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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, October twenty six, twenty twenty, season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number fifty one. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We're live from this s WBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star. We are in a great mood this morning,
Speaker 1: ready to get going, ready to talk about that Cowboys
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Was not a good outcome for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They lose twenty five five to three to the Washington
Speaker 1: football team. But we're all here together and we're all
Speaker 1: healthy and we get to talk football. So hey, there's
Speaker 1: a bright side to everything. Right, how's everybody doing this morning?
Speaker 1: I was wondering what that butt was for. I was like, please,
Speaker 1: don't try to throw something positive at me right now. No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, that's You're right. We're all healthy at this
Speaker 1: healthy and fine, So that's nice. At this point. The
Speaker 1: positives are not about the Cowboys. For me, the positives
Speaker 1: are not about football. My Texas long one to just
Speaker 1: as bad. So right now, like that's not the positive.
Speaker 1: Positive in life is that we're all here, We're all alive.
Speaker 1: None of us have COVID. That's a great thing, right,
Speaker 1: so we should be happy about that. And let's talk
Speaker 1: some football, right right, let's go, Nick, you just got
Speaker 1: off a right, Nick, you just got off a plane.
Speaker 1: I guess not just but you you were on a
Speaker 1: plane yesterday coming back from Washington. We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: some big picture storylines, but like you just to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about what you saw from this team
Speaker 1: postgame plane? Yeah, Like, because I think they're a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are looking at this team like, man,
Speaker 1: what was that and what is this team at this point? Well,
Speaker 1: the one thing I was happy to see was Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton able to just go go where's the bus? This way?
Speaker 1: Where we having to eat? And that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, so that that was good because he obviously
Speaker 1: left the field and he needed help doing that, so
Speaker 1: that it was a good sign. Don't know what that
Speaker 1: means as far as this week, but I know that
Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad as it is. It you know,
Speaker 1: obviously could have been. I was quiet flight back, you
Speaker 1: know you I wasn't expecting, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: music or dancing or any of that stuff. I haven't
Speaker 1: really heard that at all. Of course they have. They've
Speaker 1: lost every road game this year, so maybe that Dave's
Speaker 1: not on the plane anymore. So that helps. Why just
Speaker 1: you don't have all the gambling and drinking and frivolous
Speaker 1: stuff that happened. Always call him back there. Um. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it just it was a bad I mean, it was
Speaker 1: just a bad vibe because it was a bad game,
Speaker 1: and it was it was, you know, the worst game
Speaker 1: that I can ever I do sometime I don't remember
Speaker 1: remember one like this where it was just so bad
Speaker 1: green Bay. I don't know, No, that wasn't baby. It
Speaker 1: felt like it to me a little bit, like I
Speaker 1: don't know, yeah that was that was kind of that way.
Speaker 1: But green Bay was good. That's the thing. Green Bay
Speaker 1: went super Bowl that you're yeah, yeah that so that
Speaker 1: was a good team. That was a good quarterback who
Speaker 1: deserves to be a starting quarterback. Point So no, this
Speaker 1: was this was a really really really really bad game
Speaker 1: all right, Let's get some big picture storyline takes from
Speaker 1: Amber and Dave. Amber, I want to start with you.
Speaker 1: I watched the game with you yesterday and with Dave,
Speaker 1: and I could just see it the wheels turn into
Speaker 1: your mind. I knew you had something for me, So
Speaker 1: bring it. Let's go what you got Amber? Bring it well?
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm wearing black because I'm warning today
Speaker 1: and the season like, I am so over it, but
Speaker 1: we gotta keep going. Um No, the big picture is
Speaker 1: at this point, I look at it. Who do we
Speaker 1: need to say bye too? Who are we saying bye
Speaker 1: to this week? Is it a player? Is it a coach?
Speaker 1: And there needs to be a major change or it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to make major changes right now, but
Speaker 1: there needs to be some type of change, some type
Speaker 1: of repercussion. If you could, like lower someone's salary based
Speaker 1: on their game performance, I wish you could do that,
Speaker 1: but you can't. This is just terrible. It is absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1: And the worst part of it is that after that game,
Speaker 1: there's absolutely nothing that makes me feel a little sign
Speaker 1: of hope, you know, like there's nothing whatsoever. The only
Speaker 1: thing is maybe the kicker we haven't talked about Greg
Speaker 1: Sterling really missing a field goal or an extra point
Speaker 1: except for that one long one a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: but other than that, there's nothing that seems very positive
Speaker 1: at this point. Dave big picture. The big picture for
Speaker 1: this team is that they are fundamentally broken. There is
Speaker 1: something wrong in that building right now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. I wish we had better access. I
Speaker 1: wish there wasn't a pandemic, so maybe we could get
Speaker 1: a better grasp. But you cannot look at that result
Speaker 1: yesterday and tell me that this is a cohesive team,
Speaker 1: that this is a bought in team, that this is
Speaker 1: a team that cares about each other. Drastically, for lack
Speaker 1: of a better way to put it, they got run
Speaker 1: out of the building by arguably the worst team in
Speaker 1: the league. Like they didn't lose. This wasn't like a scrappy,
Speaker 1: ugly game like I thought it was gonna be. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be this terrible, scrappy, you know,
Speaker 1: seventeen sixteen game. It wasn't that at all. They got
Speaker 1: run out of the building by arguably the worst team
Speaker 1: in the league. They do not look like they care,
Speaker 1: and like I said, like I don't know if the
Speaker 1: players hate the coaches. I don't know if the players
Speaker 1: hate each other. But there's something there's something wrong. You
Speaker 1: cannot convince me otherwise. I pulled up the quote from
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence yesterday. He said we need more belief, which
Speaker 1: shouts out to Nick for getting it. I really appreciate you, man,
Speaker 1: because that can't be fun. No, that cannot be fun
Speaker 1: being down there with those guys. Um. He says, we
Speaker 1: need more belief, more high spirits around this team, and
Speaker 1: really more fight. That's one of our weaknesses. We need
Speaker 1: to build a stronger backbone. I mean, is that not
Speaker 1: just the most damning quote you've heard in a long
Speaker 1: freaking time. Yeah, it's kind of interesting because we I'll
Speaker 1: speak for myself. I made fun of happening to I
Speaker 1: made fun of all of the you know, the fight
Speaker 1: shirts and all that kind of stuff that we're a
Speaker 1: part of the Garrett era. But the one thing, and
Speaker 1: it was up until last year. Last year was the
Speaker 1: first time I ever saw at a Garrett led team
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys that didn't have that level of fighting him.
