WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Now What? 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:18.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.680 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.040 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:32.400 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.720 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.720 It is Monday, October twelfth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.840 number forty two. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.559 I'm Derek Eagleton, Life and s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.520 the Star. Guy Nick Amber and Dave with me, and 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.000 it's time for us to talk about this game yesterday, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.520 Cowboys get the win thirty seven to thirty four. Typically 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.760 on a Monday, when we come in from a game, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.840 I usually start the show having you guys go around 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.480 and talk about what for you was the story of 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.000 the game. But I don't think we need to do 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.600 that today. I think we're very clear on what the 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.760 story of the game was yesterday. Aside from the Cowboys 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.280 getting a win, a much needed win, the story really 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.800 is Dak Prescott and he gets injured during the game. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.800 A compound fracture and dislocation of his ankle. Nick qun'try 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.800 first give us an update on kind of what we 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.120 know as far as what happened post him actually being 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.959 injured and then having to go to the hospital. Yeah, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.560 I mean, well you said right there he had to 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.520 go to the hospital. That's you know, right off. The 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:42.720 bat had the surgery last night, and you know, cowboys 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.319 have announced that the surgery went well, which you know, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.600 I think it's important, you know, and you could say, well, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.559 don't they all go well? And then no, they don't. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.720 And it was ironic that Alex Smith played yesterday for Washington. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.200 That's a good example that sometimes they don't always go 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.400 like you want. And but I just thing, you know, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.360 it sounds like from what I've heard, is it's it 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.680 was a terrible situation and what it looked like. But 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.079 the broken ankle and a fracture, you know, the bones 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.120 can heal along with the surgery. It's done well, and 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.160 so it sounds like he you know, will be able 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.840 to come back next year and should should be fine 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.160 with this. You know, you knock on wood and hold 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.760 your breath and all that kind of stuff. But I 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.400 think that you know, he can he can come, you know, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.480 come back from this and he would be fine, but 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.840 you know, you left the stadium. We left the stadium 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.640 last night, and it's like, did they win? You know? 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.720 I mean because it the loss was bigger than the win. Sorry, 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.600 I let them kind of go. Amber. Tell me what 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.760 was your mood when this this all happened? Could take 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.480 me back to that moment and what you're thinking as 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.280 as Dad goes down. Well, I think we all shared 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:56.239 the same feeling. Watching that horrible injury was terrible, especially 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.480 seeing his reaction. Just when you see a guy so 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.720 tough like him just have tears in his eyes and 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.440 I can't even begin to imagine all the thoughts that 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.560 went through his head at that specific moment. It was 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.720 just very touching to see the support from everyone, the 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:18.320 whole team, his players, even Jason Garrett coming up to him. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.320 It's it's just awful. But based on everything that Nick 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.240 said and the reports that we keep hearing, at least 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.240 it's something that that's not gonna be like career ending. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.960 And the hope is that this is something that he 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.200 can come back from, and we know how strong he 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.640 is and he's gonna bounce back come back stronger. It's 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.680 just very, very disappointing to see a guy like him, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.360 and also during a season that he was just doing 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.200 absolutely great. Yes, they weren't getting the wins that you 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:56.760 wanted them to, but statistically speaking, Dad had amazing numbers 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.920 and his path was just going upwards. So it's just 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.520 disappointing to see not the whole theme play out during 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:09.720 the season. Dave, what were your thoughts? Man, At the 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.360 risk of sounding dramatic, I just this is tough, and 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.560 I'm the guy that always says, you know, I don't 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.080 let I don't let what happens on the field get 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.119 to me too much. There's too many ups and downs 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.960 in this job to let that happen. But like, I didn't, 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.120 I didn't sleep well last night. Like it, I mean, 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.160 it was just a devastating thing to see, and especially 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.560 from like from where it happened. You know, Dak already 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.680 has this amazing receiving touchdown on a trick play, and 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.320 this happens on a quarterback draw where he shakes off 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.600 a tackler, just showing how ridiculously versatile and talented he is. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.520 And yeah, you probably take his durability for granted at 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.120 this point, he's never missed time due to injury in 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:55.479 his career, and the swiftness which went with it went 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.359 from like, oh, my god, Dak made this great play 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.320 to oh, like he's already gesturing at the sideline, like 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.359 he knew immediately that something was terribly, terribly wrong. And 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.599 I just I don't know if I've ever I don't 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.120 know if I've ever been a part of a moment 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.039 that was that surreal. I don't know if you remember, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.160 but the Giants kicked a fuel goal like a half 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.200 hour after it happened, and you were like, Dave, how 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.320 long is that fuel goal? I was like, Man, I 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.479 don't know. I'm not I'm not here. I'm not mentally 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.360 here which line I mean, I know that's my job, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.120 but it was just hard to focus on anything else. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.680 And I'm I'm still there. I'm still just trying to 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.080 process it. I just it sucks so much for him, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.680 and obviously it's also a devastating glow for the team too, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.120 you know, and that's and that you know how important 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:40.960 he is, You know that he's the heart and soul 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.680 of it, But not until a moment like this happens 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.560 do you realize that just how big it really is, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.520 because you could make you wouldn't know, you never want 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.040 to lose a game ever, but you can make that 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.760 argument of would you rather lose that game and have 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.080 him for the rest of the season or win that 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.560 game and not happen easily because that I mean two 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.680 and three, one and four. I mean you could still 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.080 come back with that. But like, and I don't mean 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.599 to sound that I'm too dramatic either, but they won 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.480 the game. They might have lost the season though, we'll see, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.960 we'll see. But I mean, well, the Andy Dalton is here, 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.080 so he can go and and and win games and 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.760 all that. But like, it's just it's so crushing, and 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.040 you woke up this morning and you're like, that didn't 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.279 feel like a win because it wasn't. They lost something 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.039 way bigger than a game. What was the mood of 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.200 the team yesterday, Nick, did Dave were about to say something? No? No, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.760 well no, Nick, Nick got to talk to the guys. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.960 I think that's more important than what I was gonna say. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.640 We can do both. Dave made me feel bad too, 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.720 because he said he goes in a situation like this, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.600 like there's no way you go up to Cedric Wilson 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.400 and say, hey, how was that passed? And I was like, dang, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.159 I think that's exactly what I said. Yeah, right, I 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.880 got I got eleven guys in about seven teen minutes. Seriously, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.920 it's like a whirlwind down there. And by the way, 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.400 just for people that don't know, like right now, typically 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.360 after a game, we would all be in the locks 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.280 roroom and you would be talking to players. Everybody be 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.040 talking to players right now, all the media. Nick is 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.840 the only person that is literally face to face talking 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.480 to players. Some of them have press conferences that they'll 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.480 do by zoom, but basically Nick is the only one 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.520 that's down there. And so you're running players through and 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.520 just talking to every almost every player that had some 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.400 kind of influence on the game. You have an opportunity 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:30.760 talk to him after the game, right, So and IM 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.440 and I'm trying to mix in you know obviously what 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.080 they did of why I'm talking to them, plus the 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.320 deck if it works, maybe Jason Garrett, if if you're 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.160 you know. And the one person I did ask was 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.080 Anthony Brown, which then I want he's answering, and I realized, oh, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.640 Anthony Brown was the one that called out the whole staff. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:54.520 But but they all were just I mean heartbroken, devastated, crushed. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.240 I mean, that's my guy, it's my dude. I mean 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.880 all the everything that you can imagine. But you know, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.160 they also said that, you know, Dak wouldn't want us to, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.400 you know, to lay down. I mean, obviously he's still 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.920 fighting for us, and he you know, we had to 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.600 fight for him as well. So um, you know, they 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.000 were it would have been a different feeling that they 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.840 lost and that happened. I think they were the highs 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.040 of kind of coming back in winning. But I bet 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.040 you there was a point last night and everybody felt 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.640 it where he just kind of sinks in or it's 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.760 like dang, like that that that really happened. It's just 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.560 it's crushing you feel, you feel for Dak, you know, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:37.200 and everyone's thinking financially, only a handful of individuals decide 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.320 they want to tweet about it whatever, but but you 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.360 know everyone's thinking it. I bet you. You You know Naber 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.720 just said about what he's going through. He's probably thinking 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.959 it too, you know, I mean just thinking like, oh man, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.679 I bet on myself and this happened. Yeah, well I 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.480 did want to get to the next conversation, which I 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.160 think you have to start looking forward because that's the 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.240 nature of the NFL. By the way, this is not 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.319 the first time a player has gone through something like this. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.080 And if there is any player that I've ever witnessed 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.400 in the NFL that I feel like, hey, he can 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.520 go through a devastating thing like that, and I feel confident, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.199 completely confident that if it is medically possible, he will 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.199 be back and better than ever. Is Dak Prescott. This 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.960 man has gone through more adversity than most people go 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.280 through an entire lifetime. He's gone through in the last 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.959 several years, and he keeps coming back, He keeps fighting. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.560 He doesn't allow it to get him down, and maybe 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.480 it does get him down, he doesn't allow it to show, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.040 and he's still able to perform when he needs to perform. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.880 I have no doubt in my mind that if it's 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.680 medically possible, which there's no reason to believe it's not sure, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.040 that he will be back and better than ever. The 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.840 question becomes right now for this team in the twenty 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.680 twenty season. You go out and this is the first 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.080 time I can recall in a long time that Dallas 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.559 has actually taken the route of getting a really legitimate 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.839 backup quarterback, and it happens that they do it in 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.920 year when they really really need it, and you get 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.680 Andy Dalton. He goes nine of eleven there down the stretch, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.040 one hundred and eleven yards, beautiful pass to Michael Gallop 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.800 to put them in position for the game winning field goal. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.439 So what does Dallas lose at this point, not having 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.880 Dak and having to replace him with Andy Dalton, Dave, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.360 That's actually that's what I was gonna say a few 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.800 minutes ago. And I mean, we'll get into that, but 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.440 it's something I've been thinking about a lot because a 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.280 few fans have been like, really, Dave, is this really 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.200 that unprecedented? This just happened to Tony Romo in twenty 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.080 fifteen and twenty sixteen, And I don't think that's true 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.000 because Tony, you know, Tony broke his collar bone in 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.800 Philadelphia in Week two in twenty fifteen. He jogged off 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.920 the field to the locker room to go get X rays, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.679 and if you remember, if you can go back that far, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.160 the conversation was can the Cowboys hold the rope for 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.439 four to six weeks until Tony gets back? And that was. Honestly, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.000 it was the same conversation in sixteen with DAK. It 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.720 was can this rookie pulled the rope for two months 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.640 and keep them relevant? And obviously we know what happened. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.800 The rest is history. This is not the same. This 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.079 is he's gone. He's not coming back until twenty twenty one, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:20.199 hopefully if everything goes perfectly for him. And to that end, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.440 the Cowboys deserve a lot of credit. You know, we 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.720 applauded the Dalton signing in whatever may when it happened, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.800 and it looks really smart right now because as devastating 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.240 as this is, and if they played in another division, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.120 it would be even more devastating. But between having Andy 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.600 Dalton and playing in this awful division, there's still plenty 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.400 of reason for optimism that this team can reach the postseason. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.720 Amber what do you see as the differences here between 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:53.800 going from Dak to now going to Andy Dalton. Well, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.880 let me go back to this being the first year 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:02.120 that I'm actually confident in a quarterback since I've been here. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.080 The Dallas Catboys have gone through several backup guys. Back then, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.360 I know what I know now. Back then, I thought, oh, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.800 Brandon Whitten is a good guy. Yes, he's gonna be 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.319 good on the field. Let go then Kellen Morrow, he's 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.000 a good dude. Well, I quickly learned that being a 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.640 good dude doesn't mean you're good at football on the field, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:28.079 so that didn't happen. But over those periods of years, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.280 I learned how how important the backup quarterback is and 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.120 I started seeing a bigger value in there. So when 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.320 this signing happened, I've been talking about it during training 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.560 cap I talked about it. I kept my eyes on 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.440 him and the way that he was practicing, and it 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:49.280 made me feel comfortable to the point where, Okay, the 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.120 offense is not gonna go completely down if something was 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.760 to happen to that. Now, there are other factors that 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.480 are going to play. We know the whole thing that 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.360 the offensive line has been going through, and that's that's 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.520 gonna be an issue there. But if they can hold 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:11.240 up against better teams and better defenses, I have confidence 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.560 in Andy Dowton just being able to at least carry 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.760 the team this season. Nick, what do you see the differences? Um? 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.560 I think you know third and two from the or 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.160 a two point conversion where the quarterback can can definitely 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.760 sneak it or you know, quarterback draw and run into 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.840 the end zone and and that option. Uh you know 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.520 that that's probably not the same. Uh, he can, he 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.720 could move. I mean that one plays of the game 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.600 was one of the one of the plays the game 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.160 on that last drive, I mean he was rolling to 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.320 his right man really nice throw. So he can. He's 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.280 not like I wouldn't call him a mobile quarterback, but 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.720 he's not just gonna be you know, sitting duck in 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.679 the in the pocket either. So the weird thing for 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.920 me is that, and I wrote this yesterday in my column, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.520 is that, you know, going into the game, the Cowboys 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.720 easily at the best quarterback in the NFC East, do 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.280 they Now, It's debatable, definitely debatable. I mean because time 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.040 every time I look up at Philadelphia, I see them 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.160 showing Jalen Hurts. I mean whether or not they just 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.280 want to play him or they're thinking about playing him 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.520 or whatever. But it's not like Carson Wentz is lightening 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.760 it on fire over there. And he's definitely more decorated 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.680 or more accomplished than Carson Wentz and the other two 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.200 guys of course, or three or seven guys or whatever. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.160 Washington and the Giants are going to roll out there. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.520 But I'm just saying still right now, with the talent 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.240 around it, I think Cowboys might have the better quarterback 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.960 in the division. They also have the lead, so you 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.600 can't just say, well, they can't do this they pointed 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.640 out in this division when this year it still could 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.600 be possible. Ye, And you're looking at a guy that 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.560 he has been a I would say out above average 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.200 quarterback during his time in Cincinnati, especially in the years 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.280 when AJ Green was at his best. And he's got 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.080 essentially and not undervalue AJ Green, but he's essentially got 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.720 three AJ Green' tire like he's got three premier wide 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.200 receivers here where there he had one, and he's he 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.680 was able to do some really good things in that offense. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.560 I think in this offense he's got more talent than 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.800 he had in that offense. So I would I expect 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.240 that he is able to be able to do a 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.960 lot of things. Maybe he doesn't do it in the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.240 same way that Dak did it. It's not going to 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.040 be the guy that you're gonna necessarily line up to 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.600 do a quarterback draw, but he does have the arm 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.480 to be able to find some of these guys and 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.480 as we saw yesterday, go down feel and he threw 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.600 a pinpoint accurate ball yesterday to Michael Gallups to make 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.560 that catch to put him in position. That's what I 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.040 expect to see is that he's gonna be able to 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.040 really drive this offense from the standpoint of the passing game. David, 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.560 you have something you're about to say. I mean, there's 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.680 there's another similarity there, which is that his offensive line 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.480 looks fairly leaky, just like the one that he was 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.360 working behind in Cincinnati last year. I think the Cowboys 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.840 still have Zack Martin, but I mean that's it's I'm 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.840 I'm interested obviously. You know, the Cowboys really got back 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.520 to basics after the injury yesterday. You know, it felt. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.400 I mean, it was the Zeke Show right up until 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.480 the final drive basically, and I don't think I don't 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.360 think they can get away with doing that on a 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.320 full time basis. I think a lot of that is, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.320 you know, people don't think about this, but you install 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.560 a game plan for one quarterback and have to change 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.320 on the fly. You know, I don't think Kevin Moore 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.080 is going to call the game the same way on 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.480 short notice with Andy Dalton as he would with Dak. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.120 So I think it'll look different when you have a 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.440 chance to go through a whole week with Andy Dalton 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.520 preparing to be the starter. You can have some different 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.520 tendencies and try some different things. I do think, I mean, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.400 running the ball is going to have to be a 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.920 bigger aspect of it of this offense than it has been. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.160 But that would have been the case with Dak because again, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.880 a big part of that's just because they can't stop 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.720 turning the ball over. But I'm I'm worried about the 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.600 offensive line with Andy more than I would be with Dak. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.480 That's that's something that we have to watch to see 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.920 if they can give him enough time because I don't 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.160 I don't know that he can create his own plays 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.320 as well as Dack does. And we will dive into 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.960 that topic big time tomorrow. I want to take a 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.000 bigger picture look at this offensive line and really the 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.800 offense and how much it has to adjust to the 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.440 changes that you'll have to see here between those two quarterbacks. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.200 Let's go and take our first break. When we come back. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.480 There are some secondary stories of this game that I 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.440 think we need to talk about including the offense off 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.280 to another slow start and having to dig their way out, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.480 just as they've had to do so many times this season. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:29.800 We'll talk about that when we come right back. This 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.840 is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. We're back in a 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.400 tasty treat that's sweeping airwaves and taste buds. It's new 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.600 Doctor pepper and Cream Soda. Let's take a listen, Doctor 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.639 pep cream Soda. Is he a new Combonet's music to 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:58.399 my ears? Okay, doctor music to my ears and mouth? 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.120 New Doctor pepper and creams What deliasis do? Ba hey 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.480 want to use? What the pros use? 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I 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.320 don't know if you can call it a big win. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.800 It was a win that they needed, but it still 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.360 was a win against a team that you thought that 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.240 maybe Dallas shouldn't have to work as hard against. Let's 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.800 talk about some of the other secondary stories of this game. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.960 I think one of the things that stood out once 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.080 again is the offense got out to a really slow start. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:16.840 I mean, I guess you could say as a team 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.439 they got off to a really slow start because they 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.640 get they dig themselves a hole and they're down seventeen 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.320 to three early in the second quarter. But once again, 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.440 as we've seen them do so many times this year, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.119 they dig themselves out and by halftime they're up twenty 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.840 four twenty. So why is this happening? Is there anything? 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.240 And what we know right now is it's no longer 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.240 just happenstance, this is a pattern. What do you think 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.200 is happening and how do you think they managed to 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:43.920 get out of this. Let's start first with you, Amber, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.080 I wish I had an answer for you, but I 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.359 don't even know if the team themselves have an answer 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.040 as to why this issue keeps happening. I mean, every 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:00.280 time you ask certain players, including Dyke or Seager, even 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.919 coach Mike McCarthy, they don't necessarily have a good answer 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.240 for you. They just say they know they need to 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.800 do better and start off better. And it's been an issue, 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:14.440 but as nothing that I've seen, aside from the mistakes 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.480 and little turnovers, which obviously has been a big problem 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.879 this year so far. Other than that, I really don't 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.640 know what it is at the beginning of the game 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.719 that they're unable to do during the second half of 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.320 the game. So hopefully Nick and Dave have a good 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:38.480 answer here, because I really don't. Nick, I don't either, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.520 and then of course the coach will say, well, if 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.480 I had that answer, it wouldn't happen. But I mean 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.600 it's on the coaches too. I mean that they're not prepared. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.160 I mean they get the ball to start the game, 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.919 the fur doesn't matter. I mean, this seems like the 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.160 opposing team has a much better plan of going out 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.119 and doing something then the Rams did it. The Falcons 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:07.120 did it. The Seattle did it. Um actually Seattle's first drive, 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.000 they didn't score, but they got on you know quickly there. 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.359 The Giants, I mean, they just everyone seems to be 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.160 more prepared than the Cowboys, or at least at least 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:19.119 that they execute better. So I don't I don't know 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.280 what the problem is. I wonder if when you keep 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:24.360 coming back, do you just kind of feel like it's 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.320 early we can come back, because they will and they have, 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:33.760 but they can't always keep doing that, Dave. The only 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:35.800 the only thing I can come up with is like 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.439 an attitude problem. And I actually, um, there are a 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.040 couple guys and I pick up I say that just 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.800 picking up on context clues from earlier in the week. Uh, 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:48.520 you know, Zeke Elliott and Antoine Woods both kind of 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.119 said something to the effect of, uh, you know, we 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.560 don't we don't worry about criticism because that's the nature 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:56.760 of football. And you know, if if we come out 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.280 and win against the Giants, everybody will be praising us again. 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.480 And I was like, no, no, we won't, No, we won't. 