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Speaker 7: It is Tuesday, January sixteenth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen,
Speaker 7: Episode number one eight. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 7: The Break. We are live from the s WBC Morriage
Speaker 7: Studios at the Star and today we're going to take
Speaker 7: a big picture look. We are going to hash through
Speaker 7: everything that has happened in the debacle that was Cowboys
Speaker 7: Wild Card playoff game versus the Packers. They lose forty
Speaker 7: eight to thirty two. Score doesn't really tell the story
Speaker 7: of that game, but we're gonna break that down and
Speaker 7: we're gonna talk about some of the finer points of
Speaker 7: the game, some things that maybe can put that in perspective.
Speaker 7: What you actually saw on Sunday was not pretty. But again,
Speaker 7: we're gonna go through it. We're gonna break it all
Speaker 7: down for you guys. Towards the end of the show,
Speaker 7: we'll also have a little bit of discussion around the coaches,
Speaker 7: around Mike McCarthy, around Dan Quinn and what they contributed
Speaker 7: to what you saw on Sunday and what it looks
Speaker 7: like for them going forward and how you evaluate that.
Speaker 7: So we'll do that throughout the show. But let's start first.
Speaker 7: I want to get some general overviews. And I know
Speaker 7: obviously it wasn't a good day for the Cowboys, but
Speaker 7: just as a big picture, what was your takeaway? What's
Speaker 7: your big picture takeaway from that game?
Speaker 8: Patrick will start with you Cowboys are kind of back
Speaker 8: in purgatory, and it's a horrible place to be because
Speaker 8: you know what direction do you go from here?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 8: And we'll know touch on the coaching situation going forward,
Speaker 8: But when you have a coach and a staff on
Speaker 8: both sides of the bar that put you in position
Speaker 8: to overcome adversity like losing Trayvon Diggs and players like that,
Speaker 8: and you deliver another twelve win season, your second division
Speaker 8: title in three seasons. But not only do you not
Speaker 8: make the playoff run, which was basically an obligation at
Speaker 8: this point, but you lose and the fashion in which
Speaker 8: you lost, and to whom you lost and where you lost.
Speaker 8: It could not have been more of a meltdown. It
Speaker 8: was a nuclear meltdown, absolute shared noble at at and
Speaker 8: T Stadium. So now fear Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Will McLay.
Speaker 8: You're sitting there and you're trying to figure out, well,
Speaker 8: what do you do? Do you move on to a
Speaker 8: new head coach? And obviously there's no guarantees there, no
Speaker 8: matter how big and fancy the name is. Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: admittedly said he sucked on Sunday, and he did. He said,
Speaker 8: if you're going to put McCarthy on the hot seat,
Speaker 8: put me on the hot seat. We will. But what
Speaker 8: does that look like? Because he's up for a contract
Speaker 8: negotiation Cowboys, and on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 8: dan Quinn, he's set to undertake his interviews. Now right,
Speaker 8: we talk about the stock of a head coach and
Speaker 8: how dan Quinn was rightfully being courted. Stock took a massive,
Speaker 8: massive hit for dan Quinn. I had no rhyme or
Speaker 8: reason for what I saw schematically against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 8: They basically kneeled for four quarters and let Jordan Love
Speaker 8: do whatever he wanted to do. This was a failure
Speaker 8: on every possible level by everyone involved not named Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 8: Jake Ferguson and maybe two or three other people are
Speaker 8: the only ones I could point to in this particular
Speaker 8: game and say they left it all on the field.
Speaker 8: Offensive line did well as well, so I'll give it
Speaker 8: to the offensive not Tony Pollard did well as well.
Speaker 8: But for the most part, your defensive players, Michael.
Speaker 2: Where were you? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Where were you? Penalty showed up? Dak Where were you?
Speaker 8: Where was the MVPDT wasn't there at all? This offensive
Speaker 8: play calling that had been so great most of the season,
Speaker 8: where was it? Defensive play calling great most of the season?
Speaker 2: Where was it.
Speaker 8: So at at the end of the day. That's where
Speaker 8: the Cowboys are. Its purgatory. Don't envy the decisions they
Speaker 8: have to make. But they got to make them, and
Speaker 8: they got to make them quickly.
Speaker 2: You know what, Well said?
Speaker 9: Patrick Well said, the I think the thing that that
Speaker 9: that was Green Bay had a really a great game plan.
Speaker 9: They had a game plan both offensively and defensively, how
Speaker 9: they wanted to attack your quarterback, how they wanted to
Speaker 9: play and coverage. Some of the looks that had been
Speaker 9: given DAK problems throughout the season. You know, Joe Berry
Speaker 9: basically rolled the dice and said, you know what, I'm
Speaker 9: going to play certain coverages here and see if I
Speaker 9: can get something out of it. I think that, you know,
Speaker 9: when you talk about the you know, the one of
Speaker 9: the interceptions that DAK had where that disconnect, that early
Speaker 9: disconnect with CD in this game and they run the
Speaker 9: double slant and they throw the interception off that which
Speaker 9: turns into the pick six. The savage that to me
Speaker 9: was one of those Okay, I'm gonna try and get
Speaker 9: you going throws. I'm going to try and get you know,
Speaker 9: maybe that wasn't the best place to put the football,
Speaker 9: you know, and it goes back to bite you. That's
Speaker 9: just good scheming by you know, by the by the
Speaker 9: Packers there to kind of be in the right place
Speaker 9: the right time to force a turnover there. They did
Speaker 9: a really good job of handling your offense, you know,
Speaker 9: for the for three quarters and then you know it
Speaker 9: turned into garbage time. But the defense that that's the
Speaker 9: thing that was the most disconcerting to me about this,
Speaker 9: the way that that that they played, because I know
Speaker 9: there's times where we've seen and they've tried to put
Speaker 9: band aids on amputations. Here at linebacker, it's just been
Speaker 9: a it's a struggle. They don't have the personnel to
Speaker 9: play the way they want to play, you know, and
Speaker 9: they play so much dime because they have to. They
Speaker 9: don't have any other players. I mean, Bell's one of
Speaker 9: your better players. He's not a linebacker. You know, we're
Speaker 9: learning on the We're learning on the run here with Clark,
Speaker 9: you know, I mean, he's learning.
Speaker 2: He some days he's really good. In other days he's
Speaker 2: not so good.
Speaker 9: You know, when they're knocking down you know, Jonathan Hankins
Speaker 9: on the ground and double team in him, and you know,
Speaker 9: there's just a lot of things. You have to tip
Speaker 9: your cap to Green Bay for the way they schemed it.
Speaker 9: They tacked the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: They knew that, you know.
Speaker 9: They saw that that curse a as a true free safety.
Speaker 2: It's not an answer for you right there. You know.