Speaker 1: You remember back to the season when he took off
Speaker 1: halfway through the season, they were all but did. But
Speaker 1: they played didn't play like it like they played down
Speaker 1: the stretch as as good a football as you could
Speaker 1: expect from a bad team, right and throughout throughout his
Speaker 1: time here with the Cowboys, that's what we got accustomed
Speaker 1: to seeing with the Cowboys, even when they were bad,
Speaker 1: you rarely left games saying, man, they just didn't feel it.
Speaker 1: They didn't feel like that team was was really in
Speaker 1: the game. It felt like yesterday and it felt like
Speaker 1: for a while now this team is just not in it.
Speaker 1: Do you guys think that maybe what's happening here is
Speaker 1: you lose so many players that you just don't have
Speaker 1: that cohesion, You don't have that that real brotherhood for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, that sometimes you need in
Speaker 1: order to kind of go through what you have to
Speaker 1: go through as a football team to be successful. Nick,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Yeah, I mean that that's not
Speaker 1: their guy dying down there, you know. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the sad part. Is it used to be I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, put it on the uniform, in the star
Speaker 1: and the helmet and all that stuff, that was that
Speaker 1: was the team. But I mean, if DA got hit
Speaker 1: like that, do you think everybody do you think anybody
Speaker 1: does anything. I don't know what we talked about just
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago how this team acted. Yea, when
Speaker 1: Dak was laying on the field, it was very different. Right.
Speaker 1: Let me also say this though, and I wrote this
Speaker 1: in the column kind of down at the bottom. Maybe
Speaker 1: should have led with it. They they did a video
Speaker 1: that said, let's win, let's win for Dak. Let's do
Speaker 1: it for Dak, d for Dak. God. I hope not.
Speaker 1: I hope this isn't doing it for Dak. This this really,
Speaker 1: this is it, Like, this is what you like, We're
Speaker 1: gonna do it for him. He deserves more than that.
Speaker 1: The fans deserved more than that. All right, So let's
Speaker 1: move on. Let's talk a little bit about some of
Speaker 1: the moments that mattered. And quite frankly, I think all
Speaker 1: those moments happened in the first half. I think this
Speaker 1: game was a game in the first half, and I
Speaker 1: think by halftime it was over. Yeah, can you just
Speaker 1: start with me, because no one's play, nobody's play is
Speaker 1: going to be before mine. First play the game, first
Speaker 1: play the game, handoff to Peyton Barber. I mean, who's
Speaker 1: that Peyton Barber against the ball, gets a one yard,
Speaker 1: gets hit for one yard, kept going, kept fighting, he's spuned.
Speaker 1: He got five yards on that play should have been
Speaker 1: stopped for one. That was the tone of the entire game.
Speaker 1: It was that. It was this, they're there, they're in
Speaker 1: the position, but they just can't make the play. And
Speaker 1: you can't give Washington better field position, I mean better situations.
Speaker 1: You need to keep them in third and nine, third
Speaker 1: and eight. And it was just plays like that, that's
Speaker 1: just lack of effort, tackling, what technique whatever. It was
Speaker 1: first play of the game that set the tone right there,
Speaker 1: and then they were able to do whatever they wanted
Speaker 1: to run in the ball. And but what was your
Speaker 1: moment that mattered well? To me, it was okay, you
Speaker 1: see the Washington offense moving along, then the defense he's
Speaker 1: able to stop them from getting a touchdown right there,
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, all right. Then the next way,
Speaker 1: Colways got the ball. First play, okay, a little rush
Speaker 1: by um um, oh my god, Andy Dalton. I forgot
Speaker 1: his name for a second, for Dalton. Then the next
Speaker 1: one the Colways getting huh, I said, so did he
Speaker 1: but sorry, we're good. So he's good. Anyways, they get
Speaker 1: pushed back and then they end up Washington gets up,
Speaker 1: ends up getting the safety, and right there, it's like,
Speaker 1: right at the beginning of the game, basically you realize, man,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be one of those games just by
Speaker 1: that play. I mean, nothing else after that looked good whatsoever.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't get anything moving. The defense could not
Speaker 1: stop them at all. But it was that specific play
Speaker 1: that's safety, that just told you what kind of game
Speaker 1: that was gonna be. Dave, what was the moment that
Speaker 1: matter for you? I don't know what's more embarrassing. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys are my internet connection, but I all one in
Speaker 1: the same, Dave, all one in the same. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just it's just that kind of year, man. Um.
