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Speaker 2: episode number fifty six. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: We'll wait?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, feel a little bit better educated about
Speaker 3: what happened? Got you. I would just sleep like everybody here,
Speaker 3: but gotta get up, educate myself and yeah, get ready
Speaker 3: for the day.
Speaker 2: So you saw some film and I say, we got
Speaker 2: a lot we'll get into. There are so many things
Speaker 2: about that game. I think that that are worth discussing
Speaker 2: because it was really a tale of multiple quarters, like
Speaker 2: there were just serious, serious, Yeah, you're talking about these
Speaker 2: wild shifts from very very poor football play to very
Speaker 2: very good football play that happened throughout that game. And
Speaker 2: we'll get into all of it. I know what ambers
Speaker 2: feelings are. I could tell by the way she was
Speaker 2: on the plane last night. This ain't gonna be good.
Speaker 2: But remember remember just pace yourself, all right. Take deep breaths, Yeah,
Speaker 2: take deep breaths. Let's start first. Obviously, Cowboys get the
Speaker 2: loss last night, they lose thirty to twenty four on
Speaker 2: the road on Sunday Night football. Let's start with storylines
Speaker 2: of the game. What was the biggest storyline. I'll start
Speaker 2: off with you, Brian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of things that I just the
Speaker 3: really bad third quarter of offense I think set you back.
Speaker 3: The three and outs. Mike addressed it last night postgame,
Speaker 3: talking about just didn't really give your defense any kind
Speaker 3: of a chance. I think the defense is, you know,
Speaker 3: as we all understand, is being held together with gorilla
Speaker 3: tape and baling wire right now, you know, with the
Speaker 3: way they're trying to play. The bad third quarter of offense,
Speaker 3: I think really really affected you in that second half there.
Speaker 3: They didn't have a really great plan for how to
Speaker 3: deal with Kittle. And this is what bothers me the most.
Speaker 3: And we talk about Amber always ask about practicing and
Speaker 3: things like that. You know, you go into a game
Speaker 3: kind of understanding that they're limited, maybe in some of
Speaker 3: the receivers that they have, maybe some of their weapons.
Speaker 3: No Brandon Nyuk, you know, Deebo Samuel has having to
Speaker 3: go to the sidelines every other play basically to kind
Speaker 3: of catch his breath. But it's George Kittle, you know,
Speaker 3: it's Kittle. It's Mason. Mason gets hurt with a shoulder
Speaker 3: Garrindo though, if you watch the Draft Show, and Derek,
Speaker 3: thank you for letting us have the Draft Show every
Speaker 3: year because we talked about we talk about these types
Speaker 3: of players, and so to me, he fit in very
Speaker 3: very well to what they We were all worried about
Speaker 3: their ability to run the football. That was not gonna
Speaker 3: be a problem. But you didn't handle the Kittle situation
Speaker 3: all that well. Donovan Wilson against Kittle is we all
Speaker 3: saw as not a good, uh, not a very good
Speaker 3: matchup at all, you know, especially if you allow Kittle
Speaker 3: to play from where you have you give him space,
Speaker 3: where you give him the ability to run, to operate,
Speaker 3: to move in routes. It's going to be a difficult
Speaker 3: cover for most all safeties in the league, but especially
Speaker 3: Donovan Wilson. What was the adjustment late in the game
Speaker 3: when they started getting some stops all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you saw Jordan Lewis play a rep over there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you saw mcwalman play. You needed to treat him like
Speaker 3: a like a wide receiver. He was the one guy
Speaker 3: in this game. If this, for example, was Bill Belichick
Speaker 3: New England versus Dallas, I am not letting Jason Witten
Speaker 3: beat me in this football game. Everybody else could beat
Speaker 3: me in this football game. I'm not letting that guy
Speaker 3: beat me. And you know that's the thing with you know,
Speaker 3: I look at it going into it and you just say, well,
Speaker 3: that's unfortunate. Could have done better. There, Rock Party running
Speaker 3: the football his legs and Ambar has been asking about
Speaker 3: this for your own quarterback. Where's the quarterback's legs? You
Speaker 3: saw what example last night, and if you watched a
Speaker 3: lot of NFL games yesterday, you saw quarterbacks taking advantage
Speaker 3: of plays that break down in their ability to run
Speaker 3: and rock Party hurt you last night with his ability
Speaker 3: to run, to pull it down to make big plays. Heck,
Speaker 3: one time they've got it screen defensed really well. He
Speaker 3: kind of like I'm throwing that we're up the side up,
Speaker 3: you know, right through the scene we go for about
Speaker 3: you know, sixteen yards or so. So Yeah, defensively, there
Speaker 3: were some things that you know, but like I say
Speaker 3: that that group's getting held together. The offense is just
Speaker 3: wildly inconsistent from from series to series. It's it's it's
Speaker 3: difficult at times to watch and in other times you
Speaker 3: study the tape and you're going, that's what you gotta
Speaker 3: do it. But it's just that's that's kind of what
Speaker 3: your football team is right now.
Speaker 6: Just taking a deep breath, Like my heart starts beating
Speaker 6: so fast every time we go back, if we get
Speaker 6: back from games like these. And Brian is absolutely right
Speaker 6: on everything he said for what no, but on the defense.
Speaker 6: But to Amber, yeah, right, no, you're right with everything
Speaker 6: you said. But right now, my beef is not with
Speaker 6: the defense. My beef here is with the offense. Because
Speaker 6: you got to look at the list of items of
Speaker 6: issues right and prioritize where are your biggest issues coming
Speaker 6: from you should have won that game. You should have
Speaker 6: won this game against the forty nine ers. You were
Speaker 6: very close. The defense gave you what they could give you,
Speaker 6: given all the circumstances, given the things that they're struggle
Speaker 6: with consistently. But they held it there and they gave
Speaker 6: you a chance. But offensively, you screw it up again.
