WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Time For Changes? 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:19.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.680 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.000 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.320 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:39.680 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.960 It is Friday, December six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.720 number ninety four. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.280 Real life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.080 and oh do we have so much to get into. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.920 Cowboys lay an egg? Not not literally because the points 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.080 say that they didn't lay an egg, but he watched 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.360 the game. They laid an egg. They got they lose 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.920 to the Chicago Bears last night in Chicago thirty one, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.280 twenty four. We're coming off the visit up there to Chicago, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.320 and there are a lot of hot opinions, at least 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.520 there were last night about this team and about where 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.199 they're going and how they performed last night. So let's 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.119 dive right in. The First thing that I took from 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.160 this game is you look at the offense, and to me, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.000 it was probably as inept a performance as you've seen 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.560 from them all season. Checked this out. There were five 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.160 possessions they had last night where they went three and out. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.440 Three of those possessions they got zero yards, and one 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.760 of those possessions they actually got negative twelve yards. What 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.160 was the problem with the offense last night? I mean, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.959 let's start where it always starts. It starts with the 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.520 offensive line and the quarterback and so offensive line. You know, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.960 I just didn't think they were there was dominant at times. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.760 I mean they ran the ball decently, and they actually 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.600 did well in the red zone there. I thought the 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.120 past protection wasn't I mean, Dak was running around for 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.560 his life. But das was Dak's worst game of the season, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.880 I think. I mean, I don't care what the stats say, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.920 stats lie in this case, I think it was his 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.920 worst game. He did not play well. He missed open receivers, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.840 and not until people started going to bed, you know, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.600 turning it off, did he start playing well. So I 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.840 said last week that you know, he threw for like 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.959 three to fifty against Buffalo, and I was like, that's 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.840 a hollow stat line. Well this is worse, honestly, Which 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.120 that's the crazy thing. You know, I guess I have 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.680 a reputation at this point of being a Dak apologist. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.880 I certainly don't think he played well, but I said 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.120 it during the game, and the offense was bad. I 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.640 mean they had the sevent team play drive that you know, 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.480 established the runs. Zeke looks good, they go down and 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.760 score and then completely disappear. I get that. How many 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.720 three announced did you say? They have five? Three announced 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.480 last night? And I think they have more first downs 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.359 on the first possession than like up until the fourth quarter. Yeah, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.520 that's crazy. But at the same time, my impression was 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.400 the I mean Mitch Trubisk he looked like Lamar Jackson. Like. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.320 That's what I couldn't get over is Yes, the Cowboys 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.960 offense wasn't moving the ball. That's the player you don't like, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:13.200 And yeah, what are we? Oh, well, you're mentioning there 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.280 was a play last night. There was a play last night. Yeah, 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.560 I think it was the first play showed. There were 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.480 there were three different guys that had man coverage. There 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.760 was one player that had like three or four guys 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.079 around him, and Dak throws the ball to the guy 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.840 with three or four men around him, and to me, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.360 it was just it was a symbol of what the 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.079 night was for Dak Prescott. Talking about his numbers, he 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.760 was twenty seven forty nine fifty five percent completion, three 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.640 hundred and thirty four yards, a touchdown, and no interceptions, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.520 eighty three point two passer rating. The interesting part, though, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.000 is if you go back and look at the first half, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.280 that's when you see the just how bad it was. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.240 He was six or thirteen in the first half, forty 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.000 forty six percent completion with only sixty yards, fifty nine 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.360 point eight passer rating. That's really the story of the 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.720 game in the first half. Other than that first drive, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.120 they absolutely could do nothing on offense. A lot of 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.520 the year, I feel like a lot of this has 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.600 fallen on dropped passes. Not necessarily his fault, but I 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.760 feel like this game it was just bad throws. There 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.320 were a lot of drop offs of an o' gallup 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.480 had a bunch of them and comment and it was 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.880 kind of everyone, But this felt like those drop passes 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.800 felt a lot more onto Prescott than they have throughout 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.599 the rest of the year. I oh, he was off 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.839 target all night up and I mean he got it 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.400 together in the fourth quarter. I guess kudos to him 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.080 for doing that. But the game was well out of 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.360 reach obviously, and that's you can still say they laid 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.919 an egg just because they lost by seven. The Jerry Jones, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.760 the owner of the team, came out after the game 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.560 and was like, let's not let anybody get confused that 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.920 this was a close game. It's like, yeah, so they 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.480 definitely laid an egg. But here, I guess, here's the 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.240 point that I was trying to make flame flame away. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.480 If I'm a dak apologist, I'm sorry. But seventeen plays touchdown, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.360 Bears drive field. Jordan Lewis gets a great toe drag 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.360 interception Cowboys on the one inch line. They don't I mean, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.400 I don't expect him to drive the field. They play 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.359 very concerned relatively. They punt, Bears get the ball back, 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.320 go down, score a touchdown seven to seven. Cowboys do 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.520 go three and out, I mean no yards gained on 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.880 the next drive. Then the Bears go down and score 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.479 a field goal. And now you're getting toward the end 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.240 of the first half. Not a pretty drive, but the 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.679 Cowboys get to the Bears twenty four. Don't give me started. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.080 We've already talked crap on the offense and defense. You 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.560 might as well throw special teams in there gets him 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.039 into field goal range to potentially tie the game with 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.000 five minutes to play. Brett Maher misses from the all 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.480 important forty to forty nine range. He's one of five 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.720 on the year now from forty to forty nine, which 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.920 arguably is the most important range for an NFL kicker 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.680 to be accurate from. But he slept well, he did. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.880 That's what I heard. I heard. Yeah, here was his quote, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.160 just to be clear. He says, I hit every ball 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.080 pretty well tonight. I'll put my head on the pillow 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.600 to night feeling good about what I did. I feel good. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.200 You know what you need to be cut for that? 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:59.760 You don't. You don't feel good. Why are you gonna 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.160 feel good about what you did? The results matter, right, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.800 you know what? I actually one time, You know, I 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.640 don't play a lot of golf, but one time I 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.240 hit the greatest shot ever into the middle of the 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.200 number twelve fairway. Was unbelievable. The problem was I was 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.719 on number nine. Great shot. Hitting the ball well is 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.160 not what we're trying to do here. Hitting it through 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.960 the middle is what we're trying to do. I would 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.039 take the knuckleball that just trickles in and hits every 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.560 crossbar and upright and all that. Oh I struck it. Well, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.479 I'm gonna sleep well tonight. Yeah. Well, a lot of 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.960 that with when they talk to the media is kind 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.440 of not telling the ful truth. And that's what really 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.080 everything they say, you know, they're always going to say, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.080 you know, like we still believe in this team. There's 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.039 no confidence. As all that stuff you take with a 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.120 grain of salt. But with this, you can't lie to yourself. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.400 You can't lie to the media about that. You have 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.920 to be honest. Yeah, And that wasn't his worst kick. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.200 His worst kick was the four kickoff out of bounds. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.080 You know what. I said this in the pregame show 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.840 about two thousand and seven against the Bears when they 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.400 went up there and Devin Hester was the guy and 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.000 you had to kick it away from him, and they 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.840 kicked out of bounds and all that, and they finally 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.120 they just told the coaches, listen, kick it will tackle him. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.440 At some point, you just have to see be an 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.400 NFL player and say we're gonna stay in our lane. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.680 Run down there. Yes, Cordarell Patterson's a great player, but 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.280 we're gonna tackle him because you're doing all this extra 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.160 stuff and then you kick it out of bounds. And 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.320 but my question is is was that also a reflection 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.760 of the fact that maybe special teams just isn't on 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.800 the right, Like special teams has not played well these 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.640 last few weeks. Was a situation where they were making 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.280 a decision because they knew special teams that not played well, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.560 and they're like, just don't get it to it, Cordarell 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.000 pass Patterson because we don't trust that the special teams 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.240 will make a tackle. But the alternative there is you 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.560 kick out of bounds absolutely forty, which is what he's 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.640 trying to do. But that also again that makes that 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.600 shows you why it is such a big problem is 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.120 because one thing begets the other. It's the same thing 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.080 with him kicking these field goals and being inconsistent. At 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.600 some point it starts to affect the strategy of the game. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.360 It affects your decision making, and that becomes a problem, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:05.840 I guess. But that's what I was gonna say, is 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.760 like the irony is you're out thinking yourself on kickoff 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.200 because you don't trust your deficiencies in the kick game, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.080 but they have no problem trotting him out there for 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.520 field goals that he can't make, Like I mean, this 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.080 week isn't a great example. He should make that kick, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.960 but like Thanksgiving against the Bills as a perfect example, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.400 where like they're not even thinking about what hash he 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.560 should be on, or like how accurate he is from 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.920 certain They're just like, well, like he'll, he'll, he's the kicker. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.960 He goes out and kicks, and they have no reason 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.280 to feel that confidence, but they do it anyway. It's maddening. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.480 And after the game, I mean, I know we're gonna 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.080 talk about it, but I guess we can talk about now. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.920 I mean after the game, Jerry was very noncommittal about 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.000 that situation. He basically said, now he did talk today. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:52.640 I didn't hear it, I think at first, No, I 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.440 mean he didn't say anything. I mean, he didn't say 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.160 anything about Brett Maher. Jason Garrett's got a conference call 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.880 today at four. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.720 we hear something about it today. I don't know that, Yeah, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.960 but I mean it can't get worse, kin it. Yeah, 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.920 that's my thing. I don't think it can get worse. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.000 It doesn't you can find the guy that can miss 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.640 and kick out of bound. That's my point, right, I 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.160 don't And I said this year in the press box 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.760 last night, what is maher doing for you? Right now? 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.440 He's kicking out of bounds regularly. He's not kicking it 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.680 through the end zone, so he's not doing much on 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.560 the kickoffs. He's so in act, I mean, so um 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.480 inconsistent when it comes to kicking field goals. The only 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.560 thing that right now you could say that's even on 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.480 the on the plus side of the ledger for him 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.439 is if you get in a situation where you need 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.240 a sixty two yarder, he's got as good a shot 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.160 of doing that as any kicker in the league. Like, 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.200 that's the most you can say about him. That's not 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.679 enough to keep a guy. I don't agree anybody last week, right, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.400 anybody on the street, in my opinion, that is an 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:52.040 NFL caliber kicker should be able to be at least 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:58.440 that bad. Right, Yeah? Is it? There's like a weird 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.480 parallel there with the coach as there in my way, 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.400 I mean, just I mean, at this point, with everything 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.000 that's happened, like what are who's out there? Who's out 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.440 I mean, well, like you're like, what are you getting 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.600 from Jason Garrett And you're like, well, what's the alternative? 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.839 And you're like, well, can it be worse? Like could 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.199 it be worse than what I've seen in the last 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:21.120 three weeks. I think that this last game, after the 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.840 Bills game, they came back and told us all what 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.839 it was going to be. You know, we're gonna we're 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.280 gonna actually grab the wheel and we're gonna take control 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.160 of the destiny and it's gonna happen and all that. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.640 Dac said it. He was really clear about it, and 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.000 he comes out and plays his worst game Dak does 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.160 in my opinion, and then Jason Garrett same thing. I mean, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.000 they go out and I thought they had okay and 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.240 some coaching situations. They had some head scratching moments, you know, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.760 throughout the game like they always do, but the message 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.960 just isn't being hurt anymore. So to your point, who 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.360 else I don't know, but they're something has to light 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.240 a fire under this team, and you know that's a 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.880 bad Joe considering what's happened with this team and the 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.080 hot boys and stuff like that, that they're doing okay 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.760 on their own doing that, but they no one else 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.520 is doing is igniting this team to anything, and that 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.240 does fall on the head coach. Do you think there's 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.679 another coach here whose message could be received, because as 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.480 much as this falls on Garrett, it's a lot of 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.319 other coaches who play a part in now. I think 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.480 it would that's a good question. I think it would 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.400 be Jerry's message. Jerry's message of it, just like he 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.720 did nine years ago and he fired Wade and he said, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.720 I fired a good coach today because of you guys. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.040 Can't fire all of you. So I had to fire 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.800 this good head coach because you guys aren't playing well. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.640 I don't think you would say that anymore. I don't 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.960 think it's the same type of situation, but it's still 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.840 it's like I can't do everything, so I have to 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.120 I have to let him go because it's not working. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:47.880 But I don't know if that lights a fire under 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.400 this team, because here's the issue. The issue got right 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.000 now is there's a bunch of guys that'll be in 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.839 that room that already got paid. So what are you 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.920 gonna do. You're gonna cut them. You can't really cut them. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.360 They're too early in their contracts, right, you can't really 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.200 cut them, So what's what's the real harm to them? 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.560 Especially if they're like, well he's gone okay whatever, like 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.160 if they I don't know that that firing Garrett. I 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.640 don't know if that lights a fire under anybody in 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.520 that locker room. Where are the right people in that 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.080 locker room? Because buying large, there's a lot of people 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.120 in that group who are supposed to be playing better 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.360 than they are. Their money, the amount of money they're making, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.559 says they should be playing better than they are. I 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.280 don't know if that's going to change because they're still 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.040 gonna get paid. Right. How many guys on this team 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.960 are playing up to their price tag right now? I'll 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.600 tell you this. I'll gladly say, Lyle call, yeah, we 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.400 were about We said that earlier this morning, like as 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.400 we started going through the list. Lyle's a guy that yeah, right, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.440 good point. But Lyle, I think is is especially when 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.439 you talk about the offensive line, which that's probably the 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.080 position where you have most of your money and it's 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.440 supposed to be the strength of your team. And right 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.480 now across that line, outside of Lyle, I don't know 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.280 that anybody's playing up to their expectations and that includes 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.280 Zach mardin track like all of them. They're not playing 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.360 every level that you would expend them to be, and 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.839 you know, we get it. Injuries are part of that. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.200 A lot of guys are going through stuff. It's but 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.480 the you know, the black and white truth of the matters, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.400 that's just it is what it is. There aren't very 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.880 many heavy hitting, expensive players playing up to that building 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.920 on this team. Yeah, and the glaring ones are the 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.839 ones that just got paid, Like those are the ones 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.360 I think that a lot of people are looking at, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.840 Like the expectation was that you were getting paid because 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.880 you were supposed to be the up and coming leaders 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.160 of this team and you're not even playing at the 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.880 level of the money you're getting in If you've listened 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.040 to this show all season, you know, like I'll you know, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.240 I'll go to bad for DeMarcus Lawrence any day and 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.760 say he's played a lot better than people want to 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.280 give him credit for. Didn't play well last night. It's 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.520 a bad look when you're crashing down and giving up 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.120 a twenty three yard rushing touchdown to a quarterback that 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.320 had eighty yards entering the game, eighty yards on the season. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.840 Entering that game, he had sixty four last night, Like 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.880 the Bears basically flipped on the Detroit and Bills games 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.160 and we're like, oh, oh, they can't defend running quarterbacks. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:58.720 All right, we're gonna do that, and there's nothing they 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.120 can do it well, he said, And as press conference 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.280 he said, we saw some things on tape that we figured, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.600 you know, we thought we could do. You know, that's 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.160 a novel concept. Figuring out what the other team doesn't 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.040 do well. Well, that's the endocument this coach. It's not 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.360 really that's my point. Yeah, I see, that's the thing. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.520 You can do that, I think with the Cowboys because 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.240 they do what they do exactly. That's just who it's 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.880 It's a novel concept to game plan for what your 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.120 opponent doesn't do well instead of just focusing on what 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.080 you do well. And the fact that the Cowboys were 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:29.880 and I don't know, maybe this is the right word. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.800 I don't know if it is, we're arrogant enough to 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.720 to just think, well, it'll fix itself. There were two 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.120 games there were lesser quarterbacks were able to get all 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.200 those ground yards against you, right, and you didn't think, hey, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.160 this could be a problem. Coming up. Last week when 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.480 you did the Scattery port in Chicago. One thing said 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.160 it was great, but one thing you said about mister 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.480 Rubisky is, yeah, he's a guy that can run on you, right, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.800 And if the fact that you could see it, but 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.000 they weren't thoughtful enough to say he is a guy 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.840 that can run on and we've been run on by 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.680 two other lesser quality quarterbacks, it is that they wouldn't 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.960 be prepared for that, to me was the indictment. It's 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.520 very rare that dumb me, non scouting me can watch 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.360 an hour's worth of NFL game pass and call my 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.280 shot and be so blindingly right, like it was so 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.760 obvious mister Trubisky's an athletic quarterback, like it was painfully out. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.560 And if he can't do that, it changes the whole 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.680 projection of what he's going to do in that game. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.400 And that actually goes back to the point I wanted 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.080 to make. Look, Dack didn't play well. I don't think 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.680 Nick's wrong. He might have played his worst game in 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.760 the season. It's certainly one of the worst two or 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.080 three games that he played this year. But I come 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.240 out of that game stupefied by the defense. Really more 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.200 than the offense, because I just looked this up while 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.680 we were talking. The offense had four possessions in the 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.040 first half. They go seventeen yards and score. They go 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.040 three and out from their own goal line, which, like, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.040 I'm not going to kill you for that. That's you're 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.760 limited in what you can do. Another three and out, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.840 that's not great. They have another scoring drive that gives 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.760 them the potential to tie the game with the field goal. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.280 Brett maher missus. And what is happening while all of 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.160 this is going on. The Bears are driving the field 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.200 five out of five times. If true Bisky doesn't throw 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.880 a bad pick on the first possession, they probably score 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.560 on five straight possessions. They scored on their next four 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.840 after the pick, and that includes after halftime when they 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.480 you know again, Cowboys took the ball to start the game. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.000 I have no idea why, but the Bears took advantage 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.280 of it because the defense just didn't elect to stop 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.480 anything until it was what twenty four to seven. That's 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.920 when the defense started forcing points. When it was twenty 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.200 four to seven, the defense started forcing punts. And then 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.280 when the offense rediscovered their mojo and scored, that's when 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.240 the Bears were like, oh oh no, we're not done scoring. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.480 We Okay, now that y'all are back in the game, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.520 we're gonna go take care of business. I thought the 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.040 defense was atrocious. Okay, so we're gonna take a break. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.800 We're gonna take a break real quick. I'm gonna leave 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.320 you guys with this stat before we go to break. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.000 This is interesting. I saw this last night, mister brisky. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.080 Last night was the first quarter back in NFL history 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:06.520 two yeah, complete seventy percent plus of passes on thirty 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.040 plus attempts, throw three touchdowns, rush for fifty plus yards, 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.400 rush for a touchdown in a single game. He made 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.760 NFL history last night. Not the first time a player 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.199 has made NFL history against the team this year. So 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.680 I'm going to take a break, and when I come back, 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.040 I'm gonna ask you guys what went wrong with this defense? 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.639 I want you to give me some answers, because it 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.639 doesn't seem like many people have answers. I want to 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.639 hear a few thoughts from you guys on what you 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.440 think went wrong defensively really over the season. What's gone 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.600 wrong with this defense? When we come right back, this 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.640 is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. I'm Jay nova Check, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.840 former tight end for the Dallas Cowboys. 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