Speaker 1: The moment, the moment, honest, this is gonna sound this
Speaker 1: is gonna sound revisionist. Um. But when they when when
Speaker 1: Pollard had that kick return, it ran three plays and
Speaker 1: kicked the field goal and just looked completely flaccid doing so,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is gonna be bad. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm sorry, poor choice of words, but like
Speaker 1: that that it was so so unimpressive, so uninspiring. They finally,
Speaker 1: you know, an element of their team other than the
Speaker 1: offense finally moved the ball and that was what they
Speaker 1: came up with. Uh, and you just kind of made
Speaker 1: you think today's gonna be rough, and it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of how the rest of this thing's
Speaker 1: gonna roll. I think is there's gonna be moments like
Speaker 1: that when where choice will probably be a little bit questionable. Um,
Speaker 1: go ahead, day. What were you saying? I just I
Speaker 1: feel like y'all problem covered it while I was dealing
Speaker 1: with my WiFi. What I'm gonna say is all these
Speaker 1: same problems year when they were slugging away to eight
Speaker 1: and eight, but you had your Dak Prescott's and your
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith's drownedgging you along the way, and those guys
Speaker 1: aren't there now, and what's left is really uninspiring. And
Speaker 1: I just I don't think they have it from a
Speaker 1: mental standpoint, and that what concerns me is again, like
Speaker 1: I keep using twenty fifteen as an analogy, that was
Speaker 1: just that was a team that cared but didn't have
Speaker 1: the talent. You know, they lost a lot of games
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter because they didn't have a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you know they really they never truly just got
Speaker 1: their doors blown off. I think this is gonna get
Speaker 1: a whole lot worse somebody fixes whatever's going wrong. From
Speaker 1: an intangible standpoint, like this team is not together, and
Speaker 1: until that changes, I would imagine they're gonna get their
Speaker 1: ass kicked like this a lot. Yep. And I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know that they can solve the problems that
Speaker 1: they have right now. I don't know that they can
Speaker 1: solve those problems this year. The way I look at
Speaker 1: it is, at this point, this coaching staff, this front office,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to figure out what players they want
Speaker 1: to keep and what players they want to discard, and
Speaker 1: they need to start thinking about next year, because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get better like right now. Big part of
Speaker 1: the problems is just not good. Like the players that
Speaker 1: are out there are just not good. You can look
Speaker 1: at other years where you're like, Okay, well you miss
Speaker 1: your quarterback, but you still got your offensive line, you
Speaker 1: still got your running game, you still got an average defense.
Speaker 1: If you play really hard, you might be able to
Speaker 1: make yourself look average. Right right now, their players are bad,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's looking so poorly. I think right now,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think it's it's even worse when
Speaker 1: you put on top of that the fact that I
Speaker 1: don't think the coaches are really doing them any favor.
Speaker 1: We'll go to the poem at the moment that mattered
Speaker 1: for me, and it was Washington's up nine to three.
Speaker 1: It's ten forty eight left in the second quarter. Dallas
Speaker 1: as the ball fourth and one at the Washington forty
Speaker 1: five fourth and one, and they decide they're gonna throw
Speaker 1: the ball down field. In completion, they give the ball
Speaker 1: back to Washington with great field position, mind you, for
Speaker 1: a defense that hasn't been able to stop anyone. Two
Speaker 1: plays later, fifty two yard touchdown to McLaren, and that
Speaker 1: to me was into the ballgame. Like when they when
Speaker 1: they jumped up there at that point it was at
Speaker 1: fifteen to three. My thought was, there's no because they
Speaker 1: don't have the power offensively to be able to come
Speaker 1: back in those kinds of games, and and they're in
Speaker 1: that particular instance, that to me was about coaching. That
Speaker 1: is a bad decision. Knowing you have fourth and one,
Speaker 1: you have a defense that can't stop anyone. If you
Speaker 1: don't convert this, you got one or two options. You
Speaker 1: can use a punt it, or you do something that's
Speaker 1: a much higher percentage play than what you decided on.
Speaker 1: But they opted to go for a lower percentage play
Speaker 1: and put their defense in a horrible situation. To me,
Speaker 1: that's bad coaching. Yep, And I'd like to see that play.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to watch the game at all,
Speaker 1: but that's the one player I would have liked to
Speaker 1: see him again. In the third down, I thought he
Speaker 1: got that first down. I did too. I thought it
Speaker 1: kind of thought he got over thinking maybe they should
Speaker 1: have challenged that. Yeah, but that just kind of shows
Speaker 1: this is why, like in high school football, the one
Speaker 1: A two A teams don't play the six A teams
Speaker 1: because as the offensive line, they don't have the big
Speaker 1: guys to do it. This is what it felt like
Speaker 1: to me. That was the JV against the varsity. They
Speaker 1: can't move the ball. They showed that because they were like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: we can't run the ball if the middle was zeke.
Speaker 1: So we've already drawn them off sides once. That won't
Speaker 1: work again, let's just try it. I mean, like running
Speaker 1: that I would have punted. Now, who knows where that
Speaker 1: ball would have gone, but I would have would have
Speaker 1: you know, I would have tried to punt. I guess
Speaker 1: at that point, if you don't think you can get
Speaker 1: a yard, then I would take forty. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: with the punt. But but the one thing you could
Speaker 1: say in the scattering report, at least of this Washington
Speaker 1: team is the one area up front where they tend
Speaker 1: to be a little more vulnerable was in stopping the
Speaker 1: run and typically running right at them. So to me,
Speaker 1: you at least have to test it out and try
Speaker 1: it right. You have to at least test them if
Speaker 1: you're going to go for it on fourth and one,
Speaker 1: I think that's a higher percentage play. Then deciding that
Speaker 1: you're just gonna throw a ball down field trying to
Speaker 1: get a screen. I'm not saying yeah, and it didn't work,
Speaker 1: and it didn't work, Go ahead, Dave. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you're wrong, But those guys were getting ragged alled all day. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I don't know if charging up
Speaker 1: the gun on Jonathan Allen and Deron Payne's gonna work.
Speaker 1: Maybe not. I'm saying it is a higher percentage play.