Speaker 9: I think there's dan Quinn had just he was trying
Speaker 9: to put players in place to make up for the
Speaker 9: lack of some of the players he didn't have, and
Speaker 9: I think it ultimately caught up to him at the end.
Speaker 9: Green Bay schemed, you really really.
Speaker 2: Well in this football game, you know, and and.
Speaker 9: You give their quarterback a lot of credit too, you know,
Speaker 9: he he threw several passes in the teeth of a rush,
Speaker 9: which the Cowboys have been good at all year. But it,
Speaker 9: you know, ultimately, it's what caused the Cowboys to lose
Speaker 9: this football game. They just weren't able. They just were
Speaker 9: undermanned in a lot of areas. And it like the
Speaker 9: Old House of Cards just kind of came tombling down
Speaker 9: on them in this game. I think we saw that
Speaker 9: they were playing with fire all year and they finally
Speaker 9: got burned in this game.
Speaker 10: Well I'm gonna watch what I say because I don't
Speaker 10: want to get fired today. But well your jinxed, so
Speaker 10: you know what people started tweeting on me. I'm like, sure, sure, yes,
Speaker 10: that they lost because I jinxed it. Sure they've lost
Speaker 10: all these years because I opened my mouth. Sure, if
Speaker 10: I had that much power, I probably wouldn't be sitting here.
Speaker 10: If my mouth had that much power, I'll be you
Speaker 10: talk to him swimming in a jack kusie full of cash.
Speaker 10: But anyways, I agree with everything you guys said, and
Speaker 10: the funny, crazy twisted thing is that in that game,
Speaker 10: everything that was that the Cowboys tended to do well
Speaker 10: went wrong, and the areas that they tended to do
Speaker 10: bad went somewhat well. So including oh my god, I
Speaker 10: almost call him brand Maher Brandon Aubrey included him. But
Speaker 10: it's just it's I don't know what to do with
Speaker 10: my life right now. This week, I'm trying to because,
Speaker 10: and I've said this off the air, every single part
Speaker 10: of me had zero doubt that they were gonna win
Speaker 10: this game. And of course that's not being me being
Speaker 10: naive or stupid of like the past history, but I
Speaker 10: truly believe that this was such a great matchup for
Speaker 10: them to start the playoffs against a team like the
Speaker 10: Green Bay Packers, and it wasn't the case. I don't
Speaker 10: think it matter who the opponent was. The way the
Speaker 10: Cowboys played. The Cowboys played was just absolutely terrible. And
Speaker 10: it's one of those things that now we got to
Speaker 10: talk about and like try to figure out, Okay, how
Speaker 10: do you how do you move past this? And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 10: part of me is like we know the drill with
Speaker 10: the during this so many years, But at the same time,
Speaker 10: it's like, right, now I literally have no answer, no
Speaker 10: quick fix. Like everything in my mind right now seems
Speaker 10: so like, oh, reconstructing or starting over from zero, Like
Speaker 10: nothing seems like there would be like a change that
Speaker 10: you currently make, even if there was to be a
Speaker 10: change in the head coach position. There are so many
Speaker 10: pieces that are about to change that it's hard to
Speaker 10: visualize something that will get you to that next step
Speaker 10: in the near future going into next year. And I
Speaker 10: know we talked about it on one of our shows, Derek,
Speaker 10: where we were talking about the now and the coaching
Speaker 10: and dn quinn him having interviews and all of that,
Speaker 10: and it's just so many moving parts that I really
Speaker 10: thought this was the year if you were gonna do it,
Speaker 10: this was gonna be the year where.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, To be honest with you, that kind of
Speaker 7: encapsulates my thoughts on this is there. You'd have to
Speaker 7: go back to two thousand and seven for me to
Speaker 7: find a game that a playoff game that was more
Speaker 7: gut wrenching than this one. Because just like in two
Speaker 7: thousand and seven, you were the top seed, you had
Speaker 7: everything was laid out nicely for you had the team,
Speaker 7: you had the home field advantage, everything worked to where
Speaker 7: you should be able to exercise all those demons of
Speaker 7: what has happened to this franchise since their championship days
Speaker 7: in the nineties. And you go and have that game
Speaker 7: against the Giants and you lose in the first round.
Speaker 7: And I felt the same way about this game. I
Speaker 7: look at the Packers and I'm like, this was a
Speaker 7: good matchup for the Cowboys. You can't convince me that
Speaker 7: schematically the Cowboys what they'd done all season didn't match
Speaker 7: up nicely against this team. And everything had laid out
Speaker 7: in a way to where you had everything clear all
Speaker 7: the way up until you had to deal with San Francisco.
Speaker 7: Do you see what happened at San Francisco for that
Speaker 7: championship game if they didn't lose somewhere.
Speaker 4: Along the way.
Speaker 7: But the point was, like you, everything was laid out
Speaker 7: nicely for you, and for whatever reason, they just couldn't
Speaker 7: get it right in the first round. And that's the
Speaker 7: part that's hard. And that's the part where when you
Speaker 7: start talking about where do you move from here? I
Speaker 7: don't think there's a lot of answers because you left
Speaker 7: like almost dumbfounded, like how did this happen to be
Speaker 7: able to even.
Speaker 4: Understand where you need to go.
Speaker 7: You gotta first understand, like how did it happen against
Speaker 7: that team? And again I'm not trying to kill him.
Speaker 7: Love played his butt off some of the throws he made.
Speaker 7: That throw he made into the end zone like where
Speaker 7: he was kind of yeah, that was an awesome throw,
Speaker 7: Like you, you won't find a the vast majority of
Speaker 7: the NFL quarterbacks in the NFL right now that can
Speaker 7: make that kind of throw.
Speaker 4: He played his butt off.
Speaker 2: The fact matter is.
Speaker 7: Though the Dallas Cowboys should have won that game. They
Speaker 7: were the better team, and it's hard to say that,
Speaker 7: but you look at it, and that's why we're all
Speaker 7: so dumb founded, is because you look at it on
Speaker 7: paper and you say, Down has more talent Dallas is.
Speaker 4: You would think they have.
Speaker 7: Better skime, You would think everything matches up for them
Speaker 7: to have won that game, and for whatever reason, they
Speaker 7: did not.
Speaker 8: And that's why I don't I often don't get into
Speaker 8: the whole the dialogue going into the playoffs of matchups
Speaker 8: and things like that, because we all know matchups do
Speaker 8: matter in the playoffs, but what matters more than matchups
Speaker 8: is effort and execution and the complete lack of effort.
Speaker 8: The complete lack of execution we saw from the Cowboys
Speaker 8: would have gotten them blown out by every team in
Speaker 8: the league at at and T Stadium or anywhere. You
Speaker 8: see what happened to the Eagles in Tampa Bay. Lack
Speaker 8: of effort, lack of execution. So it's not that the
Speaker 8: Cowboys finally dropped a game at home, it's they didn't
Speaker 8: show up on their own field in the first place.
