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Speaker 1: break down the thirty one twenty nine loss. It's the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers over the Dallas Cowboys to kick off
Speaker 1: not only the Cowboys regular season, but the NFL regular season.
Speaker 1: There were some good, there was some bad, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit all of it and in between here over
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you start things off. Thirty one, twenty nine.
Speaker 1: It was an instant classic that just came up short
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys overall last night. The NFL knew what
Speaker 1: they were doing when they made this matchup. They knew
Speaker 1: about the talent on both sides. And I know we've
Speaker 1: we've we've dissected this team throughout preseason and there's some
Speaker 1: spots where they're not deep, but at the top of
Speaker 1: their roster, they've got some big time talent, especially on offense,
Speaker 1: that can match Tom Brady and this defending champion Bucks team.
Speaker 1: And they did it. You know that that they got
Speaker 1: right to the edge, and man, that game reminded me.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to bring the room down heck, but it
Speaker 1: reminded me of that divisional playoff game against Green Bay
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Dax rookie year, he's going toe for
Speaker 1: toe with the legend. Take my heart out one more time?
Speaker 1: Why don't you no oh that's the Packer game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes a playoff game here at home. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: goes toe to toe with the legend. And not only
Speaker 1: is there's another play where you think you got a
Speaker 1: strip sack on the on the quarterback. I don't know
Speaker 1: how the hell that didn't happen for Dorans Armstrong earlier
Speaker 1: in the game Jeff Heath against the Packers back then.
Speaker 1: But you leave just a little bit too much time
Speaker 1: for Tom Brady and he gets it done. M I'm
Speaker 1: ticked off this morning. I'm so happy everybody else is
Speaker 1: in a good morning. I felt that when I walked
Speaker 1: out this morning, Heck, I didn't even speak to you.
Speaker 1: You didn't and so I'm telling us about that's This
Speaker 1: is a hard one. This is just a tough one.
Speaker 1: And when you say the NFL knew what they were doing,
Speaker 1: I think the NFL tried to offer us up to
Speaker 1: Tampa and they didn't recognize that the Cowboys would come
Speaker 1: into town and a lot of those questions were going
Speaker 1: to get answered that we didn't know from the preseason
Speaker 1: going into the regular season, and I think we realized that, Man,
Speaker 1: all this talk about Dak and his shoulder was because
Speaker 1: they were gonna unveil the Holliser on Thursday night and
Speaker 1: he was gonna have an opportunity to throw it all
Speaker 1: over the park. You know. The one thing that really
Speaker 1: just disappointed me was the fact that we did not
Speaker 1: at all stay with the running game, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna point that out. That's the one thing about last
Speaker 1: night that really was man. I was like, what's what's
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half. I kept saying
Speaker 1: to myself, are we literally just going to abandon the
Speaker 1: run for the rest of the game. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: it was a great matchup and you're absolutely right, the
Speaker 1: NFL put to a spectacular first night of action and
Speaker 1: couldn't be more happy about the production of the NFL
Speaker 1: last night, but not the outcome. I think last night
Speaker 1: was positive. I think last night was positive, and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm not coming to being Debbie Downer. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm not coming in here. Soul came on my head
Speaker 1: down and feeling sorry for myself. Last night was a
Speaker 1: positive thing. You just faced the World Champions who brought
Speaker 1: back completely their entire roster and added more depth to
Speaker 1: that roster, and they had all their firepower already for you.
Speaker 1: And you went total toll with them last night. You
Speaker 1: didn't get beat. You lost the game. You did not
Speaker 1: get beat. You lost that game because you had opportunities
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that you did not. We miss
Speaker 1: field goals, we miss big plays. We gave up big plays. Right,
Speaker 1: There is coverage, but we had blown coverage assignments. We
Speaker 1: had bad matchups that we should have never been in
Speaker 1: d Law versus Grundcows. There's a lot of things in
Speaker 1: there that we that we had plenty of opportunities to
Speaker 1: win this game, and we didn't do it. So we
Speaker 1: lost the game, right, we gave it away. And the
Speaker 1: fact that you can walk it out of this game
Speaker 1: for the most part of healthy as far as I know, right,
Speaker 1: Michael gallops gallops, Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he'll be okay. Yeah, Right, So we walked out of
Speaker 1: his game pretty healthy. And we know that we went
Speaker 1: toe to toe with the complete champions to undoubted champions
Speaker 1: in this league, aside from you know them in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Those are two dogs in this league everybody has to
Speaker 1: be fearful of. And you know that you gave it away,
Speaker 1: you should be feeling really good about where you're at
Speaker 1: right now. Oh and by the way, your first round
Speaker 1: draft pick is a dog. Michael Parsons was all over
Speaker 1: the place. There were some lapses there and he looked
Speaker 1: lost at times. But you're right. There's no such thing
Speaker 1: as a more ogal moral victory, no, in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But there are positives you can take out of a loss,
Speaker 1: and there were plenty of top positives and one of
Speaker 1: those was Dak Prescott. I mean, you look at the
Speaker 1: way that he threw the football around forty two or
Speaker 1: fifty eight, four hundred and three yards three touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: I kind of want to keep that in mind when
Speaker 1: talking about Heckma's point and abandoning the run. We saw
Speaker 1: that early there were six rushing attempts in the first half.
Speaker 1: There were eighteen total for the game. Why was that
Speaker 1: the case and is that something we can expect moving
Speaker 1: forward with Kellen Moore in this office. Well, look, I
Speaker 1: don't want that to be the case because of what
Speaker 1: you're paying Ezekiel Elliott. I think Kelly Moore was in
Speaker 1: a situation last night where the Tampa defense was loading
Speaker 1: the box. They were daring you to run. Vita Vey
Speaker 1: was a complete nightmare last night, and you have McGovern
Speaker 1: who is who did a great job, by the way,
Speaker 1: but the interior of your offensive line was being tested.
