WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Rush to Judgment? 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.039 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:20.159 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.880 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.240 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:33.600 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.919 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.519 It is Tuesday, September twenty first two, twenty one, season seventeen, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.000 Episode number twenty five. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.360 The Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.400 the Star, Nick, give me a twenty five. Oh, Junior Tadatasi. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.160 That is my favorite player of my favorite name of 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.560 all time. He played a running back in nineteen eighty nine. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.840 How about say that was before my time? Junior titles. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.280 I mean that that. I just love the name. I 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.840 just love that you're like confidently and I assume correctly 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.920 pronouncing it. Yeah, I think so. I don't know if 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:14.840 that guy joined the team today, you'd be like, I'm 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.360 calling you Junior two. You make the team. I don't care. Yeah. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.600 In eighty nine, he mean, I mean he was on 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.440 the team, but I mean that doesn't mean anything. Everybody 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.280 was on the title Tassi. Okay, it kind of rolls 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.880 off the tongue kind I kind of like it. Yeah, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.160 I don't think he was a good player, but but 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.039 you know, if you only played on the nineteen eighty 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.840 nine Cowboys and like no other team, yeah, and he 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.360 might have played for it. I don't know. Maybe played 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.000 for the Eagles. I don't know, but I'm just saying, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.319 you know, just because you played on the eighty nine Cowboys, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.040 I mean you're great NFL player. Was our guy Charlie 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.360 Williams twenty five? He was? He also was forty two. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.200 I like Charlie. I wish he would have said twenty 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.400 five for Charlie because that's my dude. Like, I haven't 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:53.600 seen him in a long time. He used to come 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.880 around a lot, cool Valley ranch. I like Charlie. I'll 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.880 see him, but you don't get many opportunities to say 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.440 junior junior title good Points played the Eagles for three years, 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.320 and eighty nine with the Cowboys was his final year 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.880 in four year prot fitting guy. He played for both 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.920 of the teams that are playing this week. There we go, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.160 look at Nick, that's my dude. There we go, all right, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.720 into that one. Today we're gonna talk about today. We 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.960 actually are going to uh the Yesterday, the Cowboys gave 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.679 us an opportunity. The media gave us, I mean gave 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.680 the media the opportunity to talk to the coordinator's offense, defense, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.880 and special teams. There were some things that came out 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.600 of those press conferences that I thought we'd dissect today. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.040 We're gonna start first with the offense. Kelvin Moore. I 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.320 was looking at some of the numbers through two games, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.680 and obviously, let's put this in context. It's two games. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.120 This is not what you are for the season. It's 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.200 just two games. But it does give us a little 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.480 bit of an indication on some things right now. The 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.639 Cowboys offense is fourth in total offense, there's seventh, and 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.680 rushing offense sixth, and passing offense. Here was a part 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.640 that was interesting to me their fourteenth in points scored. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.120 Why do you think there's so much lower in the 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.840 amount of points that they're scoring relative to the number 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.639 of yards that they're getting both overall and pass and 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.160 UH and Russian. Well, they sucked out loud in the 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.200 red zone in week one. I think that's the and 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.560 then I'm pointing it. It was my red drink. Oh 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.720 thank you. I wasn't. I was. I was like, I 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.160 don't know what's going on over there, but I'm just 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.920 gonna answer the question. Sorry, Um another one today? Yeah, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.560 really say that's good. That's good. I like the energy, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.600 keep going day. They were awful in the red zone 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.040 in Week one and then Week two was a very 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.800 um shortened game. For one thing, the Cowboys only had 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.520 seven possessions. They only made it into the red zone 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.960 three times. Um. So yeah, I think I think that's 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.200 the main culprit if I had to guess how they 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.320 get better. They you know, don't play as good a 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.280 defense as the Bucks and maybe the Chargers. I mean, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.200 you know last year, if you think about it, you 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.520 know they wanted a couple of games, and then the 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.280 knock was they haven't beaten in any team with a 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.080 winning record on that that stuffs out the window. They've 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.760 played two good football teams, I think, and you know 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.040 they've won one of them. I had a chance to win. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.960 The other one had a chance to lose this one, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.920 so I mean even doubt. But I think you know, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.040 the competition will won't won't be as good and I 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.560 think that they'll they're getting their pieces back too. I mean, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.520 they're figuring this thing out on offense. I don't know 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.680 if Lyle Collins helps a lot more. Obviously he's better, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.200 so he'll come in and they'll they'll just be kind 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.359 of a well oiled machine. I think that they'll you know, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.720 figuring out things in the red zone with Pollard, and 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.240 you know, because think about it, the Pollard touchdown I 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.680 think helped the Zeke touchdown, you know. I mean, I 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.200 just think when you're showing things wide like that, then 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.760 you can run up the middle. So I think that 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.719 they're going to be fine. I think that I saw 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.039 some encouraging things out of the red zone this last week. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.080 You mentioned the Chargers, and I think we all agreed, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.000 even last week, we agreed that they are a good team. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.800 I started thinking about a context, and I'm still kind 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.880 of torn where I think they are relative to other 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.680 teams in the league, and specifically even in their own division. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.120 If I had to put them in order, I think 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.560 they're probably the third best in their own division. I 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.320 would say the Raiders and the Chiefs are probably better 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.320 teams at this point. But I don't know that for sure, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.680 and Denvers two and oh, we don't know what they're 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.000 going to try out to be. I don't think they're 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.800 that great, but I think obviously they're two and oh. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.160 Right now, do you do you think when it's all 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.640 said and done that because you gotta go through that division, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.160 do you think that that's gonna be a really tough 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.240 road for the Cowboys if that's the thing, if they 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.200 end up being the third best team in that division? 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.880 Chargers you mean, yeah, time its Chargers. Yes, I think 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.480 they're gonna go as far as as Herbert's development takes them, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.480 you know, I mean, he he has it all in 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.600 terms of you know, just how good, strong, all that stuff, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.400 but he makes some some bad decisions in the red 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.120 zone too, and you know he's had I think they've 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.320 had three turnovers in the red zone in their first 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.200 two games that probably you know, that costs them and 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.600 win there could have cost them another one. So, um, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.640 if he continues to make you know, develop and all 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.760 that he's got all the tools, he'll I think he'll, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.479 you know, if if he gets a big jump in 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.640 his development, I think that they can probably be the 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.160 second best team in that division. I think for all 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.880 the jokes we make about the Cowboys, I think the 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.680 Chargers are one of the more uniquely snake bitten teams 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.400 in the NFL. Like it seems they always have a 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.600 good roster, and like they've had years. It was a 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.400 while ago at this point, it was when Rivers was 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.320 still closer to his prime. But they were like best 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.600 in the league in offense and defense and finished with 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.760 a losing record. They were good last year and finished 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.039 seven and nine, and then two years ago, like the 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.800 very last good year of Rivers career, they went twelve 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.320 and four and they upset the Chiefs and looked like 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.880 they were going to make a run. So I guess 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.080 my point is I think they've had a better roster 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.960 than their record implies the vast majority of the last decade, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.479 probably well, and the Keys, they've had a quarterback for 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.360 long time, which is not what most franchises can say. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.040 They've got a worse record in one score games over 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.160 the last few years than the Cowboys do, which is 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.880 something to think about. I don't know. I don't that's 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.120 a college football thing for me. I don't care, Like, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.800 I don't know if I think the Raiders are better 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.560 than the Chargers just because they're too a no right 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.640 now and it doesn't really matter. You just win the 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.760 games in front of you. I think those teams are 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.520 gonna be in front of you. I mean part of them. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.160 But I guess my point is I'm not concerned about 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.200 the quality of this win in terms of like how 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.960 good are the Chargers. I do know they had their 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.800 offense at close to full health. They didn't have their 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.600 right tackle, but they have a very nice receiving corps 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.520 and one of the better quarterbacks they're going to play 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.400 this year. I feel confident saying that Mahomes is better. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.360 Who else they have to play this year? They Brady 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.800 Brady was better, But like one of the five, I'm 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.560 gonna say that, I'm having a hard time coming up 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.200 with the the ones I think are better than this. One 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.800 of the five best quarterbacks on the schedule they just 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.040 beat Well, that's huge. Ranked it back in you know, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.800 the summer, I think he was fourth or fifth. Okay, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:58.440 Um Matt Ryan, some people view him better just because 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.280 of you know, he's a good quarterback back. They don't 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.120 have a weapons better and he's in a former MVP. Uh, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.440 there's also a former MVP that's not on a roster 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.000 right now, so that doesn't always be a pointing. Okay, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.600 I'm I have the schedule in front of me. I 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.600 don't have to guess at this anymore. I'm just looking 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:18.880 at it. Uh Mahomes obviously, Brady obviously, Brady obviously. And 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.080 then you can, depending on how you feel, you could 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.360 argue Kyler Murray and Derek Carr. And really I only 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.520 throw better