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Speaker 1: It is Monday, November twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number eighty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're live the s WBC Morria Studios at the Star,
Speaker 1: and man, we have so much to talk about the
Speaker 1: day Cowboys lose. Last night, they lose thirteen to nine
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots, a game that was pretty
Speaker 1: messy from the standpoint of the weather, but so many,
Speaker 1: so many points that came from that game worth discussing,
Speaker 1: and some things that were said after the game that
Speaker 1: will definitely get into as well. Let's start first, as
Speaker 1: we normally do, a particularly after a loss, and the
Speaker 1: loss with so many storylines, I want to go around
Speaker 1: the table and tell me each of you guys what
Speaker 1: you think was the biggest storyline coming out of yesterday's game.
Speaker 1: Nicholas start with you, Well, everyone's getting I probably say
Speaker 1: the same same two things. But I mean I special
Speaker 1: teams was the issue, and we talked about it all week.
Speaker 1: When you have conditions like that, with the weather the
Speaker 1: way it was, it neutralizes a lot. We had good offenses,
Speaker 1: good defenses. It comes down to the little things and
Speaker 1: little things of special teams, and so it just one
Speaker 1: thing after another just continued to happen. And that's where
Speaker 1: the biggest differences between the Patriots and the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: the field is the special teams units, and that was
Speaker 1: they were exposed. Dave. Yeah, I mean I wrote in
Speaker 1: my story last night. You know, people love to call
Speaker 1: special teams hidden yardage, but there was nothing hidden about
Speaker 1: it last night. It was right there and playing view
Speaker 1: for anybody to see. Just a comedy of errors, man,
Speaker 1: I mean the I mean Bill Belichick himself said the
Speaker 1: difference in the game was the block punt, like the
Speaker 1: one short field the I mean, you know, the Patriots
Speaker 1: only had to go ten twelve yards on that possession,
Speaker 1: only touchdown of the game. Cowboys couldn't buy somebody who
Speaker 1: could handle the ball on a kick team to save
Speaker 1: their life. The sequence with you know, the Patriots didn't
Speaker 1: put a return man out there, and that just flummixed
Speaker 1: the Cowboys beyond belief. Gave up twenty yards of fuel
Speaker 1: position on an eventual New England field goal drive. You know,
Speaker 1: it almost like it feels cheap, like it feels like
Speaker 1: Hindsight's twenty twenty to sit here and harp on the
Speaker 1: special teams. But like in the moment, in a game
Speaker 1: that was that tight, I'm looking at the sheet five
Speaker 1: out of twenty seven on third down between these two teams,
Speaker 1: Like when nobody could buy a first down, it was
Speaker 1: just painstakingly obvious that the Patriots had the details fine
Speaker 1: tuned and the Cowboys did not. Amber I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just very unfortunate for the Cowboys. Like Nick said, when
Speaker 1: it's not one thing, it's another. And when you talk
Speaker 1: about special teams, this was a game that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: could have definitely won. I mean, when you see the
Speaker 1: way that the Pages were playing, it was just in
Speaker 1: favor for the Cowboys, despite them being at home and
Speaker 1: all of the factors that go into that, and the
Speaker 1: coaching and all of that. This was a very winnable game.
Speaker 1: But again, the Cowboys just can't stay out of their
Speaker 1: own ways, and they just keep making mistake after mistake,
Speaker 1: things that didn't make much sense. And then some of
Speaker 1: the calls. There were a couple of times, and I
Speaker 1: saw people talking about it on Twitter as well. When
Speaker 1: you're being successful running the ball with seek or poler
Speaker 1: and then on a third down you decide to throw
Speaker 1: a pass, it's like, why why go that route? So
Speaker 1: again it's just cowboys stepping on their own foot and
Speaker 1: making their own mistakes. All right, let's dive a little
Speaker 1: deeper into the special teams. What do you guys think
Speaker 1: was the biggest special team snaff food? Because there were
Speaker 1: you debut outlined some of them. You had the block
Speaker 1: punt you had obviously, and I'll even take the block
Speaker 1: punt out because I think the block punt we all
Speaker 1: know without the block punt, there may not have been
Speaker 1: a touchdown in that game that the Patriots would have scored.
Speaker 1: But looking at the other things, you got the kickoff
Speaker 1: returns where they couldn't quite figure out that maybe they
Speaker 1: should move the returner up ten yards because those kicks
Speaker 1: were coming short. You had the situation there with the
Speaker 1: two penalties that that that were twenty yards of lost
Speaker 1: yardage that would have pinned the Patriots back instead gave
Speaker 1: them a ball in pretty favorable a field position. I
Speaker 1: think it was at their thirty eight. I want to say, um,
Speaker 1: looking at everything happened from a special team standpoint, what
Speaker 1: do you think outside of the block punt was the
Speaker 1: thing that that you look at and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: Cowboys just basically got outcoached in this situation. That's the
Speaker 1: sequence with the twenty extra yards on the punt just
Speaker 1: felt so in them. Like I said, in the moment,
Speaker 1: it was so glaring where you know, the Patriots just
Speaker 1: were like, well, we're gonna, We're not gonna. He was
Speaker 1: a returner, and the Cowboys were so freaked out by
Speaker 1: that that they took a delay of game. Didn't they
Speaker 1: get the punt off? And it I mean it was
Speaker 1: a great punt by Chris Jones. The Patriots would have
Speaker 1: had the ball at their own eighteen yard line inside
Speaker 1: the twenty, and again the Cowboys were so freaked out
Speaker 1: by accounting for the change in protection because the Patriots
Speaker 1: had an extra man, which, like I've never coached football,
Speaker 1: I've definitely never coached special teams, but like, I don't
Speaker 1: know it doesn't. It just doesn't seem like such a
Speaker 1: drastic change that it's going to screw you up twice.
