WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Dissecting The Offense's Issues 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.560 And I heard from the other locker room that, you know, 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.680 we talk about the noise in that place, and it's real, 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.560 by the way, because the press boxes open air and 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.480 we're basically sitting in the stands, and it's very difficult 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.800 for the offensive lineman going on silent counts to not 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.840 get jumped by the defense that's looking at the ball. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.400 And I think that led to a lot of problems 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.480 that Cowboys offensive line had because they did not play 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.400 as well as we've seen them play previously, and because 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.560 of that, they got themselves in a lot of bad 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.000 down distances. And then the Saints were able to pin 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.520 their ears back. And I don't know if Dak ever 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.840 got comfortable in the pocket. You know, yeah, he'd never 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.440 got comfortable. Everything seemed frantic the whole time, even though 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.880 they didn't have one false start. It just seemed frantic 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.400 the whole time, trying the change plays, getting guys in 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.040 different places on the line of scrimmage, and it resulted 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.440 in them scoring the only touchdown in the game, a touchdown. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.640 You know, I thought the Saints. I thought the Saints 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.119 secondary was really good in this game. They they basically said, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.320 Amari Cooper is not going to beat us in this game. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.000 They took their best cover man who who has had 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.600 some problems and he covered very well in this game, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.399 and they said, Okay, Randall Cobb and and Devin Smith, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.440 you guys try and beat us. We talked about last 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.240 week and mentioned that we felt like the Saints safeties 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.679 were a poor part of their secondary. The plays they 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.959 made were down the middle of the field and cover two. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.040 Never felt like the Saints safeties were nearly attacked enough 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.720 in this game. Now, whether Dak Prescott saw it or not, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.040 you know, it didn't matter. People are saying, what was 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.880 Kellen Moore's game plan? Where it was all the play action? 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.319 Where was all that? You know, I just felt like 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.920 the Saints overall did did a great job of taking 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.440 away a lot of that stuff. Even when Dak Prescott 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.560 had time to throw the ball, there was coverage down 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.640 the field. There was a lot of contested plays. There 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.320 were plays that you know that you know we've seen. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.960 Now Prescott missed Cobb on a crossing round on the 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.840 third down. If he throws the ball in front, but 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.440 then Cobb's professional, He's got to make that play. It's 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.160 behind him a little bit, and then he misses Cobb 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.519 in the end zone. You know, after he's does I 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.520 don't know how he got out of trouble. He's thrown 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.839 to his left. How many times we've seen him throw 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.840 to his left and be accurate, but he wasn't accurate 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.880 and he missed Cobb twice on key plays. It could 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.480 have been big in this game. And you know the 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.720 Cowboys had an opportunity late in that game too, would 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.720 they get you know, Sean Payton with a crazy call 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.160 of throwing the ball late in the game. They get 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.040 the sack, they get the ball back. The ten second 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.840 runoff killed him in that game. Yea, they just killed 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.120 him at the end because you know, they get a 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.919 heck of a play down the middle of the field 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.000 again to Cobb, and then they're in a situation where 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.840 if they could have gotten one more snap where they 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.760 could have thrown the ball, maybe they could have gotten 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.840 better field goal range. But the ten second runoff only 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.080 lose their all pro tackle. They lose ten seconds in 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.560 the game when they needed those ten seconds. So not 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.520 only did they lose the ten seconds, they lost the 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.040 opportunity unity to catch the ball too. Yeah, because the 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.760 guy was on Cooper the whole way, and then when 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.960 he made his cut, the guy lost his balance and 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.080 falls backwards and you'd get called for passing interference, which 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.200 was a second one. And by the way, I don't 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.960 know if you guys sensed this or not. Cooper, who 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.520 nursed that ankle all week, looked like he was running 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.800 in mud. Now the whole day he was Friday's practice. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.440 I mean, they're not going to put a guy out there, 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.239 but I don't think he was one hundred percent. But 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.200 then he just wasn't. He just wasn't moving the way 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.920 he normally moves. I think I think twenty three had 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.400 a lot to do with that myself. Well, and twenty 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.760 three had some twenty three. Twenty three played with a 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.720 chip on his shoulder, you know, guys like myself, Mickey. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.800 Everybody was calling him out of being a bum basically, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.480 well he was the week before, so well, I just 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.400 know overall nationally they're probably calling him a bum. And 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.960 I mean Chris Collinsworth called him out last night for 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.560 giving up a lot of big plays. But he played 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.920 excellent last night. A matter of fact, their whole secondary 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.200 they did a great job. Dennis Allen did a super 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.400 jobber Rush three, drop a clog and cover whatever you 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.920 have to do. They did a great job of mixing 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.720 things up for Dak Prescott, not giving him clean looks, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.080 you know, and giving him an opportunity to get the 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.200 ball to where he needed to. And the receivers did 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.320 a poor job of running routes getting open. I'm not 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.000 going to make any excuses for a Marii Cooper because 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.080 you know, he tries to run a slant and and 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.080 you know Lattimore is all over him, you know, And 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.360 that's and that's Prescott trying to force the ball in 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.520 there when he had three other options he could have 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.240 gone with the right. The secondary for the Saints was 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.800 really good, and we talked about at the front flour. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.920 They showed faith in those guys to stop the run 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.000 up front, and their their linebackers around that couldn't block 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.760 Malcolm bronco Row was a load inside. To Mario O'Davis, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.640 their linebacker was flowing to the ball. Mickey made a 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.040 good point. I think he made the comparison to the 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.400 fan this morning that that noise is a real thing, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.160 and it was decidedly a pro Saints crowd. I know 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.400 there was a lot of blue in the crowd, but 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.440 they had very much a twelfth man advantage. They're coming 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.680 off the SnO app defensively, and it reminded you of 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.120 that Metrodome game in the playoffs about ten years ago. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.000 And I thought the same thing, Yeah, during the press 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.840 box that it's hard. They didn't have any pre snap penalties. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.600 I don't believe the communication pre snap was good. But 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.240 the Saints were flying off the snap and they were 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.320 flowing to the ball. I mean, they just that was 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.839 a tremendous defensive effort, and you know, the offense said 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.240 after the game, a wasted effort for the Cowboys defense 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.360 because absolutely, you know, I mean, you hold them to 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.880 four field goals, it's another slugfest just like last year. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.760 They did a great job. And what a play by 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.880 Jalen Smith to give him an opportunity at the end. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.119 Oh yeah, hell of a call to they carry hider 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.000 to carry on getting home. And then also Robert Quinn 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.000 took three blockers with him on that when to get 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.799 Smith hometot Peyton said afterwards he kicking himself for calling 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.280 such a stupid play. What was that going to be? 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.360 Like a forty seven yard field they were trying They 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.760 were trying to run the wheel route get Byron Jones. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:57.160 A lot of credit Byron Jones covered the wheel. Jordan 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.479 Lewis covered the wheel coming out of that field, and 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.960 then Bridgewater once he saw it cover, he tried to avoid. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.040 And I mean, you know, the best hope you could 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.599 have you got the sack, but man, if you could 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.200 have knocked the ball loose, I mean, that would have 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:10.640 been one of those things. Ball would have been at 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.479 midfield and a chance to go win the game. You know, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.400 I felt like they had enough time to go win 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.000 the game. I felt like that, you know, But but 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.440 then again you kind of said, then I should have 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.760 thought to myself, well, they haven't made any plays really 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.000 down the field. The chunk plays you talked about him 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.000 only two of them to the one chunk play they 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.840 were able to make. They didn't have enough time. They 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.279 got the balls. A great throw by Dak that was 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.240 one of the two to cop to Cob. Yeah, and 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.240 then the other one that was the second longest play. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.000 The other one was to Jar one jar with the 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.080 one yet both against covered two and so you know 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.880 that's kind of where, Yeah, the team just didn't do 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.320 enough to win this football game. Offensively. It just did not. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.320 And it's a shame when you when you waste a 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.320 defensive effort. Even though the Saints controlled the clock, they 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.919 didn't kick out, they didn't score a touchdown. And I 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.960 looked back and looked, and it's time they lost a 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.239 game not scoring given up a touchdown. Was two thousand 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.360 and two when they were just bad, awful that they 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.560 lost I think a game nine to five and nine 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.320 to seven or something weird like that. So yeah, but 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.360 that that and after all this stuff, we said they 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.560 lost by two points, and Brian mentioned some missed opportunity, 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.080 Jack rolling to his left money, he's money, Well, he said, 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.440 I completed that ball a million times, you know. And 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.360 and and that's look at that. That that was the 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.600 second drive of the game. They left four points on 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.040 the field. People will lose by two. People will say 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.720 that the Saints, if they wouldn't have had the penalties, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.400 would have been a lot different game. Dallas forced you 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.680 into those penalties. I mean, the Cowboys pass rush forced 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.440 you into those. Larry Woolford he was awful, I mean 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.640 he was he was awful, and you know he was 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.280 holding every play and you know he could have been 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.000 called for more in that game. But if you said, oh, well, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.840 if the Saints would have just you know, if they 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.440 wouldn't have got those penalties, now, well, if they had held, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.800 they were going to get the quarterback sat There's no question, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.920 There's no question. So again, this was this was a 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.600 big time wasted opportunity by the Dallas offense, uh to 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.360 to to handle this game. And the turnovers were terrible. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.400 You know, Jason Witton, I mean, they make a heck 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.560 of a play. They rushed three drop eight, Witton finds, 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.120 finds the window, Dak hits him on the run, and 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.960 then you know, and then aj Klein is in coverage 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.920 and he's in such bad position, but then he rallies 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.360 his ass off to knock the ball free. You know, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.360 that's the kind of stuff. If you're gonna get beat, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.280 make sure your rally to get to the ball. That's 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.760 a good lesson for everybody out there. But and then 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.360 the zeek thing, I don't know. I mean, I thought 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.720 I thought the fun I thought his elbow was down, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.480 and they're talking about the ball moving and on. I've 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.000 just grown to know the officials are going to screw 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.000 you anytime they can, so just be ready for them. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.200 They just gave up on that call. It was like, 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.040 you know what, the guy in the field said, it 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.880 was a fumble. Okay, it's a fund but they didn't. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.920 They didn't call it. They didn't call it a fumble, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.680 right right, you can't bitch about it. I mean, what 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.840 the hell there? Again, the officials are gonna do what 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.200 they're gonna do. They're gonna they're gonna replay what they 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.880 want to replay. They're not going to replay stuff. So 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:10.800 you know, you're at the mercy of it. And they 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.640 had the bulls eye right there on the replay, the downmarker, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.000 the big orange circle. It was in the way of 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.880 seeing the play a couple of times, right, you know. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.480 And Zeke said afterwards, I can't leave any doubt in 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.160 that situation. Doesn't matter if my elbow was down. It 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.040 kind of looked like it was, but not only kind 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.439 of he was down and the ball wasn't. It was 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.520 bound down, but he was pulling, so he was pulling 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.719 the ball out. The ball wasn't out. What what the 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.319 what they they said to the mercy of exactly, it's ridiculous. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.959 But see what happens there. It ends up being a 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.920 big swing because now they get the ball and they 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.240 end up kicking a field goal when they wouldn't have 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.760 had that opportunity, they wouldn't have time left. And then 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.440 we can get into how the clock went from four 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.360 seconds to two seconds miraculously on that last play. All right, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.640 let's get into a lot of all that stuff and 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.160 much more on talking Cowboys when we come back in 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.720 just a moment. Your new apartment's big. Such a great deal, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:15.840 that's okay? Just okay? What's not right about the subway? Well, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.920 I bet you don't even notice it? After that's my neighbor. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.640 Angus A deal that's just okay, is not okay? Get 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.160 a great deal with America's best network. 