WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Where to Start? 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.080 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:19.799 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.960 ready for a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.280 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.959 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.640 It is Monday, October fourteenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.880 number sixteenth three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.040 We are live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.240 the Star. We've got so much to talk about today. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.680 The sky is officially falling in Dallas and the Cowboys 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.920 get a loss to the to the New York Jets 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.000 twenty four, twenty two. Sorry, I was kind of moving around, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.320 and I'd hate when when people don't start things off right, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.520 you know, you get off to a bad start. He 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.360 kind of just messes up the whole show. Is that 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.240 like a microcosm of what we saw last night or yesterday? 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.920 UNI all season? Yeah, pretty much all season. So it's 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.800 been a lot. It's been a lot to deal with 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.640 kind of watching this team and trying to make heads 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.840 or tails of what all is going on. So I 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.120 figured the best way to attack this thing today was 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.400 we're just gonna go down through some of the different 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.560 things that were problems for the Cowboys yesterday, and I 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.960 want you guys to talk about how that relates overall 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.200 to to kind of your opinion of how much it 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.479 affected the game, and really all these systematic things are 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.039 they just kind of things that you're seeing in spurts 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.640 at different times throughout the season. I really appreciate you 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.600 taking this approach because I have so much on my 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.440 mind that I'm worried that I'm gonna forget something too. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.760 So he didn't even ask if we're doing Okay, we're 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.320 not known, Okay, tires, no bummed out, But we got 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:53.560 a lot to talk about it, and we got to 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.720 help these guys get through this. So let's start first 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.280 with Nick. You mentioned it, the slow starts. Look at 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.880 the first half of the offense Cowboys punt field goal, punt, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:09.000 turnover and downs, punt field goal again, just not nothing, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.720 I mean to getting nothing out of the offense and 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.800 the first half, and then the second half field goal, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.200 missfield goal, touchdown, touchdown. It's just it's they're getting off 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.480 the slow starts. It seems to be something that's continuing 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.720 to happen. The question to half for you guys is 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.000 do you think this is about preparation or is it 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.200 about execution? That was the big question in the locker 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.840 room last night. Where do you guys fall on that? Um? 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.960 I think the fact that it's been six games in 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.359 a row. I mean, I would imagine in preparation, and 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.080 I say six because those first three wins they were 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.320 they still had slow starts. They didn't, you know, just 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.000 jump out of the gate. So I would say preparation. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.400 I mean, it's both, but but I mean the fact 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.440 that it's it's their job to kind of come out 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.200 and figure out a way to get this thing rolling. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.720 It didn't help that your best wide receiver is out 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.800 in the first drive of the game. I mean, And 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.360 but it was their fault for only saying we got 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.040 four guys. That's their fault. Not saying Devin Smith would 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.040 have made a big difference. But you know, they were 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.960 he was already banged up, and then to have him 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.720 go out like that, that's on them and all that 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.360 though we're gonna get to that that's gonna be actually 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.280 be our second problem We're gonna talk about as the injuries. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.240 But Dave, I've been I go back and forth in 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.960 this all years, like you know, how much how much 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.959 is the is the preparation? Like is it on the 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.240 is the head coach and the coaching staff to not 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.040 have a team ready to play? Is it on the 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.280 players to execute? I mean, you can talk about drop passes, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.480 you can talk about bad protections, you can talk about 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.720 miss tackles, blown assignments, Like again, how much is coach 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.600 fors how much his player? But I will say, you know, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.160 I come on here time and time again and I said, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:39.880 you know, say what you will about Jason Garrett, but 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.640 the one thing is like he always has his team 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.400 ready to play, Like they they give him a full 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.440 sixty minutes, they're blah blah blah blah blah. Like I 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.840 feel stupid for thinking that right now, because I mean, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.880 how can you feel that that was the case against 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.640 this team? They looked flat and bad in the first half. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.280 They sort of got it together, but even like, they 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.880 didn't look in spiring down the stretch of that game either, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.600 so they didn't seem prepared to play. They also didn't 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.200 execute to nixt points. Probably a little bit of both, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.840 but it all was bad and all deserves to be 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.120 criticized right now, Yam, I agree. I think it is 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.720 a combination of both things. What it's crazy to me 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.200 and I still can't understand. And I understand that every 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.960 year you do have a new team and you can't 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.000 necessarily compare it to the previous one. But the Cowboys 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:34.239 were able to keep the whole team basically from last 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.280 year and improved on it as far as talent. So 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.760 what blows my mind is when you see even the defense, 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.680 when you talk about the defense what they were able 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.320 to do last year, and then you look at how 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.120 they're performing this year, it makes absolutely no sense in 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.440 my mind as to why there's been such a big 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:59.160 difference there in dropping down rather than going up. And 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.720 as far as the offense goes same thing. They do 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.520 have talent. We've seen them having talent. We talked about 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.640 this team during training camp and me and myself and 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.599 a lot of us were really excited about what this 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.560 offense could look like and they're not necessarily performing that way. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:22.800 So it goes to both the coaches know what they 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.320 have in their players and it is up to them 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.440 to kind of figure out exactly how to place them 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.360 in the best position as possible. We're going to talk 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.320 about that defense a little bit later as well, but 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.360 I want to ask you guys specifically to the offense, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.000 and Nick, you and I mentioned we talked a little 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.279 bit about this in the press box last night. Do 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.320 you think that maybe the inexperience of the play caller 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.640 offensively could be a part of the issue that we're 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.360 having here. You know, you start off the first three 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.279 games of the season, offenses were clicking. Yeah, maybe they 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:52.760 got a little bit of a slow start, but they 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.120 were clicking. They were scoring a ton of points, and 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.880 it at least feels like by the time you get 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.680 to the New Orleans game, either you run into a 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.520 defense that's that much appreciably better, which I don't think 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.159 if you look at all three of these defenses they've 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.680 lost to that they're that much better than defenses around 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.799 the league, or the argument can be made that those 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.000 other teams have now adjusted to what they saw in 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.599 the first three games from the play caller and that's 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.440 affecting now the offense's ability to get going. Do you 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.799 fault Do you think that there may be some credence 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.680 to that as far as how the offense is performing. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.520 This honestly felt like the New Orleans game all over again, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.680 with the exception that they actually got some success in 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.840 the running game. You know, Zeke had one hundred yards, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:42.360 so it didn't look as ugly. But it was just unimaginative, boring, vanilla, 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.680 whatever you want to call it, that's what it was. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.200 And maybe Marii Cooper being out and Randall Copp for 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.080 that matter, maybe that's part of it. But I kind 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.640 of doubt it because they did it against the Saints too, 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.160 and maybe that's a better defense. But I just I'm 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.000 not in the mood to make excuses for it. I 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.120 got home last night and I was thinking about this, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.320 and I took the time to go through the play 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.280 seat and figure it out. So this is and and 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.200 I can just I can picture it with crystal clarity. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.520 They had thirty four first down opportunities in this game. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.960 They ran on seventeen of them. And you say, oh, well, 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.480 half and half. That's that's balanced, right. Taking out the 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.040 end of game scenarios where you have to pass, you 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.160 cannot do everything you want, just the main the rest 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.520 of the game where the whole offense is at your disposal. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.840 First and ten they ran it up the gut seventeen 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.480 out of twenty four opportunities. That is a seventy one 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.120 percent click up the gut. Just runs to zeke up 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.080 the gut, maybe a couple of stretches, you know, stretch 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.520 plays out to the side, but just here goes zeke 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.800 first and ten seventeen out of twenty four times. And 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:58.480 that is so unacceptably boring and unimaginative and not going 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.760 to work. Oh and also, just in case I need 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.920 to further emphasize it, those seventeen carries went for fifty yards, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.400 which is two point nine per a tempt. They had 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.840 one explosive that's a twelve plus yard run, five that 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.720 you would call good, which is four or more eleven 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.760 eleven of the seventeen got less than four yards, and 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.760 a few got negative. Like so, I mean, it sucked, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.320 It wasn't good, and they just kept doing it. And 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.400 you can say what you want about establishing the run. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.800 I thought they killed the second half. They killed the 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.560 clock in the second half of a game that they 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.080 were trailing by fifteen or eighteen points at one point 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.160 in time. Did not get a single bit of a 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.120 sense of urgency. I know, their offensive tackles were out, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.160 and you know, maybe you don't want to expose Dac 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.920 to getting hit more than he already was. But the 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.000 Jets have a pretty crappy offensive line and they managed 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.160 to do just fine getting the ball out quickly, running 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.640 screens to receivers and stuff like that. I feel like 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.400 I'm rambling, but I thought the play calling was pretty 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.560 atrocious yesterday. And whether that's Kellen Moore or Jason Garrett 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.199 or a mixture of both, I don't know, but it 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.520 wasn't good enough. You talked about them running and not 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:08.280 finding success. Sorry, what do you I mean? You know, 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.559 people started talking about like Jason Garrett kind of dipping 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.720 himself in there with Kellen Moore and the play calling. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.520 A couple of games, they go, who do you think 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:25.040 is actually calling full on the play calling? Honestly, I 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.160 have no doubt that Kellen Moore's calling the plays. Here's where, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.320 Here's where you don't really know, right. I remember this 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.480 back from when Parcels was here. Um, if you have it, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.840 the kind of head coach that somebody's calling the plays, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.600 but he's saying all right here we go, it's first 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.640 and ten. I want to see a run here. Okay, well, yeah, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.920 the guy might be calling the plays, but he's calling 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.480 the plays based upon what the head coach is kind 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.240 of directing him to do. What I don't know is 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.200 how much direction is Jason giving in game to Kellen 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.240 to call the play. We know Kellen calls the plays, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.520 you can see him down on the sideline calling the play. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.439 Still know how much direction and how much direction is 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.800 Jason giving him before the game? I want to see 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.319 us half balanced. So I want to come out of 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.240 the game and feel like we got fifty percent run, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.000 fifty percent pass. Who knows. I don't know that any 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.320 I don't know that. I don't know if you either. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.560 You guys have heard that. But at this point, I 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.000 think the only thing we left with is we know 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.640 Kellen calls to play. Is we just don't know how 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.200 much influence Jason has over that. Sean Payton actually had 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.840 a really interesting quote that made the rounds after the 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.000 Saints game. He said it before the Saints game, talking 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.480 about Kellen Moore and just about how it can be 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:35.360 hard as a young play caller to establish your own voice. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.960 Yea and I mean overrule the coach and you like, no, 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.360 this is what we should do, and that makes sense, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.280 and maybe that's part of what happening. What's happening, I mean, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.040 it's it's an impossible thing to know, like what's going 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.920 on in those headsets, and even you know, you can 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.840 have conversations with people, but it's even as bad as 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.600 that was, it's far too early in the season for 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.840 you to be getting to that throwing people under the 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:02.560 bus stage. So there's no way to definitively know. And 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.920 that's why, like you know, I just assign it to 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.440 everyone and say figure it out, whether it's callin Garrett, whoever. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.360 All right, let's check our first break when we come back, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.480 let's talk about these injuries Cowboys were experienced. Not only 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.360 do they go into the game with a lot of injuries, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.480 throughout the game, they kept losing players and it seemed 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.200 like Nick, as you pointed out a little earlier before 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.000 he went on the air, it was the same position. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.360 Let's talk about that when we come right back. This 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.080 is the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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At the start, we're talking about the Cowboys 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.679 lost twenty four twenty two to the New York Jets. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.640 They now fall to three and three and a big 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.440 division game coming up on tap this Sunday. They'll face 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.640 the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday Night Football boat teams at 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.960 three and three. Very very important game. All right, let's 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.760 get back into the game against the Jets, though, Nick, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.400 talk to me about some of the injuries. I know 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.360 you were you were before we went on the show. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.280 You were kind of charting them all and kind of 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.160 putting all the numbers down, and you made the obviously 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.000 the observation that these are all just like I think, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.760 it's at four positions, which is when you think about 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.080 that number of injuries that they had, it just being 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.120 guys at three or four positions. That's a big, big 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.320 hit for a four team. Yeah, and definitely when you have, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.320 you know, two corners and two receivers and two tackles 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.840 and you find yourself playing in a game against the 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.480 Jets with Brandon Knight starting at tackle, a guy that 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.680 nobody you know, really thought was going to make the 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.480 team much less start game six, um C J. Goodwin, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.120 who we don't really consider a corner as having to 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.000 play corner on the goal line. Cedric Wilson's having to 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.720 play wide receiver and he you know, has a decent game, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.960 but also had a critical penalty in the game just 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:41.360 based off inexperience. You know eighty three I forgot his name, actually, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.680 Brontell Bryant. You know, he's playing receiver on the goal line. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.600 So that's what happens when you have multiple injuries like 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.080 that and you know, um it was. It's not an excuse, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.360 it's just reality. I mean, when you keep having injuries 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.760 like that, you lower yourself to the standards of the 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.560 team of an one fourth team like the Jets. And 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.600 they were hungrier than them so that, you know, and 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.400 they won the game. But you can't just keep having 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.560 injuries and think it's gonna be fine. It's not. I mean, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.280 that's why they play it. Yeah, I mean, it's not 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:17.200 an excuse. It's just. Man. If I'm a if I'm 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.760 a piste Off fan listening to this, it sounds like 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.600 an exclusion. And I know, I know, I know that's 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.000 not what you're trying to say, But I mean, I'm 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.440 I got the team stats right here. They outgained the Jets. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.920 They were better on third down, they won the turnover battle, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.320 they ran the ball better. Let me make what didn't 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.120 they do better? This is this is where I think 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.280 that the problem is, and I wrote this this is 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.760 this team isn't deep enough to play like this, and 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.920 the depth is not as good. And I'm not talking 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.000 about Brandon Knight for for Lyle Collins or Cedric Wilson. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.480 I'm talking about Michael Gallup not stepping up and making plays. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.880 How about Zach Martin and Travis Frederick. And I'm sorry, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.280 and I've said this all several times today, but Jalen 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.440 Smith getting three tackles is unacceptable, Like he's unaccepta that's 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.760 unacceptable now for a drive for a quarter maybe, but 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.240 for three for the game, one solo tackle, two for 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.040 DeMarcus Lawrence. I mean, that's the depth that I'm talking about. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.240 Next not next man up, But you're already up, make 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.840 a play and we need you. That's the problem, I think, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.480 And that's the key when you start talking about these 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.800 kind of situations, when you have that many starters that 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.720 are out, it's not necessarily the guy that's coming in 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.760 to replace them that needs to step up, because guess what, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.000 he's just himself, like there's a reason why he's not 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.240 starting in most instances. The fact is it's all those 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.600 other guys that are being highly paid. It's all those 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.800 other guys who are making Pro Bowls and All pros. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.080 Those are the guys that need to step up and 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.360 do more and be able to be counted on and 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.560 relied upon. I don't know the number of times I saw, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.240 particularly the two offensive linemen there in the middle, who 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.200 are supposed to be some of the best in the league, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.600 that we're giving up letting their guys get by creating 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.600 pressure in completion. So if you want to talk about 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.440 guys they need to step up. To me, it's not 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.960 so much about those other guys. It's about the guys 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.640 that this team should be counting on anyway to make plays. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.920 I thought third and one down on the five yard 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.280 line was the play of the game, cheese, because you 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.000 know that that's one where they just run it right 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.439 up the middle there and and again. This is what 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.879 I don't understand. I think, I think Tom Brady and 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.920 and that you know Dak. I think Dad could beat 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.320 Tom Brady in a fight. But why can't Dak Prescott 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.920 get one yard? I don't I don't understand it. I've 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.280 been tom Brady gets the yard on a quarterback sneak 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.880 better than anybody. Time you keep saying third and one, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.239 and it was it was third and a ruler like, 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.480 maybe just did it yesterday, Sam Darl did it yesterday, 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.919 and just lean forward first out, it's gonna have the 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.600 guy is six two, two thirty. If he can't get 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:45.720 you a handful of inches, what's going on? It's it's unconscionable. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.439 And and again it just it feels arrogant. And how 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.480 many times do we say that where it's like, we 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.040 do what we do, we don't worry about the other team. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.520 Maybe you should worry about the other team, especially if 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.760 two fifths of your starting offensive line isn't there. Maybe 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.800 a telegraph plunge up the gut on an obvious running 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.159 down isn't the way to go. Like, if everybody's healthy 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.600 and it's twenty sixteen and nobody can mess with the 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:15.960 Dallas O line, awesome, it ain't that sneak the freaking ball. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.880 I don't even care that. I don't even care that 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.880 the fourth and two was such a bad play call 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.639 because it shouldn't have even got to that point. It 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.880 looked like Paul Horning and Jim Taylor from the old Packers' 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.000 days of the you know they'll sweep like that, like 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.840 what is that right in front of us? And we 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.200 were just like this ain't gonna work. Sam Darnold had 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.359 a know. My buddy John Machoda tweeted it out this morning. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.160 Sam Darnold yesterday was just like, well, you know, it's 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.919 it's the cowboys. They do what they always do. They 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.840 they played a lot of single high occasionally two tried 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:45.800 to stop there and that's it's a different it's a 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.320 different thing. But again, like the do what we do. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.760 I really thought that we're moving on from that kind 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.320 of mentality that clearly, I mean just literally like the 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.639 Patriots got where they are because they don't do what 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.360 they do day anybody else. And and I you can 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.119 tell I'm frustrated because I hate bringing up the Patriots 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.960 because there's such an outlier that it's unfair to compare 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.080 anyone to them. But adapt your personnel and your decision 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.840 making to the situation at hand. People you put fantasy face, yes, 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.320 I do. Do you do you like having a running 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.440 back for the Patriots? No? Why because you can never 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.280 count on one because you never know. Yeah, I mean 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.120 I'm sorry, can Old the Walley get the ball once 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.760 down there? Like like we would all be shocked as 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.080 hell if if you know, something happened. Fullback to snucking 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.399 in that story I wrote in August about how he 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.240 was going to have this big, improved role. Doesn't so good? 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.040 Something different, it's but it's always got to be fourth 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.360 and inches for for Dak to maybe do the quarterbacks, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.520 and why not third and one, because if it's first 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.440 and goal at the four yard line, you know, I 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.439 like my chances there. Yeah, and it's it. It feels 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.800 like like color by numbers, remember that, Like it's like, well, 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.919 it's it's first intense. So we run and and we 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.760