Speaker 1: But it did, and it was a twenty yard difference
Speaker 1: on an eventual field goal drive. I don't have his
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a bad thing. But they got outcoached
Speaker 1: by Bill Belichick on that play. You got outcoached by
Speaker 1: yourself and the and the freaking weather by not realizing
Speaker 1: that at some point moved the move Tony Pollard up
Speaker 1: ten yards because they're not kicking it. They can't kick
Speaker 1: it that far. Yeah, just see the win. So to
Speaker 1: not be prepared for that. They did that against Detroit
Speaker 1: and there was no rain or wind, and they still
Speaker 1: moved it up because they realized that's what the Lions
Speaker 1: were doing. So I don't know, they just put too
Speaker 1: much faith and those guys back there to catch it.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, if you're tied in you
Speaker 1: can't catch the ball like that, Like what I don't
Speaker 1: understand if Tony Potter can't catch the ball like that, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just the whole the whole unit is just it's
Speaker 1: a mess. It's an absolute mess. And it was interesting
Speaker 1: after the game Bill Belichick when he was talking about.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, we went into the game with
Speaker 1: the intention that we wanted to challenge their their ball
Speaker 1: handling skills for their of their returners. When you think
Speaker 1: about that kind of level of detail, you think about, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to go into this game, and one of
Speaker 1: the things we think we can challenge because of the
Speaker 1: weather is their ability to be able to fill the kick.
Speaker 1: Like that's the part that to me goes well beyond
Speaker 1: like I don't I don't know. I'm not in any
Speaker 1: of the coaching meetings, but I certainly don't. I don't
Speaker 1: suspect that's the kind of thing that that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are necessarily doing. And that's the part that really when
Speaker 1: you when you go up against the coach that thinks
Speaker 1: about everything. I'm not trying to cut you off. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I know it's hard returning, but you're not gonna do
Speaker 1: that because this team and this coach doesn't do that.
Speaker 1: Because we talked about it earlier. Parking lot, home away,
Speaker 1: parking lot and moon we do what we do, well,
Speaker 1: that's crap, because what you need to do is do
Speaker 1: it differently. When the rain is coming down and there's
Speaker 1: a win, and then you got to figure out what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do differently. This hole given us hotel keys
Speaker 1: that say be who we are. That's that doesn't work
Speaker 1: because you can't be who you are because that's it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Seventy two degrees at at and t Staateum,
Speaker 1: that's not the way it was. You have to adjust.
Speaker 1: They didn't adjust, and Belichick went into the game thinking
Speaker 1: that Cowboys didn't. They went into the game thinking Tony
Speaker 1: Polar stands at the goal line like he always does
Speaker 1: and the ball goes over his head and oh wait,
Speaker 1: it doesn't do that. Now what it's a scramble drill.
Speaker 1: Do what we do? Just why not do what they
Speaker 1: don't do? Like, yeah, do it works? It works? Do
Speaker 1: it works? Yeah? And again we are We are making
Speaker 1: some assumptions that they didn't have these kinds of conversations,
Speaker 1: but it certainly didn't really if they did, didn't reflect
Speaker 1: on the field. It didn't feel like they practice or
Speaker 1: raining on Thursday and in the Forth Center where they practice,
Speaker 1: but Thursday, I think it might have been raining outside.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I've been raining around Dallas.
Speaker 1: But they should have been prepared for that part. They
Speaker 1: really do you need to work gloves or do you
Speaker 1: go without gloves. I mean you should know that you
Speaker 1: should know yourself how you handle balls at this point
Speaker 1: in your fourth year. And to be fair, we had
Speaker 1: this discussion last week and I think I think I remember,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, I think the conversation went in
Speaker 1: the way of, Okay, you have two ways you can
Speaker 1: look at this. You can look at it as let's
Speaker 1: get a good day of practice by going inside and
Speaker 1: not dealing with the elements so that we can make
Speaker 1: sure that we have a good day of practice, or
Speaker 1: let's go outside and maybe not have as great a
Speaker 1: day of practice, but at least you get to simulate
Speaker 1: the elements. And I don't know how everybody felt on that,
Speaker 1: however everybody landed on that, but certainly you look at
Speaker 1: what happened yesterday and in hindsight, at least you think
Speaker 1: that maybe they should have given a little more credence
Speaker 1: to the fact that you had an opportunity to mimic
Speaker 1: what you were going to face against the Patriots, and
Speaker 1: you just it was a missed opportunity. Nobody on this
Speaker 1: team really looked like they were prepared for a slick football.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know even you know, the biggest offensive
Speaker 1: play of the game, Randall cop fifty eight yards, he
Speaker 1: like fumbled to himself mid play. I feel like it
Speaker 1: happened again too, like it, I mean, didn't Jar would
Speaker 1: have a kind of a Jarwin popped it to himself,
Speaker 1: you know, when bad snap on on a pretty big
Speaker 1: play for Dak, which, yeah, the snap was bad, but
Speaker 1: then Dak needed a minute to corral it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like I definitely I wasn't going into this game like
Speaker 1: clutching my pearls that they hadn't practiced in the rain.
Speaker 1: So I feel cheap harping on it now. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, nobody looked ready for it. Um and
Speaker 1: and the Patriots handled it a lot better than they did,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Yeah, And I really, you know,
Speaker 1: I I know I was the only one on here
Speaker 1: that picked the Cowboys, and I don't. I don't take
Speaker 1: that back at all, because I really think watching that game,
Speaker 1: I'm even more convinced than I was before. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have better football players than the Patriots. They
Speaker 1: really do. They do. And I think that if they
Speaker 1: played that game again and there's no excuses about it,
Speaker 1: I get it they play that game again, they play
Speaker 1: at atnc STAM, I think the Cowboys definitely win that game.
