WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Big Questions Through 4 Games 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.520 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.880 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.240 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:27.360 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.560 Derek Eagleton. It's Tuesday, October third, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:36.400 episode number forty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.239 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. We've got a 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.319 lot to talk about on Tuesday. We'll take a big 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.600 picture look. It's a quarter of the way through the season, 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.640 and so I'm going to ask these guys a couple 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.760 of questions on a couple actually, a lot of questions 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.200 about their bigger picture thoughts on this team after four 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.760 games and what that, if anything, what that means going 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.360 down there entering the second quarter of the season with 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.040 the Cowboys. So how's everybody doing this morning? Man? I'm good, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.920 You're good. Yep good, Dave good, I am well, Derek awesome. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.560 And Amber will not be with us. At the beginning 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:11.760 of the show. She made jo on us at some 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.440 point the show, but she has some other things going 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.960 on this morning, so hopefully at some point she joins us. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.800 If not, she'll be back tomorrow. All right, So let's 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.399 jump right in, and before we get into the questions 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.440 that I was telling you I wanted to ask, I 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.360 want to first start and talk about David Irving. It 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.400 looks like, I mean, we know he will be returning 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.000 to the team, I presume today today. That being said, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.520 what do you guys think as far as who's going 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.600 to have to go? Because somebody's got to go in 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.360 order for him to make room I mean in order 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.160 for them to make room for him to come in. Well, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.600 first of all, before we get into that, I'll let 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.759 Dave talk about who's gonna go. But it was kind 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.960 of funny. Thanks, Well, I don't have to think about 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.960 have to fire something, think about it. You got about 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.720 three minutes. Let you do that. I thought it was 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.880 interesting though, because we were talking to Garrett yesterday after 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.000 the after his press conference, and you know, he's just 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.080 the question was about Irving about you know, what, when 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.240 do you have to bring a guy back? And or 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.160 when when Canny come back? And who has to be cut? 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.560 And do you have a roster exemption, and he didn't 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.840 even seem interested in all those rules. Kind of like 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:18.119 Dave doesn't seem interested in this story there and it's tired, tired. Tuesday, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.240 he was like, Yeah, I don't know all about all that. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.040 He's gonna practice and he's gonna play. It's like, well, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.520 you don't necessarily have to put him on the you know, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.240 on the back of the active roster. You can keep 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.920 him till he's just he's please playing, you know. He 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.880 was like, Okay, that sounds good. But and all it 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.280 definitely sounds like that David Irving's practicing this week, I'm 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.080 gonna play. Don't know what kind of shape he's in, 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.240 what he looks like, I'm gonna say. Garrett said that 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.160 yesterday if and unlike Demontrey Moore, they have not seen 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.000 David Irving and they have not been allowed to be 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.160 in contact with him since the season started. So it's 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.400 possible he could show up here and just not be 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.480 ready to play in a game, and maybe they use 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.880 that roster exemption, which they do have. But I also 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.400 got the impression from talking to Jason Garrett that I 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.040 expect him to be on them. You know that I'm 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.720 going to Sunday. Okay, you're right, they haven't seen him. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.600 But if there's a team that knows how to get 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.280 guys like ready to come back, like hey, do this, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.800 this and this and come back. I mean, this isn't 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.200 the first time we've had a guy suspended and it 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.959 needs to come back and be ready for a week, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.560 four week, four, week five whatever. I mean, it's happened 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.720 too many times with Hardy, DeMarcus, Lawrence was, I mean, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.520 Scandrick was in the same boat. I know I'm missing someone, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.440 Randy Gregory. Yeah, but he's still suspended. Yeah, that guy. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.840 Um So, I just think it would surprise me if 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.360 he's not ready to play. I mean, I think that 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.720 they know what's coming, they know how to get him ready, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.280 and they probably told him this is what you need 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.400 to do and this is where you need to go. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.320 You know. I'm sure they have guys out there that 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.120 can help. Yeah. The thing about it, though, is I 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.520 don't know that any of those guys you just mentioned 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.160 came back and really like we're really really like one 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.520 like lit it up. You know. One of them was 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.640 of him, was hard he was, Well, that's true. He 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.320 had two sacks in his first game. Yeah, that's true here, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.280 you know, but I mean, I guess my point is 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.040 like I don't know, Like, yes, you can go and 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.560 work out and all that, but if you're not playing football, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.400 I just don't know that you're ready to play great 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.839 football as soon as you come back from not play, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.120 I need you to be better than Taco. You do that, well, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.080 Taco's probably not going to be active now. Okay, so 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.160 now get to my other question, who's not going to 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.520 be on this team? Logic Taco definitely, that's definitely not 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.559 the right answer. Coach. Logic points toward Bene bin Wickery. Yeah, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.720 because you know, we've talked about it before that Cowboys 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.280 only have to give up their draft pick if he's 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.360 on the forty six for X amount of weeks. It's 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.599 either three or four. He's only been on the forty 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.640 six for two, so as it stands right now, they 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.559 get that pick back if he's not on the team. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.640 It's also a reasonable guest that should have been a 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.039 Woozier and Nolan Carroll are able to play this week. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.400 You've got Jordan Lewis is seemingly he completely recovered from 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.160 his injury, so secondary looks about as good as it 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.960 has since the season started. Would you possibly want to 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.239 consider even if he's ready to come back, maybe, would 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.960 you possibly want to consider still keeping Cheeto out because 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.760 essentially get really like three weeks, because he wouldn't play 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.080 a game again until you got this week. You've got 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.800 next week for the blind, and you've got another week 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.599 where you play. Not only that, but also somebody probably 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.400 needs to be inactive, just even one of those healthy 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:32.760 you know what I mean that they've been going the 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.719 last few weeks with four cornerbacks, so now you're probably 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.040 now you've got five. Let's just say that they do 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.479 release been Wickery and if Nolan, if Nolan can come 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.360 back from his concussion this week, then you could still 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.000 sit Cheeto and cut Ben Wickery and you'd still be 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.000 okay the four corners. Maybe you do want five corners 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.000 for this game? You know, maybe you might? Yeah, I mean, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.279 and it's gonna be interesting. I mean, I I woke 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.280 up this morning thinking about the inactives, like what if 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.120 Hitchens and Lee are ready to go? Like are you 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.440 in the shower or just just kind of laying there? 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.000 Probably should have got up a little bit before that. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.719 Before thinking about all the least linebackers. Is it like cool? 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.000 Like good, bad, sad that that's what we do, because 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.640 like I do the same stuff, Like that's what I 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.840 start thinking, go to bit thinking about it, wake up 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.720 thinking about it. I wake up like, now, if if 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.360 Hitchens can do this on Wednesday, what does that mean? 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.600 And then I stopped and I'm like, you can wait, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.560 Like you can wait till you get to work, at 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.520 least brush my teeth first, right, Yeah, I had a 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.200 dream last night that I left this job and accepted 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.880 a job covering the MAVs. And when I woke I 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.520 woke up, I woke up in a cold sweat, like, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.880 oh my god, I made whatever mistake? Why why would 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.280 I want to cover the MAVs? Basketball is terrible and 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.560 the MAVs are awful? Why would I want to do that? No? 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.520 I was just like, I gotta call Derek right now 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.320 and beg for my job back. And then I realized 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.520 I had been dreaming. I was just taken more from 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.760 the standpoint the number of games you gotta cover. Everything 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:07.800 that is a ton different than everything about covering basketball 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:12.760 sounds terrible, interviews, zero fund, all of it all right, too? 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.320 Let's jump in. Let's talk a little bit about these 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.640 questions that I have for you guys. There's a I 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.720 got a whole list of questions and they'll be on 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.760 all different topics around this team. So some of them 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.600 true false, some of them are just I'll give you 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.240 answers and we'll just see how it goes, all right, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.680 First question, based on expectations, who's been the biggest Which 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.920 unit has been the biggest disappointment through four games? The 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.679 offensive line or the wide receivers. I'll say the wide 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.440 receivers because I somebody pointed this out to me on 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.320 Twitter yesterday. I had the foresight to be worried about 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.680 the offensive line and training camps. So no, you weren't backup, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.440 back up, backup back. He was back up. You were 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.080 worried about the offensive line as of the Denver game. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.000 That's when you were worried about the offensive Remember that, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:58.960 I'm not gonna sit here and say I thought they 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.000 were gonna suck, but they still don't suck. You can 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.760 go back and find the tape where I was like, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.960 you know, I think it's not smart to assume that 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.760 they're just gonna pick off and pick up and it's 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.120 gonna be business as usual like last year regards. Yeah, 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.600 you can go find it. It's there. The wide receivers, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.520 I really thought. And they haven't been bad. No, nobody's 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.360 been like atrocious. Like it's not like their own fills 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.440 are off this thing yet. Yeah. But you know, you 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.760 talk about getting all of your receivers back, you know, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.040 all five of your guys are back from last year. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.240 I just thought there'd be more continuity. I thought there'd 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.559 be fewer drop passes and fewer bad throws, and you 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.960 just it wouldn't. I keep using the term herky jerky, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.520 and that's what it looks like. Yeah, that's a good 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.800 word for it. It really is. Um, So I'll go 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.959 I'll go with them, all right, Nick. Yeah, I mean 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.960 I think the offensive line is actually the No. I 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.559 think the wide receivers are the reason why the offensive 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.720 line is in question right now. Really yeah. I think 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.000 when you when you really break it down, I think 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.160 when teams are looking at this team and defenses look 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:05.760 at it, how to stop him, and they say, you 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.720 know what, like, let's just keep putting that eighth guy 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.240 down there. Let's just make these guys we're not gonna 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.160 get run over by them. We're not worried about these receivers. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.959 We're not worried about them, none of them. We are 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.320 really worried about um that's gonna beat us deep, and 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.400 we're gonna just take our chances. And I think it's 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.560 a product of the fact that the wide receivers. Now 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.079 which one is surprising us the most, maybe offensive line 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.160 because we didn't expect a ton from the receivers anyways. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.640 But I think it all stems from the passing game, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.760 whether it's Dak and the receivers. I just think teams 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.000 are saying, I'm gonna take my chances. You know. It's 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.559 kind of like it's kind of like in baseball when 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.760 you got a guy on third and and and he's 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.400 tagging up, and you're like, Okay, I'm gonna take my 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.880 chances that he's gonna make this clean through, you know, catch, throw, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.800 the guy's gonna get it tagged. All these things have 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.719 to happen. My guy just has run from here to here. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.080 I think they think of like that with the defense, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.640 just say all right, I'm gonna take my chances that 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.839 Dak's not gonna get the ball to him, and our 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.920 guy's not gonna get beat, and you know, I just 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.560 think that's what's happening. How's that different from last year? Well, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.720 I just think I think teams are figuring it out 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.520 because I think the difference is is that it's from 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.559 two years ago, you know, when when you or whenever, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.520 when you had Tony there. I think Tony is would 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.520 get the ball to them a little bit more down 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.640 the field in different routes better than than Dak does. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.679 I'm not trying to sit here and say this is 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.480 Dak versus Tony, because Tony's gone, But I'm just saying 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.560 that I think that teams are figuring out that from 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.920 the passing game, if he's gonna sit in the pocket, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.120 we'll take our chances with them getting beat like that. Well, 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.440 I think, and you know, I always I don't I 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.360 always I don't want to oversimplify these things because they're 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.920 definitely not simple. But you go back, and you know 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.800 the great thing about as the season goes along, like 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.679 the gifts start to come out. You know you can 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.760 find it on Twitter. People break these plays down and 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.400 you can get game pass and go watch the All 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.199 twenty two yourself. I think defenses, and you know it's 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.640 honestly a little surprising to me. It just doesn't sound logical. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:12.600 But they're doubling Cole Beasley and in situation, yeah, they're 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.319 doubling the easy throws and that's where Dak feasted last year. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.160 They're taking they're like, we think, if you have to 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.599 make more difficult throws, this will be again do it, 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.840 you won't be able to do it successfully, at least 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.600 not on a consistent basis. To this point, that's proven 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.400 to be pretty true. Do you think part of the 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.400 reason that that is is because that means you're going 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.280 to be throwing the ball more to Dez Bryant, And 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.839 as we know, a lot of times he's running these 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.160 fifty fifty routes and just by the nature of them, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.520 they are not He's not a guy that separates a lot. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.880 So just by the nature of that kind of route, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.280 that kind of passed a kind of throw, you're only 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.400 going to complete half of them at best, Like you're 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.959 not going to regularly complete that pass, So you're you're 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.400 your completion percentage is automatically going to go down when 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.720 you're throwing that ball versus passes to Cole or passes 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.920 to Jason and it's not just it's not just Dez. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.920 I mean Terrence too. But if you're throwing the ball 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.319 ten to twenty yards downfield as opposed to four to six, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.599 I mean, that's just that's just statistics. It's gonna be 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.760 harder to complete and I just like I said, it's 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.360 it's not that easy. But I think that is part 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.400 of what you're seeing play out. Can you fix that 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.200 with different kinds of routes for Dez? I know during 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.760 training camp, one route that I saw them run will 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.040 a lot of seeming like a lot of success was 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.800 that dig route and I haven't really seen a lot 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.040 of that in the first four games. But using routes 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.400 that that are not that maybe a little bit of 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.960 an easier throw for Dak and at the same time, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:40.320 maybe a higher higher completion percentage type route and throw 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.000 for Dak and Dez. You think there's a way to 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.440 do that that maybe improves their ability to throw when 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.240 they're taking away some of those easier throws. Well, yeah, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.319 I mean I'm sure that they're gonna they're gonna tweak 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.320 all of that stuff. Yes, that there's ways to get 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.360 the ball to DEAs that aren't as that are with 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.640 a higher percentage, and I think that that's one of them. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.439 But I also think you can sit here and make 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.600 the case. Now go back and make call the offensive line. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.920 It's the problem because you know, if the Cowboys were 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.200 running the ball better on first and second down, especially 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.000 on first down, then it sets up more third and three, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.320 third and fourth, third and five, where Beasley and Witton 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.160 can kind of get more involved, where those passes make 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.320 more sense. When it's third nine, third and ten, you 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.920 don't expect those guys to really get the first downs 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.240 as much. So it all goes hand in hand. You know, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.320 the running game's not great, but it might be a 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.320 product of them not worried about the passing game. Passing 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.240 game hadn't been great because the running game is not 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.920 kind of backing them off. So play better. You guys 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.880 have been talking about first downs a lot. I actually 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.640 did some research last night and I went back to 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.720 look at what the Cowboys did on first downs running 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.920 the ball last year versus this year. Last year, on 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.160 first downs when they ran the ball, they average five 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.760 point nine three yards per attempt five point nine three. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.960 It's almost six yards per tempt this year year four 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.880 point one, almost two yard difference between last year and 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.360 this year. When they're running the ball and first downs, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.720 it is a huge difference. End. By the way, don't 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.280 forget this in the game against the Rams that that 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.840 percentage went up significantly because they ended the game with 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.839 a six point three average. But that was also because 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.360 that seventy yard run came on first down. I know, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.280 I don't like to take runs out, but if just 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.120 to look at kind of what they did the rest 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.880 of the game, if you take the seventy yard or out, 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.840 their average, actually it was two point three yards per 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.000 attempt on first down when they ran the ball, So 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.800 all things being considered, they that's your biggest problem is 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.080 on first down. They're running the ball on first down 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.360 quite a bit, and when they do, they're not getting 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.760 a lot of yards and that's setting up bad situations 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.200 for them down the road and they're not being able 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.920 to sustain drives like they did last year. Another issue 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.400 I think is the tight ends is either they're not 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.200 getting the ball to them as much, because when you're 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.240 gonna play that kind of personnel twelve thirteen personnel, those 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.200 guys are on the field a lie, you know, showing 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.520 that they could run the ball. Hey, two tight ends, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.800 three tight ends. Obviously they're gonna run, but they've got 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.160 to be able to utilize that that type of package 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.800 on defense and say all right, now we're gonna play. Actually, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.480 we're gonna spread out. We saw Hannah get open. We 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.520 need to see Witton and Swam Swam. I don't think 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.440 it's caught a ball all year, has he? No? So 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.520 I mean the utilize that part and say all right, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.080 you're gonna jumbo and match this. We'll watch this. I'm 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.200 gonna put Swam out and put Hannah out, and we're 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.120 gonna throw the ball a little bit more. So we 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.320 need to see more wrinkles from the passing game too. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.440 They did do that on one play last week. They 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.560 had thirteen personnel out there and they passed out of it, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.080 which I was kind of surprised because you're right, they 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.040 hadn't done that much this season. But they are gonna 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.040 have to start doing those kinds of things. And also 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.440 I think and Dak. We saw the touchdown and against Arizona, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.440 but Dak has to keep that ball more on that 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.680 read option or whatever that they're calling it. They need 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.880 he needs to keep that ball more because you don't 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:52.600 want to see him get hurt or you know, and 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.560 take a lot of shots. He needs to learn how 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.400 to slide a little bit better than what we saw 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.760 last week. But still I think that will spread things out. 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:01.680 There's a lot of different things that I think the 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.920 Cowboys can do. That's from someone that's never called any plays, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.720 So I would like, you know, I think other than 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.280 I'm Madden, of course, right, not really, you know, I don't. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.320 I don't. I don't play Madden. Used to. I've played 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.000 it a little bit, used to play Tech. I was horrible. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.680 I say, good Genesis Mad. 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