WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Time for Change? 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.000 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:15.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.200 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.279 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.240 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:32.920 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.920 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, January twenty third, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.640 twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, Episode number one twelve. Welcome 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.320 to the latest edition of The Break. We're Alive from 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.000 the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, presenter by 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.480 Milli like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys and Man, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.600 today we gotta do what we've done before. This is 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.240 not new for US Cowboys. Season ends last night. They 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.040 lose to the San Francisco forty nine. There's nineteen to twelve, 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:07.319 eliminating them from the playoffs at the divisional round. And 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.880 today we'll tell you what we think went right and 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.479 wrong for this team and maybe get a little bit 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.399 probably more tomorrow get into what this really means, because 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.800 I think there's so many offshoots from this game. When 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.520 you start thinking about what this means for this franchise 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.720 and what this means for this team and all the 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.560 players that are on this team. But let's start first. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.640 There are so many things that happened in that game. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.240 If you could kind of crystallize it into kind of 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.839 one thing, what is the enduring memory you'll have years 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.200 from now about the game against the forty nine Ers 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.280 in the Divisional round of playoffs in twenty twenty three. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.880 Nick forty nine ers were a really good team. The 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.360 Cowboys on this day were a pretty good team. I 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.840 mean I thought their defense was not as good as 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.720 though as the forty nine ers. I think their offense 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.680 obviously wasn't as good as the fortin ers, and their 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.560 special teams wasn't either, So I mean I thought they 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.720 was close in all three and that's why the game 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.480 was close at the end of the day. I think 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.640 the forty nine just had more playmakers that made more plays, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:09.200 had more weapons amber go ahead. I think it was 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.080 a game of missed opportunities. I really do. I feel 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.560 like though that there were some. You know, we went 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.840 into this game talking about all the things that you 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.920 were going to have to deal with, talking to coaches, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.640 how do you attack, how do you do this? How 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.720 do you do that? You know? It really it really 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.600 kind of comes down to, you know, their ability to 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.160 make plays and then your ability not to in some ways. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.359 You know, whether it's you get a you know, you 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.359 dropped interceptions, or you don't quite protect well enough for 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.000 you know, you you know, you had an opportunity to 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.080 hit a guy and you know, instead you let the 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.639 play extend and it throws you into another whole thing 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.720 where there's defenders. You know, I just you know, it's 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.680 it's not about playing the perfect game, but it's about 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.640 when the opportunities that you have to make plays, you 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.240 got to capitalize on those. I mean, I know, watching 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.120 going back and why in the tape of this game, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.119 I was worried about Nick Bosa and how he could 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.880 affect the game. Nick Bosa affected you on three plays 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.919 in this game, you know, and they were back to 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.280 back plays down in the red zone where he was 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.639 able to get some pressure. The way he ables the 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.239 knife through and get a tackle. You know, you know, 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.280 when you're Noah Brown, You're trying to run there on 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.720 the goal line. Play looked like it had a chance, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.200 but you know, Tyron Smith gets beat inside and then 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.560 the next play, Tyron Smith gets beat on the spin move, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.560 and then what happens again is you know then and Bosa, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.400 you know beat you you know a third time on 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.639 the long pass to try and get it to Michael 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.720 Gallop where he's open, you know. So you know, that's 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.240 that's the difference of a lot of these games nowadays. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.880 It's when these players that when you have an opportunity 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.920 to make plays, you've got to make plays. I think, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.320 for the most part, if you said, heck, you're gonna 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:54.040 give nineteen points six points off turnovers to the forty 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.280 nine ers and you're only gonna give him nineteen points, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:57.680 you kind of feel like you got a shot to 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.240 win this game. But you know, you didn't handle you 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.560 didn't handle their their defense a tackle really really really well, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.200 and you know you had some plays where you just 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.440 kind of didn't didn't do what you needed to do 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.920 in order to keep drives going or to be able 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.400 to finish drives. My heart is being out of my 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.520 chest right now. I probably shouldn't have had coffee a 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:25.359 little bit ago because I'm like, right now, um, you know, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.120 every game they've lost this season, we walked out of 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.320 those games saying they should have won that game. And 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.360 this was like another example of they should have won 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.520 that game. We get to San Francisco, we're at the 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.719 stadium pre game. Since we stepped onto the field, the 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:48.800 forty nine Ers were being nasty. And people may say, oh, well, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.640 this is a playoff game, that's how you should be, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:55.400 you know whatever, and it's fine, that's good, but be respectful. