WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Why They Lost 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:18.759 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.480 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.800 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:32.200 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:38.479 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.479 It is Monday, October seventh, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.480 number fifty eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.279 We're locking STUBC Morgage Studios at the Star and we 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.559 gotta talk to you guys about this Cowboys loss. Cowboys 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.760 loses Green Bay Packers thirty four twenty four in a 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.000 game that I'm not even sure the score really reflects 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.160 all the things that happened in this game, because there 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.720 were a lot of different parts to the game that 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.880 are worth discussing. And I think that's where I want 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.319 to start today. I think I want to go around 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.720 the table, and I don't want everybody to tell me 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.600 coming out of that game, what was the biggest storyline 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.360 that stood out to you? Because I think there were, again, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.479 were a lot of storylines in this game. Let's start 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.759 first with you, Nick, all right, story of the game, well, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.039 I get to write a column about it, so because 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.800 I could just cheat off of that. But I think 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.160 for the second straight game they've lost in the opening drive. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.360 The opening drive lost the game for them, and that's 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.440 that's where it stood. I mean, all these things that happened. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.840 If Cooper catches that ball, they're probably gonna go score. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.200 Maybe on that play changes the whole game. Same with 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.000 missing Randall cop in the back of the end zone. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.680 You think it's a long game and it's gonna play out, 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.480 and yes they could have, but as it turns out, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.320 I think that that was affected the game. I you're 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.280 going to me, sure, absolutely. I agree with Nick to 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.280 a point. It really like as as much as a 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.760 game that happened, or a play that happened four plays 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.040 into it can affect the game. I mean, it's hard 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.160 to move past just how big that was. Like it's 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.160 probably a touchdown at the very least, Like the Cowboys 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.040 are getting some points and then all of a sudden, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.960 Green Bay's basically in Cowboy territory. Just a ridiculous swing. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.760 But at the same time, I mean, we're I just 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.960 can't I can't sugarcoat or overlook Aaron Jones running the 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.840 ball nineteen times for one hundred yards and catching seven 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.800 passes for seventy five yards, like he did to them 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.760 what we were worried Alvin Kamara might do. And I 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.359 know Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Teddy Bridgewater 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.760 and that's going to affect the way you play. But 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:45.040 for them to very successfully limit Alvin Kamara's impact in 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.519 the game a week before on the road and then 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.520 for like all of that progress to go out the 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:58.760 window was really really surprising, baffling. Like the linebackers looked lost, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.959 the defensive line looked like it couldn't get any push 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.280 for the second week in a row against an offensive line, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.959 frighteningly bad defense for like the first two and a 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.200 half quarters of the game. Amber you know, and I 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.960 know these teams, the Saints and the Packers have good 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.440 players and they are able to do things. But at 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.360 the same time, I feel like a lot of these 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.760 errors are made by the Cowboys themselves, like they are 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.720 kind of playing against themselves, making their own mistakes on 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.560 their own and me saying what I'm about to say, 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.680 it's kind of crazy, especially after watching that game. But 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.920 I am not as upset as I thought I would be, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.600 Like I truly feel one that the Cowboys are going 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.560 to be able to turn things around and make it work. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.480 I am more upset at the fact that they played 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.280 such a crappy game and now we have to talk 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.840 about it all throughout the week and figure out, Okay, well, 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.760 Kellen Moore, what the heck are you doing? Okay? Why 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.960 is a sequel? Eliot not running the well more? Which 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.160 one of the things I did expect him to have 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.240 a bigger presence in the game, And it's kind of 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.320 surprising that we were five weeks into the season and 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.320 I still feel like sometimes I forget about Zeke, Like 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.800 I feel like I don't notice him on the field. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.000 And it's crazy to me when you speak about a 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.080 team that has relied the amount of times that they 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.760 did last year and now they're trying to rely on 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.600 the passing game more so, that's kind of mind blowing 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.240 to me. But and the fact that we didn't really 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.360 see Pollard he kind of disappeared as well. They didn't 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.000 really use him as much. And this was a game 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.160 that I thought the running game was going to be 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.920 able to get going but it didn't, so I don't know, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.839 it's just a weird I feel just so weird about 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.320 this team right now. It's like they're trying to figure 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.960 themselves out and they just haven't clicked just yet. But 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.960 I know they will, all right. That was actually there's 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.840 a lot of stuff there, and you guys hit all 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.000 of it. That's why I wanted to take it that route, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.400 because there was so much in this game that you 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.640 could take from it. And I think when we all 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.080 look back on this five, six, seven, eight weeks from now, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.640 we probably all will have different reads on what we 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.560 learned from this particular game, because I think there were 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.120 a lot of things to learn. So let's unpack a 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.599 little bit of this. Let's start first with Dak Prescott. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.159 He goes twenty seven to forty four, sixty one percent 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.680 completion rate, four hundred and sixty three yards, two touchdowns, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.200 three interceptions, and then eighty three point eight quarterback rating. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.760 How do you guys in your minds reconcile that performance 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.200 for Dak Because you look at the four hundred and 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.520 sixty three yards and you're like, oh my god, that's huge, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.279 that's great, But then you also look at the three interceptions, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.159 two of which you probably put at least one you 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.800 definitely put on him, probably two. You say he probably 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.039 made some bad decisions. How do you reconcile this? I 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.120 don't have to. He said he played a bad game, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.839 like he threw three interceptions. He says like, I don't 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.240 care about the yards, I don't care about the touchdowns. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.760 That's not gonna get it done. And I completely agree 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.120 with him. I'm like, cool beings. Really, you mean they 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.440 did a great job of fighting back into it. That 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.960 can't happen. And I think anybody who follows my work 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.919 or what I say knows what a big fan I 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.320 am of Dak But I thought he played a bad game. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.280 The interception to Sullivan over the middle was I mean terrible. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.320 It was a terrible decision. He didn't see him at all. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.279 I can't get over the pick he threw in the 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.719 end zone to Cob that got waved off like there 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.359 was absolutely nothing there, Just an unconscionable decision by a 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:32.000 Pro Bowl quarterback. And you know the dropped picked to 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.320 Cooper that we already talked about, that is a drop 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.920 that is on Amari Cooper. At the same time, it 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.039 was not a great ball, but considering that he was 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.760 wide wide, wide open um, he didn't play a good game. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.800 He had good stats, he didn't play a good game. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:51.880 That's fine, I mean, I agree with all that, all right. Sorry, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.840 it was like he was playing without thinking, Like he 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.640 was just out there running around throwing the ball, making 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.440 this without really fully thinking it out. Like I don't know, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.599 he was kind of relying more in luck maybe rather 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.640 I don't even know the right word too. I think 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.280 he pressed once he realized that the defense was going 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.760 to I mean, the defense was getting their ass kicked. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.080 I think he really pressed and said I'm going to 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.440 have to do this, and you know, it helped a 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.800 little bit, but he was uncharacteristic, but it didn't. It 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.000 wasn't too long in the game did you realize that 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.240 they're not going to beat Aaron Rodgers. They're not the 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.640 only thing that slowed down Aaron Rodgers was the time. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.160 You know that once they you know, they started happening. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.640 Because if you really look at it, this was week 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.760 two against the Redskins. I just told this to Rob. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.160 This is the exact same game as the Redskins game. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.480 And no one thinks that the Redskin game was really close. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.400 They kind of had him, they controlled him. They came 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.600 back and scored late one by ten, but really that 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.840 they won. Same with the Packers, they're probably saying the 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.040 same thing. We kicked their ass. Yeah, they came back, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.760 but we won by ten. We won, you know, And 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.880 that's really the same type of thing. Yeah, that's a 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.400 I hadn't thought about that, but you're right, like the 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.360 Redskins probably thought about that game like, oh, we got 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.000 back into it, we bought. Anybody that watched that on 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.200 the Cowboys side is like, no, that's not what happened, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.440 and that Yeah, And honestly, you know this, we worked 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.480 for the Dallas Cowboys. We prefer when they win. That's 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.040 all obvious. But they didn't deserve to win this game. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.280 And honestly, like, in terms of like being fair, it's 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.400 probably for the best that Dack through the pick to 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.040 King and Maher missed the field goal, because like, they 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.160 don't deserve for this to have been a thirty four 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.440 to thirty one, Like, oh my god, they were so close. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.160 That's also why those two moments are also the reason 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.960 why I don't give them a ton of credit for 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.120 fighting their way back in first of all, I don't 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.200 give credit for just fighting you way again, because guess 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.240 what that's like saying I take care of my kids, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.800 Like that's your responsibility. You don't get credit for doing 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.720 what you're supposed to do. The point, though, is they didn't. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.679 Those two moments that in that time when they were 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.280 trying to fight their way back into the game told 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.880 me that you still can't get out of your own way. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.560 And so it still was a microcosm of what they've 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.440 done the rest of the game. Yeah, they had success, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.520 they moved ball, but they weren't able to get out 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.600 of their own way. Even in the quote unquote comeback 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:10.120 stage of the game, they were still making unforgivable mistakes. Yeah, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.960 it was a rough day, all right, So let's move on. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.160 Let's talk about Zeke. You mentioned Zeke, and it's it's 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.840 ironic that you mentioned him in that way because I 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.760 was having a conversation with my wife last night and 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.760 she kind of had a similar take, like where's Zeke, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.560 Like he got all this money. I was just expecting 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.520 the Zeke that's gonna be like blowing up every week, 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.640 and that's not what we've seen, particularly the last two weeks. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.160 Although when you look at the game yesterday, they actually 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.320 were running the wall pretty well and really well actually 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.720 earlier in the game. He ends up with twelve carries 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.680 for sixty two yards five point two yards per carry, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.520 and a touchdown. That all being said, I'm sorry you said. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.199 You even said in the press box that when we 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.400 look back at this game, let's not look at this 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.760 end of the first half. Member. Yes, I know, like 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.840 we gotta take these two plays out because he like himself, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.840 he's like tomorrow we're gonna be talking about him, and like, 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.840 remember at the end of the and how many plays 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.360 was it was three plays? I want to say three 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.680 runs yet there and it was probably like maybe twenty 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.600 five thirty yards, which is probably half of his production. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.680 He got twenty one yards on the final possession of 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.360 the first time. Okay, so those are three carries, right too, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.040 I'm looking at two on the flight on the very 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.840 last that's right, it was too, So two carries for 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.679 twenty one yards. Right. You look at that though, and 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.280 I guess looking at it overall, looking at it overall, 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.920 do you think the Cowboys are getting from Zeke what 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.600 they need to get from him, or do you think 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.920 that there are other factors. Obviously, the game got away 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.559 from them. They had to get away from the running game. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.079 Last week. The offensive line just wasn't performing very well, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.800 and I put a lot of that on them. How 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.079 much is it those other factors and how much is 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.760 it d put on deput on Zeke even before the score, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.560 like before the score got lopsided. Game starts, Zeke for two, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.560 Zeke for twelve, Zeke for twelve, Zeke for six, called 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:03.920 back by a penalty, Zeke for seventeen, hauled back by holding. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.160 I mean, I understand, I understand how much money they 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.280 gave the guy, and I guess you know you'd like 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.280 to see a little bit more. They even they got 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.440 him involved in the passing game. He caught a great 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.120 ball on that wheel route, which you know why on 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.920 why you know why Aaron Jones is going seven for 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.880 seventy five and Zeke can't do anything other than catch 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.160 very basic looking screen passes. I don't know. I don't 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.760 get why that's a thing. He I mean, and he 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.960 showed you in this game that he can hurt defenses 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.120 twenty yards down field, but they're not interested in doing 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.880 that for whatever reason. Um, But I don't know, how 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.200 how much can you expect the running back to get 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.760 you back into a game that you're trailing by seventeen 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.040 in the second quarter. I don't put that on him. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.280 I thought he was running well when the game allowed 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.000 for the running game to be part of it. Yeah, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.880 I don't really, I don't think. I wasn't talking about like, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.120 I'm not taking a shot at you. But but just 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.440 to make sure it's not his performance as a player 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.439 is more as how the Cowboys are utilizing him. Do 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.360 you think they're underutilizing Yes, it kind of looks to 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.440 me like it's kind of of a second thought rather 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.760 than him being the core of this offense. Now they're 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.040 trying to rely more on the passing game Michael Gallup, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.679 but Mary Cooper and when you look at what he 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.720 was able to do last year, regardless of the offensive line, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.520 how they're performing, Zeke is a type of player that 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.320 can still make plays without the help of other people, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.800 like he can do things on his own. And yesterday, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.640 well last night, when I started watching the highlights and back, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.839 I'm like, okay, well there was doing these things, you know, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:45.040 but it wasn't something that stands out as you would 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:50.920 have expected. Especially with him coming in with a new contract. Yeah. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.120 The other thing I'll note real quick was Tony Pollard. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.200 I actually was I'm kind of agreeing with you that 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.280 they should have used him a little bit more because 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.559 there was one series where they brought him in and 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.400 they just kept feeding him the ball. He had four 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.360 carries from nineteen yards a four point eight average, and 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.360 it made me think, Okay, sometimes you kind of What 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.319 it made me think is that overall the Cowboys should 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.480 be able to run the ball pretty effectively. They were 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.200 already doing it early, as you just mentioned, Dave, earlier 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.640 in the game with Zeke, when Paula came in, he 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.240 was getting a nice flow going there. It just seemed 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.640 to me like they had success running the ball with 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.200 either one of them. They just couldn't do it anymore 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.360 because the game gout. You know, I'm looking at the stats. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.000 I don't agree with the notion that they didn't get 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.760 Zeke involved. I'm just I'm looking at him and looking 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.160 at the play by plays and like, where would it 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.800 have been any different? I mean, a big, big play 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.200 in the game was in the second drive. I mean 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.719 they get down to the thirty seven yard line, they 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.000 scrambled three yards a second and seven, and Zeke gets 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.000 stopped for no game and then Dak takes a sack. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.240 They don't get a field goal. You go back to 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.079 all these possessions and they're running, and they're running well, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.200 seventeen yard run and then it gets called back and 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.800 now they're behind the chains and they throw an interception 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.800 and then you know, Pollard comes in. But then on 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.360 the next drive, same Dak. You know, I mean, Zeke, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.880 he's running and he's doing well, and then they get 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.080 another penalty and they lose ten yards and then they 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.920 ended up having to settle for fieldball. I mean, I 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.600 think they were trying, like you keep saying, they just 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.320 didn't get out of their own way. Yeah, I don't 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.400 want to criticize Kellamore too much. I mean, they have 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.880 five hundred and fifty yards of offense, like he called 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.240 a pretty good game, Like, yeah, I'm not trying to 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.680 quibble about that, but I still like the Cowboys are 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.640 just so rigid and I don't want to say vanilla, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.600 but for lack of a better word, like just looking 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.800 at Green Bay, like you know, Jeronimo Allison, he's carrying 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.840 the ball out of the backfield Aaron Jones. His best 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.240 catch of the game was essentially a slant, like they 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.680 moved him out wide and put Jalen Smith on him 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.400 and it was like a mismatch all day. He caught 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:48.680 it over the middle. Remember I think it was in 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.720 the third quarter. You got Marcedes Lewis catching screen passes 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.880 and the Cowboys. It just feels like it's like this 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.320 is our running back. He runs the ball and you 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.520 don't agree with because when you think about it, and 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.360 you got you got Zeke wheeling out, you got Tavon 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.640 Austin pop passing and that was great. You got an 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.120 option on the goal line for two yards didn't work. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.600 But it was different. It was different. I mean I 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.520 think we I think there were some different wrinkles and 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.800 there some work, some didn't. I don't know if they have. Yeah, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.080 I feel like, did he do anything. No, I know 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.280 he missed a block that was important, but oh man, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.480 I think it was a run play where he ended 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.440 up missing a block and got to end up with 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:30.840 a tackling back and I have to go back and 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.840 look at it. But I remember thinking because you had 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.240 said during the game, so somebody who was asking something 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.480 about jar when you say it, Kenny even block and 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.600 and that's what kind of rang to me, like maybe 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.520 that was on the show. There was a show like 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.040 are they you know, is witting like impeding his progress? 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.280 I was like, well, was he a complete player that 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.800 they're tied end aren't helping him right now? I mean 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.720 that's just simple. Obviously Witten's not you know what he 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.400 was obviously, and I mean he's still doing some things, 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.480 but they don't have that guy that they want. They're 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.320 trying to get it done with three people and they 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.520 really don't have it. I get you're right. I mean, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.960 like I said, they had six hundred yards of offense. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.600 I'm quibbling here. But at the same time, even you know, Tavon, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.480 he had the nice little pop pass run, but that's 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.840 that's Tavon's role. They're like, this is our gadget guy. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.520 We're gonna do our gadget stuff with him, Whereas sometimes 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.720 I feel like other offenses are more fluid in the 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.960 sense that everybody can do a little bit of everything. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.080 And yeah, it was it was refreshing to see Zeke 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.520 catch that wheel route, But at the same time, I'm like, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.400 he can do these things, and yet it feels rare 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.840 when he does them. Well, first and twenty five. I mean, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.840 that's what you call right, first and twenty five, you 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.920 gotta have a twenty six yard pass. Absolutely. The thing 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.880 about Tavon and having guys that the gadget players, the 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.880 problem is is that no one will believe that it's 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.520 going to happen if you don't put them out on 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.200 regular plays. And when he put them out on a 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.400 regular place to get called for holding and wiping out 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.120 a seventeen yard run for really no reason. Yeah, to 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.000 do that because he didn't have the experience to go 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.800 out there, and I mean he just kind of held. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.600 It didn't have to, you know, that's what happened. You 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.320 can't just put him in the game when you want 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.320 to do some fake stuff. 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They moved to 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.240 three and two on the season after a three and 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.200 oh start. Look at some big picture stuff tomorrow and 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.399 what that really means across the NFL and throughout the 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.480 NFC East. But let's get back into the game. I 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.600 want to talk about this defense, Dave. You mentioned it earlier. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.840 Aaron Jones allowed to rush for nineteen nineteen carries for 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.280 one hundred and seven yards, a five point six average, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.720