WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Passing Team? 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:17.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.239 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.560 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:30.920 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:36.040 Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.080 Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, November eighteenth, twenty nineteen, Season 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.080 forty five, episode number eighty four. Welcome to another edition 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.920 of The Break. We are live from the s WBC 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.959 Mortgage Studios at the Star coming off a Cowboys win, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.320 Cowboys beating Detroit Lions in Detroit. They moved to a 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.560 record of six and four in the lead in the 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.520 NFC East. And we're gonna break down for you guys 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.640 what happened in that game yesterday. There were lots of 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.640 moments in that game, lots of ebbs and flows, and 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.000 obviously a lot of storylines that come out of that game. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.759 And to me, there's really no bigger storyline than Dak Prescott. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.240 So I'll start right there with you for you guys, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.040 he was twenty nine to forty six sixty three completion rate, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.600 completion percentage. Sorry, he was had four hundred and forty 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.280 four yards of passing, three touchdowns, one hundred and sixteen 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:28.000 point six quarterback rating. Man, it's pretty freaking good. Nick. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.440 After the game, though, you made the comment there on 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.720 the sideline, did miss a couple throws? No? No, No, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.600 that's not really what I was trying to say. Okay, okay, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.440 Well I wanted I wanted to talk about it because 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.120 I actually agree with you. There were a couple of 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.080 throws he missed, but I didn't think they were necessarily 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.600 a big deal. But let's talk. No, I wasn't trying 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.959 to I was only trying to see if this was 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.960 the best game he's ever played, got it? And so 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.360 I was like, did he Am I missing something here? 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.280 Did he you know, seventeen in completions but they threw 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.160 a lot. Yeah, I'm like, but I mean, I know 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.760 that they went to beat the Lions. But I'm just 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.400 saying that he's doing things that are that he's kind 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.280 of the guy that's and I even wrote maybe he's 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.520 the straw that stirred this drink. So now because he's 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.600 starting to do things even though they're trying to take 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.000 away his weapons and he had a great game. Estray 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.440 I thought, I thought he played phenomenal. He made it 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.560 rain on them bros. You know everyone gets that because 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.160 not everyone knows his name. It's true. His name's rain 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.079 Dakota Prescott. I would hope you know that if you're 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:29.000 a Cowboys fan listening to this show in twenty nineteen. Man, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.360 he was. He was really impressive. And it's funny. I 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.000 always say it like it's dumb until they come to 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.280 that conclusion and then it's smart. Like last week, it 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.600 was like, well, you want to stay balanced. We did 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.600 make some adjustments, we threw the ball forty sixth time 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.239 in the game, but you still want to try to 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.960 run and establish the run. And then after the game yesterday, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.400 I was like, well, why would you go away from 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.320 something that's working. Of course we're gonna throw the ball 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.760 like that's what we're gonna do, and why wouldn't Yeah, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.680 I mean, why wouldn't you? I wish they had come 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.679 to that conclusion in the week before, But everything was 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.720 working for dak Yeah, Tavon Austin bailed him out. He 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:04.000 had ball inexplicably go through Darius Slay's hands. But them's 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:08.919 the breaks. He is playing out of his mind. If 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.280 the Cowboys had beaten the Jets, I think he'd be 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.520 right up there with Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson in 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.880 terms of MVP conversation, like it was a nationally televised 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.560 flop of a game and rightful, I mean, there's six 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.639 and four. I'm not and again people love to jump 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.160 to conclusions. I'm not saying he should win the MVP 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.480 because I think Lamar Jackson and Russell Wilson have both 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.320 out played him to this point. He would be much 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.560 more a part of the conversation if the Cowboys resume 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.920 was just a little bit better and highlighted by this 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.160 game right here. I know the Lions aren't super impressive defensively, 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.800 but that's impressive no matter who you're playing, right You 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.360 Know what's really exciting to me is in the past, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.839 when we talked about Dak Prescot, we talked about him 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.600 needing that talented player to make him look better or 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.280 to help him out. He couldn't be just an average guy. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.920 And I'm just saying the White Sievers are average or 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.240 anything like that. They're better than average at this point. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.120 I think based on what we've seen, but the fact 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.640 that Dak has been able to play like that with 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.560 so many different targets rather than him having to lean 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.120 on one person, which is Amari Cooper. You see him 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.360 just throwing the ball all to so many different guys. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.919 So that's exciting to see from him, and at the 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.480 point that he's at in his career as a quarterback 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.240 as we look to move forward in the future with him. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.640 That's actually a great point because it's not just even 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.479 about Amari. Basically, yesterday, he did that without his two 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.680 best offensive weapons, and I shouldn't say without, but they 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.719 didn't have statistically the best games. I'm talking about Ezekiel 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.640 Elliott and Amari Cooper. Neither one of them had great 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.440 games statistically, but they were able to find the guys 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.040 that were open. He was able to get the balls, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.240 to get the ball to them, and they were able 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.279 to make place. You know, he's going to show these 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.480 defensive coordinators that you want to keep playing like this, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.440 that's fine. I'm going to keep throwing it around. And 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.080 of course, obviously this game coming up, you know they've 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.480 got the critical they got they got the best coach 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.920 in NFL history, um coaching this week and so we'll 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.120 see what they scheme up for him. But the thing 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.240 is is that he's showing that if you want to 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.200 just continue to crowd the box and stop Zeke, you know, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.240 