Speaker 8: And to Ambar and Derek's point, the thing that makes
Speaker 8: this so difficult and dumbfounding is you look at the
Speaker 8: loss to the forty nine ers, Okay, in last year,
Speaker 8: that's January. You lose Tony Pollard, your most explosive player, Okay.
Speaker 8: So then after that you could say, well, if you
Speaker 8: had Pollard, Okay, Kellen Moore was the offensive coordinator in
Speaker 8: the Green Bay game last year, you say, okay, well
Speaker 8: if the offensive coordinator had done this differently, So what
Speaker 8: do you do. You swap out the offensive coordinator. So
Speaker 8: those types of changes have been made. But then you
Speaker 8: look at what happened this past Sunday against the Packers,
Speaker 8: and you don't have those things to point to. You
Speaker 8: have to point at everything. So how do you fix everything?
Speaker 8: You try to figure out, Like Derek said, what's the
Speaker 8: root of it? And it's not lack of talent. They
Speaker 8: definitely took some hits. They had, you know, size issues
Speaker 8: at linebacker. Yeah, they took some hits. But this was
Speaker 8: the perfect matchup for you. Where was your pressure up
Speaker 8: front from your defensive line Michael Parsons and those guys.
Speaker 4: In coverage George dropped back. We'll talk about that later,
Speaker 4: but go ahead.
Speaker 8: Jordan Love pressured only only four times. So in breaking
Speaker 8: down like Science Lab I did last week, I said,
Speaker 8: you have to get pressure from your front four on
Speaker 8: Jordan Love, don't bring the blitz. They did not get pressure,
Speaker 8: so then they panicked. Then they brought the blitz and
Speaker 8: Jordan Love tormed to shreds every time they blitzed them.
Speaker 8: And then when he had time two and a half
Speaker 8: seconds or more, over two hundred almost three hundred yards,
Speaker 8: three touchdowns, no interceptions, almost a perfect passer rating. Play
Speaker 8: after play we saw we were sitting in the press box. Snap,
Speaker 8: Why did he take him deep fade? Yeah, forty fifty
Speaker 8: yard reception, third and six pre snap? Why are these
Speaker 8: ten yards off the receiver? On there are so many
Speaker 8: things you could point out that went wrong because almost
Speaker 8: everything went wrong and not much went right. And when
Speaker 8: that happens, it doesn't matter where you're playing, who you're playing.
Speaker 8: It's unacceptable and it has to be fixed. But there
Speaker 8: is no easy fix. And that's where we're left right now.
Speaker 8: Which knob did you turn? When you got to turn
Speaker 8: all the knobs?
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Speaker 7: We'll talk about Dak Prescott and his day. As he said,
Speaker 7: he didn't play well that game, but we'll talk about
Speaker 7: what some of the more specific things that went wrong
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Speaker 7: was forty one or sixty sixty eight percent completions, complete
Speaker 7: completion percentage four hundred three yards, passing, three touchdowns, two
Speaker 7: interceptions at eighty nine point eight.
Speaker 4: Rating a lot of that very hollow.
Speaker 7: They really they seem to get things going at the
Speaker 7: point in the game where the Packers are basically like,
Speaker 7: just don't let them get anything quick, and so they
Speaker 7: racked up a lot of yards even some points. But
Speaker 7: if you look at the games holistically, and let's really
Speaker 7: take that first half where I think that's where it
Speaker 7: all went downhill, what would you say was the biggest
Speaker 7: problem for the offense and Dak Prescott on Sunday.
Speaker 8: I'll say this quickly and all though right to Brian
Speaker 8: o Ambar. Brian mentioned it in his first description of
Speaker 8: what went wrong, that connection between Dak and set Lamb
Speaker 8: that's been so explosive all season. It was not there.
Speaker 8: It was ice freaking cold. They could not get on
Speaker 8: the same page to save their lives. Right, Well, he
Speaker 8: was trying to force it, which was probably number one,
Speaker 8: but at the same time, miscommunications on the routes and
Speaker 8: you know what, the anticipation that was normally always there
Speaker 8: for those two it just wasn't there. And then you
Speaker 8: started to see CD get frustrated because they just couldn't
Speaker 8: get it together. So for me, there's a lot of
Speaker 8: things you can point to, but that because they couldn't
Speaker 8: get that motor going, everything else just started kind of
Speaker 8: the crumble after that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that I think it really started. Dak
Speaker 9: tried to throw the ball to the middle there to
Speaker 9: the CD on third down, and CD really didn't have
Speaker 9: a chance. I mean, he extended Dak both feet off
Speaker 9: the ground. He's looking to his left. CD's probably not
Speaker 9: expecting the ball, and then all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 9: trying to Now Dak's like, okay, I got to try
Speaker 9: and make a play here.
Speaker 2: So they try and get in the middle. It doesn't work.
Speaker 9: They come back and they throw what the play is
Speaker 9: called sprint right option, where Dak rolls to his right
Speaker 9: and Lamb is on the running.
Speaker 2: Along the silen. It's kind of run a little bit.
Speaker 9: Of a curl router end route, and Dak lets the
Speaker 9: ball fly before CD even breaks and it got to
Speaker 9: CD so fast that he really couldn't even adjust, you know.
Speaker 9: So I think that I think the disconnect really happened.
Speaker 9: When you you looked at a play. They were going
Speaker 9: to run a pivot route where where CD breaks in
Speaker 9: and Dak expects him to break in then out, and
Speaker 9: he throws the ball the outside. And after the play
Speaker 9: you look at it, Dak, He's got palms up at CD, like, bro,
Speaker 9: what's going.
Speaker 2: On here today?
Speaker 9: You know, at that point in time, it then be
Speaker 9: kind of became and then we had you know, he
Speaker 9: didn't have a catch until right at the two minute warning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And so it was a rough day.
Speaker 9: And I think that to me, Green Bay did a
Speaker 9: really nice job with their coverages. I think they frustrated
Speaker 9: CD a little bit with it. I think they frustrated Dak.
Speaker 9: He gave him some different looks. When you play what
Speaker 9: they we call that cover four where it's all quarter coverages.
Speaker 2: You got fourg to say you got four.
Speaker 9: You know, everybody's covering four in a deep part of
Speaker 9: the field, and then you take your linebackers and you
Speaker 9: run them in underneath in the wide, and another quarter of.
Speaker 2: The field's taken taken away from you.