Speaker 6: And what is more, the reason why I get so
Speaker 6: frustrated is because you see those instances that Brian pointed
Speaker 6: out where you know they can do it. You know
Speaker 6: the offense can't put plays together and work positively and
Speaker 6: score and get to the end zone. But they just
Speaker 6: they just screw it up every time. And at key moments,
Speaker 6: like again when the forty nine ers score that field
Speaker 6: goal and then they get the Cowboys get the ball
Speaker 6: back with like three minutes left in the game, you
Speaker 6: had all the chances and then all of a sudden
Speaker 6: it took like I don't know how long it took, honestly,
Speaker 6: but they were in and out, yeah, and they could
Speaker 6: not do anything. And some of the decision making on
Speaker 6: some of those plays I think, in my opinion, and
Speaker 6: I'll say it again, I haven't been a fan of
Speaker 6: McCarthy play calling. Some of the decisions that he made
Speaker 6: in this game. It makes me wonder, I'm like, do
Speaker 6: you and considering like they don't have Brandon Cooks in
Speaker 6: the offense, considering the struggles that the O line is
Speaker 6: having currently, But at the same time, some of those
Speaker 6: plays to Covanta Terpin, it makes me wonder. I'm like,
Speaker 6: do you know your players well enough to where you're
Speaker 6: positioning them the best way? Like those long throws to
Speaker 6: Kavanta Is It's just not a play that you would
Speaker 6: think should be structure for Kvanta Terping like you would
Speaker 6: imagine some other type of players. So it's just a
Speaker 6: lot of question marks there that you're like, man, these
Speaker 6: games keep slipping away from you. And you've had even
Speaker 6: in games like Detroit where they got completely dominated in
Speaker 6: the first half of the game, the defense still kept
Speaker 6: you in there where you had a chance, but again
Speaker 6: the offense hasn't been able to step up. Dak is
Speaker 6: just I've been defending him his whole career, but I'm
Speaker 6: at a point where I don't know what else to say, Like,
Speaker 6: I can't I can't find anything positive right now. And
Speaker 6: we can argue about the offensive line struggles all day long,
Speaker 6: but there are so many players where that's all on Dak,
Speaker 6: that's all on him making the decisions that he's made.
Speaker 6: And again you mentioned him using his feet. What the
Speaker 6: heck is going on? Like what somebody needs somebody, somebody
Speaker 6: needs to ask the question. I don't know if anybody
Speaker 6: in the media has asked that question yet, but it's like,
Speaker 6: why why There were several opportunities even last night where
Speaker 6: he could have run and he doesn't and I don't
Speaker 6: understand why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be going back to when we were
Speaker 3: in training camp and stuff, when he was in a
Speaker 3: walking boot and stuff like that. He might be his
Speaker 3: injury might have compromised the older that he's got. I
Speaker 3: haven't asked about this, but I'm just kind of thinking
Speaker 3: out loud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love to hear his thoughts on that,
Speaker 2: because that's the same thing that popped in my mind.
Speaker 2: And obviously I don't want to make that declaration because
Speaker 2: you don't know, but I want someone to ask him
Speaker 2: that question, like is the is this a situation where
Speaker 2: you have chosen not to run? And if so, why
Speaker 2: are you choosing not to run? Because there seems to
Speaker 2: be as you mentioned Namber. I think it was the
Speaker 2: last series that the Cowboys at. It was maybe second
Speaker 2: or third down and there was an opportunity for a run.
Speaker 2: He probably doesn't pick up the first down, but he
Speaker 2: definitely changes how you play the class two downs, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I think that's the part where I'm like, come on,
Speaker 2: let's let's and think about think about it like this
Speaker 2: with Dak. In my opinion, if you go all the
Speaker 2: way back to college Dak and then to his early party,
Speaker 2: his game has always been predicated on Yeah, you can
Speaker 2: take me for granted if you want to, but if
Speaker 2: I take off running, good luck trying to get me down,
Speaker 2: especially in the open field. And you got one guy
Speaker 2: trying to get me down because I'm a big dude. Right,
Speaker 2: That is now flipped and he's kind of taken away
Speaker 2: or for whatever reason, not using his own superpower, because
Speaker 2: that's the superpower, and that's what makes his game I
Speaker 2: think so much better. If there's an element of the
Speaker 2: possibility of him running. I think it changes everything with
Speaker 2: how defenses have to defend him. That creates opportunities for
Speaker 2: him to open up his passing game. It's sounds kind
Speaker 2: of like when you talk about offense, you say the
Speaker 2: running game will open up the past. I think it's
Speaker 2: the same thing for Dak individually in his game. I
Speaker 2: think his ability to run opens up the pass for him.
Speaker 2: And I'm just interested to know why we aren't seeing
Speaker 2: that anymore. It's like this year it's just nonexistent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just maybe I could say when we started
Speaker 3: to hear about things about walking boots and you know,
Speaker 3: and having to take days, and maybe there's maybe the
Speaker 3: older that he's got, the more difficult it is. Maybe
Speaker 3: the area is not as flexible as it once was.
Speaker 3: Maybe he doesn't have the confidence with the burst that
Speaker 3: he feels like, you know, on the interception that he
Speaker 3: had the first one, and you mentioned the ball that
Speaker 3: went down the to Turpen. He always talks about his footwork.
