WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Assessing The Defense So Far? 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.880 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:20.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.759 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.120 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.479 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:40.920 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys, 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.360 welcome to another episode of The Break. The Cowboys are 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:50.440 now two, I know, after beating another division rival this 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.560 weekend against the Redskins thirty one twenty one. Before we 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.960 get into it, how are you guys doing. I'm fantastic. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.360 We got home at eight fifteen, at a regular night's sleep. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.720 Cowboys looked good. What could you possibly complain about? Oh, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.240 I'm sure there are there's things that people could find, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.360 and they are finding him. But I think that just 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.679 goes to the expectations of this team that you know 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.840 you can Oh my god, what's wrong with the defense? 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.320 I mean, give it up twenty one point. This is 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.200 a good football team, and I think we knew that 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.760 before this season started, and we're finding it out and 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.160 don't know how good Washington is or the Giants don't 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.959 look that great. But you're gonna face bad teams, and 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.679 what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to beat 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.560 them down. And I think they're gonna face a bat 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.080 even I almost said batter team. They're gonna face a batter. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.280 You could probably come up with new adjectives to describe 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.160 the Miami Dolphins, but well you know that. Well, yeah, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.320 we'll get to them. You never know what could happen. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.280 You know, it's very impossible. You're right, they might cover, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.640 but you never know. But let's start off with this game. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.040 I mean, you know, the offense started kind of bad. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.800 Dak ended up doing what he does basically usually takes 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.600 him a little while to get going, and yesterday he 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.680 aside from being under pressure, aside from throwing an interception 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.120 which wasn't really his fault, maybe that was kind of 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.600 on Randall cup a little bit. But then after all that, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.360 he didn't. He stayed put, very focused, ended up getting 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.320 completing twenty six out of thirty attempts for two hundred 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:31.519 and sixty nine yards his final his final eighteen passes 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.120 and all fourteen of his passes in the second half. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.440 Very impressive. Yeah, so where how did he turn the 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.720 switch on? What happened then that we saw the offense 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.160 finally being able to get moving even after being pressure. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.240 I think this team just does a good job and 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.960 whether it's Kellen Moore, whether it's John Kitting up top, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.480 whoever on offense, they do a good job of figuring 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.119 out what can we do here? What what what is working? 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.480 And what are the Redskins trying to do? And as 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.560 the Giant or whoever, and let's beat them. I mean, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.760 the most impressive thing to me when I look at 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.160 all these stats is that for the second straight game, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.480 they have scored touchdowns on five straight possessions. Last week 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.919 was five touchdowns, this week four touchdowns in a field goal. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.560 They are figuring out, Okay, I see what you've gained 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.080 planned all week to do. Got it. Good job, nice sack, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.280 good interception, not happening again. Watch this and then they 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.200 just take over. Yeah that's you know, not to pat 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.959 myself on the back, but it looked let me pat 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.240 myself on the back. Yeah, always when you say that, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.360 that's what you're gonna do. But it kind of encompassed 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.359 like what I thought was going to happen. Although I 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.560 didn't expect them to struggle so much early and then 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.320 after they struggled. I didn't expect it to be that 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.080 easy the rest of the way, Like I kind of 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.640 thought it would be more back and forth. I said 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.280 they'd win by ten, but I thought it would feel 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.440 a little bit closer than that. And like they got 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.640 all the struggles out of the way in like twenty 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.440 minutes and then they were like, all right, let's go 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.840 carrot it over time. You should listen to your buddy, Derek. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.240 I'm just saying, oh, what do you say? I don't 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.440 remember what about. So what I said was we can 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.200 go back and play if I want to. I actually 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.680 said it was going to be adversity at the beginning 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.640 of the game, and everybody would be like, man, this 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.200 isn't the team we saw last year, last week. Then 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.440 the Cowboys would get going, the Cowboys got out to 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.080 a comfortable lead at the end, the Cowboys would win it. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.560 Thirty one twenty three was my final score. And I'm sorry, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.839 thirty one twenty three was my final score. I said, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.680 But the Redskins would score late in order to make 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:31.560 you look closer than it actually was. That's exactly I'm 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.040 just every once in a while, if you get these right. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.640 It really every once in a while you get these right. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.200 It really was finny one. I gave you about twenty. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.279 It did have a twenty plays a game, and I 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.320 got one. Yeah, and it was a good one. And 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.160 it was we were standing we were sitting there and 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.360 all of a sudden, Nick says, Devin Street to the house. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.560 Now I'm Darren Smith. Now I'm doing I did that 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.839 because I watched New We should do it last night. Anyway, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.880 very different players, it very different. Nick was like Dev 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.680 Smith to the house. And I just kind of I 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.640 didn't even really pay attention to it. It was just 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.760 kind of like, okay, here Nick goes with his predictions again, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.120 and then here he's gone down and play. And so, yeah, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:11.800 that was a good one. That was a really good 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.320 one out of twenty. That was a good one because 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:16.760 that's not one that you would just if you would 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.720 just say Cooper to the house thing, you know, that 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.440 doesn't count. But I honestly saw him out there and 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.920 I thought, they don't think he can run that fast. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.680 I bet you that they don't think that he could 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.880 just fly right by him. But you know the thing 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:32.720 about that, and the play action is huge. I mean 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.880 Zeke doesn't have the greatest numbers. I mean, good game, great, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.360 great game. But to me, this is all about Zeke 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.360 and and the and the running game. I mean, the 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.720 two biggest plays of the game on offense to me 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.320 were Devin Smith and Dack's run, and both of them 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.839 were off play fakes, one to Pollard and one to Zeke. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.960 I think the offensive line, the running game gets so 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.880 much attention. This other stuff's you know, just falling right 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.440 into their lap. And the Red I mean, the Redskins 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.720 did not. It didn't look like they over adjusted for 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.720 the four hundred yards in week one, like there were 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.279 still a ton of guys out in the box. They 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.440 tried to trash it up and stop Zeke. I think 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.640 you're absolutely right. Play action was another big part of this. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.720 It's just wild to me, you know, last year and 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.279 for years, like adjustments as everybody's fit. Oh, they'll make 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.240 any adjustments. They're not adjusting. Well, everything that we thought 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.560 Washington might do to muck this thing up happened in 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.640 the first ten minutes. You know, Karagan, dron Payne not 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.760 being able to run the ball, Dack not having time 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.720 certainly looked like they adjusted because it stopped being a 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.520 problem after about the first quarter, like and again, once 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.800 they got it out of the way, Washington didn't really 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.839 put up a fight the rest of the game until 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.080 it was thirty one fourteen. Like I kind of thought 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.960 there would be a few back and forth where it's like, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.040 all right, Dallas is up twenty one and seven, here 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:53.719 comes the Washington run. Did not happen twenty four Then 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.640 they went and made it twenty four fourteen. Yeah, that's right. First, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.160 there was never a twenty one to fourteen was a 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.559 one score game, And I thought the interesting part about 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.040 that was that, Okay, here we go, crowds into it, 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.400 and what do the Cowboys do? They sit Zeke Yeah, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.080 and they let Pollard take that whole drive. I thought 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.800 that the first down pass to Jarwin, we had a 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.640 great view of it. It was a great throw by 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.560 dak to Jarwin, and it was like, all right, you know, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.080 we see your touchdown, and we see that you got 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.440 the momentum back. We're gonna take it right back with Pollard. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.600 There was there was never a point in that game 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.240 after fourteen to seven where I felt like Washington was 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.960 threatening to try to retake control of the game, like 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.640 not no point whatsoever, even when it was at one 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.400 score game, and that was surprising and impressive to me. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.600 Like I hesitate to call it a complete and total beatdown, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.120 but it was a you know, in the NFL, it 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.280 was a controlled, you hate to say, easy, but easy 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.320 looking win. You can see. You can have those games 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.680 sometimes and you're like there was no doubt throughout the 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.000 game of who the better team was. Yeah, sometimes those 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.000 things will flip on you another other team will win. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.440 But usually in those kind of games you can kind 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.520 of sense that. I mean, I don't really want to 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.680 say this, but it was kind of like Texas playing LSU. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.880 I never, at any moment that game felt like we 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.720 were a better team. I felt like LSU was the 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.240 better team and there were moments when we could have 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.440 won it, but that were just a better team. But 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.960 I think it was the same thing yesterday. Cowboys were 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.680 just a better team throughout the entire game. And that's 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.560 probably going to be the case on almost every game. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.120 I don't know if they played that way, yeah, but 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.120 I think they're going to be the better football team 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.320 just about every every week. There are probably two teams 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.280 right now I look at and I say they are 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.520 equal to them, at least equal to them. Like I 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.199 wouldn't call them the better team. That would be the 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.040 Packers and the and the Patriots. Obviously the Patriots are 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.560 the Patriots. But yeah, yeah, they're gonna have some challenges 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.240 this year and we'll get to see and they're gonna 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.120 lose some of these. Absolutely that you know, a team 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.360 that you're not expected to be I feel I feel 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.240 like Jason Garrett right now, and that there was and 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.400 I'm not you know, I'm not hating on y'all, but 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.800 there was a lot of chatter last night during that 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.240 Eagles Falcons game. I was like, well, if the Eagles 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.559 and Falcons look like this, who can challenge the Cowboys. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.880 I'm like, calm down, guys, It's September fifteenth. The Cowboys 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.400 looked like trash through most of the first six weeks 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.439 of last year. I'm not ready to write off the 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.480 Eagles because they didn't look great last night. I'm not 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.440 ready to write off a lot of teams. Anybody does 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.920 that has not been watching the NFL. Yeah, but again, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.120 you can only play who you can play, and through 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.640 two weeks, the Cowboys look about as impressive as anybody 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.880 in the NFL. There you go. Now, you know, we 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.240 always talk about the old line and when they struggle, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.480 that becomes an issue for the Cowboys and then the 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.920 game kind of goes down. But even despite of Connor 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.280 Williams not playing well, even as regardless of us talking 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.439 so many good things about him during training camp and 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.880 all preseason, it wasn't a good game based on the 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.480 adjustments that we saw Kellen Moore do during the game. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.880 Do you feel a little bit more comfortable or confident 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.920 that you're not so worried from those games where Doc 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.559 is going to be under pressure but they're able to 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.959 get out of there and still make plays. I'm not worried. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.400 I mean, I thought the offensive line is playing very 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.480 very well. Connor Williams. It happens all the time. When 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.240 you have a great line, there's always a guy or 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.439 two that they're not elite, and so they kind of 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.400 stand out a little bit. And he didn't have a 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.920 great game, and maybe he doesn't play well in Washington. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.400 That's two now that he hasn't played well. But you 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.599 know the rest of the line is playing great and 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.120 if he if he doesn't pick it up, I think 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.480 they'll replace him. I'm not sure there's not a better 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.640 backup than him right now, but that's not I don't 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.199 know if they're at that point where they need to 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.760 do that. Yeah, I'm interested because there are some teams 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.360 that they are going to play this year that have 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.720 a similar guy to de Ryan Payne in the middle 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.000 of their defense that he's gonna have to deal with, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.280 and so I'm a little bit concerned from that standpoint. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.439 He's gonna have to face that kind of guy every week, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.439 so he'll be fine. A lot of the times. I 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.079 do wonder though, when he faces you know, better talent 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.679 at the defensive tackle position, if this is gonna be 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.920 a common theme because he did not have a good 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.360 game now, but he's a competitor. And when remember in 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.280 the playoffs and it was like, how's this guy going 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.839 to handle the rams? He played really well against the 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.040 best defensive player in all of football, and so he 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.600 you know, I would imagine he'll step up to the challenge. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.560 And you know, for an offensive lineman, you get called 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.080 for a holding, you get you get beat for a sack, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.319 and give up another play and that's three plays and 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.880 you're like, this guy's terrible. They ran probably but sixty plays. Yeah, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.839 he may not have played that bad. I think he 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.319 was fine on it. Like, I'm not worried about it 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.200 at all. Like and and yeah, I mean they had 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.240 their struggles in the first quarter. They got it together. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.559 He's got Travis Frederick to help him out. That's huge. Um. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.319 And yeah, it's it's probably unrealistic to think all five 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.920 of your guys across the line are gonna be all 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.120 pros capable of handling their business. I mean, Lyle played 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.640 great against Karagan. Again, you know, Karagan got the sack. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.040 That was all paying for me. Like that's so it 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.280 was all about Connor. Yeah, I was not about Lyle. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.600 But again from like from the end of the first 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.800 quarter on, I did not really notice a problem, So 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.800 I'm not super worried about it. Yeah, that's one of 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.800 the things I love about what Kellen's doing right now. 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.760 K I'm talk about kell him Moore just because you're right, Nick, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.959 I think it was you was saying, like, he's the 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.720 fact that they are able to make these adjustments, which 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.880 in both games first possession, but as game wore on, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.959 they got better and better and better and better. And 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.760 that to me is all about adjusting to what the 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.320 defense is showing you and taking advantage of your opportunities. Yeah, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.800 I mean third and one, you know, I thought that 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.320 on the first on the interception third and one, I mean, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.520 let's run the ball or at least get dacted to it, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.319 but miss a shotgun. It was almost like it was 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.959 third and eight, you know, And they throws it and 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.000 gets intercepted. And they come back on the third and 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.680 one again with Pollard, and I thought maybe the play 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.800 of the game or one of them when Dak scrambled 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.040 or and I scrambled, it was the zone read and 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.880 he got around and faked me out because I think too. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.040 I was like, what is Pollard doing? Like run and 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.280 then I realized that Dak had the ball. Yeah, it's 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.320 funny how much really good at faking it. I said 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.040 this during the game, like, and I mean Devin Smith 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.000 got open, he burned Josh Norman, great play call, all 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.719 of that, but like Dak is so good at this 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.160 sleight of hand and the body posture that fakes the 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.520 defense out, like fake play, fake to Zeke. Then he 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.640 play fakes it again on the screen, like if you 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.880 go back and watch it, like half the defense bites 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.040 on two different fakes, and he's just so good at 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.679 stuff like that. Like Smith beat his man anyway, but 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.920 it just makes it that much easier of a play 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.640 when you can throw people off like and I love 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.040 that of the past to Smith. I love the fact 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.360 that he was like, that's just knowing your guy is knowing, Okay, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.079 where's the open part. I'm gonna throw it way out here, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.520 and he's gonna go get it because he can run 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.800 and go, you know, and do that. And then now 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.199 when Devin Smith is in the game or watch fifteen, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.440 because he can run, that's only that's just another weapon 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.640 that you've got. And he might be out there a 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.480 little bit more now because he's the one guy that 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.160 can really stretch the field like that. These other receivers, well, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.240 I say that Gallup can run too. Now he ran 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.160 right by Josh Norman. I was kind of a whose 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.719 fault was that on that deep ball though he kind 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.080 of you know, turned, and honestly, I don't know there 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.400 was anybody's fault. It just I don't think he tracked 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:13.959 it the well as well as he should have. And 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.559 I'm not sure if Dak threw it in the best 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.240 position for him to have to come back across and 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.360 catch on that side. I don't think it was the 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.480 perfect throw for that route, but I also think he 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.640 could have adjusted to it better sim I mean, similar 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.800 to the Cobb interception, is like, yeah, da, Dak could 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.000 have placed that better. But also he was under duress 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.200 and it hit Cobb's hands like he would prefer not 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.240 to bat that into the air. And Cobb did say 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:37.440 after the game, He's like, I was on me, I 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.080 should I gotta catch that Well's and it's you know, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.920 and that's been an issue, especially with Gallup. That's been 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.360 an issue for Dak, and people kill him for it. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.520 And I'm like, I thought that in the NFL, if 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.360 the ball hits your hands and it's on you, even 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.000 if it could have been a better throw, Like that's 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.840 what I've heard since I was a kid. So it 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.520 seems like his body place, man, he was just not 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.280 a place right, Like he was turned in word and 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.080 then the ball was coming behind him a little bit 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.560 and just making that an adjustment to turn all the 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.000 way around. That's just weird. Yeah, that would have been 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.880 a tough catch. I mean, that's a tough catch when 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.160 you're tracking on the right and the ball's coming over 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:13.680 the left, and you got to kind of track it 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.200 over your head, like with a helmet and shoulder pads on. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.520 Like you think about. You don't have the same range 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.720 of motion as you normally, so trying to track that 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.400 that's a tough thing to do. So it would have 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.640 been a tough catch, I think all the way around. Probably. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.560 I don't know that I blame either one of them. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.800 They both could have done things maybe a little bit 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.040 different or better, but I mean, it is what it is. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.600 That's a fifty fifty ball. There's a reason why they 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.160 called fifty fifty balls. And just the fact that how 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.120 he turned on the jets to just zoom right past 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.560 him there, Like he's got some speed. He's a deep 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.240 ball guy for sure, obviously Devin Smith is, and I 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.480 still think Cooper can, I mean as well. I mean, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.520 that's not his best part of his game. 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If Dez Bryant were to 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.080 finish with four catches for forty four yards in a 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.320 touchdown win or lose, we would be sitting here today 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.159 talking about, like how can they get Dez going? What? 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.160 What was the defense doing that kind of limited Dez's day? 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.440 Like that's that's not what he's about, YadA YadA, YadA, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.440 YadA YadA, like regardless of seeing so many other guys 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.760 being involved and productive, well, well change. First, First of all, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.040 the old Cowboys offense never had in the time I've 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.240 been here, there were never this many guys that could 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.560 be on top of the stat sheet, like you're talking 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.879 Dez or you know, Zeke as a runner, passer, combined whatever, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.800 But there weren't that many other options, you know, like 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.200 once in a blue moon, you'll have a Terrence Williams 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.240 blow up game like the Chiefs a couple of years ago. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.280