Speaker 9: This seems like a difficult defense for Dallas to deal
Speaker 9: with when it comes to their route combinations, and I
Speaker 9: think it makes it difficult for the quarterback when he
Speaker 9: doesn't see it clean, you know, he anticipates throws, but
Speaker 9: it when that that kind of that coverage gives him
Speaker 9: a little bit of problem. And green Bay stuck with it.
Speaker 9: They did they they went with it. You know, like
Speaker 9: half the first I kind of kicked the fourth quarter
Speaker 9: out of this game for Dak because it's the game
Speaker 9: was you know, it was it turned into stats at
Speaker 9: the end, and it's but if you look at the
Speaker 9: first three quarters though, the way they played coverage against him,
Speaker 9: the way they covered CD and it wasn't traveling coverage
Speaker 9: and stuff like that. They caught a really frustrated receiver.
Speaker 9: They caught a quarterback that was dealing with a lot
Speaker 9: of the problems of seeing and reading where it needed
Speaker 9: to be and the route combinations. Might got an absolutely
Speaker 9: no rhythm as a play caller. They just didn't have that.
Speaker 9: You know, Green Bay seem to have a little bit
Speaker 9: of rhythm to their play calling, the way they were
Speaker 9: setting things up and getting to them. You know, the
Speaker 9: play action game was big for them. Dallas didn't have
Speaker 9: that rhythm to them, and I think it's it's you know,
Speaker 9: Joe Berry much maligned at Green Bay for the way
Speaker 9: they played defense this year, but he came up with
Speaker 9: a brilliant plan and it did a great.
Speaker 2: Job of frustrating the Cowboys. That was a big difference
Speaker 2: in this game.
Speaker 10: You know, I love Dak, I really really do, and
Speaker 10: I think he's had his best career this season, but
Speaker 10: he comes down to once again, can he show up
Speaker 10: when it really matters in imporant games like this. And
Speaker 10: the crazy thing is we've actually seen it this season.
Speaker 10: For example, the game against Philly out there, an away
Speaker 10: game where even though they lost, Dak was one of
Speaker 10: the very few players that you saw him really fighting
Speaker 10: and putting carrying things on his back. And in this game,
Speaker 10: he just he just wasn't there mentally. And it wasn't
Speaker 10: a game where and Patrick you mentioned the O line,
Speaker 10: It wasn't a game where he was constantly under pressure,
Speaker 10: nothing like they haven't dealt with all throughout the season.
Speaker 10: It was the old line did a solid job. Dak
Speaker 10: wasn't constantly under pressure, but you could see him that
Speaker 10: that quality that you love so much about Dak as
Speaker 10: a so like as a leader and so focused and confident. Yeah,
Speaker 10: it wasn't it wasn't there. You can see him right
Speaker 10: from the beginning just kind of lost a little bit
Speaker 10: too much in his head where he's just thinking too
Speaker 10: much and now he's just throwing the ball to see
Speaker 10: if he gets kind of lucky. Lets let's just let's
Speaker 10: just give this a try, and it wasn't working.
Speaker 11: So I don't really know what.
Speaker 10: To pinpoint exactly, because it's it's something we haven't really
Speaker 10: seen from him this season, and then for us, you
Speaker 10: have talked about the interception through the season and be like, well,
Speaker 10: that's something that he's fixed, and then all of a
Speaker 10: sudden it happens twice in a game like this.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I don't know how you justify much other than the
Speaker 10: play calling and Dak not not being there for whatever reason.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Seeing Dak play great in a playoff game. Tampa's playoff
Speaker 9: game last year was, I mean, and that's kind of
Speaker 9: what you were hoping for going forward. You're like, listen, Okay,
Speaker 9: Dak has had some playoff troubles before. But you know
Speaker 9: that's the thing is you see that type of a
Speaker 9: game and you're like, he's capable, He's capable of doing that,
Speaker 9: and you know that's Unfortunately that's how they measure quarterbacks,
Speaker 9: especially in this city, especially on this team. It's about championships,
Speaker 9: it's about playoff wins, you know, and he's trending the wrong.
Speaker 2: Way right now.
Speaker 9: And you know, do I think that they're going to
Speaker 9: move on for him from him? No, I really don't.
Speaker 9: I don't see that.
Speaker 2: You know. Uh, he's do a huge he's got a
Speaker 2: huge cap number.
Speaker 9: They've got to figure that out, you know, unless they've
Speaker 9: got some creative way that I don't know about. You know,
Speaker 9: I think Dak Prescott's going to likely sign an extension here.
Speaker 9: But you know, there's things that they did very very
Speaker 9: well this season, but there's there's there's something fundamentally wrong
Speaker 9: in these playoff games, you know, and they've got to
Speaker 9: figure that out. And and that's that's the But we've
Speaker 9: said that now for three years. You know, there was
Speaker 9: a time when we talked about this team lack of toughness.
Speaker 9: That lack of toughness showed a little bit the other
Speaker 9: day too. Remember after some of these you know, San
Speaker 9: Francisco they beat him up today physically, they beat him
Speaker 9: up today, you know, and you're kind of like going, okay,
Speaker 9: well that that they you know, Green Bay physically beat
Speaker 9: you up a little bit yesterday. And so is that
Speaker 9: the players? Is that evaluation of the players. Are the
Speaker 9: players not tough enough? If you play this game, you're tough.
Speaker 9: But you know, you talk about look at the look
Speaker 9: at the teams that are going forward in the playoffs.
Speaker 9: You know there's a certain amount of mental toughness about
Speaker 9: them and to be able to put things aside and
Speaker 9: move forward. And this team lacks it right now in
Speaker 9: the playoffs. They really do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's be clear about this.
Speaker 7: And I know people are upset right now, and I
Speaker 7: think a lot of people are questioning, you know, what
Speaker 7: do you do with Dak Prescott. Let's be clear. There
Speaker 7: are half the teams in this in the NFL that
Speaker 7: don't have quarterback. There are not enough quarterbacks to go around.
Speaker 7: It is one of the biggest challenges of the NFL.
Speaker 2: Tune end of the draft show. We'll talk about a few.
Speaker 7: Good but and the crazy part about it is even
Speaker 7: at that if you wanted to, if you wanted to
Speaker 7: as the Cowboys, let's say you wanted to restart this thing,
Speaker 7: and you're like, we're going to go back to the
Speaker 7: well and try to find a quarterback, right now you're
Speaker 7: drafting twenty fourth, the likelihood that you're going to find
Speaker 7: the guy you want it is not as great. Well,
Speaker 7: when you're drafting at twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's the rub.
Speaker 9: Now then, and you've got you know, you've got a
Speaker 9: quarterback that you went and got from San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Yep, you know that's the rub. Instead, can you fix him?
Speaker 2: Because he's a project exactly, and there's and.
Speaker 8: There's class taken on his contract.
Speaker 2: You got to make it.