I could make place in the red zone, though they haven't, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.680 they haven't proven that they can do that when but 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.240 that that's the only down part about that is shortened 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.279 shortened space. Can they make throws to get that? That 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.120 is a really fun element. And I mean, and look, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.200 you know this this wasn't like just the most complete 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.080 dominant effort. I'm sure we'll get to the defense. I 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.080 want to be careful not to just heap too much 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.880 praise for an eight point win against the you know, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.080 a team that they should have beaten. But everybody wants 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.280 to knee jerk like, well, Zeke had another bad game, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.880 blah blah blah blah blah. Is Tony Poller better? And 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.159 I think it's so silly. And what Nick just said 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.800 is what really intrigues me and excites me, is like, 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.360 if defenses are going to keep playing them this way 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.719 and Dak can keep taking advantage of it to the 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:05.360 two four hundred yards, it's gonna stop, real stop. It 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.360 will stop. And now'll loosen up and Zeke Elliott will 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.880 be just fine. And that's sorry. You want to make 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.000 a point, but I mean, like that's balance. It's not 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.280 we ran the ball twenty five times and throw the 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.080 ball thirty times. Like that's not balanced balances. We can 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.039 get it done either way. Once you decide what you 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.000 want to take away, will kill you with the other thing. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.760 And we know they can run the ball. We know 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.640 they can, but teams have been focusing on taking it 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.240 away and Dak is making him pay for it. He 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.359 couldn't do that earlier in his career and he clearly 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.880 can now. And again, I don't care that the Lions 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.200 are twenty eighth in the league in past defense. Four 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.520 forty four is four forty four. I mean that's not 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.719 common even in the modern age of the NFL. It's 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.839 I can't say enough about how impressive it was what 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.680 they I will say about that, though, is I do 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.159 think that you look at how the passing game has gone. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.120 They've had other games this year what he's strolling the 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.240 ball all around the yard and had some big impressive 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.840 numbers and they ended up losing. And that's where I 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.880 wonder if teams get to the point where they say, uh, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.520 you know, maybe we ought to rethink this. Maybe maybe 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.480 they look at the Cowboys and they say, we still 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.760 would rather have him throwing the ball, because when they're 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.600 running the ball and running it efficiently, they take way 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.280 more time off the clock. You have way fewer opportunities. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.560 And so yes, they may have a great offensive day statistically, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.800 but if it doesn't end up in a win, then 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.560 doesn't really matter. And that's the part why I'm a 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.800 little bit concerned about what's happening with the running game. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.320 I do think at some point they got to figure 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.560 out how to get that thing on track, because they 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.480 still have to be able to be able to I 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.480 think in order for this defensive play well, I think 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.440 they got to have time when that defense is not 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.080 on the field. Yeah. You know, the thing that is 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.320 encouraging is if you're not a very good blocker, you're 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.720 just not a good blocker, you know, like run, pass, whatever. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.360 But the fact that they are blocking so well in 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.560 the passing game and Dak is going through all of 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.160 these reads, that makes me think that when they are 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.440 trying to run it is loaded boxed. It's it's not 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.000 that they're just missing blocks and they can't push people around. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.320 Maybe strength is a part of it, you know, you 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.000 want a stronger line on third and one, third and two. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.760 But they're doing a phenomenal job with him just standing 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.960 back there and going through these reads that it makes 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.040 me think that the road line is fine. They're just 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.800 having a harder time with these stacked boxes. I mean, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.880 for Randall Cobb to do what he did and Gallop 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.200 and all those guys, I just think it was it 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.600 goes through the line saying this is how we're gonna 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.360 you know, you have to throw to beat us. I 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.680 would throw this in there, and I wish, you know, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.120 I wish I could go back and take a look 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.080 at the game on game pass before we did this show. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.640 But just spitballing off the top of my head. One 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:39.200 thing I loved about this game was they executed the 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.840 basically short, easy passes that qualified as runs that me personally, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.000 I've been dying to see. We saw the Tony Pollard 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.640 pop pass. We saw a wide receiver screen. I think 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.240 it was to MARII Cooper didn't like hit for huge yards, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.800 But those are basically runs in my book. So that's 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.959 another that's another fifteen to thirty yards when it copped 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.559 on the little short shovel. They did two or three 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.440 of those, and they ran a screen to Ezekiel elliy 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.280 At that went for a touch night. It's that little 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.240 stuff that I think we would all agree we've been 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.000 dying to see more of. It's not in the box 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.520 score under rushing yards, but I think of it the 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.240 same way. And when you consider that, it's a much 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.560 better day in that category than what the box scores suggests. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.440 So I think I take that into account when I 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.880 think about it. So let's look at the statistical from 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.199 a statistical standpoint, thinking about the fact that they threw 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.760 the ball forty six times in the game yesterday and 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.920 they only ran at twenty four times. Are we starting 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.840 to see a shift in how the Cowboys will play offense? 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.600 Because I do think that even when they all, like 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.720 I said, other points to season, the offense has has 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.640 been in my opinion, passing has been what they've done best. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.840 I don't know that I've seen this kind of discovery. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.000 Maybe there has been, but this seems really really slant 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.719 it to the side of throwing the ball. Yeah, but 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.880 he just said it though. I mean, it's a couple 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.199 passes to Pollard, a couple of screens things like that 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.520 that are high percentage rows that you know that that 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.640 pop pass is. You know, I think that play is 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.880 going to ruin fantasy football, honestly, but hasn't happened yet. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.400 I really believe it will. It's gonna change. You can't 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.319 just keep doing catches like that. But um, but I 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.600 just think that that's what Dave said. It was high 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.320 percentage place and they trust him and that. I thought 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.520 the most telling thing was the fourth I mean, the 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.200 in the final drive of the game. They can keep 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.480 just running in there, forced you to call all those 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.679 timeout pun it forty seconds to go whatever, and they said, no, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.319 we're gonna just let him roll out the pass. And 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.680 that's the thing, Jason Garrett. He's not a great game 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.800 manager if people think that, and they do, and when 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.600 it happens, it's, you know, high alert, oh my god it. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.600 But when he does manage the game, well, it's never mentioned. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.320 They managed it well. They did went for two like 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.720 they were supposed to. They got the fourteen point league 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.600 and they said, you know what, we're gonna We're gonna 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.960 kill this game right now and go and so when it. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.800 When it works, you gotta give him credit if he's 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.800 gonna get crucified when he does when he doesn't. Which 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.640 we don't have to get into this debate right now, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.520 but we just talked about it because it happened the 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.640 last time they went to Detroit in twenty thirteen. The 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.319 old playing to win versus playing not to lose. This 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.560 is me. I know you feel differently, but playing not 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.000 to lose would have been running three times, punning it 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.640 and saying, Jeff Driscoll can't get that many yards in 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.960 that short amount of time. That's playing not to lose. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.040 Playing to win is calling a high percentage pass that 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.760 lets you pick up the first down and in the 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.160 game on your terms. I thought that was fantastic. Whether 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.720 it was Kellamore, whether it was Jason Garrett, probably both. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.920 However they came to that decision. I loved it. And 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.720 that's how you get road wins is you put yourself 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.760 you give you have the confidence to make those types 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.200 of calls. And the only reason I always argue with 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.040 you because I just think the result is the same. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.839 You know, whether you're trying not to lose or you're 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.480 playing to win, the result is always the same there. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.400 So it's just how aggressive do you want to be 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.160 and where is your strength? What do you feel like? 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.560 And I think the part of Dak Prescott rolling out, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.720 being smart with the ball getting it to the tight 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.560 end is just as high percentage as them going They 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.600 weren't going to score if they would have punted. The 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.440 Lions weren't going to drive and score. They don't have 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.920 the Calvin Johnson type guy to go make the play 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.360 like that. They don't. Driscoll's not going to do it. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:14.760 But your past interference penalty here changes everything. Or Xavier 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.920 Woods leaves the game for two plays and they give 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.360 up fifty yards back to back, which is something that 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.440 happened ten minutes prior. Going back to your question about 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.840 them kind of turning more into a passing game, something 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.000 that I heard. Someone asked Dak prescotting in the press 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.640 conference last night about that, and his answer was basically, well, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.960 why are we going to steer away from something that 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.680 we see that is working? And I'm like, yes, final, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:46.960 oh wow, finally last week. Yeah, but at least being 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.839 able to hear that from there, I mean, doesn't mean 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.040 that they're not doing it back there or talking about that. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.360 But when you hear it just gives you a sense 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.920 of like, Okay, we're not all crazy. We you guys 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.320 are kind of in the same page as us, and 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.480 you guys still see what we see. So it was 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.040 just good to hear that and listen to them have 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.440 that kind of mentality now of like, you know, if 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.000 we see that this is working, let's keep doing it 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.000 and hopefully going into next week and the rest of 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.360 the season when they go back and see how having 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.080 Tony Poler on the field, how that helped the Yes, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.319 keep doing it. All right, We're gonna take our first 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.440 break when we come back. We're gonna talk about Ezekiel Elli. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.040 He had sixteen karries yesterday for forty five yards only 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.480 a two point eight average, and of course that fumble 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.079 there on the first drive. 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Best network based on GWS one score, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:41.320 September twenty nineteen. Back to the break Welcome back. It 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.280 is the second second of the break block in SWBC 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.400 Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking about the Cowboys 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.200 big win yesterday over the Lions. Uh they win thirty 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.760 five twenty seven. Move to six and four. Let's talk 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.760 about Ezekiel Elliott. Yesterday he had sixteen carries for forty 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.680 five yards at two point eight average um. And did 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.800 he did you have one touchdown? But he also had 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.920 that big fumble there in the early parts of the 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.920 game that the that the alliance turned into points. Are 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.080 you guys at all concerned about Ezekiel Elliott and kind 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.640 of how he's performing right now? I'm concerned anytime and 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.640 running back fumbles, I mean that that is and and 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.960 you know I made a joke about it on Twitter 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.320 yesterday is like, I don't want to talk about slow 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.480 starts for another seven days. But what choice do you 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.960 have when they do that? I mean fumble on the 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.080 second play of the game and a touchdown drive coming 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.280 right after me? What choice but you have? Do you 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.720 have but to talk about it? Um like in terms 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.480 of you know, forty five rushing yards and not not really, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.480 I don't know, I'm not not not when your quarterbacks 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.320 going for forty four. I mean that's the thing, like, 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.600 give give Dack fifty yards less and give it give 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.880 it to Zeke, you know that kind of style of 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.520 running and and balance. Zeke's got ninety five and Dak's 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.160 got three ninety four and that's balance. And everyone's excited. 