Speaker 1: I think they win it again if it's if we're
Speaker 1: probably going the same way. Finish that. Finish that thought,
Speaker 1: though I can hear people screaming the rest of that
Speaker 1: thought into their coaching. Yeah, the Cowboys have much better
Speaker 1: players and the Patriots have much better coaches. So true,
Speaker 1: but I mean there's thirty one other teams that that
Speaker 1: that don't have better coaches than Belichair. But that's also
Speaker 1: why they're nine and one with a roster right now
Speaker 1: that offensively isn't doing nothing. Ten and one. I'm tending one.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry they're tending one. But that's my point. Like,
Speaker 1: even if you take that game, you put that in
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium, forget, you put it wherever you
Speaker 1: want to know the rain did the Cowboys win? I honestly,
Speaker 1: I came back to the same thing. I don't think
Speaker 1: that when it comes down to those close kind of
Speaker 1: games like they have to play there, I think coaching
Speaker 1: makes a difference. And I think no matter where they
Speaker 1: would have been, they would have had the same kind
Speaker 1: of situation. And I don't I mean the Patriots would
Speaker 1: have played better us well, agree and don't even don't
Speaker 1: tweet at me and say that I'm given excuses. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is is the Patriots, in their coaching and
Speaker 1: special rooms, they handle that thing better than the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I think that it affected Dallas more than an affected
Speaker 1: New England. Yeah, I really do, don't you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving excuses. I just think the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: a better football team if the conditions, but they can't.
Speaker 1: I that has to be perfect for them, and that's
Speaker 1: not a sign of a good football and they have
Speaker 1: to they have to play a perfect game. And that's
Speaker 1: the problem this season. Well this season, what we what
Speaker 1: we've seen is against good teams, they don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of room for error and they haven't been able
Speaker 1: to play the clean kind of game they need in
Speaker 1: order to beat these good teams. And to me, that
Speaker 1: suggests that maybe the talent may be there, but for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're not able to click enough. I would
Speaker 1: argue they have a lot of room for error, and
Speaker 1: that's how sloppy and unpoised they are. I mean, they
Speaker 1: lost the turnover battle minus two and all the hidden yardage.
Speaker 1: We just talked about like they made a ton of
Speaker 1: mistakes and still only lost by four and had a
Speaker 1: chance to win the game at the end. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of room for error, and I think that
Speaker 1: that speaks a lot of how talented they are and
Speaker 1: how not poised well coached. You put some of it
Speaker 1: on execution too, I mean, untimely flags. Some of that's
Speaker 1: on the players, But they don't bring their a game basically. Ever,
Speaker 1: We've said it a thousand times and I've said it
Speaker 1: at least, I mean, they're not clutch. This is not
Speaker 1: a clutch football team that wins in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: when when the game's on the line and the crowd's
Speaker 1: going nuts and they've got they're piping in the sound
Speaker 1: and it's third and eight and all that that they're
Speaker 1: they're not making the place. We're gonna take the place,
Speaker 1: and and I know where we're gonna go. But to
Speaker 1: think that the Cowboys are going to go and make
Speaker 1: the play, we're gonna get into the field goal decision,
Speaker 1: I guess, I mean that just goes back to arrogance
Speaker 1: of thinking that you're going to go down there. I
Speaker 1: just want to throw this in there. I hear what
Speaker 1: you're saying, and I think you have a valid point.
Speaker 1: But if this game was played and seventy two degrees
Speaker 1: indoors at at and T, I completely trust Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: to find a way to use that to his advantage.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, well, we knew the light would be
Speaker 1: in Dack's eyes on in the third quarter, and like that,
Speaker 1: we knew that the board up there was gonna admit
Speaker 1: certain certain electronical electronic magnetic field or something, some of it,
Speaker 1: some of it. Like it's a snowball effect, right, Like
Speaker 1: he's an amazing coach, he's a Hall of Famer, he's
Speaker 1: one of the best ever, and he probably gets more
Speaker 1: credit than he deserves because of it. Just like I said,
Speaker 1: it just snowballs and you start giving him credit for
Speaker 1: stuff that maybe he didn't even do on purpose. At
Speaker 1: the same time, he deserves it. Yeah, he absolutely deserves it.
Speaker 1: And for my money, I think he would have found
Speaker 1: a way to eke out that game in perfect conditions. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean, we we'll never know, but I mean, I
Speaker 1: just it's unfortunate because this, you know, weather like that
Speaker 1: neutralizes everything. It comes down to the little stuff, and
Speaker 1: then that's where it was a huge, you know, advantage
Speaker 1: for the Patriots to win. And then that's that's why
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are not a good football team right now.
Speaker 1: They're just a kind of a above bridge team that
Speaker 1: can hang in there with the good teams, but they
Speaker 1: don't beat them. As if we didn't talk enough about coaching,
Speaker 1: we're going to take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about coaching because Jerry Jones had some
Speaker 1: very interesting things to say last night after the game
Speaker 1: about his coaches. Well, when we come right back. This
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Speaker 1: the Break, Welcome back, second second segment on the Break
Speaker 1: live this WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys lost yesterday. They lose thirteen nine to
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and they got a game coming up
Speaker 1: quick here Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. They played the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: who were also nine and three, eight and three or
Speaker 1: eight and three. So uh so, ay, is there's no
Speaker 1: rest at this point? You gotta keep them rolling and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys be back at practice this afternoon, I think
Speaker 1: this evening or is it just going to be an
Speaker 1: open mine? I think it's practices tomorrow and Wednesday. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they'll do practice tomorrow and Wednesday and they'd be
Speaker 1: ready to play by Thursday. We do have a seven
Speaker 1: pm press conference with Jason Garrett, so we'll have Cowboys
Speaker 1: going for you all day to day. Stay tuned. Guys
Speaker 1: that are frustrated with Garrett for different reasons, so are we,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe no one cares about that. But all right,
Speaker 1: so here we go. I want to talk about coaching
Speaker 1: because coach Garrett or I'm sorry, Jason, I'm sorry Jerry
Speaker 1: where yesterday, Jerry had some very interesting things to say
Speaker 1: about his coaching staff, and I'm gonna read there were
Speaker 1: three quotes I thought were very interesting. I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: these quotes and I want to get reaction from you
Speaker 1: guys on what it means for Jason Garrett and his staff.