Speaker 9: And see that's the thing about it right now is
Speaker 9: you know, in a in a perfect world, you find
Speaker 9: a way, you you learn about him and you're able
Speaker 9: to do these things. There's people that believe that you
Speaker 9: have Jordan Love sitting on your bench. You know, you
Speaker 9: talk to the scouting world, they'll you get you've got
Speaker 9: You've got a guy they've got. So that's the decision they.
Speaker 4: Have to make, right, They got to figure that out.
Speaker 9: They've got to figure that part out because maybe they
Speaker 9: don't have to use the twenty fourth pick on a quarterback.
Speaker 9: You know, maybe they they made they gave a pick
Speaker 9: up in this draft to have an opportunity to work
Speaker 9: with a guy for a year.
Speaker 2: Right, You know and.
Speaker 9: Maybe that's if if, if this thing turns because they're
Speaker 9: out of options with Dak, I mean options of tags and.
Speaker 2: All these other things. He's got all the leverage, he's
Speaker 2: got all the leverage on you.
Speaker 9: He's got a huge cap number, and there's really smart
Speaker 9: guys and gals upstairs that'll figure this all out. But
Speaker 9: there's there's also you know, they've protected themselves that if
Speaker 9: they do make that decision and you do want to
Speaker 9: start things over here, you go, yeah, that's that's a
Speaker 9: guy they think a lot about if they want.
Speaker 2: To start the thing.
Speaker 7: And the point but the point real quick, the point
Speaker 7: I'm making is you don't get rid of a quarterback
Speaker 7: in the NFL unless you got a sure as sure
Speaker 7: as you can be option. Now, if they get to
Speaker 7: the point after they've worked with Lance to where they
Speaker 7: feel like, yeah, he can be the guy, and we
Speaker 7: think we got a young guy that can turn into that,
Speaker 7: then great, you got options now. If you don't, if
Speaker 7: that's not clear to you after working with him, then
Speaker 7: I think NFL teams would be foolish. It's the reason
Speaker 7: why guys like Kirk Cousins keep a job is because
Speaker 7: he still is a good quarterback. He may not be great,
Speaker 7: he may still have deficiencies, he may not be able
Speaker 7: to play as well in some of those bigger games,
Speaker 7: but he's good enough to where he gives you a chance.
Speaker 4: Every Sunday. He gives you a chance. And that's the
Speaker 4: part where you got to put it in context. Dak
Speaker 4: had an MVP caliber season this year. He just didn't
Speaker 4: play well in the playoffs. And by the way, that's.
Speaker 7: Becoming the recurring theme, yes, is he hasn't play well
Speaker 7: in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: That's the and that's.
Speaker 7: The part where you got to kind of figure out
Speaker 7: is he ever going to get there or is it
Speaker 7: going to be a situation where this is just who
Speaker 7: he is and you're gonna have to deal with that.
Speaker 7: But again, before you make that move, you got to
Speaker 7: make really sure you got an option. Because I went
Speaker 7: through those years when the Cowboys didn't have a quarterback.
Speaker 7: That's hard when you go into every game knowing you
Speaker 7: have no.
Speaker 9: Quarterball and you're and you're absolutely right, and I was
Speaker 9: right there with you sitting on the other side of
Speaker 9: the room. But today, in today's football, you have a
Speaker 9: better chance of getting a veteran quarterback than you did
Speaker 9: in two thousand and two, two thousand and three, when
Speaker 9: you know, when we were going five and eleven every year,
Speaker 9: we couldn't find it. People are now moving on from
Speaker 9: their quarterback. Look at golf Baker Mayfield. People are moving
Speaker 9: on from their quarterbacks right now. The problem you don't
Speaker 9: want to get into is do you want to say, Okay,
Speaker 9: we're going to make this player a fifty million dollar
Speaker 9: player and that's your that's fifty million out of your
Speaker 9: your cap right there. And you know, and but if
Speaker 9: you if you're doubting that the player can't get you
Speaker 9: you through the playoffs, boy, that is a that is
Speaker 9: a terrible feeling that you're.
Speaker 2: Committing fifty million dollars.
Speaker 9: To a position that you don't feel like or you
Speaker 9: have questions if if that could get you through the playoffs,
Speaker 9: just so you have a quarterback.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 9: That's but this organization, and I'll say this, they can
Speaker 9: afford to make a decision on the quarterback, good or bad.
Speaker 9: And I'll tell you why. The general manager here is
Speaker 9: not going to get fired. And I mean that origin.
Speaker 4: Take a chance.
Speaker 2: It could take a chance if.
Speaker 9: We were running another team and we committed fifty million
Speaker 9: dollars to a quarterback and it didn't work out, we'd
Speaker 9: all be fired. You know that they they can move
Speaker 9: on from a fifty million dollar quarterback if they want to.
Speaker 9: You know, there's a lot of teams that can't because
Speaker 9: you're you'll do anything to keep your job by having
Speaker 9: a quarterback. Jason Light a buddy of mine down in Tampa.
Speaker 9: He did it with Tom Brady. He was going to
Speaker 9: get fired. He is going to get fired, and all
Speaker 9: of a sudden, Tom Brady shows up and he got
Speaker 9: a five year extension just because and a.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl ring. Right. See, that's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You you have it.
Speaker 9: It's possible to make a change a quarterback and still
Speaker 9: benefit from that, but you have to determine though this
Speaker 9: guy here.
Speaker 8: I think the one of the problems is the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: The calendar isn't working in their favor because you're going
Speaker 8: to have to make a decision on Dak Prescott as
Speaker 8: far as likely extending him to get that captain down.
Speaker 8: But you're not really going to have true evaluation start
Speaker 8: on Trey Lance until training camp, right because you acquired him,
Speaker 8: you know, ahead of the trade.
Speaker 4: Well, I think they probably have a better evaluation.
Speaker 2: No, I get it. They have a better evaluation. They
Speaker 2: have a better evaluation than they did this time last year. Yees, because.
Speaker 8: But if you look at the how practices are run
Speaker 8: and Cooper Rush is still the definitive TB two up
Speaker 8: to this point, is Cooper getting those second team looks
Speaker 8: in practice.
Speaker 2: Him out before?
Speaker 4: You notice before every game he had a little session here,
Speaker 4: he wasn't present. I'm sure mom came.
Speaker 8: It'll be a complete unleashing of Trey versus Cooper, which, really,
Speaker 8: then I guess their hope at that point should be
Speaker 8: for Trey to step forward and kind of nudge Cooper
Speaker 8: to the side, which then gives them the position, the
Speaker 8: leverage going forward to say, Okay, well, twenty twenty five
Speaker 8: if Dak doesn't, twenty twenty six if Dak doesn't. But again,
Speaker 8: calendar's working against you because Trey Lance's rookie deal is
Speaker 8: coming up. To do it to expire to that next year, Yeah,
Speaker 8: next year, so you got to you gotta make a
Speaker 8: decision there. So I think ideally, you know, realistically, like
Speaker 8: you're saying, this is an MVP candidate in Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: who basically his mentality just went out the window against
Speaker 8: the Packers. The cerebral version of Dak Prescott wasn't there.
