WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Back & Forth 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:17.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.280 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.599 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:31.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:37.239 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.720 It is Monday, December second, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.120 number ninety two. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.199 We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.040 the Star and we've got so much to talk about today. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:50.960 We are not only going to start getting you guys 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.720 ready for the upcoming game Cowboys versus Bears this Thursday, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.120 but because we haven't been on the air since Thanksgiving, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.720 we still gotta go back and see. Yes we do. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.640 It's just like the game film. You gotta go back 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.560 and talk about it and talk about what happened on 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.160 Thanksgiving Day. Cowboys loose to the Buffalo Bills twenty six 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.840 to fifteen, and something that happened yesterday. The Philadelphia Eagles 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.040 also get a lost, so Cowboys maintain a one game 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.640 lead in the division. No one's really battling to keep 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.880 that to get that spot in the playoffs and win 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.560 this division. But that may actually end up working towards 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.240 the Cowboys advantage. I told Channon Gross this morning that 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.240 the NFC East is like that mangy dog that's running 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.360 around the street. Nobody wants it. Like it's like, oh, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.200 it would be nice to have a dog, but not 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.240 that one. It's like, nobody wants the NFC East, Like, no, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.560 you take it here. We lost to the Bills, Go 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.640 ahead and beat the Dolphins. No, I'm not gonna beat 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.319 the Dolphins. We're good. Yeah, nobody wants this just division. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.480 It's the worst division in football. This division exists every 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.520 year like there's ally. But I didn't think it would 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.520 be the East this year. I didn't either. I thought 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.120 at least the Cowboys and the Eagles would have a 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.200 nice battle and they'd be in. I think we all 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:03.720 got a nice battle. Yeah, nice depends on there's a battle. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.360 I don't know if it's a nice bat which I get. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:06.920 I mean, I thought it would be a two team race. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.480 I didn't think Washington or New York was really equipped 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.240 to compete. But you know, I think out of it yet, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.520 not mathematically no, which the funny that tells you everything. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.520 They're two and nine and they're not mathematically out of it. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.400 That's not great, Bob, note great at all. We'll talk 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.280 about that a little bit later, but I want to 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.399 start first by talking about this game, Cowboys versus Bills. Man, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.760 it was a tough day. But when you go back 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.600 and you look at the statistics afterwards, I'm having a 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.840 hard time feeling out putting my putting my finger on 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.359 exactly what the problem was. So it's like the rest 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.720 of the season. Yeah, right, yeah, it was absolutely well. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.320 Let's let's look at this. DAK was thirty two forty nine, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.839 sixty five percent completion radio three and fifty five passing yards, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.720 two touchdowns, an interception, Zeke Att nineteen total touches, one 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.040 hundred and thirty seven yards, five point nine average on 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.040 the ground amar at eight for eighty five. Like it 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.120 looked like Phistically. Offensively, the ball was moving, Cowboys were 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.520 picking up yards. What do you guys think was the 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.360 problem offensively with this team? They suck the red zone 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:13.079 and their offensive line doesn't push anybody around. They don't 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.040 even try anymore. First and goal from the nine and 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.000 fourth straight passes. Dak is really good in between the twenties, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.040 but I don't think he's really that great this year. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.720 In the red zone. That's one of the things that 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.480 he's struggled at. They don't throw the ball well in there, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.720 and they don't even attempt to run, which takes away 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.520 any play action opportunities they get down there. They're not 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.040 very good, and I think the fans and the media 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.520 basically forced Jason Garrett last week to not kick the 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.600 field goal and go for it on fourth and nine 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.040 just because of what happened the week before and all that. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.960 I really think the smart play was to kick the 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.400 field goal. Either way, it doesn't matter. But I just 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.640 think right now they're just trying to find answers and 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.160 they don't have them. I still can't figure out why 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.800 they haven't been able to find the solution for the 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.080 red zone. That it's something that they were struggling with 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.560 last year, and then for this year, we were thinking, oh, well, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.760 Jason Witten, he's going to be able to help in 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.080 the red zone. Having Travis Frederick back, that's gonna be 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.560 a big thing for the Cowboys with the line and 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.200 what he does there at center and none of that 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.159 has really changed anything. I mean, they're still unable to 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.520 get inside the red zone. Past that, getting to the 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.560 end zone and getting points and then I'm sure we'll 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.160 talk about brand Moher. But now, I mean, when you 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.800 don't got a kicker making those field goals, then you're 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.479 really screwed up. How about pressing well as a number, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.520 I mean, one of many issues. But I thought they 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.520 were pressing and it killed them in this game. Try 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.680 to set up the screen to Tony Pollard, it's not 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.320 there at all. Any quarterback that's you know, a college 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.680 quarterback knows to throw that at the guy's feed. Dak 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.720 tried to turn it into a play anyway, he's picked 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.160 off by a d tackle. That kind of starts the snowball. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.200 That turns into an avalanche of bad stuff happening. Same 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.760 thing on the strip sack, which you know you can 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.080 criticize Xavier Suaphilo. You know he comes in and it 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.719 was his first or second snapond snap, second snap after 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.479 he comes in for Connor Williams beat on the first 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.239 snap as well. Though they had a rough day against that. Oliver. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.320 Maybe you pointed that out in the press box, you know, 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.640 maybe I didn't give him enough credit for being a 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.559 top ten pick. He is not a starter for that team, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.359 but he certainly looked like a top ten pick. He abused. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.440 He abused the interior or that line point being you 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.160 can criticize the offensive line if you want to, and 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.320 they deserve it. But the reason that strip sack happened 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.839 is Dak was fixated on the long ball. To Michael Gallup, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.520 I mean he was hanging in there waiting for it 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.159 to come open. It felt like an eternity. So again, 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.599 two plays that probably don't happen if you're not trying 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.159 to press for the big play, and those two plays. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.040 You know, you can never single out one or two plays. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.320 But like I said, that's kind of starts the snowball 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.200 effect where you know, one minute you're like, man, they 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.320 kind of slowed down, and then five minutes later, like, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.800 holy crap, they're not in this game anymore. Like what happened? 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.000 And I think, you know, that's just two big flash 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.360 points that I think we're a big part of it. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.640 Does have any faith that any of the problems you 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:10.680 just pointed out are fixable this season, well, I mean, yeah, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.760 they're fixable, because this team, I mean, somebody's got to 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.560 go eat and eight, right, you know, somebody has to 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.719 do it in all of the NFL. So there's great teams, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.760 there's really bad teams, and then there's teams right there 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.200 in the middle. And this is what Dallas is. And 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.560 they haven't beat anybody with a winning record. They don't 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.360 have to. They don't have to beat anyone with a 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.719 winning record. Really, they could beat the Bears, they could 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.880 even lose to the Rams. But they beat the Eagles 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.479 and the Redskins. I mean, they're gonna be in the playoffs. Actually, 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.599 they can lose both those teams, they both of the 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.200 next two games, as long as they beat the Eagles 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.120 and the Redskins, which, by the way, what had they've 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.440 done all you Yeah, you've beating the NFC. If they 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.200 just keep being who they are, Yeah, we'll get in 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.760 the playoffs. Cowboys, it's not it's not. But yeah, that 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.880 tells you how bad the NFC East is. Cowboys fans 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.839 took issue with me yesterday because I said they have 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.880 a commanding lead in the division. They're like, it's one 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.360 game with a month to play. That's not commanding. If 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.440 all you have to do is beat a middling Eagles 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.919 team and a bad Redskins team to make the playoffs. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.720 It sounds pretty commanding to me. Like I said all 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.520 last week, the Bills game didn't matter. These two games 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.520 mathematically don't matter anymore because of what the Eagles did yesterday. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.239 Obviously you would prefer to get on a role. Getting 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:15.880 into the playoffs at eight and eight isn't gonna make 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.800 anybody happy, and it's not going to give you confidence 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.840 that they can make a run. But from a mathematical standpoint, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.280 all they have to do is win those two division 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.840 games and they can make the playoffs. It's amazing. And 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.600 if the Eagles somehow lose to the Giants next week 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.560 and the Cowboys beat the Bears, I mean, it is 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.880 really all but over because you know, then you can 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.040 just lose to the Eagles, it doesn't matter because you've 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.600 got assuming you beat the Redskins. At the last game, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.600 the Redskins beat the you know, Carolina, I just beat them, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.640 beat the Brakes off of the bout eight. But if 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.760 you watched the game like they were they were beating though, 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.520 like that was not a I don't think that was 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.680 a game where the score really reflected how well the 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:58.040 Redskins thirty seconds ago. They were trying to tie the game, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.640 but they took a thirty yard sack. It's like I said, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.160 every year this happens, Like the Vikings and the Panthers 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.960 and the Bears and the Rams and the Seahawks are 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.360 all like fuming that some mediocre NFC East team is 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.640 gonna post a playoff game, whereas you know what three 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.240 years ago, what you know, the thirteen and three year, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.400 you know, the Giants went what twelve and four and 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.960 had to go on the road in the playoffs. I 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.680 mean happens every year, yeah, you know. And every year 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.679 we talked about the schedule and we're like, man, there's 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.400 gonna be a few teams that aren't as good as 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.320 you think they are, So don't don't sit here and go, 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.000 oh my god, we gotta play the Bears. Maybe the 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.800 Bears aren't gonna be good, Maybe the Rams aren't gonna 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.959 be good. Maybe the Cowboys aren't