Speaker 3: Dak always says, my footwork, my footwork on that play. Now,
Speaker 3: there's a couple of different things that you can you
Speaker 3: can think about here. And maybe it's unfortunate for the
Speaker 3: Cowboys in this way that they have. They have Dalvin
Speaker 3: Cook in the game at the running back, and how
Speaker 3: many times have we seen a running back make a
Speaker 3: hero block so the ball gets out? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: and maybe Dalvin because not much time on task. He's
Speaker 3: sitting to the side where the pressure is coming from
Speaker 3: where steel and you know, you're thinking like inside out
Speaker 3: and we've seen we've seen even Deuce Vaughn like like
Speaker 3: a pickup, like all of a sudden, there's some leakage
Speaker 3: coming and now somebody steps up and or doubt all
Speaker 3: one of those guys. And unfortunately you don't get that pickup,
Speaker 3: you know, that hero pickup I would call. But Dak's
Speaker 3: footwork drifts him. You know, it's like he goes back,
Speaker 3: but he's like he's planted and now he's not square
Speaker 3: in the middle of the pocket. He's drifted to the right,
Speaker 3: which is taking him into bosa. He needs help, he
Speaker 3: needs a block. He doesn't get it. But now it's
Speaker 3: an all arm throw and you're thinking, well, damn, it's
Speaker 3: pressure right there. Yeah, there's pressure. But the way that
Speaker 3: his footwork took him, it drifted him, you know that
Speaker 3: that direction. So it's something he always works on. But
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's it's it's it's tough. That part
Speaker 3: of it's tough because you know that to me, the
Speaker 3: throw wasn't open to begin with. The route and here's
Speaker 3: to Ambar's point about maybe some things with Mike and
Speaker 3: some play calling and maybe some play design, maybe stuff
Speaker 3: that the general manager was questioning last to last week
Speaker 3: about some design stuff. You know, you see San Francisco
Speaker 3: with a with a vertical and a drag behind it.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys on that route, they have a smash route
Speaker 3: or an in and out or pivot you know inside
Speaker 3: with Tolbert, and then they go vertical. There's nothing carrying,
Speaker 3: there's nothing holding the safety. I mean, I can't tell
Speaker 3: any times yesterday there was Cowboys hooker and and those
Speaker 3: guys getting held because of a vertical route and something
Speaker 3: coming underneath it.
Speaker 2: They have to respect it.
Speaker 3: They have to respect it. So you know, if Tolbert
Speaker 3: runs vertically, maybe that keeps Brown in the middle of
Speaker 3: the field because he has to carry that route or
Speaker 3: worry about that that little smash route. He's like, they're
Speaker 3: not whoa, where's this? Okay, here there's a vertical route,
Speaker 3: so you.
Speaker 2: Will pivot route, geek out somebody else that he count.
Speaker 3: You're thinking, like, okay, create, you're creating opportunities. And we do.
Speaker 3: We all watch enough NFL and watch enough college games
Speaker 3: to see the combinations that like, ah, that route carried
Speaker 3: like the CD when they got down in the red zone.
Speaker 3: The routes that that Tolbert and in Turpent ran drug
Speaker 3: CD across and what happened They lost They lost track
Speaker 3: on the other side. So you're like, oh, oh, here
Speaker 3: we go. That's that's what you have to do to
Speaker 3: get guys wide open and create separation. But then you're
Speaker 3: gonna throw a vertical route to a five to nine
Speaker 3: guy with safety help in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: With nothing help making that safety out, nothing, nothing else.
Speaker 3: So those are the things that kind of when you're
Speaker 3: watching you go, man, they could do better. They I've
Speaker 3: seen him do better. And then there's other times like
Speaker 3: what the hell was that? Yeah, you know, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden the quarterback's having to make you know.
Speaker 3: And the second interception was that was on the quarterback too.
Speaker 3: I mean, he you know, but I look at it too.
Speaker 3: As the play call, you're you're rolling, you're rolling the
Speaker 3: quarterback to his left, which he's good at doing. Early
Speaker 3: in the game, you kind of saw CD caught a
Speaker 3: drag underneath with him rolling left. He kind of slung
Speaker 3: its side arm in there. But that ball's got to be.
Speaker 3: I mean, CD has separation. That ball has to because
Speaker 3: he's moving. It's got to go. It's the quick and
Speaker 3: the longer he holds that ball, the more that needs
Speaker 3: to be in the bench. If that because that that
Speaker 3: doesn't need to be I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting.
Speaker 3: That's not one of those plays. That's a get the
Speaker 3: ball there. And you know, he the quarterback, admitted it.
Speaker 3: He's got to throw that ball away. But you know,
Speaker 3: but Mike's got to help him. We'll think with the
Speaker 3: play call a little bit there. You know, rolling your
Speaker 3: quarterback to where he has to get himself square to
Speaker 3: throw will take time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're going to take our first break.
Speaker 2: We're going to come back. We're going to dive into
Speaker 2: this a little bit more and talk more about this offense,
Speaker 2: particularly we'll talk some about Dak. We'll also get into
Speaker 2: the running game. We saw a couple of things, a
Speaker 2: couple of new personnel pieces. I don't know how much
Speaker 2: it changed from the standpoint of the results, but we'll
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Speaker 2: It's it's tough, all right. We welcome back into the
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the running game. We find out roughly
Speaker 2: about I don't know an hour and a half to
Speaker 2: two hours before the game that Rico Dawdle is sick,
Speaker 2: and then find out he is inactive. And then we
Speaker 2: also knew that Dalvin Cook was being elevated for this game.
Speaker 2: He had been elevated on Saturday. You look at it,
Speaker 2: and to be honest with you, I don't know that
Speaker 2: I could perceive a real different Zeke runs ten times
Speaker 2: for thirty four yards or three point four average and
Speaker 2: a touchdown. Although I will say, for Zeke's credit, there
Speaker 2: were some runs that I was like, that was a
Speaker 2: really good run. He had like two or three runs
Speaker 2: in that game. I was like, that was a really
Speaker 2: good run.
Speaker 3: Half of his runs were successful runs of four plus
Speaker 3: yards a carry. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was some good moments in there. Dalvin Cook had
Speaker 2: six carries twelve yards a two point oh average. And
Speaker 2: my question for you guys is did you was there
Speaker 2: anything that you saw there that suggests to you Dalvin
Speaker 2: Cook should have been in there sooner or that Dalvin
Speaker 2: Cook needs to be more involved in this offense. From
Speaker 2: the standpoint of the.
Speaker 6: Running game, I wish we would have seen this like
Speaker 6: week three instead of week what are we not nine?
Speaker 9: K now?
Speaker 3: Are we heading into this? Is sweet? Was week coming in?
Speaker 2: Week nine, so halfway through the season.
Speaker 6: So my point is, like heading into week nine, we
Speaker 6: shouldn't have these questions around this guy that you picked
Speaker 6: up earlier on in the season and now you're deciding
Speaker 6: to give it a go and try it out.
