WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Can This Be Fixed? 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:19.759 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.480 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.840 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.200 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:39.519 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.760 It is Monday, October twenty six, twenty twenty, season sixteen, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.479 episode number fifty one. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.720 The Break. We're live from this s WBC Mortgage studios 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.120 at the Star. We are in a great mood this morning, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.200 ready to get going, ready to talk about that Cowboys 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.920 game yesterday. Was not a good outcome for the Cowboys. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.279 They lose twenty five five to three to the Washington 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.840 football team. But we're all here together and we're all 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.720 healthy and we get to talk football. So hey, there's 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.240 a bright side to everything. Right, how's everybody doing this morning? 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.600 I was wondering what that butt was for. I was like, please, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.280 don't try to throw something positive at me right now. No, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.760 no, no no, that's You're right. We're all healthy at this 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.120 healthy and fine, So that's nice. At this point. The 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.800 positives are not about the Cowboys. For me, the positives 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.920 are not about football. My Texas long one to just 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.880 as bad. So right now, like that's not the positive. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.000 Positive in life is that we're all here, We're all alive. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.000 None of us have COVID. That's a great thing, right, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.280 so we should be happy about that. And let's talk 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.720 some football, right right, let's go, Nick, you just got 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.080 off a right, Nick, you just got off a plane. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.760 I guess not just but you you were on a 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.560 plane yesterday coming back from Washington. We're gonna start with 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.720 some big picture storylines, but like you just to talk 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.480 a little bit about what you saw from this team 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.160 postgame plane? Yeah, Like, because I think they're a lot 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:01.880 of people that are looking at this team like, man, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.640 what was that and what is this team at this point? Well, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.840 the one thing I was happy to see was Andy 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.400 Dalton able to just go go where's the bus? This way? 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.520 Where we having to eat? And that's a good thing. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.960 I mean, so that that was good because he obviously 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.320 left the field and he needed help doing that, so 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.080 that it was a good sign. Don't know what that 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.360 means as far as this week, but I know that 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.560 it wasn't as bad as it is. It you know, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.840 obviously could have been. I was quiet flight back, you 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.639 know you I wasn't expecting, you know, a lot of 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.519 music or dancing or any of that stuff. I haven't 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.560 really heard that at all. Of course they have. They've 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.720 lost every road game this year, so maybe that Dave's 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.400 not on the plane anymore. So that helps. Why just 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.840 you don't have all the gambling and drinking and frivolous 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:47.040 stuff that happened. Always call him back there. Um. Anyways, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.160 it just it was a bad I mean, it was 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.919 just a bad vibe because it was a bad game, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.960 and it was it was, you know, the worst game 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.240 that I can ever I do sometime I don't remember 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.840 remember one like this where it was just so bad 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.560 green Bay. I don't know, No, that wasn't baby. It 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.280 felt like it to me a little bit, like I 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.480 don't know, yeah that was that was kind of that way. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.840 But green Bay was good. That's the thing. Green Bay 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.320 went super Bowl that you're yeah, yeah that so that 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.320 was a good team. That was a good quarterback who 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.720 deserves to be a starting quarterback. Point So no, this 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.760 was this was a really really really really bad game 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.160 all right, Let's get some big picture storyline takes from 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.080 Amber and Dave. Amber, I want to start with you. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.520 I watched the game with you yesterday and with Dave, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.240 and I could just see it the wheels turn into 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.480 your mind. I knew you had something for me, So 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.920 bring it. Let's go what you got Amber? Bring it well? 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.160 First of all, I'm wearing black because I'm warning today 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.160 and the season like, I am so over it, but 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.080 we gotta keep going. Um No, the big picture is 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.920 at this point, I look at it. Who do we 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.160 need to say bye too? Who are we saying bye 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.880 to this week? Is it a player? Is it a coach? 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:06.080 And there needs to be a major change or it's 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.200 kind of hard to make major changes right now, but 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.760 there needs to be some type of change, some type 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.640 of repercussion. If you could, like lower someone's salary based 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.160 on their game performance, I wish you could do that, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:22.520 but you can't. This is just terrible. It is absolutely terrible. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.880 And the worst part of it is that after that game, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.680 there's absolutely nothing that makes me feel a little sign 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.799 of hope, you know, like there's nothing whatsoever. The only 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.359 thing is maybe the kicker we haven't talked about Greg 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.320 Sterling really missing a field goal or an extra point 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.040 except for that one long one a few weeks ago, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:50.240 but other than that, there's nothing that seems very positive 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:55.720 at this point. Dave big picture. The big picture for 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.520 this team is that they are fundamentally broken. There is 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.080 something wrong in that building right now. I don't know 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.400 what it is. I wish we had better access. I 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.960 wish there wasn't a pandemic, so maybe we could get 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.040 a better grasp. But you cannot look at that result 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.400 yesterday and tell me that this is a cohesive team, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.560 that this is a bought in team, that this is 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.560 a team that cares about each other. Drastically, for lack 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.159 of a better way to put it, they got run 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.360 out of the building by arguably the worst team in 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.279 the league. Like they didn't lose. This wasn't like a scrappy, 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.880 ugly game like I thought it was gonna be. You know, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.320 I thought it was gonna be this terrible, scrappy, you know, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.320 seventeen sixteen game. It wasn't that at all. They got 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.400 run out of the building by arguably the worst team 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.080 in the league. They do not look like they care, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.279 and like I said, like I don't know if the 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.200 players hate the coaches. I don't know if the players 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.839 hate each other. But there's something there's something wrong. You 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.120 cannot convince me otherwise. I pulled up the quote from 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.880 DeMarcus Lawrence yesterday. He said we need more belief, which 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.720 shouts out to Nick for getting it. I really appreciate you, man, 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.920 because that can't be fun. No, that cannot be fun 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.320 being down there with those guys. Um. He says, we 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.120 need more belief, more high spirits around this team, and 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.320 really more fight. That's one of our weaknesses. We need 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.600 to build a stronger backbone. I mean, is that not 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.039 just the most damning quote you've heard in a long 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:26.880 freaking time. Yeah, it's kind of interesting because we I'll 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.800 speak for myself. I made fun of happening to I 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.000 made fun of all of the you know, the fight 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.560 shirts and all that kind of stuff that we're a 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.080 part of the Garrett era. But the one thing, and 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.359 it was up until last year. Last year was the 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.760 first time I ever saw at a Garrett led team 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.200 with the Cowboys that didn't have that level of fighting him. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.240 You remember back to the season when he took off 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.960 halfway through the season, they were all but did. But 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.320 they played didn't play like it like they played down 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.719 the stretch as as good a football as you could 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.120 expect from a bad team, right and throughout throughout his 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.120 time here with the Cowboys, that's what we got accustomed 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.200 to seeing with the Cowboys, even when they were bad, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.040 you rarely left games saying, man, they just didn't feel it. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.800 They didn't feel like that team was was really in 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.600 the game. It felt like yesterday and it felt like 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.120 for a while now this team is just not in it. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.720 Do you guys think that maybe what's happening here is 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.560 you lose so many players that you just don't have 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.840 that cohesion, You don't have that that real brotherhood for 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.120 lack of a better word, that sometimes you need in 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.920 order to kind of go through what you have to 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.600 go through as a football team to be successful. Nick, 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.040 what do you think? Yeah, I mean that that's not 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.920 their guy dying down there, you know. And that's that's 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.200 the sad part. Is it used to be I thought, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.080 you know, put it on the uniform, in the star 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.200 and the helmet and all that stuff, that was that 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.000 was the team. But I mean, if DA got hit 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.680 like that, do you think everybody do you think anybody 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.640 does anything. I don't know what we talked about just 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.120 a couple weeks ago how this team acted. Yea, when 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.800 Dak was laying on the field, it was very different. Right. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.520 Let me also say this though, and I wrote this 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.200 in the column kind of down at the bottom. Maybe 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.080 should have led with it. They they did a video 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.800 that said, let's win, let's win for Dak. Let's do 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:21.200 it for Dak, d for Dak. God. I hope not. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.080 I hope this isn't doing it for Dak. This this really, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.040 this is it, Like, this is what you like, We're 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.080 gonna do it for him. He deserves more than that. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.520 The fans deserved more than that. All right, So let's 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.080 move on. Let's talk a little bit about some of 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.080 the moments that mattered. And quite frankly, I think all 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.400 those moments happened in the first half. I think this 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.040 game was a game in the first half, and I 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.280 think by halftime it was over. Yeah, can you just 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.040 start with me, because no one's play, nobody's play is 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.680 going to be before mine. First play the game, first 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.760 play the game, handoff to Peyton Barber. I mean, who's 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.200 that Peyton Barber against the ball, gets a one yard, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.600 gets hit for one yard, kept going, kept fighting, he's spuned. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.319 He got five yards on that play should have been 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.120 stopped for one. That was the tone of the entire game. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.560 It was that. It was this, they're there, they're in 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.160 the position, but they just can't make the play. And 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.360 you can't give Washington better field position, I mean better situations. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.040 You need to keep them in third and nine, third 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.880 and eight. And it was just plays like that, that's 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.960 just lack of effort, tackling, what technique whatever. It was 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.080 first play of the game that set the tone right there, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.680 and then they were able to do whatever they wanted 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.280 to run in the ball. And but what was your 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.240 moment that mattered well? To me, it was okay, you 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.319 see the Washington offense moving along, then the defense he's 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.079 able to stop them from getting a touchdown right there, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.000 and you're like, okay, all right. Then the next way, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.839 Colways got the ball. First play, okay, a little rush 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.959 by um um, oh my god, Andy Dalton. I forgot 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.000 his name for a second, for Dalton. Then the next 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.680 one the Colways getting huh, I said, so did he 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:08.280 but sorry, we're good. So he's good. Anyways, they get 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.679 pushed back and then they end up Washington gets up, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.800 ends up getting the safety, and right there, it's like, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.840 right at the beginning of the game, basically you realize, man, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.640 this is gonna be one of those games just by 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.480 that play. I mean, nothing else after that looked good whatsoever. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.240 They just couldn't get anything moving. The defense could not 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.680 stop them at all. But it was that specific play 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.400 that's safety, that just told you what kind of game 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.559 that was gonna be. Dave, what was the moment that 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.920 matter for you? I don't know what's more embarrassing. The 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.000 Cowboys are my internet connection, but I all one in 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.200 the same, Dave, all one in the same. It's just 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.640 it's just it's just that kind of year, man. Um. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.160 The moment, the moment, honest, this is gonna sound this 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.480 is gonna sound revisionist. Um. But when they when when 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.640 Pollard had that kick return, it ran three plays and 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:09.199 kicked the field goal and just looked completely flaccid doing so, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.960 I was like, this is gonna be bad. Like, yeah, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.480 I know, I'm sorry, poor choice of words, but like 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:20.600 that that it was so so unimpressive, so uninspiring. They finally, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.880 you know, an element of their team other than the 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.040 offense finally moved the ball and that was what they 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.880 came up with. Uh, and you just kind of made 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.720 you think today's gonna be rough, and it was, Yeah, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.640 that's that's kind of how the rest of this thing's 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.960 gonna roll. I think is there's gonna be moments like 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.199 that when where choice will probably be a little bit questionable. Um, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.079 go ahead, day. What were you saying? I just I 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.480 feel like y'all problem covered it while I was dealing 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:51.680 with my WiFi. What I'm gonna say is all these 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.959 same problems year when they were slugging away to eight 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.080 and eight, but you had your Dak Prescott's and your 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.600 Tyron Smith's drownedgging you along the way, and those guys 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.679 aren't there now, and what's left is really uninspiring. And 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.360 I just I don't think they have it from a 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.960 mental standpoint, and that what concerns me is again, like 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.280 I keep using twenty fifteen as an analogy, that was 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.720 just that was a team that cared but didn't have 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.760 the talent. You know, they lost a lot of games 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.079 in the fourth quarter because they didn't have a good quarterback. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.680 But you know they really they never truly just got 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.280 their doors blown off. I think this is gonna get 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.160 a whole lot worse somebody fixes whatever's going wrong. From 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.080 an intangible standpoint, like this team is not together, and 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.679 until that changes, I would imagine they're gonna get their 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.000 ass kicked like this a lot. Yep. And I don't 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.840 I don't know that they can solve the problems that 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.760 they have right now. I don't know that they can 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.520 solve those problems this year. The way I look at 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.760 it is, at this point, this coaching staff, this front office, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.640 they're gonna have to figure out what players they want 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.000 to keep and what players they want to discard, and 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.280 they need to start thinking about next year, because you're 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.199 not gonna get better like right now. Big part of 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.480 the problems is just not good. Like the players that 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.319 are out there are just not good. You can look 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.720 at other years where you're like, Okay, well you miss 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.200 your quarterback, but you still got your offensive line, you 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.000 still got your running game, you still got an average defense. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.600 If you play really hard, you might be able to 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:22.200 make yourself look average. Right right now, their players are bad, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.160 and that's why it's looking so poorly. I think right now, 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.600 and you know, I think it's it's even worse when 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.280 you put on top of that the fact that I 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.559 don't think the coaches are really doing them any favor. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.400 We'll go to the poem at the moment that mattered 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.880 for me, and it was Washington's up nine to three. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.840 It's ten forty eight left in the second quarter. Dallas 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.720 as the ball fourth and one at the Washington forty 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.880 five fourth and one, and they decide they're gonna throw 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.720 the ball down field. In completion, they give the ball 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.319 back to Washington with great field position, mind you, for 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.320 a defense that hasn't been able to stop anyone. Two 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.280 plays later, fifty two yard touchdown to McLaren, and that 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.520 to me was into the ballgame. Like when they when 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.199 they jumped up there at that point it was at 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.400 fifteen to three. My thought was, there's no because they 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.079 don't have the power offensively to be able to come 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.800 back in those kinds of games, and and they're in 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.600 that particular instance, that to me was about coaching. That 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.520 is a bad decision. Knowing you have fourth and one, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.800 you have a defense that can't stop anyone. If you 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.480 don't convert this, you got one or two options. You 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.760 can use a punt it, or you do something that's 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.560 a much higher percentage play than what you decided on. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.160 But they opted to go for a lower percentage play 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.640 and put their defense in a horrible situation. To me, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.640 that's bad coaching. Yep, And I'd like to see that play. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.360 I don't really want to watch the game at all, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.560 but that's the one player I would have liked to 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.400 see him again. In the third down, I thought he 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.520 got that first down. I did too. I thought it 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.400 kind of thought he got over thinking maybe they should 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.040 have challenged that. Yeah, but that just kind of shows 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.320 this is why, like in high school football, the one 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.600 A two A teams don't play the six A teams 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.480 because as the offensive line, they don't have the big 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.720 guys to do it. This is what it felt like 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.080 to me. That was the JV against the varsity. They 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.360 can't move the ball. They showed that because they were like, well, okay, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.200 we can't run the ball if the middle was zeke. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.360 So we've already drawn them off sides once. That won't 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.440 work again, let's just try it. I mean, like running 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.400 that I would have punted. Now, who knows where that 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.440 ball would have gone, but I would have would have 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.320 you know, I would have tried to punt. I guess 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.400 at that point, if you don't think you can get 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.640 a yard, then I would take forty. Yeah, I would 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.440 with the punt. But but the one thing you could 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.160 say in the scattering report, at least of this Washington 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.040 team is the one area up front where they tend 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.680 to be a little more vulnerable was in stopping the 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.800 run and typically running right at them. So to me, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.520 you at least have to test it out and try 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.360 it right. You have to at least test them if 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.920 you're going to go for it on fourth and one, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:57.160 I think that's a higher percentage play. Then deciding that 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.320 you're just gonna throw a ball down field trying to 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.320 get a screen. I'm not saying yeah, and it didn't work, 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.360 and it didn't work, Go ahead, Dave. I'm not saying 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:12.720 you're wrong, But those guys were getting ragged alled all day. Absolutely. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.320 I just don't know. I don't know if charging up 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.080 the gun on Jonathan Allen and Deron Payne's gonna work. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.320 Maybe not. I'm saying it is a higher percentage play. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.080 You could do the exact same thing as what you 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.440 did the play before, and as Nick said, I thought 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.720 they got the first down on the play before try 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.280 it again. I think that is a higher percentage play 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.880 than anything else you could call in your playbook against 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.200 that front on a fourth and one. Maybe I'm wrong. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.000 All right, we're gonna take our first break. When we 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.160 come back, we're gonna dive a little deeper into the offense, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.640 the pass offense, the rush offense, and we also have 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.080 to talk about this defense when we come right back. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.080 This is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. 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He had seventy five passing yards, He had 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.040 zero touchdowns, he had one interception, a thirty six point 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:35.080 one quarterback rating, and was sacked three times. Dad to that, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.959 Ben Denucci came in and he went two of three 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.040 and at thirty nine yards, zero touchdown, zero interceptions, and 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.840 he two was sacked three times. We talked all last 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.960 week about how good this Rossington front was, but did 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.960 you expect the Cowboys to get dominated as much as 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.359 they were dominated yesterday? Nick? No, I mean, and there's 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:01.359 no excuses to anything, but the rain absolutely messed up 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.480 any chance that they had to do anything because of where, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.600 of how they are built. I mean, it just they 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.080 couldn't run the ball. They're not physical enough affront to run. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:12.520 The only way you're gonna be able to do that 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.120 is the quick passes get the ball out. Gallup didn't 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.560 have a catch, CD didn't have a catch even though 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.919 he had plenty of chances. I mean, he had his 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:26.000 worst game of his career, and it just the passing 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.320 game needed to be there to offset that. So you 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.119 can't do that, and now you have to run and 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.359 you're not strong enough to run the middle. You know 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:34.879 it's bad when you can't. You're not strong enough to 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:36.520 run up the middle, you're not fast enough to run 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.400 to the outside, and the ball's not going to be caught. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.639 In the passing game, Well, you're gonna get three points 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.560 based off your long kickoff return and that's it. Amber. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.439 I mean, I honestly didn't expect it to be this 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.680 bad the way that he ended up happening. But there's 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.600 such a lack of chemistry. I mean, we keep talking 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.880 about Andy Dalton trying to get rid of the ball 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.399 quicker and that's gonna help them offensively, but at the 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.480 same time, the lack of chemistry I mean, you can't 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.160 really do that when you don't have that connection with 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.720 your wide receivers as opposed to what we're used to 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.160