WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Time to Pick 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.160 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:16.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.360 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.480 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.360 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:34.040 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us A 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:51.360 bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton. It's Friday, January thirteenth, twenty 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.560 twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one oh seven. Welcome 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.840 to the latest edition of The Break. We're lying from 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.080 the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star, presenter by 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.160 mill of Light, the o beer of the Dallas Cowboys, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.160 and today we get you ready Cowboys versus Bucks beginning 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.240 of the playoffs. Hopefully not the end of the playoffs, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.200 but we'll get you ready for that game. Lets you 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.680 know what we're thinking. I also let you know I'll 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.440 make sure to capture that moment. I'll have my phone 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:23.600 ready to capture you and Nick getting emotional. Oh, I'm 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.680 happy I have already. First of all, we're taking an 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.479 off air conversation onto the year. Nick and I were 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.240 talking about, like if the Cowboys actually get on a 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.560 magical run and should get to a super Bowl. The 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.720 question was would we cry? And I told Nick like, yeah, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.000 I thought about it, and I do think I would 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.120 probably she had a tear. I'll have my phone ready. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.320 You don't need to capture that. Once in a lifetime. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.880 You'll be so overwhelmed with all the things that you 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.200 have to do to get ready for that game. I'll 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.000 be crying for that. That's that is a true statement 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.400 from what I hear, like my colleagues around the league, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.400 ye've experienced. Yeah, that's why I hear why it takes 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.520 two weeks to go play that game, right exactly, all 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.720 the things you have to do. There's a lot to do. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.560 But trust me, I will be happy to take on 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.320 that task. But those tasks because we have well, I 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.680 get emotional every year when there's like a team that 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.600 wins a Super Bowl and they have like some story 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.320 like behind a player or a coach and they're like 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.400 super emotional just watching them on my couch. Of course 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.720 getting emotional too, But you know, honestly, part of why 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.200 I would be so excited would be because and I 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.360 really and truly believe this is not me kind of 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.640 pumping you guys up. But I think I have the 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.560 best media team in the country, and I think putting 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.200 the creativity of this team to work on that kind 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 of stage where you can tell those kinds of stories, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.480 I think you guys would do some phenomenal work. And 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.079 we've never had an opportunity to really do that. And 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.480 and that's where I'm just like, man, I would love 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.280 to see this crew, this group right here, put some 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.680 content around a Super Bowl, around even a championship game. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.400 I think it would be phenomen It's why you do it. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.480 I mean, that's why the players play so they can 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.120 go and play in that game. But that's why we 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.400 do what we do, so you can experience all of 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.280 that and the ride with them. And we haven't we 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.519 haven't done that. We haven't been able to so who 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.919 knows just talking about it. I mean, let's just so 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.760 it's like that lottery ticket, like, oh man, if only 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.360 I could win the lottery. Baby steps though, and it 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.920 starts this week because it's also something we've never seen 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.200 and it's been thirty years. I mean, I remember, I 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.839 remember it was probably my favorite game of all time. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.320 You know, Brian just said it that the Super winning 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.720 the Super Bowl, I mean, getting to the Super Bowl 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.600 was almost more enjoyable than winning it. But my favorite 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.720 game of all time for the Cowboys just when they 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.960 beat the forty nine Ers in nineteen ninety two for 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.360 the NFC Championship game, which is the last time they've 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.400 won a road game in the playoffs. How was that 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.520 the game was parking? I was working. It was my 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.000 first year of scouting, and I was sitting in the 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.000 box with San Francisco fans. John Dorsey, former general manager, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.680 you were scouting with Green Baths. I was scouting my 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.600 first year with Green Bay and John Dorsey and I 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.440 are out the East West game out in Palo Alto, California. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.200 Dors goes, Hey, man, I got two buddies. I got 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.920 buddies to have a box here for the candlestick for 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.080 this game. You interested. I'm like, man, I'm from Dallas. Yeah, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.680 I gotta go right. So I sat there, had all 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.840 my Green Bay gear and all that. These fans from 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.120 San Francisco were going in on Dallas. They were going 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.760 in on people from Dallas. They were saying alk and 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.240 I sat there the whole game, the whole game, the 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.480 whole game, the whole game. When he caught that ball 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.320 and took off running Alvin or Harper. I started in 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:40.720 I go run un run, and everybody turned and looked 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.480 at me, and I said, you m Effers had been 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.560 all talking about Dallas all day and what a terrible 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.200 city it is. I'm from Dallas. And John Dorsey looked 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.160 at me, go it's time to go break And they 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.200 were not expecting that because your Green Bay I did. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.040 I had all my Green Bay gear and when I 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.559 was quiet the whole game, and when he caught that ball, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.559 I started screaming and and he you know, it turned 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.880 out well, and literally John looked at me and he says, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.560 we gotta go, and I said fine, And I just 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.520 I didn't even thank the people. I sat in the 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:14.880 box with the whole game. It was just constant, well, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.320 Dallas is this and can you believe it's about? You know? 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.120 And I just as a as a guy growing up 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.440 season tickets for twenty years, I'd had enough. I'd had 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.240 enough of these fans, you know. I thought, you know, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.520 that to me is my number one play of all time, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.560 to Alvin Harper. But because the forty nine Ers had 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.480 come back in the game, they cut it to four. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.960 The crowd's going nuts. It's four minutes to go. It's 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.000 like four minute offense? What do you do with four 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.640 minute offense? Here it is and I mean Summer all Madden. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.039 They're like, this is a championship game. This shopped up field. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.680 Yeah yeah, and this is it's four minutes to go. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.800 You're on the twenty yard line. What do you do? 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.080 And you throw it? You go back to pass and 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.240 you throw it to Alvin Harper on a twenty yard 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.719 slant and he takes off for seventy yards and it's 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.760 like you go right at him, know, and that's the 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.440 epitome of like trying to take this game over and 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.159 and playing to go win, you know, win a trip 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.640 to the super Bowl. It reminded me because San Francisco 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.919 had given me heartache before and eighty one with the 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.840 catch Dwight Clark, because that was a pretty good cowboy 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.840 team that you know. I mean, if you remember how 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.320 that game ended, Drew Pearson gets horse collared before there 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.719 was horse collaring, I mean, they're gonna he if he 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.480 breaks free, Dallas is gonna win that game a game. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.000 But everybody just remembers the catch, and you talk about 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.440 crying and getting emotional when that game was over. I 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.360 sat there in my you know, my friend's apartment. I mean, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.479 like tears were in them. I'm like, man, what just happened? 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.480 This is what just happened, you know. And that's the 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.960 kind of thing these fans, I mean, we just cowboy 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.320 fans haven't experience I mean, they've experienced the heartache, but 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.240 you know, to experience the joy of a ninety two 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.520 game or something like they are a super Bowl win 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.080 or something, it's it's it's it really really is amazing. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.279 And that's the part where you know, we talk about 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.440 how emotional will be. There a lot of people out 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.160 there listening right now that if you're listening to The Break, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.320 a lot of you guys are listening to us on 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.240 you know in June, right you're still listening to our 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.560 show every week. And those fans talk about emotional because 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.840 they're the ones that have had to listen to all 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.280 the criticism and all and they're the ones that are saying, oh, 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.200 my team's gonna be good this year, my team's going 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.320 all the way and then get disappointed. Right So for them, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.160 it's gonna be that same sort of emotional release of 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.560 finally but you know, they got a lot to do 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.560 to get there, and I guess let's talk about that. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.920 Let's start talking first about Xavier Rhodes. He's obviously the 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.680 Cowboys picked him up last week. How much is he 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.239 gonna be able to Like I heard somebody say yesterday, 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.600 you don't pick up a player like that for him 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.440 to set on your practice squad. You pick him up 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.840 because you think you can use him. Is he going 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.440 to be able to be used this weekend? And how 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.000 do you think they'll use him? I think he's gonna play. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.360 I mean, I think I don't know if he'll be 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.600 the starter on the other side or on Bland will 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.880 be and thrown Bland on the injury report, so that's 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.040 a that's a good sign, not even on the injury 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.400 report from the injury from last week. But I think 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.480 I think Roads will play a lot. And you know 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.400 one thing, Well, I'll get into a story in the 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.040 locker room a little bit. I'll let Brian kind of 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.720 talk a little bit more about him and what he 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.960 might be able to do. But I think that that 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:23.480 he's definitely pretty comfortable in this situation right now. You 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.480 got you gotta thought him this one No, I just 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.040 gotta I liked his input when he was talking to 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.600 the media, just his attitude. You know, he's he keeps 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.560 talking about being ready to go, ready to go, and 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.640 so far the guys that they have brought in have 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.480 seemed to be ready to go. So that's the upside, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.160 or at least a positive sign that I'm like, Okay, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.439 maybe he can be similar to a guy like t 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.719 Y that came in here and was plugged in right 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.080 away and effective. Yeah, fresh, the fresh body, and he's 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.800 he says he's ready to go whenever, and he so 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.240 physically he seems to be there. So I'm excited to 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.600 see what he can bring once he's put in the Yeah. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.240 I was listening to Nick on the radio one oh 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.880 five three this morning driving in and you said something 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.520 I thought was really good. I just need him to 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.880 be good one time, you know. I just need him. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.880 I mean I need him to you know, I need 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.280 him to find a way to be a savvy veteran. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.160 Much like what you said about t Y Hilton. What 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.880 was t Y Hilton's first impression that we got to him. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.560 It was a fourth down pass interference draw on a 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.439 huge play and then a huge play down the sidelines. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.120 That was our impression of him right off, to jump 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.559 a guy like he hadn't played all year, and now 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.320 he's playing in a meaningful game and helping you win 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.400 the game. And so to me, that's all you have. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.840 That's that means. It's it's sad that it's got to 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.360 the point where Kelvin Joseph is not as good as 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.320 dron Bland. It's it's it's sad that that happened, you know, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.800 And but you have to there. The one thing this 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.679 team has done a great job of this year I 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.319 think of the coaching staff is if somebody's not good enough, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.200 they don't keep playing him. You know, they realize, hey, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.240 they're throwing everything they can at this cornerback spot and hoping. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.559 You know, Xavier Rhodes has the length, he has, the toughness, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.160 he has, the veteran intellect that they need. He just 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.680 can't run as well as he once did. And so 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.960 if you play on guts and guile and toughness and 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.200 everything else, that's what you're gonna probably get from Xavier 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.080 Woods in this game. Rhodes. Excuse me, Yeah, So let 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.400 me ask you this, if if what he has his size, physicality. Yeah, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.920 and what we saw in that last game of Tampa Bay, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.800 which is they're gonna try to challenge your corners on 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.080 the perimeter with the run game and their ability to tackle. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.040 Does he then become an asset to you if they're 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.640 doing if they if that is the game play and 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.360 they're trying to employ, has he become an asset? I 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.400 feel like that they're better. I feel like that the 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.160 Cowboys are better now playing perimeter defense. Just because the 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.679 corners are different. It doesn't help you covering. You know, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.520 Anthony Brown could retreat, Digs can retreat, you know, in 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.840 a playoff game. I just love to see Diggs just 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.280 like you know what, I'm not going to retreat. I 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.360 saw what happened to me last time we play these guys. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.959 I need to play with force. I need to play forward. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.800 I need to make that ball go back inside to 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.760 vander Esh and those guys, you know are Wilson. I 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.080 need to make this ball, you know. I need to, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.079 you know, make sure that my force doesn't give them 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.199 reason to capture the corner. I think this team plays 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.839 better perimeter defense because you've got guys that are willing 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.760 to do that. Bland's willing to do that. Right is 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.480 willing to do it. Right doesn't always cover, but right 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.920 will at least step up, you know, And that's all 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.839 you need. You don't need somebody retreating at the point. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.960 They're going to challenge Digs in this game because what 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.800 they figure out is if they can run the ball 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.720 at Diggs and get him war down, having to deal 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.560 with that, he's not going to be able to cover 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.080 as well. It's just like it's like past It's like 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.240 when you run the ball successfully on offense, it wears 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.320 pass rushers down. Look at Michael Parsons, you know, he 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.880 gets war down and he has to continue to deal 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.520 with that kind of stuff. So, yeah, it's gonna be 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.280 a challenge. But I hope that Digs remembers what happened 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.199 in week one and then makes that decision to come 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.719 and try and help. 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If 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.400 they're gonna win against Tampa Bay run defense or rushing offense. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.640 I need him to run the ball. I need him 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.880 to run the ball. I need to find ways to 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.000 I need to find ways to keep drives going. I 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.160 need to find a way to stay ahead of the chains. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.640 Quarterback plays so much better when they're playing ahead of 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.280 the chains. Offensive coordinator gets in some rhythm. You know, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.480 Tampa is not a great running team. They're gonna try, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.040 and they probably feel like they can. They have confidence 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.200 that they can. I kind of feel like you're a 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.040 little bit better prepared for that to play the run 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:39.600 defense with vandershback Hankins. They didn't see Hankins the first 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.480 time around, and they're dealing with some issues at center 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.400 Tampa Bay with Jensen. They don't know if Jensen's going 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.120 to play in this game, and they're other guys are 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.760 nicked up too as well, So I would kind of 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.120 kind of keep an eye on that. But I feel 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.120 like if you let me, if you let me run 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.520 the football, my offense is going to be able to 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.480 move the ball and score points. Yeah, I think it 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.960 comes down to, you know, who do you want on 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.200 third and nine? I mean, what makes you feel better 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.760 Dak completing the third to nine or tom Brady completing 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.440 a third of nine, And I think it would be 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.680 tom Brady. So to me, if you stop their run, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.200 you still got to deal with them, which yeah, you 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.080 can rush the passer on them, but you still got 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.280 to deal with him as opposed to if you're in 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.920 third and nine situations. I don't like that. I don't 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.160 like the way they play defense to try to disguise 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.680 things for Dak. I think a have to run the football. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.360 I think that I agree with Brian running ball. Well, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.000 were you asking defensively? I'm saying both, Like what's more 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.600 important for the Cowboys to fix their rushing offense so 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.560 they run the ball better, or for them to fix 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.800 the rush defense they can stop Tampa Bay from running 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:48.000 the ball. I would say stop Tampa Bay more than 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.760 the running the run defense. I would like them to 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.160 be able to rush the passer a lot better. Get 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.640 back to pressuring the passer, because even though they've been 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.680 struggling with stopping the run all year long, I feel 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.840 that they were a lot more successful when they did 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.639 find a way to get to the quarterback and I 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.679 kind of slowly started fading away and they started dropping 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.719 down on both things, like now you don't have a 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.560 line that's rushing the pass or and now you don't 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.639 have a line that's being able to stop the run either. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.400 So if they're able to just kind of get back 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.040 into pressuring the quarterback Micah parton being the problem for 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:30.439 Tom Brady, I think that automatically, quote unquote, they should 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.360 play a better game defensively and therefore also help your 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.040 offense to get back hopefully to what they can be. Yeah, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.080 if you flip the question and told me would you 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.400 rather have pass rush or run offense, I'm gonna take 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.879 pass rush because to me, I don't think Campa can 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.320 run the ball there passing game there first in the 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.640 league in attempts, their first in the league in yards. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.600 You know that's they don't score points. If I could, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.560 if you told me, I could get after them and 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.560 affect the game one way, give me my pass rush, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.960 because if Tampa's not gonna run the ball, I'm gonna 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.560 need to stop them throwing the ball. But no, no, no, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.640 go ahead. I was just gonna say, but I think 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.879 this is a chicken and egg kind of thing. I 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.960 actually think their ability to rush the passer starts with 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.440 can you stop the run? Yeah? And I think that 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.280 what we saw earlier, the team throws the ball, they 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.359 abandon the run. Yeah, But I get My point is 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.280 people they don't even try. My point is, though, in 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.280 games where the Cowboys have lost this year, and specifically 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.479 games where they typically it goes hand in hand, when 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.560 they haven't able to stop the run, then what ends 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.200 up happening is because they can't stop the run, they 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.679 kind of get worn down, they get a little frustrated, 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.080 and then their pass rush slows down, and then they're 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.479 not getting the pass rush. To me, if you can 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.960 stop the run and they talk about it all the time, 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.399 you earn the right to rush the pastor earning the 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.680 right to rush the pastor is about stopping the run. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.800 Once you stop the run and you make the other 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.520 team one dimensional, now you have a chance to just 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.359 let loose and go get the quarterback there comfortable earlier 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.879 this year because I mean every time after every show 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.760 we would say, if one thing that the defense needs 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.920 to fix is the run, stopping the run, So what's 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.919 the difference? My thing is, I think as the season 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.480 warre on, teams started realizing if you just don't abandon 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.640 your run, like if you just stick with your run, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.640 this team will give up yards in the running game. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.080 And what we started to see is as a season 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.840 went on, more teams started saying, you know what, even 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.040 though we're down, we're not gonna get away from the run. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.040 We're gonna keep running the ball. And I think that's 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.840 how the Green Bay game played out, Like they just 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.560 kept running, They kept running, and they didn't get out 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:36.920 of it. They were like, we might be down, we're 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:38.479 gonna keep running the ball, and they got right back 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.240 in the game. And so I think what happened this 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.920 team's realize this team is more concerned with getting after 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:45.960 the passer. And if you stick to the run and 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.200 you keep pounding at them, eventual it's gonna hit and 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.680 eventual it's gonna work, right, And I think if they 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.720