Speaker 1: I think that every aspect of special teams, when you
Speaker 1: really look at it, have been problematic for us. There's
Speaker 1: no question about that. To me, special teams is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent coaching. It's one hundred percent coaching. It's strategy,
Speaker 1: it's having players ready. That's why today Belichick give them credit.
Speaker 1: They did a great job on special teams and that
Speaker 1: was really probably the determining difference. But special teams is
Speaker 1: nothing but coaching. Final quote. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: any into anything about coaching relative to changes or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but I will tell you at special teams
Speaker 1: is a total reflection of coaching. Do we see a
Speaker 1: theme there? I love that. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into coaching. That's kind of like you know when your
Speaker 1: spouse says, I don't really want to get in a
Speaker 1: fight here, but whatever comes up to. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into coaching. But this is a
Speaker 1: reflection of coaching, right, I have been good. They need
Speaker 1: to block a punt return a kick, those not just one.
Speaker 1: I've been at ninety nine point nine percent of Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones's postgame media sessions since I started covering this team,
Speaker 1: and I have never heard him like that. He's typically hilled.
Speaker 1: He's a glass half full kind of guy. He's not
Speaker 1: interested in throwing people under the bus or you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jerry Jones always makes headlines when he talks,
Speaker 1: but it's usually not scorched earth stuff like that. I counted,
Speaker 1: I transcribe the whole thing he said some variation of
Speaker 1: frustrated or disappointed fifteen times. Uh and and I mean
Speaker 1: just shot across the bow at special teams in particular.
Speaker 1: But to me, the whole coaching staff, I've never I've
Speaker 1: never heard him be that pointed, even in the wake
Speaker 1: of I mean, and he talks after basically every game,
Speaker 1: some of them are really devastating losses. That was new,
Speaker 1: and it to me, it was putting people on notice
Speaker 1: that this isn't gonna cut it. You know what else?
Speaker 1: It was And I only got to hear a little
Speaker 1: bit of it, But you know how you say, he's
Speaker 1: optimistic a lot of the times, even on these tough losses.
Speaker 1: I felt like the frustration of those came out Sunday
Speaker 1: because he basically said, yeah, don't expect to fix your
Speaker 1: problems up here. You're not gonna be he said. He
Speaker 1: also said that you're going to get out coached up here.
Speaker 1: So he's basically his frustration about the Jets game, the
Speaker 1: Vikings game, maybe the Saints game, that all kind of
Speaker 1: came to the forefront going, you shouldn't have had to
Speaker 1: come to Foxboro and win this game to right the ship.
Speaker 1: This thing should have been fixed before it here. I
Speaker 1: actually he wrote about that last night, and you took
Speaker 1: the words right out of my mouth. Is like, it's
Speaker 1: weird to hear an NFL executive talk like that. Like
Speaker 1: that's how we talk, you know, Like we said it
Speaker 1: after the Jets game, like, well they put themselves behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball now because the Patriots now, yeah, which
Speaker 1: are still one. That's basically what Jerry said, is like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm paraphrasing, but he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: if we handle business against the Jets and at least
Speaker 1: like one or two of the Saints and Vikings and Packers.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here at seven and four or eight and three,
Speaker 1: and we're just like, yeah, it's hard to win up here,
Speaker 1: and it's no big DAC team. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, but unless your overall
Speaker 1: record needs it, when it drops you to six and
Speaker 1: five and compounds all the same problems we've been seeing,
Speaker 1: I get why Jerry's frustrated. Well, you know, every week
Speaker 1: when these guys talk, whether it's Jerry Jones or Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett or any of the player including Dak, they're usually
Speaker 1: pretty good at keeping everything very neutral and not really
Speaker 1: showing their emotions or anything, keeping it very political correct,
Speaker 1: you know. And this week I feel like everybody I
Speaker 1: listened to you can tell by the way they answer things.
Speaker 1: When you know this, when you're around long enough, you
Speaker 1: get a feel of how they are and when the
Speaker 1: way they answer things. And now I'm starting to get
Speaker 1: a frustration from all of them in the way they answer,
Speaker 1: including Jason Garrett. Some of the things, some of the
Speaker 1: ways he answered last night, you can just tell that
Speaker 1: he is frustrated. And I mean, I'm not saying that's
Speaker 1: a nice thing to be, but to do but I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just it's good when you get to
Speaker 1: see that from their end and it makes you feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're not that crazy after all, or they're not that
Speaker 1: crazy and you feel like, Okay, we're on the same tune.
Speaker 1: And at least Jerry Jones it's not blind as to
Speaker 1: what is going on with the coaching and you know,
Speaker 1: so it's good to finally hear those kinds of things,
Speaker 1: even though you're not happy about it. Yep, I think
Speaker 1: there's from the top down. I think you get a vibe.