Speaker 1: I still think you have to make defenses, be honest.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys just saying, well, okay, you're gonna play
Speaker 1: it like this, Well we're gonna Doude's gonna throw it
Speaker 1: all over the park. And Dad did a really good
Speaker 1: job of finding those mismatches in those coverages. Top Bowls
Speaker 1: did a lot to try and confuse Dak Prescott, but
Speaker 1: that may have worked on a rookie quarterback. And Dad
Speaker 1: just did a really good job of manipulating the offense
Speaker 1: and getting those extra yards in the past. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: regards to the run, I think Kellen Moore has an
Speaker 1: attention attention span issue, right, attention deficit when it comes
Speaker 1: to run. He's comfortable with the pass and he was
Speaker 1: in his bag. He said it in the postgame show
Speaker 1: last night, Kellen Moore was in his bag that boy
Speaker 1: came to play. I thought it was one of the
Speaker 1: best called games I've seen from Kellen Moore. He did
Speaker 1: an amazing job from the time, from the from the
Speaker 1: beginning snap all the way to the end. He came
Speaker 1: out with great formations, great shifts, motions. We did a
Speaker 1: lot of twelve personnel. We talked about that this offseason, right,
Speaker 1: a lot of twelve personnel because we have two guys
Speaker 1: that can go out there and make it happen, not
Speaker 1: only to give us opportunity to run the ball, but
Speaker 1: to pass the ball. And we just abandoned the run.
Speaker 1: You know, to your point, we abandoned the run. We
Speaker 1: talked about it on this show last week. You're not
Speaker 1: getting anything up up front, up the middle. It's a
Speaker 1: wasted play. I said that, right, it's a wasted dog
Speaker 1: on play. So when we ran outside, guess what zeke stretch? Stretch,
Speaker 1: stretch or stretch. He put his foot in the ground.
Speaker 1: And you saw the work he put in this offseason
Speaker 1: and his explosiveness. You saw him put his foot in
Speaker 1: the ground and get three, four or five yards at
Speaker 1: a pop. Right, we saw Pollard in corporation of Pollard
Speaker 1: being able to get the ball in his hands, getting
Speaker 1: him moving. And then what happened. Kellen Moore, the add
Speaker 1: came in and he said, I'm just gonna throw the ball.
Speaker 1: It's not that we couldn't run the ball, is that
Speaker 1: we abandoned it. Yeah, And I think one thing that
Speaker 1: the way the game is change too. The short passing
Speaker 1: game can function as a suffer the running game, and
Speaker 1: they tried to do that, and they really tried to
Speaker 1: attack the edges because like you said, hey, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to run into a brick wall. And the thing
Speaker 1: about this Cowboys offensive line, they're still very talented, but
Speaker 1: there they were young up the middle last night on
Speaker 1: the interior, and when they have been a great running
Speaker 1: team the last few years. They had Travis Frederick at center,
Speaker 1: they had Zack Martin at right guard. Zach obviously did
Speaker 1: not play in this game because of COVID, and it
Speaker 1: was just a different a different game for them. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought both teams saw the same game offensively, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they saw matchups on the outside that they loved. We'll
Speaker 1: get into Tom Brady what he saw on the outside.
Speaker 1: And you know, when Sean Murphy Bunting went down for Tampa,
Speaker 1: they looked at and yeah, and they see the box
Speaker 1: loaded said, look, we love our receivers, we love these matchups.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, like you don't want to fifty
Speaker 1: was it fifty eight? Fifty eight pass attempts? I mean
Speaker 1: that's that tied his career high for DAK that's that
Speaker 1: is too much. But they found other ways to try
Speaker 1: to agree. Mimic the run game with some short passing
Speaker 1: game and hey, we saw some two back sets with
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard in there too. Based on this game, Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is going to get a lot more run than
Speaker 1: he did last year. And I believe he should and
Speaker 1: and I think he's a difference maker. And then you
Speaker 1: look around the NFL, A lot of teams have that
Speaker 1: thunder and lightning set from their running backs. Um, but
Speaker 1: going back to what you said about the tight ends
Speaker 1: and twelve personnel, Yeah, use twelve personnel when you have
Speaker 1: tight ends that can block. You know, I think our
Speaker 1: tight ends if you just spot like that, I think
Speaker 1: Jarwin did a kind of mediocre job and blocking and
Speaker 1: because but that's what I'm saying when you compliment the
Speaker 1: formation is what I'm saying. I think that adds a
Speaker 1: different wrinkle when you have guys that can actually block
Speaker 1: and get you that extra So look, that was the
Speaker 1: main thing for me. That was you know, when I
Speaker 1: when I look back up looked at the game again
Speaker 1: last night, I was like, man, we missed some opportunities,
Speaker 1: especially in one on one matchups, the the option route down,
Speaker 1: the flipout to to Zeke where jarwin. All we need
Speaker 1: you to do is get that block man and Zeke.
Speaker 1: You gotta win that one on You gotta if you're
Speaker 1: one on one in space, you gotta win that matchup.
Speaker 1: That I mean, it comes down to the red zone again,
Speaker 1: Like they still missed their opportunities in the red zone
Speaker 1: as good as they've been moving the ball, but I
Speaker 1: just looked at the rushing statue real quick for Tampa.
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette had nine carries. Tampa had fourteen carries total
Speaker 1: in the game. Cowboys actually had eighteen carries if you
Speaker 1: factored four rushes by Dak. So it was just kind
Speaker 1: of that kind of game. And honestly, the league is
Speaker 1: headed that way too, where it's it's it's turning into
Speaker 1: a track meet when you especially when you have two
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks. And after this performance, I think Dack's in
Speaker 1: that category for people to show for people that don't
Speaker 1: think he is. He's in that top tier of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: at this point in the NFL. I think no doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a gutsy game from Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna have to be gutsy moving forward.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I want to go back to the missed opportunities.
