought was going to be the turning point. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.520 Was that Bears game to me against Chicago, what they 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.360 did there, I started thinking, Okay, here we go. We 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.680 got the perfect the perfect combination here, the perfect recipe. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.640 But then what you saw in Green Bay, even though 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.640 they scored points and kept it competitive, It's just there 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.080 are a lot of unanswered questions that they're gonna have 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.280 to figure out soon. I concerned to you, guys at 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.439 this point about Washington because if you look at the 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.680 schedule coming up the next two games, the Cowboys have 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.440 teams that have better records than they do. You can 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:56.839 say what you want about the Giants, you have the 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.959 Cowboys beat them right now. They have a better record 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.400 than they do. Obviously, got play the Minnesota Vikings this week. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.360 That being said, how concerned are you that Washington's not 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:06.920 far off you? There are a game and a half 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.679 behind you at this point. I'm much concerned. I'm very 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.560 concerned because I think they're good defensively. I think that 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.800 they and they've They've got Chase Young back and I 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.240 think that helps them in a lot of ways. And 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.520 their secondary I think they find ways to cover. They 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.240 have a lot of confidence in this quarterback. You know 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.120 that that makes a huge difference when you start to 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.199 talk about when you look at the Commanders, you could 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.400 always say that with Carson Wentz, he was going to 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.240 make mistakes, he was going to drop the ball in 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.680 the pocket, he was going to fumble. There is a 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.880 belief that that Taylor Heineke can get it done. He's 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.120 one I mean, he's he's finished games. I mean, he 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.920 is the one guy that when it's when it's been tough, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.120 he's come up with plays. They don't score a hell 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.760 of a lot of points, but they find a way 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.640 and that that concerns me because, like I said, the 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.760 one team you looked really bad running the football against 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.000 was the Commander You know, that front it could be very, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.920 very difficult to block. And we'll see, we'll see what 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.960 the Cowboys offensive line situation is at that point. You know, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.600 will will there be I don't know if it will 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.439 necessarily be the same line that we're talking about today 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.200 for the Cowboys that we'll play in that game. At 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:23.600 the end of the year. Yeah, I'm not extremely concerned, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.120 but I'm keeping my eyes on them for sure, because 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.880 this is definitely you're at the part of the season 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.840 where I think this is a turning point for everyone 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.080 in the NFL. You either start picking up some steam 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.920 or you start losing your shine, And this is where 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.280 things kind of started taking a turn. So the fact 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.280 that they beat the happened last year with the Cowboys offensively, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.400 everything that went is going good and went south. It 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.439 happens every year till a lot of teams, teams are right. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.200 There's there are some teams right now that are not 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.880 that good that people think are not that good, that 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.280 are going to get on a run. I think Tampa. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.360 So I think Tampa's one of those teams too. Yeah, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.960 So we'll see what happens in the next few weeks. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.000 But I mean, just the fact that they finally someone 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:13.120 beat the Eagles. I mean, you gotta look at a 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.640 team like the Commanders and what they're currently doing and 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.319 see if they start trying of changing the narrative here. Yea, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.880 all right, we're gonna take our first break when we 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.439 come back. We're gonna get into a little game Brian 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:24.640 asked for so we'll do that when come right back. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.680 Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. Todd thought it would be 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.360 secure to jog in the cheetah Savannah. 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First question for you today? 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.920 Which helps the Cowboys right now fix the run defense? 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:23.800 Or at Odell Beckham Odell. I mean, yes, there are 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:30.040 concerning issues on the defense right now, but I still 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:39.600 have you make that fase there. I'm sorry, I hate 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.040 to see it, but I do think there's more talent 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.520 on defense overall. I think that with Dan Quinn, and 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.400 yes this is an area he doesn't seem to find 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:53.400 the answer just yet, but you got the bodies somewhat. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.680 I don't know. I just I think I'd rather score 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.640 more points on offense. And I think you can clearly 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.080 see some of the struggles at the wide receiver position, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.199 and adding a guy like him, we would have to 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.159 see where he's at physically. But if he's back in 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:16.400 shape and all that, that dynamic player, I think definitely 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:21.280 just gives a whole new life to the offense. I 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.120 don't disagree from the standpoint. It does change the dynamics 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.159 of the offense. However, I am a big believer. And 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.440 if you cannot stop the run, you'll take this defense 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.960 that we think is a very good defense and you'll 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.240 turn them into a very pedestrian defense because they'll never 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.160 get to use their superpower. The superpower is go get 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.080 the quarterback. Yeah, teams are basically saying you can't go 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.200 get the quarterback because we're just gonna keep running the ball. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.560 And I don't care. Here's the deal, they don't even 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.440 care how much of a lead you get. Yeah, they're 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.520 gonna keep running the ball. When you get to that 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.200 kind of scenario, that means every team in the league 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.560 knows it's a problem. And by the way, when you 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.639 get to the playoffs, like right Now Cowboys can make 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.960 it work against the Lions. They can make it work again, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.040 it's the Bears. They can still beat those teams even 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.880 though they give up a ton of yards on the ground. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.080 And I know Nick was saying, it's not killing them. Yeah, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.280 it's not killing them against those teams. But when you 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.840 play a team that has a tactical surgeon at quarterback 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.720 and you'd tell him, hey, I'm gonna have you throw 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.919 half the number of times, but on those I need 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.639 you to hit a dime right the other day, they 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.440 can do it. And they can do it like, oh, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.399 we're gonna run the ball all day and then I 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.280 got ten plays I gotta actually just like make that 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.439 perfect pass. And by the way, in those ten plays, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.560 most likely the defense is not ready for it because 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.320 you've been running it. So they're all just frazzle trying 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.639 to figure out how we're gonna stop this around, how 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.440 we're gonna stop this running infore you know it, Bam, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.920 receiver passed you. That's why you get those receivers open. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:43.479 I just think this is a big and I've been 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.320 saying it since week three. Yeah, like Cowboys need to 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.760 learn how to stop the run. And it keeps getting 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.400 worse and worse and worse because teams are realizing how 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.680 bad they are at it, and teams are gonna keep 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.600 challenging them. And I think that's there. I think that 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.919 is the biggest problem that's facing this team right now, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.840 no question about it. What's interesting, though, because I was 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.840 more on that whole thought of like, well, it's not 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.840 necessarily killing them just yet, so I'll take that all day. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.719 But even in games like if you go back to 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.920 Green Bay and you look at what they did, guess 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.119 they were running the ball throughout the game, but they 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.560 stayed in there like they kept them kind of put 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.000 until the fourth quarter came. How differently would have been 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.760 had the Cowboys scored when they needed to see I 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.880 would I would have said, she's absolutely right about having 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.920 Odell Beckham on fourth and three, because you'd have found 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:36.520 a way to get him the ball, or you find 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.520 a way to convert along the way. I hear what 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.760 you're saying, because the most demoralizing thing you could do 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.479 to a team is run the football and they can 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.760 do nothing about it. That's the most demoralizing thing that 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.520 cold weather games turned to really cold standing on the 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.480 sidelines when the other team's just running the ball on 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.040 you and you can't do anything about it. But but but 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.200 here's here's where I look at it. I actually think 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.080 the San Francisco forty nine its will end up winning 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.600 their division, and I think there's a a chance at 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.280 Dallas wherever they end up, just because of the fate 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.639 of the football gods, they will have to go to 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.840 San Francisco and play San Francisco. You play that team 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.359 and you can't stop the run, your chances of winning 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.080 that game go down significantly because they're gonna play good defense. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.239 And by the way, the way to beat them is 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.560 make their quarterback have to beat you. If you never 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:20.840 can get to a point in the game where you 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.400 force their quarterback to have to win the game, good 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.400 luck trying to beat that team. And that's my point. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.680 You get to these playoff games and either you're gonna 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.719 be playing a team that if you can't stop them 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:31.800 from running, you can't force him in that kind of situation, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.320 or they have a quarterback that if you put them 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.680 in that situation for a few times a game, they're 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.440 gonna make those critical throws and win that ball game. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.439 I just, I just I know Odell Beckham will do 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.760 a lot for this offense. I know he will change 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:46.960 the dynamics of this offense then, and that's all assuming 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.480