Speaker 1: I mean, from Jerry Jones to the inactive players. I
Speaker 1: think everybody knows that this team's better on paper than
Speaker 1: what they've put on the field. And I'll be in
Speaker 1: I mean, there's five games left that can neither galvanize
Speaker 1: you to get it together and play better, or I
Speaker 1: mean it could tear the team apart too. We have
Speaker 1: not seen that under Jason Garrett. Ever, that would be
Speaker 1: new territory. And you know, the interesting part of about
Speaker 1: that to me is I wonder how much Jerry expressing
Speaker 1: his frustration last night has players to where they're now
Speaker 1: looking like we kind of with thinking that, but nobody
Speaker 1: wants to say it right, you know, when when you
Speaker 1: hear it now from the owner, then it becomes a
Speaker 1: situation where it's like, well, you know, yeah, there'll probably
Speaker 1: some decisions that could have been made differently. We're not
Speaker 1: being put in the best position to succeed. And that's
Speaker 1: when you start really having those problems. Where does the
Speaker 1: coach Does he have a way to pull the team
Speaker 1: back together and make sure they don't fracture at this
Speaker 1: point because he's not and this is probably recognizably so,
Speaker 1: because his staff is not putting their team in the
Speaker 1: best position. I wonder how much voice these players actually
Speaker 1: have when they go into meetings. Do they Are they
Speaker 1: really voicing their opinions as to like how they're being
Speaker 1: utilized on the field. I don't know, but i'd be
Speaker 1: curious to know. I also think we I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: the coaching was was not good, but let's put some
Speaker 1: of it on me. You gotta put some on the
Speaker 1: players too. They didn't play very well. I mean that
Speaker 1: talk about goats, catch it, I'm sorry, catch the ball, Jason,
Speaker 1: When you catch it the ball, that's right, And that's
Speaker 1: that's he does, right, You expect he's gonna catch the
Speaker 1: ball because that's the greatest thing he brings to the type.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm not just trying to single out him,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of guys like that Tyrant Smith.
Speaker 1: You can't get a false start penalty like that, push
Speaker 1: the back five yards. Maha needs every yard you can get.
Speaker 1: You can't do that that. That was a three point
Speaker 1: penalty right there. So I mean there's I get frustration
Speaker 1: with the coach because it's really easy to just start
Speaker 1: here and then it trickles down. But these players that
Speaker 1: are making a lot of money make make some plays.
Speaker 1: They needed you to make more play. Some of these
Speaker 1: guys on defense, some offensive linemen they needed Dak to
Speaker 1: step up and make plays. So all around, it was
Speaker 1: it was a frustrating day for the coaching and the
Speaker 1: special teams. But these players that are going to be
Speaker 1: voted to the Pro Bowl, they didn't play that well
Speaker 1: either yesterday at times. I mean, there were some times
Speaker 1: that they dropped the ball too literally, I agree with
Speaker 1: you to a point, but again, I mean the conditions
Speaker 1: made that game such a wash, I mean, and it
Speaker 1: reminded me of the I mean, the last time they
Speaker 1: really played in conditions like that twenty seventeen, you could point.
Speaker 1: I mean the defense and the special teams really made
Speaker 1: the difference in that game. They had a pick six,
Speaker 1: they had a block field goal that got returned to
Speaker 1: the goal line. They needed plays like that. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, Zeke had thirty five carries
Speaker 1: in that game because it's the only thing they could do. So, no,
Speaker 1: they the offense didn't play well. They outgained the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's hard for me to say they
Speaker 1: put them selves in position to win, but in conditions
Speaker 1: like that, well you get what you Honestly, again, he
Speaker 1: said it, it has to be defense and special teams
Speaker 1: and games like that, and they were clearly outplayed on
Speaker 1: defense and special teams, and that's where the difference was
Speaker 1: in this game. Three straight games without a takeaway, and
Speaker 1: I know what, the Cowboys were the last team in
Speaker 1: the league to start on the opponent's side of the field.
Speaker 1: They finally broke that streak, I think against the Giants.
Speaker 1: But I mean, how many truly short fields has this
Speaker 1: offense been given. It's a testament to how good they've
Speaker 1: been most of the year, that they've been so good
Speaker 1: despite that, I mean, they're driving the field every time,
Speaker 1: and I hate to blame the defense. They gave up
Speaker 1: thirteen points. I really feel like they did their job.
Speaker 1: But in games like that, you've got to create short fields,
Speaker 1: and it did not. Just so you have a frame
Speaker 1: of referenced, the Cowboys average starting fil position was their
Speaker 1: own twenty one average starting field position, for the Patriots
Speaker 1: their own forty one, as twenty yards difference in their
Speaker 1: star average starting field position. Two of their drives are
Speaker 1: in Cowboys territory, one of them in the red zone exactly,
Speaker 1: So I mean that's your difference in the game. Again,
Speaker 1: a game like that, everybody was having, you know, drops
Speaker 1: and misques. I mean, Edelman dropped a couple of passes,
Speaker 1: So it happens in those kinds of situations. I just
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to overcome that. Specifically, we just special teams and
Speaker 1: playing a film position game, and that's where coaching becomes
Speaker 1: so important. We're gonna take our final break when we
Speaker 1: come back. I do want to dive a little deeper
Speaker 1: into some of the coaching decisions that were made in
Speaker 1: that game and get some opinions from you guys on
Speaker 1: how egregious they were. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 1: T Stadum. I'm sorry, let's go. Let's te right football.
Speaker 1: It's like we buried the lead. It's forty minutes. No
Speaker 1: one's talking about the fourth and seven. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about that. Let's talk about some of these coaching decisions.
Speaker 1: The first one that Nick obviously wants to talk about
Speaker 1: is the fourth and well, I mean Cowboys. Cowboys make
Speaker 1: the decision that they want to kick a field goal
Speaker 1: on fourth and seven. They're in the fourth quarter. It
Speaker 1: was six something left in the game, and they decided
Speaker 1: they want to go for a field goal. Howard Gregious,
Speaker 1: was that mistake? If you believe that it was a mistake,
Speaker 1: Nick took the words right out of my mouth, So
Speaker 1: you just go ahead and say it. I just I
Speaker 1: believe that Jason said if it was more manageable, they
Speaker 1: would have gone for it. That's their fault that it's
Speaker 1: not manageable. I don't don't hate the fourth and seven
Speaker 1: field goal. I hate the fact that they made it
Speaker 1: fourth and seven. They didn't have to. It's a rainy,
Speaker 1: wet game. They can't throw, they can't snap, they can't catch.