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna ask you a question real quick.
Speaker 11: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: Could maybe the reason why have been exposed? Brian talked
Speaker 2: about it a little earlier. You had to play where
Speaker 2: you wanted Dalvin to kind of make that picture. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but is there something to maybe the fact that maybe
Speaker 2: he wasn't ready because maybe he didn't know what he
Speaker 2: needed to do. And the last thing they could do
Speaker 2: is they're already having problems with protection up front. The
Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is bring in a
Speaker 2: running back maybe that doesn't know how what the protections
Speaker 2: look like, and then you get your quarterback hurt? Could
Speaker 2: that maybe have been part of it?
Speaker 6: Maybe I'm stupid, and I'm sure some people listening will
Speaker 6: be like, yeah, you aren't listen. No, But to me,
Speaker 6: it seems like if you're a professional NFL player and
Speaker 6: get to you get paid in this league, it shouldn't
Speaker 6: be that complicated for you to understand the playbook and
Speaker 6: your assignments. It's not like there's a whole encyclopedia, think
Speaker 6: a book of the things that you should learn. I
Speaker 6: mean again, maybe I'm completely wrong. You're making these white eyes.
Speaker 6: They're big, but it shouldn't be that complicated for you
Speaker 6: to not get it in like a few weeks if
Speaker 6: you're studying and sitting there and learning and doing your
Speaker 6: job of what you're getting paid to do. But maybe
Speaker 6: I'm absolutely wrong, and it's a lot harder and it
Speaker 6: takes you half a season for you to get in. Like,
Speaker 6: I don't know, I'm not over there. I'm not seeing
Speaker 6: those practices because we're not allowed to watch those portions.
Speaker 6: But to me, again, my opinions are based on the
Speaker 6: things that we do get to see and the things
Speaker 6: that are on film and during the game day. So
Speaker 6: it just seems that we keep waiting so long to
Speaker 6: make certain decisions or to even find certain things out
Speaker 6: to the point where okay, now you're sitting here wondering,
Speaker 6: like the little hope that you had in this guy
Speaker 6: that was sitting in your practice squad now completely diminished.
Speaker 6: But again, I think the problem goes beyond who the
Speaker 6: running back is. I think this is just a collective
Speaker 6: thing with what the old line is doing. And I
Speaker 6: feel like even going back to last year, we saw
Speaker 6: different running backs. Even with ton Tony Poehler, we knew
Speaker 6: that he could get the ball going and run, but
Speaker 6: it still wasn't happening. So I think there's a of course,
Speaker 6: a good running back. You bring it in here, obviously
Speaker 6: it's gonna show up some things. But I don't think
Speaker 6: that one person is just going to magically change to
Speaker 6: the running game for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that to me when you look at it,
Speaker 3: these running backs are kind of all the same. I
Speaker 3: think Rico dadd will probably better. You know, and I
Speaker 3: shouldn't say all the same, but running styles very similar.
Speaker 3: You don't really have an explosive back that that, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, Grindo for them is got some explosiveness when
Speaker 3: you know when and and you know Dallas in that
Speaker 3: game last night, weren't you know usually they they they
Speaker 3: teams just don't respect their run. They play light box
Speaker 3: against them. They played neutral box, which much six you
Speaker 3: know you're talking about, you know, six or fewer defenders
Speaker 3: down in there for the light ones, seven defenders or
Speaker 3: less for the you know, the neutral ones. And that's
Speaker 3: what they got last night. And you know, if you
Speaker 3: look at Ezekiel Elliott, his success was when they played
Speaker 3: six or less in the box. And so, you know,
Speaker 3: Dallas just is having having a little bit of some
Speaker 3: issues and a little and I and I say it
Speaker 3: with the respect of what you know, Cooper Bebe is
Speaker 3: getting better as a run blocker. Last night he actually
Speaker 3: showed more of the pushing his guy to the next
Speaker 3: guy and then getting up. You know, but there were
Speaker 3: a couple of runs where they just didn't block Fred
Speaker 3: Warner and you're like going, wait a minute, how can
Speaker 3: you have a running play if you don't block the
Speaker 3: best run defender. I think there's some there's some scheme
Speaker 3: things that they're not really good at right now. I
Speaker 3: think they're struggling with some of the combination blocks, the
Speaker 3: second level blocks, the tight end blocks. You know, you
Speaker 3: could maybe have EMMITTT. Smith back. They're running the ball
Speaker 3: and it probably wouldn't matter right now. You just don't
Speaker 3: have anything that you could really, you know, hang your
Speaker 3: hat on and say, okay, if Dallas had to call
Speaker 3: this running play, they'd get four yards. You know. They
Speaker 3: just don't have that. There's always there's just something always
Speaker 3: breaks down for them. Sometimes the backs don't see the holes.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they don't block the mic linebacker. Sometimes they don't
Speaker 3: get the point of attack block with the tight end.
Speaker 3: You know. That's Other teams have issues, but not to
Speaker 3: the level of the Cowboys have right now.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. I look at this offensive
Speaker 2: line and I think three of the five positions are
Speaker 2: playing below the standard of what I would have expected
Speaker 2: for them. Sure, particularly the right hand side, right guard,
Speaker 2: right tackle, and then the left tackle. At this point, like,
Speaker 2: is this a situation I know where I know.
Speaker 3: The left tackle wasn't terrible last night. Yeah, he wasn't
Speaker 3: as pass blocker, it was really it was. It was
Speaker 3: very refreshing that they tried to help him some. But
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to me, but it was nice to see.
Speaker 3: I was worried for jailbreak. I was ready for just
Speaker 3: up the field, up the field.
Speaker 2: And I only saw that once or twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he was. His technique was much better, his hands,
Speaker 3: his feet, you know, I mean, he wasn't in bad
Speaker 3: body position, So that part of it was encouraging for me. Yesterday. Yep.