Speaker 1: You could do the exact same thing as what you
Speaker 1: did the play before, and as Nick said, I thought
Speaker 1: they got the first down on the play before try
Speaker 1: it again. I think that is a higher percentage play
Speaker 1: than anything else you could call in your playbook against
Speaker 1: that front on a fourth and one. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our first break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna dive a little deeper into the offense,
Speaker 1: the pass offense, the rush offense, and we also have
Speaker 1: to talk about this defense when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star
Speaker 1: and let's jump into this Cowboys pass offense. Yesterday, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton was nine of nineteen. That's a forty seven percent
Speaker 1: completion rate. He had seventy five passing yards, He had
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns, he had one interception, a thirty six point
Speaker 1: one quarterback rating, and was sacked three times. Dad to that,
Speaker 1: Ben Denucci came in and he went two of three
Speaker 1: and at thirty nine yards, zero touchdown, zero interceptions, and
Speaker 1: he two was sacked three times. We talked all last
Speaker 1: week about how good this Rossington front was, but did
Speaker 1: you expect the Cowboys to get dominated as much as
Speaker 1: they were dominated yesterday? Nick? No, I mean, and there's
Speaker 1: no excuses to anything, but the rain absolutely messed up
Speaker 1: any chance that they had to do anything because of where,
Speaker 1: of how they are built. I mean, it just they
Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball. They're not physical enough affront to run.
Speaker 1: The only way you're gonna be able to do that
Speaker 1: is the quick passes get the ball out. Gallup didn't
Speaker 1: have a catch, CD didn't have a catch even though
Speaker 1: he had plenty of chances. I mean, he had his
Speaker 1: worst game of his career, and it just the passing
Speaker 1: game needed to be there to offset that. So you
Speaker 1: can't do that, and now you have to run and
Speaker 1: you're not strong enough to run the middle. You know
Speaker 1: it's bad when you can't. You're not strong enough to
Speaker 1: run up the middle, you're not fast enough to run
Speaker 1: to the outside, and the ball's not going to be caught.
Speaker 1: In the passing game, Well, you're gonna get three points
Speaker 1: based off your long kickoff return and that's it. Amber.
Speaker 1: I mean, I honestly didn't expect it to be this
Speaker 1: bad the way that he ended up happening. But there's
Speaker 1: such a lack of chemistry. I mean, we keep talking
Speaker 1: about Andy Dalton trying to get rid of the ball
Speaker 1: quicker and that's gonna help them offensively, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, the lack of chemistry I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: really do that when you don't have that connection with
Speaker 1: your wide receivers as opposed to what we're used to
Speaker 1: seeing with Dad and the receivers that sometimes, I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy just needs to turn around and then Dad
Speaker 1: knows exactly where he's gonna be, where he's gonna get
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, and then the guy's gonna catch it,
Speaker 1: as opposed to Andy Dalton. I mean, they're really lacking that.
Speaker 1: There's no flow or just connection there. There's no like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know exactly where you're gonna run and where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be, and I'm going to you like in this place.
Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna throw it to you. So it's
Speaker 1: it's it's bad because when there's not when you don't
Speaker 1: have that, there's no way that you can keep asking
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to get rid of the ball faster so
Speaker 1: that the defensive players are just not like completely attacking
Speaker 1: him and throwing him on the ground. Dave, I mean,
Speaker 1: I picked Dallas to win this game, so I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say I told you so
Speaker 1: too much. But yeah, I mean I did think that
Speaker 1: the Washington Front was gonna really be tough for them,
Speaker 1: that it's the most important thing and it's their biggest
Speaker 1: strength against the cowboy's biggest weakness. I had a feeling
Speaker 1: it might look kind of ugly, but the thing for
Speaker 1: me is, and you know, I need to go back
Speaker 1: and watch it again. But I didn't get the sense
Speaker 1: that it looked the offense looked different, Like it didn't
Speaker 1: really look like they tried to change what they would
Speaker 1: normally do, which is a mistake. Like you should be
Speaker 1: going into that game thinking we're gonna really have to
Speaker 1: pull some tricks out of the box and play a
Speaker 1: different style of offense than what we've been doing. Like
Speaker 1: you can't roll out there with the same core plays
Speaker 1: from when you thought you had all your guys and
Speaker 1: expected to work. You know, CD Dalton Dalton probably has
Speaker 1: another fifty sixty passing yards if CD Lamb plays another
Speaker 1: better game. I mean, that's neither here nor there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that means they win, but certainly didn't
Speaker 1: get any help from him. And then was Gallop even
Speaker 1: targeted once? If he was targeted, it was like it
Speaker 1: was one time, one time. Actually it says on the
Speaker 1: thing it says twice, but I remember once because I
Speaker 1: ask you when he when the one time when I
Speaker 1: remember I asked you, Dave, I was like, as he
Speaker 1: is that the first time he's been targeted. I don't
Speaker 1: remember him being targeted a second time, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: says two. It just didn't feel like they were all
Speaker 1: in plays to offset the fact that they didn't have
Speaker 1: an offensive line. In my opinion, like a lot of
Speaker 1: slow developing stuff, a lot of the you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of the same stuff we've seen in the first
Speaker 1: six weeks, which is fine when everybody's healthy, but they're not.
Speaker 1: Didn't feel like they adapted very well and they paid
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, you know. One of the challenges was,
Speaker 1: I don't know even if it was slow developing stuff
Speaker 1: as much as like over there on the right side,
Speaker 1: dared still. So many times I saw saw guys just
Speaker 1: run right around him and literally it was almost as though,
Speaker 1: you know, in practice they have those those big dummies.
Speaker 1: It looked like the weebele wobble you have when you
Speaker 1: were a kid. You punch it and it kind of
Speaker 1: pops back up. Like it looked like he was just
Speaker 1: that He's just like a stanchion that they just kind
Speaker 1: of put in a certain spot and the guy just
Speaker 1: needs to run around it to get to the quarterback
Speaker 1: and kind of hit the arm of the thing and
Speaker 1: then he's at the quarterback. That's what it looked like.
