WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who's to Blame? 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.320 The production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:14.960 Cowboys football clubs. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:20.239 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.120 And so much for that. It's time for The Break 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:30.520 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.400 and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October sixteenth, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.800 twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode number sixty five. Welcome to 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:40.839 the latest edition of The Break, live from the s 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.919 WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Today we get into 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.479 the Eagles. We're gonna talk a lot about these Philadelphia Eagles, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.560 particularly particularly the offense of the Eagles. Nick's can also 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.520 break down his storylines for the week that he sets 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.160 up every week on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. And of 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.560 course we have to talk a little bit about an injury. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.280 It seems like that's a common topic right now. But 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.160 yesterday we find out Cowboy's loose Tyrone Crawford looks like 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.960 for the season. What do we know about that? I mean, like, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.000 when is this something that he came into the year 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.240 with and just kind of got progressively worse? This is 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.160 something that he's had since the end of last year, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.680 and you know, he tried his best to get it right. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.440 I said it yesterday. Is like as far as as 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.120 far as like injuries that end your season without being 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.120 like car off the field, Like I feel like the 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.760 writing was on the wall for this, Like it's not 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.800 super surprising. Yeah, Tyrone didn't have much of a training camp. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.760 He's been trying to rehab this thing since at least 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.640 the spring, if not even earlier than that. You know, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.600 and you know, he played the first two games and 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.080 when you heard he missed two games after that, and 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.280 you know, like right after the Washington game, they were like, well, 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.320 Tyrone's gonna miss this game. Like it's not even a 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.200 question of practicing Thursday Friday, He's just not gonna play. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.040 You're like, Ah, that doesn't seem like a good sign. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.200 And he tried to got it out, couldn't do it. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.800 He's gonna get surgery. It's fair to say this raises 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.760 a lot of questions about his future with the team. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.760 I think they can save something like eight million dollars 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.640 if they cut him this offseason. Obviously he's a huge 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:18.040 locker room guy, big in terms of culture. But you 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.320 do wonder if maybe this is the end for him. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.720 Tell me what this means for the rest of the roster, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.200 what the Cowboys have left, how they filled void that 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.840 he's he's gonna lead by. You don't fill that void 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.000 this year because they don't have a player like him. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.280 And that's why he's on the team. I mean, it's 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.760 not why he's on the team, but that's why he's 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.160 one of the captains, one of the hires paid players 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.119 on the defense because he can do some things that 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.880 other players don't and as far as stopping the run 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.840 and getting some good pass rush. He's tied for the 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.400 team lead with tackles for loss with two with Jalen 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.079 Smith and Christian Covington. Tells you a lot right there, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.400 given the fact that he hasn't been playing all the 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.919 things say, that's a low number for weeks. It's a 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.000 low number. And we're not talking about a starting defensive 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.239 lineman right now that's in that group. Um, because Christian 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.000 Covington has been a backup, he's played some, I guess 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.120 for our woods, but um, Jalen Smith is a linebacker. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.280 You know, you just think you'd get more tackles for 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.000 lost there. So I mean Tristan Hill. I think we'll 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.959 we'll play more. That doesn't that's that's gonna be a 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.240 drop off, and then they'll have to figure out, you know. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.919 And then Dorn's Armstrong's banged up a defensive end. So 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.000 you know what we were talking before about these these 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.760 injuries coming bunches. There's your two defensive ends, Crawford and Armstrong. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.360 You have two corners banged up, two receivers banged up, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.520 and obviously the two tackles. And they did. They signed 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.120 a guy by the name of Justin Hamilton. He's a 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.960 he's a one technique type of guy, six two, three 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.960 twenty like kind of big fatty that that sounds calling 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.560 a pro athlete a big fatty. He's the trash can 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.600 full of dirt type of dtack well that a lot 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.680 of people have said this team needs. But that doesn't 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.119 necessarily replace Tyrone, Like, that's not really what Tyrone did. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.000 So I am curious about that, especially Dorn's Armstrong is 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.520 dealing with the stinger. He's not practicing today, So there 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.800 isn't an obvious clear cut candidate to take those snaps 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.919 that Tyrone was interested might not play. Actually, if you 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.280 think about if this guy's ready to play. Jason Garrett 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.000 did I mean Jason Garrett anticipates that this will be 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:31.640 an opportunity for Hill, but even still much experience. He's 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.680 been in the eight career games. He's the classic like 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.240 on and off of practice squads type of guy. He's 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.400 been in the league since fifteen, but he's only played 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.200 in eight career games. He's got three career tackles. Yeah, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.200 he hasn't done a whole lot, but he's been around. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.599 He's been around since fifteen, but he's only been on 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.080 a fifty three man roster twice before this. He was 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.120 with he was a training camp with the Chiefs and 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.800 hasn't He hasn't been on a team since he got 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.560 cut at the end of the preseason, So I would 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.640 think he's practice squad eligible too, don't you think eight games? 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.560 I don't know, but that's but he's been on a 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.920 lot of practice squads already to this point, Like he 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.920 spent the year with Seattle's. He's been around, so I 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.080 don't know if he has eligibility or not going back 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.120 to training camp. I think we had the conversation a 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.840 couple of times about Carrie Hyder and the fact that 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.280 they were moving him around between defensive end and Hyder's 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.360 a guy that would benefit from Is this a guy 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.479 that now has to can slide into a role similar 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.120 to what Tyron Crawford was was having. And I'm not 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.960 talking about the production necessarily as much as it is 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.040 just the flexibility of being able to play all those 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.640 different positions. Maybe he becomes that hybrid player for them, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.480 or maybe you just don't use a hybrid player. And 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.920 that's why Hamilton's here is like, now you have two 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.839 pretty clear cut one techniques in Wood. Well you got well, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.720 you got Woods and uh and Hamilton. Now you got 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.479 Hill and Malik and then cot Covington could probably do 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.839 a little bit of both. Um, you have some guys 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.720 who could do both in the kitch right, not your 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.280 end tackle, right, I don't know that you have a 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.320 true like end tackle. I mean, I know Hyder, but 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.479 we haven't really seen it since the season started. And 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.360 you know my thoughts on that, I think, as good 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.000 as it sounds, as good as it is to have 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.200 on game day, I think it hurts the players progression too, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.880 and it definitely hurts them in terms of their stats 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.520 and you know, relative to their contract and all that. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.640 I mean every year. I remember asking Tyron Crawford at 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.120 least three or four times since he's been here, what 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.280 is your position? And he's like a good question. I mean, 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.000 you know, and it's a guy had to keep changing 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.400 his weight back and forth dealing with that, and people 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.080 don't realize. I when that came out, that the report 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.640 and the news about him getting the surgery and being 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.440 out for the whole year, I saw a lot of 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.800 people on Twitter being like, well, doesn't matter, he wasn't 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.280 doing anything. Like. What some of those people don't realize 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.159 is how he actually impacts the defensive line and even 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.800 if he's not the one making tackles or getting to 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.080 the quarterback, he is still affecting the way that the 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.359 rest of the guys on the d line are. He 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.600 was playing really well last year, and I thought, you know, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.800 I thought, you know, we said yesterday, I thought that 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.360 was a big issue. Oh this year, you think that 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.880 that I was making something. No, I didn't. I really 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.520 like the way he was going out of yesterday. It 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.320 kind of took me aback. And then afterwards when I 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.360 heard the news, I was like, yeah, you thought the 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:24.640 emplier was emptn't know that I mean that I'm not 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.320 I'm not saying that I knew, but like the writing 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.760 has been on the wall, like you have. You know. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.600 I talked to Tyrone in the cafeteria back during July 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.040 and kind of got the sense that I was like, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.960 I thought you would be further along with this than 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.600 you are, and like not in like an accusatory way, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.400 but just kind of like this is a bigger problem 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:43.720 than I thought it was. And then he was admit, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.480 he admitted, yeah, just kind of like you know, still 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.239 working on it's still like really grinding hard in my rehab. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.320 And I was like, oh, like I didn't realize that's 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.360 where this was. And then you know, he didn't have 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.640 a training camp, and again you play two games and 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.200 immediately have to sit down and it's not like, oh, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:00.800 he might be ready to play, it's like, no, he's 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.040 not gonna play. You just sort of you know, I 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.680 didn't know he was gonna get shut down for the season, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.360 but I was like, this is a prod, Like this 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.960 is more than you know he did try. Yeah, he tried. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.360 He's you know, Brandon Carr. Before he left for Baltimore, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:18.240 he bestowed the crown on tyrone of good dude, good 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.640 player will never get credit for what he did. Because 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.880 of what he made, They're gonna hate you. Yeah, here 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.200 you go. You know your payment, your repayment for all 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.920 the money you made. Is nobody's gonna like you. And 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.319 my hope is my hope is based upon that they 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.240 can find a contract that's a little more suitable to 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.240 his role, yes, and keep him here because I think 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.960 he's a valuable type player to have. He's just making 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.920 enough money to where he gets unfair criticism in my opinion, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:45.840 maybe and maybe it's not worth the money that they're 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.400 giving him for what they're asking of him. Maybe they 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.040 get a deal that actually works for both sides that 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.120 is a little more commenced what they're asking. I'll tell 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.959 you this, much like Travis Frederick, he's not gonna go 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.560 anywhere like he's again, he is a big part of 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.480 that culture, that locker room. Like he's going to be 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.520 in every meeting. He's gonna be coaching the other d 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.160 lineman like there's no obligation to be here when you 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.160 go on IR And he's gonna be right in the 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.920 thick of everything, just like Travis was. All right, Let's 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.120 go ahead and take our first our first break. 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There 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.040 there's a story right on Dallas Cowboys dot Com each 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:42.040 week laying out the five major storylines for each team. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.319 Let's talk first about those storylines for the Eagles. For 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.000 the Eagles, well, obviously they're head coach Doug Peterson. You know, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.800 he had some headlines this week camp coming out and saying, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.800 I mean basically saying that day we're gonna go down 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.520 there in Dallas and we're gonna win this game, and 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.880 when we do, we're gonna be, you know, first place 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.600 in the NFC East. I mean, I thought it was 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.360 it was it was right on what he was saying about. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.240 You know, he's he's definitely able to say that, and 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.360 he did retract it a little bit and say that, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.880 you know, hey, we're playing for first place. Dallas is tough, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.679 and you know that they're in the same boat as 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.640 we are, so you know, he kind of he kind 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.200 of retracted a little bit, but I think he's got 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.840 his message sent to his team for sure, and everyone's 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.679 kind of on alert with that, and NBC, who's doing 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.040 the game, probably loves it as well. Essentially, he said 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.079 publicly what coaches say to their team probably every day. Right, 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.920 we're going to win this game, so right, Yeah, Dave 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:37.760 loves to cover a coach like that. Um, they you're 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.480 like the third person to tell me that today. Never mind, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:46.079 go ahead, Taylor and lindsay, yep, yeah, wow, it's probably true. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.600 Cover four. I'm Berry. Berry didn't care about this. The 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.880 Eagles cut Zack Brown because because, in my opinion, because 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.640 he's not playing very well. But it really was convenient. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.040 He did say Kirk Cousins the weakest player of the 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.280 Vikings team. He goes out and throws for three thirty 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.160 three four touchdowns and the win. They were teammates together 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.360 in Washington. The Eagles decided to cut him. I bet 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.480 it's because he's not playing well and not because of 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.480 that comment. I have a hard time of leaving. Doug 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.000 Peterson's willing to say we're going to go down there 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.240 and win this game. But he was so mad at 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.079 Zach Brown for calling him the weak link that he 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.000 cut him. No, no, it was about the play. It's 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.959 about the play. But it was hilarious. I found very personally, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.000 found very amusing watching him after the game and they're 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.400 asking him about his comments and he's like, I'm just 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.520 here to talk about the game. You want to here 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.280 to talk about the game before the game, So no, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.319 you need right you already. It was hilarious though. I 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.400 thought it was funny. All right. The Eagles are getting 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.200 some cornerback help back this week. Ronald Darby's been out 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.160 with the hamstring injury, and Jaylen Mills has been out 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.920 since last year with the Liz Frank injury. He's working 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.240 back into practice so they get in two corners. They 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.959 need it. They're twenty ninth in the NFL right now. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.240 And pass defense. I'm sure we'll talk about that a 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.400 little more tomorrow. To Shaun Jackson, he's been a Cowboys killer. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.760 He's got more receiving guards against the Cowboys than any 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.920 other team in the in his career. He is something 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:09.280 to watch. Working himself back abdomin injury. He's working himself 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.280 back in. He's not going to practice today, but he 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.080 could play in this game. And I needed a fifth point, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.280 and I went with the fact that you know, they're 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.320 very similar to the Cowboys in scoring, but really the 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.480 fifth point should be and I'll let Dave speak to this. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.920 They've ruled out their their tackle, right, Yes, that's huge 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.320 Jason Peters, Well, it is until he tells you who 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.200 they're going to replace him with. Well, and I mean 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.760 they kudos the Eagles. They're really smart. They drafted an 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.600 offensive tackle in the first round knowing that Jason Peters 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.640 is ancient by enough, probably it's better than Jason Peters, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.280 that's the thing. No, it's his name's Andre Dillard. He 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.280 came out of Washington State. I didn't look before the show, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.720 but I believe he was the first tackle drafted in 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.400 this class. But which I mean, maybe he'll be great, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.680 but he's not rand a night the report on him. Wow. No, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.360 I'm just no, I mean no, I don't know what 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.320 I mean by that is you're not talking about a 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.480 guy that was undrafted versus the guy that was drafted 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.240 as the first tackle in the draft. There's a different 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.960 you were like you were no, no, no, And I 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.320 know I'm just saying. I'm saying, like there's a big 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.280 difference between those two kinds of players. The report on 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.240 Dillard is that he's very talented, but pretty raw. I mean, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.440 the Eagles drafted late, they went to the second round 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.080 of the playoffs. This is not a guy they got 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.480 in the top ten. This is not Joe Thomas. So 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.040 I'm not ready to say that he's ready to step 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.920 in and be dominant against Robert Quinn from day one. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.480 But you gotta give the Eagles credit for foreseeing this 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.200 as well as they did. And yes, I'm sure a 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.520 raw first round pick is still more capable of stepping 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.520 in than a lot of other guys that could, including 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:50.280 an undrafted rookie free agent um. So, the Eagles offense 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.160 is very talented, but it for a variety of reasons, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.800 it has not translated in the way that you would 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.000 expect at this point in the season. Some of that's there, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.680 and some of it's not. Their twentieth their twentieth overall, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.360 they're they're they're well, they're just kind of middling. Like 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.160 they're sixteenth passing the ball, they're eleventh running the ball, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.440 they are ninth scoring. So even with all of their problems, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.280 they still don't struggle to put up points on or off, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.000 and they're one of three teams in the league that's 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.360 got twenty points or more in every game, so and 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.720 should be more in all honesty, And that's the thing is, like, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.000 you know, Dak is a lightning rod. Carson Wentz might 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.920 be getting it even worse because he's playing pretty well 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.280 this year. He's completing sixty one percent of his passes. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.840 He's got fifteen fourteen fifty through six games, which is 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:45.280 just slightly behind Dakh twelve touchdowns, three picks. He is 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.920 only averaging six point eight yards per attempt, which is 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.040 interesting to me because dink and dunk Dak is over 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.680 here averaging nine. So, you know, don't let narratives or 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.880 don't let facts get in the way of your narratives. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.360 As I should say, the vertical passing game of the 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.240 Cowboys is that now he's dinking dunk Deck. No, No, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.320 that's what people always call. They're dunking dunk deck never 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.639 throws it. Yeah, it was very tongue in cheek. Okay, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.760 Dak's averaging nine yards per attempt, he's anything but. But 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.200 Carson Wentz is settling for fewer yards per attempt than Dak. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.240 Prescott to this point. A big part of that is 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.840 probably because his receivers can't hold on to the football. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.520 They lead the league and drops seventeen. Actually, Dak is 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.840 right there behind him, So speak something to what Dak's 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.240 been able to do, especially not always having the people 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.200 he'd prefer. But yeah, Deshaun Jackson's been missing for most 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.359 of the season. Alshon Jefferies just now getting back. Nelson 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.919 Agilore's struggles catching the ball have been immortalized by that 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.560 hilarious dude who saved the babies from the fire in 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.000 Philadelphia a few weeks ago. They called him out. Yeah, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.159 but Winz has not had a ton of help in 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.919 the wide receiver department because of Jackson's absence. They drafted 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.919 a kid named jj R Siga Whiteside, who dropped the 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.879 game winning touchdown against Detroit in week I want to 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.600 say that was Week three. Matt Hollins has had problems 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.520 with job drops and even then, even when they're not dropping, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.200 I would say his receivers haven't been helping him out. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.919 It's been all over Twitter this week went through a 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.120 dime to Alshon Jeffrey. Last week in Minnesota, Jeffrey kind 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.960 of leaned the wrong way. I mean, he was two 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.240 yards behind his coverage and wound up running out of 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.200 bounds on what could have been an absolutely easy touchdown. 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.359 Just stuff like that. Like Winz is not playing poorly 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.800 at all. I just don't think he's getting a ton 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.680 of help. Probably the way they're offsetting that is they 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.200 have two very, very good tight ends. The Eagles actually 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.840 run more twelve personnel than any team in the league 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.560 thirty three. They have Zach Ertz, who is one A 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.160 or one B with Kelsey in terms of best tight end, 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.200 and then Dallas Goddard at the second round pick coming 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.960 into his own playing pretty well. I would bet they're 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.000 going to lean on both of those guys pretty heavily, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.240 even if de Sean Jackson comes back, like you're gonna 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:11.480 have to account for both of them. Jordan Howard is 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.120 the starting running back. He's very good, but the guy, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.440 like Miles Sanders, was one of my absolute favorite players 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:22.080 in this draft. The Eagles are struggling to get him involved, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.760 which I think is a gigantic mistake. He's averaging nine 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.040 carries a game and two catches a game, but he's explosive. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.240 He's averaging two catches a game, but he's averaging seventeen 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.239 yards a catch. Last week in Minnesota, they sent him 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:37.919 on a wheel route right through the center of the 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:42.160 defense and again two yards behind the coverage, easy thirty 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.879 five yard touchdown. Linebacker didn't stand a chance. It's the 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.440 type of stuff I'd love to see the Cowboys do 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.760 with Tony Pollard. But that's his topic a week. When 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.880 you have some injuries at wide receiver, that's a nice 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.040 That's another topic for another day. They're very good at 0:19:55.080 --> 0:20:01.600 converting third downs fifty percent. Peterson. We know he's aggressive. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.760 We all watched that Super Bowl. They went forward on 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.520 a fourth and two at midfield in Minnesota. They actually 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.800 didn't get it, but they're willing to. Like. This is 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.080 a team that their coach is, I think, a little 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.680 bit out in front of popular coaching tactics. So I mean, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:21.040 let's be fair, Garrett does that, I would not like 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.040 Garrett is it goes for a fourth and one of 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.639 the Saints and they gets it and Zeke fumbles. I mean, 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.359 I think Peterson's more aggressive, which and it's probably most 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:31.879