Speaker 2: I look at this offensive line and I'm starting to wonder.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I know Dak has to take accountability for it, because
Speaker 2: ultimately he's the quarterback. But I do think what I'm
Speaker 2: seeing right now from Dak is uncharacteristic. This is not
Speaker 2: what Dak typically is. And I do wonder how much
Speaker 2: the pressure has gotten to him. I want any pressure,
Speaker 2: I mean the pressure the pass rush has gotten to him.
Speaker 2: Not there, Yes, the pass rush. I wonder how much
Speaker 2: it's gotten to the point where And you see this quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: sometimes you're under duress so much that you start feeling
Speaker 2: deressed before it's even there. Sometimes and you press and
Speaker 2: you try to get the ball out a lot quicker.
Speaker 2: You sometimes make ill you know, ill designed throws because
Speaker 2: you're afraid the pressure is going to get there. And
Speaker 2: I wonder how much the offensive line and the woes
Speaker 2: of the offensive line are affecting Dak in the passing
Speaker 2: game more than even just the miss blocks. What do
Speaker 2: you guys think?
Speaker 6: Well, see, I'm starting to get annoyed with that argument
Speaker 6: because over the years, we've seen so many different like
Speaker 6: literally everything has been changed around Dak. Like you've changed personnel,
Speaker 6: you've changed coaches, you've changed had coaches, you've changed quarterbacks
Speaker 6: coaches multiple times, Like there are so many different pieces
Speaker 6: that have changed constantly around Dak in order to cater
Speaker 6: the type of quarterback that he is. Now we're at
Speaker 6: the point in this career where he should be able
Speaker 6: to make the decisions like a veteran guy, decisions that
Speaker 6: he's not making, and it goes beyond and maybe it
Speaker 6: goes hand in hand maybe with the whole running situation
Speaker 6: and maybe the mental aspect of it for whatever reason,
Speaker 6: if that is coming back into his mind, the whole
Speaker 6: injury situation. But again, thinking back of last year, we
Speaker 6: did see multiple positive run plays from him, So whatever
Speaker 6: happened in the summer where he was taking pictures wearing
Speaker 6: that boot, maybe that's something that's completely affecting his game.
Speaker 6: But even then, in some of those throws, like even
Speaker 6: last night, and I was telling you, Derek, I'm like,
Speaker 6: it just looks like he's just throwing the ball to
Speaker 6: throw it, Like there is no sense of like confidence
Speaker 6: or strategic or like sense of like he actually scanned
Speaker 6: the field and has a hold of what is happening.
Speaker 6: Some of those throws, it just looks like he just
Speaker 6: he's just throwing it and hoping that he gets lucky.
Speaker 6: So talking about your confidence, and I agree completely on
Speaker 6: chrisped uncorrect, uncorrect, Help me out with the word uncharacteristic, sorry,
Speaker 6: characteristic the thank you of him because we've seen him
Speaker 6: time and time again, and one of his better qualities
Speaker 6: throughout his career is how well he can keep his
Speaker 6: composure as a quarterback and the mental aspect of things,
Speaker 6: even like when they're trailing behind, he can come back
Speaker 6: and just be focused. More often than not. It tends
Speaker 6: to be too late, too little, too late for the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: But whatever the reason is, maybe maybe we put it
Speaker 6: on the on the foot out of I don't know,
Speaker 6: or the practices. It just seems odd. And I don't
Speaker 6: want to put all the blame on the offensive line
Speaker 6: because there are many plays where I feel like he's
Speaker 6: had a little bit of time and the decisions are
Speaker 6: still bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm not in any way trying to absolve
Speaker 2: him of his responsibility in this because when you're making
Speaker 2: the amount of money he's making. Guess what the responsibility
Speaker 2: is yours? Figure it out. Like that's just the part
Speaker 2: of it. We all know that, like the more you get,
Speaker 2: the more the more you're compensated for what you do,
Speaker 2: the more you got to be accountable for everything else
Speaker 2: that happens around you. So I'm not absolving him of
Speaker 2: his responsibilitiness. I am saying, though, that I think looking
Speaker 2: at this offensive line, in my opinion, this is the
Speaker 2: worst offensive line he's ever played behind since he's been
Speaker 2: here with the Cowboys. And I think you're right he
Speaker 2: should be able to But should and does is a
Speaker 2: whole different thing. Maybe he's not able to overcome having
Speaker 2: this level of offensive line and still be able to
Speaker 2: be as productive as he's been in the past. That's
Speaker 2: all the point I'm making is maybe what we're seeing
Speaker 2: is that's not and a recipe that works, because, by
Speaker 2: the way, these are not different players. Like Terrence Steel's
Speaker 2: been here, he's just not playing at the level that
Speaker 2: he once did. Traving I mean, I'm sorry I keep
Speaker 2: on to call them Travis Frederick, Zach Martin has been here.
Speaker 2: This is certainly not the level that he's played at.
Speaker 2: So it's not that it's not that he's that they've
Speaker 2: all of a sudden just you know, changed all the personnel.
Speaker 2: It's that the personnel that they've had, that they've relied on,
Speaker 2: that they've relied on for the last several years, just
Speaker 2: isn't playing to the to the quality that you've come
Speaker 2: to expect. And I wonder if that has affected the
Speaker 2: quarterback's ability to be able to really stand in the
Speaker 2: air and trust the fact that I know the right
Speaker 2: side's taken care of. I don't know that he feels
Speaker 2: like that right now. I don't know how he could
Speaker 2: feel like that right now, knowing what we've watched over
Speaker 2: there on that right hand side of the ball.
Speaker 6: And maybe, and maybe it's just my own line of
Speaker 6: thinking of where maybe I just hold him to a
Speaker 6: higher standard, and we've had this conversation off the air
Speaker 6: that maybe this is just a quarterback that he is
Speaker 6: and he does us need so many other pieces to
Speaker 6: be working around him in order for him to actually
Speaker 6: be successful and making all this and real quick if
Speaker 6: I can make this point out something last night during
Speaker 6: his press conference talking after the game, and you guys know,
Speaker 6: I always try to look at people's.
Speaker 3: Vibe and all that.