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.640 But I mean, like we said earlier, as soon as 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.280 you start, they can't do anything. Like if you have 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.000 a lot of Saints games where Dad can't throw and 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.480 Zeke can't run, Yeah, I think you have some concern, 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.600 But they the defensive coordinators are showing that their respect 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.280 for Zeke Elliott in the running game is still there. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.760 Until they have seven man boxes and still and stop him. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.879 Then I think you started getting concerned. But I'm not 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.720 I'm not there yet, and I don't know if this 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.440 week's going to change anything. But yeah, Jedi out there. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.440 I mean he'll he'll come up with some kind of 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.520 best defense in the league. Yeah, Ji, he is a Jedi. Oh, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.480 he definitely is a Jedi. I just er and seven 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 linebackers and I don't know, he's definitely And I mean 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.120 we took a call about it last week. We've talked 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.320 about it plenty, like it is. Yeah, it sucks that 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.880 he doesn't have more long runs. I think he's got 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.359 one run of twenty or more on the season, and 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.800 you would prefer he's more explosive. I mean, we've seen 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.560 him do it as a pro, and I mean he 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.639 did it at will in college. Obviously that was a 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.320 while ago at this point, but it's still what he 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.199 brings to the table as a workhorse, like as a 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.840 guy who can fight through that contact, take a minimum 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.359 of sixteen if not twenty five or thirty carries a 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.399 game and still be productive, be the focal point of 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.879 a Defensei's efforts and still produce I mean, yeah, forty 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.600 five rushing yards two point eight yards per carry along 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.440 of eight that's bad. But then you know, two catches 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.080 for twenty eight yards, including a seventeen yard touchdown on 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.240 a screen pass, which we all know how good he 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.280 is at that. Again, I mean all of that goes 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.320 into account, right, I just I'm not ready to be 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.400 worried about it. Sorry? Could it be? I haven't I'm 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.199 trying to remember all these plays. But could it be 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.000 maybe due to what the offensive line is doing and 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.840 what kind of holes they're being able or unable to 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.320 open up for him? I don't know. I think anytime 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.480 a running back is not getting a great deal of production, 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.679 I think that's part of it, at least he goes in. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.960 What I don't know. What I don't know is is 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.040 Zeke seeing everything the way he should? Is he hitting 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.080 the holes with the rate right kind of burst? Like 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.000 those are things that sometimes you can't really notice. You 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.080 just noticed there's not a there when he gets there. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.960 But the question in becomes was there a hole there 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.359 preceding that? In? Was there an expectation that he should 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.400 have found that whole quicker and should have been through 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.360 it by the time it closed up? That's what which 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.679 is what he's being able to do in the past years. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.159 It's like he'll make a play out of nothing, and 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.560 that's kind of what we're missing now. He actually there 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.879 was a couple of plays in that game where I thought, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.440 and I think we were talking about one of them, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.000 where I mean, he just kind of runs right into 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:26.399 the line and then all of a sudden he kind 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.280 of sports out for four or five yards. I thought 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.040 he did a decent job of that. No big runs. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.040 Once the second week in a row that their longest 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.760 rush is less than ten yards, and the second week 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.040 in row that the longest rush is not by running back, 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.520 because Dak was nine yards and last week Tavon was eight. 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.760 So they're not getting any kind of long runs at all, 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.000 not even decent fifteen to twenty yard runs. It's tough 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.720 to say this without doing some tape study, but I wonder, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.399 I mean, he's such a patient runner, and maybe he's 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.720 waiting so long for a hole to develop that will 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.160 give him a longer run that it prevents him from 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.080 just getting the typical three to four or five yard run. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.479 Like I'd like to go back and look at that, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.240 but there is an element of that to where he 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.359 you know, it looks like he's waiting so long to 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.880 identify where he needs to be that the play doesn't 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.399 wind up going anywhere. I mean, you know, Pollard had 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.600 a great game. I'm ecstatic about it. He would that 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.080 is a picture perfect look at how I would like 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.040 them to use Tony Pollard. He caught four balls. Two 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.480 or three of those catches were really more runs than anything. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.080 But his touchdown was going across the formation out of 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.080 the slot. I mean he basically ran a drag from 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.400 the slot. He can do that. It's awesome. He got 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.680 a couple of chances. It's funny because you know, the 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.000 opening kick was kind of a disaster, and I mean, like, 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.480 oh my god, enough of Tony Pollard as a kick returner. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.480 And then his play in the fourth quarter on the 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.560 one that went over his head was fantastic and big 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.880 play in the game. We talked, talked to a bunch 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:02.480 of people in the locker room. I mean that he 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.359 played it the way you're supposed to play it, like 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.199 he lined up on the five or the ten and 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:07.720 it went over his head, so you think it's gonna 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.159 be a touchback. It just took an amazing bounce, like 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:12.439 just a hell of a play by Detroit's kicker and 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:15.040 then he still managed to corral it and get further 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.000 than he would have if it had been a touchback. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.040 It was an awesome house. So I think eight total 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.680 touches for ninety eight yards and a touchdown again, and 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.960 I would bet his snap count was less than twenty five. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.320 I like, I haven't looked at it. Yes, even less 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:31.840 than that. Yeah, I mean you look at just a 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:33.520 number of times that he actually had the ball, and 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.600 I'm not talking about special teams. He had two carries 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.080 for twelve yards, and then he had four catches on 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.679 four targets for forty four yards and a touchdown. My 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.160 question for you guys, are you surprised the Cowboys didn't 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.600 go back to him. This all happened most that offensive 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.080 production happened at the end of the first quarter heading 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.239 into the second quarter, and it doesn't. I don't think 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.160 he touched the ball again the rest of the game, 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:53.960 where you kind of shocked that they didn't going back 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.200 to that little he had the two point conversion and 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.600 the two posion whatever quarter. I guess I was talking 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.080 about more of the offense at It's like, Okay, you 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.480 saw him get that touchdown and getting the ball and 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:07.480 all that and people are excited. Tony Poler gets sit 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:14.520 I can't even say sit Zeke down. But then you 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.960 see Zeke get the ball and then he gets moving, 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.040 then he gets a touchdown, and it's like, it made 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.560 me think of that, you know, when we wonder, okay, 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:25.840 what they do at tight end. It's like, okay, you 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:27.880 see Blake jar we're making it play. But now they 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:29.680 feel like maybe they need to get the ball to 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.159 Jason because he's the main guy and blah blah. So 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:35.800 it made me think of that, and like, I wonder 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:40.920 if because of his small amount of success that Tony 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.880 Poler had, do the Cowboys feel like maybe they need 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.800 to give zek the ball and the opportunity for Zeke 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.360 to make his own play. Yeah, you know, I don't 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:50.919 know they think like that during the game, but I 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.879 see your point. I mean, it seemed a little curious 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:55.919 they didn't go back to him after they saw the 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:57.600 success that he was having him. To me, that was 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.080 more about the matchups that he was getting, yeah, and 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.080 so why not continue to exploit those? But again, well 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:05.760 we're making when we're really splitting hairs because again, the 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:08.840 offense put up four yards, so it's kind of like 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:10.919 they were moving the ball, they didn't necessarily need to 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.200 go back to him. I guess, yeah, fourth straight touchdown, 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.840 I mean fourth straight scoring possessions after the touchdown, then 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.280 they punted when zeke Bo was back in there, and 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:22.560 then went touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown. So it's not like, yeah, 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.000 I don't have a problem with that. I can't sit here. 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:27.600 They finally give him the workload that I want. I 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.040 can't sit here and nitpick it. And that's that's kind 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.600 of my point is like Tony Pollard's good, he brings 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.080 some juice, he should be involved. That doesn't mean zeke 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.720 is a bad player needs to have his snap count 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.520 drastically reduced. I think that's the most knee jerk thing 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.680 in the entire world. But it's hard not to look 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:46.800 at this. I hope the coaching staff looks at this 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.440 and says, this guy needs to be a sizeable part 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.480 of the game plan. I mean sizeable meaning again eight 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:57.400 to fifteen touches. Whereas you know, I can go back 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.000 and I can show you the snap counts, like from 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:04.200 the Miami game until like yesterday, you're talking five snaps 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.399 snaps or less, and that's just not good enough for 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:08.919 a guy with that much talent. That doesn't mean you 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.679 need to reduce Zeke's role. Was Zeke on the field 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:15.600 when these when they're doing these pot passes? Um, I 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.840 know that that series that he was Tony scored, he 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:22.639 was not on the field to that is going to 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:25.000 be important as well. Yeah, and I wondered if if 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:27.639 Zeke was there, if they don't like they don't like 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.760 uh twenty one personnel for whatever reason, they just don't 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:32.880 like to do it. I don't get why. But they 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:35.280 did do it some yesterday early in the game, and 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:38.800 they kind of kind of they dilly with it. They're like, 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:40.680 all right, we can do it once. But I'll tell 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:42.760 you this in the Cowboys will face to Seem in 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:46.320 early December Chicago. Go look at how they use Tercohen. 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:48.600 And that's how I would love for the Cowboys to 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:51.399 use Pollard. I mean, he is lining up in the 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:53.520 slot at wide receiver. Every once in a while he 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:55.920 lines up in the backfield, but they just use him. 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:57.520 The whole point of how they use him in the 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:00.439 offense is get him in matchups with linebackers. If you 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:02.600 can force linebackers to be covering him and he's going 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.840 down field, he's gonna win every turn every time. Try 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:08.520 Cohen caught a touchdown like twenty yards down field last 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.720 night with a linebacker on him. I don't get what 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:15.119 stops them from doing that, but again, maybe maybe the 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:17.320 fact that it worked is kind of like, all right, 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.480 we can do this now, Like, um, forgive me. I 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:23.680 don't remember the game, but Pauler dropped a screen earlier 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:26.159 this season that likely would have scored. Was it the 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.040 Giants game, the road game? Yeah, maybe if he catches that, 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:33.239 then it's kind of forward momentum on getting him more 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:36.240 involved and now, so maybe him being able to put 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:38.639 this on tape gives them the confidence to keep doing it. 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:41.480 Because I'm not going to judge it based on the 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:44.440 Patriots game, because that is a whole different animal. But 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:47.280 if this doesn't, you know, if if he just disappears 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:49.000 for the next month after this game, that would be 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:50.879 really frustrating. I will say this, and we don't want 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:52.639 to get too far into this, but I think this 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:54.720 is the kind of week against the Patriots when they 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:56.639 need a guy like that. Because you look at the 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:59.200 history of the Patriots and how they play defense, They're 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:01.240 gonna try to take a your top options. What you 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:03.000 did last week, you're gonna probably have to do that 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:04.760 again because they're probably gonna figure out a way to 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:06.440 take a mariout of game, and they're gonna figure out 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:07.920 a way to take Zeke out of the game. It's 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:09.399 how can you be able to move the ball and 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.000 still score points when those two guys are taken out 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.160 of game? And so that's gonna be really really important. 