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.520 And but if you're gonna be nasty, all right, let's 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.360 be free be nasty. The Cowboys offense didn't freaking show 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:09.320 up whatsoever. There was no fire in them. There was 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.160 no It did not feel like they were playing a 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.600 playoff game. There was zero energy. They couldn't connecting anything. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.200 The only player that you had there was City Lamp 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.640 making plays. Everybody else on offense pretty much disappear, and 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.760 they weren't able to do anything. And what's more most 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:32.039 upsetting to me, it's knowing the fact that, seeing how 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.840 the defense played this game was within reach. We were 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.440 talking about here all week, Brian breaking down the forty 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.200 nine Ers offense, breaking down the forty nine Ers defense, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.279 talking about how much talent they had, and knowing that 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.560 going into the game, the Cowboys defense was able to 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.920 do as much as they did contain them that much. Obviously, 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.640 the second half they started wearing down and all that, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.599 but they kept the game to where you should have 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.880 freaking won that game and your offense should have done 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.960 so much more than what they did. And that's the 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.960 most upsetting to me, because if we walked out of 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.960 that game with that still losing, but they put up 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.599 a fight and it was a good one. At least 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.920 you feel a little bit better. You said, Okay, well 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.039 it wasn't in their destined once again, but at least 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.320 they were out there lost with the fight, and there 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.520 was no freaking fight on the offensive side of the 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.280 ball at least. And that's just I can't believe it's over. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.679 I can't believe we got to start this again after 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.640 feeling that we were so close and the Cowboys do 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.680 have a talented team, but it's just finding consistency has 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.000 been the whole problem this year. Yeah, for me, this 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.120 game came down to Dak Prescott and we heard Dak 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.279 talk weeks ago where he said, after a game where 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.120 he thrown interceptions, you know I'm going to fix this. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.360 I guaranteed it's going to get fixed, and it didn't 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.120 get fixed yesterday. Like there were two interceptions, there was 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.200 a third that should have been and I don't even 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.280 like normally saying should have been, But in that circumstance 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.640 that was in the crunch time of the game, it 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.400 was you got three minutes left in this game, you're 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.000 right where you got them, right where you want them, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.800 like you're down a touchdown, and I'd already meant, Nick 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.840 could already had the conversations. I thought at that moment, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.880 this is where this is where Dak makes his name. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.160 This is where you drive your team down three minutes 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.920 left to go, you score a touchdown and go for two, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.280 like you're gonna go for two. And I'm the quarterback, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:28.840 if I'm the head coach, I'm giving him the ball 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.680 and I'm saying, get in the freaking end zone and 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.880 we're gonna end this thing and we're gonna move on 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.680 to the next round. I think, And what ends up 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.320 and what ends up happening three and out and the 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.000 first of those three bad plays where they got zero 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.920 yards was what should have been an interception, And that, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.760 to me is where I look at this, And Dak 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.200 said it after the game. He takes accountability but it 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.960 really is that game came down to your quarterback just 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.080 didn't play well enough. He put you behind the eight 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.760 ball way too often, and a defensive performance like that 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.000 got wasted by the quarterback not playing up to standard. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.040 Let's talk about Dak. His numbers twenty three to thirty seven, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.560 sixty two percent completion rate, two hundred and six yards passing, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.120 one touchdown, two interceptions. He had another four rushes for 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.320 twenty two yards with a five point five average on 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.440 the ground. How much do you guys put this loss 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:25.560 on Dak? I mean he's the quarterback, so yeah. I mean, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.280 he got all the praise when they when they won 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.360 last month and he played him He played amazing in 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.760 that game, so he did not play amazing in this game. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.000 There's a lot of passes that he left on the table. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.480 I'm not putting all of it on him, but but 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.920 you know, he's the quarterback, so he gets it. You know. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.120 I think I think that they I think they lost 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.160 the game on the extra point. Be honest with you, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.000 when they missed the extra point, I think that lost 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.880 the game for them in a lot of ways. Explain 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.880 that they lost four points on that and they lost 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.320 the running back for the season and may and who 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.559 knows after that, Um, if he makes that extra point, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.920 they're up seven to six. It doesn't deflate the touchdown too, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:09.439 because it's like here we go again. It's not just 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.760 one miss. It's like, oh my god, everyone's looking at 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.840 this guy. Is he mentally tough? The forty nine ers 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.439 are over there, you know, being classless and trying to 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.000 get in his head before and all that stuff. Um 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.800 that you know that was crap. But but but missing 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.839 that that was huge because then when they're driving down 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.200 at the at the you know, the two minute warning, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.800 and they're on the thirty four yard line, I think 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.280 they kick a field goal there. He's kicked fifty yarders 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.200 all year long. If if you trust that he can 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.400 make that kick, and if you do make it, even 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.240 if you miss it, he don't lose your running back 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.200 for the season, because for the game because he gets 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.600 hurt on the next play. But I think him getting 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.760 hurt then now it's all on them. We can't kick. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.120 We gotta we gotta score. We don't have anybody. We're 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.560 throwing wide now to CD, I think it changed their 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.599 whole plan. But it all started to me on that 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.800 extra point that was not only blocked, but that thing 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.319 was going to Oakland. So it's your I mean that 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.160 it's it wasn't about the block, because I know there 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.160 are probably some people up there like, well it was blocked. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.240 That is that his fault? Is this a situation where 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.520 you think he would have missrepolled. I went and watched it. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.760 I looked at it. The ball. The ball was not 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.520 end over end. The ball was almost sideways when it 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.319 was coming out of that office that guy, and it 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.800 was very low. And the guy that blocked it's like 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.200 I've never blocked the kick because he doesn't line up 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.800 in the middle like he was just putting his hands up, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.120 and I mean that he would you know there was 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.880 a guy. But at the same time, even though you 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.800 know that thing wasn't gonna go in, but the fact 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.679 that it was blocked, I think that maybe mentally for 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.160 Bret Mohard, just to go through the game with quote 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.000 unquote that like, oh, well it was blocked, rather than 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.000 he missed the first one. You know, that at least 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.920 I think helped a little bit mentally to kind of 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.240 come back and be able to make whatever else he made. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.319 I don't think it helped McCarthy though, because I think 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.520 McCarthy would have tried it, would try to field goal there, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.640 and uh and and that doesn't I mean, that's four 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.439 points to me. He lost by seven. I mean, the 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.079 whole game could change a little bit, but I just 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.360 think psychologically that that affected so much. Brian. You put 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.000 this game one day. Yeah. I feel like though, there's 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.400 when you when you start for everything that we praised 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.920 him for on Tuesday morning, it reverted back to what 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.200 we what you were talking about earlier, and the ability 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.719 to see the field, the ability to to make the 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.960 quick decisions, the ability to you know, you know they're 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.079 playing six across and you're throwing the ball into that 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.800 and you know, I mean, it just it seems like 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.839 things compound for him, you know, the and you want 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.040 to believe that like the harder, the tougher it is, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.080 the more that he you know, we always talk about 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.679 him being bloodied and muddied and playing and having that 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.199 feel of the game. He had no feel in that 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.520 game yesterday. He had no feel. I don't think he 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.760 had confidence in some of the throws that he was 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.320 actually making. And it again, it doesn't help when you're 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.120 You're probably feeling like that nick boss to just destroy you, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.640 you know, or you know, Tyler Smith's going to give 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.040 up a pressure, or you're gonna get holding, or something's 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.319 going to happen this game. But I think that, you know, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.000 to me, you look at what the you know, I 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.439 think there's some questions about this coordinator. I really really do. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.040 I think there's some things. There's some you know, I 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.760 think there's a question about the head coach. It's fourth 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.600 and fourth and five on the forty and you take 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.400 a delay of the game penalty. You know. I mean 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.640 to me, there's there's there's things that you gotta you know, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.800 I always talk about knowing the condition of your team, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.079 no one to try and make a spark. Maybe he 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.199 knew on fourth and five he couldn't go for it 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.520 on fourth down because his quarterback wasn't any good, you know. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.640 And yeah, I a lot of this, A lot of 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.160 this does go on him because when again, when you 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.120 watch when you watch the plays, when you watch the throws, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.880 when you watch what he's looking at, it's really it's 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.360 one of those things that kind of when Dak is bad, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.200 it reminds you of all those things that we've seen 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.960 this season, and when he has those problems, I definitely 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.280 put the blame. Yeah, Dak was he just wasn't good 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.480 at all and there were a lot of questionable decisions 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.679 that he made that I don't think he should have 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.680 made in this game. And I get all the criticism 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.360 about Dak and at the same time, sitting here like 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.959 it's hard and I don't want to root against him. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.160 It's so hard to because he's such a great guy. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.679 He's a tough guy, and he's shown signs to be 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.240 that type of quarterback. But something has to change now. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.640 We can't just keep being the same. And you mentioned 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:40.120 the coordinator. I wonder like under somebody else and we 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.920 don't and not get into offseason talk over here, but 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.080 it makes me we are Yeah, and it is hard 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.240 to draft a quarterback, Hi, It is very hard and 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.120 to find the right quarterback. But I do wonder if 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.120 it wasn't with Kellen Moore and he had somebody else, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.200 could that person coach Dak Prescott better to the where 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.600 now you you're making him be the type of quarterback 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.320 that you need to be. I don't think he's gone 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.920 through enough coaching or I haven't seen somebody else coach him, 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.280 other than when you had like John Kidnap come in 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:18.200 or um what was that that other the backup quarterback 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.680 that helped him out a lot of Sanchez Sanches, Mark 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.600 Sanchez when he So he's had those kind of little 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.360 sprinkles of help here and there through his career, but 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.400 not a legit like somebody else other than like Kellen 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.040 Moore build around him and all that. So it makes 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.560 me I still have that doubt rather than completely moved 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.880 because people just want to get rid of that. They 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.160 don't understand the salary cap. And you guys are right. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:45.560 You guys are right. I mean, you guys are not 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.440 dancing around it, but we're gonna we're flirting around. You 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.600 guys are exactly right. It's time to move on. It's 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.080 time to move on from Kellen Moore. Another great guy. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.360 You know, he walks by in the hall. You see him. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.120 He seems like a really good, good guy. Doesn't talk 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.680 a whole lot. But this isn't working, and you can't 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.560 change your quarterback because of the salary cap of the 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.760 way it is. In fact, you might even give them 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.440 an extension to try to get more players in, which 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.680 is only going to make the problem worse, but whatever. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.480 You can't do that, but you can get a new 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.840 offensive coordinator. Hey, Kellen, it's been great, Well, it's been 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.920 good about that. It's been good, and it's been great. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.120 It's been it's been good, and it wasn't great yesterday. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.880 Some change has to be made and it's a lot 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.120 easier to change the coordinator than change that. And yeah, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.800 that's that's just the way it is. I mean, I 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.320 think you're absolutely onto something there to me about this. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.200 This was always going to be the evaluation of twenty 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.560 twenty two was going to be about the coaches, whether 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.320 Mike McCarthy after last year's disappointed I think Mike McCarthy 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.840 did a great job this year. And you know, now 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.040 you now you you know, you won a playoff game. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.080 Now you get to that divisional round. You got to 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.760 find a way to score more than twelve points in 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.280 this football game. And you know, to me, that's where 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.240 there's so much inconsistency, you know, with the quarterback and 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.560 then with you know, and I'm not gonna sit there. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:15:59.960 I mean, I spent a long time in this lit 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.200 I'm not gonna act like I know what every call 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.160 and every play is and stuff like that. But you 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.360 could see it when it's not working, you know, you 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.720 can see it. And I think there were some times 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.800 this year where Mike McCarthy had some frustrations with Kellen Moore, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.440 you know, but give them credit for winning four out 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.600 of five games with Cooper Rush. Evidently Mike McCarthy went 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.800 up him and said, listen, you get it. Quinn. Yeah, Queen, 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.200 well but I know what you're saying. I mean, but 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.040 to me, that's where that's where you're that's where you're 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.200 at right now, though, is that you know you're trying 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.160 to figure out You're not. To me, the quarterback was 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.920 going to be evaluated in twenty three. That's when the 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.640 quarterback because maybe there was going to be a coaching 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.040 change and if Dak was able to be better with 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.880 different coaches, then you could say, Okay, this is this 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.720 is going to work if if you if you get 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.400 to twenty three and it's still the same Dak in 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.160 another press conference of talking about turnovers and it's never 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.920 going to happen again. But you say that every week. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.160 I'm sorry, you say it every week. It's not gonna happen. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:59.960 It's not Gonnapen. It's not Gonnapen. I'm gonna get better. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.840 I'm gonna get better. It doesn't get better, so something 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.879 has to change. Nick's right, it's not gonna be the 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.959 quarterback this year. It's likely going to be offensive staff 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.119 is what's going to change. And once offensive staff change, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.320 now the evaluation comes on, Dak, do you give him 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.080 the extension? He signed a short contract. His contract isn't 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.080 one of these six year contracts that they gave Mahomes 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.000 or any somebody else that that was what he wanted, 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.280 exactly what he wanted. That's exactly so it might play 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.160 to your favor if you want to move on after 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.760 twenty three to three year deal. Right, it was a 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.000 four year deal. Yeah, but you in twenty twenty three, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.240 they've already hit one of the escalators too. You know, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.600 I think they've triggered one of the extensions too, Like 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.440 like you know, how they do something where they say money, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.560 but it pads it to the end. I don't honestly 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.040 know that thing's so complicated. But you're right, Brian, and 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.119 you get a new staff in here, because what happens 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.479 is is the new staff. They don't get a new 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.919 quarterback in the first round of the draft, but they 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.440 get one in the third or fourth round that they like, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.679 and then all of a sudden, it's a little different. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.640 You know, maybe you're in a situation too, Derek. I'm sorry, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.560 you're not getting to talk nothing. No, no, I'm good, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.720 I'm good. But but but the thing about it is, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.040 I mean to me, I look at this and if 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.879 you if you if you happen to change offensive staff, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.639 if you happen to change the coordinator, you change the 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.360 quarterback coach, you change the offensive line coach, you change 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.359 the receiver coach, which they did last year, you know, 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.240 you change all those pieces. Now the evaluation really starts 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.600 because you know, these guys, these coaches probably aren't going anywhere. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.200 This this quarterback, though, is in a situation now where 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.120 it's like, okay, we're trying to help them, we're trying 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.360 to get players. We've changed the coaches. Now it's more 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.159 about the evaluation of you. And you know, I mean, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.200 after eight years, you know, we've seen what's going on 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.760 in the league in this day and age. These teams 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.320 are willing to eat huge amounts of salary cap to 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.720 move on from a guy. It used to be like, 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.080 you know, I mean, hey, we you know, we gotta 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.760 keep this quarterback. We gotta no, no, no, no. Teams 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.760 are just saying move we'll move on, we'll draft a guy, 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.399 we'll do you know, we'll do whatever we have to do. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.000 And I'll say this, this is one of the things 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.040 I've been seeing more and more creep up in the 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.120 last twenty four hours less than twenty four hours since 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.199 the game. People are comparing to what the Eagles were 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.040 able to do. The Eagles went to a Super Bowl 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.920 and completely flipped their roster, including quarterback and the head coach, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.919 and now they're back in a championship game and poised 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.520 to go to another super Bowl. And it was because 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.440 they got to a point where they felt like, although 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.640 they had invested a lot in Wentz, they said, he's 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:36.679 not the guy that can get us there. We got 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.920 to move on. And And then the question becomes, is 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:41.959 there a point where you have to say, as much 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:43.800 as you might like Dak and you think Dak is 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.240 good enough, you have to say, well, he's not good 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.080 enough to get us where we want to go. And 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.080 I don't know that they're there yet, but that's the 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.960 kind of things that fans are talking about right now, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.320