Speaker 1: There were four points easy left off the port a
Speaker 1: pat and a thirty one yard field goal that were missed,
Speaker 1: and Zerline took took blame for that. After the game,
Speaker 1: he was very upfront, he said, I can't miss kicks
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, he made the big kicks, made
Speaker 1: the big kicks. He missed those two and that's four
Speaker 1: points off the board, and gosh, those four points would
Speaker 1: have been nice later on. Yeah, I mean, yeah, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna point to Zirline. Right. You have one job to do,
Speaker 1: and that's the kick, kick extra points and kick field goes,
Speaker 1: and yes he has to score. He has to make those. Um.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately he didn't. But that was not the only thing
Speaker 1: and only opportunities that we had. Ceedee Lamb had what
Speaker 1: two drops? Yep, Ceede Lamb had two exactly, So he
Speaker 1: had two big drops. Um. You know, there were some
Speaker 1: other past completions that were still left on the left
Speaker 1: on the on the table out there, and I think
Speaker 1: that was in regards to Dak and his hesitation to
Speaker 1: really try to drive the ball in there. His timing
Speaker 1: was off in that first half, and we had a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities there. So it was a collective effort
Speaker 1: in terms of opportunities. Um it, everybody's gonna point the
Speaker 1: finger as zirline and I get it. I get it,
Speaker 1: But don't be don't be just a fan being an
Speaker 1: analyst for a second and look at it and say,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of other things that we could have
Speaker 1: done that would have kept us out of a position
Speaker 1: to where we needed those four points. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be a complete fan here. So it doesn't matter because
Speaker 1: the and I think the coaching coaches do that. You know,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to rely on a kicker to win
Speaker 1: you the game, but that's what they're there for. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times you drive the length of the
Speaker 1: field and you get close enough and you have a
Speaker 1: kicker that you understand can get you that a thirty
Speaker 1: seven yard field goal miss. Come, you can come on, bro,
Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me. Minus six you get. You'll get
Speaker 1: no argument from me. Let's go back to the pat
Speaker 1: you gotta get that. I mean, these are things that
Speaker 1: are differences in the game, and let's just talk about
Speaker 1: the fine points of coaching and just being able to
Speaker 1: make end game adjustments things like that. And that's when
Speaker 1: you look around the league, you look at coaching, and
Speaker 1: you could recognize those coaches that make those adjustments in
Speaker 1: game when we can't. I feel, your brother, I feel.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is just to address that question. It's
Speaker 1: not it wasn't just Zeroline. We needed those points and
Speaker 1: he should have had those points. Let's put that on
Speaker 1: the cops battle. They did, everybody battle. But there were
Speaker 1: other opportunities there work. There were plenty of other opportunities
Speaker 1: that put us in a bad position. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It was not solely him. Should he do his job
Speaker 1: appster frequently, but that's not the only person who did
Speaker 1: not accomplish what they needed to take care of. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to miss a thirty one yard
Speaker 1: or but I mean Russ or whatever. It seemed like
Speaker 1: that's some kind of technical issue because he was pulling
Speaker 1: the ball. He was going left until if you missed
Speaker 1: the thirty one, then you come back and you've hit
Speaker 1: the He was going to sixty after the guy just
Speaker 1: mixed the thirty one? What else would you do in
Speaker 1: that situation? Man, I don't know. I wouldn't pick put
Speaker 1: the guy out there that just missed the thirty one
Speaker 1: yard field goal to try and make a sixty yard
Speaker 1: field goal. Gonna pun it, Man, you're gonna. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna put that guy in that situation. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't fault them for that, for attempting that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: really don't either. I don't. I don't. It didn't turn
Speaker 1: up into points the other way, luckily, but it did
Speaker 1: give an opportunity for it to turn into points the
Speaker 1: other way. Yeah, that was my issue with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's Tom Brady's only needs a couple first downs
Speaker 1: and there you go. So that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about what if. But that's what your whole
Speaker 1: thesis is based off of. About what if? No no no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no. My thesis is on taking care of
Speaker 1: what you're responsible for doing. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: He didn't. Zerline did not take care of his job,
Speaker 1: but he had not, and there were other guys that
Speaker 1: didn't take care of their jobs. And because they didn't
Speaker 1: take care of their jobs, it gave the other team opportunities.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about what
Speaker 1: if scenarios. I'm saying CD should have caught those balls,
Speaker 1: Zeroline should have made those field goals. Daks should have
Speaker 1: been on time with some of the pass cousins. No,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying, but if had they done what they
Speaker 1: were supposed to do, those were completely Okay, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's their job, right, You're talking about Zerline,
Speaker 1: his job is to make field goals. Dak's jobs do
Speaker 1: the ball on time. CD's jobs to catch the ball,
Speaker 1: our jobs to tackle, our job on special teams and
Speaker 1: then not give up thirty yard freaking returns. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So like, those are jobs, that's what
Speaker 1: you're paid to do. And they and unfortunately, there was
Speaker 1: a lot more than just those two kicks that guys
Speaker 1: did not complete their complete their responsibilities. Yeah. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at the missopportunities and you miss you mentioned
Speaker 1: and I think see on the first drive, I think
Speaker 1: you could call it a drop by CD, but Dak
Speaker 1: kind of left it a little short. We mentioned the
Speaker 1: Zeke pitch out where they settled there in the red
Speaker 1: zone there. You know, you get an interception at the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay twenty one, you kick field goal. I mean
Speaker 1: those are the kind of things you look back and
Speaker 1: you're like, damn, you know, yeah, it is more than
Speaker 1: the field goals for sure. Yeah. And you can look
Speaker 1: at blown coverage on the defensive side of the football
Speaker 1: on a couple of occasions. There are some veterans I
Speaker 1: think at the cornerback spot that you might want to
Speaker 1: take a look at. But we're gonna talk about that
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Speaker 1: did Zak Prescott look in his return to action his
Speaker 1: first game and eleven months, three hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: days put up four hundred plus yards. What did we
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Speaker 1: It was good. It was very good. Today. Let's got
Speaker 1: a lot of sad faces around here. There's a lot
Speaker 1: to take away from this game as positive. People got
Speaker 1: to see the positive insurance situation. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: positive to see. We again, we lost. We lost the game.