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.280 Like the Giants are bad, you don't deserve praise for that, like, 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:09.000 and it just makes me wonder. I don't know, it 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:10.840 makes me wonder how focused they are at the start 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.040 of the games, because like, go go, look at go, 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.560 look at the rundown. The only time the Giants drove 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:18.960 the field for a touchdown was the first possession of 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.280 the game. And then Dak responds to that by making 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.560 a pretty terrible throw on the ball that got intercepted 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:30.240 and returned. The Giants got seventeen points off of turnovers, 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:33.840 and that dumb twelve minut on the field penalty seventeen 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:38.680 of thirty four get literally gifted to them, you know, 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.040 because because the Cowboys fumbled on their own twenty four 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:45.400 as well the Andy Dalton fumbles, So seventeen points out 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:47.760 of thirty four. You know, you're probably feeling a little 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:50.480 bit better if the Giants scored twenty then if they 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.280 scored thirty four. And I don't get it. It's just 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.399 and going all the way back to last year, it 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:57.720 seems like it takes them twenty minutes to kind of 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:00.679 shake the cobwebs off and realize that they're playing in 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.399 the NFL. And I remember last year it was all 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:05.320 about the three and ode start where they were just 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.720 kicking everybody's but that's ancient history at this point, so 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.320 if that's still in your head, I don't get it 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:14.119 at all, because the last year of results says that 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:18.600 you're a pretty mediocre team. So God, it would be 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:20.480 nice to see a better level of focus at the 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:22.679 start of a game. And I don't understand why they 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:25.400 can't do it. You know I will, And I'm gonna 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:27.439 say this at the risk of not knowing what the 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:31.040 answer is, but I think I know the answer. I 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:34.040 think the answer is turnovers. And I'm going to go 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:35.560 back after this show. I don't know one of you 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:37.640 guys might know this off the top of your head. 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:40.239 It seems to me that most of the turnovers are 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:43.440 happening in the first half when they're getting into these holes. 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:46.440 Now that might be incorrect, but it just feels like that. 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:48.159 I'm gonna go back after the show and I'm going 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.920 to count those up because I think that's actually if 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:53.720 it's true, I think that's your simple answer is that 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.959 if they stop turning the freaking ball over, then they 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:58.760 won't get in this hole because you don't have the 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:00.800 defense that can just recover. Or when you give the 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:03.040 opposing team the ball at the fifty yard line. Yeah, 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:04.960 they're gonna give up a touchdown. That's just how it's 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:06.920 gonna go. Because this defense. We know, this defense is 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.399 not very good, but look at the you know, and 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:11.600 I'm laughing because when you're like, I don't know the answer, 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:13.399 but I think I know, which is just that's you 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:15.600 to a t. It's like, is there a reason why 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:18.679 they're turning the ball over here? But yeah, there is, 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:20.600 there is a reason why. I go back and look 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:23.080 at it. Why did why did the Dak fumble gains 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:26.280 Cleveland with Miles Garrett because offensive line came along? Why 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:29.679 did he throw a past that to Zeke? You know 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:32.919 that he that maybe Shack could have caught because the 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:36.000 offensive line was I mean, the offensive line is, but 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:38.720 you also have to count for Zeke putting the ball 0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:41.760 in the ground offensive line or yeah right. But I'm 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.600 saying the turnover problem has been a problem that has 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.439 been bigger than just the offensive line, and it's been 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:49.240 a problem that that may go back to what Dave 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:51.239 is talking about. I think when you're having a lot 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:53.920 of turnovers, to me, that is a mental problem because 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:56.880 you're not paying enough attention when you have the ball 0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.840 to take care of it and not do something careless 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:02.680 where an offender can come and take it from you. Right, 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:04.720 I think those are the things that right now I'm 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.080 saying it to me, seems like that's if I had 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:10.760 to pin all of these early holes that they get 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.280 in on at least on one thing, I would say 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:15.959 it has to be the turnovers. All right, let's move 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.040 on to the next topic, secondary topic of the game. 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:22.800 The defense once again struggles. But the one thing that 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:24.720 you have to point to is that they're at the 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:27.439 end of the game. It is the time of the 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:29.760 game when you need the defense to make a stop. 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:32.960 Giants get the ball with two minutes left, they have 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:34.879 to drive the field in order to get a field 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.480 goal and they can win, which, by the way, against 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:40.160 this defense, I wasn't so sure that wasn't gonna happen. 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:42.679 Not only do they stop them, they stop them in 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.480 a minute and give their own offense to the ball 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.240 back with a minute left to go, they go down, 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.800 they score the game winning field goal. Talk about this defense, 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.119 and here's my real question, is this kind of the 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:57.480 ceiling of what we can expect from this defense. They're 0:26:57.480 --> 0:26:59.399 not gonna be a great defense, but if they can 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:02.080 just make one two great stops in the game. That's 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:04.879 the ceiling of what they can be. Well, Jason and 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.040 Garrett I thought I had t shirts about four or 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:10.080 five years ago that ga TA. That's what they did. 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:11.880 I mean that that's what they did. They got after 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:13.919 their ass, I mean, and they hadn't been doing it 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:17.239 all game. But Tyron Crawford, Alden Smith, I know I'm 0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:20.399 missing some Jalen. They were running all over the place. 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:23.320 And I asked the unlet after the game, did y'all 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:25.600 do something different? And he was like, no, they just 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:28.720 started to play. They just finally cranked up the intensity 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:31.119 and played was kind of pissed off about it, and 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:34.600 it was just like they just played, I know, I 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:37.200 mean they did. I mean they were I mean, I 0:27:37.280 --> 0:27:39.919 thought Crawford, I don't know, he may not even have 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:43.480 a stat He was fun Neville Gallimore was throwing, you know, 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:45.880 and I almost got a penalty get the sideline, which 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:48.520 would have been devastating. But they did a really nice 0:27:48.600 --> 0:27:51.600 job of just just kind of wearing down that offensive line, 0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:54.840 I think, and finally got to Daniel Jones. Ambers is 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:56.800 the best that we can expect to see from this defense. 