WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What Went Wrong In Denver? 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:09.320 This he is Talking Cowboys screaming live on Dallas Cowboys 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:18.239 dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys as says play Now, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.520 your hosts, Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:31.000 Rob Phillips welcome everyone into Talking Cowboys today, Monday, September eighteenth, 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.800 of course, joined by Mickey, Rob and Brian in the 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.479 SWBC Mortgage Studio. Last night it turned into night with 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.199 an hour delay from the rain. But last night the 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.839 Cowboys fall to one and one on the season, losing 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.000 to the Broncos forty two seventeen in a game that 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.640 became a blowout. And I speaking for myself here, but 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.279 I didn't see that necessarily coming. But before we get 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.160 to that, how are you guys doing today? You're hanging 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.480 in there, You're keeping your heads up. Good to go, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.400 let's go, Ready to go, Ready go. These guys will 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.720 break it down for you and tell you how the 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.840 Cowboys will get back on track. And first of all, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.240 let's start with the main topic of it all. Ezekiel 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.840 Elliott plays the game nine carries for eight yards total 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.839 in the game. How were the Broncos just completely able 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.959 to take him out of the game? Not even make 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.280 him a threat be the Broncos. Brian, you want to 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.640 take it, go ahead, if you got any thought, I 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.280 think it's got to be credit to the Broncos defense 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.640 first and foremost. I think this to me, this was 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.039 the Giants game last December exaggerated in terms of the 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.840 Broncos personnel stepping up and stopping running lanes. They did 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.320 a terrific job. I mean their mo is to crowd 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.040 the line of scrimmage, load the box. As Brian watched 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.080 the tape, he didn't see a ton of that. Yeah, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.000 saw that a little bit. But really they just they 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.480 controlled the line of scrimmage. They dominated. That's really the 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.440 only simple answer. Really. At four times they played eight 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.520 man box, three times they played seven man box and 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.320 some runs. So yeah, I didn't. I didn't feel like 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.040 that they had to. I'll tell you where they that 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.840 Cowboys had some problems is they had some individual guys 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.880 lose in the running game. You know, individual blocks lose. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.320 Jason went and lost one time in a running game situation. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.160 Chaz Green lost in a one on one situation. But 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.560 Rob's right, the Broncos just did a nice job of 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.959 when it came to playing run defense, you know, and 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:28.919 I'll tell you what really helped them in this game 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.800 to control the run was the fact that they were 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.840 able to make the Cowboys have to try and score 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.919 along with them. I think that took the Cowboys out 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.320 of their game plan to try and run. I mean, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.320 you didn't have some success all of a sudden, you 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.600 kind of look up in the next CEO. They're they're 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.679 driving the football and you and they're scoring, and they're 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.600 scoring and their scoring, and You're now kind of in 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.600 one of those modes where I got to figure out 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.079 what we got to do to kind of get back 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.240 in this football game. But the running game never materialized. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:54.600 And you know, a lot of it had to do 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.720 with really what what the Broncos were able to do upfront. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.560 I thought the Broncos were basically movable with their defensive front, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.360 and I don't think it was one of the better 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.359 games for the Cowboys offensive line, not only run blocking 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.720 but also protecting the quarterback. There was a lot of 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.959 dirty quarter dirty pockets for the quarterback. They just got 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.560 beat up front. They just absolutely got whipped. And that's 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.840 one of the things, you know, maybe we need to 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.560 tap the brakes on Oh this is the best offensive 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.720 line in the National Football League because the shirt and 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.000 didn't play like it, which caused a lot of problems. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:37.160 When Zeke gets nine carries in only eight yards, there 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.320 was nowhere to go. I thought they would run outside 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.560 a lot more to get away from them three hundred 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.760 and eighty pounders they had in the middle there. But 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.960 you know they tried that too. Oh they couldn't get outside. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.920 Nothing was over. So what Jason Garrett said was they 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.920 had to pass their way out of that problem, and 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.600 they were incapable of passing their way. I know a 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.520 lot of people want to say he was blaming it 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.200 on Dak, but to me, he was blaming it on 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.400 the entire passing game. The blocking up front. Some of 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.400 the routes that were being run were not very crisp 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:16.279 or accurate. Drop balls, drop balls for interceptions when you 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.880 play like that on offense, and you know, look, the 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.520 Cowboys aren't the eighty five Bears on defense, and they 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.839 know they got to score points to win. And when 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.120 you after two games only have three touchdowns and one 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.560 was a gift on a fumble recovery at the three 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.840 yard line, you're having problems offensively because You've got to 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.520 score points to win. You're not gonna win playing defense 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.200 with this team, You're right, Mickey. And last week a 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.360 big discussion and going again to the Giants was going 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.160 to be how is this team going to handle red 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.960 zone efficiency? They didn't do it that well in the 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.200 Giants and they definitely didn't do it well last night. