WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Getting to 12 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.200 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:18.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.759 for a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.080 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.440 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.559 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:43.279 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, December thirty at twenty twenty two, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.440 season eighteen, episode number ninety eight. Welcome to the latest 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.280 edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Morgan 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.200 Studios at the Star, presented by Miller Like the Only 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.000 Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. We were talking about the 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.840 Cowboys big win last night. Cowboys win twenty seven thirteen 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.040 over the Tennessee Titans, a team that that didn't really 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.880 roll out all of their best players. But as it 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.400 the Cowboys said after the game, they are NFL players 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.800 as well, and a win is a win. I will 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.680 never be one to go on there and and think 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.800 there needs to be an apology for a win. It's 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.039 the NFL. Wins are hard. They gotta win on the 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.640 road and we move on. You know why. I mean, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.720 I've convinced why I think I know what you're about 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.760 to say, but yeah, go ahead. That's because we were here, right, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.040 we were here at two thousand and eleven. Yeah, well 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.680 we started working here. It was five eleven, five eleven, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.040 five and eleven, and it was like so so winning 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.240 on the road by fourteen points in December, you'd be like, wow, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.920 wins the party, you know, and um, so it's it's hard. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.959 It's hard to do that. I get it. In our 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.800 world now, it's like nothing's ever good enough. But I mean, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.560 I don't know, I thought it was. It was. It 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.960 was ugly at times, but I mean a methodical in 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.440 the way that this team keeps playing and you know, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.280 and and to pick it up and win like that. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.960 It was like all right, and good win, let's move on, 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.640 keep keep rolling to get a two touch down win 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.600 on the road in December. As Nick said, Brian, I mean, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.280 I think it's got to be you want to Yeah, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.240 there was certainly worth some moments, and we'll talk about 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.239 some of the moments that that you want to see 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.800 them be better. Yeah, but the fact is that's still 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.280 a big thing. Like that's still a good thing, right, Yeah, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.200 you got to figure out and December football is all 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.120 about winning, and it's all about positioning, and it's all 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.959 about putting pressure on others to have to win. And 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.520 they did just that. I know in the you know, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.480 all week long we were talking about this game. It's just, hey, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.480 find a way to keep the pressure on Philadelphia. Go 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.640 and win a game. And I was saying on our 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.440 pregame show last night, I don't care if it's by 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.280 one point or one hundred points. Find a way to win, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.720 find a way to keep your opportunity to win the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.480 division alive, and then and play that way. I think 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.080 that these times that they go through now are really 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.280 really good. I think this anytime you can get battle tested, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.120 a physical game up front. It wasn't pretty, run block 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.760 and wise. It was there was a lot of things 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.320 going on in that football game. And you know what, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.040 it wasn't really about their players. It was about you know, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.440 it was about or who they had on the field. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.440 It was about your ability to kind of fight through 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.920 some things. Because you're right, it's not pretty, but December 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.239 football is not always pretty. December football is about getting 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.480 to the next one and finding a way to get 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.200 that done. It was a very physical game, a very tough, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.280 emotional game against Philadelphia. You know, five six days later 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.040 you come back and you have to play another one. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.080 You know, those are the kinds of things that your 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.400 team gets battle tested. It's better for it. It's better 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.520 to coach off a win than it is a loss. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.120 You know, you're not gonna say it, Derek. I don't 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.200 know if it's in your rundown, but you know, before 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.200 on Friday or whatever day we picked games. Wednesday, Brian, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.440 what what score did you have for the Cowboys? I 0:03:54.520 --> 0:04:00.720 picked it, right, I mean, but I mean it's team Well, 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.640 you guys big guys have you guys have this big 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.520 like graphic and it's got your name. So I figure, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.160 so you figure if you're if you make this big 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.120 graphic and put it your name on there, you have 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.200 to at least give it a go. But now, I mean, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.560 you nailed it in prime time, thank you. But that's 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.760 that's where. But that's to me. I you know, I 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:26.000 can't I can't stand. I just wish people could feel 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.800 what we feel working here. You know, I wish you 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.960 could feel the you know, just the this, the the 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.279 relief of getting wins and moving on and not and 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.760 not having to be four and twelve at this time 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.960 and think about firing a bunch of coaches and all 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.760 that stuff like that, or hey, what's gonna happen or 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.360 what player? And with that and dealing with that, you're 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.960 dealing with team that is trying to get ready for playoffs. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.320 And that's the thing, and it's hard. It is so 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.560 hard because you guys are right, we were all part 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.320 of of a five and eleven program for three years 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.320 in a row. That that's no fun for anybody, you know. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.000 It's not fun for the fans. It's especially not fun 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.799 for the men and women that work in this building, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.720 you know. So I wish that people could sit in 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.880 our chairs. I really really do and feel what this 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.240 is like, and you would understand. And I'm not trying 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.560 to say that we're better than you that kind of thing. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.039 I'm just saying we've been blessed to be able to 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.479 be here and feel how hard it is to win 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.040 these games. And when you win them, there's so much 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.680 relief and it's like, Okay, oh we got another one 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.479 coming up, you know, But that's what the season does. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.200 And you're still playing meaningful football to try and win 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.680 this division. You put a lot of pressure on Philadelphia 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.520 to have to make a decision about their quarterback. That's right, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.000 And and you know, I just feel like this team, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.520 it's tough to get to get a grasp on them 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.520 after a game like that. I'm talking about the Cowboys 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.560 last night, because you know, you look at it and 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.320 in one hand, you could say, well, you know, they 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.159 didn't really play that great in Tennessee, who didn't have 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.240 a lot of their main guys, and so is this 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.719 worrisome for the season coming up in the playoffs and 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.240 all that, or you can take the other side and go, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.080 this is a damn good football team because you go out, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.800 don't play your best game and you still sleepwalk for 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.279 a quarter and a half and win by fourteen points. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.679 That that's that's kind of exciting because if this team 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.719 does play to the level of their competition, well great, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.640 I heard you say this morning. That's a good Yeah, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.160 it's a good point, because fine, it's going to get 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.360 better than this. And and you just got to get 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.400 through it and get through it. And the Jacksonville was tough, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.800 I mean, but Dak has come back from the injury. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.600 They've not scored less than twenty four points. It was 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.120 twenty four and twenty seven last night, the two lowest 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.520 they're average in like thirty four points a game. They've 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.599 lost two road games in overtime, two teams that are 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.000 a little above average and fighting to get in the playoffs. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.640 Like it's it's going, it's it's this is pretty good. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.599 This is a really good football team. Twenty four wins 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.760 in two years. I don't care. I mean, yeah, you 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.040 care about the playoffs, but these fans are like, I 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.880 don't care about anything else. No, you got to build 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.280 something here, and that's what they've done. Twenty four wins 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.840 in two years is really amazing. And I even point 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.000 this out for those fans out there that are looking 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.520 for and I get it. Let me get first of all, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.600 say I get it. A lot of this is the 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.040 defense mechanism. You know, people who are trying to convince themselves. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.480 Don't get too excited because I've been here before and 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.720 I don't want to be disappointed. I get you're playing 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.760 that defense mechanism. It is. It absolutely is not doing. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.720 But beyond that, though, I mean, I think when you 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.280 look at it. The one thing that I keep looking 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.360 at about this team. As much as people want to 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.360 you know, style point wins at the end of the day, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.679 like they have beaten teams that are playoff caliber teams. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.160 There five one against those teams. There. I think there's 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.680 seven and one against winning record teams. I'm not sure 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.360 about that. The five and one verse five. Yeah, they 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.880 are they are killing. I shouldn't say kill, they are killing. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.600 They are killing it when it comes to playing quality 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.680 teams this year and last year, that was not the 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.840 k s. Last year, you look at the record, they're 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.760 winning a lot of the games against teams that weren't 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.160 as good teams are really good, as a little bit shaky. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:08.920 That has not been the case this year. Not only 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.600 are they winning, they beat the breaks off Minnesota that 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.320 is a right now the number two seed in the NFC, 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.560 and they destroyed them in their place. There are a 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.280 lot of things to look at to say this team 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.800 has some things working in its favor that make you 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.040 think going in the playoffs, this could be a team 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.760 that could have some success. Now, let's also be realistic 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.000 in knowing that the NFL playoffs is a crapshoot. Like 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.720 when you get there, it is one and done. So 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.480 every week you gotta bring your best or you gotta 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.280 have some things fall away. And by the way, they've 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.280 been Super Bowl teams and had some things fall their way. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.280 But you gotta get fortunate, you gotta be good with injuries, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.160 you gotta be able to play good footballs, all those 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.640 things that come together in January and February in order 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.040 to win a championship. They will be in the hunt. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.520 They're as good as any team that's out there that's 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.880 in the hunt. Then we'll see what happens. And that's 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.480 the way you have to approach it. No, I absolutely 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.280 agree with that. You know, and I look at this 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.400 team and you talk about since Dack's returned, and they 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.960 don't run the ball particularly well. Last night, I think 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.640 Tennessee did a great job. Tennessee's numbers will tell you 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.080 regardless of who's playing up front, they are not going 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.200 to let you run the ball. That team has the 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.560 mentality of their head coach Mike Frabel. Their attitude is 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.400 stop the run and we're going to run on you. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.440 They didn't have their primary runner last night. But the 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.280 thing about it was as bad as you were running 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.000 the ball in first down, when you try to run 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.960 or second down, you still were sixty two percent on 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.920 third down, and that just and and people will say, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.520 well that doesn't carry. That doesn't know. This team on 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.200 third down since Dack has returned, has been one of 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.640 the best in the National Football League. It doesn't matter 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.400 what down and distance. You could put them in third 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.120 and thirty and they'll find a way to convert, you know. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.320 So to me, when you feel about, well they just 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.080 didn't do this, no, the one thing that is, the 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.400 one thing is translating is how this team is finding 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.120 a way to keeping drives going even if they don't 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.319 run the football. They run the ball for almost a 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.160 little over two yards of carry night in that game. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.040 But what happened sixteen passes for first downs, five of 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.680 them by penalty, five of those by penalty. You put 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.560 them in a situation where they had to do something 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.120 illegally to keep you from getting a first down or 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.960 catching a football. So to me, those are things they 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.200 told me, Well, these turnovers don't travel. These turnovers don't 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.760 one year you're leading the league in turnover when you're 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.520 creating turnovers, you it doesn't translate next year. What's happened, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.079 It's translated. It's yeah, it's the second year in a 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.480 row that they're getting people to turn the ball over. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.880 These things matter when you get to the playoffs. Absolutely, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.600 all right, here's gonna do. We're gonna take our early 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.280 first break. When we come back. Let's talk about the offense. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.320 We got some things to talk about there that didn't 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.839 go right and why maybe some of those things happen. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.840 And we also have something that went really right. 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I saw a graphic 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.160 we put on our social media, uh, promoting James Wright 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.440 and realize I know this dude, like he actually hung 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.600 out with me and my wife and like my cousin, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.040 we were in New Orleans for a game one year 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.000 and he was down there and just was a random fan. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.560 But he was walking around Bourbon Street with a full suit, 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:01.000 like cowboys suit that he had on, and just kind 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.959 of came up and started talking and before you know what, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.199 he just hung out with us for the rest of 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.760 the night. Really cool, dude. Look extreme, you know, not 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.800 my thing, but it's a look extreme. But I guess 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.560 that's how you win. You know, you don't wear polos 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.439 and jeans and right right right, but uh yeah, real 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.520 cool dudes. I'm happy for him. We'll see if he 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.040 can when this when this price, I don't I don't 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.920 know how anybody beats out of this price. That's a 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.800 hard thing to do. All right, let's jump in. Let's 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.960 talk about the offense last night. After going up ten 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.800 oh there early in the game, they had three straight turnovers, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.280 the fumble, two interceptions. Still end up scoring twenty seven 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.200 points on the night, but let's talk about those that 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.560 that portion of the game where it just kind of 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.640 the wheels kind of fell off a little bit. What 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.880 happened on those three plays? Uh, and where do you 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.800 kind of look at this and and what are you 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.320 Is there anything you take from that part of the 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.560 game that makes you a little more concern going forward? 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.720 I mean, okay, concern going forward? Yeah, yeah, it's okay, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.480 because I mean you have a quarterback that is turning 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.000 the ball over. He's making a lot of plays. He's 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.280 making plays, and they just don't I mean they go 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.400 hand in hand. You can't have a guy that's going 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.080 to keep, you know, making some of these throws and 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.200 having the mental toughness to keep going forward and not 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.760 letting it bother them, like like it's really early impressive. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.120 But he is turning the ball over. So if you 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.840 want to be worried moving forward, yes, because you're gonna 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.080 face better teams. And if he turns the ball over 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.640 at the wrong time in the playoffs, like you said, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.160 it's a different beasts, you could lose. You could. But 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.280 he also could make that throw that he that he 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.480 made to Shultz for the touchdown in the in the 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.080 same game. And so I'll take the guy. I'll take 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.360 the guy that's not afraid to sling it and and 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.120 that that is scoring points for this team. The turnovers, yes, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.320 you can't deny them. He threw one really bad throw. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.480 I think in the entire game. I think he threw 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.960 one bad throw in the game, but I mean the 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.840 other one. I mean again, Hendershot is he's qualifying for 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.240 the Olympics right now. And with the with the rest 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.520 of his teammates, it was hilarious. The best volleyball team 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.320 they are, I mean, I mean I would give the 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.840 University of Texas or run for the right for sure. Yeah, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.640 those receivers, and then you know I can't have volleyball 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.040 team without Diggs. I mean, I mean, yeah, we mean, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.000 we've got the squad ready to go. Oh Diggs. Diggs 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.320 had a volleyball moment too, he did, He did, Ryan. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.240 I mean you you might have a different take on it. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.040 I mean, I'm not gonna say that I'm not worried 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.600 about it, because you should be because he keeps happening. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.040 But I'll take I'll take the good because there's more 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.600 good than bad. I'll take it. Yeah. I think to me, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.120 with the with the situation with the quarterback is and 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.480 maybe I need to have this rant like I did 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.680 about the penalties, because remember I said the penalty going 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.800 to change. It's not gonna change. They're gonna keep ben 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.600 never every game. Now they've had three penalties, so maybe 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.480 I need to will in a Dak is not going 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.120 to throw any more interceptions. Um, you know, I think 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.840 Nick is absolutely right about this. I just you know, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:05.360 his aggressiveness. They're the interceptions that bother me with Dak 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.960 are the ones who I don't think he sees the guy. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.840 I think his intention, Yeah, the defender. I think that 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.560 those are the ones that get me. That like, damn, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.720 what was he looking at? You know, Oh, he didn't 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.560 see the cover, he didn't see the rotation, or he 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.959 didn't see the linebacker. Those are the ones that get me, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.439 the ones that he's trying to fit in there to 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.240 like adult and Chultz on that play man that is 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.480 is that's a tough throw. I mean, I'm not defending 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.600 the guy. He probably but if you if you look 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.160 at how the route developed for everybody else, he might 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.720 as well just have taken the sack because I mean, 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.840 but that's Dak and that that I'm not going to 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.280 give up on a play. I'm not gonna I'm not 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.880 gonna let this. I'm gonna try and find a way 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.840 to make this. I'm gonna stand real tall on that 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.440 front left leg and I'm gonna throw it as hard 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.440 as I can and hope that it makes it. But 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.080 that the way the Titans played their coverage, he had 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.560 no chance on that ball. I mean, it had to 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.960 be perfect, and at that point he wasn't perfect. A 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.480 little banged up, need you know. But like I say, 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.280 when he gets really stiff on that front left leg 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.880 and lets it fly, two things are gonna happen. We're 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.040 gonna all be cheering or it's gonna be you know, 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.000 defense defense, you know, because that's how it is with him. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.960 But that he that throw that he makes there, that 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.040 ball had no chance. It had no chance. And that's 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.359 where that's where you almost with Dak. How do you 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.399 get that out of him? The the the fight for 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.199 another day play, because if you watch the way it 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.800 broke down, like I said, nobody was open and nobody 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.560 was open, and and the and and the probably the 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.960 guy that was covered the most was the guy he 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.320 threw it to. Yeah, you know that's how. And then 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.159 you got an all pro safety standing there too, just 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.520 kind of ready to you know, drive on the ball. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:58.240 So I don't know how to take that, just eat 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.240 it and fight for another day, because that's that's the 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.280 way I'm I'm the guy that says when he's muddied 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.040 and bloodied, he plays better. Maybe I'm wrong about that. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.480 Maybe he shouldn't be muddied and bloody because that makes 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:16.440 him play even more intense. Yeah, his numbers yesterday twenty 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.919 nine to forty one, seventy one percent completion. He's like 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.359 rattling off seventy every week. It seems like at this 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.560 point completing a high percentage of his past it's two 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.400 u D eighty two yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.880 and eighty five point six rating now was pretty much 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.800 determined by those two interceptions. That being said, and Brian, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.159 I think he brought up an interesting point there. Do 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.880 you guys think that a conversation should be had if 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:42.320 it has not already been had where dak is told, Hey, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.800 maybe we ought to back off that level of aggression 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.040 just a bit, or do you or do you think 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.880 it's better to say as you were saying, Nick, Hey, 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.239 I'm gonna I'm going to account for the fact that 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.560 they're gonna be there's gonna be a minus play here 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.480 and there as as Macartey called it last night, there's 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.680