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:16.040 Let's take our final break. We'll come back. We're gonna 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:19.479 talk about this defense. 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It's fine, all right, good, 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:04.200 all right. Let's talk about the defense yesterday. Cowboys defense. 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:07.760 It was a weird game for me because I looked 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:11.240 at if you watch the game or I'll put it 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:13.360 for myself. As I watched the game, and when the 0:29:13.400 --> 0:29:17.360 game concluded, I thought, man, this defense had a bad day. However, 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:20.240 when you go back and you look statistically, I don't 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:22.000 know if it was a really bad day or fields 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:24.880 a situation where they got put in some really bad situations. 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:28.000 There were a couple times when because of special teams, 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:32.080 because of offense turnovers they had, the other team got 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:34.960 the ball in in favorable situations and the defense wasn't 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:36.400 able to make the stop. But you look at the 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:38.040 yards they gave up. I want to give up two 0:29:38.120 --> 0:29:40.320 hundred nine yards passing, give up one hundred and twenty 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:42.920 one yards rushing, But that that really was about the 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.400 fact that they could stop Driscoll from running he was 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:48.520 I think, well, I mean Scarborough had he had fifty 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:50.480 five yards or three point nine average, that's not huge. 0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:52.920 That didn't kill you. And so my point is, I 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:55.040 don't know if the defense was really as bad as 0:29:55.080 --> 0:29:57.000 I thought it was. Watching the game, I'm interested to 0:29:57.000 --> 0:29:59.160 see what you guys said respective if it were in 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:02.760 bad And I called myself and I wanted to think 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:04.560 that way, I'm like, oh, they weren't that bad. But 0:30:04.600 --> 0:30:07.680 then when you look at who was like running back, 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:12.560 who was playing quarterbacks, I mean, I mean that takes 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:14.840 in effect as to how they played. They should have 0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:18.120 played a lot better. I mean the quarterback. Here's a guy. Yes, 0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:21.200 he had some really nice throws down the field, and 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:23.280 he impressed me that way. I was like, Okay, I 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:25.320 didn't know you had that in you like that. But 0:30:25.680 --> 0:30:28.280 at the same time, he's a guy with not much experience. 0:30:28.320 --> 0:30:31.840 You could see his hesitation. He doesn't have good anticipation. 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:34.560 He would always kind of self doubt himself trying to 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:38.000 figure out what to do. The defensive line was giving 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:40.880 him way too much time instead of getting to him 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:43.080 and pressuring him. You know, when you talk about the 0:30:43.120 --> 0:30:46.120 hot boys, I expected them to get that feeld on 0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:50.320 fire and stop Driscoll from moving around and being able 0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:53.640 to escape. The pocket boys didn't get a sack yesterday. Now, 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:58.680 now Bennett had two and Quinn had one. Are they Quinn? 0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:01.800 Is I know for sure? I don't, Bennett said, I 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:05.280 remember the He's no, Michael Bennett said last week. I 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:07.520 remember the real hot boys. Those guys don't know what 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:12.400 they're talking about. Cash money forever, Yeah, Benness, Michael Bennett's 0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:16.640 two guys, and then there's Bennett. That's your sentiment. I mean, 0:31:17.080 --> 0:31:19.160 he's not a part of what's what this whole thing 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:20.480 is about. I mean, you know, we see it in 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:22.960 the national anthem, we see stuff. He's doing his own thing. 0:31:23.040 --> 0:31:26.000 He's his own guy. He's here for a different reason 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:28.320 maybe I don't know. But when when the lights are on, 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:29.920 he goes and he gets it done. Now, he had 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:32.840 two off side penalties yesterday and that one was big. 0:31:32.920 --> 0:31:36.160 One was very really could have been a big play. 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:38.680 But they do buckle down and he had a really 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:40.680 nice play that changed the game when he's when he 0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:43.920 made that sack and forced him to punt, which head scratching. 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:48.680 Really um because fourth and twenty six. I would have 0:31:48.760 --> 0:31:51.960 gone for it, honestly, because what they were asking to 0:31:52.000 --> 0:31:53.640 do to get the ball back was going to be 0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:56.640 so they could get into hell Mary mode. So what's 0:31:56.640 --> 0:32:00.440 the difference. I understand that the odds of Cleveland, the 0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:02.440 odds of picking up a fourth and twenty six are 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:06.560 not good, But you're not getting that ball back. You're 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:08.640 just you're probably not if you do. If you do 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:12.320 get Mary, it'll be, yeah, you'll have one play. I mean, 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:15.160 damned if you do, damned if you don't. But I 0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:16.920 think you give yourself a better chance going for it. 0:32:17.000 --> 0:32:20.880 That's anyway. I honestly, I think it's a that's a 0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:23.400 good example of stats lying because the stats will tell 0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:25.760 you that they weren't terrible. But I don't think they 0:32:25.760 --> 0:32:29.280 played a good game. I thought Robert Quinn actually he 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:31.040 had a good line where he was like, we had 0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:35.320 a bad day explosively in terms of limiting explosive plays. Yeah, 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.600 three hundred and twelve yards, that's pretty good. You've got 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:40.400 three sacks, two of them came, or excuse me, one 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:42.040 of them came, and a couple other pressures when it 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:46.480 really mattered. But explosive plays, I mean they had a 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:49.720 five play seventy five yard There were so many times 0:32:49.720 --> 0:32:52.560 where I was like, okay, they're down for the count. 0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:54.920 This game is now over, and then they just climbed 0:32:54.960 --> 0:32:56.400 right back in. If they did it in the they 0:32:56.440 --> 0:32:58.720 did in the first half where you know, they score 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:00.160 on the short field, I'm not going to kill all 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:02.320 the defense for that. They've got put in a bad position. 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:06.120 But then after three punts, bad return sets him up, 0:33:06.120 --> 0:33:08.480 they go forty yards and score a touchdown to to 0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:10.760 clawback in it before the half, and then coming out 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:13.720 of halftime ten plays seventy yards. I mean, they just 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:16.560 methodically moved it downfield. That included a thirty nine yard 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:19.760 pass the Hall got them down to the Dallas nine 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:21.800 and then gave him an opportunity score. And then I 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:24.160 mean the really damning one for me. And I know 0:33:24.320 --> 0:33:26.880 Xavier Woods was heard and Donovan Wilson had to go 0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:29.640 out there. I get that, but you know, it's thirty 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:32.080 five twenty one. They score, they get the two point conversion, 0:33:32.120 --> 0:33:34.520 you're kind of like, all right, there, we're iceing this 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:37.000 thing away. And then it's not just that they went 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:41.080 and scored. They went in five five plays, seventy five yards, 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:44.520 took two minutes off the clock. Just just bad performance. 