0:27:58.359 --> 0:28:04.800 Not I hope. I hope not. But watching the game, 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:08.880 you know, when they made certain good plays, I would 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:11.719 get really excited. I'm like, okay, yes, finally, and then 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:13.960 I would have to stop myself and take it back. 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:18.159 I'm okay. Remember they are playing the Giants. This is 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:22.400 the Giants who they're playing again. So it's really it's 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:27.439 really hard to fully evaluate what this means for the 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:30.920 defense as far as those good moments that they did 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:33.480 have in the game. But at the same time, I'm 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:36.359 just I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna take it and 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:39.400 be glad that at least we saw somewhat of an 0:28:39.440 --> 0:28:44.719 improvement in certain occasions. I guess having Mike Nolan on 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:48.200 the field maybe had something to do with it and 0:28:48.280 --> 0:28:52.520 helped with the whole communication thing, because we did get 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:55.920 to see, even though they allowed way too many points 0:28:56.000 --> 0:28:59.840 against the New York Giants, even then, we still got 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:03.760 to see little moments of certain flashes of good things 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:11.400 that the defense was finally able to show. Dave, Dave, 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:16.160 you there, I think we lost him. This isn't good. Okay, 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:18.720 tell you what, tell you what. I will say this though, 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:21.560 and I think both of you, guys, Nick and Amber, 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:25.520 I think both of you guys painted the picture of 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:27.840 I hope not. I hope this isn't the best that 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:29.320 we can see. But to be quite honest with you, 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:31.800 I actually think if this is the best that we 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:34.000 can get and they are going to be this consistently, 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:36.960 I actually think this works with this team. I didn't 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:40.080 come into this season season thinking this defense was a 0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:42.719 shutdown defense. What I came into this season thinking is 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:45.880 you have a high powered offense, and if you can 0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:49.120 get a defense that can make critical stops, if you 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:51.400 get a defense that in those kind of moments can 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:54.120 get after the quarterback and actually make it rough on 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:56.240 the quarterback in those one or two series in the 0:29:56.280 --> 0:29:59.360 game that make the difference, that's a winning formula for 0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.320 this football team. That's what I kind of expected. So 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:04.080 if this is the best they could be and they 0:30:04.080 --> 0:30:06.440 can be this consistently, I think the Cowboys are gonna 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:10.840 win far more games. And but the problem I was 0:30:10.880 --> 0:30:13.120 gonna say the problem is like now, I mean, we 0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:16.080 got to see a very small amount of Andy Dalton, 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:19.280 and we all agreed that we believe he's gonna be 0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:22.800 a good quarterback and do everything that he can possibly 0:30:22.880 --> 0:30:25.440 do on the field. But we still don't know how 0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:28.240 that's gonna play out with the whole offense and if 0:30:28.320 --> 0:30:32.080 the offense is still gonna be as productive. If they're not, 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:36.800 then what happens with the defense? Now it's a show 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:39.800 I do not want to watch. No, it's a great point, 0:30:39.880 --> 0:30:43.120 and I do think that now now it all comes 0:30:43.120 --> 0:30:45.640 down to can that offensive line give Andy Dalton the 0:30:45.640 --> 0:30:48.040 time that he needs right because if they can do that, 0:30:48.120 --> 0:30:50.320 then you still can do what you need to do offensively. 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:52.360 You didn't have to worry about that quite as much 0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:55.120 with Dak because defenses did have to respect the fact 0:30:55.120 --> 0:30:57.440 that he could break out a pocket. He could be gone, Dave. 0:30:57.520 --> 0:30:58.920 I'll go back to you. We got you back on 0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:01.440 the line. Now, is this the best that we can 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:05.680 expect from this Cowboys defense? What we saw yesterday? I 0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:08.400 alluded to this a few minutes ago, and like, if 0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:10.920 you go look at the box score, you probably find 0:31:10.960 --> 0:31:14.800 yourself pretty surprised by what you see. The Giants have 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:17.560 three hundred yards of offense. They averaged three point three 0:31:17.600 --> 0:31:21.400 yards to carry Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones averaged like six 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:25.200 and a half Daniel Jones six and a half yards 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:28.280 per attempt, and like I said, special teams gifts the 0:31:28.320 --> 0:31:31.080 Giants a field goal, Dak throws a pick six, and 0:31:31.240 --> 0:31:33.760 Dalton gives them a possession inside the red zone. So 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:36.880 you look at the scoreboard and say, thirty four points 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:38.800 is terrible, and then you look at what the defense 0:31:38.840 --> 0:31:42.840 actually did and it's kind of encouraging. Yeah. Having said that, 0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:47.240 having said that, it's the New York Giants. It is 0:31:47.240 --> 0:31:50.400 the New York Giants. I do not care. I don't 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:54.120 care do it. And for that matter, there is one 0:31:54.200 --> 0:31:58.240 stat that really jumps off the page seven of thirteen 0:31:58.320 --> 0:32:01.200 on third down, like couldn't could not get off the 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:03.560 field to save their lives on third down. Seemed like 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:07.680 they were constantly either letting Jones extend plays to find 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:11.120 guys or just losing guys or losing guys in coverage. 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.320 And if the Giants can do that to you, other 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:22.720 teams absolutely will so encouraging, sure, maybe, but but I 0:32:22.800 --> 0:32:26.320 don't take it to be this sign of great improvement 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:29.200 or like a trend that makes me feel great. I 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:32.240 need to see it against not the worst offense in 0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:35.080 the league before I get too excited about it. I'll 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:37.880 say this, David, if you're getting another thing, Dave. If 0:32:37.880 --> 0:32:40.080 you're hold on, if you're gonna miss up that that 0:32:40.200 --> 0:32:43.560 guy's name, do it with Daniel Jones. Don't do it 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:47.240 with any other Jones. Like mess up with the Giants quarterback. 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:51.840 That's my fault. That's what I don't think. I don't 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:54.320 getting it. I'm sorry. If you're gonna mess up with Jones, 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:55.840 if you're gonna mess up the word Jones, do it 0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:57.960 when you're talking about the Giants quarterback and maybe not 0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:01.160 one year seven bosses. That's what I was. Yeah, yeah, 0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:04.840 for sure, Yeah yeah, yeah, go ahead, that failed go 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:12.680 um I was. I was gonna add. Don't forget. Don't 0:33:12.720 --> 0:33:16.800 forget the fact that the Giants scored two touchdowns and 0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:20.400 they were taking back because their offense got a penalty, 0:33:20.680 --> 0:33:24.360 so he got taken away. But the defense, the Cowboys 0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:27.920 defense had allowed two more touchdowns from the Giants. They 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.560 just ended up getting lucky. At the fact that the 0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:34.880 Giants themselves can get one of those clean plays, I 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:38.640 will say, no, yeah, sorry, go ahead. Now, I'm just 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:43.440 saying one of those special team well the special teams, 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:46.120 maybe they get lucky, which we can talk about special teams. 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:49.640 They were awful yesterday. They continue to be a problem. 