Speaker 1: We didn't get we didn't get scraped up. I think
Speaker 1: fans have to look at this game and be like positive,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a fun Come on, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if we stay healthy, be excited the offense we have
Speaker 1: and maybe the defense continues to get better. And like,
Speaker 1: can I just say this real quick, yep, that the
Speaker 1: weather was a factor, like the humidity. You saw a
Speaker 1: post game pre game in the everybody. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know Cowboys tried to mimic that out here. But the
Speaker 1: defensive line they played every guy, I mean even Bradley
Speaker 1: and I got ten snaps in the game. So I
Speaker 1: thought they fought defensively for what they had to deal
Speaker 1: with with the humidity and you know, missing some key
Speaker 1: guys on offense. So can I say something everybody that
Speaker 1: feels feels really sorry and sad right now TV twelve,
Speaker 1: I can say as a teammate, he doesn't blow smoke.
Speaker 1: Right when he's talking to the media, right Hill, Hill,
Speaker 1: gas guys up, just just because that's what the Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: you know, new Patriot way of doing things. But when
Speaker 1: he's interpersonally, he doesn't blow smoke. What did he say
Speaker 1: to Dak when they went to go shake hands? What
Speaker 1: do you say? You guys know what you guys said?
Speaker 1: He said we'll see you guys again, Tom said. Tom
Speaker 1: said to him, yeah, Dak said yeah, yeah, but Tom
Speaker 1: guess what Tom said it too, We'll see you guys again.
Speaker 1: That's a fact. Feel good about that. Feel good about
Speaker 1: that from bro. Hey b we're talking about come on,
Speaker 1: we're talk about We're talk about the greatest player of
Speaker 1: all time. We're talking about the greatest player of all time. Undisputed, undisputed.
Speaker 1: You have to you have to acknoledge the fact you
Speaker 1: have to think, yeah, that's undisputed. You have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the fact that this dude respect he respected the performance
Speaker 1: that put out. He know, they gave up opportunities. That's good.
Speaker 1: They gave up opportunities that allowed us to even have
Speaker 1: a chance to win the game. So let's let's let's
Speaker 1: let's be honest. Both teams had mistakes that they don't
Speaker 1: that they don't feel good about. Yeah, Tampa Bay ran
Speaker 1: the ball less than we did. So I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at both of these teams and so it's not
Speaker 1: a glass half full kind of situation we had. They asked, absolutely, Zad,
Speaker 1: we was about to beat them, do you talk coming
Speaker 1: here and you was about to have a long face.
Speaker 1: We had a face you don't see me with on face.
Speaker 1: You don't think TV twelve was mad about a guy
Speaker 1: when dropping the touchdown. You don't think T twelve was mad.
Speaker 1: You don't think he was mad about freaking Fournette dropping
Speaker 1: the dog on easy path that he caught into a
Speaker 1: two quarters later. You don't think he was mad about
Speaker 1: that tip all interception. There's plays that they said too
Speaker 1: that that would have put them in a better situation,
Speaker 1: that would have opened up their lead. Oh, cowboys plus
Speaker 1: three and the turnover, Come on, we've been asking it
Speaker 1: for a pee. I know you could argue that they
Speaker 1: should have won this game comfortably, or at least by
Speaker 1: by a touchdown. We had we had two real takeaways.
Speaker 1: We had two takeaways. We had two gifts, two takeaways
Speaker 1: and two gifts right there, two of them were There
Speaker 1: was two take Kazy had had to take away. De
Speaker 1: Law had to take away both of those guys forced fumbles.
Speaker 1: The tip ball Fournette, that's a gift. They fell filling
Speaker 1: your hand, yes, okay, the hail Mary interception, that's a gift.
Speaker 1: So we had two real takeaways. We have four turnovers.
Speaker 1: We'll take it. How we get it. No, don't get me,
Speaker 1: don't getting wrong. But we took the ball away twice
Speaker 1: and we got the ball two other times. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Hail Mary, all right, hail Mary. But the
Speaker 1: tips they count in football, that's that's tips and overthrows.
Speaker 1: Got to get those absolutely. But guess what. You didn't
Speaker 1: do anything to take that away from that person. The
Speaker 1: ball fell in your arm, said gift. However it goes
Speaker 1: and we'll say that stuff turnover turns, come on, that's
Speaker 1: being a fan. Turnover is turn that turnover as a turnover.
Speaker 1: But if somebody drops the ball and it falls in
Speaker 1: your arms, you didn't do anything to where do you
Speaker 1: go in the column as an interception? It does? And
Speaker 1: I say that it turnovers a turnover, and where does
Speaker 1: it go in the wind lost column? And goes in
Speaker 1: the loss You could have put You could put little
Speaker 1: heck Man in that position in the ball. He would
Speaker 1: have caught that. I don't know. The only thing I
Speaker 1: will say is there you know guys in the past
Speaker 1: past defense is like I'm thinking about Xavier Woods, Guys
Speaker 1: that had chances to make plays like that and couldn't
Speaker 1: do it, didn't come up with it. So like Okay,
Speaker 1: different teams, but yeah, you're gonna you're gonna took middle
Speaker 1: school student and a tip ball. Would he would have
Speaker 1: copped that. Accept your gifts, accept your game, accept your
Speaker 1: gifts and guess what and put them put them in
Speaker 1: a stat sheet, because guess what, No matter what, it
Speaker 1: was four turnovers and you feel good. Even if it
Speaker 1: was just two turnovers, I would still be sitting here saying,
Speaker 1: good freaking job defense because we have an actually, we
Speaker 1: have a character on that side of the ball. Now,
Speaker 1: those guys were flying around, they were rotating in and out.
Speaker 1: We talked about how are they going to cycle those
Speaker 1: guys through? Their linebackers were coming in and out like
Speaker 1: they were a freaking defensive lignement. Right, So if we
Speaker 1: had a lot of positive things, what I'm saying, take
Speaker 1: the turnovers. Heck, but don't don't. Don't say that you
Speaker 1: that you earned that dog on that tip ball to interception.
Speaker 1: It goes down as an absolutely it does. But you
Speaker 1: didn't do anything to earn that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's just it's amazing. It amazes me how the goalpost
Speaker 1: moves when it comes down to what's it turnover? What's not.