Speaker 6: You know, it just seemed odd. It seemed like and
Speaker 6: to your point, Derek, maybe the pressure just more than
Speaker 6: the getting the pressure on the field. I think overall,
Speaker 6: he seemed to me in the way that he was
Speaker 6: answering questions like he's just worn out, Like where you
Speaker 6: just standing there and like reciting these words, and he's
Speaker 6: so good at answering questions, but you're just spitting out
Speaker 6: words and there's no real feeling behind it. And I'm
Speaker 6: not saying he doesn't have feeling or doesn't care, but
Speaker 6: maybe it's to the point where he he doesn't even
Speaker 6: know what else to say.
Speaker 3: At this point, the questions initially start about the interceptions, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he's had four games now with multiple interceptions, and
Speaker 3: that was something that he lived two years ago. And
Speaker 3: if we remember very well, the summertime leading up to
Speaker 3: training camp of a couple of years ago, was every
Speaker 3: one of these shows, the ESPN shows, the Fox Sports shows,
Speaker 3: every show led with Dak interception questions. And he got
Speaker 3: tired of answering the interception questions. And then last year
Speaker 3: he threw i think nine total interceptions for the year. Well,
Speaker 3: he's at eight right now, you know, and you've got
Speaker 3: you know, ten more games ago, and now all of
Speaker 3: a sudden he realizes once again that it's falling on
Speaker 3: his shoulders of these interceptions and these turnovers. And maybe
Speaker 3: to your point, this is why he's like wore out.
Speaker 3: You know, he's he's got you know guys, you know
Speaker 3: asking him questions about the interceptions, and he's like, I
Speaker 3: can't do that, I can't do that, I can't do that.
Speaker 3: And it's every week now, you know, every week he
Speaker 3: is having to answer questions about protecting the football, which
Speaker 3: last year he did at a very high level, elite level,
Speaker 3: second in the MVP voting level. Far from that, more
Speaker 3: like the guy that was two years ago, and you
Speaker 3: would think in year nine that you wouldn't have that
Speaker 3: kind of issue.
Speaker 6: Was the total for two years ago on interceptions?
Speaker 3: I forgot it was it. I can't remember exactly, wouldn't
Speaker 3: like I could look it up here in a second,
Speaker 3: but it was it was double digits. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: double digit interceptions. But remember every day he had to
Speaker 3: sit there and you know, Stephen A. Smith and all
Speaker 3: those yeah, all those people, Shannon STARp, all those people
Speaker 3: were talking about interceptions, interceptions. You watch Nfilm Network, that's
Speaker 3: all they talked about were Dak's interceptions, and you know,
Speaker 3: and then he really put all that to bed last year.
Speaker 3: But now that's coming back, and you know, the questions
Speaker 3: about is he really seeing the field? Well, you know,
Speaker 3: fortunately for the Cowboys, man, let's be honest. I mean,
Speaker 3: he tried to throw that that first pass to ceedee lamb.
Speaker 3: You know, when they got the ball back on that,
Speaker 3: they're trying to win the game. When you drive, he's
Speaker 3: trying to throw it through three red shirts. You know,
Speaker 3: you're like, whoa, you can't do that, man, You got
Speaker 3: you gotta get you gotta be better than that. And
Speaker 3: I think that's what's kind of starting to creep into
Speaker 3: his his his mind right now.
Speaker 6: All right, we're gonna take our final fifteen fifteen last
Speaker 6: year nine and then so far this year eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's right on pace.
Speaker 3: Halfway to break in that.
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Speaker 2: we come back, we'll talk a little bit about this
Speaker 2: defense and maybe even get to a little bit of
Speaker 2: frustration we saw there at the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Once the game was over. We'll talk about that when
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the defense. Last night, San Francisco rushed
Speaker 2: for two hundred and twenty three yards without Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 2: and without Mason, who was their starter going into the night.
Speaker 2: He left at what about halftime a little after halftime.
Speaker 3: For the shoulder, Yeah, this shoulder problem. Yeah, and Grenda, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Grendo came in and did a really nice.
Speaker 2: Jock, really good game for him. They still rushed for
Speaker 2: two undred twenty three yards, an average of six point
Speaker 2: two yards per carry, two rushing touchdowns, explosive. They only
Speaker 2: had seventy at the half. Seventy rushing yards at the half,
Speaker 2: And I thought, okay, Dallas, this is you know you
Speaker 2: in that game. Yeah, you give up one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty yards on the ground at the end of that game.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, that would be a win. And that's
Speaker 2: typically a high number, but that would still be a win.
Speaker 2: To then end with two hundred and twenty three. What
Speaker 2: happened in the second half as far as the rushing
Speaker 2: game and the rushing like the rushing defense that put
Speaker 2: them in that situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you if you really really, if say, they
Speaker 3: got into a situation where they were having to sell out,
Speaker 3: you know, and and the forty nine ers, the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers offensive line, I thought, did a really nice
Speaker 3: job when it came to you're always they're always going
Speaker 3: to give you probably problems with the movement because they're
Speaker 3: always going to get the extra blocker, They're always going
Speaker 3: to find a way to get a motion guy over.
Speaker 3: We talked about condensed formations and how that helps them
Speaker 3: with their block and stuff. Their offensive line did a
Speaker 3: really great job of you know, and there were some
Speaker 3: there was some really some good snaps with Massie Smith.
Speaker 3: There were a couple of times where he was a
Speaker 3: little bit violent they needed they needed oh soo Diggi's
Speaker 3: I want to be a little violent in there. They
Speaker 3: got gashed on some runs where they were gambling a
Speaker 3: little bit. What happens is you get you get Wilson
Speaker 3: goes one way, and then and then Kendricks goes the other,
Speaker 3: and they're they're gashed inside because they've got things pinned.
