WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Decisions, Decisions 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:18.759 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.919 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.240 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.879 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.320 It is Monday, November twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.840 episode number eighty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.920 We're live the s WBC Morria Studios at the Star, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.199 and man, we have so much to talk about the 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.880 day Cowboys lose. Last night, they lose thirteen to nine 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.960 to the New England Patriots, a game that was pretty 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.360 messy from the standpoint of the weather, but so many, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.600 so many points that came from that game worth discussing, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.880 and some things that were said after the game that 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.080 will definitely get into as well. Let's start first, as 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.160 we normally do, a particularly after a loss, and the 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.319 loss with so many storylines, I want to go around 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.640 the table and tell me each of you guys what 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.080 you think was the biggest storyline coming out of yesterday's game. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.280 Nicholas start with you, Well, everyone's getting I probably say 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.520 the same same two things. But I mean I special 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.840 teams was the issue, and we talked about it all week. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.399 When you have conditions like that, with the weather the 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.320 way it was, it neutralizes a lot. We had good offenses, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.160 good defenses. It comes down to the little things and 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.039 little things of special teams, and so it just one 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.160 thing after another just continued to happen. And that's where 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.160 the biggest differences between the Patriots and the Cowboys on 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.280 the field is the special teams units, and that was 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.360 they were exposed. Dave. Yeah, I mean I wrote in 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.960 my story last night. You know, people love to call 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.160 special teams hidden yardage, but there was nothing hidden about 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.600 it last night. It was right there and playing view 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.120 for anybody to see. Just a comedy of errors, man, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.360 I mean the I mean Bill Belichick himself said the 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.280 difference in the game was the block punt, like the 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.800 one short field the I mean, you know, the Patriots 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.400 only had to go ten twelve yards on that possession, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.880 only touchdown of the game. Cowboys couldn't buy somebody who 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.760 could handle the ball on a kick team to save 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.839 their life. The sequence with you know, the Patriots didn't 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.280 put a return man out there, and that just flummixed 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.920 the Cowboys beyond belief. Gave up twenty yards of fuel 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.800 position on an eventual New England field goal drive. You know, 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.400 it almost like it feels cheap, like it feels like 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.600 Hindsight's twenty twenty to sit here and harp on the 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.600 special teams. But like in the moment, in a game 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.080 that was that tight, I'm looking at the sheet five 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.760 out of twenty seven on third down between these two teams, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.040 Like when nobody could buy a first down, it was 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.280 just painstakingly obvious that the Patriots had the details fine 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.880 tuned and the Cowboys did not. Amber I mean, it's 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.000 just very unfortunate for the Cowboys. Like Nick said, when 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.480 it's not one thing, it's another. And when you talk 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.160 about special teams, this was a game that the Cowboys 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.840 could have definitely won. I mean, when you see the 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.000 way that the Pages were playing, it was just in 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.799 favor for the Cowboys, despite them being at home and 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.520 all of the factors that go into that, and the 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.520 coaching and all of that. This was a very winnable game. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.600 But again, the Cowboys just can't stay out of their 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.800 own ways, and they just keep making mistake after mistake, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.960 things that didn't make much sense. And then some of 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.080 the calls. There were a couple of times, and I 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.400 saw people talking about it on Twitter as well. When 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.560 you're being successful running the ball with seek or poler 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.960 and then on a third down you decide to throw 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:51.160 a pass, it's like, why why go that route? So 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.240 again it's just cowboys stepping on their own foot and 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.520 making their own mistakes. All right, let's dive a little 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.360 deeper into the special teams. What do you guys think 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.200 was the biggest special team snaff food? Because there were 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.600 you debut outlined some of them. You had the block 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.040 punt you had obviously, and I'll even take the block 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.720 punt out because I think the block punt we all 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.240 know without the block punt, there may not have been 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.279 a touchdown in that game that the Patriots would have scored. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.320 But looking at the other things, you got the kickoff 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.000 returns where they couldn't quite figure out that maybe they 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.600 should move the returner up ten yards because those kicks 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.400 were coming short. You had the situation there with the 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.320 two penalties that that that were twenty yards of lost 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.160 yardage that would have pinned the Patriots back instead gave 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.400 them a ball in pretty favorable a field position. I 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.840 think it was at their thirty eight. I want to say, um, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.400 looking at everything happened from a special team standpoint, what 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.480 do you think outside of the block punt was the 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.280 thing that that you look at and you're like, man, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.200 Cowboys just basically got outcoached in this situation. That's the 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.719 sequence with the twenty extra yards on the punt just 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.040 felt so in them. Like I said, in the moment, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.200 it was so glaring where you know, the Patriots just 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.160 were like, well, we're gonna, We're not gonna. He was 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.200 a returner, and the Cowboys were so freaked out by 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.840 that that they took a delay of game. Didn't they 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.760 get the punt off? And it I mean it was 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.200 a great punt by Chris Jones. The Patriots would have 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.280 had the ball at their own eighteen yard line inside 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.800 the twenty, and again the Cowboys were so freaked out 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.440 by accounting for the change in protection because the Patriots 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.280 had an extra man, which, like I've never coached football, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.479 I've definitely never coached special teams, but like, I don't 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.240 know it doesn't. It just doesn't seem like such a 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.520 drastic change that it's going to screw you up twice. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.160 But it did, and it was a twenty yard difference 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.440 on an eventual field goal drive. I don't have his 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.000 I mean, that's a bad thing. But they got outcoached 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.920 by Bill Belichick on that play. You got outcoached by 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.760 yourself and the and the freaking weather by not realizing 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.360 that at some point moved the move Tony Pollard up 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.440 ten yards because they're not kicking it. They can't kick 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.120 it that far. Yeah, just see the win. So to 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.799 not be prepared for that. They did that against Detroit 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.520 and there was no rain or wind, and they still 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.040 moved it up because they realized that's what the Lions 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.479 were doing. So I don't know, they just put too 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.920 much faith and those guys back there to catch it. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.039 And you know, I mean, if you're tied in you 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.200 can't catch the ball like that, Like what I don't 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.040 understand if Tony Potter can't catch the ball like that, Like, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.400 it's just the whole the whole unit is just it's 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.760 a mess. It's an absolute mess. And it was interesting 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.160 after the game Bill Belichick when he was talking about. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.160 He said, you know, we went into the game with 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.280 the intention that we wanted to challenge their their ball 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.960 handling skills for their of their returners. When you think 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.760 about that kind of level of detail, you think about, Hey, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.120 we're going to go into this game, and one of 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.919 the things we think we can challenge because of the 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.560 weather is their ability to be able to fill the kick. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.839 Like that's the part that to me goes well beyond 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.920 like I don't I don't know. I'm not in any 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.200 of the coaching meetings, but I certainly don't. I don't 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.159 suspect that's the kind of thing that that the Cowboys 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.600 are necessarily doing. And that's the part that really when 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.320 you when you go up against the coach that thinks 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.960 about everything. I'm not trying to cut you off. I'm sorry. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.160 I know it's hard returning, but you're not gonna do 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.120 that because this team and this coach doesn't do that. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.520 Because we talked about it earlier. Parking lot, home away, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.960 parking lot and moon we do what we do, well, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.960 that's crap, because what you need to do is do 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.600 it differently. When the rain is coming down and there's 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.440 a win, and then you got to figure out what 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.440 you're gonna do differently. This hole given us hotel keys 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.960 that say be who we are. That's that doesn't work 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.440 because you can't be who you are because that's it 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.160 doesn't work. Seventy two degrees at at and t Staateum, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.120 that's not the way it was. You have to adjust. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.400 They didn't adjust, and Belichick went into the game thinking 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.559 that Cowboys didn't. They went into the game thinking Tony 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.720 Polar stands at the goal line like he always does 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.080 and the ball goes over his head and oh wait, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.640 it doesn't do that. Now what it's a scramble drill. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.280 Do what we do? Just why not do what they 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.920 don't do? Like, yeah, do it works? It works? Do 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.040 it works? Yeah? And again we are We are making 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.680 some assumptions that they didn't have these kinds of conversations, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.720 but it certainly didn't really if they did, didn't reflect 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.840 on the field. It didn't feel like they practice or 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.400 raining on Thursday and in the Forth Center where they practice, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.000 but Thursday, I think it might have been raining outside. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:24.119 I mean, I don't know, I've been raining around Dallas. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.280 But they should have been prepared for that part. They 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.480 really do you need to work gloves or do you 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.880 go without gloves. I mean you should know that you 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.520 should know yourself how you handle balls at this point 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.880 in your fourth year. And to be fair, we had 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.000 this discussion last week and I think I think I remember, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.160 if I remember correctly, I think the conversation went in 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.720 the way of, Okay, you have two ways you can 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.520 look at this. You can look at it as let's 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.040 get a good day of practice by going inside and 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.760 not dealing with the elements so that we can make 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.600 sure that we have a good day of practice, or 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.679 let's go outside and maybe not have as great a 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.079 day of practice, but at least you get to simulate 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.600 the elements. And I don't know how everybody felt on that, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.360 however everybody landed on that, but certainly you look at 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.920 what happened yesterday and in hindsight, at least you think 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.000 that maybe they should have given a little more credence 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.000 to the fact that you had an opportunity to mimic 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.160 what you were going to face against the Patriots, and 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.040 you just it was a missed opportunity. Nobody on this 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.920 team really looked like they were prepared for a slick football. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.280 I mean, you know even you know, the biggest offensive 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.360 play of the game, Randall cop fifty eight yards, he 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.600 like fumbled to himself mid play. I feel like it 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.520 happened again too, like it, I mean, didn't Jar would 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.120 have a kind of a Jarwin popped it to himself, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.720 you know, when bad snap on on a pretty big 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.120 play for Dak, which, yeah, the snap was bad, but 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.800 then Dak needed a minute to corral it. And yeah, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.240 like I definitely I wasn't going into this game like 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.839 clutching my pearls that they hadn't practiced in the rain. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.560 So I feel cheap harping on it now. But at 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.880 the same time, nobody looked ready for it. Um and 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.439 and the Patriots handled it a lot better than they did, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.840 There's no doubt about that. Yeah, And I really, you know, 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:01.240 I I know I was the only one on here 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.040 that picked the Cowboys, and I don't. I don't take 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.000 that back at all, because I really think watching that game, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.319 I'm even more convinced than I was before. I think 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.480 the Cowboys have better football players than the Patriots. They 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.160 really do. They do. And I think that if they 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.840 played that game again and there's no excuses about it, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.960 I get it they play that game again, they play 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.640 at atnc STAM, I think the Cowboys definitely win that game. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.760 I think they win it again if it's if we're 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.240 probably going the same way. Finish that. Finish that thought, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.040 though I can hear people screaming the rest of that 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.280 thought into their coaching. Yeah, the Cowboys have much better 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.920 players and the Patriots have much better coaches. So true, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.400 but I mean there's thirty one other teams that that 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.880 that don't have better coaches than Belichair. But that's also 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.040 why they're nine and one with a roster right now 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.960 that offensively isn't doing nothing. Ten and one. I'm tending one. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.480 I'm sorry they're tending one. But that's my point. Like, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.000 even if you take that game, you put that in 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.480 at and T Stadium, forget, you put it wherever you 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.960 want to know the rain did the Cowboys win? I honestly, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.320 I came back to the same thing. I don't think 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.440 that when it comes down to those close kind of 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.200 games like they have to play there, I think coaching 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:04.760 makes a difference. And I think no matter where they 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.439 would have been, they would have had the same kind 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.000 of situation. And I don't I mean the Patriots would 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.000 have played better us well, agree and don't even don't 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.480 tweet at me and say that I'm given excuses. What 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.400 I'm saying is is the Patriots, in their coaching and 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.280 special rooms, they handle that thing better than the Cowboys. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.640 I think that it affected Dallas more than an affected 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.800 New England. Yeah, I really do, don't you. I mean, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.120 I'm not giving excuses. I just think the Cowboys are 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.120 a better football team if the conditions, but they can't. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.080 I that has to be perfect for them, and that's 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:36.599 not a sign of a good football and they have 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.240 to they have to play a perfect game. And that's 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.800 the problem this season. Well this season, what we what 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.280 we've seen is against good teams, they don't have a 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.600 lot of room for error and they haven't been able 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.320 to play the clean kind of game they need in 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.440 order to beat these good teams. And to me, that 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.320 suggests that maybe the talent may be there, but for 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.640 whatever reason, they're not able to click enough. I would 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.600 argue they have a lot of room for error, and 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.480 that's how sloppy and unpoised they are. I mean, they 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.080 lost the turnover battle minus two and all the hidden yardage. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.920 We just talked about like they made a ton of 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.320 mistakes and still only lost by four and had a 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.040 chance to win the game at the end. They have 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:13.880 a lot of room for error, and I think that 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.760 that speaks a lot of how talented they are and 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.360 how not poised well coached. You put some of it 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.200 on execution too, I mean, untimely flags. Some of that's 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.760 on the players, But they don't bring their a game basically. Ever, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.120 We've said it a thousand times and I've said it 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.040 at least, I mean, they're not clutch. This is not 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.679 a clutch football team that wins in the fourth quarter 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.920 when when the game's on the line and the crowd's 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.360 going nuts and they've got they're piping in the sound 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.200 and it's third and eight and all that that they're 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.400 they're not making the place. We're gonna take the place, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.480 and and I know where we're gonna go. But to 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.240 think that the Cowboys are going to go and make 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.520 the play, we're gonna get into the field goal decision, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.880 I guess, I mean that just goes back to arrogance 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.600 of thinking that you're going to go down there. I 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.480 just want to throw this in there. I hear what 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.200 you're saying, and I think you have a valid point. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.840 But if this game was played and seventy two degrees 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.760 indoors at at and T, I completely trust Bill Belichick 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.640 to find a way to use that to his advantage. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.560 He'd be like, well, we knew the light would be 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.880 in Dack's eyes on in the third quarter, and like that, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.880 we knew that the board up there was gonna admit 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:18.480 certain certain electronical electronic magnetic field or something, some of it, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.720 some of it. Like it's a snowball effect, right, Like 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.559 he's an amazing coach, he's a Hall of Famer, he's 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.760 one of the best ever, and he probably gets more 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.600 credit than he deserves because of it. Just like I said, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.160 it just snowballs and you start giving him credit for 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.559 stuff that maybe he didn't even do on purpose. At 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.920 the same time, he deserves it. Yeah, he absolutely deserves it. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.400 And for my money, I think he would have found 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.320 a way to eke out that game in perfect conditions. Maybe, 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.439 I mean, we we'll never know, but I mean, I 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.920 just it's unfortunate because this, you know, weather like that 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.080 neutralizes everything. It comes down to the little stuff, and 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.760 then that's where it was a huge, you know, advantage 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.880 for the Patriots to win. And then that's that's why 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.760 the Cowboys are not a good football team right now. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.960 They're just a kind of a above bridge team that 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.440 can hang in there with the good teams, but they 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.040 don't beat them. As if we didn't talk enough about coaching, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.400 we're going to take a break. When we come back, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.080 we're gonna talk about coaching because Jerry Jones had some 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.000 very interesting things to say last night after the game 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.480 about his coaches. Well, when we come right back. This 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.200 is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. I'm Jay Novachik, former 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.880 tight end for the Dallas Cowboys. Back in the day. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.120 I was the guy who always got the tough yards 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.360 and that's why I run with John Deer today. 