Speaker 1: And so I don't even know if if the play
Speaker 1: calling was necessarily the problem. And by the way, they
Speaker 1: also had some plays yesterday where they had to tight
Speaker 1: end stay into block and they got run around too.
Speaker 1: So I don't even know. And that's a question I
Speaker 1: have for you. And he got completely run over. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's I don't even know at this point,
Speaker 1: but I have the question for you, guys, So figure
Speaker 1: it out. Um, what could Dallas do differently? Where could
Speaker 1: they maybe help themselves a little bit? Knowing that you're
Speaker 1: so completely overmatched between your offensive line and their defensive line,
Speaker 1: what else could they do at this point? Dave, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a great question. I'm not sure. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: there's a great answer, And and you know it's I
Speaker 1: look back on a day like today and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: mad at myself because I'm like, you saw the indicators
Speaker 1: that this was a bad matchup, and you went with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys anyway, Maybe it was almost like blind hope
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that, I mean, that's tough, Nick,
Speaker 1: Nick said it, and I agree, Like you know, I've
Speaker 1: covered a lot of bad high school football in my life,
Speaker 1: and that's what that looked like. Like when you're when
Speaker 1: you're overmatched like that, it's hard to even play what
Speaker 1: resembles actual football, you know, And it's I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not convinced there was a lot more they could have done,
Speaker 1: Like like I said, you know, maybe maybe if CD
Speaker 1: plays a better game, they move the ball a little
Speaker 1: bit better and they kick another field goal. But I
Speaker 1: don't know that there's a lot they could have done
Speaker 1: to drastically improve what we saw. Nick, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know I said, I said the stat in the pregame.
Speaker 1: You know, they Jordan Mills was on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: They brought him up. I mean, he's got eighty four starts.
Speaker 1: The reason why I brought that up is because the
Speaker 1: combined starts for the five guys was seventy seven. So
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is is that combined for the five
Speaker 1: five five forty two from camp, twenty seven for for
Speaker 1: the Connor too, for be honest, zero for McGovern and
Speaker 1: Steele has six and I just feel like they. I mean,
Speaker 1: why bring Jordan Mills here if he's not I mean
Speaker 1: he's He's faced some really good players in his career. Now,
Speaker 1: I know it's not been pretty. People that have said
Speaker 1: Bears fans will tell you, man, he was not good.
Speaker 1: But he's been in the league eight years. They said
Speaker 1: the same thing about Colombo willing to give it a shot.
Speaker 1: Let's just see what happens, right, I mean, Kenny get
Speaker 1: me worse, it will be my question. I mean, no
Speaker 1: other than me and other than the four of us
Speaker 1: to play on the line. No, yeah, right, that could
Speaker 1: get worse. It's bad. It was just it was bad.
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, I wouldn't have put Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: in the in the under center so much. You know.
Speaker 1: I tried to mention it in a meeting today. I
Speaker 1: asked the question about Looney and like, oh we are
Speaker 1: now we're waiting on Joe Looney come back. Well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd rather Joe Looney than be Oddish. And I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think they'll do that because they, you know,
Speaker 1: looking for the future. But I'm be honest, doesn't have
Speaker 1: it right now. He's not he's not ready. I mean,
Speaker 1: get Zach Martin back, you get Looney back, you got
Speaker 1: Connor cam Irving, maybe you have a better right tackle.
Speaker 1: Maybe Brandon I can come back at some point. I
Speaker 1: know he's on ir I mean, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pieces together. You can't just look at next year. You
Speaker 1: can't do that. You can't Zack Martin. You have to
Speaker 1: come back. He comes back, and then you know what
Speaker 1: I think I would do, And I'm the guy that
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that didn't want to do this when
Speaker 1: things were a little more normal. But when Zach and
Speaker 1: when Zach and Joe are healthy, I'm putting Joe at
Speaker 1: right guard and Zach at right tackle because that gives
Speaker 1: me a chance to function at least, which is more
Speaker 1: than we've been able to say for the last couple
Speaker 1: of games. You know, if you have a side, you
Speaker 1: can at least get some level of reliability with right
Speaker 1: You know what I thought you were gonna say is
Speaker 1: move Connor to write tackle. Would I would look at that.
Speaker 1: If they don't want to do that, that's fine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would look at that too, That's but they gotta
Speaker 1: do something. I leaned towards Zach because I've seen him
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, man. That doesn't mean Connor can't do
Speaker 1: it though, but I would be happy if they take
Speaker 1: Connor and put him at one tackle and they take
Speaker 1: Zach and put him at the other tackle. You can
Speaker 1: figure out what you're gonna do. Maybe Looni's at guard,
Speaker 1: and maybe you stick with McGovern at the other guard,
Speaker 1: and you got be honest in the middle. I just
Speaker 1: feel like right now, right now, yesterday you saw a
Speaker 1: turnstyle at both tackle spot, like there was there were
Speaker 1: there were times when it was like the two defensive
Speaker 1: ends were like, okay, I get to the quarterback before
Speaker 1: you can, and then they get there and like give
Speaker 1: each other a high five at the quarterback. Like It's
Speaker 1: just you need to at least shore up that part
Speaker 1: of it. And if you can show up that part
Speaker 1: of it, then I think in the middle at least
Speaker 1: there's some help because a lot of times that center
Speaker 1: can kind of go one way or the other and
Speaker 1: kind of help out with a guy. You got a
Speaker 1: little bit more flexibility of how you can help in
Speaker 1: the middle than you can on the outside. Most of
Speaker 1: the times those guys are isolated. I take what at
Speaker 1: this point I guess we all would probably agree are
Speaker 1: your two best offensive linemen lineman they have both played
Speaker 1: tackle in college. Put about there and let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think? I don't know. You look
Speaker 1: at I don't disagree. Well, who's the quarterback? Well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be Andy, Okay. How tall is he?