Speaker 1: So how about we run the football, keep running in
Speaker 1: on third down, on second down, and then maybe it's
Speaker 1: fourth and two for it. Maybe it's first down, who knows,
Speaker 1: it's a totally different situation. They decide that Dak wants
Speaker 1: to run around and throw it to Blake Jarwin bet
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: the awareness to make that play. Jason Witten doesn't have
Speaker 1: the ability to make sliding catches behind Gilmore. That's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. They didn't. They didn't do a good job
Speaker 1: of setting that up. So that's all you know. And
Speaker 1: I still would have gone for it on fourth and seven,
Speaker 1: but it didn't have to be fourth and seven. The
Speaker 1: whole series should have been predicated on the thought that
Speaker 1: they were going to go for it on fourth down. Yes,
Speaker 1: um yeah, Like I don't think they would have picked
Speaker 1: up a fourth and seven. So I can't kill them
Speaker 1: for kicking the field goal, Like I don't want I
Speaker 1: didn't want them to, but I think it's asinine to
Speaker 1: think that they were going to pick up eight yards
Speaker 1: after what we'd seen all day. But you don't have
Speaker 1: to throw it to Blake Jarwin with two guys on
Speaker 1: him in the back of the end zone. You could
Speaker 1: scramble maybe, honestly, maybe pick up the first down six
Speaker 1: yards at the very least and set up a fourth
Speaker 1: and manageable. How about this. I love creativity, misdirection, all
Speaker 1: that cool stuff. But they've tried the freaking They've tried
Speaker 1: the option about five times this year and it never works. Ever,
Speaker 1: it has not worked once. They did it against the
Speaker 1: Jets on a fourth down, I believe, and it blew
Speaker 1: up in their face. They've run it at least four
Speaker 1: times this year, and I would bet a paycheck that
Speaker 1: the longest it's gained is like three yards. So get
Speaker 1: rid of that, please. But they all four of those
Speaker 1: play calls should have been predicated on getting that first down,
Speaker 1: because again, you talk about taking the pulse of your
Speaker 1: team and something Brian always used to still does love
Speaker 1: to say, knowing the situation. And I just think, and
Speaker 1: to Jason Garrett's credit, it worked out. They got the
Speaker 1: ball back, But you're again, you're I mean, they would
Speaker 1: have had to have driven ninety five yards. Even if
Speaker 1: a Mari makes that catch, they're still sixty yards away
Speaker 1: from Payder with a minute something to play. It's doable.
Speaker 1: But why not just go put yourself in this position
Speaker 1: to win the game right there? It's a way better
Speaker 1: chance you're gonna pick up twenty yards and score a
Speaker 1: touchdown with three minutes to play. Give your defense a
Speaker 1: chance to pin their ears back and go after Tom
Speaker 1: Brady because he's gonna need to get down the field.
Speaker 1: I like your odds of winning that way better. Then Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if we force this three and out and play this perfectly,
Speaker 1: then we'll have a chance to drive ninety yards to
Speaker 1: score a touchdown. I don't buy that. Still don't hate
Speaker 1: the decision to kick on fourth and seven because of
Speaker 1: the way the offense has been playing, But all of
Speaker 1: your decision making up to that point should have been
Speaker 1: about four down territory. In my opinion, I still look
Speaker 1: at it though, if you would have been fourth and seven,
Speaker 1: even if they don't get the fourth and seven, I
Speaker 1: look at it as you force you end up giving
Speaker 1: them the ball there at the eleven yard line, So
Speaker 1: most likely they're just at that point trying to solve
Speaker 1: the game away. You probably get the ball back, you
Speaker 1: probably still have an opportunity to do exactly what you
Speaker 1: would have wanted to do anyway. So you're already down there.
Speaker 1: It's not likely you're going to drive all the way
Speaker 1: back down there again take a shot, and again, I
Speaker 1: think it goes back to what you were saying, Nick,
Speaker 1: You have to be aware that you're going to do
Speaker 1: that early on, and then you create two You call
Speaker 1: two players that you think can get you a little closer,
Speaker 1: one that can get you a little closer than seven yards,
Speaker 1: and then a fourth and three, fourth and four you
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better about. So I do think
Speaker 1: it's probably the decision, and that's where it starts getting
Speaker 1: to these these conversations of analytics. I know there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation about that. Today. Jason was asked
Speaker 1: about it, said that that's not something they really use
Speaker 1: in that way. But when you think about it, you
Speaker 1: know the Patriots they have analytics people who are talking
Speaker 1: their coach throughout the game. The Baltimore Ravens analytics people
Speaker 1: talking to the coaches throughout the game. It makes you
Speaker 1: wonder why the Cowboys wouldn't utilize that sort of technology.
Speaker 1: That's sort of just you know, understanding the game in
Speaker 1: a different way to give you the best opportunity to
Speaker 1: win based upon math, based on the probability. Because their
Speaker 1: head coach thinks that he is that guy because he
Speaker 1: went to Princeton and all, I mean, maybe he thinks
Speaker 1: he is that guy. I'm not saying I don't know this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not having lemonated with Jason Garrett about
Speaker 1: stuff like that, so I don't know. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it's hard. I mean, he's been around football forever.
