WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Another Road Bump 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.400 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:19.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.280 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.600 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:40.720 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Monday, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.480 November two, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode number fifty six. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.240 Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We're Alive 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.000 from the s WBC Mortgage studios. At the start, Nick 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.479 and Dave are joining me. Amber quit. She was like, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.800 I'm done with all of this now. She really didn't. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.040 She just out today she'll be back tomorrow, and I'm 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.720 sure say you can't say that. I know, right, and 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.960 I'm sure believe it. I'm sure tomorrow she's gonna have 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.720 fire that will just kind of be spraying out. So 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.960 make sure you're tune into Mart here whatever has to 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.920 say about the game from yesterday. But Cowboys lose twenty 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.920 three nine to the Philadelphia Eagles. It was a game that, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.479 in my opinion, was a positive, I know, as much 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.080 as of a positive as you can get out of 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.880 a loss. But they did play better than what I've 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.200 seen over the last at least since since since Dak 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.399 has been out. And so we're gonna break it all 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.360 down for you. We're gonna start what we normally start 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.760 on Monday's following games. I want to ask you, guys, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.479 what do you think it's the biggest storyline coming out 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.039 of this game. We'll start first with you, Nick. I 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.360 thought the quarterback was as I wrote my and my column, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.760 I thought the quarterback was was really bad. He missed 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.480 a lot of throws. And then and then I talked 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.920 about de Nucci and who also was bad and missed 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.200 a lot of throws. It just came down the quarterback. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.600 And as I wrote yesterday, a decent quarterback performance wins 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.920 the game a decent and they didn't have it, and 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.360 he didn't expect it to be that great. But I mean, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.120 it just it. He wasn't ready. He wasn't ready. He tried, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.480 he fought, you know, he gave, he gave it as all, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.360 but he just he wasn't ready. And that's it was 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.760 just unfortunate because that game was for the taking. If 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.880 they had a better, better quarterback play, I think Andy 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.000 Dold wins that game easily. If it's like, yeah, I 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.679 think easily, and I think Dak and then blow him out, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.680 that's how bad Philadelphia wasn't how bad they played. Yep, Dave, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:29.240 what's the biggest storyline for you? Well, I'll get to 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.880 my storyline, but yeah, it reminded me of the first 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.920 Philly game last year. You know, Dallas really needed to 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.520 get right game and they got the takeaways they needed 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.200 right off the bat. They had Dak and they did 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.040 blow Philly out. So I mean, I agree if you 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.400 get if you get that performance with a more competent quarterback, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.600 you probably do win going away. Which to that point, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.440 I guess my big takeaway is if the defense plays 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.200 like that the majority of the way, the rest of 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.720 the way, like they should be in every game that 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.960 they played. I don't know if that means they're gonna 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.160 win more than four or five games, but I mean, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.880 the effort was there, the takeaways were there, the limiting 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.600 big plays was there. Um, I guess I'm stuck weighing, like, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.200 you know, how much of that is the defense turning 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.720 the corner and how much of that is Philly being atrocious. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.800 I didn't realize this until after the game. Maybe I 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.720 should have. I knew Carson Wentz turned the ball over 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.919 a lot. He's got one hundred and two turnovers in 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.840 less than five full seasons of play. I know you 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.800 that's just uh, I know you've looked at Dacks that Sorry, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.880 go ahead, I'm just I'm just saying, I'm sure when 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.880 you did that, you gotta look at dacks numbers. Yeah, well, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.440 I mean absolutely, and they I mean they're not even, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.840 They're not close. I can pull them up right now. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:52.960 Dakas and picks, yeah, fumbles and picks. Um, Yeah, dak 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:57.040 is a Dack is a full thirty behind Das. Dacks 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.560 at like sixty, Daks about sixty, and Carson Wentz is 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.480 at one hundred and two, which the point is his 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.960 career too. Yeah, yeah, good Dave. The guy, the guy 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.120 just loves turning the ball over. And so I'm sitting 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.800 here thinking, like, okay, okay, defense, like four takeaways, that's 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.039 more than you had all season coming into this. If 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.279 you give us that kind of effort, you know you 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.080 can expect to be in most of the games You're 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.920 gonna play the rest of the way. But is that 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.640 realistic or is Philly just awful? That's kind of what 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.240 I'm grappling with this morning. Yeah, I agree with you 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.760 that Philly is awful, But I look back at two 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.960 weeks ago when they played a Washington football team and 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.839 Kyle Allen that were equally bad, and they made them 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.039 look like a really, really good offense, and so I 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.120 do think there was some improvement from the standpoint of 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.960 the defense. And I don't think it necessarily had all 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.000 to do with the fact that Philadelphia has a bad offense. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.440 I think some of it had to do with the 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.760 fact that the Cowboys played better football than they've been playing. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.400 It started off kind of rough in the running game, particularly, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.799 and as the game war on, you started seeing Layton 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.800 come around and play a little bit better. You saw 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.800 a tank make some plays at different moments of the 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.479 game in the run game as well as the past game. 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.080 So I think all over, I look at this defense 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.240 and that was the positive I came away with. And 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.520 by the way, right now, and this might be wrong, 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.520 I'm not really I don't really care as much about 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.880 wins and losses, Like the wins and losses don't do 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.680 a ton for me at this point with this team, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.720 what I want to see is I want to see 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.800 do they have who are the pieces that need to 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.920 stick around for next year. I want to see if 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.520 this coach can get a team that is by all 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.279 accounts done to still play as though they're not done, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.359 because that'll tell me a lot about him and his 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.800 ability to coach. And yesterday I saw some of those 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.640 things that made me have a positive feeling about this team. Yeah, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.839 that's fair. All right, let's go ahead and move on. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.640 Let's talk about some of the moments that mattered. I'm 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.240 gonna start off with the first win, and then we'll 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.760 go around and we'll do a few that you guys 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.359 saw as well. It was the first quarter. Dallas was 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.440 up three to nothing at this point. It was the 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.920 series following the forced fumble and recovery by Donovan Wilson, which, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.560 by the way, was a heck of a play by 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.640 young man. I mean, just the ability to have the 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.520 closing speed to get to the quarterback, hit him, knock 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.440 the ball, lose and recover it. I thought it was 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.160 all really really great play by him. And they got 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.760 the possession the ball at the Philly twenty five, so 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.320 it's second and goal at the Philly seven. At this point, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.200 still gets beat by Brandon Graham, gets a sack, forced 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.080 fumble and recovery, no point points and at least to possession. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.599 They gave Philly its first touchdown. To me, that was 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.960 the first moment that mattered in that game, because they 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.280 were in position at that point to be able to 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.480 take at least a sixth nothing lead, maybe getting the 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.600 end zone. That was I think it was the closest 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.080 they got all day to the end zone at the seven. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.120 And I'm sorry, First and goal at the four at 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.440 the fourth, yes, and that to me, and I'll just 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.480 say that one of my five players done to forget 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.520 was the play before the fumble three yard loss by Zeke. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.120 You know, yeah, first and goal in the four. You 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.440 can do so many things, but when you get a 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.599 three yard loss, well now you have to throw it, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.280 and that kind of open that up. I thought the 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.560 first down getting stuffed like that really changed the whole 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.880 dynamic though, And I mean he got hit right in 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.400 the hole there. Yeah, And I want to talk a 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.080 little bit about Zeke. We'll talk a little bit about 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.400 his performance yesterday. But to me, that was the first 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.920 moment in this game that really really mattered, Dave, what 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.240 can I just can I just say that was the 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.840 only moment that mattered. I really believe that, really, like 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.160 we can go through the hole. Yeah absolutely, I really. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.160 I don't want to sign hyperbolic, but when they didn't 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.240 get a touchdown there, I was like, they probably won't 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.800 win this game. Like because with the amount of things 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.800 that are against you, playing Ben d Nucci, you get 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.320 gifted an opportunity like that and a chance to go 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.960 up two possessions right off the bat. I think it 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.920 changes the entire dynamic of the game. Philly's playing catch 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.640 up a little bit earlier. You can try to control 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.680 the game with your run game, and you know to 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.240 think that you're gonna trade points with a team that 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.160 has its preferred starting quarterback. Even as bad as Carson 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.400 Wentz was, and he was very bad, he made the 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.320 plays down the stretch that mattered, And I wonder if 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.280 if going up multiple possessions changes the dynamic of that. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.680 I just thought that possession was so important. I tweeted 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.640 this out and I don't know what you guys think, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.600 but but when it was I might have been first 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.360 and goal to four, or maybe the play before I 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:23.000 was like, this is absolutely man, Dave, I said, absolutely, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.280 this is this is a fourdown territory. You know, this 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.440 is you have to get a touchdown here because you 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.400 just got a gift. Like he said, you got a 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.560 gift and you gotta go score six. Nothing doesn't do 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.520 anything for me. I mean, I guess it in hindsight 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.199 would have been nice, but I mean just saying you 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.200 gotta go get a touchdown, And so I wondered if 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.200 they were thinking that way too. It didn't matter because 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.200 of the fumble. Yeah, and to be honest with the 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.400 end and you mentioned that play before where they got 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.720 stuff for a three yard loss. It's hard to even 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.960 look at that and say, well, should they have done 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.160 something different? Nothing was really working offensively. I mean they 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.640 didn't really have a lot of great options there. I 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.680 mean you could have said, do you want to throw 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.840 into the end zone? But then you know, you get 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.160 sack fumbled the next play, right, So it's it's like, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.600 I don't really know that there was a better call. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.120 I think you're just working with such limited parts at 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.400 this point that you just kind of have to deal 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.160 with what you have to deal with, And especially with 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.840 Ben Denucci, I just don't think he was ready for 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.400 this kind of game at this point in his career. No, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.120 I agree, you have to help him, and you know, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.640 and they tried all those trick plays and things like that, 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.360 which I love. I love that they weren't willing to 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.400 just say next man up, and they actually tried some 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.880 different things. So you know, the double reverse right off 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.959 the bat that worked, and then maybe a fake reverse 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.719 to Tony Pollard. Nothing else really, but you have to try. Yeah, right, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.200 you have to try. I would have you know, I 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.080 know you guys are gonna be surprised, but I would 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.040 have tried to flee flicker. I would have How did 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.439 I know that? Somehow you would have tried to flee flicker. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.120 I don't know whose moment is Big Day's back, but 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.400 let's just go ahead and go with you, just to 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:04.679 be sure. There is here. I hear Kelsey is Kelsey 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.280 in there? No, yeah, Kelsey's here. She's working on something else, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.360 but here on the show. I know, right, No, I'm trying. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.840 I'm trying to not be mad at her, but I 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.559 think she killed my I think there's too many people 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.720 using the network here. But that's okay. We don't need 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.480 to talk about it. Well, maybe both of yells should 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.160 be on the same show, and then maybe we would 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.000 have this problem. I'm just saying, but go ahead. Um, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.720 you know, and I think everybody on here tweeted about it. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.920 I saw a bunch, I saw Brian brought us tweet 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.160 this play. So this is this is kind of an 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.280 easy one. Um. But you know, they get an interception 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.600 by Digs in the third quarter, up nine to seven, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.840 and you could tell they came out in the third 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.640 quarter and they had a plan. Okay, we're good. Zeke 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.880 for nine, Zeke for six, eight, Polo for seven, Poulot 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.280 for two, Paulot for nine, Zeke for two. So it's 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.040 second and eight to twenty six. Let's run a double 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.480 reverse to Cedric Wilson to try to throw it. He 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.679 gets a ten yard loss for ten yards by Fletcher 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.880 Cox and that changed everything. They ended up kicking a 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.560 field goal and missing fort two yards. Buy Zeroline missed it, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.760 you know, put it would have put them up twelve seven. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.120 That's a big deal. When you're down fifteen to twelve 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.520 and you're driving at the end of the game, you know, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.360 a little different scenario there. So I just thought, you know, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.720 I don't know if you could keep running it like that, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.480 but it was like it was cute, and it was 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.160 it was too cute probably at that moment I said 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.160 it last night though, would anybody have been mad if 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.200 they had just kept running it? Like, even if it 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.960 didn't work, just just run that thing until you either 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.800 score points or you're forced to kick a field goal. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.160 And it would probably have been shorter than fifty two yards. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.360 Oh yeah, right, And even if you take a negative play, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.080 your negative play is maybe a negative three, it's not 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.960 a negative ten, right, so you at least are gonna 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.800 get at this point, you feel like avoiding a fumble, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.880 you at least are gonna get three points out of it. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.120 And they end up with you know, nothing. And I 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.800 think that was the part that was a little bit 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.960 hard to swallow on that. Yeah, what would you would 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.600 you guys have liked to see them just at that 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.760 point just keep running it, I think so, I mean, yes, yeah, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.600 I mean a little and and I think you know, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.320 some the fake reverses work a little bit too, you know, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.400 I mean, because you just got your eyes move in 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:23.560 different ways. I mean maybe maybe a Denucci roll out there, um, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.079 you know it would have been would have been good. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.920 I thought, man, what y'all think about that block by 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.840 Schultz that was called for holding? You remember that anything 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.320 you didn't see? Yeah, I didn't see. I didn't see 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.800 old I didn't I didn't either, I didn't you know, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.000 And I was watching it. I was like, I wonder 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.400 what Mickey is saying right now. Mickey was like, because 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.040 you know they never hold it. But uh, I thought 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.000 it was a good block by Schultz. I mean, I'm like, 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.839 where are the hands, like where you know? Or is 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.319 it on the outside. Sometimes I just thought he did 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.800 everything you were supposed to do. What I think happened there, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.440 in my personal opinion is you saw there at the 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.720 end the defender kind of jerked away, and I think 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.200 when he jerked because of where the hand placement was 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.839 when he jerked, I think the ref just was like, well, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.560 of course he's holding him for him to have to 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.680 jerk away like that, And so I think that's actually 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.240 what ended up happening, whether he was holding him or not. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.280 You know, refs look at things, they look at little keys, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.720 and based on those keys, they make calls, right, So 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.280 I think that's what happened, especially when they're standing on 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.439 the sideline of a team that's yelling. Hold, I mean 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.520 that happened. Yeah, if you're on that sideline, you're definitely 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.600 gonna get that call. Ye all right, I got a 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:38.079 random question for y'all, Sorry, Eric, did Did did Tony 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.120 Pollard take any Wildcats snaps last night? Because I kind 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.920 of feel like he should have. Yeah, I do too, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.960 But no, I didn't see that. Like the guy's got juice. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.280 He looked like he had more juice than Zeke last 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:54.199 night and Zeke well, okay, well we can get I'm 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.480 just saying maybe that might have been a good idea. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:00.679 We'll say this. Why did it seem like every Wildcats 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.760 snap took an hour and a half to get there 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.439 and it was off to the to the side, Like 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.599 it seemed like every time zenot the ball, it was 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.360 kind of like, let me go get It wasn't like 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.959 back to him, it was kind of I don't know. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.360 There have been people for weeks, there have been people 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.680 on Twitter that are like, Beyondish's snaps take forever to 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.520 get to the backfield like that. That has been a 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.040 thing if you you know, if you're following on Twitter. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.480 So I don't know, maybe something for him to work on. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:35.840 Work on that. Joe Looney told me, I think I'll 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.240 be back next week. Question is what position where? I 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.480 don't know. Yeah, there's there's a lot of stuff to 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.200 talk about on that offensive line too, and we'll get 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:45.680 to some of that a little bit later as well. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.120 There's really not Derek. There's one thing to talk about. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.640 It's the right tackle position. But okay, well let's hold 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.000 that thought because I actually have some thoughts on that 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.320 particular position and it's not gonna be what you think, 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.960 So let's talk a little bit about that. I keep 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.480 point at you because I want you to know what 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:06.920 I'm talking about. God, it's well, it's it's my fault 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.840 that my signal cut out. For the millionth time. I apologize. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.920 But even with everything else, like, I still think if 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.880 they managed to score a touchdown on that possession on 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.600 the Philly in the Philly red zone instead of fumbling 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.400 it away, I just think you change the entire complexion 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.120 of that game. Because I know, you know, Dallas took 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.840 a lead at halftime, and they have a chance to 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.960 go take a lead if if not for the Cedric 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.760 Wilson play. But I just think you're in such a 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.520 better position to win if you're up by two possessions 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.160 and you can kind of dictate things as opposed to 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.040 having to figure out ways to trade scores with Philly, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.720 which is what they wound up having to do. I think, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.200 you know, if I could have one thing back, it's that, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.440 and it's not even close. Yeah, ye, all right, we're 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:49.960 gonna take our first break when we come back. We're 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.040 gonna get Dave's moment that matter, and then we're gonna 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.480 get into some performance reviews. There are lots of guys 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.640 we need to talk about, including Zeke, including Amari Cooper, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.640 and we certainly will get to this offense in line. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:00.920 We'll do all that when we come right back. This 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.840 is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. We're back in a 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.360 tasty treat that's sweeping airwaves and taste buds. It's new 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.600 Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda. Let's take a listen Doctor 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.640 back and Cream Soda. 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With home matchups remaining against 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.720 the Steelers, forty nine, Ers Washington, and the Eagles. A 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.240 limited number of tickets are on sale outcotchers today in 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.080 Dallas Cowboys dot com slash tickets. Welcome back as the 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.000 second segment of the Break Life from the s WBC 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.679 Mortgage Studios at the Star. Dave told me in the 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.200 break that he's already talked about his moment that mattered. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:30.800 I think we hit the two that I think most 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.000 we all agree were the two biggest moments of that game. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.800 So we're gonna go ahead and move on to the 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.159 performance reviews, and we'll start first with Ben Denucci. He 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.880 was twenty one to forty fifty three percent completion rate, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.360 one hundred and eighty yards, zero touchdown, zero interceptions. Sixty 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:51.359 four point six was his rating, and he rushed five 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.159 times for twenty two yards. How surprised were you that 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.880 they didn't run him more and they didn't throw down 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.800 feel more? Knowing that going into the week, what we 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.920 heard heard about him was that he has a big 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.040 arm and he can run. Now, those were the two 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.440 things that it seemed like the coaches were saying about 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.760 him that others who have scouted him have said about him. 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:10.760 Were surprised that they didn't do more of those two 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.400 things with him, Nick, I don't know if they had 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:18.000 a lot of time to throw the ball down the field, Um, yeah, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.280 you know, they could have done a little bit more 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.080 of that, Um, Tony, the wind was kind of an 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.439 issue down there. It was. We saw that on the 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.160 kick ye long Ki Yeah, I mean it was it 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:33.239 was it was different. Um, you know, I remember one 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.159 roll out with him that they they you know, the 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.760 designed run. But I just think they were trying to 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.280 protect them. Mean, I thought he was gonna be a 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.359 little better than that, you know, I kind of he 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.600 reminds me. He does remind me a lot of Romo 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.200 at this point in his career. And you know, if 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.480 Romo had played his first year, in his eighth week, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.479 it probably would have looked like that. Yeah. So uh, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.840 I just and I asked this to Dave and Rob earlier. 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.280