Speaker 1: What's a wind already said if we don't hear me,
Speaker 1: I don't not. Now you hear me, but you're not
Speaker 1: listening to me. Oh god, that's a great way. You
Speaker 1: can't hear j heck mccarn't hear Jimmy as a white
Speaker 1: man and jump reference for those that don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You hear me, but you're not listening
Speaker 1: to me. I use that in my house and I
Speaker 1: sleep on the couch for at least a month, so
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you have a nice couch though. Yeah
Speaker 1: I do, But that's crazy. We were gonna talk Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott in a segment segments half. I'm gonna push that back.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that in the final segment. We're gonna
Speaker 1: keep it at defense. And you mentioned the rotation Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense on the field Thursday against the Buccaneers. How about
Speaker 1: the snap distribution from the linebackers and Michael Parsons fifty one,
Speaker 1: Neil fifty Jalen Smith saw sixteen snaps, saw sixteen snaps.
Speaker 1: It's twenty five percent of the snaps after playing ninety
Speaker 1: five percent or more in the past. Layton Vanderesh saw
Speaker 1: fourteen snaps twenty two. When I think about that, I
Speaker 1: didn't think it would be that like as much as
Speaker 1: Tom and the Bucks spread everybody out. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's their sub packages is counter Neil and Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: But I thought I thought Vanderesh might have more than
Speaker 1: fourteen naps. But but they look, they played their nickel
Speaker 1: and that's that's what they had to do again in
Speaker 1: this in this matchup, it might change more, but it
Speaker 1: may not because this is the way offenses play, you correct,
Speaker 1: I mean this is the way the league's going now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, they matched personnel. I mean I would have
Speaker 1: never I would have lost all my money if I
Speaker 1: would have bet that that's that would have been a
Speaker 1: distribution playing time. Um. But you know, to the point,
Speaker 1: these guys the personnel called for a certain called for
Speaker 1: them to have a certain personnel. And if you would
Speaker 1: have put you know, vander ash and Smith out there
Speaker 1: against some of the guys that we were facing last
Speaker 1: night in more situations, there would have been more mismatches.
Speaker 1: So I think the coaches did the right thing. It's
Speaker 1: just we just didn't expect that. Yeah. Chris Collinsworth kept
Speaker 1: pointing out those sub packages as well, and just saying
Speaker 1: that anytime that that Jalen and Layton were on the field,
Speaker 1: that was their run heavy h defense. And so I
Speaker 1: think Tom actually noticed that as well and started getting
Speaker 1: backs out of the backfield and you know, so those
Speaker 1: things if I guess, as the game progressed, I kept
Speaker 1: saying to myself, Look, Mike is doing a really good
Speaker 1: job in the running game. Also, So if you're taking
Speaker 1: this guy out of the game because you think he's
Speaker 1: weak against the run, he's showing you otherwise. He was
Speaker 1: shooting the gap doing a lot of great things. I
Speaker 1: think look for a rookie linebacker, if you're gonna grade him,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be a B minus based off
Speaker 1: of where he was in past coverage. Uh. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people were pointing out that Michael looked like
Speaker 1: his head was spending and that's Tom Brady. That's Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and not playing a game for a year also,
Speaker 1: and that and all of that. But he but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm saying as far as just him sideline the sideline,
Speaker 1: his hustle, he's showing you that he is a dog.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, coverage wise, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to clean that up Kean O'Neill, and look, these guys
Speaker 1: are going against brounk Kowski and some one of the
Speaker 1: guys one of the best tight ends in the game.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, I think those matchups and where
Speaker 1: they were defensively, when you talk about Tank being man
Speaker 1: to man on Grunk in the goal line, you have
Speaker 1: to have inside protection for your defense once you get
Speaker 1: that close, and then when you may you go cover
Speaker 1: zer Dahn. Tom made him, like Tom is a coach
Speaker 1: on the field, and he made him pay. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the safety blitz. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not even
Speaker 1: cover zero and safety dress. Tom seen that a couple
Speaker 1: of times in his career. How many how many plays
Speaker 1: did those guys have again, so it was fifty one
Speaker 1: for Parsons, fifty for Neil, sixteen for Jaln s Manth
Speaker 1: and then fourteen for Layton Banners sixteen and fourteen. Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay had fourteen Russians. Yeah, yeah, and look, I mean
Speaker 1: Jeron Curse gets forty snaps in this game, you know,
Speaker 1: And so they're playing kind of three safeties, kind of
Speaker 1: helping with the tight ends like you mentioned O. J.
Speaker 1: Howard and Gronkowski. It was match personnel. That's what they
Speaker 1: what they had to do. That's what dan Quinn said
Speaker 1: he was going to do this offseason. He said, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play it like a basketball team. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have positions, and yeah, we're gonna have starters.
Speaker 1: And that's why it was surprised. Israel mccuama wasn't act.
Speaker 1: How did you guy, How did you guys feel? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously there was so much drama in this game, but
Speaker 1: how did you feel overall about dan Quinn's The defense
Speaker 1: last way better than last year. Yeah, it was competitive.
Speaker 1: My opinion, it was competitive competitive. I thought they flew around.
Speaker 1: I thought, you have your guy at the cornerback spot. Yes,
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs is a dude. Ye. I mean the way
Speaker 1: that he locked down Mike Evans was pretty fantastic. I mean,
Speaker 1: I gotta find the actual We're not even talking about
Speaker 1: their best receiver. No, no, I mean because he wasn't
Speaker 1: a factor. Well, well, no, you other three. You understand
Speaker 1: aceptions for twenty four years we played, man, you understand
Speaker 1: that Tom is gonna play pennatail on the donkey, right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna find the weakest Lincoln that's what he did.
Speaker 1: All they told all games, let's find I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: what you give me at this point because I realized,
Speaker 1: you know, Aidan's dad is over there locking down. Takes
Speaker 1: the A and M guy. But you know, look, ab
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about Antonio Brown. One hundred and sixteen
Speaker 1: yards after the first half. That's unacceptable. That's unacceptable. It
Speaker 1: is unacceptable as a defensive coordinator. However, as a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: you told these guys, and you've shown them, we're going
Speaker 1: to play man. I don't care what are who our
Speaker 1: opponents are, I don't care what their personnel is. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna depend on you to play man to man and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge you as a man to get in
Speaker 1: their grill and stick in their hip pocket. I don't
Speaker 1: care who it is. And that's what they did. So
Speaker 1: guess what. You took your best defensive back and you
Speaker 1: put them on their best receiver, and guess what he
Speaker 1: did a heck of a job. But then guess what, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this team number two receiver is really a number one
Speaker 1: receiver and our number two dB is not a number
Speaker 1: one dB. Right, So Antonio Brown versus Antonio I mean, sorry,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, ju I mean god Win versus Jay Lou.