Speaker 3: They got everybody pinned inside and they got a kick
Speaker 3: and now they've got an alley. And there were a
Speaker 3: couple of times where it was it was trying to
Speaker 3: play downhill, trying to control blocks, not controlling the blocks,
Speaker 3: but all of a sudden, now you have one guy
Speaker 3: on one side, one guy in the other, and now
Speaker 3: you have this natural alley where you know, we always
Speaker 3: talk about fits and finish and stuff. You know, they
Speaker 3: they played the toss sweep actually pretty good in this game,
Speaker 3: and I was worried about being underneath center running the
Speaker 3: sweep and then and then capturing the edge. I think
Speaker 3: Golston did a hell of a job in this game
Speaker 3: with his ability to play down Phil, him overshowing those
Speaker 3: guys running it's as he could. I'm gonna are you
Speaker 3: gonna get into Diggs the conversation about Diggs. I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna say this real quick about Diggs. I see why
Speaker 3: Diggs got mad at Mike Lesley.
Speaker 2: That's where I wanted to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really do. And you know, after the game,
Speaker 3: I'm like, because to me, when I went back, I
Speaker 3: felt because watching the game just on the TV copy
Speaker 3: in the studio, I'm linking Digs wasn't terrible. And then
Speaker 3: I watched tape this morning and there were several times
Speaker 3: Digs by far Diggs has had far worse games.
Speaker 2: He played physical as a run to heat he did, And.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not trying to stick up for the
Speaker 3: guy because, like I say, there have been moments where
Speaker 3: Diggs has not helped you at all. And last night
Speaker 3: I kind of felt like maybe one of his best
Speaker 3: games when it came to having to play with physicality,
Speaker 3: dealing with receivers, dealing with block dealing with kittle, dealing
Speaker 3: with guys coming into his face and trying to get
Speaker 3: rid and step up, you know, make a tackle. Be there.
Speaker 3: I think Leslie questioned the ball that went up the sidelines,
Speaker 3: and maybe his angle wasn't the kind of you know,
Speaker 3: but I tell you that we're far more good plays
Speaker 3: than there were bad. I've seen him play with far, far,
Speaker 3: far less intensity than he did last night.
Speaker 2: There were a lot more, in my opinion, there were
Speaker 2: a lot more busts on that play or bad play
Speaker 2: on that play that didn't have to do with him.
Speaker 2: And that's what I think he was getting at when
Speaker 2: he said, you watched that whole play, and that's what
Speaker 2: you came away with, Like I think, and by the way,
Speaker 2: Trayvon as a professional has to not put himself in
Speaker 2: that situation that that is a like I used to
Speaker 2: I remember somebody saying this long time ago, and it's
Speaker 2: gonna fly over the heads of all the young people
Speaker 2: with Ryan, You'll get it. Never pick a fight with
Speaker 2: people that buy ink by the barrel. Like it's just
Speaker 2: not a good idea. The whole point of that is
Speaker 2: when you pick a fight with the media. The media's
Speaker 2: whole jobs to sit around every day and just talk.
Speaker 2: That's what they do all day every day. So when
Speaker 2: you pick a fight with the media, you probably ain't
Speaker 2: gonna win. It's not a good idea. And I think
Speaker 2: in that situation, Trayvon should have just been like, have it,
Speaker 2: you can have it, man, whatever. But I see why
Speaker 2: he was upset because I think he came out of
Speaker 2: the game thinking I did exactly what everybody's been saying
Speaker 2: I got last I got I did what everybody said
Speaker 2: I couldn't do last night, and you watched that play,
Speaker 2: which by the way, didn't indict me, and came away
Speaker 2: from it with something that I did wrong in some way.
Speaker 6: See, I agree completely and like, okay, as a professional,
Speaker 6: you just stay in the locker room, don't even engage.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, I one hundred percent understand
Speaker 6: his frustration because that's someone that works in the media.
Speaker 6: And I'm speaking about Mike. He works in the media.
Speaker 6: We know he has some power or influence over whoever
Speaker 6: his followers are. So when you make a wrong assessment
Speaker 6: of my job and what I'm doing, You're gonna be
Speaker 6: mad and you want to confront that, and you're he's human,
Speaker 6: he's human, and the emotions get there, especially if you
Speaker 6: feel like you really tried hard. And then the play
Speaker 6: that you want to point out is not a good
Speaker 6: example of what you're trying to showcase or tell. So
Speaker 6: I understand that should have should he have done that?
Speaker 3: Probably not?
Speaker 6: But and then another thing that I wanted to point out,
Speaker 6: I see a lot of people on social media saying, really,
Speaker 6: you go into the locker room, you don't even take
Speaker 6: your paths off or anything, and you're sitting and getting
Speaker 6: on social media searching for your name. I think people
Speaker 6: be better than that, Like use your head a little
Speaker 6: more than that. I know you guys are more intelligent
Speaker 6: than that. Two things. One, when you get on your phone,
Speaker 6: many people can be texting you, your friends, family members, sending.
Speaker 2: You stuff, and that's not typically that's how it goes.
Speaker 6: Following like let me see what Mike lastlie put out
Speaker 6: about me or anything. And another thing, we all we
Speaker 6: all get on our phones when we get off work,
Speaker 6: when we get off work, when we get near our phone.
Speaker 6: Doesn't matter where you're at in the workplace or anything,
Speaker 6: doesn't matter what's going on in your life. Nowadays, it's
Speaker 6: an automatic. You get on your phone and it's just
Speaker 6: like this escape of whatever's going on. But yet you
Speaker 6: enter another world on your phone and all this craziness.
Speaker 6: And of course, so I understand all of that. And
Speaker 6: again I understand there are many many plays that he's
Speaker 6: play and I've called him out on this show after
Speaker 6: games or he's had many miss tackles and things like that.
Speaker 6: But understand there is a human side to it as well,
Speaker 6: and in this specific scenario, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 6: think he was fully on the wrong in this case.
Speaker 6: You know, stand up for yourself, see the thing and
Speaker 6: show it on the field too.
Speaker 3: And real quick if I could, Derek, I know my
Speaker 3: personal experience of going from being in scouting to being
Speaker 3: now in the media and stuff like that. And I
Speaker 3: remember you talked about Smilica. Jason Garrett, Jason Garrett, Jason Whitten.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, one time. You know there was a game
Speaker 3: where they played the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle and des
Speaker 3: Brian and him were running routes and got it was
Speaker 3: an interception and I thought his route carried his man
Speaker 3: into Dez's area, and that's why you got the interception.