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.479 Thirty three percent in the red zone compared to the 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.600 Broncos obviously one hundred percent. Yeah, so how do you 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.440 fix that problem? How do you get don't get behind 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.240 thirty five seventeen start, But that's where the red zone 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.400 problems came in at the end of the game. At 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.279 the beginning of the game, they weren't getting to the 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.560 red zone right, They were punting right, that was the problem. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.119 They at halftime, what did they have about one hundred 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.760 yards total offense? If that they had less than two 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.400 hundred and the fourth quarter, Yeah, they were at like 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.599 one sixty seven midway through the fourth. I mean that 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.159 that hasn't happened for this offense in years. I think 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.400 it was like sixty something at a halftime. Sixty Where 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.840 are you looking? I think I think the Broncos secondary 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.800 had a lot to do with you know, we talk 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.080 about the running game. I think the Broncos secondary had 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.159 a lot to do with the Cowboys misery overall. I 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.680 don't think the Cowboys. Mickey's right. And we could talk 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.279 about the blocking up front, you know, we could talk 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.839 about all the things like that and pressure and whatever 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.200 you want to say. But I think the Broncos secondary 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.760 was clearly better than what the Dallas receivers were, you know, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.000 and that's and that's if you're not getting open or 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.520 you're not you know, you're you're not even having any 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.040 type of success. I can't tell you how many times 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.200 I looked up watching and thinking, Okay, somebody's gonna come 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.360 open late. And nobody comes open late. I mean, they're 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.000 playing single high and nobody's open, and you know, Dak's 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.000 having to try and make some throws. Mickey's right. The 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.680 Dez Bryant interception was really unfortunate. You know, that's something 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.640 that you know, you don't see from him that the balls. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.360 Dak threw some really poor balls. The interception that went 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.440 back for one hundred and three yards was a poorly 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.360 thrown ball. He should have thrown that ball to Deaz. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.000 I mean, with the way the way that to Lee 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.479 was playing Deaz all day. I would have stayed away 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.680 from to Lee, but that didn't matter. If you go 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.200 the other way, they're the two corners were just Harrison 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.120 the But yeah, they were just as good. Yeah, I 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.720 mean it was just as good. It was a it 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.600 was as bad. They they talked about blueprints and whatever. No, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.719 their players were just clearly better. Yeah, they were better 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.159 at they were better on they were better on the upfront, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.000 they were better in the secondary, and they surely tackled 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.640 better than what we saw from the Cowboys defense. I'm 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.200 glad Brian mentioned blueprint because that's kind of a narrative 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.240 coming out of this game that, oh, now there's if 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.320 you have those players, good luck, go play it all day. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.000 Now there's a template for stopping the Cowboys. Where was 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.880 that template for most of last year? I mean, sure, okay, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.480 the players stop the run and play man to man 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.120 and forced the Cowboys to throw. There's only certain number 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.120 of defenses that can do that. We've seen the Giants 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.120 be able to do it, and the Broncos had been 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.400 able to do it. Minnesota played them well too last year. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.119 But the difference and we'll get to the Cowboys defense, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.520 I'm sure, but really efficient Broncos offense way more efficient 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.240 than what the Giants were able to do. And a 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.880 lot of that was the Cowboys I'm doing defensively, we're struggling. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.560 You brought up Dez Bryant and he talked about it 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.800 just being a bad day at the office. He said, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.000 then he had a bad day and I called him out. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.760 I called him out on you got the prediction right, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:00.520 we got the over anxious out of his game. As Bryant, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.040 I sure got what the word you you used last Friday, volcano? Volcano? 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.080 Does he he lost his composure, sure, and lost his 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.320 especially after he dropped the slant that went for an interception. 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.200 Then he wasn't running accurate routes. That's he wasn't on 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.240 the same page with Dak. Dak's throwing back, shoulders stops 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.040 and he's going and the cornerbacks are breaking. That's somewhat 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.680 would happened in the end zone on that interception. Absolutely, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.840 Dak thought he was gonna stop and kept going. It 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.640 was it was he let to leave undercut the route. Yeah, 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.640 just to pour, I just thought, I mean, you know, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.560 I mean, it's you're right though, that to me, you 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.560 could talk about the Broncos front, but and von Miller 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:44.920 and what, you know, what he was able to. In 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.200 a matter of fact, you know, looking at the overall 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.840 numbers for for Lhile Collins, you know on thirty four snaps, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.480 I had a thirty four gradable snaps for him. Yeah, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.800 you had twenty plus his twelve minuses and two really 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.760 ungradable plays. So you know that's you know, but von 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.160 Miller ended up with two sacks. He also had four 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.640 off sides playing. I just told you, really the desperation 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.160 I didn't think. I didn't think that Lyle Collins was terrible. Again, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.600 I didn't, I really did. I've seen offensive tackles play 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.960 far worse than that. And and but you know, the 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.680 the the narrative, as Rob likes to use that word, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.800 the narrative is, oh, that Lyle Collins got his ass kicked. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.040 That's really not I don't think the case there. Now, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.120 if you want to say the offense as a whole 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.960 got their ass king, yeah they did. They didn't do 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.120 a very good job of run blocking. The quarterback was off, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.640 the receivers were off, like you said, and the Broncos 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.640 secondary just did a great job of just choking anything 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.160 else off you were trying to don His two sacks 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.560 came late in the fourth quarter. Now, he did have 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.760 five quarterback hits, right, so they were getting part of 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.240 the bonuses. Yeah, they were. They were getting pressure on Dak, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.319 but the sacks came real late, and he should have 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.840 been called for more off sides he than he did. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.000 They were jumping the snap count, and there was a 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.800 couple of times it was obvious he was off size. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.720 They didn't throw a flag, so I think there's a 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.720 couple of times he missed loile jumping out of his 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.200 stance though too too. So yeah, it was probably a wash, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.960 Not sure, probably a wash. Those guys had probably a 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.520 wash by the way. Yeah, but yeah, they they just 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.640 didn't keep Dak clean. They were coming and they weren't 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.520 really blitzing. They played their three fourth front right, you know. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.920 And and they kind of stayed with it too. They 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.720 didn't play Nickel a lot. They said, no, we're gonna 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.480 put a because there was a lot of times they 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.400 had a linebacker in the slot. Uh. And but they 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.160 were getting to Dak where he couldn't wait for guys 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.720 to get open. It had to be quicker. They couldn't 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.720 get down the field, and then when you get behind, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.560 well they they had their place, They had their safeties 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.240 playing in Boulder. Yeah, you know, they were so deep 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.800 and and the cornerbacks were you know, ten yards off 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.760 the line of scrimmage and it's like, hey, big boy, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.240 eat all you want underneath, but you're not getting over 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.360 the top. They didn't come out trying to run the 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.120 ball though. The first fourteen plays they had three Zke runs, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:10.120 ten throws and one Dack scramble. So they tried early 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.840 and I don't know if abandon is the right word, 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.440 but they went past happy early on in the game. Well, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.439 I felt like though that once they once they felt 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.839 like they couldn't run, once they saw some of the earth. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.199 I'd given credit to Denver's offense. I think Denver did 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.679 exactly on offense to win that game what Dallas needed 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:35.080 to do. I mean the run, the football, control, passing, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.280 game break. Some tackles put pressure on, put pressure on 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.640 Trevor Simeon to have to make throws to keep up. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.120 Never had to, never had to. Never. You know, the 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.760 one when it was seven to seven, you're thinking like, well, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.640 maybe Dallas is going to find some traction here. Yeah, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.800 but they didn't, you know, and then the mis tackles 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.800 and all that started happening, And yeah, it's difficult. It's 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.839 difficult to play from behind in this league, especially when 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.040 you get way behind in this list. C. J. Anderson 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.200 was terrific for that, and a lot of mistackles by 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.760 the cow was Broncos take nine to fifteen on third down, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.160 and really Simon only had a couple real third and 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.480 longs in the entire game. You to make nine third 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.199 and eleven third and fifteen late when the game was 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.680 already out of hand, you had to make it worse 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.719 than that. It was nine of twelve till they got 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.840 to the fourth quarter, right. All they were trying to 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.440 do is burn clock right exactly. And you know, we 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.600 well get really into the Cowboys defense and how kind 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.800 of a little bit different narrative than the week one 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.000 whenever it was ready to call this the best defense 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.800 in the NFL. But going back to Dak pres say, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:37.200 everybody maybe not Mickey, I don't think anybody here said that. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.560 I thought they were going to play better than they 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.720 thought they would have played. I thought the running game 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.080 would travel, but deminishing returns when you're playing all those 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.120 young kids in the backfield that hadn't played in the 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.920 positions they were asking over play, but that was that 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.480 was secondary. We'll get there, get there, we'll get there. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.880 We want up front, Hey, we'll get to that. I'm 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.720 right before you had to dive into that. But let's 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.520 talk more about Dak Prescott. We pre game, we're talking 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.040 about how he is about to cross off this milestone 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.120 at five hundred pass attempts with the fewest interceptions known 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.880 to an NFL quarterback, and here he goes and has 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.640 two picks. Mickey explained it to you about playing behind 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.200 like that. Of course you're rushing your passes, but that's 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.800 just so unlike him to have had one pick. You're 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.640 calling the Dez won the goodness gracious, he's got to 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.200 catch that and go twenty yards. Has saved a couple 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.160 others he did well, Yeah, because that might have been 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.760 their best defensive back yesterday. It could have been three 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.760 slash four picks in that game potentially, but it wasn't. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.360 And one of them what shouldn't have been there? It 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.040 should have been a twenty yard reception. But why was 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.920 Dak so inaccurate? I told you he didn't get any protection. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.280 He was under fire the whole game. They were all 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.520 around him. Who do you think was the weakest link 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.240 the offensive line as a whole on the offense and 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.319 the fact that they couldn't run the game. So now 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.240 Denver said, huh, we got this run. Stop, let's go 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.400 get him. The week is linked on the offensive line, 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.760 you know what I mean? It didn't to me. I 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:09.160 thought the press, I thought the pressure wasn't bad until 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.400 the very end of the just watching the film, just 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.640 watching the film, I mean I was looking for I 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.480 was looking for a Chaz Green bust. He had one, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.000 I was. I mean one where he just clearly, you know, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.240 gave up the guy. I was looking for Lyle Collins 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.160 to really have a bunch of them. I mean, I 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:26.800 didn't feel like that. Like I say, I gave you 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.600 the breakdown to him. Twenty minus plays. That's gonna be 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.240 some pressure there. That's gonna be some you know, some 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.280 things where it's late pressure stuff. But I'm just telling 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.080 you to me, there were no there was nowhere to 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.000 throw this football, nowhere to throw this football. I think 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.600 cowboys on the receiving corps. If you watched them as 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.840 a whole was probably the best they'd been covering to 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.720 some Giants games. Giants game last the Giants games. There 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.080 have been some games where you're like, man, there is 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.760 nobody open here. But when even even when Dak had 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.720 time to make a throw, there was nobody down the fields. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.360 Some of the things he checked down or through to 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.520 Zeke or throw underneath or made some of those shows 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.840 there was nobody down the field that was open. Beasley, 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.720 who you normally think is he wasn't open, you know. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.400 And then and then like the one like he makes 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.400 a kind of a miracle pass on an off sides 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.800 play down the field to Bryce Butler. Butler was open, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.680 but it looked like everybody kind of stopped on the 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.840 play a little bit. And now that allowed Butler to 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.760 get open. But other than that, I mean it, Jason Witton, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.000 I mean, think about what happened. Though Jason Winton had 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:35.240 a touchdown, dropped a touchdown, Bryce Butler had drop dropped it, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.480 that would have been a fourth and one at at 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.920 you know, it's a third and fifteen and he drops it, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.680 it's gonna be right at the sticks. They're gonna mark 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.360 him a yard short. But I'm just looking at these 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.520 receivers and I'm thinking, Okay, if it turns into a 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.680 passing game, you gotta get open and then and nobody did. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.840 Nobody did and that and that's the thing that you 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.440 know when you say, well, how do you stop the 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.640 Cowboys were stopped the running? Well, no, just stop the receivers. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.600 Make make that Prescott have to make a bunch of 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.360 tough throws. Da Dak put the blame on himself post game. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.080 He's the quarterback and he kind of fell on the sword. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.200 I think he had a part of it. Obviously, he missed. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.720 He missed some throws and he spoke to what you said, Brian, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.920 that there's tight windows and I've got to be able 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.480 to make some of those throws. But but again you're right, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.080 guys aren't open. But it was it was interesting Tay 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.760 watching Dak in the post game. It was like Mickey 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.440 was there. It was it was like he was looking 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.080 at all the media members like okay, you get my 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.480 point here, like I'm this is the narrative, Like I'm 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.960 I'm following on the sword here. Yeah, And you know 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.920 that's what a quarterback does. I don't think it's all 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.400 on him. Definitely not his best game, but yeah, there 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.200 was some other factors in it that made made life 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.280 difficult for him. I'll be honest, I thought he I 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.080 thought the pressure was there. Now he got they marked 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.800 him down for seven quarterback hurries or hits. I thought 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.080 it was more than that. It felt like he got 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.040 sacked six times. You watched you if you sit down 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.760 and really and Mickey, I know, you go back and 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.960 see this some more. If you go back and watch 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.520 the tape. There are times where he has the ability 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.560 to throw the football and there's no but and he 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.120 but he has to come off the read so fast 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.760 because of what's going on. I mean, it's like cover 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.040 cover Now now you're now you get the leakage or whatever, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.119 a little bit of pressure that you have. Count the 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.960 hurries or hits. Yeah, count count the times he had 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.639 to run, which I think was three and those weren't 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.600 called runs, right, and then to dump offs the dead sure, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.760 I mean to Zeke, those weren't called that. That was 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.520 safety valve right, So that that probably was a dozen 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.920 plays right there? Easy? Easy? Yeah, And so you didn't 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.159 have let me beginning with sixty six I think, and 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.000 then count the drops you know, it was just a 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.479 horrible passing day. It wasn't all him, it was the 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.560 entire unit. 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