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about this. Their receivers are better
Speaker 1: than our dbs. Facts, And when you play, when you
Speaker 1: have that matchup and you decide to play man to man,
Speaker 1: you're going to give up plays and you say, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take out your number one, your number one dB
Speaker 1: stepped up and did that. Cou doze to you. Great job,
Speaker 1: dig second year you took out Mike freaking Evans. That's
Speaker 1: a heck of an accomplishment. But unfortunately there we don't
Speaker 1: have another trade on digs on the other side, which
Speaker 1: is why we talked about how we should have made
Speaker 1: an investment into a big boy receiver that can go
Speaker 1: out I'm a big boy dB that can go out
Speaker 1: there and lock up the other side, didn't. We chose
Speaker 1: not to. Those don't grow on trees though, and they
Speaker 1: don't grow on trees, and and it takes in the possibility, right,
Speaker 1: We looked at the possibility and there really wasn't a
Speaker 1: huge possibility outside of the draft. But but but to
Speaker 1: my point, we were talking about off the air, name
Speaker 1: a defense that has a number two cornerback that can
Speaker 1: shut down Ab. Oh, wait, all Chris and god one's
Speaker 1: like a one A receiver. Say this guy's got three
Speaker 1: dogs out there. These aren't These aren't like okay receivers
Speaker 1: like these are number one receivers on any other team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if they're that and if they're that good, it's
Speaker 1: as good as you're saying that they are. Obviously, this
Speaker 1: is going to be a repeat year for Tampa and
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna get gold jackets at there. Because
Speaker 1: if you do one sixteen after the first half and
Speaker 1: you're getting paid a salary to be a DBS coverage,
Speaker 1: there's something coverage or not. I'm saying. If I pay
Speaker 1: you to do a job and you're getting one sixteen,
Speaker 1: you're getting baked at halftime. What's the adjust What do
Speaker 1: you what do you do with that? Because because out
Speaker 1: of the tunnel? Absolutely correct, But guess what you get
Speaker 1: your you can't. What's what's the definition of of crazy? Right?
Speaker 1: He's doing the same insanity, doing the same thing over
Speaker 1: and over again. So if you guess what if you
Speaker 1: keep stepping up to Ab thinking that you're gonna get
Speaker 1: your hands on him at the line of scrimmage, try again.
Speaker 1: If you think that you're gonna come up to ab
Speaker 1: and just shade the inside because you think that you
Speaker 1: got the sideline as your help on this particular guy,
Speaker 1: man to man, try again. So if you're gonna get
Speaker 1: torched every single time, so guess what? You might want
Speaker 1: to play a little bit off. Maybe you might want
Speaker 1: to play cover one. You co coach called cover one.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm five yards off and I change up my
Speaker 1: linement a little bit. Maybe I change it. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: maybe I'll flash my hands and act like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: jam them up up and just say hold him up
Speaker 1: for a hot second. You have to try different things.
Speaker 1: Guess what he may not his bag like Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: winning his bag. Guess what, Hey, Brown may not have
Speaker 1: his bag. Isn't that deep? His bag's not that deep.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown has been around for a minute. He's he's
Speaker 1: he's baptized many guys. He's embarrassed many guys. And I
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you called for this last week,
Speaker 1: but you know, look, Calvin Joseph's on IR for two
Speaker 1: more weeks minimum. The other option is Greece Kennedy, who's
Speaker 1: mostly been a slot receiver or slot corner. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: slot corner throughout training camp, in preseason and Nashan right,
Speaker 1: so I gives up one sixteen say it's a rookie yard.
Speaker 1: Let's say if you come out, say we meet these
Speaker 1: guys in the playoffs. We meet them in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You can't play man to man. You can't do the
Speaker 1: same thing and expect a better result just because it's
Speaker 1: later on in a season. Your personnel can't stop their
Speaker 1: personnel man to man. It's not going to happen. That's
Speaker 1: the reality, is why they regardless of what you're getting paid.
Speaker 1: He this was like, this is like looking in the
Speaker 1: mirror honestly. I mean yes, I mean it's really the
Speaker 1: same things that everybody says about the Cowboys every week,
Speaker 1: like how are we going to game plan for these receivers?
Speaker 1: It's why Tampa. I mean, Tampa's got the same same
Speaker 1: matchup nightmares. That's what made this game so fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really the same, the same offenses in a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of regards. The difference for Tampa is
Speaker 1: they've got more of a veteran defense with guys who
Speaker 1: can really get after you, and the Cowboys are still
Speaker 1: developing that with dan Quinn absolutely Even with Anthony Brown's
Speaker 1: five receptions for one twenty one and Chris Godwin's nine
Speaker 1: receptions for one oh five, they still were not the
Speaker 1: best receiver on the field. The best receiver on the
Speaker 1: fish shut down. No, are you talking about Coop? Was
Speaker 1: talking about him? Yeah, Coop. I'm talking about what Coop
Speaker 1: did last night and the way that he played. Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb had a couple drops, but he had a really
Speaker 1: nice night as well. How did the passing game? Look,
Speaker 1: I'll tease it again. We're gonna talk about it. Don't
Speaker 1: you derail my seconds next time. Gentlemen, when we come back,
Speaker 1: you're on talking cowboys. Hey, these boys can get paid
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Speaker 1: And that's why they won last year. Yeah, that's why
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Speaker 1: in the morning on talking cowboys. Let's talk Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: forty two of fifty eight ties, a career high in
Speaker 1: passing attempts, four hundred and three yards, three touchdowns, the
Speaker 1: one interception that ironically might have been the best throw
Speaker 1: of the night that he had. I mean, he put
Speaker 1: it on the money into triple coverage right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the hands for Ceedee Lamb went off his
Speaker 1: hands and then was intercepted subsequently. But a good night
Speaker 1: statistically for Dak Prescott. Rob What did you see from
Speaker 1: him in his first game in over eleven months. I
Speaker 1: can't express really how impressed I was with it, because
Speaker 1: it's not just the numbers. And yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know y'all mentioned that maybe there's some some plays early
Speaker 1: in the game where he was still kind of feeling
Speaker 1: a rhythm or trying to get into a rhythm. But
Speaker 1: you just think about how long he missed and how
Speaker 1: much time he missed in training camp, and he goes
Speaker 1: out there against that quality of a defense and is
Speaker 1: just kind of unfazed. You know, the touchdown, I think
Speaker 1: it was the first touchdown pass to Amari bad snap
Speaker 1: by Tyler Biads, No big deal, you know, pick it
Speaker 1: up and let's go. And even you know, he wasn't
Speaker 1: wary of running. You know, they used him a little
Speaker 1: bit in the red zone with some with some zone
Speaker 1: reads stuff like that done in the past. That's a
Speaker 1: top five Dak Prescott performance that I've seen in his career.
