WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Any Silver Lining? 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:18.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.560 ready for a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.880 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:32.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:38.559 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.760 It is Monday, October twentieth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.320 number forty seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.000 We are live. You're from the s WBC Morty Studios 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.919 at the Star and if you can't tell them, I'm 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.520 buy my voice. There is a lot of stuff that 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.760 we got to talk about because it didn't look really 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.320 good yesterday. Cowboys get a loss at home of the 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.360 Arizona Cardinals. They lose thirty eight to ten, and uh 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.199 and like I said, there's a lot to talk about. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.680 There's a lot to take in from that game. We're 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.160 gonna go through some different things. What I basically did 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:13.720 in order for us to kind of talk about this 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.800 game is I'm going to run through some storylines and 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.199 we'll dive into each of them and talk a little 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.840 bit about each of them, and some of them are 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.800 a little bigger picture. Some of them are just kind 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.399 of what happened in the game. But I think the game, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.319 if you're going to dissect that game, I think you 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.640 have to start with the offensive line because I think that, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.800 in my opinion, was one of the biggest areas where 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.200 the Cowboys found deficiencies, and I think it affected a 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.080 lot of other things. The first thing that happens to them, though, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.520 Zach Martin goes out. Nick. What do we know about 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.760 Zach Martin's injury and the status of him going forward? 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.600 I don't. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.000 Jerry got a chance to do an interview this morning, 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.520 he wasn't asked about it, So don't we don't know. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.360 I mean, it's a concussion concussion protocol. Short week doesn't 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.040 look good brushing him back like that, because you with 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.960 thank on a short week like that. Um, you know, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.840 he's probably I don't know, I don't know if he'll 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.760 be ready or not, but I would I would imagine 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:12.959 probably not. Dave, the Cowboys had to play Connor mcgoverned 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.440 when he went down in the place of Zack Martin. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.240 What did you see from Connor McGovern at just I 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.200 guess throughout the game, how would you assess his play? 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.160 I mean, I hate to throw out blanket statements from 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.359 only watching it once. I obviously hadn't had a chance 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.520 to look a look at it again or watch the tape. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.239 But I thought he played fine for a guy that 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.440 that really got his first real NFL action last night 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.480 on short notice when Zach went out. Um, you know, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.440 I don't think he was the reason that the offensive 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.720 line couldn't hold up. Let's put it that way, Um, 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.880 Zach Zach status is. It's gonna be one of those 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.320 day by day things. I think, no two concussions are 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.919 the same. I've leaned towards like I agree with Nick. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.720 I leaned toward thinking he's probably not going to be 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.760 available on a short week. But that's gonna be one 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.960 of those things where you're gonna need to check in 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.560 on that every day. And if Connor has to play again, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.760 welcome to the big leagues, buddy. Because that Washington front 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.919 is full of first round picks, so he might have 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.959 held up pretty well on Monday, but that isn't necessarily 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.359 an indicator when the talent level rises when you play 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.480 Washington and but this team yesterday, they had a hard 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.799 time running the ball. Although there were some moments in 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.240 the game where they had a couple good runs, they 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.160 really had a hard time protecting. And at this point 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.360 they're running with only one starter from last year, that 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:35.240 being Connor Williams, who most people, probably everybody would say 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.360 was the weakest link of that group last year. That 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.920 all being considered, how would you assess the offensive lines 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:48.600 play yesterday? Well, I went back and watched a couple 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.760 a few plays. Honestly, it's just those two edges, those 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.000 two tackle positions. It's either Brandon Knight or Steal. That's 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.160 like his guy would always be a little a few 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:06.120 seconds behind Brandon Knight's guys, so they're very very close 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.640 to each other. I did watch a few of Connor McGovern, 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.960 and honestly, most of the places where I saw the 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:20.120 protection being pretty pretty bad was when either tackle was 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.800 doing something bad. Like I didn't see something major from 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.120 Connor McGovern Tyler Biadai. I think he's doing a good job. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.680 There are a couple of misses there, but that's gonna happen. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.560 Connor is still hanging in there doing whatever he can. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.200 I did see a couple of plays where they did 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.960 utilize Ezekiel Elliott to help protect, and when he did that, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.760 the pocket did look a lot better and he gave 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.000 Andy Dalton somewhat a little bit more time. So in 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.320 a scenario, even though you want Seek to be able 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.719 to run the ball, in scenarios where you know he's 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.640 not necessarily having a great game, instead of benching him, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.359 I think I would rather use him to protect and 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.400 help give Andy Dalton I had better protection there. But 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.680 it doesn't doesn't look good. It does not look good 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.039 at all so far. Yeah, looking at it, Nick, And 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.920 when you go down that whole offensive line, what was 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.880 your assessment of the of the line as a unit? 