Speaker 1: I don't know how those coaches think about a guy
Speaker 1: sitting up their moneyball like telling them that this is
Speaker 1: a good I don't know, and I don't even know
Speaker 1: if that's a good way to do it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if John on Hardball does it. In Baltimore says Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, the way I look at what I
Speaker 1: look at is there's not a CEO in America that
Speaker 1: doesn't have people that are giving him information and then
Speaker 1: he ultimately makes a decision. Just because you get the
Speaker 1: information doesn't mean you have to use it. So if
Speaker 1: a coach gets the information from let's say a person
Speaker 1: that knows the probabilities, and says, hey, based on the
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing in the game, here's the probability of
Speaker 1: what you should do right here, Jason could still overrule
Speaker 1: that and say, you know, my guts just telling me
Speaker 1: to do something. Difference, head Coat, he has the ability
Speaker 1: to do that. John Harbor The Athletic wrote about this
Speaker 1: last week. John Harbaw's got a guy that's younger than
Speaker 1: me giving him the win probabilities of every outcome of
Speaker 1: every play throughout it. And did you hear what his
Speaker 1: training was in? It wasn't just probability. Something he was
Speaker 1: behavioral I think was behavioral sciences or something like that.
Speaker 1: But the point was he's not just thinking about the probabilities.
Speaker 1: He's also thinking about human behavior and how human behavior
Speaker 1: factors into probability, which he also I mean, you know
Speaker 1: we're going way back, but like week four or five,
Speaker 1: the Ravens played the Chiefs and they went for it
Speaker 1: on fourth down like five times. They didn't get a
Speaker 1: lot of them. They lost the game. Harbaugh talked about it.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, you know, we listen to those guys,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it is my gut, but at
Speaker 1: some point the numbers kind of tell you what the
Speaker 1: right course of action is. Right more than the fourth
Speaker 1: and seven. To me, the worst play of the game
Speaker 1: I think that affected the entire game was third and
Speaker 1: one at the thirty five yard line at the two
Speaker 1: minute warning. The team that is supposed to be a
Speaker 1: run football team, that's physical. That's the only thing they're
Speaker 1: really doing well. Third and one. They got to run
Speaker 1: the football there. They don't do that. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: they get the first down. That's great. But I guarantee you,
Speaker 1: I don't care what the tripping call was. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you that's not tripping. If you run the football, you're
Speaker 1: setting yourself up for a situation. Now it's third and eleven.
Speaker 1: I am looking at it now. That's not a trip.
Speaker 1: That's not a trip. It might be an attempted trip,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a trip. Putting your knee up like that,
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders did it for thirty years. Putting your knee
Speaker 1: up like that is not a trip. It looks like
Speaker 1: you might have thought about it, but that isn't a trip.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is I said There's some people
Speaker 1: on Twitter. They're like, we're really killing them for throwing,
Speaker 1: when two weeks ago that's all we wanted them to do.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, yeah, it was working. Throwing was
Speaker 1: working against the Vikings in a dome. R running was
Speaker 1: working against the Patriots outdoors. I guess you had to
Speaker 1: be there to know how many. I think I see shrimp.
Speaker 1: I think I see one down lineman on that play.
Speaker 1: The Cowboy. I gave Kella Moore credit. During the game,
Speaker 1: they ran a draw in a similar situation and picked
Speaker 1: up five yards on a third and short. Zeke was
Speaker 1: averaging four yards per carry. The run was really the
Speaker 1: only thing they were doing with any consistency. They were
Speaker 1: averaging four point two as a team. I think um
Speaker 1: and the past worked. I get it, it was a
Speaker 1: bad call, but I there's so many more moving parts,
Speaker 1: and on a night, on a night when nobody could
Speaker 1: hang onto the ball, I just I think I would
Speaker 1: have run the ball. I will say this, I would Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have run the ball twice in that scenario
Speaker 1: had it gotten to fourth and short. I will say
Speaker 1: this about the tripping, and you and I we talked
Speaker 1: about this a little bit off air a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: I heard, um, I think it was Rob A. Wreck
Speaker 1: Ryan this morning on the air on NFL Network talking
Speaker 1: about the far as ESPN talking about the fact that
Speaker 1: that he had people that told him that essentially, the
Speaker 1: tripping was something that Belichick had noticed throughout throughout his
Speaker 1: preparation his film study on the Cowboys, and because of
Speaker 1: that sent in some clips to the league, and so
Speaker 1: the league then it tells their referees, Okay, here's something
Speaker 1: that this coach is noticing. Be aware of it. And
Speaker 1: that all makes sense to me because when you see
Speaker 1: a clip like that and you see the tripping call,
Speaker 1: you see right there, Travis Frederick's leg goes out. To me,
Speaker 1: that looks like the referee saw the leg go out.
Speaker 1: He didn't actually trip him, but he saw the leg
Speaker 1: go out, and he's like, oh, yeah, that's what That's
Speaker 1: what we've been talking about this week. Bam, here goes
Speaker 1: to flag and a similar thing could have happened with
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith. It didn't really look like a tripping call.
Speaker 1: But if you're alerted to something and told, hey, this
Speaker 1: is something the Cowboys are doing regularly in these kinds
Speaker 1: of situations, be aware of it same guy, then the
Speaker 1: refs are gonna be looking for that particular call, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's the same exact player for the Patriots. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: see it in high Tower, the same guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's the one that goes in here and here. On
Speaker 1: this play with Tyrn Smith, he just goes down. I
Speaker 1: mean that. But you see in both instances though, he
Speaker 1: goes down and the leg is out there a little bit,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense. But again that goes back to coaching.
