WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Defensive Letdown 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.880 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:17.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.440 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.759 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.960 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.880 wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us, and bar Garcia 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:42.000 and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty two, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.320 season eighteen, episode number fifty two. Welcome to the Lettus 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.839 edition of The Break, live from That's WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:49.400 at the Star Wear presented by mill of Light, the 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.440 only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, And for the first 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.640 time in a long time, we come in on a 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.520 Monday morning ready to talk about something other than a 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:02.080 win Cowboys lose at Philadelphi for Him twenty six seventeen. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.480 At some point in this show, we will get to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.600 our feelings on where we feel about this team, because 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.440 I've had I've heard a lot of mixed feelings this 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:16.199 morning from people, some very optimistic, some very pessimistic. I'd 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:17.560 be interested to hear what you guys think. We'll do 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.000 that a little later in the show, but let's start 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.400 first where we start on Mondays. Give me storyline of 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:26.280 the game, nick uh, storyline of the game. Cooper Rush. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.680 You know, it looked like a backup quarterback out there 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.319 for a little while. He did. He looked like it. Finally, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.640 I mean he did. He took your advice lose a game. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.440 That was your advice, lose a game. You know, he didn't. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.080 He he had some moments there where he was trying 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:42.840 to force the ball in there and just it just 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.640 didn't didn't work. But I mean I give them credit that, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.240 you know, they were fighting and him. Boy, it would 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.120 have been interesting. It would have been interesting if if 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.080 it was twenty seventeen. It was like, if he gets 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.960 this ball back and they go I'm like, they even 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.720 got quiet, and it was it was gonna be obvious, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.840 just thinking, Holy f like, if he does this, Wow. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.680 But he didn't. He didn't any you know, he made 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.040 a bad throw. Um. You know, Tyler Smith was some 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.880 of the part of that that deep throw. But you know, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.280 the defense and then I'll let them, you know, there's 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.360 other points there, But I just thought, I just thought 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.880 Cooper Rush, he didn't play like we've seen before. We 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.239 kept saying don't make mistakes, and he made them. Yeah. Yeah, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.040 I to me, it really started early when you started 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.200 talking about some of the decision making. They get the 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.640 third and two play and they have a chance with 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.720 the read option. They hand the ball to Seek and 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.840 it's a gain of one and he pulls that ball 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.560 and just goes forward. Then it's a first down. Now 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.520 you're keeping the drives going. So from that point on, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.720 he started making bad decisions in the game, you know. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.960 And that's something that with Cooper Rush. You know, it's 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.079 max protection, you got routes, you get you know where 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.799 you need to go with the ball. You can't throw 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.040 the ball behind people, you know. And that's the thing 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.280 with him. He had done a really good job of 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.040 when it was okay, this is how we have to play. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.760 And he played a little hero ball last night, you 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.919 know it with some of his throws, and we kind 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.160 of get on Dak Prescott about that a little bit. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.680 You know, Hey, you can't force the ball into that coverage. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.120 You gotta read this. You know, you've got guys that 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.239 are open to this side. Why are you just going 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.079 at one guy right here? So I think it started 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.640 very early with him and some of the decision making 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.240 it approved in the second half with the stuff when 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.600 they started to move the pocket a little bit and 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.800 the boots and the waggles and things like that, the 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.440 left throws were giving him an opportunity, some simple stuff. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.320 You know. The Eagles made some really good plays along 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.920 the way. The tip ball by hardgrade before the half, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.120 it could have been twenty to seven at that point, 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.160 you know, and that would have been a good momentum 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.200 builder for the Cowboys. They max protect the deep ball 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.960 that Nick was talking about that gets intercepted, They max 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.840 protect another interception. I mean, it was just kind of 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:58.000 they were trying to help him, but he wasn't helping himself. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.720 But I want to say this is for point, my 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:05.680 point for this. Your best unit on the field didn't 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.880 get a stop when it needed to get a stop, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.960 and they ran the ball into eleven straight times, and 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.920 you didn't get a stop. And I think that to 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.000 me right there, you could say all the things you 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.640 wanted I just did about Cooper Rush, but the fact 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.000 that that the Cowboys needed a stop in the second 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.200 half defensively, when the momentum was swinging their direction and 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.200 they couldn't get a stop and that to me was 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.440 really the when you start to talk about this game, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.280 you know, could they brought this thing back? Sure, they 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.560 could have. Philadelphia we talked about this. Philadelphia is a 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.200 team that doesn't Once they scored the second they kind 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.279 they kind of slow down in the second half and 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.360 you caught them there, and I think it's just disappointed 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.920 that the team that you just hanger had on through 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.480 all this is that defense and they couldn't get off 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.240 the field on that one last final drive that Philadelphia 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.440 rando to kill the game. Yeah, as far as storylines, 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.039 I mean, you can talk about the quarterback situation. You 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.600 can talk about how the Eagles were able to neutralize 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.040 Micah Parsons and how that affected the whole defense overall. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.640 But to me, the way I see this game is, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.719 you know, even though there's still a lot of football 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.520 left to play, we're gonna see them again in December. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.800 And I think that the way that the Cowboys were 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.799 able to play some of the things that they showed, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.680 despite the penalties, despite the mistake, despite them not stopping 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.599 at critical moment, this is a very they can compete 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.000 and this was a game they could have won. And 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.240 to Brian's point. And you can mention it last week, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.000 how they just kind of come to a stopping point 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.799 where they can't keep producing points and moving the ball around. Well, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.960 this team, the Cowboys team just showed me that. You know, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.800 the Eagles aren't. I don't want to say they're not 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.320 that good because they are. They're not. They're not. It's 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:03.760 okay to say it. I mean, is this the best 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.040 team in football? No? No, no, no no, no. I mean 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.640 when you're best in football. No, they may be the 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.960 best team in the NFC. I don't think they're the 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.440 best team in football, but I think there's a very 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.880 clear no one cares about No one cares about that 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.320 because you're not going to play them until it really matters. Yeah, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.160 and then, but I do think they're the best team 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.360 they see. You know, I don't mean to cut you off, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.479 but I'm saying that's okay to say that because I 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.960 don't think that they're If this is the best team 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.880 in the NFC, I would be like, Okay, we'll see 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.720 you again, definitely once, maybe twice, because it would anybody 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.599 be afraid to go play them again in Philadelphia with 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.200 foot at full strength. I mean, I wouldn't be afraid 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:39.840 to play him again. This team can win. I mean 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.960 they beat themselves. The Eagles and Cowboys both beat the 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.760 Cowboys last night. Sorry, I keep finishing. No, no, no, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.360 that's my point exactly. It's just like, it's not this untouchable, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:57.000 unbeatable team that you keep thinking of because of the 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.360 way they've been playing and the fact that they've been 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.120 winning every single game so far. It's just it was, 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.000 it showed me a clear vision. They'll like, Okay, we 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.120 can definitely beat their butts next time we see them. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.880 But they made they made critical plays and you couldn't. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.080 I mean the fourth and threes, the you know, and 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.800 when you look at this and Mica looks like that 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.040 he's missing coverage. No, they're running picks. I mean, they 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:25.400 had some really good designs of plays, they really really did. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.480 And you're like, and and the fact that the titan 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.160 didn't kill you in this game, the quarterback running didn't 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.600 kill you in this game. But they found a way 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.400 to win this game. And it might be because of 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.200 Cooper Rush, but they also along the way made some 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.200 critical plays and I think that's the that's the thing 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.920 you have to worry about. They put you in a 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.800 lot of They put a lot of stress on you 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.840 for having to try and defend them. That's the thing 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.120 I worry about. And you know, I man, I just 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.080 feel like that you made some mistakes along the way. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.440 But man, the one thing that I just keep saying 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.840 is your defense is you're calling card right now and 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.200 you needed to stop. You couldn't afford them to drive 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.280 the ball on you like that and score that that touchdown. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.760 You needed to stop and you didn't get it. And 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.880 that's the thing that's the most disappointing to me right now. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.240 It's not that Cooper Rush struggled the way he did. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.080 You know, Ezekiellott played his ass off. The offensive line. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.280 You watched him play. It's not pretty with the pass 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.960 block and stuff. But they didn't. The offensive line didn't 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.160 kill you in this game. You know, Philly, just Philly 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.080 made some really really good plays along the way. Yeah. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.400 I'll say this, Nick, you said, you know you're not 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.160 afraid to play this team. I don't think the Cowboys 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.600 should be afraid. But I will say this, I think 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.680 they exposed yesterday what will be a challenge for the 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.160 Cowboys to win a game because of and what I 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.920 mean by that is the stopping the run has been 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.200 a problem for them throughout this season. We know that 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.720 this is a team that can run the ball. Quite frankly, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.760 I don't think the numbers tell the story. They had 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.760 a lot of short feels, That's why they didn't get 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.600 a lot of yards. I think they had longer fields 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.640 data gotten a lot more yards, and they probably would 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.520 have scored the same amount of points. So when I 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:09.200 would have liked to have seen that fields, dude, No, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.400 that's fine. My point though, is I do think that 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.560 I don't think yesterday this defense. Yesterday, I come out 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.000 of that game feeling like the Cowboys defense is more 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.600 susceptible than I thought they were. Um, I mean to 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.199 give up three touchdowns and that last one, and what 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.240 you talked about it bring that last touchdown. Basically your 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.200 offense got you back into the game. Now's the time 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.640 when if you're that defense, this is when you need 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.360 to make that stop. And what did they do seventy 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.080 five yards just methodically ran the ball right down their throats. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.120 And that's the part that worries me. And I've been 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.760 talking about this for a few weeks now that I 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.160 think the run defense is a bit of a problem, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.400 Like they get into games and they have a hard 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.000 time stop in the run at times. And until I 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.080 see them consistently doing that, especially in situations where they 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.080 need to, that's a concern. They missed some tackles in 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.920 the hole in the running game and the first run 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.360 and I'm just ch I can hear to see the 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.800 Sanders run. Okay, Sanders had seventy one yards. This long 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.120 run was thirteen. The thirteen yard run came on the 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.120 very first play of the long drive, and it was 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.640 and what happened is this is where you got to 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.400 give them credit. Because Dallas runs what they call a 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.640 slant front, and they slant everybody do the right. They're 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.760 gonna bring a polar back the other way. And now 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.240 it's a polar one on one on vander ash and 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.200 the ball coming behind him, and so you've got everybody 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.760 caved down to one side. Sometimes the offense is just good. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.040 Sometimes you guess the right kind of lucky Yeah, it's 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.640 a lucky good whatever you wanted. Sometimes they make a 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.840 call and you're like, going, damn it, they caught us 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.560 in a they caught us in a slant front, and 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.600 we you know, we're trying to like we're trying to 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.040 do but yeah, the runs were like five yards, four yards, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.840 one yard, five yards, six yards, one yard. It was 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.600 that kind of a running game, and you know, yeah, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.680 it looked really really bad and they just couldn't do 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.520 anything about it. I'm not worried as much about it, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.520 but for other teams, because I don't think they have 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.320 that ability. I don't they don't have Jalen Hurts. You know, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.080 Jalen Hurts hurt him with with his with his legs, 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.960 um not in this game, but in the previous games. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.280 Because three three twelve rushes for twenty seven yards. I 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.240 mean that's that. One of them was on the quarterback 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.920 yard like that. But it was it was the RPOs. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.280 It was the yeah, when you said before we started 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.800 that it freezes your team your team, and that's and 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.360 that's you know, you're gonna play fields in a couple 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:31.959 of weeks. Not to look ahead, but I mean, he's 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.360 an incredible athlete, but they don't have the running game, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.840 the Sanders and all that, and I'll give you know, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.760 Miles Sanders. I always thought that their running game was 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.640 kind of tricky a little bit and not I'll power 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.199 running game. They they because of the RPO and stuff 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:48.800 like that. They ran a lot of it in the middle. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.760 You got to give them credit for that. They lost 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.319 their best offensive linemen and in the second half. And see, 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.720 that's the thing that's the most disappointed, because we talked 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.400 on this show about how bad Jack Driscoll was. Were like, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.520 if he's in the game, parts flip right to see 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.520 that's what I'm saying that you could never get him 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.600 in the situation. And they realized this. They're like, listen, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.280 if we dropped back and pass Jack Driscoll is going 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.360 to get our quarterback killed. And so they made they 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.040 made the concern. Even if it was one yards, two yards, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.280 three yards, whatever it was, it was good enough for 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.280 them not to get their quarterback hit. Right. They don't 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:27.920 go down Phil hardly at all. They were All the 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.280 passes were quick passes and in the running game like 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.400 that's how they moved the ball, and they did it effectively. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.080 And by the way, they had to do it cleanly. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:35.760 That's the key. If you're gonna do that play that 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.280 kind of football, you can't have a lot of penalties. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.640 And they did it pretty cleanly. I said it last week. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.200 I'm like, Okay, this defense needs to start off the 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.960 game making a statement, but the statement was made against them, 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.560 and there was something that was just off about the 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.600 defense because it wasn't like they got in the game 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.640 and then as you go on, okay, they're starting to 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.360 kind of embarrass you a little bit, and then you 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.640 start trailing back and falling behind and all that. I 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.520 just felt like, right off the bat, like first quarter, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:07.000 the defense was just not playing with the explosiveness, the energy, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.240 the like something was off. Michael Parsons was like slow 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.760 in the way he was playing. So the whole thing 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.079 just didn't look right like their usual self, the type 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.080 of defense that they've been playing this whole season so far. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.080 It just didn't start that way. And I don't know why. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.360 I don't know what what happened exactly, but it wasn't 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.480 like a thing that, oh, as the game went along, 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.839 you got tired, your defense got tired because they were 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.840 on the field so much, and the Eagles offense was 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.280 just kind of draining you. It wasn't that because it 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.640 just started like that right off the bat. Yeah, I 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.640 honestly think, and you guys can correct me if you 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.520 feel a different way, but I think it's the RPO off. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.040 I mean, I think it's the fact that there's so 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.080 much indecision when you're playing that kind of offense. Every 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.200 play you don't know exactly where the ball's going. And 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.440 they were holding the ball to the last second. I mean, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.560 Hurst is holding ball the last second to figure out 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.559 whether you're coming to get him, you're gonna get that 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.320 running back, and that is causing to slow down. Like 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.720 if that is a way to slow an aggressive defense 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.640 is make them have to think, and make them have 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.880 to think on every single playoff. I think that's exactly 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.000 you know, and there are also you know the Cowboys. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.880 What goes against them sometimes, mean what works for them 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.600 is just how they have mismatches. They have undersized players playing, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.320 you know, but but they're quicker. And then sometimes you 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.240 get in a situation like this where it can work 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.120 against you. I mean, like if you when you think 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.840 about a defensive line that has Dorn's Armstrong playing at 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.080 the end and d Law playing tackle and Mica Partson 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.800 is playing in on third and nine, yeah you're worried, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.240 But on third and two or second and four and 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.520 you're running downhill, it's a mismatch. So it's kind of 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.880 on to pick your poison type things like it works 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.040 when it works, but sometimes you can go to your point, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.240 to your point. When you watch you All twenty two, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.320 you'll see that Doran's Armstrong is an effective pass rusher. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.000 You'll also see the All twenty two where Dorant's Armstrong 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.000 is getting hooked and hooked and bullied and beating at 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.200 the point of attack. So then you wonder why the 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.880 Running Game, You're going, Okay, well, I see what's happening. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.040 Ninety two is getting blocked, ninety nine is getting blocked inside. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.360 You know, I mean, those are the things that happened 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.760 to you in the Running Game. When you watch, you're like, well, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.320 what happened on that play? Ninety two got hooked, Oh, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.360 ninety two got knocked inside? Oh, you know, I mean 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.400 those are the things that that show up and ask 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.400 you about this. Because every time he gets a sack, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.920 it's so easy to say, Durance Armstrong. It's so easy 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.840 to say, what's Randy Gregory doing? You know, like, and 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.400 I get it. I mean he's got the sack numbers. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.200 Did Gregory? Was Gregory a liability in the Running I 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.320 think it was a little bit more of a jump 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.480 around and kind of get pushed outside kind of thing. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:44.680 Ball come up inside. N No, No, actually your best defender, well, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:49.040 Tank is good against the run to his side, but actually, uh, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.640 you know when you when you look also too, they 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:56.320 have a situation inside where they tend to move these 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.840 guys around. And I'm trying to think about who I'm 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.440 thinking about here No. Ninety nine why I'm always Yeah, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.000 Gholston is one of those guys that plays the run 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.640 better because he could play. There was a couple of 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.480 times playing tackle that he was able to defeat blocks 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.080 and get in on a play. And then when he's 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.120 playing on the edge, he was able to defeat the 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.000 Tank and Gholston are the two best run defenders then 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.360 anybody else that's that's on the on the defensive line 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.720 when it comes to the ends. But speaking of the run, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:32.000 like Layton Vanders, he has to have better vision than 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.960 that because there were multiple touchdown the touchdown it was 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.360 a bad one, yeah, and there were a couple of 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.800 other ones that weren't a touchdown. There were just runs. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.480 But it was like, Okay, you get this hole in 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.480 the middle and Layton is right there, just sitting there. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.520 But he's just kind of he loses track of like 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.040 he can't locate the ball where it's at, So now 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.960 he's paying attention to this crowd over here and up. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.360 So there are a lot of times that I just 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.640 felt like he wasn't vendor Ish to be the guy 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.040 to kind of put the stop or try to make 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.000 the stop there, and the hole was just completely free 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.560 and empty for the guy to run. So linebikers need 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:13.760 to play better. Yeah, the Sanders touchdown run, the ball 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.800 is going really off the tackle between the tackle and 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.640 the guard, and Vanderish reads it and he jumps inside. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.840 He's right there on the outside of position for the collision, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.840 and then something carried him inside, his eyes carried him inside. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.359 So now he's behind a stack and then the ball 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.880 comes and he can't get back to the outside. There 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.320 were several times in this game where where Cowboys were 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.959 in position. Donovan Wilson was in position to make a tackle. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.960 Hooker was in position to make a tackle on a 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.800 fill that would have been a two yard game that 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.240 all of a sudden turns into a spin run in 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.520 an eight yard game. You know, they had to your point, Ambar, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.760 they had guys in positions to make plays. They did 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.320 a poor job at finishing on some of these runs 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.080 in this game. And it's just one more thing I 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.080 was uncommon for them yesterday because they've been a pretty 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.199 good tackling team when they had opportunities. Yesterday they were not. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:06.760 It seemed like there were a number of times when 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.800 they missed tackles that they should have made and that 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.400 you would expect them to make because they're good enough 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.280 players to make them. Are we gonna take our first break, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.960 We're gonna come back. We'll dive a little deeper into 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.080 some of these topics. We'll talk about Cooper Rushan we 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:17.679 come back. 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