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.960 They're one of ten I mean to me, I mean, okay, sorry, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.000 I thought we're gonna have a general statement on this game. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.880 But as the offensive line, they were bad, and they 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.440 were they tied with ten other position groups out there 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.320 as well. I mean, you gotta give you gotta I mean, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.080 this is the second team offensive line with Connor Williams, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.880 who many people thought for the first game should go 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.119 to the second team. So this is just a full 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.000 line of backups with a backup quarterback and a backup 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.640 tight end. I mean, it is what it is. You're 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.680 not gonna win a lot of games on that, you know, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.960 doing playing that way. I mean, there's no excuses really 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.440 to play that poorly, but you you have to expect 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.640 that it's going to look really bad when you have 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.320 all those backups. You know. That's an interesting point because 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.880 I wonder and it didn't seem like to me last 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.920 week as we were breaking down this game, and as 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.360 we were getting ready for it, and as we were 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.280 making our picks, it didn't feel to me like any 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.560 of us were as concerned about the offensive line is 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.800 maybe we should have been. And I go back to 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.800 Bucky Brooks and what he said earlier in the week 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.479 when we had him on, and he talked about the 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.280 fact that Andy Dalton in his past has been really 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.920 good when you can protect him. When you can't protect him, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.240 he's not very good. And yesterday it seemed like that's 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:28.920 the way that it played out. But I don't think 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.240 I didn't get the impression. I'll speak for myself. I 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.279 didn't expect it to be that bad. Dave, did you 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.520 expect it to be that bad? And did you expect 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.560 that going into the game. I don't want to quibble, 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.000 but I'm pretty sure I talked about being terrified about 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.200 how much the Cardinals were gonna blitz, and I read 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.799 this morning they blitzed on about forty percent of their snaps. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.400 Dalton was getting rocked by safeties linebackers. Obviously the front 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.440 four got home as well. But I mean, yeah, I 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.920 wasn't surprised by anything that I saw, and especially when 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.679 Zach went out of the game, I was early confident 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.560 that they were going to dial up ways to pressure 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.880 him and like, like not to be a jerk, but 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.760 I'm pretty sure I said that at times last week 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.480 as well. Well. That all being said, are you surprised 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.760 at the Cowboys coaches didn't expect that and decided that 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.960 in a lot of instances they opted to go with 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.600 an empty backfield and they had to tight end split 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.080 out wide. I mean, they were really giving no help 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:25.360 to try to help these these tackles. Particularly. Can I 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.080 be real, because you brought this up to me in 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.320 the press box last night, and I think you have 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.080 a point obviously. I mean, you know you want to 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.080 give those guys as much help as possible, and I 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.680 want to be careful because again I don't even think 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.600 the all twenty two for this game is available yet. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.640 If it is, I certainly haven't watched it. I think 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.680 I got four hours asleep last night. I thought a 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.960 bigger problem than that was Andy Dalton just held onto 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.880 the ball for far, far too long. Maybe that's because 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.280 his throwing lanes were clogged by blitzers, Maybe that's because 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.880 guys couldn't get open. But I counted what felt like 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.680 half a dozen to ten snaps where he had three 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.360 three and a half four seconds of protection and didn't 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.400 know where to go with the ball. You know, I 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.280 know you put you put in your rundown that he 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.640 carried twice for four yards. I think those were both plays. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.000 They weren't designed runs. Those were plays where he stood 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.920 there and had to pull it down and go somewhere. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.240 And we've seen it's been a hell of an impressive 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.760 month for these Cowboys receivers, you know, when Dak was 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.320 in the lineup. So I'm hesitant to say that they 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.520 just couldn't get open against this defense. I just don't 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.240 know how well Andy Dalton was seeing the field. But again, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.920 I want to go back and watch because I don't 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.400 know that for sure, But that's what it looked like 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.319 to me and Andy Dalton had He was thirty four 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.320 fifty four with sixty three percent completion percentage, two hundred 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.080 and sixty six yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. Amber, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:57.520 how did you assess his play overall? Bad? Really bad? 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.200 I And it sucks because I honestly had very good 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:06.040 hopes about Indy Dolts. And yes, part of it has 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.320 to deal with the offensive line, but at the same time, 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.840 either he was holding onto the ball too long or 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.080 in the place where he was getting rid of the 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.120 ball quickly, it was like they didn't even look like passes. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.360 They looked like he would just quickly toss it and 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.480 they wouldn't be any good. So it just looked like 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.199 an inexperienced quarterback. And I know he has a ton 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.680 of experience, and that's one of the main reasons we 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.240 kept talking about him last week and the fact that 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.920 this is probably the best backup quarterback that the Cowboys 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.560 could have had. But at the same time, watching that game, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.720 to me, he did not look like an experienced quarterback. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.120 There were things that I expected him to do a 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.200 lot better as far as instincts. Yes, he's not going 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.000 to be necessarily the quarterback like that is as far 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.839 as getting out of the pocket and running and making 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:57.720 just having better instincts. You know, I don't know what 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.360 to tell you. I really thought he would do better, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.760 and I'm a very disappointed and I'm not very excited 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.480 as what is to come next, because at the beginning 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.360 of the game, that was the main thing I was 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.920 excited to see this game, was like, Okay, let's see 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.480 what Andy Dalton can do. I'm ready for this too 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.760 serious in I was so bored and I was ready 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.680 to just call it a quits, but we kept hanging on, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.800 and I kept thinking, Okay, maybe the second half, but wait, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.520 we don't have Dank Prescott and I doubt it. And yeah, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.040 it did not work out, and he was not able 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.080 to carry the team in the second half of the 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.239 game like Dak did. Nick, how much do you attribute 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.959 the poor offensive play to Dak not being there? Because 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.200 there is this kind of competing thought process out there. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.040 Some say, well, Andy didn't have time, but you in 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.559 a lot of instances, I mean, like I wouldn't you 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.439 say a lot of instances, But in this instance particularly, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.520 there are most of those guys that were out there yesterday. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.760 Dak's been playing with most of those guys most of 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.320 the season and has gotten the offense to at least 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.360 be more productive. From the standpoint of points, how much 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.200 do you put on Dak not being there? Yeah? I mean, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.920 do you think Dak's a bus driver quarterback? No? Do 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.040 you think Andy Dalton is? Yes? Yeah, me too. And 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.560 I think that's that's what it comes down to. Like Dak, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.000 it doesn't drive the bus. I mean, you know all 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.840 the I mean, he drives a better car than that, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.480 and he'll drive a lot more if he can get 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.160 this deal done. But if if Andy Dalton is a 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.720 bus driver, and when the wheels aren't working and the 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.800 you know, kids are messing, you know, yelling in the 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.079 back and all that stuff, it's gonna be a hectic day. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.920 And it was you gotta help Andy Dalton. They didn't. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.520 His running back didn't help him at all. His running back. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.719 When I said, and I know I tweeted this, when 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.800 I said he was going to ball out, I didn't 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.040 mean that the bumble would come out. I thought he 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.240 was gonna play inspired. He did not. He did not. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.280 That was the most disappointing part. The best part about 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.960 Zeke's day was stepping up to the podium and admitting it. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.520 And you know, but that's all nice and good, you know, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.600 but my Michael Gallup's not catching a touchdown pass. I mean, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.360 he didn't get help. And Andy Daldon needs help. He's 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.320 a he's a guy that has always needed help in 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.360 an offensive line that can block for him and all 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.840 that stuff. I don't think he was terrible. He I 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.000 thought he would have played a little bit better than that. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.640 But I don't think he was terrible. I just think 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.400 he's got it. It's got to be a perfect situation 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.559 for him, and it certainly wasn't, you know. So, but yeah, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.520 they missed Dak. They missed Dak because Dak has the 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.880 dog in him. And then and who else has it? 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.959 It's not the defensive guys. They don't. They don't have it. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.199 So Zeke didn't have it. I thought he did. He would. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.960 I thought he would, and he didn't. So who has it? 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.280 And the receivers don't really have, you know, play like that. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.960 They don't have that fire. Dad gives them that fire, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.640 and they missed it, you know, And I think Dad 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.440 gives him even more than that. I think what Dak 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.600 gives him is the threat that he can run the ball. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.240 And I saw a couple times yesterday, probably more than 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.360 a couple of times situations where the Cowboys bab heasically 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.520 blocked it up pretty decent. But there was this huge hole, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.880 that gaping hole that developed in the middle of the 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.080 offensive line, and basically you had all the Cardinals defenders 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.400 back playing man coverage. And in that situation most of 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.520 the time, when you got a quarterback that can run, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.360 he says, I'm pulling the ball down and I'm gonna 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.719 pick up ten yards, twelve yards, fifteen yards whatever. Did 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.439 you see that last night by any quarterback? Yeah? Yeah, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.400 we did see that by one quarterback. But my point 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.440 is like, teams don't have to worry about it. And 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.000 that's what really I think worries me the most about 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.080 the Cowboys going forward is their probably teams are looking 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.440 at this and saying, we don't have to worry about 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.400 Andy Dalton running. And if we don't have to worry 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.040 about Andy Dalton running, we can cover these guys on 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.960 the back end, and especially if we can get pass 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.720 rushed with four guys, which again the Cardinals did a 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.240 lot yesterday. Especially in the second half they were doing before. Guys, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.840 they weren't blizzing a lot in the second half. In 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.200 my opinion, it looked like they were sending for a lot. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.040 And that being said, you look at this, the way 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.880 that they played, and I look at it. I don't 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:03.040 think that's gonna be a problem for the Cowboys. And 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.520 it's not like you're gonna all of a sudden teach 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.920 Andy Dalton how to become a runner. And so I 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.080 don't know how the Cowboys get themselves out of that 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.280 hole unless their offensive line plays better. Dave, I'll ask 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.199 you this question. I think I know your answer. But 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.640 there's a narrative out there that Dak got a lot 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.640 of the yards and the points that he got this 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.880 season in the second half when they were down big, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.440 because big, because teams played soft, and that's how he 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.600 kind of racked all that up. Yesterday they had a 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.920 similar scenario, but they weren't able to pick up those 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.920 yards and points. Do you think it kills that narrative 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.920 about Dak and make makes Dak look even more impressive 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.680 with the things he was able to do in the 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:44.440 first five games of this season. I mean, nothing Dak 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.360 does is gonna convince a certain segment of people until 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.120 he wins the Super Bowl. But yeah, I mean I 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.880 made a really snide comment about it. I mean, nobody, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.560 you know, somebody forgot to remind Andy Dalton that it's 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.280 easy to play once you go down and buy a 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.080 lot like, it's easy to do that. It's easy to 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.040 throw your team out of hole because DAC does it 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.600 all the time. That's just garbage time. But Cardinals were 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.120 kicking their ass last night and nothing looked easy for them. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.600 So yeah, I mean, I thought that narrative was stupid 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.680 to begin with. I certainly think it's stupid. As we 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.920 sit here today, all right, we're gonna take our first break. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.560 When we come back, I want to talk about Zeke 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.720 and his fumbles. I want to talk about this defense 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.800 and how they performed. And I want to ask you 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.720 guys the question how much blame goes to this coaching 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.720 staff because we're now through six games and what we're seeing, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.440 as the coach himself is said at this point, it 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.600 is a It is a pattern. It is a pattern. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.200 What we're seeing is a pattern. 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I can promise, okay, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.640 I'll promise you maybe those other three teams. The Steelers 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.760 look really GREATY know that they do, and they'll be 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.200 at home really good because they'll be way more yellow 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.320 towels than anything other Cowboys will throw. Their defense right 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.480 now is just playing, is like really really playing well, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.639 So yeah, they're gonna beat him bout twenty eight. What 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.120 I'm saying, it's thirty eight to ten. Okay, we'll see. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.440 I don't think so that's but maybe thirty five, maybe 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.640 maybe two. I mean sure that that was just that 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.879 was that was a really bad bad game against the 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.760 you know, I mean maybe above average team, but probably 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.600 average when they when they finished with their division, there'll 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.119 be an average team, which makes it even worse. Exactly. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.679 That's what's the problem. Lead it into your coaching problem. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.960 All right, Well, I was gonna go to Zeke, but 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.360 you're right. Let's let's jump to the coaching issue because there, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.280 let me, I'm trying to figure out how I even 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.560 bring this. Like I look at this this team, and 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.760 there are a number of players on this team that 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.800 it seems like, to me, the coaching staff is just, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.639 for whatever reason, like just hell bent that these guys 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.560 are gonna be players. And it takes like them seeing 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.960 over and over and over and over again that they 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.359 aren't very good before they will actually say, Okay, maybe 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.160 we ought to back off a little bit. We saw 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.640 it with darry and Thompson earlier this season. We saw 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.400 it was still earlier this season. We saw it last 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.000 night with with Daryl Worley and he's been bad for 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.520 a while. And you got Anthony Brown sitting over there 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.440 on the sideline. And again, I'm not signing trying to 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.480 say in any way that Anthony Brown is like the 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.919 answer to all of this. What I'm saying is, I 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.240 think he's a better player than Darryl Worley and I 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.720 and I'm sitting there and I'm wondering, like, why is 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.360 it that they get themselves in these situations where they 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.439 just so are so hell bent on the fact that 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.960 they think one guy is so much better or should 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.879 be out there when there are other guys that I 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.880 think on the sideline that that are better than they are. Nick, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.000 what do you think I don't I don't necessarily agree 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.040 with you there because I don't think that. I don't 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.800 think the options are way better now the worldly over 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.960 Anthony Brown. I don't understand really, because Anthony Brown seems 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:13.560 like a better player. They're paying him to be a 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:18.200 better player. He's made more plays for the Cowboys, so 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.200 I just think that he I don't understand that one. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:26.159 But like Darian Thompson and for Diamond Wilson, and I 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.359 think Godivin Wilson is playing better than Darry and Thompson 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.080