0:33:49.760 --> 0:33:51.520 I don't want to hear any more about how they're 0:33:51.520 --> 0:33:54.200 supposed to be so much better under John Fossil because 0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:57.560 they've been a liability like four of the five weeks um. 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:00.160 But it's hard. I mean, I don't feel like the 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:04.000 defense got lucky on that on that offensive pass interference 0:34:04.080 --> 0:34:07.520 that was an egregious pick like that that should have 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.080 been flatting, but that the play doesn't happle them too 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:12.839 bad for that? Yeah right, yeah, okay, So here's what's 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:14.680 gonna do with which that was a play? What it 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:17.840 were there was like the illegal shifting or yea, that 0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:24.200 was special special fake field goal touchdown? Yeah, oh yeah, 0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:26.719 and we and I think we need that's That's another 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:28.440 one of those topics that I'm gonna say for tomorrow 0:34:28.440 --> 0:34:30.080 because we need a little time to dig into this 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:33.120 special teams because it's just not working for the Cowboys 0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:34.879 right now. All right, We're gonna take our final back 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:36.520 when we come back. I do want to ask you 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:39.520 guys the question you look at this Cowboys team. They've 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:42.680 won two games this year. Both games have been against 0:34:42.680 --> 0:34:44.759 teams that has still not won a single game. One 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:47.520 of them just fired their head coach and the Cowboys 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:49.680 needed walk off field goals in order to get those 0:34:49.680 --> 0:34:52.800 two wins. 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In the break, I was talking about turnovers 0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:27.040 in the first half. Check this out. Eight of the 0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:30.120 eleven turnovers the Cowboys, if had this season, have happened 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:33.080 in the first half. So that's where your problem is. 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:35.640 Stop turning the ball over. Maybe you don't dig a hole, 0:37:35.760 --> 0:37:37.040 maybe you don't have to dig out of it, and 0:37:37.040 --> 0:37:38.759 maybe those become points at the end of the game 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:40.680 that create a deficit where you actually can win a 0:37:40.719 --> 0:37:43.680 game by more than three points. All right, Nick, Yes, 0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.120 real quickly. You mentioned in the break to me that 0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:48.920 you saw something yesterday that was more personal to you 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:51.520 that you just wanted to kind of out there. I 0:37:51.520 --> 0:37:53.640 know we're not gonna have time for moments that matter, 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:55.439 and we usually when you do that you're talking about 0:37:55.440 --> 0:37:58.160 the game, but this moment mattered to me. It's it's 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:01.080 not really about football. But you know, maybe it's ironic 0:38:01.360 --> 0:38:04.279 or not, but the only two coaches that Dak Prescott's 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:08.160 ever had and in the pro level are standing over 0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:11.240 him as he's in the worst moment of his career. 0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:15.640 And Jason Garrett has always said he loves the book 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:18.160 by Woody Hayes, former Ohio State coach, and there's a 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:20.760 big sign up there and that say you win with people. 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:23.279 You don't you know, you could excess and os all 0:38:23.320 --> 0:38:25.200 you want, but you win with people and how you 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:28.360 treat people. And with Jason Garrett have gone across the 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:29.640 field if it was on the other side of the field, 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:32.359 and probably not, it happened right there, but for him 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:34.440 to be out there and standing out there, you know 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:37.160 right there that that's my quarterback. Yeah, I'm wearing the 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:38.880 blue and all that. And I was a little mad 0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:41.800 at Jason Garrett for finally running a damn fleeflicker after 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:47.239 ten years, but we but him standing on the field 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:50.640 right there, even just a tap with Mike McCarthy that 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:53.680 to me showed this guy he might not have what 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:56.440 you want as the head coach and all that he's 0:38:56.440 --> 0:39:00.440 got class and you can win with people. And I 0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:02.719 just thought that was a great moment, and that was 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:05.040 touching to me for Jason Garrett to kind of be 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:07.560 right there and just he didn't even say a whole lot, 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:10.319 but he was like he was there. That meant up 0:39:10.400 --> 0:39:12.160 to me. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I don't know. 0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:14.160 I thought it was a good I mean, quite frankly, 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:17.440 that whole sequence was just really touching. I mean, just 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:20.160 the whole thing. I know, I talked to my wife 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.399 and she was just bawling at the house, as I'm 0:39:22.440 --> 0:39:24.719 sure a lot of people were. She had a tear 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:27.160 just watching that whole scene because it just it was sad. 0:39:27.280 --> 0:39:29.000 It was sad. You don't like to see that. And 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:31.640 this game is a very very violent game. We know that, 0:39:31.920 --> 0:39:33.600 but it still doesn't make it any easier when you 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:35.400 have to watch that, especially with a guy you really like. 0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:39.279 All Right, Um, the question going to go ahead, Dave. 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:43.879 I just I'm gonna remember for a long time, it 0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:47.399 was almost like everybody's holding their breath trying to see 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:50.920 what's happening. There were eighteen people surrounding Dak for for 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:56.719 what felt like forever. And then when when everybody sort 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:58.919 of realized that he was about to be carted off, 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:03.160 seventy five percent of the Cowboys sideline just started running 0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:06.480 over there, you know, the defensive guys who were doing 0:40:06.520 --> 0:40:09.319 their meetings and their adjustments and not worried about what's 0:40:09.320 --> 0:40:13.280 going on on the field, just sprinting across the field 0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:15.719 to get there, to be able to, you know, be 0:40:15.880 --> 0:40:18.520 in front of Dak before he went away. I just 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:21.000 think it said a lot by what he means to 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:24.279 that locker room that almost every single guy on the 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:26.759 team wanted to be able to, you know, high five 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:28.759 him or whatever before he was gone. It was it 0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:31.719 was really moving. And not only that, but Nick, you 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:33.160 mentioned to me before we got on the show, there 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:34.759 was an article we put up cow Buzz that we 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:37.320 put up where it was it had all the different 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:39.840 tweets that were happening out there from all kinds of 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:42.680 people in sports, out of sports, in the NFL, out 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:45.680 of the NFL. I think it just showed, quite frankly, 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:49.160 the amount of respect that Dak Prescott has around this 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:51.680 league and just around this country. There were a lot 0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:54.120 of people that were tweeting their support for him and 0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:56.520 how much they felt for him in that moment, Like 0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:59.000 that matters. I think there's no better one than the 0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:02.480 Eagles fan with the with the light lime green hair. 0:41:02.800 --> 0:41:07.560 Have you seen that? Yeah, that's that's he's about, I 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:10.520 don't know, eight nine maybe, and he's got his Carson 