Speaker 1: Like when you see those kinds of things and you
Speaker 1: can create these these things that the rest now have
Speaker 1: to pay attention to, it creates an opportunity for you,
Speaker 1: maybe to get these kinds of calls right in a
Speaker 1: game that features like what how many games? How many
Speaker 1: plays did they run in this game? Total? Like one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty? Yeah, I hate even you know, even
Speaker 1: take it all the way back to the NFC title
Speaker 1: game last year, like everybody, you know the terrible call
Speaker 1: the Saints should have had it. I get that game
Speaker 1: went to overtime and Drew Brees through a terrible interception.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever talks about that. Like I hate, I mean,
Speaker 1: I hate zeroing in on one play and like acting
Speaker 1: like that's the reason why you lose a game. Very
Speaker 1: similar to that situation, and I'm member the Saints Rams game.
Speaker 1: The problem I had was was Peyton throwing the ball?
Speaker 1: I mean to me, it goes down to, Okay, well
Speaker 1: you know your kid went into this yard and the
Speaker 1: dog bit their hand, and like, oh why did the
Speaker 1: dog bright? Well let's well back up, why are they
Speaker 1: in the yard, Like, let's go. You don't have to
Speaker 1: do that. You don't have to pass on third and
Speaker 1: one to set that up. The Patriots or the Saints
Speaker 1: didn't have to pass down there early on to to
Speaker 1: even let that thing happen. So I always kind of
Speaker 1: take it back a player or two. I just think
Speaker 1: third and one they should have run the ball. They
Speaker 1: should have two plays to get a first down and
Speaker 1: get this thing rolling, and they didn't, you know. And
Speaker 1: then a Mari Cooper, we haven't talked about that. We
Speaker 1: don't know why he got shut out, so um they
Speaker 1: out went. We're kind of we're running short on time.
Speaker 1: But I don't like, am I crazy? I just like
Speaker 1: I have no beef with a Mari having the game
Speaker 1: that he had. Honestly, I know, like you you're all
Speaker 1: pros are supposed to step up. Yeah, you're crazy for that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, but if we're gonna, if we're gonna,
Speaker 1: if this guy's gonna be worth twenty million a year, like,
Speaker 1: shouldn't he make a play? I mean, well, he was
Speaker 1: in a situation where he wasn't getting targets. He can't
Speaker 1: throw the ball himself though, or he can get targets,
Speaker 1: he can get old. So are you saying he wasn't open,
Speaker 1: because I don't know that that he wasn't open as
Speaker 1: much as maybe you just didn't throw him the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, he caught a pass that tyrant on the
Speaker 1: on the tyrant holding, we don't have that one, but
Speaker 1: the tyrant hold that that wiped out, he did have
Speaker 1: a catch there, and he had a chance. He was
Speaker 1: targeted here in fourth and eleven and would have been
Speaker 1: a great catch. It would happen him. And that's a
Speaker 1: tough catch to making those conditions. So I don't kill
Speaker 1: him too much for that one. But but I need
Speaker 1: my guy him to make it. I get it, but
Speaker 1: I will I will tell you this too, and that
Speaker 1: he was asked this question after the game, like don't
Speaker 1: you think that do you get frustrated that um that
Speaker 1: they don't scheme up ways to get you open, because
Speaker 1: they I would assume they could. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can get anybody like you can try to scheme
Speaker 1: up whoever you want to scheme up to get opportunities.
Speaker 1: He said, Now, in conditions like it was a day,
Speaker 1: I'm not certain that would have been the best thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were running the ball effectively and again,
Speaker 1: and this this is a friends. I think in a
Speaker 1: game like this, you have to realize your game plan
Speaker 1: is going to be don't mess it up on offense,
Speaker 1: take advantage of opportunities, and you gotta be able to
Speaker 1: play a clean game on your special teams in defense,
Speaker 1: and you got to be able to hopefully create some
Speaker 1: some bad take advantage of some bad situations for your
Speaker 1: opponent in those situations to get yourself a short field.
Speaker 1: It was exactly what the Patriots did in that kind
Speaker 1: of game. You're not gonna move the ball a ton.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that him getting more targets necessarily
Speaker 1: makes that game any better, because I don't know the
Speaker 1: quarterback was going to consistently be able to get it
Speaker 1: to him in a catchable way. I mean, that wasn't
Speaker 1: Dak's best game either, and probably because of the field conditions.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, they just have
Speaker 1: to they have to figure out how to win those
Speaker 1: close games. And that's a lot more about all the
Speaker 1: other things that go into a game than it is
Speaker 1: about getting Amari Cooper more targets. In my opinion, I
Speaker 1: think that's letting them off the hook. He's supposed to
Speaker 1: be an All World player. He had two targets. He
Speaker 1: didn't make a catch in the game. He got shadow
Speaker 1: advices Gilmore, who had more catches than him in the game.
Speaker 1: I think that's bad. I mean, I put some of
Speaker 1: that on him. He's got to beat the best cornerback
Speaker 1: in the game, especially when the conditions are what they are.
Speaker 1: Imagine if you're a cornerback back pedaling trying to cover
Speaker 1: this guy, you should have an advantage. And he I mean,
Speaker 1: I need him to make more plays. In that game,
Speaker 1: they threw thirty three times. I'd like to think he
Speaker 1: would be open some of that and be able to
Speaker 1: make a play. I mean, Gallup was making some plays.
Speaker 1: I get Gilmore is tough, but I mean, if if
Speaker 1: Cooper is an elite receiver, like he's about to be paid.
Speaker 1: He needs to make more plays in that game. This
Speaker 1: is my take. I don't killing him for it, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna have great game against Buffalo and all. I
Speaker 1: get it. But I'm just saying they needed all of
Speaker 1: their playmakers to step up there and didn't happen enough.
Speaker 1: Didn't happen enough yet not all right. We appreciate you, guys. Jonas.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We're gonna start getting ready for this Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry for this Bills game. Dave. We're
Speaker 1: gonna doing the baalt I mean, the Bills offense tomorrow
Speaker 1: and then the Bill's defense on Wednesday till then for
Speaker 1: Nick Even, Dave Helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Held
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