Speaker 3: And Jason found out that I said something about that.
Speaker 3: I brought it up and he came up to me,
Speaker 3: saw me in the locker and he says, hey man,
Speaker 3: you got a minute, And I'm like sure, and he
Speaker 3: grabbed me and pulled me aside and said, he said, listen,
Speaker 3: let me just tell you what the row of the route,
Speaker 3: you know, and he explained it to me. What you know,
Speaker 3: he didn't embarrass me in front of everybody, but he says,
Speaker 3: you know, if you think I ran the wrong route,
Speaker 3: let me explain why it happened and what the look was.
Speaker 3: And so there's ways to handle that. I mean, it
Speaker 3: just is the optics are bad when you come out
Speaker 3: of the locker room and you still have your uniform on.
Speaker 3: He could have waited for Mike leslie in there and
Speaker 3: pulled Mike aside and walked outside, walked over by the
Speaker 3: bus and just said, hey man, I'm just this is
Speaker 3: what happened. I mean, you look at the run tackles.
Speaker 3: He had four run tackles in that game yesterday. You know,
Speaker 3: there's been games where he hasn't had one run tackle
Speaker 3: in the game, So you know, he tried to be
Speaker 3: a more physical player, and I think the film showed
Speaker 3: he was a more physical er. I think that's what
Speaker 3: got him so mad. It's like, you know, hey, I
Speaker 3: played my ass off for me because I don't normally
Speaker 3: play this way. Yeah, you know, and so you're gonna
Speaker 3: get on me about this one play.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think that's one of the things too.
Speaker 2: Over the years, I've learned with that. It's why I
Speaker 2: don't really live tweet games as much as I used to,
Speaker 2: is because those instant evaluations sometimes can be very, very wrong,
Speaker 2: and you do need the perspective of being, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: of being able to two things, one being able to
Speaker 2: go in the locker room after the game and actually
Speaker 2: talk to guys and say what happened on this play?
Speaker 2: What did you see on this play? Why did you
Speaker 2: do what you did on this play? And then number two,
Speaker 2: go back and watch it for yourself, because you will
Speaker 2: find there's so many times in games I have one
Speaker 2: opinion after the game is done, or after a play
Speaker 2: is done, and I go back and watch the game
Speaker 2: later and I'm like, wow, no, I missed that that
Speaker 2: was something else went over here? That really affected that play,
Speaker 2: and so I think both those things have to happen.
Speaker 2: And I think Nick at the nail on the head
Speaker 2: this morning when he was on one on five Do
Speaker 2: three the Fan with Sean and RJ, and he was like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: as a reporter, it's your responsibility to ask that question,
Speaker 2: but not ask it to Twitter. Ask it to the player.
Speaker 2: Figure out what the player, what happened, what were you
Speaker 2: doing on this play, what did you see on this play?
Speaker 2: And then report what you saw or what the player said,
Speaker 2: and if you have exception take exception that then you
Speaker 2: can report it in that way. But you did your
Speaker 2: due diligence to find out what it actually was.
Speaker 3: Supposed to be. We've all been in this league a
Speaker 3: long time, and myself on the personal side of it,
Speaker 3: there were things as a personal guy that I did
Speaker 3: not know and I'd have to go ask yeah, And
Speaker 3: that's the danger of this when you start to say, well, gosh,
Speaker 3: it was this guy's fault, this guy's fault. You know,
Speaker 3: you watch it, you make the best evaluation, but you
Speaker 3: try and ask somebody if you really really really don't know,
Speaker 3: ask somebody in the organization, and usually you'll get an answer. Like,
Speaker 3: I think about it this way, and I'm like, man, and.
Speaker 2: Off the record, players will be pretty honest with They
Speaker 2: will say, yeah, yeah, I messed that one up. Well,
Speaker 2: they'll say, hey, that guy over here like this is
Speaker 2: just look over here. You'll see kind of what happened.
Speaker 2: They'll tell you off the record, if you developed the
Speaker 2: right what kind of relationships? And then you go and
Speaker 2: ask the question and don't just kind of run with
Speaker 2: something just because you think you saw something.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the tough part of this job, trying to
Speaker 6: find that balance right there.
Speaker 3: But I think we have Mike Leslie on the radio
Speaker 3: today at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: That'll be fine.
Speaker 3: Three.
Speaker 2: Hey, this isn't Mike's first time around the plodam.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm going to ask him, like, bro, is
Speaker 3: there a better way to handle that? Yeah? Seriously, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna ask him because I go, I know you didn't
Speaker 3: have the opportunity to watch the tape like I did
Speaker 3: this morning, but you might want to go watch that tape. Yeah,
Speaker 3: guy might have played, Yeah, some of his most physical
Speaker 3: games he's playing in a while.
Speaker 2: And I wonder if in that situation, I wonder if
Speaker 2: Mike will do the right thing in my opinion, which
Speaker 2: is go to to Trayvon and be like, dude, I
Speaker 2: probably talk how to turn a little bit on that one,
Speaker 2: because you did play from the standpoint of what I
Speaker 2: was trying to point out, which I think what he
Speaker 2: was trying to point out is he's not playing good
Speaker 2: in run defense. He played a pretty good game.
Speaker 3: Create him in those sixty five players exactly, don't create
Speaker 3: him on one exactly.
Speaker 2: All Right, we appreciate you guys on this. We'll be
Speaker 2: back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We'll start you guys questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna go to the Brian of my the
Speaker 2: brain of Brian brought us Sure.
Speaker 6: I mean that, I'm not gonna let that quote die.
Speaker 3: That was that was all.
Speaker 6: It was hilarious.
Speaker 2: It actually was pretty good. Between that and fix this
Speaker 2: rich Like those two are now there the top two
Speaker 2: quotes of all times from players. It's pretty good. All Right,
Speaker 2: We'll see you guys more until then. For Brian brought
Speaker 2: us Ambergarci. I'm Derek Eilton. This has been The Break
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