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:13.239 wins Jersey, I think, and he's talking about that, and 0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:16.319 it's it's it's that's that's like the best thing that 0:41:16.360 --> 0:41:19.160 I've seen today, I think is from that, because that's 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:22.239 that's what sports is. Yep. And I think that you know, 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:24.560 there are a lot of you know, you root for teams, 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:27.600 you root against teams, but the fact matter is the 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:30.520 good guys you have a certain amount of respect for them, 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:33.120 whether they beat your team or you beat them or 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:35.520 they're on your rival team, if you respect them, you 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:40.279 respect them, and and that I think goes beyond sports. Right. Um, 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:42.000 So here was the question I was posing you guys 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.839 before we went to the break. Cowboys now have two 0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:47.040 wins on the season. Both of those wins that come 0:41:47.080 --> 0:41:49.600 against teams that still have not gotten to win through 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:53.400 four games. Um, and they are reeling. They are gonna 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:55.560 be among you. It looks as though they're gonna be 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.200 among the very worst teams in the NFL. Not only 0:41:58.200 --> 0:42:00.719 did the Cowboys have to beat them, the cow beat 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:03.759 both of them with walk off field goals in order 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:06.879 to win, like literally at the buzzer, they have they 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:11.200 win those two games. That being said, what if anything 0:42:11.320 --> 0:42:14.040 is that say about this Dallas Cowboys team. Let's start 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:19.279 with you Amber. Why did he go with me? I 0:42:19.320 --> 0:42:24.719 mean everyone is just still trying to figure out what 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:28.360 the Dallas Cowboys can be. Every week, me personally, every 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:32.120 week I go and watch the game, see certain things 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:35.200 that I'm like, Okay, we can build off of this, 0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:37.560 this is good, we can take this on. Especially on 0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:41.359 the offense side of the vall. You see a lot 0:42:41.360 --> 0:42:44.360 of potential, a lot of great things, especially in that 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.200 second half of the game. You're like, Okay, we just 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:49.600 need to tweak little things here and there and then 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:52.640 everything's gonna play out fine. At the same time, you 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:55.839 see things that you're like, are you freaking kidding me? 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.319 Why is this still happening in week four? Week five? 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:03.160 You've got to be kidding me. So it's just a 0:43:03.280 --> 0:43:10.160 mixture of both emotions. My feelings constantly changed because, like 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:13.480 I said, I see certain potential, but At the same time, 0:43:13.719 --> 0:43:16.120 I see a lot of things that that just need 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:19.440 to be corrected, and I do think it can be corrected. 0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:22.160 But the problem is how long is it going to 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:25.359 take for the Cowboys coaching staff to be able to 0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:30.160 correct those issues aside from the injuries obviously affecting the 0:43:30.239 --> 0:43:33.000 Cowboys and even the whole league as a whole. So 0:43:34.360 --> 0:43:38.560 to me, it's just a matter of timing and it's 0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:42.399 just difficult to do in the mid of the season. Dave, 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:45.879 what do you think this says about this team? Let 0:43:45.920 --> 0:43:48.680 me be Let me be mister Sunshine for a sec 0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:51.759 because I never do that. Who have they lost to? 0:43:52.880 --> 0:43:55.719 Who are the teams that they've lost to? Yeah, they 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:59.239 went down to the final drive against the final drive 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:02.560 against the Forum one Rams, who are off to an 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:06.840 amazing start, staged a furious comeback against Cleveland. Didn't deserve 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:09.239 to win that game, but they managed to at least 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:11.279 put some drama in the end. And then they go 0:44:11.320 --> 0:44:12.840 down to the wire against the only five and no 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:16.319 team in the league. So I guess my answer is, 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:19.319 I mean, first of all, your record is what it said. 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:20.879 You know you are what your record says you are. 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:23.800 And two, nobody should be impressed by either of these wins. 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:28.560 But I also think that they're talented enough to hang 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:31.840 in there against almost anybody, provided that they can stop 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:36.960 doing stupid stuff. The big thing for me it just 0:44:37.040 --> 0:44:39.759 it changes so drastically without Dak in my opinion, And 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:41.840 that's not a knock on Dalton, but I've got to 0:44:41.920 --> 0:44:44.799 see him go out there and play at a high level. 0:44:44.880 --> 0:44:50.200 So you know, this is a This is an average 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:55.880 to above average team that plays uncharacteristically sloppy, stupid football. 0:44:56.640 --> 0:44:59.439 If they can stop doing that, I think they could win, 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:02.279 you know, win the division, let's put it that way. 0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:05.839 But there's so much evidence that says that they can't 0:45:05.880 --> 0:45:08.680 stop doing that that maybe that we should temper our 0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:13.880 optimism a little bit. Nick, What's what's the actual question? 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:17.680 What does the fact that they've only won two winless 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:20.080 teams ye say about this team? If anything? I think 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:22.560 Dave makes a great point there, just because it's like, 0:45:22.600 --> 0:45:25.480 if you could say, well, they barely beat these teams, well, 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:29.839 nobody cares that they barely lost either to all four 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:32.080 and one teams, right, everybody that they've lost to is 0:45:32.080 --> 0:45:34.719 four and one. I was telling you in the break 0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:38.239 that They've the two minute warning of every game this year. 0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:40.520 They've been down every single game, and I think I 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:41.960 got to go back and look, I think it's at 0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:44.839 every two minute warning first half as well. They've they've 0:45:44.840 --> 0:45:47.080 been trailing, so at the end of the game, end 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:49.359 of the half, you know they haven't had leads. Um, 0:45:49.760 --> 0:45:52.080 it doesn't it doesn't really matter. I mean, it's taken 0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:55.120 a miracle kick extra point, I mean on site kick 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:58.680 to beat the Falcons. And you know, yesterday was kind 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:01.040 of a weird game all from starting to finish. But 0:46:01.400 --> 0:46:03.799 you know, I think the better team won. But I 0:46:03.840 --> 0:46:06.319 don't think they were better than Seattle and I don't 0:46:06.360 --> 0:46:08.120 think they were better than the Rams. I said that 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:12.040 at the time, and they weren't better than Cleveland. So Dave, yeah, 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:13.839 you are what you are. I mean, they were close 0:46:13.880 --> 0:46:16.600 to those teams, not good enough to win and just 0:46:16.760 --> 0:46:19.279 good enough to win against those bad teams. All Right, 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:22.560 we will tomorrow get more into this. We still do. 0:46:22.800 --> 0:46:24.640 We might go through some of those moments that mattered 0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:26.759 in this game. We definitely got some player performances we 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:28.719 gotta go through because there were some players that I 0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:31.879 think had some really, really great efforts yesterday against the Giants. 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:33.840 We'll do all that tomorrow. Join us till then for 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:36.520 Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia. I am Derek Hilton. 0:46:36.560 --> 0:46:39.000 This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:45.480 Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys 0:46:45.520 --> 0:46:48.160 dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.