Speaker 1: And I need to go back and watch the game.
Speaker 1: It might be higher just because of because of the
Speaker 1: team that he was facing. Where he's been m really
Speaker 1: really impressed Isaiah. Yeah, I think, I mean overall in
Speaker 1: in his entirety, I believe that Dak had had a
Speaker 1: good game. I really do think that he had a
Speaker 1: good game. He came in, he battled, he was made uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and being uncomfortable, he still found a way to make plays.
Speaker 1: We all know that he didn't want to run the ball.
Speaker 1: We knew that Dac didn't want anything to do with
Speaker 1: it having to get off the pocket and run. But
Speaker 1: guess what, he did it because it was necessary. We
Speaker 1: knew that Dak didn't want guys jumping around his ankle
Speaker 1: right and coming in on his knees. But guess what,
Speaker 1: he still sitting in the pocket and delivered the ball
Speaker 1: now in the first half. I will be the first
Speaker 1: one to say that he was not Dak in the
Speaker 1: first half, I think, and I think he was in
Speaker 1: his own head in terms of what he was able
Speaker 1: to do his the velocity on the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: care all you get, all the fans and everybody was
Speaker 1: can curse me out all they wants. The velocity was
Speaker 1: not there. Balls were dying out. And again this is
Speaker 1: a very analytical quarterback perspective that I have. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you played the position. Balls were dying out, right comebacks,
Speaker 1: the balls where we're not on the right location, fade routes,
Speaker 1: the balls were in the wrong you know, wrong shoulder.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things like that that most people
Speaker 1: don't see that I saw in the second half. He
Speaker 1: was thinking more about the game situation. The game situation changed, right,
Speaker 1: it was a lot more intense. So guess where his
Speaker 1: focus was. It was on moving these change it was
Speaker 1: on these other things. Not to say that he wasn't
Speaker 1: thinking about those things in the first half, don't take
Speaker 1: that literal. But he was more focused on the game situation.
Speaker 1: So the last thing he was thinking about was what
Speaker 1: his shoulder. Last thing he was thinking about was his ankle.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was really ever, ever, really bottomized,
Speaker 1: but I think but I think in the first half,
Speaker 1: the shoulder was in his head, and I think his
Speaker 1: his velocity, his accuracy, some of those things in that
Speaker 1: first half. I think he wished he had some of
Speaker 1: those passes back. But we saw that velocity change, and
Speaker 1: you can go back and watch the timeline of the
Speaker 1: game as the game progressed as you go into the
Speaker 1: second half. That but that thing has some sting on it, right.
Speaker 1: He was driving the ball into holes. He was making
Speaker 1: passes that you were like, oh, first half, he was
Speaker 1: that ball when't even had a chance. So it changed
Speaker 1: and he became better as the game progressed. So kudos
Speaker 1: to Dak overall. Heck of a game, heck of a
Speaker 1: battle time that he had off all that stuff to opponent.
Speaker 1: Absolutely great job, Dack. I don't want to cut you
Speaker 1: out on behalf of the fans. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: just felt like, you know, Dak came out and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady too. I think both of them showed rust in
Speaker 1: that first quarter. But I thought Dak he was a
Speaker 1: whole dog in the first half. He found open receivers.
Speaker 1: You're talking about location and you're also talking about mechanics,
Speaker 1: and I think those naturally are things that quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: their first quarter are going to struggle with it. Maybe
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty four days away from playing football,
Speaker 1: that's the byproduct of it. I can go with that.
Speaker 1: But I think as far as just his the mental
Speaker 1: aspect of his game, I saw no slippage in that
Speaker 1: the rust that we were expecting to see, I didn't
Speaker 1: see a whole lot of because he capped off the
Speaker 1: drive with a touchdown and you saw him do all
Speaker 1: the things that you were wondering could he do after
Speaker 1: he got hurt against the Giants, I think he answered
Speaker 1: those questions for you right off the bat. Second half again,
Speaker 1: he made all the quality reads. Look, Ti Bows threw
Speaker 1: a lot at Dak. He wanted to test him out early.
Speaker 1: And I know, I'm like everybody else out there that
Speaker 1: when Dak was pressured in the pocket, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, get your legs out, guys holding on to him.
Speaker 1: I just feel like mentally he showed that he man,
Speaker 1: that's one tough son of a gun. And for him
Speaker 1: to go out and play the way that he did
Speaker 1: with that gruesome ankle injury, not really in his head
Speaker 1: and play and you say he didn't want to run,
Speaker 1: He ran four times just so he did it when
Speaker 1: he needed to and it wasn't like he took it
Speaker 1: out of his repertoire like you would have seen like
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and for the Washington football team out that
Speaker 1: he had his industry injury, which was both gruesome, but again,
Speaker 1: he didn't want no smoke. He didn't want to get
Speaker 1: out there and get out in the open field. But
Speaker 1: Dak just showed you that he's deal has it. And
Speaker 1: I loved his game. I love the way that he
Speaker 1: battled back. I loved everything about what I thought. Mentally,
Speaker 1: it was one of the best performances I've seen from
Speaker 1: a quarterback because you think about everything that he went
Speaker 1: through this offseason, you think about the ankle, and then
Speaker 1: turn around the first padded practice he comes out he's
Speaker 1: got a shoulder injury. I'm with Isaiah and I had
Speaker 1: a great conversation last night on Twitter, And by conversation
Speaker 1: I mean I was pretty berated by a couple of
Speaker 1: fans who had great points, and I completely agree. But
Speaker 1: I saw the same thing. In the first half. The
Speaker 1: ball was dying out, the velocity wasn't there. In the
Speaker 1: second half, he was able to just rely on coming back.