Speaker 8: He was off. Something was just completely awry, and unlike
Speaker 8: a separate playoff game where you could point out and say, well,
Speaker 8: Dak wasn't the reason they lost, he was a reason
Speaker 8: that the Cowboys lost. Those two interceptions and the timing
Speaker 8: of it, brutal pick six, it helped to pedo the
Speaker 8: Cowboys season, just as the defense did that. It's also
Speaker 8: true though that the best, any quarterback that you would
Speaker 8: name that's better than Dak Prescott is already on a
Speaker 8: team and they're not letting them go, and they're probably
Speaker 8: not going to spend the twenty fourth overall pick on
Speaker 8: a on a quarterback.
Speaker 9: Because they got trade so they're not going to draft
Speaker 9: a quarterback, right, That's what I mean.
Speaker 4: So this is where this is where there's where you're
Speaker 4: at the develop.
Speaker 10: What's Brady dear He does come back from retirement before
Speaker 10: wants to call Philip No, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: No, lot of kids to talk about a tough guys,
Speaker 7: get Philip Rivers.
Speaker 10: No. I was just gonna say, it's one of those
Speaker 10: things that is just it's very hard because as much
Speaker 10: and I get it. So many people hate Dak and
Speaker 10: want to get rid of it. But same as you said,
Speaker 10: there it gets. It's one it's very hard to find
Speaker 10: a quarterback, but two that has shown you really really
Speaker 10: good moments like yeah, where we're part of you, part
Speaker 10: of you, even though you're you're like, okay, you still
Speaker 10: take this game as something that's uncorrect, helped me out, uncorrect, uncharacteristic,
Speaker 10: uncharacteristic of him, that you're like, okay, we know what
Speaker 10: he can do in good moments, and part of you,
Speaker 10: in the very very part of you, because I know
Speaker 10: right now we're still mad, but there is that hope
Speaker 10: of like, Okay, well he has it, but if we
Speaker 10: put him in a better position, then maybe. But you've
Speaker 10: already done so much changing the whole team around him
Speaker 10: to cater to him and put him in a better
Speaker 10: position as far as like even changing the scheme of things.
Speaker 10: And although he has improved this year, it's still it's
Speaker 10: just I don't think it's enough to make a drastic change.
Speaker 10: One because you don't really have options. But two, there's
Speaker 10: part of you where you still see the really good
Speaker 10: assets in him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you do actually have an option you do have
Speaker 9: an option, you can determine that you're going to move
Speaker 9: on and let Trey Lance run this thing at a
Speaker 9: cheaper contract and then try and and sign CD and
Speaker 9: sign others in draft and go that route.
Speaker 10: How many years are you out into the hope of
Speaker 10: getting somewhere.
Speaker 7: Well, he's at a point in his career where if
Speaker 7: you made that move, the expectation he's ready to jump
Speaker 7: in and ready to take off.
Speaker 4: Like Jordan loved it exactly. That's what you're that would
Speaker 4: be your hope if you're making that.
Speaker 2: This isn't like you're dealing with a rookie guy.
Speaker 9: You're dealing with a guy that you're dealing with the
Speaker 9: second overall pick in the draft, right, second third overall
Speaker 9: pick in the draft, and Dallas thought enough of him.
Speaker 9: I think they had him at the very top of
Speaker 9: the second round on their board, so you know they
Speaker 9: they thought enough of this guy too. If they want
Speaker 9: to make if they want to pull the band aid
Speaker 9: off and go and just say, you know what, we're
Speaker 9: not going to pay a fifty million dollars quarterback there.
Speaker 9: They're not gonna get they're not going to lose their jobs.
Speaker 9: But you know, if I was.
Speaker 2: In Tampa and and.
Speaker 9: I have a quarterback, I'm going to lose my job.
Speaker 9: These guys aren't going to lose. And again, I'm not
Speaker 9: taking that as a slam. I'm just telling you that's
Speaker 9: that option. It makes it a lot easier when you
Speaker 9: know that. Listen, if I make this move and it
Speaker 9: doesn't work, it's on me and we'll just find something
Speaker 9: else to do.
Speaker 7: Let me just say for the record, I ain't with that.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm unless I am very certain. I gotta be
Speaker 7: so certain with Trey Lance that I'm willing to do that.
Speaker 7: Like I still feel like, and call me naive, I
Speaker 7: still feel like Dak Prescott can still get you there.
Speaker 7: I just I just feel like, if if you get
Speaker 7: the right things in place, And I know that's hard
Speaker 7: to say when you're paying fifty million dollars, you're like,
Speaker 7: I shouldn't have to have everything.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 4: I get you, I understand you.
Speaker 7: But I guess that's also my fear of going back
Speaker 7: to not having the quarterback, because if Trey Lance doesn't
Speaker 7: work out, if you went that route and he didn't
Speaker 7: work out, and let's say Dak moves on to some
Speaker 7: other team and all of a sudden, Now Dak is
Speaker 7: balling that, I'm gonna be like that, Oh my god, no,
Speaker 7: I will that will That will drive me absolutely.
Speaker 9: You live with them, You live with a Maury Cooper
Speaker 9: making two hundred and fifty, you know, fifty years in
Speaker 9: the game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that, honestly, that doesn't bother me because Amari
Speaker 7: Cooper is doing the same thing he did here. He's
Speaker 7: having some games where he's really great. Sure, he's also
Speaker 7: having some games where it's like, where's a Mark Cooper?
Speaker 7: So he's doing exactly the same thing he did here.
Speaker 7: My problem would be if you let a quarterback go
Speaker 7: who you know is good, but he just wasn't able
Speaker 7: to do it for you in the playoffs, and then
Speaker 7: he goes somewhere else and he's able to do it
Speaker 7: in the playoffs, then it's like, man.
Speaker 4: We gave up on it too soon. And that's the
Speaker 4: part again. I might just be being fearful.
Speaker 7: That may be driving my thought process here, but that's
Speaker 7: where I am. I'm just like, I'm not willing to
Speaker 7: go that route unless I know I for sure got
Speaker 7: a better option.
Speaker 9: See the thing about it is, I think there's a
Speaker 9: lot of people will evaluate he's two and five as
Speaker 9: a playoff quarterback, and that's fair, and that's and that's
Speaker 9: and they'll ask you, well, what more do you need?
Speaker 2: You know? And that's the question.