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I don't know what packs. Lying on replay 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.120 doesn't help though, doesn't put your elbows at all, not 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.160 at all when the officials not sure what the call 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.000 was anyway on the field. Um, Cowboys are playing the 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.400 Packers at three twenty five on Sunday at at and 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.360 T Stadium, And yes, you can watch Cowboys football live 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.320 at at and T Stadium. Go to Dallas Cowboys dot com. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.280 You may already be here on Dallas Cowboys dot com 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.840 to get your tickets for Sunday's game against Aaron Rodgers 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.000 and the Packers. Mickey, do you want to go from 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.480 four seconds to two seconds to zero seconds? Jason's Garrett's 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:59.960 fastest play in NFL history. Yeah, the clock didn't start. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.400 I have to hit something that would be stopped. Yes, yes, okay, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.080 so done. Who who was the official on the or 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.080 the in the booth? Who was then the game guy? 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.360 Let me tell you that because actually no, no no, no, no, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.839 no on TV. Oh Al Michaels and Chris Colin. No, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.559 who was there? Oh Terry mcaulay. Okay, so he came. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.920 But he came on and pointed out after I went 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.960 back and looked at it when I got home, that 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.959 the clock doesn't start stop until it hits something. Right. So, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.280 if you remember back training camp San Antonio, when Bill 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.360 was having Quincy, Carter learned to run out ball, throw 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.040 it as far as you can, throw it out of bounds, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.880 and the clock doesn't stop until the ball hits the ground. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.400 The ball, the clock stopped as soon as the ball 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.280 crossed the sideline. It appeared to me in the world, 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.320 it appeared to me that the clock didn't start until 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.760 the start. Wait. Wait, it appeared to be the clock 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.560 didn't start until the ball got to the out about No. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.679 I went back and he took a two strap, a 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.400 quick two step drop right, and the clock hadn't started 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.600 until the ball he was throwing the ball, and then 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.240 it didn't and then it landed like five six yards 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.880 out of bounds by time it hit. I talked to 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.320 Sean after the game, which showed surprise. He goes, you 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.560 know that plight should have taken three seconds. I said, well, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.920 I think it took four. At minimum, there should have 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.280 been one second left on the clock, and maybe you 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.520 go to maybe they should go to Arena ball and 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.000 use the decimals and have it tick all the way 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.080 down to a tenth of a second, just you know 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.360 exactly how much time is left. I think. I think 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.280 Sean and RJ brought that up on the fan this morning, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.920 and Jason Garrett was like, hmm, I thought the same thing, honestly, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.600 And if there's three tenths of a second left on 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.440 the clock, then you can't get a playoff, just like 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:48.160 the count the right and then you know, and those 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.080 are those are those are the two circumstances to lead 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.800 to a field goal. They lost by two. You know, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.680 all this stuff we've said, it comes down. They lost 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.640 by two? Does yeah? It does? Still lost? Oh I understand. Okay, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.520 what about the decision to go for it on fourth 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.120 and one at forty three? Y? Yeah? I mean again, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.520 they ran they you know, he's he has confidence in 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.320 his offensive line, even though they'd had some struggles in 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.360 this game. I kind of was kind of going through 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.960 the litany problems that they had just on first down runs. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.840 But you know, I'm all for that. You know this 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.359 this I'm sitting here arguing or saying, hey, make Bridgewater 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.800 have to play, you know, I mean, go for it, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.760 go for it, trying to make him, try and make 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.640 something happen, try and get your team going a little bit, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.760 try and build a little spark, a little momentum and 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.520 all that. Hell, they had the first down, They had 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.240 the first down. I just fumbled the damn ball. And 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.600 that's you know, there's a question whether he actually fumbled 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.560 the ball. We don't get into that, but yeah, you're right, Yeah, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.480 I was. I'll be honest. At the time, I'm thinking 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.200 puntered away. I thought the same just too well there 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.800 and then because keep saying they got field goal ranch 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.000 yet right, right, But it's a calculated gamble. You just 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.600 paid this guy how much money. He's the best back 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.360 in the league arguably, and they got the first down. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.400 I mean, you know, hindsight, they made the right decision. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.040 You can argue the call. For sure. I thought he 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.120 should have gone for it, and so he won the 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.320 bet and then lost. Yeah, because the ball gets yanked 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.960 out and let's not also forget and he probably still 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.640 would have made the field goal. But it's third and 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.040 ten at the twenty seven and they forced an incompletion 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.400 and they get the personal file on Lawrence. He's on 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.520 the ground trying to grab the quarterback and he gets 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.440 called fifteen yards. So if at fourth down at the 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.880 twenty seven thirty seven, it was gonna be a forty five. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.640 Now that guy was going to hit it. He's really 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.520 that guy. Every field goal he makes his over fifty 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.760 yards appears he would have hit it. But there was 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.720 a lot of circumstances to win to what seemed like 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.720 a meaningless field goal. Okay, it's nine three, you're only 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.000 down to touchdown, you go in the lead, which it 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.000 ended up ten nine, So yeah, a lot of things 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.680 went into that, and then okay, you get to halftime, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.040 you're down nine three in the first half. Was a 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.280 lot like even last week's game against Miami, where it 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.640 was at ten sixth lead or whatever it was at halftime. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.760 But you'd take control of the game in the third quarter, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.480 which has been the Cowboys habit so far in the 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.760 first three games of the year. Of course, dak still 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.280 hadn't thrown an incompletion in the third quarter of a game, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.280 but in the second half. The Saints owned the time 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.399 of possession nearly nineteen minutes time of possession in the 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.560 second half, and the Cowboys only had the ball that 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.760 one time great drive in the third quarter, and until 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.639 the final seconds of the game. They only had three 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.760 possessions in the entire second half of the game. But 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.919 you got to go ahead and convert. The only reason 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.560 that they got a first down on the second possession 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.880 that the Cowboys got a first down the second possession 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.840 early in the fourth quarter because they got a penalty 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.440 on a third down play, So it was essentially two 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.040 three and ounce. Offensively, after that long drive, they did 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.040 what they wanted to do, and especially in the second half, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.080 You're right, Bill, they got to milked the clock. They 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.879 used Kamara. He had some tough runs. You Cowboys defense 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.680 was around the ball. They played with great effort, but Kamara, 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.400 he didn't break the big play, but he ran had 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.000 some plays with incredible balance, second effort um. You saw 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.800 why he's a great running game and what it did 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.760 for them. Even when they didn't have a scoring drive, 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:21.879 they were able to maintain field position where the Cowboys started. Yeah, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.639 more stead and so the Cowboys in the second after drives. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.680 Their possession started at their own sixteen yard line, their 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.720 own twenty five, their own thirteen, and their own ten. Yeah. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.560 That they had a three and out after the Robert 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.640 Quinn sack too late in the second half that killed him. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.320 You know that that was they got got second in 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.400 one and then they ran the ball and got minus 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.200 one and then turn around and had an incomplete pass. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.080 Am I right about that Bill right before, right before 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.080 it's like probably three four minutes left in the game, 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.800 five minutes left in the game, they had that untimely 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.360 three and out that I mean, heck, they get they 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.480 get a nice they get a nice play. They get 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.680 nine yards eight yards to Cooper and then zero for Zeke. Yeah, 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:09.080 and then uh incomplete the Cooper punt. Yeah, I mean 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.280 that's that's that's actually minus one to Zeke. Well, I 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.680 was following along on the on the NFL Jesus site 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.320 and they said Cooper for nine and then and then 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.520 Zeke for minus one. Gave it a third and two 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.840 and then they had their incompletion again, and that you know, 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.360 that was this killer that Latimore broke it up. Yeah. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.919 See that's that that's to me is where that to me? 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.760 Is where you know this game they needed to find 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.359 ways they didn't make enough plays on third down. Yeah, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.040 And I don't think it was all about protection. I 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.119 think I think there was. I think the coverage was 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.639