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Oh, give 0:15:53.400 --> 0:16:05.200 me an give me all that So so are just okay? 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.040 Is not okay, whether it's cheerleaders or your wireless network. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.600 At and T is America's best wireless network. Best network 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:17.800 based on GWS one score September twenty nineteen. Back to 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.560 the Break, Welcome back, second second segment on the Break 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.040 live this WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're talking 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.560 about the Cowboys lost yesterday. They lose thirteen nine to 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.840 New England Patriots, and they got a game coming up 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.520 quick here Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. They played the Buffalo Bills, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.000 who were also nine and three, eight and three or 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.680 eight and three. So uh so, ay, is there's no 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.760 rest at this point? You gotta keep them rolling and 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.600 the Cowboys be back at practice this afternoon, I think 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.240 this evening or is it just going to be an 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.640 open mine? I think it's practices tomorrow and Wednesday. Okay, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.600 so they'll do practice tomorrow and Wednesday and they'd be 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.200 ready to play by Thursday. We do have a seven 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.960 pm press conference with Jason Garrett, so we'll have Cowboys 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.320 going for you all day to day. Stay tuned. Guys 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.360 that are frustrated with Garrett for different reasons, so are we, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:08.159 but maybe maybe no one cares about that. But all right, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.560 so here we go. I want to talk about coaching 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:15.480 because coach Garrett or I'm sorry, Jason, I'm sorry Jerry 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.160 where yesterday, Jerry had some very interesting things to say 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.520 about his coaching staff, and I'm gonna read there were 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.680 three quotes I thought were very interesting. I'm gonna read 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.439 these quotes and I want to get reaction from you 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.560 guys on what it means for Jason Garrett and his staff. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.639 I think that every aspect of special teams, when you 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.720 really look at it, have been problematic for us. There's 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.959 no question about that. To me, special teams is one 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.760 hundred percent coaching. It's one hundred percent coaching. It's strategy, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.719 it's having players ready. That's why today Belichick give them credit. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.400 They did a great job on special teams and that 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.800 was really probably the determining difference. But special teams is 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.280 nothing but coaching. Final quote. I don't want to get 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.840 any into anything about coaching relative to changes or anything 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.679 like that, but I will tell you at special teams 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.159 is a total reflection of coaching. Do we see a 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.760 theme there? I love that. I don't want to get 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.200 into coaching. That's kind of like you know when your 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.439 spouse says, I don't really want to get in a 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.760 fight here, but whatever comes up to. But yeah, I 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.000 don't want to get into coaching. But this is a 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.439 reflection of coaching, right, I have been good. They need 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.800 to block a punt return a kick, those not just one. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.680 I've been at ninety nine point nine percent of Jerry 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.960 Jones's postgame media sessions since I started covering this team, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.600 and I have never heard him like that. He's typically hilled. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.199 He's a glass half full kind of guy. He's not 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.040 interested in throwing people under the bus or you know. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.960 I mean, Jerry Jones always makes headlines when he talks, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:51.480 but it's usually not scorched earth stuff like that. I counted, 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.639 I transcribe the whole thing he said some variation of 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:59.800 frustrated or disappointed fifteen times. Uh and and I mean 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.840 just shot across the bow at special teams in particular. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.800 But to me, the whole coaching staff, I've never I've 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.880 never heard him be that pointed, even in the wake 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.240 of I mean, and he talks after basically every game, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.760 some of them are really devastating losses. That was new, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.520 and it to me, it was putting people on notice 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.440 that this isn't gonna cut it. You know what else? 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.240 It was And I only got to hear a little 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.680 bit of it, But you know how you say, he's 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.560 optimistic a lot of the times, even on these tough losses. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.240 I felt like the frustration of those came out Sunday 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.560 because he basically said, yeah, don't expect to fix your 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.520 problems up here. You're not gonna be he said. He 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.160 also said that you're going to get out coached up here. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.560 So he's basically his frustration about the Jets game, the 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.639 Vikings game, maybe the Saints game, that all kind of 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.239 came to the forefront going, you shouldn't have had to 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.640