gonna be good. It 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.960 turned out to be the Cowboys in the Eagles. Is 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.600 the two teams that aren't as good as you thought 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.720 they would be. Well, the Bears, like, yeah, they're probably 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.160 about four teams. The Rams probably be in the same boat. Like, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.720 they're not as good as even I thought they were 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.520 gonna be after coming off a year when they went 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.760 to the Super The forty nine ers, you know, are 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.600 really good, and the Packers are better than they were 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.760 last year. So I mean it always had Vikings as well. Yeah, Vikings, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.160 All right, talk talk to me a little bit about 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.920 Brett Maher and where you brought him up. He missed 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.040 two field goals in that game, one of them being tipped, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.360 which just adds to the issues that they're having as 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.040 a special teams unit. That was the thirty five yard 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.640 but you also missed a forty seven yard or Cowboys 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.280 had a workout yesterday brought in three kickers. Tell me 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.679 about right now, what do you think as far as 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.679 the Cowboys are looking at their crick of position? Do 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.200 you think that a change is imminent? And if not, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.240 what do you think would have to happen for them 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.439 to actually make a change. I think I think it's 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.960 right there. You know, this is you just miss against 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.480 the Bears, and you have any kind of struggles against 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.599 the Bears. You know, if they like what they saw yesterday, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.160 I'm not sure if they did, but if they like 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.720 that they are we have a contingency plan that we like. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.000 If he struggles again, boom. I mean issue had never 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.320 gotten to this point. Do you think they should make 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.720 a changed a long time ago? I mean, when I 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.800 go back and I understand that that's just the position. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.320 It's easier. You can easily just bring someone in plucking 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.920 man blah blah. But when you go back to training 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.600 camp and just not bringing someone in when you know 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.839 this ruggles that he had the year before, it's just like, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.600 why does he need to get to this point of 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.400 the season for you to bring in three guys to 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.640 try them out and see how they do it? Just 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.040 it doesn't make any sense to me. And when you 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.560 have cut them, when would you have cut him? Like, 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:23.000 but at least bringing someone to just check them out 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.920 and add some competition to maher like, let them know, yes, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.040 you have his back, but be on your toes. Like. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.000 I don't think he's dumb or blind either, for when 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.800 he makes those kinds of mistake, But it's very different 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.880 when you have somebody next to you kicking the ball 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.400 as to not having anybody and you're the only one kicking. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.160 You know, I don't know about that not a kicker. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.440 I don't agree with that because I think most kickers 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.400 will tell you that they're competing with guys on the 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.960 street all the time because you can just swat you. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.880 I would argue, though, if the Cowboys were going to 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.000 do this, I think they waited too long, honestly, Oh, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.160 because most guys are I mean there will. There was 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.760 a small pool of guys who have done it before 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.640 that has been available on and off throughout the season. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.640 Kai four Bat Young Hoku is another one. He's kicking 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.120 pretty playing well for Atlanta. He's twelve and fourteen on 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.240 the year. Um, those guys are gone, Nick Rose, your 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.160 guy Longhorn only one of the three that they worked 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.760 out with NFL experience. He went eleven of fourteen two 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.880 years ago. The other two, um Tristan viz Kayano and 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:31.520 um oh, Austin McGinnis both haven't. I think McGinnis kicked 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.839 it in the the AAF, you know, in the spring, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.760 but he's never kicked in a regular season NFL game. Yeah, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.080 and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, nothing, So viz viz 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.800 Kayano is however, you know, sorry if I mispronounced it. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.679 He he went twelve of twenty in his final season 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.280 at Washington, So that's college And I'm just like, is 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.959 that definitively better than what you got? So I agree. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.080 I mean, if they were going to do this, they 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.480 should have done it when they had a more viable option. Um, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.080 I'd see that blocked though, and the yeah, I know 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.760 he got blocked before the half, but that thing went 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.280 really far, so like like it might have gotten blocked, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.599 but I don't know. I don't know if it was 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.880 headed through the up breaks. Anyways, you know, it's been 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.960 four days, like you kind of have a chance to 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.280 get over the knee jerk, and you know, I'm not 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.559 as worked up about this as I was on Friday. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.040 But let's talk about the decision making process on that 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.760 drive in the first place. You get the ball back 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.040 with like a minute and a half, no urgency whatsoever. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.800 You just very deliberately let all the time bleed off 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.240 the clock, which I get you don't want to give 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.480 the Bills the ball back, but they had three timeouts 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.480 and really didn't put themselves in position to do better 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.839 than a fuel goal attempt with a kicker that they 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.120 don't really trust. And they even especially at that set 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.599 up the fuel goal purposefully with a throw to the 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.960 right hash, which is where we know he's not good. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.040 It's almost like they're stubborn with the with you know, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.320 with him, They're like, no, we're not good. I mean 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.000 he called time out, wouldn't get And I kind of 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.080 disagree with you there because if you just look at 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.280 where the Bills were doing, they were not going to 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.040 give anything other than a field goal. I mean they 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.600 were playing almost prevent in the end zone, no shots 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.720 to the end zone. They're just gonna give you three points. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.920 But call time out and there's run Witten for ten yards. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.280 He could have done that on any hash. I now 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.200 that goes to another problem. If your kicker has to 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.480 be on a certain hash, you got a problem and 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.000 you do, and I agree with you. I would probably 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.439 make this move. I really would. I'd find somebody I 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.679 don't know who, maybe anybody that's kicked in the NFL before. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.000 Maybe I would do that because the guy has absolutely 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.280 no confidence, which I think I would have just go 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.280 full Kevin Kelly, which is the Arkansas high school coach 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.480 who never kicks at like that's his claim to fame. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.160 Like he doesn't punt, he doesn't kick I would just 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.000 operate as if I can't make a fuel goal unless 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.920 it's from sixty or plus yards. Hey, guys, that's what 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:48.000 I would do. Is there any role that stubbornness plays 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.320 in this? The fact that Maher is the guy that 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.160 you let Dan Bailey walk, for the fact that maybe 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.040 they can move on from Maha, but they don't want 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.400 to be wrong. Again, I don't agree with that, because 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.600 your head coach has no contract, so he needs to 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.560 win games, and like now, he is stubborn, There's no 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.559 doubt about it. But I don't think to the fault 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.400 of that. I think he wants to cut him. Listen 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.080 to the press garments. I mean he wanted to cut him. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.440 I don't think the Cowboys do, but I think some 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.880 of the coaches. If he doesn't need his shoulders to 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.280 the kick, that's the thing. I even said that in 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.320 the press box. The worst part is that Heath can't 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.400 go out there and kick an extra You know what, what, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.560 just have Heath kick an extra point if you need to. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.800 I mean, if it was five yards or ten yards 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.480 an end, I'd trot Jeff out there. This team can't 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.920 make a two point conversion to save their life. So yeah, 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.040 I mean, you're just talking about their red zone. So 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.000 I don't think I don't think they want to be 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.560 right about Dan, like that's so far, that's so water 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.880 under the bridge. But I think they want to be 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.400 right in the sense that they're like, well, he's got 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.000 this leg, he's made these kicks like blah blah blah 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.360 blah blah, and there's nobody and there's not a lot 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.880 of better options. So I do think stubborness is part 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.160 of it, but not necessarily because of Dan Bailey. But 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.040 if you just look at how he performed last season, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.280 he was toward the bottom of the league in percentage 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.760 of Phil Golds. So I agree with Amber from the 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.000 standpoint I think during training camp, whether you're bringing him 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.320 in for competition or not, I would have legitimately had 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.240 a kicking competition, like I would have legitimately brought in 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.360 somebody who I thought I could kick more reliably from 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.680 all the way from the goal line to forty yards. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.200 I would have brought in that guy, and then I 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.480 would have made a decision, I'll take the guy and 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.920 know what he's gonna do in those kind of situations. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.880 And it's really really iffy when you get beyond fifty, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.880 then take a guy that I know can maybe make 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.200 a sixty two yarder, but it's really really if he 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.240 thirty to forty. I would just rather have the knowledge 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.119 of being able to rely on my kicker in certain situations. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.760 And I don't think the Cowboys have that right now. Like, yes, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.120 all day, every day, Give me the guy that's automatic 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.160 or close to it from closer than forty five, because honestly, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.080 I mean, Maher's leg gets them in trouble in the 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.080 first place, because you're like, well, we know he can 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.520 make it from sixty, and then you're doing stupid stuff 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.480 that sets your opponent up at midfield anyway if he misses, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.600 and I just don't know that, you know, the fact 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.720 that he hand hit those kicks is not as valuable 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.760 as maybe some people want it to be. 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Other 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.399 than the first series, of course, which they got up 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.679 to a fast start, give them credit for that, but 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.480 then everything kind of went south. It really like and 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.359 and I don't know, maybe it's reckless, like because I, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.080 you know, I can't gauge their their hustle. I'm not 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.080 saying they weren't trying, but like, it's so weird that 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.160 the one time, the one time they really came out gangbusters, 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.320 I mean, touchdown on the first drive, defense got off 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.480 the field quick on the first Bills possession, and then 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.080 they just went flat. It's almost like the thirty yard 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.440