Speaker 1: Six one? Tall enough? Foot? Now? I know, I know,
Speaker 1: But what I'm asking is is that do you take
Speaker 1: the only six foot I don't know, six two sixty three. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know he's tall enough. You're right. The reason
Speaker 1: why I'm asking is that do you take the Saints approach?
Speaker 1: You know, because Drew Brees has played there forever, he's
Speaker 1: not the tall quarterback ever. They look at it like
Speaker 1: they protect the end side, you know, center a guard
Speaker 1: the outside of the tackles that they kind of rotated
Speaker 1: them basically to give him a lane to throw the
Speaker 1: ball and to look over. And I just kind of
Speaker 1: wonder maybe maybe they need to work on the middle,
Speaker 1: you know, and keep the outside because you can kind
Speaker 1: of help chip them in a little bit. I know.
Speaker 1: But if you've been thinking about it, if you have
Speaker 1: three guys on the interior that can't do anything, then
Speaker 1: you can't run you can't. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good approach. I guess
Speaker 1: I just look at it like this. I think right now,
Speaker 1: to me, as far as performance is concerned, the guy
Speaker 1: that and this is saying a lot, the guy that
Speaker 1: is the worst of the bunch is Terrence Steel. I
Speaker 1: think you gotta get somebody different at right tackle. He's
Speaker 1: a problem for you right now. And and so I
Speaker 1: think you need to take either Connor or Zach and
Speaker 1: put them over there. And then I look at the
Speaker 1: other side, and I'm like, Okay, you could probably make
Speaker 1: that one a little bit better too. Maybe you're right.
Speaker 1: Maybe you go ahead and stick with cam Irving just
Speaker 1: because he has experience and you and you keep him
Speaker 1: in that spot and hope that you know, with back
Speaker 1: at guard, maybe you get a little bit better. Who knows,
Speaker 1: I don't get I don't know, but I just look
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm like, yesterday the tackles were a real,
Speaker 1: real problem. Most of the past rush, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: was coming from the outside yesterday. And and so that's
Speaker 1: where I feel like you kind of have to clean
Speaker 1: this up a little bit. For no. I good, We'll
Speaker 1: pick one. Sorry, I agree with what you said I
Speaker 1: and I get Nick's point. I do like protecting the
Speaker 1: front of the pocket is important. The Saints have a
Speaker 1: couple of really badass tackles though, so like they that
Speaker 1: might not look as good if you didn't have Ron
Speaker 1: Armstead and Ryan Ramschick so I and oh it was
Speaker 1: they were just it was so bad. Yeah, like the
Speaker 1: pressure was on top of Dalton before he could do anything,
Speaker 1: and not from the interior. I mean it was the
Speaker 1: game was long over, but like one of the last
Speaker 1: snaps of the game, Ryan Kerrigan basically picked Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: up and carried he carried him to the quarterback. It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's rough, and that's why I think I trust.
Speaker 1: I think I trust the backups on the interior to
Speaker 1: hold their own more than what we're looking at at tackle.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe it's not a season long thing, like
Speaker 1: maybe when Brandon Knight comes back, you can do that,
Speaker 1: but at least until some more guys are available, Like
Speaker 1: if Zach Martin can play at this point, I would
Speaker 1: try to play him at tackle. That's I just I
Speaker 1: just maybe it's desperation, but it seems like it would
Speaker 1: give you a better chance than what you're seeing right now.
Speaker 1: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Amber, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I think if it was up to me, I would
Speaker 1: definitely want to move Connor Williams to tackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is something we've been talking about for a couple
Speaker 1: of years now. He's not necessarily the best guard, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about the possibility of having him at tackle,
Speaker 1: which is a position that not only is troublesome this year,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be in the future as well.
Speaker 1: Even if your starters come back, we know they have
Speaker 1: been dealing with health issues and injury, so there's you
Speaker 1: need to address the position regardless. So I would rather
Speaker 1: use this year and right now, given the fact that
Speaker 1: the old line is just a mess right now, so
Speaker 1: you're not really gonna get a whole lot worse, So
Speaker 1: just try it. Move Connor to tackle, give him some
Speaker 1: in game experience. So let's trying him out, because it's
Speaker 1: totally different giving him practice, like watching him at tackle
Speaker 1: during practice, then giving him some actual in game experience.
Speaker 1: I would rather go ahead and do that. Now. Let's
Speaker 1: get that out of the way and try to get
Speaker 1: a better feel of what that would look like or
Speaker 1: could look like, and that will give you a better
Speaker 1: idea of whether that's the route you would want to
Speaker 1: take for the future. And I'm not saying, oh, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start thinking about the future and tank
Speaker 1: the season or any of that, but I do think
Speaker 1: that this is a good chance for you to at
Speaker 1: least try different things because it's not working out. Clearly
Speaker 1: it's not working out, So you're not gonna lose much
Speaker 1: by actually giving him a tackle. Yeah, that's actually that's
Speaker 1: the point. Amber. I think you hit it on the
Speaker 1: head that whatever they're doing right now isn't working, so
Speaker 1: try some other things. If you keep doing the same thing,
Speaker 1: expect different results. That's lunacy, right, So try something different.
Speaker 1: I think maybe he becomes a guy. And Nick, I
Speaker 1: think you mentioned this a couple weeks ago too, that
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna need a good swing tackle. You've
Speaker 1: been needing a good swing tackle for a while. If
Speaker 1: you find out this year that he can play well
Speaker 1: in relief at tackle, then maybe going into next year,
Speaker 1: you look at this and you say, that's our swing tackle.