than Derek Carr in my opinion. No, no, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.520 I'm saying yeah, yeah, yeah, And I only even threw 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.520 car in there because he's on fire right now. Yeah, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.160 Like going into the season, I would have been like, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.000 justin Herbert's way better than he's having a good Yeah, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.600 Ryan Cousins, I'll take Herbert over both of those guys, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.320 not even hesitating. Yeah yeah, yeah, he's right up there. Again, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.959 you can a lot of times you can tell the 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.160 quality of the team, but quality of the quarterback. So 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.320 I know this has been discussed probably before. I just 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.000 kind of thought of it. When you're talking about the 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.280 right tackle out, you think Parsons lines up to a 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.040 defensive end. If Bulog is out there bloggings later, you 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.280 think you think that they decide to do that, because 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.240 if if Bilaga is better than Slater, then nobody was 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.040 really going to be getting a lot of pass rush. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.319 That's a good question. I didn't even think about it 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.079 until you just said they were playing without the right tackle, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:16.880 and I was like, man, because I mean, he kind 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.800 of worked that guy in the second half. Honestly, Storm 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.160 Norton was what people thought Terrence Steele was going to be. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.640 There's no doubt about that. I think they would have 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.520 still done it because I think they did it not 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.720 because they wanted to. They did it out of necessity. Yeah, personally, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.440 So I think they would have still had the same 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.560 need to do it, and they still would have done it. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.640 It's a great point though, because and that's why, and 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.920 there's there's already a lot of talk about like maybe 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.000 Mike should just play end until until DeMarcus Lawrence comes back, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.040 and I'm like, I don't know. I don't know if 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.560 Michael wants to smoke with Layne Johnson on Monday at 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.160 least not forty times like he got on Sunday. And 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.880 I think and Dan Quinn put out, you know, made 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.240 a good point when he talked about it yesterday that 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.440 it's it's not you know, seventy snaps. You can play 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.320 seventy snaps at linebacker. You can't play seventy snaps at 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.679 defensive end either. The past rushing that going every the 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.560 physical beating that it takes to rush the pastor and 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.040 get up there. Now, I mean, this is gonna sound dumb, 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.000 but I mean, I guess it. On the offensive side, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.840 it's different, you know, because you're not rushing up the 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.280 field or whatever chasing guys around. So but but basically 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.280 what you're saying is is that he can only play 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.400 a limited amount of snaps or you're gonna play defensive end. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.640 A linebacker, he'll probably be on the field a lot 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.600 more all the time, all the time. But he he 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.320 said this week, he said, we've moved him for this week. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.600 He said he's gonna be a really good linebacker for us. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.520 He didn't sound like he wanted to make this full 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.360 time switch. Yeah, I'm gonna get back to that. I 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:47.680 want to get to that, and we'll talk about that 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.240 when we get into the defensive side. I did have 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.800 one more question for you guys regarding the offense. Something 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.520 Callum Moore stands to me kind of stuck out. He said, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.760 in the press conference that stuck out to me. He said, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.760 they want to aggressively take what the what the defense 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.360 gives them. And I thought it was interesting because it 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.080 wasn't just like you hear all the time, take what 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.320 they give you. He said, we want to aggressively take it. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.480 And I was like, okay, so what does that really mean? 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.160 But the question I have for you guys is do 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.040 you like this approach better than having a specific identity 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.880 that the team goes into. You know, a lot of 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.120 teams you kind of know going in they are a 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.240 running team they're gonna pound you, or they are a 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.200 passing team, they're gonna air it out. And for those teams, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.280 they do it really, really well, and even though you 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.880 know it's coming, you can't stop it. Do you think 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.280 that's better than just having the type of team where 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.200 you can morph every week and you can try to 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.679 do both. And by the way, you may not be 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.640 as great as those teams who do one thing extremely well, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.880 but you have two things you can do pretty good. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.720 Isn't that an identity? Maybe that's an identity that you're like, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.800 we have studs everywhere and we will do whatever you 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.439 think hurts less and we'll hurt you at it. I 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.520 love it. I mean, I've talked about it a lot 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.880 already this season. But I think that's an identity unto itself, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.440 is you know, people are all up in arms that 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.840 the running game really wasn't a part of the Week 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.360 one game plan because Tampa is amazing at it, by 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.679 the way, the Falcons through the ball fifty times Week two. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.440 By the way, like people know the book, the book 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.079 is out, not obviously not on beating Tampa. They're two 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.240 and oh but why are you gonna bother running into 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.640 a brick wall. It's a waste of time. So Cowboys 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.400 come right back and you got to keep up with point. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.280 By the way, Chargers are famous and not their chargers 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.640 aren't famous. Brandon Staley is famous for playing with a 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.800 light box and so they run for two hundred yards 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.839 as a team. And I think I did love that 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.160 quote from Kellen because it's kind of an oxymoron, right, 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.320 But I think that just means we're gonna take what 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.719 you give us, but we're still going to be creative 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.680 and try to be explosive and make big plays. You know, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.360 whether that's the goofy swinging gate formation with the three 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.840 offensive linemen or you know, Dak took one deep shot. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.200 It wound up getting intercepted, so I could argue, maybe 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.840 that wasn't the best idea, but they tried it handing 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.400 off to Cede Lamb. I mean, they made aggressive calls 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.559 within the flow of the game, but it was within 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:04.680 the context of what is what are the Chargers presenting us? Yeah, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.920 Tyren Smith Terren Steele split out left like that, Like 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.400 I liked it. I liked it too. Yeah, And then 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.679 like the second down play of it, I liked the 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.439 second two. I was fine with that too, because I 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.640 you know, I mentioned it in the win Week one, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.760 he did a some of the thing. He did something 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.680 kind of unconventional, and and then he came back later 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.360 in that same tribe and tried to use the same 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.720 kind of unconventional concept but did something different with it, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.480 and it ended up being a big game for them 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.960 downfield to Ceedee Lamb. This game, he tried to do 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.600 the same thing they did. They took a concept, they 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.599 used it earlier, and then they tried to lure it. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.079 I liked it too. I just think DA made a 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.160 bad decision there because he said I'm gonna throw it 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.040 way out here and for a four yard loss. He 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.319 threw it out here. CD versus Durwin Jane James in 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.199 the open field. That's probably not a favorable matchup in 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.320 a one on one um but but but I mean, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.920 the best part is you're gonna play off of that 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.920 and you're gonna see it again, and then you know, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.040 sooner or later, Tyran Smith's gonna go out for a 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.199 pass and you know, here we go. I don't know that. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.000 Oh God, I hope. I don't know about that. I 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.959 I don't know this. That's a possession receiver right there. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.839 Zeke ran like a Texas route on that play, and 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.400 Kenneth Murray is a really good player and just played 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.640 it really well and it it looked to me like 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.000 Dak kind of pumped in the direction of Zeke and 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.280 was like, that's covered. But that's what he won. If 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.040 it hadn't been well covered, it was Zeke had twenty 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.640 yards between the linebacker and the safety, and so maybe 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.640 Dak could have thrown that away instead of throwing it 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.000 the CD. But I like these, you know what's going 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.760 to happen off of that? I think I think you 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.000 can do this. I know you can't in college. Just 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.320 wait for that. I'll probably I'm not giving away any 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.520 game plans here, but you put the tackles out. Why 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.560 look that you can put guards out there, They're gonna 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.480 sneak it tied in like a jar win or something 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.040 on the line, and he will go out there because 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.680 because you just could look at it like center or 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.440 two guards and it's like, well, they're you know, they're 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.200 the lineman. One of those guys can be eligible. Though 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.040 I believe, I know you can do that in college. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.360 I don't know if you can do it in the NFL. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.680 But you just kind of you'll get used to seeing it. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.840 You'll used to seeing these guys and it'll be one 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.520 of these guards right up in the middle. It's gonna go. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 And going back to your original point on that, I 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.200 don't know that like under those circumstances, if Zeke's covered 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.280 and that's what you really want it, I don't have 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.280 a heart. I'm not I don't think it is a 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.600 bad decision rather than throwing it away to give your 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.960 guy CD an opportunity to beat a guy in the 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.960 open field. I don't care who he is. I know 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.920 Derwin James is a good safety and he has the 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.520 ability to tackle in the open field. But Ceedee Lamb 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.480 also can make guys miss. He also can get off 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.640 to break tackle. So for me, I'm like, give it 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.680 a fifty fifty chance that he actually makes a play 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:38.960 out here in the open field and see what you 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.840 can do. It ended up not working for them, but 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.920 I love the nature of the call. I love what 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.200 they were trying to do there. If you watch last 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.920 night and DeVante Adams is an amazing receiver, but he 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.680 catches a lot of passes within a yard of the 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.720 line of scrimmage, and they trust him to beat his 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.520 man and he does a lot. And yeah, I trust 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.560 Ceedee Lamb to make a guy miss more often than not. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.720 But Derwin James is a hell of player, right, and 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.640 it happened sometimes. 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