0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:46.520 And yeah, I mean, you know, we talked about it 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:50.440 last week, like Driskolls got better athleticism than what you 0:33:50.440 --> 0:33:53.560 would associate with a tall, white quarterback. He did, and 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:55.480 he burned him. And somebody said, yes last night in 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:57.200 the post game. I can't remember one player said he 0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:59.239 ran a four? Four or four he ran he had 0:33:59.440 --> 0:34:01.920 somebody somebody mentioned that to me after I gave my 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:03.400 Sky report. They were like, he ran a four or 0:34:03.400 --> 0:34:06.040 five at the combine. I honestly I didn't know he 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:08.880 was that fast, but I knew he was more athletic 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.640 than you would associate with him running. There's some running 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:13.719 backs that don't run a four or five at the 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.960 combat like that is that's a really, really great time 0:34:16.960 --> 0:34:19.040 for a quarterback. But the point being, like he did 0:34:19.080 --> 0:34:22.440 so many things that sort of defied a basic scouting report, 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:25.600 Like there were so many times that the pressure just 0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:27.560 kind of came off the edge and ran right past 0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:29.400 him and gave him an easy lane. And honestly, I 0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:31.799 said this during the game. I don't know if Jeff 0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:34.480 driscoll was trying to prove something or what, but he 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:37.640 left about seventy five yards on the field by trying 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:39.719 to make throws when he had room to run, like 0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:42.399 five or six different plays he had the first down, 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.960 he needs four yards or he needs eight yards, and 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.360 he tried to force a throw instead of just picking 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:50.000 it up, like he could have run for one of them, 0:34:50.040 --> 0:34:52.279 could have got picked he Yeah, no, I mean he 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:54.799 could have run for one hundred and extended several more 0:34:54.880 --> 0:34:57.280 drives if he had just run, And thankfully he didn't 0:34:57.320 --> 0:34:59.440 for the cowboys sake, but it was there so for 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:01.880 from this standpoint, the explosive plays. Do you think the 0:35:01.880 --> 0:35:06.919 Cowboys missed Jeff Heath yesterday? No, offense to Jeff Heath, 0:35:06.960 --> 0:35:09.360 but I don't. I mean, so many of them on 0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:14.040 team that's you know, Rod Marinelli loves to keep him 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:15.839 in the well like that's his line. And they did 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.160 not keep Jeff Driscoll in the well at all. They 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:21.400 did not, I mean he broke contain. And I'm not 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:25.759 so much talking about the quarterback explosive plays. I'm talking 0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:27.799 about more some of those plays down fill, some of 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:29.839 those passes that they were able to convert. The thirty 0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:32.960 nine yard er, yeah, there was a twenty twenty one 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:36.160 yarder to a Mendola, twenty five yarder to Jones. I'm 0:35:36.160 --> 0:35:39.960 wondering in those plays are you missing having the safety? 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:42.680 There's nothing I'm trying to think if there was any 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:45.280 play that I would make me think, oh, if Jeff 0:35:45.320 --> 0:35:48.160 Heath was in there, that would not have happened. You know, 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:53.200 he's not that difference maker for starters. I don't think 0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:56.839 of pass coverage as being like his amazing strength that 0:35:56.880 --> 0:36:00.440 he's going to take those away. But then I'll contradict myself, 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.120 Like Jeff Driscoll through for two hundred yards that's in 0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:05.920 the modern NFL. I will take that like you're just 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.359 you're gonna give up some plays in football, Like that's 0:36:08.400 --> 0:36:11.080 just is what it is. And so Kenny Galladay caught 0:36:11.120 --> 0:36:15.360 one pass, Marvin Jones have four for forty three, two touchdowns. 0:36:15.400 --> 0:36:18.600 But still like I'll take that stuff. It's the it's 0:36:18.640 --> 0:36:22.560 the explosive runs and not being able to get to driscoll. 0:36:22.880 --> 0:36:24.520 I mean, up until the fourth quarter, it seemed like 0:36:24.560 --> 0:36:26.680 the pass rush either couldn't get to him or over 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:29.919 pursued him. That's the stuff that bothers me more than 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:32.600 him throwing for a few chunk plays. I mean, I 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:35.000 get the sense. And we've I've heard a little bit 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:37.759 during the game after the game social media that you know, 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:41.160 it's like, okay, is it. You know they won, but 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:43.800 that they should have killed the Lions. I just don't agree. 0:36:44.320 --> 0:36:47.279 Vegas doesn't agree. I mean, they did exactly what they 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:50.640 were supposed to do. One by eight on the line 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:53.000 was seven or seven and a half, that's what it was, 0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:56.480 and they did. I mean, like the thought of that 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:59.200 this team, this is a team that should be competing 0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:02.160 for the Super Bowl. They're not, Like, this is not 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:05.440 what the Cowboys are. They're not that great of a 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:07.839 football team. That's why they're six and four. Can they 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:10.040 still get there? Yeah, they can't. They get on a 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.520 roll then get get hot. But this is I mean, 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:14.759 they did what they were supposed to do in this game. 0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:17.400 And if if Stafford would have played, maybe, you know, 0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:20.200 maybe would have been different. Maybe not. He's not going 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.200 for fifty yards a problems that we're brushing, but he 0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:25.080 probably can throw for more in Galladay probably has more 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:27.400 than one catch. I just think that based off that 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:30.000 this is exactly what the cow did, what they're supposed 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:32.640 to do. If you don't like it, that's just on 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:34.440 the way the team is. But this is what they 0:37:34.440 --> 0:37:36.880 were supposed to do. More on your expectations, Yeah, I 0:37:36.880 --> 0:37:40.040 mean at this point your expectations shouldn't be that different anybody. 0:37:40.120 --> 0:37:43.080 By Thanksgiving you should have readjusted your expectations. But I 0:37:43.120 --> 0:37:45.840 still think the way the way it happened, though, is 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:48.120 what gives me pause. Like my prediction was twenty seven 0:37:48.160 --> 0:37:50.160 to thirteen, and we said last week, like, this is 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:52.880 not a bad Lions team. They're not. They're not good, 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:55.200 but they're not. This is not the Jets, this is 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:59.640 not what they are. And yeah, um, but I don't know. 0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:02.080 Twenty seven points to a backup quarterback and a guy 0:38:02.160 --> 0:38:05.480 and a running back that they signed on Saturday. That 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:08.000 that gives me pause. And I mean the defense, we 0:38:08.040 --> 0:38:10.440 thought it would be so much better. The stats say 0:38:10.480 --> 0:38:13.080 they really didn't play a terrible game, but my eyes 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:15.240 told me that they didn't play a good game. Yeah, 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:17.600 you can't gift to anybody. That's the only way you're 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:19.279 gonna you're gonna get a team like that in the 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:21.000 game is if you just fumble in the second play 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:22.359 of the game, or if you give up a punt 0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:24.720 to midfield, and you know, that doesn't mean the defense 0:38:24.760 --> 0:38:27.040 has to let him score. You can't, you know, stop 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:31.520 him lead to a field goal. But yeah, it's short field, 0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:33.279 doesn't mean you have to score touchdown, you know. So 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:35.160 that they could have done a better job of buckling 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:37.840 down there, but you know, just driving down the field. 