Speaker 1: And if one of those two guys that are the
Speaker 1: starters are not ready to go for whatever reason or
Speaker 1: get injured. We feel like we're in a really good
Speaker 1: position with him as a guy that can that become
Speaker 1: a swing tackle and maybe that's a better fit for
Speaker 1: him than guard. All Right, we're gonna take our final break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we do have to talk about
Speaker 1: the defense and what their day looked like. Yesterday. There
Speaker 1: were some guys that played a little bit more and
Speaker 1: I'm wondering did it make a difference. Maybe it did.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's hard to see through all the bad stuff
Speaker 1: we saw yesterday. We'll talk about that when we come
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Speaker 1: It is the final segment of The Break, live from
Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys loss yesterday twenty five three to the
Speaker 1: Washington football team and what we're dreary conditions and a
Speaker 1: drearier if that's a word outcome. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: defense yesterday. They give up only twenty three points if
Speaker 1: you don't count the two points safety. Yeah, it's gave
Speaker 1: up and only gave up three points. In the second half.
Speaker 1: All right, that all being considered, can I'm gonna challenge
Speaker 1: each of the three of you to Washington, to Washington,
Speaker 1: make sure you point that out to Washington, right yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna challenge each of the three of you
Speaker 1: come up with at least one thing that maybe you
Speaker 1: could glean from that game that was a positive about
Speaker 1: this defense. Nick, go first, Um, they had a goal
Speaker 1: line stand. Ah, that's a good one. That's a really
Speaker 1: good one. Okay. And the guy that did that was
Speaker 1: there right in the middle, Dontarry Poe, which, by the way, folks,
Speaker 1: we have a really good video of Dontari Poe getting
Speaker 1: the team together and really kind of getting in their face.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, what do you say, I'm going to play better?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he he had that. And then
Speaker 1: there was a fumble. I guess they called it a fumble.
Speaker 1: Was it a fourth down stop or did they actually
Speaker 1: get a fumble because Worley got the ball? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was Worley and Poe, those two right there. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it was a turnover rundown or if it
Speaker 1: was it was actually a stand. It turned out to
Speaker 1: be a five point stand. Because they gave up here
Speaker 1: of a safety. But yeah, let's go line stand that's positive? Okay,
Speaker 1: uh Amber, give me something positive? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Just anything? Question? Is that? Why are you being asking
Speaker 1: that work? Because because are you gonna get any posi?
Speaker 1: Here's the point. Here's the point. If you look at
Speaker 1: how this defense has played all season, and you look
Speaker 1: at the fact that yesterday they were able to at
Speaker 1: least only give up twenty three, and they only gave
Speaker 1: up three after halftime, is there anything that's positive about that?
Speaker 1: Is my question? Is there anything was better? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: cero Sato, Sato, Sato positive Sato. Now that you keep
Speaker 1: talking as if this was like the Steelers, the the
Speaker 1: Seattle you're playing against Seattle Wall when they stopped them
Speaker 1: twenty three to point. No, this was against Washington. There
Speaker 1: was absolutely nothing positive. I thought the first player, like
Speaker 1: in the first series, where they stopped that touch them,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a positive if you want to
Speaker 1: look at it positive. Okay, maybe they didn't give up
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the first few seconds of the game. Good, great,
Speaker 1: great for him for them, But no, there's absolutely nothing positive.
Speaker 1: The worst part to me is that I don't know
Speaker 1: how you really try to change things around at this point.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you actually do to make it better?
Speaker 1: Do you? And I know people keep talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: come back this week fire, Mic Nolan, Are you gonna
Speaker 1: do that? I mean, there's some blame on the players. Again,
Speaker 1: this is not just a coaching thing. It's also a
Speaker 1: thing about the players and the way that they're performing.
Speaker 1: They just don't seem to care enough. And there's just
Speaker 1: a lack of chemistry, a lack of enthusiasm, a lack
Speaker 1: of desire of actually wanting to win because there's I
Speaker 1: don't see any energy. Little things that you keep talking about, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe like for example, Jayleen and Smith, how do you
Speaker 1: slip a tackle like that? Those things should not be happening.
Speaker 1: So no, there's absolutely no positive from the defense side
Speaker 1: of the ball. So don't ask me again. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear any word positive along in the same
Speaker 1: sentence as the defense. You did see it up nicely though.
Speaker 1: For tomorrow tomorrow show, I'm going to ask to ask you,
Speaker 1: to ask you the question of do you think that
Speaker 1: if you look at the players at the Cowboys lost
Speaker 1: this last year, do you think that those guys have
Speaker 1: accounted for that much of a difference in the result
Speaker 1: that we're seeing this year, or maybe, just maybe could
Speaker 1: it be the loss of one man end at being
Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli. We're gonna talk about that tomorrow because I
Speaker 1: think that's a very interesting conversation. Dave. Was there anything
Speaker 1: positive that you glean from this defense yesterday? I know,
Speaker 1: like you're asking this with your tongue firmly planted in
Speaker 1: your I'm still we do have shows we gotta get
Speaker 1: through for the rest of this season. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I'm still. I'm still a fin especially like, okay, they
Speaker 1: allowed three points after halftime that Like that reminds me
Speaker 1: in high school. I used to go out and play
Speaker 1: basketball with my dad in the driveway like every night
Speaker 1: after dinner, and he would beat my ass until he
Speaker 1: had a comfortable lead, and then he would just start
Speaker 1: chunking shots at the backboard so that it would stay
Speaker 1: close and I wouldn't get discouraged, you know, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's what that looked like to me. Is Washington was like,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, it's twenty five to three, Like
Speaker 1: we've done what we need to do. Like I don't
Speaker 1: I don't give them any credit for not allowing a
Speaker 1: touchdown after halftime because the touchdowns they allowed before halftime
Speaker 1: three of them, by the way, which is more than
Speaker 1: Washington has scored all year, and one of them is
Speaker 1: a go ball where they just decided not to cover
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin for the fourth week in a row. And
Speaker 1: then the other one is Logan Thomas scoring because Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith didn't couldn't tackle him. Well, it was it was atrocious. Um,
Speaker 1: if I'm looking for positives, I thought Donovan Wilson made
Speaker 1: a really nice play to break up the two point conversion.