Speaker 1: He had to just play football again and it was
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do that. And I thought Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: called a hell of a game to be able to
Speaker 1: keep it underneath that Tampa Bay defense. Whether that was
Speaker 1: because the defensive line in the front seven was getting
Speaker 1: pressure or whether that was just the fact that he
Speaker 1: couldn't press the ball down the field. But I'll I'll
Speaker 1: tell you these stats. I look this up because of
Speaker 1: the conversation. Dak Prescott last night through six balls beyond
Speaker 1: twenty yards, which is a significant drop off of a
Speaker 1: percentage of his throws that were beyond twenty yards out
Speaker 1: in those excuse me, and it was seven throws. In
Speaker 1: those seven throws, he went two for seven with that
Speaker 1: touchdown on the right side to Amari Cooper, and he
Speaker 1: had the interception which was actually a really good throw
Speaker 1: over the middle that was dropped by Cede Lamb. Just
Speaker 1: sixteen of his fifty eight pass attempts last night went
Speaker 1: more than ten yards down the field, and in those
Speaker 1: sixteen balls, he was fifty percent, which is a thing
Speaker 1: where ten to nineteen yards as he's had in the past,
Speaker 1: according to Next Gen Stats, he's usually right up around
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent. He was at fifty percent last night
Speaker 1: and included not as many pass attempts there as you
Speaker 1: would normally see. I don't know if that's the case
Speaker 1: because of the line. You were just trying to get
Speaker 1: the football out quickly. However, I just think there might
Speaker 1: be a bit of a timidness from Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: this offense to really stretch the field, because we didn't
Speaker 1: see it at all last night. Some of it's the
Speaker 1: pressure too, I mean, and some of it was by design,
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned some of that stuff. I mean, they
Speaker 1: were kind of using the short passing game to kind
Speaker 1: of function as a surrogate running game where you're not
Speaker 1: running into the defensive front and you're and you're stretching
Speaker 1: him out. I think that was sort of what they
Speaker 1: were doing game plan wise, And I liked what Drew
Speaker 1: Brees said at halftime. He said, you know there, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a good game plan. They're keeping him off balance.
Speaker 1: Just be patient, And that was the one thing for me.
Speaker 1: The interception good throw, I mean in terms of the
Speaker 1: velocity on it, but it was a it was an
Speaker 1: aggressive throw and it felt like he was pressing there
Speaker 1: where he didn't have to. But if you noticed late
Speaker 1: in the game, it seemed like the and I need
Speaker 1: to watch it again, it looked like the Bucks kind
Speaker 1: of blitzed less and just went with front four. Some
Speaker 1: of that's Viavea just pushing the pocket, but some of
Speaker 1: that too, is is Todd Bowle saying, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's dealing tonight and we're trying to get home with
Speaker 1: the blitz and it's not working because he's busting it.
Speaker 1: I thought he was tremendous overall taking with the fence
Speaker 1: gives you, and I think he played smart and he
Speaker 1: was very resourceful in that way. And I think in
Speaker 1: your first game back, you have to be, especially knowing
Speaker 1: the kind of the caliber of the defense that you're
Speaker 1: up against. The one throw to CD lamb if that
Speaker 1: was considered a gamble, I'll go with that. But it
Speaker 1: hits CD in the hands, and that's the catch you
Speaker 1: gotta come down with, even when you're in double coverage.
Speaker 1: And I think CD even alluded to that after the game,
Speaker 1: they like, he gotta catch that. You gotta come down
Speaker 1: with balls that hit you in the hands. And I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, I don't think that they came
Speaker 1: out with a conservative game plan. They just came out
Speaker 1: with a game plan of look, man, everything that they
Speaker 1: give us, we're going to try and explore. And I
Speaker 1: feel I felt like Dak did a really good job
Speaker 1: of doing that and not pressing when he didn't have to,
Speaker 1: and there were plenty of times in this game where
Speaker 1: he could have made that mental error by trying to press.
Speaker 1: He didn't, and that's a veteran move. He also did
Speaker 1: other things by changing up his cadence and making those
Speaker 1: guys jump outsides, recognizing coverage, looking off safeties, doing the
Speaker 1: great things, and finding the man the man situation on
Speaker 1: his offense. So you gotta give the gold star and
Speaker 1: smelly stick at a number four for that as well.
Speaker 1: He deserves all of that, he really does. It was
Speaker 1: a fantastic performance. And last night I think it was
Speaker 1: more of the characteristic limit on Twitter that kind of
Speaker 1: got me in trouble because if I could have put
Speaker 1: the word early in my initial tweet, it would have
Speaker 1: stayed with you from last night. Oh I did. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep a whole lot last night because I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it. You know, I slept fine. It
Speaker 1: was the first half that that kind of concerned me
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was the second half that made
Speaker 1: me feel a lot better about it. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: going into this week how he looks against the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers, because there's not gonna be nearly as much
Speaker 1: as much pressure from an entire front seven. I mean
Speaker 1: Boss is gonna get after him. I mean there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some some guys getting after him as well. But
Speaker 1: I want to see what the play calling looks like.
Speaker 1: Will they stretch the field, will he be able to
Speaker 1: throw a downfield with the shoulder injury, or like Isaiah
Speaker 1: said previously, is this going to be something that lingers?
Speaker 1: And that's not something I want to think about in
Speaker 1: terms of Dak Prescott because he put up the stat
Speaker 1: but the eye test was a little shaky in the
Speaker 1: first half. Second half was much better. Moving on, But
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