Speaker 9: Somebody will say, Okay, Derek, what more do you need?
Speaker 9: He's two and five. He's not five and two. He's
Speaker 9: two and five, you know. And they've they've bounced out
Speaker 9: in wild card games, they've bounced out.
Speaker 2: In divisional games. You know. See, that's the thing you
Speaker 2: have to that's the thing you have.
Speaker 9: To address here is is are we gonna be doing
Speaker 9: the show again next year? And the same thing happens,
Speaker 9: and then you're gonna go, Okay, I know, three hundred
Speaker 9: and sixty five days ago we talked about and I
Speaker 9: and I you know, and I I I understand, you gotta,
Speaker 9: you gotta. But then at the point now you're you're
Speaker 9: the three year contract extension, and now you're thinking about, oh, okay,
Speaker 9: now we got to carry this. We're gonna carry a
Speaker 9: cap charge now for the next three years on my team.
Speaker 2: Again, that's that's the decision. They have to make it right,
Speaker 2: not us.
Speaker 7: And that's why it's a hard decision, is because it'd
Speaker 7: be much easier if Dak Prescott had just been bad
Speaker 7: all season, sure that would be a much easier.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't be in the playoffs, right.
Speaker 9: It wouldn't be in the play right, And then right
Speaker 9: there there they were in the playoffs because Dak Prescott
Speaker 9: played at a very high level. The problem is, though,
Speaker 9: when you get in the playoffs, you've got to find
Speaker 9: a way to advance. And you know, two games they
Speaker 9: advanced with him, you know, five games they didn't.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean that's that's that's that's reality. That's
Speaker 2: that's you know.
Speaker 9: And again, I do I think they're gonna do something
Speaker 9: different move on from No, absolutely not. But that's the
Speaker 9: decision they have to look at. If they move on
Speaker 9: from this guy, it's because of the two and five.
Speaker 9: That's why they will move on.
Speaker 8: And you also got to take into account. You know,
Speaker 8: Jerry Jones's quote keeps popping up in my head. I
Speaker 8: don't have time for a bad time. Yeah, So, I mean,
Speaker 8: he not to be grim, but he senses his mortality
Speaker 8: at his age, right. And if you take the risk
Speaker 8: on Trey Lance, and a huge risk, it is because
Speaker 8: you haven't seen Chrery Lance in a Cowboys uniform. Take
Speaker 8: a single snap just yet, not so much as a
Speaker 8: preseason game just yet. Calendar's working against you. So if
Speaker 8: you roll those dice and they come up snake eyes,
Speaker 8: you've reset the entire franchise. And now you have to
Speaker 8: guess what You got to go back out and got
Speaker 8: to find another quarterback back while all of this is happening,
Speaker 8: Guess whose careers are rolling along being wasted? Seedee Lamb,
Speaker 8: Michael Parson, some of these other guys, Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 9: So well, see that's the thing about it. And like
Speaker 9: I said earlier in two thousand and three, we had
Speaker 9: no options of finding a quarterback, had none.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not that people.
Speaker 9: People now we're willing look look at the guys, like
Speaker 9: I said, Baker Mayfield, they got rid of him, look
Speaker 9: at you, and yeah, everybody to get rid of these quarterbacks.
Speaker 9: Now it's like people say, listen, we're not good enough
Speaker 9: at quarterback.
Speaker 2: We got to do something different.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and they move on and they move on, and
Speaker 9: you know, so I don't think you could be fearful
Speaker 9: of not finding a quarterback. I don't think you could
Speaker 9: be fearful of that. And I think, you know, I
Speaker 9: think they protected themselves with Lance, I really do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just to me.
Speaker 9: At least it gives them an option that they don't
Speaker 9: have to look at this draft and say, you know, oh.
Speaker 2: We have to have a quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and you're probably speaking the right thing.
Speaker 7: I'm speaking the scared thing, really, and I'm so true
Speaker 7: to that, Like I'm just afraid to death of making
Speaker 7: a move.
Speaker 4: And then you're like, oh, gosh, we don't have a quarterback,
Speaker 4: and I don't know where you're going to get one.
Speaker 4: If you don't have a quarterback, debilitate.
Speaker 9: If you don't have a quarterback and your record's bad enough,
Speaker 9: you you'll.
Speaker 2: Draft a quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then it's a craft show. It really as a
Speaker 4: crap it is. You're talking about we've seen, we've seen guys.
Speaker 7: You draft number one overall and they are a bus
Speaker 7: like it is such a crap show.
Speaker 2: They thought they had Dak Prescott and Jamil Showers.
Speaker 13: Think about, well, think about how they got their last
Speaker 13: two quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Both of the last two quarterbacks the Cowboys have gotten.
Speaker 7: They got in an inopportunity, like they got in a
Speaker 7: way that was just luck. Basically, they looked into Dak Prescott.
Speaker 7: They lucked into Tony Romo. So those like the.
Speaker 4: Last two times, it's just happenstance. They they looked into
Speaker 4: a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Look at the Packers, I mean the last forty years.
Speaker 2: I mean it's from.
Speaker 4: Sep getting it right, keep getting it right.
Speaker 2: And see, So what did they do?
Speaker 9: They moved on Green Bay and the last two times
Speaker 9: they've changed quarterback, moved on from a Hall of Fame quarterback,
Speaker 9: moved on from another Hall of Fame quarterback. Sometimes you
Speaker 9: can't be scared sometimes, but that Rogers is a pain
Speaker 9: in the ass. So I understand while they moved on
Speaker 9: from him, right, you know.
Speaker 4: But anyway, all right, we're gonna say our final break.
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Speaker 7: seventy six percent completion rate, two under seventy two yards,
Speaker 7: three touchdown, zero interceptions, and a one fifty seven point
Speaker 7: two quarterback rating. If that's not perfect, it's very, very
Speaker 7: very close to perfect. That being said, was there something
Speaker 7: that Green Bay's offense did that was particularly challenging for
Speaker 7: Dallas because we saw wide receivers open the whole day
Speaker 7: like it just everything looked off. Was there something they
Speaker 7: did differently than what they've been doing all season that
Speaker 7: really may have thrown the Dallas defense.
Speaker 2: I think communication was really bad for the Cowboys defense
Speaker 2: this game. The big plays were.
Speaker 9: Because of bust and I think the Romeo Dobbs forty
Speaker 9: six yard play was I think they were going deep
Speaker 9: over on it. They met Max protect deep over. He
Speaker 9: just ran a route on his own and it lost
Speaker 9: it lost Gilbourn, It lost Gilbore, and he broke. He
Speaker 9: went to where he knew the route was going, is
Speaker 9: what he did, and he ended up with the ball.