Speaker 1: I believe it was in the back of the end zone. Um,
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderesh played the whole game and he got hurt
Speaker 1: for a second, but I guess it wasn't serious, so
Speaker 1: you know that's nice, I guess. Um. I am befuddled
Speaker 1: at how like why did why was Randy Gregory even
Speaker 1: up if he only got six snaps? And why is
Speaker 1: why is Bradley and I are going to be inactive
Speaker 1: if this is what you're getting from the defensive line,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying tank, but like, let's let's get
Speaker 1: some of these young guys some looks like because what
Speaker 1: what has what you've been doing hasn't been working anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, though those are my positives, which is to say,
Speaker 1: really not any Yeah, and you entered you mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: get some of these young guys opportunities. Yesterday, what we
Speaker 1: did see was Gallimore and Hamilton played more defensive tackle
Speaker 1: than Poe or Wood or Crawford. They both played over
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the defensive snap, both Hamilton and Gallimore.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we saw a different result overall,
Speaker 1: because they gave up obviously two uttered eight rushing yards,
Speaker 1: which is a huge amount to give up to a
Speaker 1: team that hadn't rushed very well. Antonio Gibson had one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight yards on twenty carries. His previous
Speaker 1: high before that was thirteen carriages for fifty five yards
Speaker 1: at Arizona. So I don't think the results necessarily showed
Speaker 1: anything different. But did you as you watch those players play,
Speaker 1: did you get a sense that maybe they were a
Speaker 1: little better than the guys that they maybe were replacing Nick?
Speaker 1: Not really, I'm sorry, and I know where you're going
Speaker 1: with this, but I can't. I just can't. There's just
Speaker 1: nothing really to get excited about it at all I mean,
Speaker 1: I just said to Antonio Gibson's gonna rush for thirty
Speaker 1: seven yards next week, and Carol Allen's gonna have a
Speaker 1: rating of about sixty eight. I mean, like, I just
Speaker 1: think that those guys were getting tired of getting beat
Speaker 1: up on, and they got to beat up on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And that's the real embarrassing part of this is that
Speaker 1: there are a few nice plays here and there. No,
Speaker 1: there were like two plays here and there. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, Layton and Jalen had twelve tackles each. Cool
Speaker 1: should have been nineteen each. I mean, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think Layton played that well. I mean he had a
Speaker 1: really costly penalty too that led to seven points. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, somebody told me a long
Speaker 1: time ago about a play. Yeah, yeah, he led the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and you know, tackling and they can't tackle, so
Speaker 1: somebody has to do it, you know, and it's Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith and Layton Well. I mean, I do think that
Speaker 1: as you as we go through the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: it really is and probably will be for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: coaching staff front office as well. It's really gonna be
Speaker 1: about player evaluations. The results won't matter because I think
Speaker 1: the results are going to be similar to what you
Speaker 1: saw yesterday. I think what they're looking at is is
Speaker 1: an individual player playing well enough that we want to
Speaker 1: keep him around for next year? You know, I think
Speaker 1: you know that's where you start looking at it. And
Speaker 1: that's that's why I asked the question about Gallimore and
Speaker 1: Hamilton specifically, is because it really is going to be
Speaker 1: about player evaluation for each of those individual guys. Were
Speaker 1: there any individual performances? Now I'm not gonna say that
Speaker 1: we're good, because in the twenty five to three loss,
Speaker 1: nobody was good. But were there any moments that you
Speaker 1: looked at and you said, Hey, I like what this
Speaker 1: guy was doing here. This is the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that they're gonna need a little bit more of Amber.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I can't think of anyone. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: there was so much bad that it completely blinded my
Speaker 1: side for any slight of good that there could possibly
Speaker 1: have been in that game. There was not a single
Speaker 1: player that necessarily stood out to me for doing good.
Speaker 1: So and I know that what we're looking at is
Speaker 1: maybe just a little bit better, Like, Okay, did this
Speaker 1: players do a little a little better where maybe we
Speaker 1: a little something something, but that little something something just
Speaker 1: got completely washed away from everything else. So I just
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't give you a better answer to that.
Speaker 1: But on his there was nothing that I really saw, Dave,
Speaker 1: I'm with her even you know, I mentioned a couple,
Speaker 1: I mentioned a couple like positives, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Donovan Wilson's fault that there
Speaker 1: was no safety help on the McLaurin play. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it back, so I don't want to blame him
Speaker 1: for that. But my point is Donovan Wilson makes one
Speaker 1: great play, but like you still see all of the
Speaker 1: same systemic problems like that. That obviously what makes this
Speaker 1: so frustrating and terrible is like there is no growth
Speaker 1: from week to week. Ye, there is none. They do
Speaker 1: the same awful stuff every time they go out, and
Speaker 1: this time they did it against literally the worst offense
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So cool, Maybe a handful of guys
Speaker 1: made some nice plays, but like who cares right now?
Speaker 1: That's just it is what it is, all right, That's
Speaker 1: gonna be a rap Tomorrow. What we will do is
Speaker 1: we will talk a little bit more about some of
Speaker 1: those bigger picture areas where maybe the Cowboys can identify
Speaker 1: some issues that maybe they can tackle this year. Some
Speaker 1: of them are about tackling issues for next year. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk specifically about coaching and what's happening right now
Speaker 1: with this coaching staff, both at the head coach as
Speaker 1: well as the coordinators, and how much blame do you
Speaker 1: put on those guys from what we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: when it comes to this team each and every Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll do that when we come back tomorrow to them.
Speaker 1: For Nick Eatman, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Hilton.
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