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:40.399 They did it when they needed to, and that's that's 0:38:40.440 --> 0:38:43.880 the prevent style, you know, but usually it takes more 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:46.280 time off the clock than that. But I just think overall, 0:38:46.320 --> 0:38:49.040 I don't think it was a bad win. You know, 0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:51.920 we had had a guy turned around and right on 0:38:52.000 --> 0:38:54.080 the field and said we should be killing these guys, 0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:56.440 and I'm just like, not really according to who you. 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:58.359 I mean, I just don't think so. I don't think 0:38:58.400 --> 0:39:00.880 this team is as talented everyone thinks they are, that 0:39:00.920 --> 0:39:03.120 they should be winning. They could have in this game, 0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:06.399 maybe one by fourteen. But they did it. I said 0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:09.640 right after the game. It reminded me of the road 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:13.160 win against the Giants. Just I mean, yeah, you did 0:39:13.160 --> 0:39:16.440 what you're supposed to do. It's not it's not an 0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:19.360 exciting win. It's not something that you should never feel 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:21.879 bad about a win in the NFL. But but I don't, 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:26.840 you know, I didn't. I don't feel especially different about 0:39:26.880 --> 0:39:29.799 this team than I did on Saturday. I guess, you know. No, 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:32.960 I'm encouraged that Dak can keep doing stuff like this. 0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:36.600 That was Actually, this is my hypothetical for y'all. If 0:39:36.600 --> 0:39:39.680 you could rearrange it, they still win. We'll even say 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:43.120 the margin is the same. But like Dak throws for 0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:46.280 two seventies, Zeke runs for one hundred and they score, 0:39:46.760 --> 0:39:50.280 you know, twenty four. But the defense holds the Giants 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:52.480 down to like one hundred and seventy five yards, And 0:39:52.760 --> 0:39:55.560 what did I said? The Giants Lions defense holds them 0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:59.040 to one eighty and ten points. I mean, just basically 0:39:59.080 --> 0:40:01.640 the same result, but it's more of a dominant defensive 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:04.520 performance than sixteen. Just kind of low. Yeah, well, okay, 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.440 they beat him twenty four sixteen. The offense is fine 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:10.640 but not great, and the defense really just kind of 0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:13.120 sets the tone. Would you feel differently, would you feel better? 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:16.799 Maybe it also depends on how the game played out, 0:40:16.840 --> 0:40:19.359 because I think the feelings that people have right now 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:22.799 about the defense wasn't necessarily about the end result as 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:25.319 much as it was what you saw, like they just 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:28.000 they weren't able like the things when you saw. There 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:30.120 was one drive in particular, and I remember which one 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:31.799 it was, it was in the second half where they 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:35.200 were basically just gashing the Cowboys And that's where you know, 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:38.120 to me, that's starting to look familiar now because there 0:40:38.120 --> 0:40:40.239 have been several games this year where it's certain parts 0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:43.440 of the game offenses it happened against Minnesota. Will offense 0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:45.000 is just say we're about to run the ball and 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:47.480 the Cowboys are just like getting gashed just moving the 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:50.080 ball down the field. It's those kind of moments that 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:52.640 make you say, you know, regardless of what the outcome 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:53.839 was at the end of the day, you know they 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:56.160 didn't give up a ton of rushing yards. But when 0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:59.040 you watched it, you came away from it thinking, man, 0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:01.120 I said to you at one point, Nick, I was like, 0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:02.400 I don't know why they're not going to run the 0:41:02.400 --> 0:41:05.080 ball every because they're getting as much as they want 0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:08.399 on the ground. And so that's where I still don't 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:10.520 know if I would feel differently if it was if 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:12.799 it was played the same way and the defense was 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:14.880 giving up the stuff they were giving up in the 0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:18.440 way they gave it up. Well, maybe we can just driscoll. 0:41:18.480 --> 0:41:20.480 You know, it's not that great of a quarterback. If 0:41:20.520 --> 0:41:23.439 we could just face like the best quarterback of all time, 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:26.239 then we can kind of figure out where they stand. Well, 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:27.880 he's can we do that? The question is is he 0:41:27.960 --> 0:41:30.040 gonna play like the greatest of all time now? Because 0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:32.359 he may not. He hasn't been playing like that. Let's 0:41:32.360 --> 0:41:34.319 just put it like Brady came out that morning and 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:36.480 was like, Yeah, the strength of our team's defense. We're 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:38.200 gonna lay it into that as much as we can. 0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:40.080 You got it. I mean, the only way he's ever 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:42.880 been stopped is if you just get after his ass, 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:46.000 and you have to that, and maybe the Cowboys have 0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:48.440 a guy on their team that is kind of pissed 0:41:48.480 --> 0:41:51.160 off at the Patriots. That's nice, But the crazy, the 0:41:51.200 --> 0:41:53.600 crazy part about that right now is they're winning with 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:56.080 the offense not doing a ton. It's the defense that's 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:59.280 playing out of its mind and that matches up against 0:41:59.280 --> 0:42:01.319 the Cowboy st This is gonna be an interesting game. 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:03.759 And just when you look at the Cowboys do have 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:05.759 the number one offense, they still do. I mean in 0:42:05.800 --> 0:42:07.560 five o nine, I don't. I can't imagine that they 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:10.080 wouldn't have the number one offense pages number one defense. Right, 0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:13.480 let's go. We got like four more days of shows 0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:15.600 to fill. Guys. I do know this is gonna be fun, 0:42:15.719 --> 0:42:18.480 all right to answer my sorry, answer my own question. 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:21.960 I know. I know defenses win championships. I know the 0:42:21.960 --> 0:42:24.600 Pats won the Super Bowl thirteen to three. If my 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:27.040 quarterback can do that weekend and week out, give me 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:29.759 that every time. And you know the Eagles won the 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:32.160 Super Bowl forty one thirty three. Their defense made like 0:42:32.239 --> 0:42:35.440 one stop when it counted. Like, I'll take my chances 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:39.160 that the defense can put it together just enough. But 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.560 if my offense is scoring and doing stuff like that 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:43.680 weekend and week out, I'll take that every the question 0:42:43.760 --> 0:42:46.400 will be can he do that again? A great defense 0:42:46.840 --> 0:42:48.399 and we saw it, we saw in New World, that's 0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:51.000 what happened. Like you, it's a great defense. There are 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:53.000 many that believe. That's why they say defense when Chai 0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:55.840 Championships is they believe that a great defense will stop 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.319 a great offense. And so well, we'll see. I think 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:00.439 there's a lot of questions around that, but we're gonna 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:03.400 find out a lot about that this weekend. What a tease. 0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:05.480 We appreciate you, guys. Jonas. We were back tomorrow our 0:43:05.480 --> 0:43:08.120 normal time till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hambert, Dave, 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:11.560 Dave Hellman, Dave Hamberg, Yeah, Dave Hellman, as will though 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:14.200 I am Derek. This has been The Break live on 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:19.400 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production 0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:23.239 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.