Speaker 9: And then also I think that I think Wilson dropped
Speaker 9: the coverage on the on the tight end that that
Speaker 9: ended up being a touchdown.
Speaker 2: The thirty eight yard touchdown there. That was they were man.
Speaker 4: That same play from Arizona game.
Speaker 2: No, but it was.
Speaker 9: It was it was a man free situation with the
Speaker 9: defense man underneath free safety in the middle of field.
Speaker 2: Wilson went to the outside and he didn't carry their
Speaker 2: out and that's what it is.
Speaker 4: But he was a man cover. He just busted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just busted there. Wow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So that's I think communication and busts were with
Speaker 9: the big problems in that game.
Speaker 7: And it seems like it happened over and over again,
Speaker 7: which again does beg the question where they prepared for
Speaker 7: this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: They one time though the first dobs inside passing the
Speaker 9: middle of the field.
Speaker 2: That like I said, that cursed free safety.
Speaker 9: Three guys ran with one receiver and that left the
Speaker 9: middle of the field completely open. That's the one with
Speaker 9: Michael Parsons was in position, and you kind of wonder
Speaker 9: was Michaels supposed to be deep enough because they had
Speaker 9: a route previous in that and that's where they ran
Speaker 9: the linebacker and a vertical to try and take care
Speaker 9: of things with Clark and stuff. See wonder maybe Michael
Speaker 9: maybe was you know, they all were kind of short
Speaker 9: and maybe they needed a little bit more debt.
Speaker 2: But they had short.
Speaker 9: Linebackers and deep safeties and they ran three ran three
Speaker 9: with one guy and it kind of messed them up.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 7: Just for the record, I'm going to have a problem
Speaker 7: when the best guy with the best pressure percentage in
Speaker 7: the NFL is doing anything other than rushing the quarterback.
Speaker 7: I just I don't understand. That to me is the definition.
Speaker 7: I get it, but I just to me, that is
Speaker 7: the definition of we're going to outthink them, trying to
Speaker 7: outthink us, Like, just do what you do that. You
Speaker 7: can do a lot of other things schematically, but if
Speaker 7: you got something, you do extremely well. The best in
Speaker 7: the NFL. His pressure percentage was better than anybody in
Speaker 7: the NFL. And have him go get the quarterback every
Speaker 7: single time.
Speaker 2: Sometimes y'all think yourself.
Speaker 8: Sometimes, defense just it executed and communicated poorly at all
Speaker 8: three levels. You had a defensive line who leads the league,
Speaker 8: led the league in pressures. Got to speaking past tense
Speaker 8: now thanks for that. Theyed the league in pressures and
Speaker 8: basically were not able to win their matchups at all,
Speaker 8: and then behind them, whilst they're unable to win their matchups,
Speaker 8: communication on the back end was as poor as I've
Speaker 8: ever seen in a football game, and that is no exaggeration.
Speaker 8: You got guys missing assignments. You got guys taking guys
Speaker 8: that shouldn't have been there, guys. You got guys that
Speaker 8: are you know, running the wrong coverage in what the
Speaker 8: coverage looks should have been. And then, like he said,
Speaker 8: he brings up the Romeo. Dobbs big Gainer, basically led
Speaker 8: Gilmore all the way in across the field and then
Speaker 8: broke off and okay, you got Gilmore that you got him,
Speaker 8: where's the safety help? Safety help was both your safeties
Speaker 8: on the other side of the field.
Speaker 2: They had they had they had the over hea. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they had the over covered.
Speaker 9: The problem was the break the quarterback made it. You know,
Speaker 9: Dobbs ran the route thinking like okay, I'm in trouble here.
Speaker 2: He just went to where he knew the ball was
Speaker 2: going to be. Yeah he was. They were thinking deep
Speaker 2: over and he just turned Gilmour around it.
Speaker 8: And then schematically, when you look at they got themselves
Speaker 8: to a point where you're not getting any pressure up
Speaker 8: front and you're communicating pulling on the back end.
Speaker 4: Panic mode.
Speaker 8: What do you do? You send extra guys. Don't send
Speaker 8: extra guys to Jordan Love.
Speaker 4: You know what you get.
Speaker 8: You get the Kobe fade away backfoot lob touchdown. That's
Speaker 8: what you get, back foot lob forty five yard game.
Speaker 8: It just all fell apart because on at each level
Speaker 8: of the defense, and this also goes to the overall
Speaker 8: scheme of the defense.
Speaker 4: Cowboys were just not what.
Speaker 8: I'm not even going to say they weren't what they
Speaker 8: should have been. I feel like that's an understatement.
Speaker 2: They ran the ball at Bell. They weren't a.
Speaker 8: Professional football team on Sunday. I didn't see a professional
Speaker 8: football team from the Cowboys on Sunday.
Speaker 10: Hang when they made me look stupid, because that was
Speaker 10: exactly how I felt like. No, it's like we headed
Speaker 10: into the game. I just so many great matchups. I
Speaker 10: thought the back end of the field would be taken
Speaker 10: care of. All you gotta worry really is just stop
Speaker 10: the run. Maybe that's something that they can actually do.
Speaker 10: Run the ball on you. And then no, they did everything.
Speaker 10: They did everything they could possibly do. On offense, you
Speaker 10: gave up so many big, big plays and there was
Speaker 10: no answers. I mean, sometimes you see a guy catching
Speaker 10: the ball and there on bland the guy. Okay, I
Speaker 10: love you their own blood, but man, you're like, what
Speaker 10: five yards away from the guy you're supposed to cover, Like,
Speaker 10: I know what.
Speaker 4: For those that don't know, that's a long way from
Speaker 4: the stay anyways, this is yeah about an hour.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was pretty bad.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, we appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 5: We are.
Speaker 7: This is our final show for the week. What we're
Speaker 7: doing is we got Draft shows starting to Draft Show
Speaker 7: will go this actually today is our full slate of
Speaker 7: all of our podcasts. Then tomorrow we will have Draft
Speaker 7: Show tomorrow and Thursday. Told me no podcast on Friday,
Speaker 7: and then next week we start our off season schedule.
Speaker 7: I think as of right now, it looks like we're
Speaker 7: gonna probably be going on Wednesdays at eleven o'clock. But
Speaker 7: we will be putting out the official schedule later today
Speaker 7: or tomorrow, and we'll put out there for you guys
Speaker 7: to see, and all the shows will be going once
Speaker 7: a week, so you'll have about three shows a day
Speaker 7: with storyline mixing in this year. Uh so, we'll have
Speaker 7: some good times and I'm looking forward to the Draft Show.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be really good.
Speaker 2: We'll get as.
Speaker 7: Usual and maybe Brian will convince me there's some quarterback
Speaker 7: out there we need to be thinking about it.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: You see, we'll see save us tomorrow.
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